About

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community of practice for medievalists working with digital media. Established in 2003, the project helps medievalists by providing a network for collaboration and instruction, exchange of expertise and the development of best practice. The project operates an electronic mailing list and discussion forum, an online refereed journal, as well as a news server for announcements and calls for papers. It also organises conference sessions at international medieval and humanities computing congresses. It is an elected organization of volunteers and has developed some governing bylaws.
The current Director is N. Kıvılcım Yavuz; the members of the Executive Board are listed here.

What We Do

Mailing list and Discussion Forum

<dm-l@uleth.ca> is the Digital Medievalist electronic mailing list. Members use the list to ask for advice, discuss problems, and share information. The list’s collegial atmosphere encourages a variety of conversations: from advanced discussions of problems in the implementation of particular languages or software to more basic questions about how to begin a computing project or find help with software, languages, and formats. Subscription is open to anyone interested in the use of digital media in the study of the medieval period.

Journal

Digital Medievalist (DM) is the project’s on-line, refereed Journal. DM accepts work of original research and scholarship, notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, tools and software, etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports. All contributions are reviewed by authorities in humanities computing prior to publication. Contributions to DM should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus. They should be of a length appropriate to the subject under discussion; in most instances this means between 1,000 and 10,000 words. Journal submissions can be made through the Digital Medievalist Submission Portal. Enquiries can be sent to: DMedievalist[at]googlegroups[dot]com.

Twitter and Facebook

All news that is posted to the DM website also eventually ends up on the DM Twitter account.
DM also has an active Facebook group, where news and discussion is posted relating to digital medieval issues.

What font was used to make the <dm/> logo?

The answer to this was provided by Dan O’Donnell:

It’s not a font. It’s a photoshopped composite of an (original) ð and m from an anglo-saxon manuscript that was later turned into a vector image. (Actually gimped, rather than photoshopped).

The d is the body of the ð, the / before the > is from the cross-stroke, and the m is just the m. The < and > are the back stroke of the ð if I remember aright, turned and inverted in the case of <

The MS is Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 41 (A copy of the Old English Bede) and the letters were from p. 322 (I used it because the B1 scribe has a great clear hand and Cædmon’s Hymn is on the page, so I had it in my collection).

I can’t remember exactly, any more, but I think it is just the first ð and the first m on the page.