Apologies for X-posting The program for New Technologies, Old Texts is now available. We have put together a program that explores the application of technical advances to the editing and study of texts of diverse periods. You can register online at: http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ctp/regist.html or via e-mail by writing to [log in to unmask] July 7th, 2003 2:00 Registration and Coffee 2:30-4:30 Vincent Neyt and Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp: “Customizing the Edition: Aspects of Visualization in a Genetic Edition of Modern Manuscript Material” Finn Fordham: “A writing processes website for students: getting it off the ground” Mike Malm, University of Münich: “Reconstructing Modernism: A Genetic Hypertext Edition of Ezra Pound’s “The Fifth Decad of Cantos” 4:30-5:00 Break 5:00-6:15 Peter Shillingsburg, De Montfort University: “Textual Criticism and the Humanities: a response to J. Coetzee” July 8th, 2003 9:30-10.45 Luc Herren and David Parker, Universities of Münster and Birmingham: “Collate as an opportunity for collaboration in editing the Greek New Testament” Martin Foys, Hood College: “Crosses, Maps and Textiles: Digital Editions Beyond the Manuscript” 10:45-11:00 Break 11:15- 12:30 Lou Burnard, University of Oxford: “XARA: XML text searching” David Moreno, University of Málaga: “Beyond the limits of word-concord in OE corpora: A new proposal” Abstract 12:30-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:30 Linne Mooney, University of Maine: “A Digital Archive of Late Medieval English Scribes and Scribes of The Canterbury Tales” Rafael Schwemmer, University of Basel: “Interface and Interaction. Electronic ways of presenting Wolfram’s Parzival” Abstract Satoko Tokunaga and Tomohiro Kishida, Keio University: “Computer-assisted analysis of Caxton's Typography” 3:30-4:00 tea 4:00-5.30 Jennifer Marshall, De Montfort University: “Navigating Murky Waters: Editing Brunetto Latini’s Tesoro” Matt Spencer, University of Cambridge: “Alignment problems: collation, bilingual texts, approximate string matching, and DNA sequences” July 9th, 2003 9:30- 11:00 Peter Kegel and Herbert van Elslaker: “In progress — The Complete Works of W.F. Hermans: a report on the integration of digital technologies in the publication of a multi-volume edition” Edward Vanhoutte and Ron Van den Branden, Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies, Ghent: “A Textbase Framework for the Description, Encoding, and Edition of Modern Correspondence Material” Abstract 11:00-9:30 Break 11:30-12.45 Barbara Bordalejo, De Montfort University: “The New Stemmatics” Peter Robinson, De Montfort University: “Creating an interface for reading many texts at once”