Positively Dawesome Feature
There is no such word as dawesome, I know. But I could not think of an adjective starting with a d that would express fully my enthusiasm for our progress on the production of pdf-files on the basis of...
View ArticleOf ghosts and metadata
While writing my paper for the Biography Conference and writing my paper for the Frankoromanistentag and trying to finish up the grant application for the Boeckh Encyklopädie and settling on the OCR...
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Genetics and pdf
I have been reluctant to practice genetic editing so far. Not that I disregard the importance and/or meaning of such editions, but I did not think that we were fit for that. My main worry was that it...
View ArticleMid-Term
I will finish writing my mid-term report for the German Research Foundation this afternoon. This and the presentation of last Monday lead me to formulate more clearly our achievements and our goals....
View ArticleAs sweet as 517 tif files
It has been the first in a long time: today, I did some actual work. It was interrupted by a run to the accountant, a work lunch at the cafeteria including an interesting mix of ananas and sauerkraut,...
View ArticleWhy is it again that…?
That is one big problem when you are overworked. At some point, the meaning of the choices, the efforts, the strategies you make, simply vanishes. Usually, blogging keeps me rooted somehow. I knew I...
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Another way of looking at it
In the paper I will be giving at the Academy of Sciences on March 15th (the program of the conference can be found here), I will present the three parts of our Boeckh project (as I had done on this...
View ArticleBoeckh Book – Back
The book August Boeckh. Philologie, Hermeneutik und Wissenschaftspolitik (under the direction of Christiane Hackel and Sabine Seifert) is now on the bookshelves (at least ours)! You can order it from...
View ArticleWorkflow intricacy
Anna is now on parental leave, but I had the amazing opportunity to have her replacement financed for one year by the German Research Foundation (that is family-friendliness!). It is Julia Doborosky...
View ArticleSpring, disillusion and something like zen
The new semester began yesterday and it already feels like it has been months. I spent those two days struggling to get some actual work done – I succeeded for about 3 hours, which is not so bad. I...
View ArticleWhat’s new on the web
I have been announcing it for months, it is there at last: our new interface! There are still a few details to be improved (the rollover with names poping up on the authors’ pictures or the new favicon...
View ArticleAdd New
Seldom (maybe never) has it felt such a relief to open hypotheses.org as it is tonight. Weeks of forced blogging abstinence, rushing ahead without looking left and right, with the edition seemingly...
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Proudly presenting: August Boeckh’s “Catalogue of my books”
Further reproduction of the facsimile only with authorization of the Historical Collections at the University Library of the Humboldt University in Berlin. The handwritten catalogue of Boeckh’s books...
View ArticleA nail in the wall
I know only too well of all the corpora and features that we have still not fully realized (or even not yet begun to work on) for the edition, although they were initially conceived as primary goals. I...
View ArticleThe grandfather’s hand
I had intended to blog an English summary of the paper I gave on Thursday, but I will postpone the father’s hand (title of my paper) to go to the grandfather’s hand first. In her keynote at our...
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The father’s hand (2)
In part one, I described the way the mineralogist Weiß constructed the fiction of a collaboration between Immanuel Hermann Fichte and his father over the latter’s dead body. One of the persons who...
View ArticleNot enough text
For two years now, I have kept repeating “We don’t have enough text” (meaning in our digital edition). And it is true. There are a lot of things, especially the big-picturesque ones, that we still...
View ArticleThe Day After January 7th
We all woke up with a headache on January 8th, I guess. Even my kids. They had called me in the middle of the night, saying they felt cold, way too cold. Their first question in the morning: “Were...
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Boeckh strikes back
You know how research takes a lo-ong time, and publication processes too? Let me tell you a story about it, and one that ends well at that. A decade ago, when the projet “Berlin intellectuals...
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