ACDH Tool Gallery 11.3

DSE Static Cookiecutter, or: how can I publish my own digital edition online?

When: Wednesday, 22. October 2025

Part 1: 10:30 - 12:00
Part 2: 12:30 - 14:00 (max. 20 Personen)

Where: Seminarraum 1, groundfloor / courtyard

Austrian Academy of Sciences
Baeckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Registration: Please use this registration form .

Please note that the maximum number of attendees for part 2 is limited to 20.

Organisation: Peter Andorfer (ACDH, ÖAW), Tanja Wissik (ACDH, ÖAW), Elisabeth Königshofer (ACDH, ÖAW)

language of the workshop: German

How can I publish my digital edition (TEI/XML-encoded text files) online in a stable and sustainable manner, ideally without costs and complex cooperation agreements? The DSE-Static-Cookiecutter offers an answer to this question.

This is a ‘static site generator’ developed at ACDH and used in a number of digital edition projects, which generates a website from TEI/XML-encoded text files and makes it accessible online via the free GitHub Pages service.

The first part of the ACDH Tool Gallery explains and demonstrates the DSE Static Cookiecutter and the concepts and technologies behind it. In the second part, participants are invited to convert their own TEI/XML data into an online-ready website using the DSE Static Cookiecutter. Several colleagues from the ACDH will be on hand to assist. A sample data set will be provided by the ACDH for those who do not have their own data.

Please bring your laptop and, if applicable, your own TEI/XML data.

Please note that there is a limit of 20 participants for the second part of the event.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of TEI/XML
XSLT (Oxygen + transformation scenarios), Git
GitHub user account
Ideally, you already have your own project in which texts are encoded in TEI/XML that are intended to be published as a digital edition.

Team

Peter Andorfer is a Senior Research Software Engineer and heads the Text Technology & Publishing Team in the DH Research & Infrastructure department at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities ( ACDH ). He is involved in the creation and continuous development of workflows and tools for sustainable publishing and state-of-the-art digital editions. He studied history and German language and literature, and obtained his doctorate in Austrian history from the University of Innsbruck in 2015.

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