People

Core team

Brett Barney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US). Brett is Research Associate Professor at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and Senior Associate Editor of the Walt Whitman Archive. He served two terms (2010-2013) on the TEI Consortium’s Technical Council and is currently engaged in an NEH-funded project to test and enhance the TEI’s provisions for documentary and genetic editing. Together with Elena Spadini and Bernhard Oberrheiter, Brett coordinates the Shared Vocabulary-subgroup. Institutional page.
Elli Bleeker, Huygens Institute (NL). Elli is a researcher at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History and Culture (KNAW), where she specializes in digital scholarly editing, genetic criticism, and semi-automated text collation. She is a member of the TEI Technical Council and main coordinator of the VIDIT working group. (Institutional page)[https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/medewerkers/elli-bleeker-3/]
Carlotta Defenu, University of Parma (IT). Carlotta is a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Parma. She holds a Master’s degree in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD. in Textual Criticism from the University of Lisbon. Her doctoral thesis examined the genesis and revision process of Fernando Pessoa’s orthonymous poems. Together with Chiara Martignano, she is the coordinator of the Best Practices-subgroup. Institutional homepage.
Chiara Martignano, University of Padua (IT). Chiara is a Research Fellow at the University of Padua. She has a PhD in Philology and Criticism and specialises in data modelling, digital scholarly editing, and web development. Chiara works (among others) on the EVT publication environment and developed the Critical Edition Ontology. Chiara coordinates the Best Practices-subgroup together with Carlotta. Personal homepage.
Beatrice Nava, University of Vienna (AT). Beatrice is University Assistant Postdoc at the University of Vienna (Digital Philology). After her PhD in Literary and Philological Cultures (University of Bologna) she worked for two years as a researcher at the Huygens Institute in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on authorial philology and Digital Scholarly Editing, with a specific interest on modelling and digital representation of textual sources. Institutional page.
Bernhard Oberreither, Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT). Bernhard works at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities as the editor of the digital edition of Karl Kraus’s Dritte Walpurgisnacht. Besides digital editing, his research interests include twentieth century literature, literary theory, intertextuality & intermediality, as well as the interrelation of digital humanities’ and ‘traditional’ scholarly methodologies. From September 2026, Bernhard will take over the coordinating of the Shared Vocabulary-subgroup from Elena Spadini. Institutional page.
Marcus Pöckelmann, Freie Universiteit Berlin (DE). Marcus has a PhD in Computer Science at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. His is the lead developer of the text alignment and visualisation tool LERA and currently works on several digital text analysis projects, including (but not limited to) the COMUTE project which deals with multi-lingual collation. Institutional page.
Elena Spadini, University Bern (CH). Elena is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern. She studied Romance Philology and Digital Humanities at the University of Rome Sapienza, École nationale des chartes and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In 2016 she completed her Ph.D. on the manuscript transmission of the XIII century Lancelot en prose. Currently, Elena is the PI of the project Bit Philology, which applies textual scholarship on born-digital sources from literary archives, and together with Brett the coordinator of the subgroup Shared Vocabulary. Personal homepage.

Members

VIDIT has a large community of scholars and developers across countries and disciplines, who frequently come together in bi-monthly online meetings and have ongoing discussions on Discord. Everyone is welcome to join. For more information how to become part of VIDIT, see About.