From 30 June to 4 July 2025, Dr Igor Medić, a member of the project team, took part in the summer school programme Digital Humanities – Computer-assisted genetic editing: from medieval manuscripts to born-digital documents at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

Over five working days, various methods for the digital editing of manuscript texts as well as possibilities for the digital processing and visualisation of the process of text creation and its different variants were discussed in lectures and workshops.

The lectures and workshops were led by Dirk Van Hulle, Sofie Moors, Caroline Vandyck, Lamyk Bekius, Wouter Haverals, Nooshin Shahidzadeh Asadi, and Wout Dillen. The participants have worked both in theory and in practice with the technologies used in the creation of digital editions, including XML, TEI, GGXLog, Keystroke Procera, Keystroke Loxensis, Transkribus, eScriptorium, Axolotl, GitHub, HTML, CSS, XPath, XSLT, and Zenodo. They have also reviewed and analysed several valuable digital collections of manuscripts and early printed books.

The summer school also included a visit to the renowned Plantin-Moretus Museum, where Zanna Van Loon gave a lecture on the history of editing practices and presented selected manuscripts and editions owned by the museum. The Plantin-Moretus Museum, housed in the original premises of a centuries-old publishing house and printing workshop, is home to a unique collection that provides an insight into the production of printed works from the 16th to the 19th century. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.