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title: Bit Philology
status: active
type: Research project
categories:
- Bit Philology
- Project
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*Today, much literature is created digitally. Literary archives, which preserve the manuscripts of writers, increasingly include digital documents (known as ‘born-digital’), which pose challenges for their study. The Bit Philology project will propose innovative solutions for describing, editing and analysing digital literary archives, while meeting the scientific and societal needs of our digital age.*

Philology is a discipline that is thousands of years old. Textual scholars have studied and continue to study papyri, manuscripts, epigraphic and printed sources, and have developed methodological tools to work with texts preserved in different forms and on different media. But what happens when a text is born digital? A growing number of born-digital texts are currently being archived, including documents of historical importance and literary material. This project focuses on the latter, the born-digital literary archive, as a source for the philology of the present and the future.

Scholarship on born-digital sources has identified the need for a rethinking of traditional methodologies in order to transform the born-digital source into a scholarly object of study. The Bit Philology project seeks to respond to this need by describing, editing and analysing born-digital literary sources. The aim of the project is to establish a methodological and technical toolkit for the study of born-digital literary sources created before the advent of cloud computing. The project is highly interdisciplinary and will combine approaches from digital humanities (data modelling, distant reading); authorial philology (filologia d'autore) and genetic criticism (critique génétique); the philological tradition concerned with the materiality of textual documents (filologia materiale, material bibliography, digital forensics); media and software studies; information design.

In addition to the PI, the team will include two PhD students, a post-doctoral researcher and a student assistant. During the five years of the project, the team will collaborate with colleagues from Swiss and international institutions. An advisory board of internationally renowned experts will accompany the project.
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⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 Minor

Complete the team member listings.

Line 16 mentions "two PhD students, a post-doctoral researcher and a student assistant," but only the two PhD students are listed below (lines 22-24). The post-doctoral researcher and student assistant are missing from the detailed team listing.

Consider adding entries for the post-doctoral researcher and student assistant to match the description, or update line 16 to reflect only the currently listed members.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents 
In content/projects/bitphilology/index.qmd around line 16, the project summary
references "two PhD students, a post-doctoral researcher and a student
assistant" but the detailed team list (lines ~22-24) only shows the two PhD
students; add missing entries or update the summary to match. Either add two new
team entries below the PhD listings for the post-doctoral researcher and the
student assistant (with names, roles, and short affiliation in the same format
as existing entries) or edit line 16 to remove mention of the post-doc and
student assistant so it accurately reflects the listed team; ensure formatting
and tone match the surrounding entries.


SNSF Starting Grants

PI: [Prof. Dr. Elena Spadini](https://www.dh.unibe.ch/about_us/people/prof_dr_spadini_elena/index_eng.html)

PhD student: [Elena Barchielli](https://www.dh.unibe.ch/about_us/people/barchielli_elena/index_eng.html)

PhD student: [Simon Willemin](https://www.dh.unibe.ch/about_us/people/willemin_simon/index_eng.html)

Starting date: 1 March 2025
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