EVT Workshop

The EVT Workshop will take place one day before the ESTS 2026 Conference, on Wednesday, 27 May 2026, at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

This workshop offers an introduction to digital philology and electronic editions, with a particular focus on preparing and visualising digital genetic editions. The practical session, however, is open to all types of scholarly editions, especially critical editions and diplomatic editions with facsimile.

By the end of the course, participants will gain a basic understanding of how to prepare and publish digital genetic editions — as well as other types of editions — using texts encoded according to the TEI XML standard and visualised with EVT.

Participants will have access to the workshop slides and to an archive containing all materials needed to follow the lecture and complete the exercises. Those who already have an edition project are encouraged to bring their own materials (images, transcriptions, TEI-XML files, if available). No prior knowledge is required, although some familiarity with XML editors may be helpful.

The software used for visualisation is EVT (Edition Visualisation Technology): http://evt.labcd.unipi.it/

What to prepare in advance

Participants are strongly encouraged to bring:

• images and transcriptions related to their current or past edition projects,
• TEI-XML files (if available).

  We will also provide ready-to-use materials so that everyone can test EVT features during the workshop.

Software requirements