Dr. Birger Vanwesenbeeck
Dr. Birger Vanwesenbeeck attended a digital humanities course at the University of Antwerp that focused on computer-assisted genetic manuscript editing.
The one-week summer course familiarized Department of English Professor Vanwesenbeeck, who has worked extensively with the archival materials from SUNY Fredonia's Stefan Zweig archive, with a host of contemporary coding programs such as Transkribus, Oxygen and GitHub in order to acquire basic skills for making hand-written manuscripts digitally available to students and researchers while employing the guidelines of the international Text Editing Initiative (TEI).
Vanwesenbeeck plans to utilize skills he gained to create future research opportunities for students working with manuscripts in the Zweig archive.
Partial funding for Vanwesenbeeck to take the course, held June 30 to July 4, was provided by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
