Last updated by rlew on 2007-01-22. Originally submitted by admin on 2007-01-05.
Peter Robinson and Barbara Bordalejo will be visiting IFA Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Their visit inaugurates what may develop into a closer collaboration with their university. You are cordially invited to come and meet them on Tuesday afternoon where Peter is going to present on the Canterbury Tales Project, including its use of phylogenetics/cladistics to establish manuscript genetic relations on the basis of textual variants, and give an overview of some of the other electronic editing projects he is involved in. Peter`s talk promises to be a visual extravaganza, and will be of interest to literary scholars and linguists alike. This main event will be followed by a presentation by Jacob Thaisen that will demonstrate some of the ways in which Canterbury Tales Project materials can be put to use.
Duration: 2.5-3 hours.
Exact time and Collegium Novum venue: The event is going to take place in the library, first floor, on Tuesday 9 January 3.30-6.30pm.
It is in connection with the proposed collaboration that the Rolls of Parliament CD-ROM was recently made freely available from any computer within IFA: http://www.sd-editions.com/PROME/home.html.
Hoping to see you and your students on Tuesday!
Peter Robinson recently moved from a position as professor at De Montfort University to one as co-director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. He is the developer of the textual-editing software Collate and of the Anastasia electronic publishing system, and is currently working on Edition, a new tool that will provide a single on-line web system to permit scholars to make highly complex, information-rich scholarly editions based on the original texts. He is co-founder (with Norman Blake) and director of the Canterbury Tales Project, founder of the publishing house Scholarly Digital Editions, board member of the Text Encoding Inititative, secretary to European Society for Textual Scholarship, and a consultant on electronic publishing to many groups, including on editions of Dante`s Commedia and Monarchia and on the Greek New Testament. Peter pioneered the use of phylogenetics in textual criticism, and has published and lectured extensively world-wide.
Barbara Bordalejo is the deputy director of the Birmingham Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing. She has completed two ph.d. dissertations and is a member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship board. Barbara also works on the Cancioneros Project.
Jacob Thaisen is visiting senior lecturer at IFA and was, like Barbara, formerly a researcher with the Canterbury Tales Project at its Leicester base.
