Scholarly writing and editing with the text editor Stylo

Workshop ID:

WT-06

Workshop Title:

Scholarly writing and editing with the text editor Stylo

Organizers:

Antoine Fauchié, PHD candidate in the Department World Literature and Languages at the University of Montreal and project manager of the Canada Research Chair on Digital textualities

Roch Delannay, PHD candidate in the Department World Literature and Languages at the University of Montreal and project assistant of the Canada Research Chair on Digital textualities

Time (in JST and UTC):

July 26 3:00-6:30 (JST)

July 25 18:00-21:30 (UTC)

Maximum number of participants:

60

Description:

This tutorial will present the philosophy and use of the humanities text editor Stylo, developed by the Canada Chair in Digital Textualities. Stylo is a tool designed to transform the digital workflow of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. As a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) semantic text editor for the humanities, it aims to improve the academic publishing chain.

Participants will have the opportunity to test and edit their own text in Stylo. The workshop will use existing Stylo documentation: the documentation site and the video tutorial.

Aim of the workshop/tutorial:

Built on modular, low-tech and standard editing tools and formats, such as Markdown, BibTeX, Pandoc, Hypothes.is and Latex, Stylo integrates best practices in writing and publishing on the web into a single interface.

Stylo includes features such as sharing, versioning, change tracking, bibliographic reference management, annotation for revisions, multi-format export, metadata aligned with authorities (LOC, Wikidata, ORCID, ...) and online semantic tagging.

In this workshop, we will present how Stylo is used daily as a writing and editing tool for a scientific journal, and how it can be used by researchers and students, individually or collectively.

Outline:

The demonstration will include a presentation of

  1. the theoretical basis of Stylo

  2. the main editing features

  3. the export options available

  4. the specific use of Stylo in the context of scholarly journals in the humanities

  5. current and future developments and implementations of the tool.