Abstract
This special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies contains a selection of eleven papers presented at the 2019 Women Editors in Europe conference at Ghent University. It explores women’s editorship in a wide range of national and transnational contexts in five full-length articles by Judit Acsády, Lola Alvarez-Morales and Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo, Aisha Bazlamit, Andrea Penso, and Joanne Shattock, and five shorter pieces by Petra Bozsoki, Zsolt Mészáros, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, Zsuzsa Török, and Alicja Walczyna, headed by a provocative essay by the conference keynote speaker, Fionnuala Dillane. Spanning three centuries and seven European languages, the special issue not only offers insight into the breadth and diversity of women’s editorial work for the press; it also draws together different national and language traditions in periodical scholarship and makes them accessible to an international audience.
Highlights
The WeChangEd dataset on women editors contributes to the diversity of open historical and cultural data and to closing the gender gap in Wikidata (at present, eighty per cent of the items describing people represent males); it can be enriched by other projects collecting similar or related data.2 Following the transfer to Wikidata, we collaborated with developers Katherine Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt to build a Wikidata-powered digital storytelling app that presents the data as visually compelling narratives accessible to the wider public.3
How did women participate in public life, how did they make their voices heard, and how did they create change at a time when their formal rights and access to power were limited? These are the questions that we explored in the past six years as part of the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Agents of Change: Women Editors and SocioCultural Transformation in Europe, 1710–1920’(2015‒21; acronym WeChangEd)
The WeChangEd dataset on women editors contributes to the diversity of open historical and cultural data and to closing the gender gap in Wikidata; it can be enriched by other projects collecting similar or related data
Summary
The WeChangEd dataset on women editors contributes to the diversity of open historical and cultural data and to closing the gender gap in Wikidata (at present, eighty per cent of the items describing people represent males); it can be enriched by other projects collecting similar or related data.2 Following the transfer to Wikidata, we collaborated with developers Katherine Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt to build a Wikidata-powered digital storytelling app that presents the data as visually compelling narratives accessible to the wider public.3 Spanning three centuries and seven European languages, this special issue offers insight into the breadth and diversity of women’s editorial work for the press; it draws together different national and language traditions in periodical scholarship and makes them accessible to an international audience.
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