Who we are

The Working Group VIDIT brings together an international group of scholars and developers who study textual variation in literary and historical documents. In particular, the working group addresses the challenge of using visualizations to represent textual differences and make the output of collation software more informative for a wider audience.

For more information about the people behind VIDIT, see VIDIT team.

Check out the About-page for more background and information about our work and how you can join!

Latest news and updates

  • We presented VIDIT at the ESTS 2026 conference, the DHBenelux 2026 conference, and the TEI 2026 conference. It was great to talk to conference attendees about our and their work on modeling text variation, learning about the various use cases and the challenges people are confronted with.
  • The organizers of the 2026 ESTS conference kindly offered us a chance to get together during the conference and do some collaborative work. Many people showed up to this Open Session and we had a productive time, working both on the modeling of text variation concepts (“document”, “modification”, “variation”, etc) and testing and reviewing tools for text alignment. Part of our work was fueled by large quantities of American candy, kindly provided by Brett. We plan to take the models of text variation that were sketched during this meeting and use them as point of departure for our modeling work. Keep an eye out on our various communication channels to stay up to date!
  • If you like to know more about either subgroup and what we’re up to, join the dedicated Discord channels (see below) and ask us anything (e.g., the minutes of previous meetings). See below for all the links.

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