Open Minimal Digital Editions: a Latin American Perspective

Slides of the presentation Open Minimal Digital Editions: a Latin American Perspective held by Gimena del Rio Riande in the lecture series Digital Humanities in Focus: Methods, Applications, and Perspectives at the University of Rostock (online) on June 16, 2025. Abstract: Digital Humanities (DH) are usually defined by emphasizing their intersectional nature. However, the role that technology plays in this definition is rarely analyzed in terms of access and equity inside Academia. Digital Scholarly Editions (DSE) are at the core of DH. However, from a Latin American and a Global South perspective, the DSE field is perceived as being dominated by technologies that are expensive to use and maintain, and by technologies that are still unfamiliar to scholars. In this talk I reflect on the possibilities that the Latin American Open Science experiences can bring to the DSE field, to which it adds minimal computing practices, open source standards and tools that facilitate project building, data reuse, and research replicability. Bio: Gimena del Rio Riande is a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual (IIBICRIT-CONICET, Argentina) and Professor at Universidad del Salvador (USAL). She holds a MA and PhD in Romance Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Her main academic interests deal with Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarly Edition, Scholarly Communication, and Open Research Practices in the Humanites. She is the director of the Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales HD LAB (IIBICRIT-CONICET) and the Posgraduate Certificate Diplomatura en Humanidades Digitales (UCES). She is one of the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Ambassadors for Latin America, co-director of the Revista de Humanidades Digitales (RHD), president of the Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD), member of the board of directors at the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.