Textual scholars - particularly those who are editing letters or working with correspondence, but others as well - may be interested to participate in the USER project.

USER is a research project about Using Scholarly Editions for Research. The current USER survey deals with digital archives and editions of correpondence. It is part of a PhD research project that involves a digital archive and edition of the correspondence regarding the Flemish literary journal Van Nu en Straks. The research is coordinated by the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB-KANTL), in collaboration with Ghent University.

The USER survey consists of 31 questions. Depending on your answers, it will take you 8 to 16 minutes. Visit the USER page on the CTB website for an introduction and to participate: http://www.kantl.be/ctb/USER/

[An earlier version of the survey was in Dutch. Those who have already participated in the Dutch version, please ignore this message.]

More information on USER and the 'Van Nu en Straks' archive and edition at USER@kantl.be http://webmail.hostbasket.com/src/compose.php?send_to=USER%4...

or please contact

Bert Van Raemdonck
Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies
Koningstraat 18
9000 Gent
Belgium
bert.vanraemdonck@kantl.be
++32(0)9 265 93 51