Women Editors in Europe

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.

Linking women editors of periodicals to the Wikidata knowledge graph

“…This resulted in a dataset which includes around 1700 persons, 1600 periodicals, 200 organizations and numerous links between these entities. This data is available as CSV files upon request at [23], but it is also publicly available on Wikidata as we detail below. Inherent to the WeChangEd project is facilitating future research on these women editors and periodicals and also increasing the knowledge on women in this period in particular, that are often absent from mainstream records on these periodicals given their lacking of fundamental rights that allowed them to hold formal positions as editors.…”

“…There are two primary functions of our frontend: 1) rendering a story and 2) managing a the presentation of a story. For Story rendering, we developed react-stories-api, 23 a React.js open source component library of all visual story elements seen on the WeChangEd application. This allows us to decouple the infrastructure from the presentation so that the WeChangEd team can host the stories on any domain while the data is powered through the Stories Services API.…”