Pre-conference Workshops at DH2010: expressions of interest and proposals

As in previous years, the days 3-6 July, before the DH2010 conference (7-11 July at King’s College London ) have been set aside for community-run workshops. One can reach a diverse and committed body of participants in the Digital Humanities at DH2010. Do you or your project have a workshop up your sleeve that would interest this Digital Humanities community?

Half- or one-day slots are available for workshops, which need to be self-organized and self-funding. KCL can provide space for the workshop at no or low cost, so it is likely that the costs per participant would be low.

We would like to receive proposals for such workshops.

In your full proposal (total 500-800 words), please include:

(1) a brief description of the workshop programme, the project or community out of which it arises, the trainers who will run the workshop, and its proposed length;

(2) what is the demand for this workshop, and who do you expect the audience to be? What minimum number of attendees would be needed for you to do the workshop?

(3) what funding is available or will you seek to help to support the costs of this workshop (for instance, travel for trainers, lunch or refreshments for participants, as applicable)?

A few groups have already expressed interest in running workshops, and we have been talking informally with them. If you have ideas that is not yet fully formed, we would be delighted to e-speak to you about them before you submit a proposal.

The closing date for full proposals will be 31 December 2009. Please send them via email to both John Bradley (john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk) and Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England web site

British History Online at the Institute of Historical Research (http://www.british-history.ac.uk) would like to announce an important new addition to its premium content section: the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/prome). This source consists of scholarly descriptions of every parliament held in England between 1275 and 1504. It covers 10 monarchs, from Edward I to Henry VII (since no parliament was held in the reign of Edward V, he is not included). The rolls for some of these parliaments, particularly the earlier ones, do not survive, but where they are extant have been fully transcribed; supplementary material about the business of the parliament is given in an appendix. Opposite the original text, which may be in Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Middle English, is a modern English translation. To make PROME easier to use, the text and translation have been put into tables, so that the corresponding paragraphs are simple to locate.

This new content is available to current subscribers at no extra cost. Subscription details can be found at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/subscribe.aspx.

Emily Morrell
Publications Manager
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House (Rm 265)
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
emily.morrell@sas.ac.uk
Tel 020 7862 8655
Fax 020 7862 8657

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

DM Facebook Group and Twitter Feed

Due to public demand (well, discussion on the mailing list) Digital Medievalist now has a Facebook group and a Twitter feed. We already had the Facebook group to be honest, but there is no harm in re-advertising it at the same time.

The Facebook group is at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 and is available for all your digital medieval social networking needs.

The Twitter feed of our news articles is now available at: http://www.twitter.com/digitalmedieval for those of you who like to consume tweets. Currently this is just fed from the RSS feed of our newsfeed, but who knows, maybe we’ll add something extra to it during conferences.

Neither of these, of course, are meant in any way to replace: the DM-L mailing list, the DM Website, the DM Open Access Journal, the DM Wiki, or the DM News Posting Form. They are just another form of outreach and dissemination for you, the DM community, to make what you will of them.

Socially networked and twitterly yours,

James Cummings
Director, Digital Medievalist
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

Posted by: James Cummings (James.Cummings@digitalmedievalist.org).

Early English Laws website launch

I’m delighted to announce that the Early English Laws website is now live. This three-year, AHRC-funded project (a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research, London and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London) will publish new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts and treatises produced up to c.1215. The latest news and updates can also be followed on the project blog, which is accessible from the website.

–
Dr Jenny Benham
Project Officer
EARLY ENGLISH LAWS
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street, London   WC1E 7HU
Direct line: 020 7862 8787
Email: jenny.benham@sas.ac.uk
www.history.ac.uk

 

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Job vacancies at the University of Michigan

The School of Information at the University of Michigan seeks three (3) outstanding faculty candidates.

One targeted position is in Digital Environments. For that position, we seek someone whose research and teaching interests are at the intersection of digital arts and humanities, digital literacies, and social computing. Research foci should involve arts and humanities scholarship, scholars, or content and can be in a variety of areas, such as (but not limited to) virtual collaboration, credibility, and/or digital curation. This position is at the assistant professor level.

A second targeted position is in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). For that position, we seek someone with research and teaching interests including some combination of information system design, computer-supported cooperative work, environmental informatics, communication studies, development policy and sociology, anthropology, and/or a related field applicable to the design and study of information systems for developing-world contexts. This position is at the assistant
professor level.

For the third position, we aspire to establish and reinforce areas of excellence and seek faculty whose research interests complement and extend our existing strengths. This position is open rank.

We encourage you to learn more about the School, its mission, and its activities at http://www.si.umich.edu/. Detailed information on the three positions and how to apply may be found at: http://www.si.umich.edu/about-SI/faculty-postings.htm. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until positions are filled; however, candidates for assistant professor positions are strongly encouraged to complete applications by November 25, 2009. All candidates should have completed or be nearing completion of a Ph.D. in a relevant field, and be committed to working in an interdisciplinary environment. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 17-22 May 2010

The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce the second year of this AHRC-funded course in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King’s College London.

The course is open to arts and humanities doctoral students registered at UK institutions. It involves six days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts in the digital age to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats.

The first half of the course involves morning classes and then visits to libraries in Cambridge and London in the afternoons. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning’s themes to concrete examples. In the second half we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers.

The course is aimed principally at those writing dissertations which relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art and history. There are no fees, but priority will be given to PhD students funded by the AHRC. Class sizes are limited to twenty and places are ‘first-come-first-served’ so early registration is strongly recommended.

For further details see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/study/mmsda/ or contact Dr Peter Stokes at mmsda@sas.ac.uk.

–
Dr Peter Stokes
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
The University of Cambridge
9 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
Tel: +44 1223 767314
Fax: +44 1223 335092

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Call for Papers: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II

It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) undertook an initiative entitled “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age”. Yet its first results have already been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age” was launched at an international symposium in Munich. Here, experts from all over the world met as a community to share their knowledge, interests and concerns regarding digital issues in the various fields of manuscript research.

The feedback on both the anthology and the conference has been remarkably positive, not least from experts who are less acquainted with digital methods. For the first time, widely dispersed, cutting-edge research in the field of computer-aided codicology and palaeography can be surveyed and assessed as a whole phenomenon.

Yet, despite the fact that the anthology gives a broad insight into theory and practice, some relevant subjects and questions have not been covered. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a second volume of “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age”. The following questions in particular should now be addressed:

* To what extent can quantitative approaches and the analysis of codicological databases be complemented by a systematic analysis of digital manuscript facsimiles?
* How can manuscript-related research in the history of arts or in musicology be supported by digital tools and methodology?
* How successfully can methods from the sciences be applied to the analysis of manuscripts (e.g. DNA analysis of parchment)?
* How can electronic manuscript-catalogues and virtual libraries be brought together by means of comprehensive portals and hybrid research environments in order, for example, to facilitate exhaustive semantic studies?
* How can existing digital tools for palaeographic transcription be promoted and improved? * How can the range of applications be expanded?
* How can philological analysis and further use in literary studies be enhanced?
* How can questions about the history of script be addressed by digital methods?
* How can digital resources best supplement the originals, in the context of restoration and preservation? How can archives, libraries and museums take advantage of the opportunities, for public benefit?
* To what extent are software-generated answers to codicological and palaeographic questions sustainable, verifiable and reliable?

Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous CfP) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German or Italian. Again, the launch of the volume will be accompanied by an international symposium. Proposals of not more than 500 words should be sent by 30 November 2009 to kpdz-ii@ide.de or any of the editors listed below.

Organisation:

* Franz Fischer (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), f.fischer@ria.ie
* Christiane Fritze (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), fritze@bbaw.de
* Georg Vogeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
* Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, Cologne Center for eHumanities), sahle@uni-koeln.de
* Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel), schassan@hab.de
* Malte Rehbein (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
* Bernhard Assmann (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne), as@ba.tuxomania.net

Dates:

30. November 2009: Abstract Submission Deadline
30. April 2010: Paper Submission Deadline

Kind regards,
Christiane

–
Christiane Fritze
The German Text Archive
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Jaegerstr. 22/23
10117 Berlin

phone: +49 (0)30 20370 523
email: fritze (at) bbaw (dot) de
http://www.deutsches-textarchiv.de/

IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de/

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

ANNOUNCEMENT and CFP: LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE


The annual international conference and course

LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Zadar, Croatia, 24 – 28 May 2010

University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/) Full information at: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Email: lida@ffos.hr.

The annual international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Each year a different and “hot” theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the first part covering research and development and the second part addressing advances in applications and practice. LIDA brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being held in memorable locations.

Themes LIDA 2010

Part I: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP: support by digital libraries Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following topics:

• Research, practices, and values related to digital scholarship, including conceptual frameworks that emerged

• Contemporary nature of the scholarly information and communication environment in general and as involving digital libraries in particular

• Developments in digital humanities

• Navigating shifting patterns of scholarly communication

• The impact digital libraries have on digital scholarship and on education in various fields, and vice versa; the impact of digital scholarship on digital libraries

• Studies on how faculty, researchers, and students make use of digital scholarly resources for their research or in education

• Practices that emerged in libraries related to support of digital scholarship, such as resource/collection building, digitization, preservation, access, services and others;

• International aspects of digital libraries with related trends in globalization and cooperative opportunities for support of digital scholarship;

• Research and discussions on general questions:  How are we to understand new forms of scholarship and scholarly works in their own right? How are we to respond in digital libraries? What are the opportunities and challenges?

Part II: DIGITAL NATIVES: challenges & innovations in reaching out to digital born generations

Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following topics:

• Research and discussions on general questions:  who are these digital natives? How they are different from older generations – or digital immigrants – and what is the world they’re creating going to look like?

• The impact of digital natives on libraries;

• Digital libraries and social networks on the Web;

• The cultural and technological challenges faced by digital libraries in serving digital natives;

• Examples of library services specifically aimed at digital natives

• Efforts by libraries to help people that are more digital immigrants to become more digitally natives

• Role of libraries in e-learning and education in general

• Is the future of libraries closely associated with how successfully they meet the demands of digital users?

Types of contributions

Invited are the following types of contributions:
1. Papers: research studies and reports on practices and advances that will be presented at the conference and included in published Proceedings
2. Posters: short graphic presentations on research, studies, advances, examples, practices, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. Proposals for posters should be submitted as a short, one or two- page paper.
3. Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special demonstration sessions.
4. Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the main part of the conference and will require separate fees, to be shared with workshop organizers.
5. PhD Forum: short presentations by PhD students, particularly as related to their dissertation; help and responses by a panel of educators.

Instructions for submissions are at LIDA site http://www.ffos.hr/lida/.

Deadlines

For papers (an extended abstract) and workshops (a short proposal): 15 January 2010. Acceptance by 10 February 2010.
For demonstrations (a proposal) and posters (an extended abstract): 1 February 2010. Acceptance by 15 February 2010.
Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2010.

Conference contact information

Conference  co-directors:

TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Department of Library and Information Science University of Zadar; Zadar, Croatia; taparac@unizd.hr.
TEFKO SARACEVIC, School of Communication and Information; Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA tefkos@rutgers.edu.

Program chairs:

For Theme I: VITTORE CASAROSA, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche,  Pisa, Italy, casarosa@isti.cnr.it.

For Theme II: GARY MARCHIONINI,  School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, march@ils.unc.edu.

Venue
Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast,  rich in history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century CE. In addition, Zadar region encompasses many natural beauties, most prominent among them is the Kornati National Park, the most unusual and indented set of close to a 100 small islands in the Mediterranean For Zadar see http://www.zadar.hr/English/Default.aspx. For Croatia see http://www.croatia.hr/.

–
Marija Dalbello
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Information
4 Huntington Street
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1071
Voice: 732.932.7500 / 8215
FAX:  732.932.6916
Internet: dalbello@rutgers.edu
http://www.rutgers.edu/~dalbello

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

November 14-16, 2009

Illinois Institute of Technology
Hermann Hall, 3241 S Federal St.
McCormick-Tribune Campus Center, 3201 S State St.
Chicago, IL 60616

The annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to dvance interdisciplinary collaborations between the digital humanists and computer scientists, advancing the area as a field of intellectual inquiry and identifying new directions and perspectives for future research.

Program:      http://dhcs.iit.edu/fullprogram.html
Registration: http://dhcs.iit.edu/registration.html

Please register by Wednesday, November 11, as space is limited.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Stephen Wolfram: What Can Be Made Computable in the Humanities?

Dr. Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science.

Vasant Honavar: Humanities as Information Sciences

Dr. Honavar is professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, and founding director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory and the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning & Discovery.

Roger B. Dannenberg: The Music Technology Revolution

Dr. Dannenberg is associate research professor of Computer Science and Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and fellow of the Studio for Creative Inquiry.

SPONSORED BY:

• Illinois Institute of Technology
• The University of Chicago
• Northwestern University

MORE INFORMATION:

For more information or to register, visit http://dhcs.iit.edu/ or email dhcs2009 at iit dot edu.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Announcing Digital Studies / Le champ numérique

Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (ISSN 1918-3666) is a refereed academic journal, publishing three times a year and serving as a formal arena for scholarly activity and as an academic resource for researchers in the digital humanities. DS/CN is published by the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour létude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI), an organisation affiliated with the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) through the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Work published in DS/CN reflects the values of this community and the interdisciplinary diversity of those who comprise it, with particular emphasis on emerging digital humanities methodology and its application, on the engagement of that work in pertinent disciplinary contexts, and on multilinguality and complementarity with other ADHO publications (among them the journals Literary and Linguistic Computing, and Digital Humanities Quarterly).
Similarly, our publication technology, policies and practices will strive to promote and reflect the community’s best emergent and longstanding practices.

DS/CN invites contributions relating to work carried out in the digital humanities, broadly construed. In its open, thematic, and conference volumes DS/CN publishes academic articles, scholarly notes, working papers, field synopses, larger reviews, and well-documented opinion pieces. DS/CN privileges publications which explicitly demonstrate an awareness of interdisciplinary context(s) and a history of pertinent academic engagement.

- Journal at: www.digitalstudies.org

- Flyer at: http://bit.ly/iPTkt

- Submissions via www.digitalstudies.org

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Editorial Team
Ray Siemens (Editor, U Victoria), Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Editor, U Montréal), Bill Winder (Editor, Working Papers, U British Columbia), Dominic Forest (Managing Editor, U Montréal), Jeff Smith (Managing Editor, U Saskatchewan), Kirsten C Uszkalo (Managing Editor, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Christian Vandendorpe (Founding Editor, U Ottawa); Serina Patterson, Karin Armstrong, and Anne Correia (Technical Editors, ETCL, U Victoria)

National Advisory Board
William Barker (U King’s College, Halifax), John Bonnett (Brock U), Margaret Conrad (U New Brunswick), Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Dean Irvine (Dalhousie U), Ian Lancashire (U Toronto), Yin Liu (U Saskatchewan), John Lutz (U Victoria), Christine McWebb (U Waterloo), Dan O’Donnell (U Lethbridge), Geoffrey Rockwell (U Alberta), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Jean-Michel Salaün (U Montréal), Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster U)

International Advisory Board
Elisabeth Burr (U Leipzig), Dan Cohen (George Mason U), Hugh Craig (U Newcastle), Marilyn Deegan (Kings College London), Johanna Drucker (UC Los Angeles), Julia Flanders (Brown U), Charles Forceville (U Amsterdam), Liliane Gallet-Blanchard (U Paris IV – Sorbonne), Carolyn Guertin (U Texas Arlington), David L Hoover (New York U), Edward van Houtte (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature), John Lavagnino (King’s College London), Alan Liu (UC Santa Barbara), Laura Mandell (Miami U), Lev Manovich (UC San Diego), Jan Christoph Meister (U Hamburg), Martin Mueller (Northwestern U), Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (U Oulu), Espen Ore (U Oslo), Ken Price (U Nebraska), Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin)

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize

The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Now in its inaugural year, the prize will be given every three years to honour an outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI).

The prize is named in honour of the late Professor Antonio Zampolli (1937-2003), who was one of the founding members of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) in 1973, and ALLC President 1983-2003. He was a major figure in the development of literary and linguistic computing from the 1960s, and an enthusiastic supporter of the joint international conferences of ALLC and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), which were initiated in 1989. He was also a prime mover in the Text Encoding Initiative, both in the initial 11-year project, and in the establishment of the TEI Consortium.

The Zampolli Prize is given to recognise a single outstanding output in the digital humanities by any scholar or scholars at any stage in their career. The output must involve the innovative use of information and communications technologies and may take the form of published research and/or the development of research-related tools or resources. The award will be made on the basis of the output’s importance as a contribution to the digital humanities, taking into account the significance both of its use of information and communication technologies and of its actual or potential contribution to the advancement of humanities research.

For a complete description of the Antonio Zampolli Prize, see http://www.digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/ZampolliPrize.

The first Antonio Zampolli Prize will be given at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference, which will be held at Stanford University.

The Award Committee invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ACH, ALLC or SDH/SEMI.

Nominators should give an account of the nominee’s work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee’s work is required.

Nominations should be sent no later than 15 February 2010, to the Chair of the Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee:

Ray Siemens, siemens@uvic.ca
University of Victoria,
PO Box 3070
STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1.

Email submissions are preferred.

Members of the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee:
Ray Siemens (Chair)
Jean Anderson, Chuck Bush, Matt Jockers, Øyvind Eide
Marilyn Deegan, Julia Flanders, Christian Vandendorpe
John Nerbonne, Harold Short, John Walsh

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Deadline Extended: Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference.  Due to many requests, we are also extending the submissions deadline to Nov. 15, 2009.

New! Melissa Terras will address the conference in a plenary invited talk.

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Digital Humanities 2010
Call for Papers
Abstract Deadline: Nov. 15, 2009

Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will be available at the conference web site from October 8th. Presentations may be any of the following:

• Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
• Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words)
• Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching.  We welcome submissions in all areas of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent developments.

Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example,

• text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning
• IT in librarianship and documentation
• computer-based research in cultural and historical studies
• computing applications for the arts, architecture and music
• research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media
• the role of digital humanities in academic curricula

The special theme of the 2010 conference is cultural heritage old and new.

The range of topics covered is reflected in the journals of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press, and the Digital Humanities Quarterly, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.

The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is Nov. 15th, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 24, 2010. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 8th, 2009 (which will be linked from http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/papers/call.html).

Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposals or reviews or to register for a Digital Humanities conference should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one.

If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact dh2010
at digitalhumanities.org.

See below for full details on submitting proposals.

Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be made to the local conference organizer as early as possible.

For more information on the conference in general please visit the DH2010 web site.  http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/.

Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal.

Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.

1) Papers
Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original, unpublished work: preferably completed research with substantial results, but also the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical or critical discussions. Individual papers have 20 min. for presentation and 10 for questions.

Proposals concerning new computing methodologies should show how the methodologies are applied to humanities research, and should critically assess the application. Those concerning a particular application should compare earlier traditional and computational approaches and should also assess the new methodologies. References are naturally required. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as
possible.

2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations
Poster sessions showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. Poster presentations may include technology and project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards also apply, but posters/demos may be more suitable way for
late-breaking work, or work in progress. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal.

Poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than talks. Poster presenters can present their work and exchange ideas one-on-one and in detail with those most deeply interested. Presenters will have about two square meters of board space for display and may also wish to provide handouts. Posters remain on display throughout the conference, and are the sole focus of separate dedicated poster sessions. Additional times may be available for
software or project demonstrations.

As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster.

3) Sessions
Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:

Three papers. The proposal should include a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session.  All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session.  Focused sessions should have added value when compared to the set of the individual papers.

or

A panel of four to six speakers. The proposal is an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how discussion will be organized, the names and affiliations of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.  All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session.

International Programme Committee

Elisabeth Burr
Richard Cunningham
Jan-Christoph Meister
Elli Mylonas
Brent Nelson
John Nerbonne (Chair)
Bethany Noviskie
Jan Rybicki
John Walsh

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CULTURAL HERITAGE on line. Empowering users: an active role for user communities

The Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Library of Congress are delighted to announce the conference:

CULTURAL HERITAGE on line. Empowering users: an active role for user communities
15-16 December 2009, Florence, Italy
Teatro della Pergola
Via della Pergola 30

The conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes. Internet continues to have an impressive impact on cultural heritage and humanist communities by affecting the way they work, use, exchange and produce knowledge. New architectures and radically different paradigms arise continuously engendering a deep rethinking of traditional roles and tasks.

The second day of the conference foresees two parallel sessions related to relevant themes as: digital library applications, interactive web, and sustainable policies for digital culture preservation. Invited authors outline the users and communities framework in digital libraries design and development. Several considerations will be also addressed to the improvement of collaborative tools introducing new capabilities for cooperation, knowledge creation, and collective intelligence.

SATELLITE EVENTS:

- MONDAY 14th DECEMBER TUTORIAL: LONG TERM PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL ASSETS: BASIC CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES
Palazzo Incontri – Sala Verde
Via dei Pucci 1, Firenze

- THURSDAY 17th DECEMBER TUTORIAL: DUBLIN CORE – BUILDING BLOCKS FOR INTEROPERABILITY
Auditorium dell’Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
Via Folco Portinari 5, Firenze

See here the program: Cultural Heritage On-line [.pdf | 1614 Kb]

Please kindly register at: www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009-registration

Registration Deadline: Registration must be done by 11 December 2009. The registrations received within 30th of November will take advantage of the promo price shown on the web site. Starting from 1st December 2009 registration fees will be charged of a 20% increase.

For more information on the Conference and Tutorials: www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

2009-2010 HASTAC Scholars Announced

The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) is delighted to announce the 2009-2010 University of Illinois Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology, Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC: www.hastac.org) Scholars.  The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the sciences that have been nominated by University of Illinois faculty. The University of Illinois 2009-2010 Scholars are:

Derek Attig, Department of History
Patrick Berry, Department of English
Amber Buck, Department of English
Steven Doran, Institute for Communications Research
Damian Duffy, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Bonnie Fortune, School of Art & Design
Mark Fredrickson, Department of Political Science
Jennifer Guiliano, Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Andrew Jones, Department of History
Michelle Kleehammer, Department of History
Jeffrey Kolar, School of Fine and Applied Arts
Ryuta Komaki, Institute for Communications Research
Jenni Lieberman, Department of English
Fengge Liu, Department of Landscape Architecture
Safiya Noble, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Samuel Oehlert, Department of History
Sarah Roberts, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Karen Rodriguez’G, Department of History
Pongsakorn “Tum” Suppakitpaisarn, Department of Landscape Architecture
Michael Verderame, Department of English

Scholars act as the eyes and ears of HASTAC’s virtual network, bringing the work happening on the University of Illinois campus and in their disciplines to international attention. The Scholars will spend the year as part of a virtual community of students creating, reporting on, blogging, vlogging, and podcasting events and scholarship for an international audience on the HASTAC website. Scholars will work together to facilitate the growth of digital disciplines on the Illinois campus via outreach and development efforts.

To learn more about the HASTAC Scholars program and to read the on-going blogs and efforts of the University of Illinois scholars, please visit:

http://www.hastac.org/scholars

 

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Research positions available at Unifob AKSIS in Bergen, Norway

Unifob (http://www.unifob.uib.no/) is a research company with over 500 research staff from more than 30 nations and a turnover of NOK 450 million (ca. 50 million Euro). Unifob’s majority owner is the University of Bergen. Unifob conducts R&D in the areas of health, language and information technology, marine biology, environment, climate,
petroleum, and the social sciences.

Unifob AKSIS, with its 30 employees, is the smallest of the nine R&D departments. AKSIS’ current research areas (computational and corpus linguistics, language testing, electronic publishing, digital media, and technology enhanced learning) have evolved over more than 30 years through projects and cooperation with national and international research institutions. We are now expanding our activities and announce several new positions in ICT and its creative use, e.g., data mining, gaming, Web 2.0, education, linguistics, health, mobile applications, and HCI. We encourage interdisciplinary work and are ideally looking for candidates who envisage working at the intersection with our current research areas.

Candidates

-      with minimum 3 years of experience in academia or industry after completion of a PhD,
-      with a proven research record,
-      with experience in project management, and
-      with an interest in building up and leading a research group to international level

are invited to apply. Engagements can be full or part-time and are initially limited to two years. Relocation within the first two years is not required. Working language is English or Norwegian.

We offer a competitive salary, extensive social benefits, a cooperative and international working environment, and we’re located near the prize winning fjords of Western Norway. Positions remain open until filled.

For more information please consult http://www.aksis.uib.no/ or contact Research Director Dr. Eli Hagen (eli.hagen@aksis.uib.no, +47 55 58 29 48). Please send application (cover letter, CV, and publication list) electronically to post@aksis.uib.no.

(published October 2009)

–
Tone Merete Bruvik
Special consultant
Unifob Aksis -
Centre for Culture, Language and Information Technology
Allégt. 27, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
Phone: +47 55584222
www.aksis.uib.no

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

WORKSHOP: Host your texts on Google in one day

The Center For Hellenic Studies will conduct a one-day workshop at the Center’s Washington, D.C., campus, on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, with the subject: “Host your texts on Google in one day”. Bring one or more XML texts to the workshop in the morning, and leave in the afternoon with a running Google installation of Canonical Text Services serving your texts to the internet (http://chs75.chs.harvard.edu/projects/diginc/techpub/cts).

For more information, including how to apply, please see http://chs75.harvard.edu/CTSWorkshop.html.

Feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

CFP: Digital Humanities 2010

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference.

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Digital Humanities 2010
Call for Papers
Abstract Deadline: Oct. 31, 2009

Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will be available at the conference web site from October 8th. Presentations may be any of the following:

• Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
• Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words)
• Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions in all areas of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent developments.

Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example,

• text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning

• IT in librarianship and documentation

• computer-based research in cultural and historical studies

• computing applications for the arts, architecture and music

• research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media

• the role of digital humanities in academic curricula

The special theme of the 2010 conference is cultural heritage old and new.

The range of topics covered is reflected in the journals of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press, and the Digital Humanities Quarterly, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.

The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is Oct. 31th, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 24, 2010.
The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 8th, 2009 (which will be linked from http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/papers/call.html).

Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposals or reviews or to register for a Digital Humanities conference should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one.

If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact dh2010 at digitalhumanities.org.

See below for full details on submitting proposals.

Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be made to the local conference organizer as early as possible.

For more information on the conference in general please visit the DH2010 web site. http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/.

Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal.

Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.

1) Papers
Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original, unpublished work: preferably completed research with substantial results, but also the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical or critical discussions. Individual papers have 20 min. for presentation and 10 for questions.

Proposals concerning new computing methodologies should show how the methodologies are applied to humanities research, and should critically assess the application. Those concerning a particular application should compare earlier traditional and computational approaches and should also assess the new methodologies. References are naturally required. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible.

2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations
Poster sessions showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. Poster presentations may include technology and project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards also apply, but posters/demos may be more suitable way for late-breaking work, or work in progress. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal.

Poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than talks. Poster presenters can present their work and exchange ideas one-on-one and in detail with those most deeply interested. Presenters will have about two square meters of board space for display and may also wish to provide handouts. Posters remain on display throughout the conference, and are the sole focus of separate dedicated poster sessions. Additional times may be available for software or project
demonstrations.

As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster.

3) Sessions
Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:

Three papers. The proposal should include a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session. All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session. Focused sessions should have added value when compared to the set of the individual papers.

or

A panel of four to six speakers. The proposal is an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how discussion will be organized, the names and affiliations of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session.

International Programme Committee

Elisabeth Burr
Richard Cunningham
Jan-Christoph Meister
Elli Mylonas
Brent Nelson
John Nerbonne (Chair)
Bethany Noviskie
Jan Rybicki
John Walsh

–
Digital Humanities 2010
https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Job: Assistant Director

September 30th, 2009

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is seeking to hire an Assistant Director to join our management team, which currently consists of Neil Fraistat, Matt Kirschenbaum, and Doug Reside.

Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration of the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. In the ten years since its founding, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading digital humanities centers in the world. As the host of the 2009 Digital Humanities conference and the co-organizer of centerNet (an international network of similar centers), MITH is one of the centers at the heart of the now burgeoning international field of digital humanities.

MITH is generously supported by the University administration and enjoys productive collaborations with allied campus units, including the University Libraries, the College of Information Science, and the Human Computer Interaction Lab. Geographically situated within the Washington DC Beltway, MITH is perfectly positioned for its frequent collaborations with the world-class libraries, museums, and cultural institutions in the metropolitan area, but our partnerships have also extended around the world. Recent projects include a collaboration with several major libraries in the U.K. and the United States to create an online archive of all extant pre-1642 quartos of Shakespeare’s plays and participation on a national research team charged by the Library of Congress with the preservation of virtual worlds (e.g. Adventure, DOOM, and Second Life). This latter project is part of MITH’s larger focus on the preservation of born digital creative work, also represented by our hosting of the Electronic Literature Organization and the Deena Larsen Collection–one of the world’s largest publicly held collections of electronic literature.

The Assistant Director will bear primary responsibility for project management and oversight of all MITH projects, including creation of deadlines for all deliverables and project tracking; the supervision of MITH’s development team, that includes programmers, web designers, graduate assistants, and interns; and computer programming services, data, and application architecture design and modeling for MITH projects. We are therefore seeking a web programmer experienced with web scripting languages (JavaScript, PHP, Ruby) and with some knowledge of compiled languages (Java, C++). Ability to work with Unix/Linux based applications is required, and preference will be given to candidates with database and XML expertise. Strong organizational and project management skills are also mandatory, as are excellent communication skills. A humanities background is especially desirable. Bachelor’s degree required; MA, MLS, or Ph.D. preferred.

The Assistant Director is a full-time, 12-month staff position at the University. Salary is commensurate with experience, ranging from $51,304-$64,131. The University also offers a competitive benefits package. To apply, please send a letter of application, CV, and contact information for three references to Doug Reside, Search Chair, via email: dreside@umd.edu. For best consideration, apply by close of business on October 9, 2009. The University of Maryland actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, gender, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, national origin, or political affiliation. Women and Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Digital Middle Ages conference June 16-17 2010

Call for papers:

THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE
THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES:
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
JUNE 16-17, 2010
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK, USA

Note that the proposed subjects include in particular:
- Digital palaeography
- Encoding of medieval manuscripts

D.M.

– Denis MUZERELLE
Resp. de la section “Paléographie latine”
Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS) 40, av. d’Iéna, F-75116 Paris

[See http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/2009/06/24/third-international-margot-conference-the-digital-middle-ages-in-teaching-and-research/ for more details.]

TEI meeting in Oslo Oct. 3, 2009

The TEI consortium and the University of Oslo (IKOS) are pleased to announce an informal meeting of TEI users with officers from the TEI consortium in the context of the conference

Early Chan Buddhist Manuscripts among the Dunhuang Findings,
Resources in the Mark-up and Digitization of Historical Texts

held at Oslo University from Sep. 28 to Oct. 3, 2009 (more information available at http://folk.uio.no/christoa/ZenManus_Front.html).

Place: Oslo University (Georg Svedrup Library, Room TBA)
Date: Oct. 3, 2009
Time: 13:00 to 17:00

Current and previous members of the TEI Council and Board, including Chair of the Board Dan O’Donnell, Tone Merete Bruvik and Christian Wittern will be present.

The main purpose of the meeting is to learn more about the use of TEI in Norway and exchange information about the TEI, as well as give an opportunity to discuss issues related to text encoding, for example (but in no way limited to) the encoding of Chinese manuscripts in light of the problems discussed at the conference or in fact any other topic the participants of this meeting would like to discuss.

For updated information about the meeting, including the meeting room,
please visit http://folk.uio.no/christoa/ZenManus_Front.html or write to me.

Christian Wittern

–
Christian Wittern
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

Holinshed’s Chronicles

Subject: Holinshed’s Chronicles
From: Ian Archer

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce a new freely available resource for all
those interested in historical writing (and much else besides) in
the early modern period: Holinshed’s Chronicles of England,
Scotland and Wales.

An Oxford based team comprising myself (History, Oxford), Dr
Felicity Heal (History, Oxford), Dr Paulina Kewes (English,
Oxford), and Dr Henry Summerson (The Oxford Holinshed Project
Research Assistant) has been working on a parallel text
electronic edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles. The Chronicles are
best known as the source text for many of Shakespeare’s plays,
but they were a gold mine for other dramatists and poets, and for
lawyers, politicians, and general readers. We’ve been aware for a
long time of the existence of differences between the two
editions of 1577 and 1587, but systematic analysis has proved
elusive because of the sheer volume of the texts. What we offer
is a means of reading the two editions alongside each other, a
privilege hitherto only available to those in particularly well
endowed libraries. Users with access to EEBO will be able to move
from our edition to the EBO hosted facsimiles of the pages.

The edition would have been impossible without the co-operation
of EEBO-TCP who undertook the keying of the 1577 edition (in
addition to the 1587 edition already on their site), as well as
granting us permission to make use of the two texts in our
version.

We have also benefited from the assistance of the Research
Services Team at Oxford University Computing Services who
developed the TEI Comparator Tool, enabling comparison between
the two texts. We think that this tool may be of use to other
projects. See the link to James Cummings’ blog below.

The resource is freely available, and has been funded by Oxford
University’s Fell Fund.

To access the texts go to:

http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/

But you can get there from the project website:

http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/

I send you there simply to alert you to the amount of additional
content, including a comprehensive analysis of the sources behind
the Chronicles undertaken by Henry Summerson.

http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/chronicles.shtml

There is also a comprehensive Holinshed bibliography, and a
number of working papers.

To read James Cummings’ blog and to find out more about the TEI
Comparator Tool, go to:

http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jamesc/2009/09/04/tei-comparator/

The parallel text edition is one of several outputs envisaged by
the Oxford Holinshed Project. We have commsioned forty essays
which will be published by OUP as The Oxford Handbook to
Holinshed’s Chronicles in 2011. We also hope to receive funding
to enhance the electronic edition with scholarly annotation.

All best wishes,

Ian W. Archer

–
Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG
Acting Warden, Keble College
Fellow and Tutor in Modern History
General Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography on British
History
Literary Director, Royal Historical Society
Website addresses
Personal webpage:
http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/academics/about/dr-ian-archer
RHS Bibliography:
http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/
Royal Historical Society:
http://royalhistoricalsociety.org
The Holinshed Project:
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/
Keble Past and Present:
http://www.tmiltd.com/shop/home/pId/66

International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009)

This year’s International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009) is a month away. The theme of DC 2009 is Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data. The conference will be held on 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea.

Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site till October 5th. On-site registration will be available while conference is in session. Please go to the registration page http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php to register for the conference and related events including Dublin Core tutorials on Monday, 12 October and following the conference on Friday, 16 October. The basic tutorials introduce “Dublin Core in historical context, Interoperability options in a complex Web of data, Other metadata standards, and Interoperability issues and basic approaches”. The advanced tutorials include “Ontology Design and Interoperability”, and “Transforming, Mapping, and Merging OS: Methodologies and Challenges”.

For registration, program, accommodation information and more, please go to links below:

• DC 2009 home page: http://www.dc2009.kr/
• Program: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php
• Registration: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php
• Accommodation: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uacco_01.php

Thank you,

–
Myung-Ja “MJ” Han
Metadata Librarian
220 Main Library
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1408 W. Gregory Dr. (MC-522)
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-9515 (Main Library)
217-244-7809 (Grainger)

Case studies in the humanities – call for expressions of interest

The RIN (Research Information Network) is looking to fund a series of case studies that will provide a detailed analysis of how humanities researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. The case studies will focus on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. They follow a first round of case studies in the life sciences (to be published shortly). We are making available up to £120,000 for this project, which is intended to run from November 2009 to September 2010. Closing date for this call is call is 30 September 2009.

More information available at the URL http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies.

——-

Sarah Gentleman
Communications Officer
**Research Information Network**

96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
telephone: 020 7412 7241

email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk
website: http://www.rin.ac.uk/

*Freedom of information: what’s in it for researchers?* – free RIN workshop, 14 September 2009 in Glasgow, more information and booking at http://www.rin.ac.uk/foi-scotland.

Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) at TU Darmstadt

The Department of German at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Technische Universität Darmstadt invites applications for a vacant

Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) (ID-No. 295)

The prospective postholder is expected to teach courses in German linguistics or literary studies as well as humanities computing at undergraduate and graduate level Bachelor/Master of Arts Germanistik, Master of Arts Linguistic and Literary Computing, teaching degrees).

The postholder must have research interests and a proven track record of excellent research in at least two of the following areas:
• Text technology
• History and theory of literature and media
• Text linguistics
• Media and communication (e.g. Conceptual History “Metaphern- und Begriffsgeschichte”)
• Digital editions

Formal requirements are the Habilitation (“Second book”) or equivalent qualification and an excellent record of teaching at university level. Postholders are expected to actively engage in cooperative interdisciplinary research within the faculty of History and Social Science as well as the natural sciences and engineering disciplines. They should have a record of attracting external research funding.

The position is tenured with a remuneration package commensurate with experience and qualifications, following the German “W-Besoldung”. The regulations for employment are specified under §§ 70 and 71 HHG (Hessisches Hochschulgesetz). Candidates who already hold a civil servant status (Beamtenverhältnis) can be reappointed under the same status. Nonpermanent contracts can be made permanent after positive evaluation.

The Technische Univesität Darmstadt intends to increase the number of female faculty members and encourages female candidates to apply. In case of equal qualifications severely disabled applicants will be given preference.

Applications referring to the Identification Number (ID-No. 295) (including a CV, list of publications, copies of relevant diplomas, a record of teaching activities and scientific accomplishments) are to be sent to the

Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Science,
Prof. Dr. Rudi Schmiede, Residenzschloss
64293 Darmstadt.

Deadline for applications: October 8th, 2009

Official URLs of this text:
German: http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/pvw/dez_iii/stellen/295.tud
English: http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/pvw/dez_iii/stellen/295englisch.tud

–
Dr. Sabine Bartsch
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft – Englische Linguistik
Hochschulstr. 1         64289 Darmstadt
Fon: +49-6151-16 4570   Fax: +49-6151-16 3694
http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=bartsch

XML Summer School in Oxford, 20-25 Sept

For those who may have been away and missed the earlier announcement, the XML Summer School returns this year at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 20th-25th September. As always, it provides high quality technical XML training for every level of expertise, from the Hands-on Introduction through to special classes devoted to XSLT, Semantic Technologies, Open Source Applications, Web 2.0 and Web Services. The Summer School is also an opportunity to experience what life is like as a student at one of the world’s oldest Universities.

Classes are taught by some of the most renowned XML experts, including Eve Maler, Michael Kay, Jeni Tennison, Michael Sperberg McQueen, Norm Walsh and Bob DuCharme.

Details are at http://www.xmlsummerschool.org/.

2007 TEI Meeting Proceedings published

Colleagues — we are delighted to announce that the proceedings of the
2007 TEI MM has been published by L&LC. It is a rich and varied
collection of articles that show the range and complexity of research in
the TEI community. The full volume is available at
http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl

The issue contains articles by keynote speakers Fotis Jannidis and
Melissa Terras (co-authored with Ron Van den Branden, and Edward
Vanhoutte). The full TOC is listed below:

Fotis Jannidis: TEI in a crystal ball

Andrea Zielinski, Wolfgang Pempe, Peter Gietz, Martin Haase, Stefan
Funk, and Christian Simon: TEI documents in the grid

Christian Wittern, Arianna Ciula, and Conal Tuohy: The making of TEI P5

Melissa Terras, Ron Van den Branden, and Edward Vanhoutte: Teaching
TEI: The Need for TEI by Example

James Cummings: Converting Saint Paul: A new TEI P5 edition of The
Conversion of Saint Paul using stand-off methodology

Malte Rehbein: Reconstructing the textual evolution of a medieval manuscript

Luigi Siciliano and Viviana Salardi: The digital edition of the Statuta
comunis Vicentie of 1264

Stephanie A. Schlitz and Garrick S. Bodine: The TEIViewer: Facilitating
the transition from XML to web display

Peter Boot: Towards a TEI-based encoding scheme for the annotation of
parallel texts

Andreas Witt, Georg Rehm, Erhard Hinrichs, Timm Lehmberg, and Jens
Stegmann: SusTEInability of linguistic resources through feature structures

Susan Schreibman, PhD
Director
Digital Humanities Observatory
28-32 Pembroke Street Upper
Dublin 2
– A project of the Royal Irish Academy –

Phone: +353 1 234 2440
Mobile: +353 86 049 1966
Fax: +353 1 234 2588
Email: s.schreibman@ria.ie

http://dho.ie
http://irith.org
http://macgreevy.org
http://v-machine.org

Beta version of the Early Irish Glossaries Project available

The Early Irish Glossaries Project is currently editing a series of medieval texts, compiled c. 700-1000 and written in Old/Middle Irish, with a mixture of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other languages. There are five inter-related texts (c. 50,000 words in total) and 18 manuscript witnesses (incl. fragments).

A traditional print edition will be supplemented with a digital resource, providing manuscript transcriptions, links to manuscript images and other resources, and search and concordance tools. We are currently testing a beta version at the address below:

http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossariesdev/

We aim to make our XML source freely available and (hopefully) well-documented. To these ends, you can find XML/TEI files, our schema and documentation on transcription practices on our downloads page:

http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossariesdev/downloads.php

We would really appreciate any feedback regarding our TEI implementation, our documentation, or indeed the resource in general.

Dr Pádraic Moran
Classics, National University of Ireland, Galway

http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/
http://www.pmoran.ie/

Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data

DC-2009: Last days for early bird rate

August 31 is the last day to enjoy the “Early bird” rates for the 2009 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC2009) to be held from 12 through 16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea. Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site and book accommodation for their stay in Seoul.

This year’s conference focuses on the Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data.

The main conference is taking place from Tuesday through Thursday, 13 to 15 October. Keynotes, plenary presentations and public working-group meetings will be held in parallel on topics ranging from

• Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
• Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping
• Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
• Application profiles
• Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, and time
• Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, institutional repositories)
• Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields)
• Bibliographic standards (e.g., RDA, FRBR, subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies
• Accessibility metadata
• Metadata for scientific data
• Metadata in e-Science and grid applications
• Social tagging
• Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS)
• Ontology design and development
• Integration of metadata and ontologies

Conference Web Site: http://www.dc2009.kr/

Conference Program: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php

Registration: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php

Revealing the Invisible Heritage of Panjab

For the first time ever a searchable collection of millions of rare pages on the Sikhs and the region of Panjab has been made available. Panjab Digital Library (PDL) will include texts of manuscripts, books, magazines, newspapers and photographs and will be available to anyone with Internet access at http://www.PanjabDigiLib.org. This launch was made possible in part by The Nanakshahi Trust and the Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI).

PDL has been in development since 2003, charged with a mission to select, collect, preserve, digitize and make accessible the accumulated wisdom of Panjab. Texts were included without distinction as to script, language, religion, nationality, or other human condition.

“Since long, preservation of heritage, research and education have been a victim of apathy in Panjab; more so, in the last century. With the launch of the online digital library, we have tried to fill some of that gap. PDL is a humble offering to the community what it lost 25 years ago,” said Harinder Singh, co-founder and executive director of SikhRI who also serves on PDL board. “Scholars will be able to access a wide variety of information concealed in the manuscripts and other literature of the region with the click of a mouse sitting in the comfort of their homes. This is essential to the growth of Sikh and Panjab studies and its meaningful representation in the fast-changing modern world.”

Digitization technology brings with it untold benefits for heritage preservation and access. Once a document has been properly digitized it becomes immortal and can remain accessible long after the original has ceased to exist. The option of digital access further aids in preservation of originals through reduced need for physical handling. The central digital archive which the PDL has developed over the last six years allows for wide electronic access to the public and will help the researcher to search, browse and sift through vast amounts of data in seconds.

According to Davinder Pal Singh, PDL’s co-founder and executive director, “PDL will break many barriers which currently restrict a conventional library. Information is decentralized, through its shared storage and access model, thus enabling utilization of a single resource concurrently by multiple users all over the world. On a local note, assuming that every household will possibly have a computer within the next ten years, PDL holds great promises for the people of Panjab especially.”

“To date, PDL has been instrumental in digitally preserving over 2.5 million folios from 3,400 manuscripts, 2,200 books, 1,990 issues of periodicals, 5,578 issues of newspapers, 3,152 photographs, 248,000 legal documents and some 168 hours of video recordings,” commented Gurvinder Singh, PDL’s US Coordinator. The current collection of data amounts to about 15,000 GB of available information.

Among others, major institutional collections digitized to date include SGPC, DSGMC, Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, Chief Khalsa Diwan, Panjab Languages Department, and Kurukshetra University . Critical works of significant importance from the personal collections of Prof. Pritam Singh, Dr. Man Singh Nirankari, Dr. Kirpal Singh, Dr. Madanjit Kaur and Prof. Gurtej Singh are also available at PDL.

“PDL is the only non-profit, non-governmental organization to have initiated a digitization project for the preservation and upkeep of Panjab archives, and perhaps the only one in India ” said Gurnihal Singh Pirzada Director, PDL’s board member. “PDL has undertaken rigorous research and laid solid ground work in order to be in the best possible position for this launch. Projects around the globe were closely studied as models for establishing a successful digitization project. Internationally recognized benchmarks were referred to and complied with,” he further said.

PDL is an ongoing project in its early stages and the collection will grow substantially in coming years. New titles are being digitized everyday and the Web site will be updated with new features and titles on monthly basis. PDL staff will be adding at least 50,000 pages per week to the Web site’s collection.

Contact Person: Davinder Pal Singh davinder.singh@panjabdigilib.org | +91-98141 13047

Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage

Workshop at 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Oxford, UK, 9-11 December 2009

Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage

References to time and location pervade the human record, both past and present: an oft-quoted statistic is that some 80% of all online information is in some way georeferenced. It is unsurprising therefore that as researchers in the arts, umanities and cultural heritage become more fully engaged with e-infrastructures, their disciplines’ engagement with, and use of, spatial and temporal data gives rise to new and interesting research questions in this area.

How, for example, can heterogeneous academic data resources which fall into the 80% of georeferenced information – including, for example, historical texts, archaeological databases or museum collections – be linked and cross-queried without dictating the research process or methods used? How can geo-temporal data be visualized, both geographically and non-geographically? What is the role of ‘virtual globes’ such as Google Earth as platforms for the expression of such data? What can digital tools and methods in geospatial computing contribute to the use and understanding of space and time in the practice-led arts, creative industries and galleries (e.g. for documenting performances or visitor pathways)? How can issues of scale that are common to both time and space be usefully explored in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage sectors?

Further details: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/workshops/geospatial/

This workshop seeks contributions from which might further these, and similar, questions. Contributors might (not exhaustively) include:

* Academics in the arts, humanities or cultural heritage who are making use of spatial and/or temporal data in their research
* Researchers with relevant interests in HCI or related disciplines
* Researchers, curators, practitioners etc. from outside the academic sector (e.g. museums and galleries)
* Developers or information scientists working on geospatial or temporal tools or applications

Short contributions (up to four pages, including images, references and notes), in IEEE format (see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers/formatting-guidelines) are invited.

Deadlines are:

September 25th: Submission of first drafts

October 2nd: Notification of acceptance and reviewers’ comments

October 14th: Final submission of camera-ready papers

Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geospatialworkshopieee09

Stuart Dunn (King’s College London)
Fredrik Palm (University of Umeå)

Workshop co-chairs

Seminar: Edizioni Digitali alla ricerca di standards

I would like to announce the next Montepulciano (Siena, Italy) seminar: “Edizioni Digitali alla ricerca di standards”, 4th meeting of the Arezzo DIGIMED series and part of the 1st Master Courses “Informatica del testo – Edizione digitale” of the Siena-Arezzo University. See please the program at http://www.infotext.unisi.it.

Posted by: Francesco Stella (stella@unisi.it).

Teuchos – An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology

Seminar: Teuchos – An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology

Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

Friday July 10th at 16:30
STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

*Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)*
*Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology*

The talk will describe the general architecture of a digital research environment for manuscript and textual studies (particularly those pertaining to ancient Greek and Byzantine texts), and discuss some questions of data representation and encoding in the framework of such an online research platform (Teuchos. Zentrum fr Handschriften- und Textforschung).

ALL WELCOME

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract can be found, and audio and slides will be uploaded after the event.

Digital Classicist podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml

Posted by: Simon Mahony (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).

Call for Applications/Proposals ESF Research Networking Programmes

For wide dissemination: Call for applications

ESF Research Networking Programmes – 2009 Call for Proposals

An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science. Key objectives include:

* creating interdisciplinary fora;
* sharing knowledge and expertise;
* developing new techniques;
* training young scientists.

A successful Programme proposal must show high scientific quality and also demonstrate added value by being carried out at a European level rather than by individual research groups at the national level..
Proposals may be submitted in any scientific field. Deadline for receipt of proposals: 22 October 2009 (16:00 CET).. Full details at http://www.esf.org/programmes.

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Editing the Medieval Laws of England: Workshop

Editing the Medieval Laws of England

Date: 24 October 2009
Location: Institute of Historical Research
Description: The Institute of Historical Research, London, will be hosting a free one-day workshop which will bring together established academics and postgraduate students with an interest in early English laws.

The workshop will facilitate discussion about editing the various legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215. It aims to provide participants with an opportunity to share and discuss their ideas about methodology and issues such as digitisation and linguistics in a friendly, informal atmosphere. This event will offer project presentations and demonstrations as well as practical sessions on editing and presenting the laws in the digital age.

Booking: Attendance is free, but places are limited and offered on a first come basis. For more information and/or to register contact Dr Jenny Benham, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Oxford University: IT Support Officer for the Online Egyptological Bibliography

Griffith Institute in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

Information Technology Support Officer for the Online Egyptological Bibliography

University Grade: 8, stages 0104, Salary in the range 36,532 39,920 per annum pro rata to 40%, 16-month fixed-term

The Griffith Institute is seeking to appoint from late 2009 an ICT Officer to provide support for the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB), which will be moved from Amsterdam to a server in Oxford in late 2009 and will be further developed and migrated to a new software platform over the next year. This is a major database project that involves integrating material from diverse sources, including other databases that are to be incorporated into the OEB, as well as designing new input and search modules for use in a Unicode-compliant system. The successful candidate will have a professional knowledge of database systems, including Microsoft Access and MySQL with complex SQL statements and queries, as well as web-based systems, notably ASP, PHP, internet technologies such as (X)HTML and JavaScript, and general web design. She or he will also manage integrity, security, and online subscriptions to the OEB. This is a challenging position that will suit particularly a specialist in computing for the humanities.

Further particulars, including details on how to apply, should be obtained from www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the office of The Faculty Board Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, tel. 01865 288202, email orient@orinst.ox.ac.uk , to whom applications should be sent not later than Friday 24 July 2009

The University is an equal opportunities employer.

Seminar: Paper Watermark Location and Identification

Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2009

Friday July 3rd at 16:30

Note: STB 9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

*Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)*
*Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification*

ALL WELCOME

Watermark studies go back many years, but the advent of large digital repositories and advances in imaging present new opportunities. We present two attacks. Both use a back-lighting approach that delivers good quality, digitally-native images. We exhibit work on a wide range of images, and have uncovered hitherto unseen results.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html, where a longer abstract is available, and the audio and slides will be posted shortly after the event.

Digital Classicist Podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml

Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

Mingana collection launch

Dear everyone (apologies for cross posting)

I am delighted to announce that next Wednesday, 8 July, we will be launching the Mingana Collection and Virtual Manuscript Room online. We are having a launch celebration at the Barber Institute, at the University of Birmingham. Speakers include a number of experts in Arabic texts and manuscripts. Some manuscripts from the Mingana collection will be on display. Admission is free, lunch and refreshments will be provided, but pre-registration is essential. If you are interested in attending, please contact Frouke Schrijver

(FXS821@bham.ac.uk)

Everyone and anyone on this list is welcome to come to the launch! There is some information about the project at http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmrsite/. We are keeping the actual url under wraps as we work on the site; we will announce this on Tuesday evening, next week.

I hope to see some of you at the launch,

best wishes
Peter Robinson

Posted by: Peter Robinson (P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk).

IMBAS: Postgraduate Medieval Studies conference, NUI Galway, Nov 13-15th 2009

IMBAS: The National University of Ireland, Galway, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference, November 13-15th 2009.

We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas, an interdisciplinary medievalists’ conference being held in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway from November 13-15th 2009. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including language, history literature, art, archaeology and philosophy. The theme for 2009 is Alliances. Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive.

Papers might deal with but are not limited to such topics as:

* Religious, political and military alliances
* Relationships between cultural institutions
* Marriage
* Commerce and economics
* Patronage
* Rebellion and heresy
* Marginality

A selection of papers will be published in our new established peer-reviewed journal, Imbas: The Journal of the National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts. The committee are also delighted to offer a number of travel bursaries to delegates on a competitive basis. Details of the above our available on our website and our blog, http://imbasnuig.blogspot.com.

Abstracts of 250 words for a 20 minute paper (with ten minutes allowed for questions and discussion) should be sent either electronically to or by post to Imbas, English Department, NUIG, University Road, Galway, Ireland. For further information, contact us at imbasnuig@gmail.com. Posted by: Francesca Bezzone (imbasnuig@gmail.com).

CFP International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 2010 Special Session

CFP: 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 13-16, 2010 Special Session, “Susanna and the Elders: Medieval to Early Modern”
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The story of Susanna and the Elders has always been a little suspect. After all, its sources weren’t Hebrew, but Greek. In Jerome’s edition it wasn’t even considered part of the true Bible: instead, it appears as an appendix to the Book of Daniel. But the story’s association with the prophet Daniel, and its vivid, economical–even miraculous, narrative made it a lively model for the moral inculcation of youth, especially young women.

Why Susanna? Susanna’s plot is inherently dramatic. It lends itself to an easy excuse to portray the female nude. Its emphasis on the strength of faith alone makes it popular with reformers of all denominations, and the crux of its plot hangs on how the testimony of witnesses is collected–and the importance of a tree. To us today, the story appeals to interests from a range of disciplines–literary study, legal history, art history, codicology.

Given ‘her’ popularity and profusion across the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries and across media, it is unusual that so little scholarship has been devoted to that model of a good woman who refused any compromise with her virtue. In an effort to redress that deficiency, we’ve proposed a session on the story of Susanna and the Elders, to put ‘Susanna’ on trial, so to speak. We hope to gather scholars from across fields and periods who are focusing on this story to generate a cross-disciplinary exchange to explore ‘her’ variations, be it in prose, poetry, drama, or art.
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Abstracts of 100-250 words, welcome until August 30, 2009. Contact Terry Wade, jt.wade@mac.com or Jamie Taylor, jktaylor@brynmawr.edu for further information, or to submit an abstract.

Musicastallis: Musical iconography in the medieval choir stalls

Dear co-medievalists,

The University of Paris-Sorbonne is proud to announce the release of a new version of the Musicastallis online database, located on new servers :

http://www.plm.paris-sorbonne.fr/musicastallis/

This website illustrates and describes more than 850 scenes carved in medieval choir stalls from Europe. This new version improves greatly the user experience by allowing iconographical sources comparision, internal and external links towards other choir stalls ensembles, UTF-8 support for multilingual requests, analogical scenes proposition, a complete bibliography, a bilingual lexicon and thematical slideshows.

The English version is partially available, but still being translated. The fully working version is currently in French.

Xavier Fresquet, Database Administrator
PhD student in Music and Musicology
University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV

Frdric Billiet, Project Director
Music Department Chair
University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV

Third International MARGOT Conference: The Digital Middle Ages in Teaching and Research

THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE

THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES:

TEACHING AND RESEARCH

JUNE 16-17, 2010

BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK, USA

Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches � Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

SCHOLARLY FOCUS

During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to:

- digital paleography

- translation and dictionary projects

- digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material culture, image annotation tools, paratextual information, etc.)

- text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.)

- encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI and extensions of these protocols)

- management and preservation of digital resources

- information design and modeling

- the cultural impact of the new media

- software studies

- the role of digital humanities in academic curricula

- funding and sustainability of long-term projects

PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL:

We welcome three types of submissions:

1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or teaching 2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations

3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/ four presenters)

Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion. We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal: 1. Paper or Session title

2. Session type � Regular or Project Demonstration

3. 250 word abstract

4. Contact information and bio paragraph

The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility with the sessions that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions. The language of the Colloquium will be English.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:

The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, October 2, 2009. For information about the conference, including proposal submissions, registration, and accommodation, please go to www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010. The website will be updated periodically. For inquiries, please contact Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu.

We look forward to your participation.

The Conference Committee:

Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo)

Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University)

Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo)

Helen Swift (St. Hilda�s College, Oxford University)

Call for Nominations: TEI Board and Council

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and Council. Nominations should be sent to the nomination committee at [nominations at tei-c.org] by July 1, 2009.

See http://www.tei-c.org/News/index.xml#CallForNominations for details.

TEI-C membership is NOT a requirement to serve on the Board or Council. Candidates should be familiar with the TEI and should be willing to commit time to discussion, decision-making, and TEI activities. If you have ideas about how to make the TEI stronger or can help it do a better job, nominate yourself! Or, if you know someone who you think could contribute to TEI, nominate him or her!

Medieval Science and Medicine Databases

Science and Medicine Databases
The following searchable databases are now available via the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/

eTK – a digital resource based on Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy, 1963) and supplements.

eVK2 – an expanded and revised version of Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference. CD (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).

See the link “Science and Medicine Databases at UMKC” listed as “new” on the homepage (as well as on the “Links” page). The homepage also contains a slide show of images from Brunschwig’s De arte distillandi. The citation under the slide show images is a hot link to the Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology, and the images themselves are links to larger versions.

Electronic Thorndike-Kibre (eTK) and Electronic Voigts-Kurtz (eVK2)

An expanded and updated digital version of Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (TK), rev. ed. 1963 with two supplements, has been produced with the permission of the copyright holder, Medieval Academy of America. While TK consolidates all manuscript information for a text into a single entry, eTK divides entries from the book into 33,000 records, each for a manuscript witness to a text.

Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English, by Linda Voigts and Patricia Kurtz, 2nd ed. (eVK2), an updated and expanded version of the CD published by the University of Michigan Press (2000), provides more than 10,000 records for the earliest technical and learned writings in English.

The digital records in both eTK and eVK2 are organized in multiple searchable fields and allow searching of incipit words and word strings and searching by manuscript, library, author, title, subject, translator, date, and bibliography.

Both electronic references allow scholars to retrieve new information and to make connections previously unthinkable in the study of medieval science and medicine. Both tools are now freely available via a link from the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/

New Digital Medievalist News Server!

Hi there!

Digital Medievalist has setup a news server based on sending items to a wordpress blog. The results are then incorporated back into our website based on the atom feed available from wordpress.

It is hoped that this will allow DM users to post news items more easily. To post an item please fill in our news posting form and your item will be submitted pending moderation. Eventually we will introduce browsing of news articles by the tags above.

You should be allowed to use any HTML or shortcodes which are allowed in a wordpress.com blog.

Thanks for your contributions, and if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask.

-James Cummings
James.Cummings@digitalmedievalist.org