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Digital Humanities
A research programme dedicated to Digital Humanities was created in January 2010 by Paolo D’Iorio as a result of a series of exploratory initiatives during 2008 and 2009 that fostered collaboration between the Oxford Internet Institute, the Oxford e-Research Centre, the Faculty of Philosophy and the Bodleian Library and European and international researchers.
Its objectives are the theoretical reflection of the different ways of utilizing the Internet for research in the Humanities, experimenting with new ways of publishing and structuring scientific information, and organizing the collaboration among researchers with the help of this new digital medium.
Scholarly Digital Edition
The Digital Humanities research programme is not restricted to analysis and theory. It houses also a research group in charge of an electronic edition of Nietzsche’s oeuvre. It publishes editions as well as conceptual tools and technologies that are designed for use by a community of researchers. Two editions reached publications stage at Oxford during summer 2009.
1. Friedrich Nietzsche, Digitale Kritische Gesamtausgabe Werke und Briefe, edited by Paolo D’Iorio, 2009–. (Digital Critical Edition of the complete works and letters, based on the critical text by G. Colli and M. Montinari, Berlin/New York, de Gruyter 1967; at present app. 8600 pages have been published).
2. Friedrich Nietzsche, Digitale Faksimile Gesamtausgabe, edited by Paolo D’Iorio, 2009–. (Digital Facsimile Edition based on the original manuscripts and prints held at the Foundation of Weimar Classics, edited by Paolo D'Iorio; at present 86 volumes containing app. 9 300 pages have been published)
These two editions were created with the support of the Goethe-Schiller Archives at Weimar, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the European Commission. Since their publication in July 2009 they are being used by an average of 5000 people per month, stemming from 140 different countries.
National and European Projects
European project “Discovery. Digital Semantic Corpora for Virtual Research in Philosophy”, eContentplus programme, six European partners, coordinated by the MFO under the direction of Paolo D’Iorio, 2006-2009.
European project “Open Scholarly Communities on the Web”, COST Action A32, 16 participating European countries, Paolo D’Iorio, Founder and Coordinator until September 2008, member of scientific committee, 2006-2010.
ScholarWeb project. Emergence de communautés savantes sur le Web. Pratiques, usages et discours, financed by the Institut des Sciences de la Communication of the CNRS (ISCC) in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) and the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (University of Cambridge), coordinated by Paolo D’Iorio (MFO) and Thierry Poibeau, LIPN-CNRS, 2008-2009.
Paolo D’Iorio is a member of the scientific committee of the European project « An Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions (Interedition) », COST Action IS0704, 13 European partners, 2008-2011
The MFO is partner of a project financed by the Regione Toscana (Italie) for the conception and realization of a digital library in collaboration with the company “Net7 - Internet Open Solution”, directed by P. D'Iorio, December 2009 - December 2010.
European project “Agora. Scholarly Open Access Research in European Philosophy”, ICT Policy Support Programme, seven European partners. Paolo D’Iorio WP5 leader: ‘Contexta. Scholarly interlinking & rendering experiment’ which involves the participation of the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) et the Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS). January 2011 – December 2013.
Researchers involved
Dr habil. Paolo D’Iorio (MFO, Lady Margaret Hall : Head of Research Group)
Dr Manuel Dries (MFO: post-doc Discovery project, chercheur CDD Agora project; Wolfson College)
Mr Christian Dünisch MA (MFO, University of Munich: HyperNietzsche project)
Dr Christine Madsen (Balliol College, OII: Discovery project)
Mr Armin Schwehr MA (University of Munich: HyperNietzsche project, Agora project)
Dr Benedetta Zavatta (University of Urbino; Discovery project, Agora project)
Prof. Francisco Arenas Dolz (University of Valencia: Nietzsche editions)
Oxford Partners
Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford e-Research Centre
International Partners
Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS/ENS), Paris, France
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Norvège
Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee (CNR), Rome, Italy
SeMedia group, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
University of Vienna, Austria
Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany
Net7 - Internet Open Solutions srl, Pisa, Italy
RAINET, Radiotelevisione Italiana spa, Rome, Italy
Innovation & Development Consulting sprl, Brussels, Belgium
