February 14, 2024, 12:00-1:30 pm EST

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Presented by: Guilia Ferretti

Duration: from 60 to 90 minutes

Description: We’ll be presenting the main features of Stylo, a web-accessible semantic text editor for writing in the humanities and social sciences. Since the project’s launch in 2017, one of its objectives has been to provide a tool capable of changing and improving the academic publishing chain, particularly the workflow of journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Stylo is based on a principle known as single source publishing: from a single source Stylo can produce different objects in various formats such as HTML, PDF, XML. The implementation of this principle relies first and foremost on a WYSIWYM (What you see is what you mean) interface and the use of three formats to manipulate the source: Markdown for body text, YAML to serialize metadata and BibTeX to structure bibliographic references.

In this workshop, we’ll show how to create and write text in Stylo, as well as the various functions for manipulating the elements that will form the source of our documents, which we can then export in a variety of formats.

Technical requirements: Sign up for a free Stylo account before the session.

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Biography

Giulia Ferretti is a PhD candidate in digital humanities at the University of Montreal and holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Macerata (Italy). Under the supervision of Marcello Vitali-Rosati, her research focuses on the philosophy of digital protocols and their role in the production and circulation of knowledge. More generally, she is interested in the approach proposed by the Critical Code Studies, which applies critical hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer code. She is scientific coordinator of the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities and is affiliated with the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques.