Digital Classicist 2012: Call for Papers

The annual Digital Classicist seminar series on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component will run again in Summer 2012.

We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as from established researchers and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, linguistics technology, imaging and visualization, linked data, open access, geographic analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in Classical studies. The content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information scientists or digital humanists, and have an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of those fields.

The seminars will run on Friday afternoons (16:30-18:00) from June to mid-July in Senate House, London, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies (ending early this year to avoid clashing with the Olympic Games). In previous years collected papers from the seminars have been published in a special issue of Digital Medievalist; a printed volume from Ashgate Press; a BICS supplement (in production). The last few years’ papers have been released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher.

There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire).

To submit a paper for consideration for the Digital Classicist Seminars, please email an abstract of 300-500 words to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk, by midnight UTC on April 1st, 2012.

More information will be found at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

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

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 7, Issue 1: 1 March 2012

The next issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2012. This special issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of spatial order, and place as a socially constructed category, in the art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music of the Middle Ages.

Graduate students working in any discipline and period of Medieval Studies are welcome to submit their articles related to this year’s theme via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1, 2012. We are also interested in book reviews on recent publications which may be of interest to a broad audience of Medieval Studies scholars. For further information please visit our website at www.hortulus.net.

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas.

Posted by: Hortulus Journal (hortulus@hortulus.net).

L’édition électronique dans tous ses états : évolution des pratiques, évolution des besoins

Vendredi 20 janvier, 14h00-17h
Recherche Sans Frontières : la Text Encoding Initiative et la coopération internationale dans les Digital Humanities
Elena Pierazzo, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, membre du Board of Directors de la TEI

Lundi 23 janvier, 09h30-12h30
Les « Gascon Rolls », une source majeure de la Guerre de Cent ans, du parchemin au digital
Guilhem Pépin, Université d’Oxford, et Paul Spence, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

Lundi 23 janvier, 14h00-15h30
Histoire de la TEI : un cas d’étude dans l’évolution des méthodes et pratiques scientifiques dans les SHS ?
Lou Burnard, TGE ADONIS, membre du Board of Directors de la TEI

Lundi 23 janvier, 16h00-18h00
Donner forme à la TEI : outils et méthodes pour l’édition structurée
Dominique Roux, Presses Universitaires de Caen

Salle de séminaire du CIHAM / UMR 5648 – Sous-sol du 18, quai Claude Bernard – 69007 Lyon Contact : marjorie.burghart@ehess.fr

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (marjorie.burghart@ehess.fr).

The Guide takes relatively new approaches to open-access academic publishing in the digital humanities, and so is anticipated to develop over the coming years. Future editions will include a manuscript checklist, images of manuscripts, transcriptions of those manuscripts, and open-source critical editions of Evagrius’s writings.

http://evagriusponticus.net/

Posted by: Joel Kalvesmaki (kalvesmakij@doaks.org).

The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare announces two short-term Library Research Grants for graduate students to promote scholarly use of its important collections. The first one is dedicated to The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris and the second one dedicated to Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies.

These Library Research Grants, which have a value of up to € 2.000 each, are meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Vercelli during the tenure of the grant. The length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal, but is ordinarily up to one month.

Library Research Grants awarded in this year are tenable from May 2012 to April 2013 (except from 18th July to 4th September), and the deadline for applications is 15 April 2012. No applications will be accepted after that date.

Applicants are asked to complete an Application Form (download from http://www.tesorodelduomovc.it/) and submit a Word or PDF file (the latter is the preferred format) containing a Budget Form, a full Curriculum Vitae and a Research Proposal not exceeding one thousand words in length. Application should be sent by postal mail to the Library Research Grants Committee or by Email at the address given below. Applicants must also arrange for two Confidential Letters of Recommendation to be sent directly to the Library Research Grants Committee by postal mail or Email.

The proposal should address specifically the relevance to the proposed research of unique resources found in the Biblioteca and Archivio Capitolare collections or in the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo collection (The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris Grant) and in the Biblioteca Capitolare collections (Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies Grant). Prospective grantees are urged to contact the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books for detailed descriptions of the collections. The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare reserves the right to have a copy of the research that the applicant will publish at the end of her or his studies.

A committee consisting of members by University of Piemonte Orientale, Turin, Göttingen, Kiel and of the Library Management will award the grants on the basis of the relevance of the proposal to unique holdings of the library and museum, the merits and significance of the project, and the applicant’s scholarly qualifications.

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© 2011-2012
Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare
piazza Alessandro D’Angennes, 5
13100, Vercelli – ITALY
http://www.tesorodelduomovc.it/

Dr Timoty Leonardi
Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books
timoty.leonardi@tesorodelduomovc.it
Phone and fax: +39 0161 51650

Posted by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

Call for Papers
(See the French version below)

Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World
2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs

The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2012 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, from 28-30 May.

The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress–“Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World.” While this year’s Congress theme is well suited to the interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and practice in the evolving field of the digital humanities.

Our keynote speaker and recipient of this year’s award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities is Ronald Tetreault (Dalhousie University).

The conference will also present joint sessions with ACCUTE and Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d’Études Vidéoludiques (http://sdh-semi.org/). Proposals should specify any preference for inclusion in this joint session.

Proposals for papers (20 min.), posters, and panels or roundtables (2-6 speakers for a 1½ hour session) will be accepted until 1 February 2012 and must be submitted at http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Abstracts should be between 200 and 400 words long, and should clearly indicate the paper’s thesis, methodology and conclusions. There is a limited amount of funding available to support graduate student travel. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the time of the conference.

Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special collection published in the society journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org).

Program committee: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O’Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra

Appel de communications

À la croisée des chemins: Le savoir face à un monde incertain Réunion annuelle de 2012 de la Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI)

La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2012 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’Université Wilfrid Laurier et l’Université de Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, du 28 au 30 mai.

La Société souhaite encourager en particulier des propositions concernant le thème central de la réunion : « À la croisée des chemins : Le savoir face à un monde incertain ». Bien que le thème du congrès de cette année soit bien adapté aux intérêts de la SDH/SEMI, nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des sciences humaines numériques, tant au niveau théorique que pratique.

Ronald Tetraul (Dalhousie University), récipiendaire du prix 2012 pour une contribution exceptionnelle dans le domaine des arts et sciences humaines informatiques, sera notre conférencier plénier.

La conférence présentera aussi des sessions conjointes avec ACCUTE et le Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d’Études Vidéoludiques (http://sdh-semi.org/). Les participants devraient indiquer leur intérêt à participer aux sessions conjointes.

Les propositions de communication (20′), posters et de session ou table-ronde (2-6 participants pour une période d’une heure trente) seront acceptées jusqu’au 1 février 2012 et doivent être soumises à
http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Les résumés devraient compter entre 200 et 400 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion. La société a des fonds limités pour les frais de déplacements pour les étudiants. Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la SDH/SEMI au moment de la conférence.

Une sélection des présentations de la conférence sera publiées dans un numéro spécial du journal de la Société, le Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org).

Comité scientifique: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O’Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra

Posted by: Brent Nelson (brent.nelson@usask.ca).

The Weil fellowship was established to foster the professional development of gifted scholars and the further enrichment of the university’s vigorous research environment. The HDW fellow is expected to pursue her or his own research, but will also join the research team of one or more of the projects currently supported by the HDW; the Fellow is expected to participate in the intellectual life of the HDW as well as of other units relevant to the Fellow’s research interests. Teaching responsibilities include a course each Fall and Spring semester, as well as supervision of a small number of students.Some courses may be centered in the Fellow’s substantive discipline; others may straddle disciplines, but with a methodological focus in digital scholarship. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the entire fellowship period, apart from research-related travel. Fellows will receive a salary of $60,000 per year, plus Washington University postdoctoral benefits; and a $5,000 annual research/travel stipend.

Applicants should submit a CV, graduate school transcript, two letters of recommendation, a description of the proposed research project, a brief account of the applicant’s involvement in digital humanities, and a proposal for a seminar (introductory or advanced) in digital humanities. Submit all application materials electronically
to the HDW Fellowship Search Committee, c/o hdw-artsci@wustl.edu .Inquiries may be directed to Joseph Loewenstein jfloewen@wustl.edu or Douglas Knox dknox@wustl.edu .*Applications must be received by March 1, 2012*.Washington University in St. Louis is an AA/EO employer, and strongly encourages applications from women, ethnic minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Call for Papers

The Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century . June 8, 9, and 10, 2012, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada.
Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep, (Victoria University of Wellington)

At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions “What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as

* What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital?
* What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium?
* How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts?
* How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe?
* How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts?
* What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history?

INKE is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partnering organizations, to study, develop, and implement digital environments for reading and research (www.inke.ca). The Textual Studies Team of INKE is researching ways in which the age of manuscript and print production can inform our development and implementation of electronic reading technologies.

We invite proposals for papers, posters/demonstrations, and roundtable discussions that address these and other issues pertinent to research in textual studies. Proposals should contain a title, a detailed and focussed abstract (of approximately 300 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and Website URLs of presenters. Please send proposals before 15 December 2011 to richard.cunningham@acadiau.ca.

Potential participants in the conference, particularly those coming from abroad, might be interested to take advantage of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which will just before our conference, from 4-8 June, also at the University of Victoria (http://www.dhsi.org/). A limited number of scholarships for workshop tuition will be available for graduate students participating in the Beyond Accessibility conference. Also of potential interest is the annual conference of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 28-30 May, 2012 (http://www.sdh-semi.org/).

Posted by: Brent Nelson (brent.nelson@usask.ca).

Femme, je n’écris pas ton nom.
Elle au carrefour des sciences du langage

Le département de français de la faculté des Langues (AL Alsun) organise un colloque international de linguistique française qui se tiendra à l’Université d’Ain Shams (Le Caire- Égypte), 29 -30 Avril 2012.

Date limite de la réception des résumés – (200 à 400 mots) -des propositions + Mots clés : 19 décembre 2011

Elle pronom personnel, elle non-personne, elle le féminin de il, Elle symbole de la femme. Sous la dénomination de genre, Elle imprègne le corps du langage par sa présence. Le traitement de la catégorie de sexe dans le langage touche la troisième personne en grammaire tout en forçant chaque locuteur, s’il en est une, à proclamer son sexe physique (sociologique), c’est-à-dire à apparaître dans le langage, représenté sous une forme concrète par les différentes marques du féminin et non sous la forme abstraite que la généralisation nécessite, celle que tout locuteur masculin a le droit inquestionnable d’utiliser. La présence du elle, en manifestant dans sa forme subjective le genre, arrive à le réaliser par excès de présence de féminin (et de féminisation) couvrant un large territoire du domaine linguistique. Elle propose donc un examen des problèmes liés à la tradition grammaticale française, une analyse syntaxique, et une étude du rôle de
ces constructions dans la dynamique du texte et dans la structuration du champ de référence et du champ communicationnel. En outre, Elle ne se borne pas à manifester la troisième personne au féminin. Elle en linguistique n’est pas uniquement le féminin, la féminité, et autres fétiches essentialisants. Dire d’une femme « elle » et s’abstenir de mentionner son prénom, quand on ne l’ignore pas, n’est pas dénué de sens. En outre, Elle peut porter l’héritage du discours philosophique. Assumant à son tour le « postulat nominaliste » décrit par Michel de Certeau à propos de Montaigne, elle, dans le dispositif d’écriture, signifie « la chose » (par opposition au nom), celle « qui est l’étrangère, [celle qui] n’est jamais là où le mot la dit. ».
Enfin, N. Sarraute écrit : « contre elle, on ne peut rien » (Elle est là) signalant l’obstination et la force, si souvent sous-estimée d’ELLE.

Quel que soit l’approche linguistique, elle dispose d’une grande variété d’usages et reste un territoire d’exploration riche en apports.

Les contributions seront liées aux domaines de la linguistique cités ci-après : • Grammaire
• Grammaire de texte
• Énonciation
• Pragmatique
• Argumentation
• Syntaxe
• Sémantique
• Stylistique
• Approches contrastives et comparatives (langues autorisées : français-arabe, français-anglais).

NB. Toute approche interdisciplinaire ou cumulant plus d’une discipline sera la bienvenue. Mais il faut le préciser dès l’envoi de votre résumé.

La langue du colloque : le français.
La langue des contributions : le français (NB. pour les approches contrastives des exemples peuvent être rédigés en anglais ou en arabe).

Comité d’organisation: Racha EL Khamissy, Riham EL Khamissy, Yomna Safwat

Calendrier :
• Date limite de la réception des résumés – (200 à 400 mots) + 4 mots-clés : 19 décembre 2011
• Date limite de notification de l’acceptation ou du refus des propositions de communications : 1er janvier 2012
• Date limite de la réception du texte complet de la communication : 19 mars 2012 • Directives pour la version définitive : début avril 2012
• Date du colloque : 29-30 avril 2012

Pour Candidater :
Les propositions de communications doivent être anonymes, ce qui signifie qu’à aucun moment les lecteurs ne doivent être en mesure d’identifier le ou les auteurs. Des résumés-New Times Roman 12 – (200 à 400 mots) + 5 mots clés + bibliographie indicative.

Les propositions doivent parvenir à l’adresse électronique suivante : conf_alsun2012@yahoo.com

Dans le corps du message électronique, vous préciserez :
1. Vos informations personnelles
Nom et prénom
Nationalité
Statut (chercheur, enseignant, enseignant-chercheur)
Post et Affiliation
Titre de votre contribution
Brève notice biobibliographique de l’auteur (5 lignes max.)
NB. En cas de co-écriture : Pour des raisons de commodité, un seul auteur sera désigné comme « correspondant ». Le ou les autre(s) seront seulement “présentateur(s)”.C’est l’auteur “correspondant” qui recevra les différents messages électroniques liés à la proposition de communication (rapport d’évaluation). Seule son adresse électronique est donc nécessaire, celle de son éventuel co-auteur est facultative. 2. La thématique dans laquelle vous souhaitez vous inscrire.
Sera attaché au courriel, en version WORD. Doc, le résumé anonyme et le titre de votre contribution. 3. Le type de votre contribution :
• Présentation + publication
• Publication seulement
Pour plus d’infos, consultez la page du colloque sur le site de la faculté des langues – (AL ALSUN). Après acceptation
Frais d’inscriptions selon le type de votre participation :

Présenter + Publier Publier seulement Assister seulement
Pour les enseignants chercheurs égyptiens :
550 LE 350 LE Gratuitement
Pour les enseignants-chercheurs étrangers :
330 euros Gratuitement
Pour les étudiants égyptiens

Gratuitement

L’article complet est de 15 pages maximum. Or, vous ne présenterez, lors du colloque, qu’une communication de (2500 signes sans espaces compris ni références). Un texte plus complet figurera dans les Actes du colloque.

La mise en forme de votre article complet
1. Votre article doit être envoyé au format .doc
2. Marge de 3cm de chaque côté
3. Titre principal de votre contribution en Times Roman 16
4. Sous –titres Times Roman en 14
5. Corps du texte : Police Times Roman en12
6. Espace entre paragraphe (Auto)
7. Interligne simple
8. Les paragraphes sont justifiés
9. Les titres et les sous-titres sont centrés
10. Les citations courtes sont insérées entre guillemets dans le corps de texte : les citations longues –plus de trois lignes) peuvent être distinguées par un retour à la ligne et un retrait d’1 cm. Elles sont sans guillemets et rédigées en New Times roman 11. 11. Les références
Les références figurent dans le corps du texte (système (auteur : date))
Pour la bibliographie, Times ou Times New Roman, taille de police 10, justifié. La première ligne de chaque référence (donc la première ligne de chaque paragraphe) doit être affectée d’un retrait négatif de 0,5 cm. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le format des références pour les articles et les ouvrages.
Nom de l’auteur, Prénom. (Année de publication). Titre de l’article. Nom de la revue, Numéro de la revue, numéros des pages.
Nom de l’auteur, Prénom. (Année de publication). Titre de l’ouvrage. Ville : Éditeur.
Les renvois aux sites doivent préciser la date consultation et éventuellement la date de publication.
Les notes infrapaginales en New Times roman 10 ne sont utilisées que pour des remarques ou des explicitations. Elles doivent être limitées autant que possible. Vous êtes priés de suivre les normes de présentations ci-dessus.

Posted by: Riham EL (conf_alsun2012@yahoo.com).

The topic of the Fourth Meeting on Digital Philology is the establishment of the critical text, traditionally referred to as the constitutio textus. For texts from the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, this usually includes a recension of the witnesses, typically concluding with a stemma. However, the recension does not specify how an edition should be designed, whether it is a printed or a digital edition. More specifically, an editor has to decide to which degree he or she wants to use the result of the stemmatic recension as the basis for the constitutio textus, i.e. the selection and weighing of sources for the edited text. Traditionally, classical scholars have been more reconstructive in their approach than medieval scholars.

The meeting will be divided into two consecutive sessions, each containing 6–8 papers. For the first session, the planning committee has invited a selection of international scholars to present their view of the Stand der Forschung in the field (in alphabetical order):

Thomas Bein (Aachen), Marjorie Burghart (Lyon), Tuomas Heikkilä (Helsinki), Caroline Macé (Leuven), Francesco Stella (Siena), and Paolo Trovato (Ferrara).

Call for papers

For the second session, comprising 6-8 papers, the committee is now making a call for theoretically and methodologically informed papers on:

-   Stemmatology in theory and practice
-   The Lachmannian approach (old and new)
-   From qualitative to quantitative methods
-   Quantitative methods applied to stemmatology
-   ‘Old’ vs. ‘New’ (or ‘Material’) Philology
-   The study of variants
-   Digital editing of texts from the manuscript age

Proposals should be submitted in the form of an abstract (max 800 words) by the 15th February 2012. The planning committee and appointed referees will review abstracts and select papers. The authors of the selected papers will be notified of their status by the end of May 2012.

The official languages of the meeting are Italian and English. Consequently, abstracts can be submitted in one of these two languages. If your proposal is accepted and you plan to give your talk in Italian, you are kindly requested to use English either in your handout or in your Powerpoint slides. This would help participation in the final discussion.

Please note that talks should last no more than 35 minutes. 10 more minutes will be available for questions. Make sure that people do have time for questions at the end of your presentation (do not exceed 35 minutes).

Submissions of abstracts and other enquiries

Please submit the abstract of your paper as a Word or PDF file to Dr. Raffaele Cioffi <dphilology@gmail.com>. He will also help with general enquiries about the meeting.

Venue

Sala Convegni del Banco Popolare, Via San Cosimo 10, Verona.

There is no charge for attending the meeting. The meeting will extend from lunch on Thursday 13 to lunch on Saturday 15 September.

Accommodation

Please see the list of hotels in central Verona, in Word or in PDF.

Unfortunately, we cannot by now guarantee the speakers in the call for papers section any reimbursement for their travel and accommodation expenses. Partial or full refund will depend upon availability of funds.

Planning committee

Maria Adele Cipolla
University of Verona

Marina Buzzoni
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Roberto Rosselli Del Turco
University of Torino

Odd Einar Haugen
University of Bergen

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

Please note that the course is now open to PhD students from any COST country (essentially Europe and Israel), and includes bursaries for travel and accommodation.

The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce the fourth year of ‘Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age’, an intensive course for PhD students jointly funded by COST and the AHRC, and run in collaboration with King’s College London, the Warburg Institute, and the University of Cambridge.

The course is open to arts and humanities doctoral students registered at institutions in any of the thirty-six COST countries. It involves five 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 free of charge but is open only to doctoral students registered at institutions in COST countries. It is aimed at those writing dissertations which relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art and history. Some bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation, courtesy of COST, to be assigned based on an even distribution of nationality and gender. Places on the course are limited to twenty. *Applications close on 13 January 2012* but early registration is strongly recommended.

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

Funding for this course is generously provided by the AHRC’s Collaborative Training Scheme and by COST Action IS1005, ‘Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources’.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk).

Northeastern University in Boston is a nationally-ranked research university with a strong urban mission, a global perspective, and an emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship. Its signature Cooperative Education Program and study-abroad opportunities such as Dialogues of Civilization provide experiential learning opportunities for its 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The newly founded College of Social Sciences and Humanities incorporates the departments of African-American Studies; Economics; English; History; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Philosophy and Religion; Political Science; and Sociology and Anthropology. The College is home to the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Its eight interdisciplinary programs include International Affairs; Law and Public Policy; East Asian Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Jewish Studies.

Applications will only be accepted through the College of Social Sciences and Humanities website. To apply, please go to http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/, and click on the Faculty Positions link. Applicants already holding tenure should upload a letter of application, CV, a statement of current and future research interests, a writing sample of no more than 50 pages, and the names of three referees. Untenured applicants should upload a letter of application, CV, a statement of current and future research interests, a writing sample of no more than fifty pages, and should have three references submitted via the Faculty Positions site. Review of applications will begin October 20, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. Questions about the position may be directed to the Chair of the Search Committee, David Lazer, or to Co-Chair, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon at dighumsearch@neu.edu .

Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University. Northeastern University particularly welcomes applications from minorities, women, and persons with disabilities.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 7, Issue 1: 1 March 2012

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in any discipline and period of Medieval Studies. We are also interested in book reviews on recent works: interested reviewers should send a query, indicating the book they would like to review.

Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of spatial order, and place as a socially constructed category, in the art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music of the Middle Ages. Place and space theories have manifested themselves in Medieval Studies recently in a number of ways, from analysis of specific spaces and places, such as gardens, forests, cities, and the court, to spatially theorized topics such as travel narratives, nationalism, and the open- or closedness of specific medieval cultural areas. Over an array of subjects, the spatial turn challenges scholars to re-think how humans create the world around them, through both physical and mental processes. Articles should explore the meaning of space/place in the past by situating it in its precise historical context.

Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:

Medieval representations of spatial order
The sense of place in the construction of social identities Mapping and spatial imagination
Topographies of meaningful places
Beyond the binary of center/periphery
Spatial policies of separation: ethnicity, religion, or gender Travel and the sense of place
Creating landscape
The idea of place in medieval religious culture
Pilgrimage
Workplaces
Intimate space, public place
Liminality and proximity as social categories

The 2011 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2012. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net before March 1, 2012.

Posted by: Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies, www.hortulus.net (hortulus@hortulus.net).

I hope that the following will be of interest to those on this list.

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’ at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012)

The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional methodologies used in palaeographical and manuscript research. The aim of this session is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects that overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies.

Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and the Congress Participant Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15th September 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 1st October 2011.

We are looking for a suitably experienced individual to assist with intellectual/digital content creation for a virtual learning environment (VLE) for Palaeography, Diplomatic and Manuscript Studies in the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London. The VLE is being developed by a consortium of Institutes of SAS (the Institutes of Classical Studies, English Studies, Historical Research, and the Warburg Institute).

The successful candidate will be responsible for presenting and describing source materials and for writing contextual and promotional material for the online training resource. S/he will also be responsible for liaising with a range of archives and repositories for the acquisition of digital images, and will be required to work with the technical team developing the VLE.

For more information and further particulars, see http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2011-08-30/project-officer-vle-palaeography-diplomatic-manuscript-studies.

Closing date 13 September.

Posted by: Jane Winters (jane.winters@sas.ac.uk).

Friday August 12th at 16:30
Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Valentina Asciutti & Stuart Dunn (KCL)
Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace

ALL WELCOME

Throughout history, artefacts have been removed from their original location by a series of processes, leaving a fragmented picture of the material past. Geospatial and visualization technologies give us the opportunity to visualize and conceptualize the histories of such dispersed heritage, recording findspot, current location and physical and interpretive stages that went between. Using examples including Romano-British verse inscriptions and geographic data gathered on Hadrian’s Wall, we will show a database of different types of cultural heritage objects with multiple location fields. Using a combination of quantitative GIS and KML-based views of the data, we will illustrate how the history of artefacts can be traced through both time and location.

For the full abstract see:

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

February 3–4, 2012
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Seventh Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, February 3 and 4, 2012, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).

For this year’s workshop we invite presentations that focus on the reading, interpretation, and use of manuscripts. The relationship between a text and its readers is reciprocal – the text speaks to readers, readers in turn talk back to the text, and meaning emerges through this series of encounters between readers and texts and negotiations among different readers. Readers sometimes create new texts to answer the ones they read – literary practices such as commentary, quotation, or reference. But they also leave traces of their reading in material ways: physical wear and tear, annotations and corrections, interpolations and excisions, glosses and marginalia, the purposeful grouping or arrangement of texts in a codex or books in a library. How is such evidence recognized and understood? How is it presented to modern readers? What does it tell us about the history of the text? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.

The deadline for applications is October 15, 2011. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to rliuzza@utk.edu, or by mail to the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.
The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Further details will be available later in the year; please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Friday August 5th at 16:30
Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Daniel Pett (British Museum)
The Portable Antiquities Scheme:
A tool for studying the Ancient landscape of England and Wales

ALL WELCOME

This seminar will focus on the work of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, which has been systematically recording public discovery of archaeological objects within the boundaries of England and Wales digitally since 1999. Over 725000 objects have now been recorded and 19,000 people have contributed information which is ultimately being used for a wide variety of research. Records include iconic discoveries such as the Moorlands Staffordshire patera or trulla, the immense Frome hoard, the infamous Crosby Garrett Helmet, the world famous Staffordshire Hoard, and more mundane, everyday items that can demonstrate more about rural habitation of Britain.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

While comprehensiveness would be an unrealistic goal in the short term, *selgā has not been designed as a one-off, but as a continuous project which may be suited to accommodate smaller, more manageable ‘sub-projects’ under its umbrella. At present, over 500 texts – most of them in the realm of early Irish literature – have been indexed giving some basic information and citing relevant publications using an onboard bibliographic system. Links to online resources such as CELT and ISOS are generously included. New entries will be created and existing ones expanded and improved as the project develops.

Inquiries can be e-mailed to Dennis Groenewegen at selga[at]vanhamel.nl.

Posted by: Dennis Groenewegen (selga@vanhamel.nl).

I hope that the following will be of interest to those on this list.

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’ at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012)

The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional methodologies used in palaeographical and manuscript research. The aim of this session is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects that overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies.

Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and the Congress Participant Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15th September 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 1st October 2011.

Friday July 22nd at 16:30
Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Sandra Blakely (Emory)
Modeling the Mysteries:
GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace
ALL WELCOME

The mystery cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace promised safety in sea travel as the reward for initiation. This ongoing project tests the hypothesis that the promise was real, effected through the human social networks created through initiation and festival participation. A GIS database of sites plots the locations of Samothracian affilitation, based on epigraphic and textual evidence for initiation, theoroi, proxenoi, koina, priesthoods and shrines; historical comparanda suggest the potential for these to support long distance maritime travel. Network models recommend the hypothesis that Samothrace functioned as a super-node connecting smaller independent networks, offering an economic argument for the cult’s longevity.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

An EpiDoc training workshop will be offered by the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute for Classical Studies in September this year. The workshop is free of charge and open to all, but spaces are limited and registration as soon as possible is essential.

This workshop is an introduction to the use of EpiDoc, an XML schema for the encoding and publication of inscriptions, papyri and other documentary Classical texts. Participants will study the use of EpiDoc markup to record the distinctions expressed by the Leiden Conventions and traditional critical editions, and some of the issues in translating between EpiDoc and the major epigraphic and papyrological databases. They will also be given hands-on experience in the use of the Papyrological Editor tool implemented by the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, which facilitates the authoring EpiDoc XML via a ‘tags-free’ interface.

The course is targeted at scholars of epigraphy and papyrology (from advanced graduate students to professors) with an interest and willingness to learn some of the hands-on technical aspects necessary to run a digital project. Knowledge of Greek and/or Latin, the Leiden Conventions and the distinctions expressed by them, and the kinds of data that need to be recorded by philologists and ancient historians, will be assumed. No particular technical expertise is required.

Places on the EpiDoc training week are limited so if you are interested in attending the workshop or have any questions, please contact charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk and gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk as soon as possible with a brief statement of qualifications and interest.

Convegno conclusivo della ricerca MIUR (PRIN 2007) “BIA-Net: accesso in rete alla Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui”

Con il patrocinio di:

Fondazione “Rinascimento digitale”

Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale

Centro di ricerca sulle Tecnologie Informatiche e Multimediali Applicate al Diritto (TIMAD) – Università di Catania

PROGRAMMA

12 settembre 2011

Ore 9,30 – Registrazione dei partecipanti

Ore 10,30

Saluti – Mario Citroni – direttore dell’Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

Il panorama degli studi antichistici nell’era digitale: problemi e prospettive – Nicola Palazzolo, Università di Perugia

Strumenti digitali per la ricerca nella discipline antichistiche: linee di sviluppo – Alessandro Cristofori, Università della Calabria

Tavola Rotonda

Le riviste elettroniche di antichistica

coordina:
Orazio Licandro, Università di Catanzaro
intervengono:
Francesco Sini, Università di Sassari
(direttore di “Diritto & Storia”);
Ferdinando Zuccotti, Università di Torino
(direttore di “Rivista di diritto romano”);
Franco Montanari, Università di Genova
(direttore di “L’Année philologique”);
Paola Moscati, CNR/Roma
(direttore di “Archeologia e Calcolatori”)

Ore 13,30 – Lunch

Ore 15

Lo storico del mondo antico e il computer: la gestione digitale del documento storiografico - Paolo Desideri, Università di Firenze

Il trattamento digitale delle fonti giuridiche di tradizione manoscritta – Gianfranco Purpura, Università di Palermo

Esperienze diverse e complementari nel trattamento digitale delle fonti epigrafiche: il caso di EAGLE ed EpiDoc  – Antonio Enrico Felle, Università di Bari

Edizione e ricostruzione digitale dei testi papiracei – Isabella Andorlini, Università di Parma

13 settembre 2011

Ore 9,30

Da BIA e BD-Rom a BIA-Net: l’integrazione in rete degli archivi dei diritti dell’Antichità – Francesco Arcaria, Patrizia Sciuto, Ignazio Zangara, Università di Catania

L’uso degli standard XML per la gestione in rete dei documenti giuridici romani - Daria Spampinato, CNR/Catania

Tecnologie di web semantico per le scienze umane: thesauri, ontologiee linked data  – Aldo Gangemi, CNR/Roma

Una biblioteca digitale per gli studi antichistici – Anna Maria Tammaro, Università di Parma

Ore 13 Pranzo

Ore 14,30

La filologia del testo assistita da calcolatore – Andrea Bozzi, CNR/Pisa

Filologia latina e testo elettronico. La ricerca dei prototipi letterari in poesia epigrafica – Paolo Mastandrea, Università di Venezia

Metodi quantitativi nell’attribuzione dei testi. Un caso di studio romanistico: Ausonio – Maurizio Lana, Università del Piemonte Orientale

Le integrazioni delle lacune nei testi giuridici romani: il Gaio digitale – Filippo Briguglio, Università di Bologna

Conclusioni - Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

Nei due giorni del convegno saranno presentati in una sala attigua alcuni prodotti informatici di particolare interesse:

BIA-Net: la Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui in rete
Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Università di Catania

Progetti di Papirologia Digitale in corso
Nicola Reggiani, Università di Parma

Diritto romano e lingua greca. Un lessico della terminologia greca utilizzata nell’amministrazione e nel diritto in età romana
Andrea Raggi, Università di Pisa

Posted by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

Friday July 8th at 16:30
Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Timothy Hill (New York University)
Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity

As increasing numbers of historical datasets are made available online, the question of how best to mediate among them becomes more pressing. But the standard computational approach to such mediation, the creation of a unifying framework ‘over’ the datasets, is problematic in the context of historiography: often, for historians, the question of overarching ‘frame’ is itself the point at issue. This paper explores, with particular reference to Late Antique urban culture, the potential for electronic tools to free the historian from this reflexive bind, and facilitate an ‘experimental’ research approach to history, as advocated by e.g. Marcel Detienne and other classicist anthropologists.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

ALL WELCOME

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

Friday July 1st at 16:30
Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”)
Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures:
From practice to requirements

ALL WELCOME

In the context of Preparing DARIAH, the DCU engaged in a research programme consisting partly of an empirical study of scholarly research activity. The study involved 24 interviews, and the largest groups of interviewees included archaeologists, historians and classicists. What emerged was the diversity in the evidence and sources associated with Classical Studies nowadays. Classicists indicated that in addition to text-based research they also use objects, sites, and other historical-cultural material. This challenges earlier perceptions that Classicists only employ strictly linguistic/textual methods of research. Moreover, it indicates the evolving nature of Classics as an increasingly hybridized, thematic, and multi-methodological interdiscipline.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the DM website, particularly:

- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about.html
- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html

We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred by subscription to the organisation’s email list, dm-l at uleth.ca) and have made some demonstrable contribution to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, journal, conference sessions, or the wiki, etc.), or more generally to the field of digital medieval studies in some demonstrable manner.

If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, James Cummings and Marjorie Burghart at:

election at digitalmedievalist.org

who will treat your nomination in confidence. Candidates will need to provide a short biographical statement of not more than 150 words.

The nomination period will close at 00:00 UTC (midnight) on Monday 27 June 2011 and elections will be held by electronic ballot starting on Monday 4 July  2011 and ending on Friday 8 July 2011.

Many thanks,

James Cummings (Director of Digital Medievalist)
Marjorie Burghart (Board member of Digital Medievalist)
election at digitalmedievalist.org

Alessandro Vatri (Oxford)
HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study

ALL WELCOME

HdtDep is a treebank and search engine based on the first book of Herodotus’ Histories. The structure of the sentences has been parsed applying a modified version of Mel’čuk’s dependency syntax, and has been encoded in an XML database. The search engine allows searching for precise dependency patterns involving specific grammatical categories or lexemes in exact sequences, and can easily be programmed through a user friendly graphic interface. This tool is especially designed for classicists and linguists investigating Greek word order—hence the choice of Herodotus’ prose as linguistic material—but can also be useful for teachers and language learners.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

Charlotte Roueché & Charlotte Tupman (KCL)
Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer

ALL WELCOME

SAWS uses digital technologies to analyse wisdom literatures in Greek and Arabic. Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages collections of wise sayings (gnomologia) were circulated as a response to the cost and inaccessibility of full texts. These moral and philosophical anthologies formed a crucial route by which ideas of reasonable behaviour were disseminated over the course of centuries. We are publishing gnomologia using TEI XML and developing a series of explanatory links in RDF between sections of collections, their source texts, and texts which drew upon them. This paper discusses challenges in publishing and linking these texts.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at

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

David Scott & Mike Jackson (Edinburgh)
‘Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data’

ALL WELCOME

The SPQR project (http://spqr.cerch.kcl.ac.uk) is investigating the integration of heterogeneous datasets relating to Classical antiquity via Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies to produce an intuitive way for researchers to explore the data. EpiDoc XML (including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania) has been converted into Linked Data. In addition to relationships arising from shared properties of the objects, such as the materials from which they are made, there are links to external resources such as the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. A user evaluation by classicists at KCL of the tools and techniques used is under way.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

This workshop will run from 12.30 to 4.30pm, with lunch provided.

Please contact Donna Baillie (see below) if you would like to attend.

Digital Research and Editing Environments offer humanities researchers the opportunity to extend the range of methodologies open to them through the use of advanced online text analysis tools. However, their adoption remains highly localised and unevenly distributed because of, among other things, lack of awareness, the inappropriate configuration of editing tools, lack of institutional support, and the instability and unfamiliarity of interfaces.

This workshop will look at the current state of the field from three viewpoints:
• the researcher, open to learning new skills but wary of the transience, inflexibility and insecurity of some services;
• the editor, looking to broaden the reach of his or her published output, but requiring complex and sometimes bespoke workflows
• the technologist, eager to understand researchers’ needs but unsure how these will develop and change over time

For those attending the workshop, issues arising from the speakers’ presentations will be discussed in an ‘Ideas Café’, which will be followed by an open discussion session. While this workshop will be particularly useful for practitioners currently working on or with Digital Research and Editing Environments, the IHR actively invites contributions from researchers and scholars who may have further observations, experience of, or different insights into the adoption of these new tools and technologies. Parts of the workshop will be live streamed through the IHR’s History SPOT service, with an option to contribute in real time, allowing interested parties who cannot attend to ask questions during the open discussion.

Speaker biographies:

Mark Hedges is Deputy Director of the Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King’s College London, and prior to this was Technical Manager at the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS#. Mark took the lead in the planning, design and development of the repository-based infrastructure to support the curation, preservation and delivery of the diverse and complex digital resources managed by the AHDS, and since October 2007 he has been extending the scope of the work to providing a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary research infrastructure for King’s.

Rob Iliffe is the Director of the AHRC Newton Papers Project with an overall responsibility for completing the online publication of all four million words of Newton’s Theological Papers. He is also responsible for extending the scope of the original project to include dealing with Newton’s scientific and mathematical work. Rob gained his PhD from Cambridge University and is currently Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of A Very Short Introduction to Isaac Newton #Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007#, and has published extensively on early modern history and the history of science. He is currently completing a major work on Newton’s theology for online release.

Philip Schofield is Professor of the History of Legal and Political Thought, Director of the Bentham Project, Chair of the Bentham Seminar, and General Editor of the Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. In 2010 the Bentham Project was awarded a Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact #DEDEFI) Award from the AHRC to launch the Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative, or Transcribe Bentham for short. The Bentham Project, in collaboration with the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, the University of London Computer Centre, UCL Library Services and UCL Learning and Media Services, has created a Transcription Desk where volunteer users can log-in and transcribe previously unstudied and unpublished manuscripts from the Bentham Papers collection in UCL Library’s Special Collections.

Jane Winters has been Head of Publications at the Institute of Historical Research since 1999, and of the new IHR Digital since the autumn of 2010. She is responsible for the IHR’s publishing and scholarly communications strategy, including the management of a range of research projects focusing on the provision of digital resources for historians. Currently, she is Co-Director of the JISC-funded Connected Histories project; Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Early English Laws project to digitize Anglo-Saxon legal texts; and Publishing Editor of the Bibliography of British and Irish History. She is also Executive Editor of the IHR’s journal, Historical Research.

URL:
http://www.livestream.com/historyspot

Event Location:
Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research
Malet Street Senate House, North Block
London WC1E 7HU
United Kingdom

Contact details:
Donna Baillie
donna.baillie@sas.ac.uk

Posted by: Donna Baillie (donna.baillie@sas.ac.uk).

Friday June 3rd at 16:30
Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Kathryn Piquette & Charles Crowther (Oxford)
Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material
ALL WELCOME

Ancient documentary scholars face a range of challenges in obtaining accurate physical documentation to support both decipherment and study of the processes of writing. In this seminar we present results from a joint Southampton-Oxford AHRC-funded project designed to address these issues through the application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technologies. Through case studies of Egyptian and Classical material captured using a custom lighting-dome system and highlight-based RTI, we demonstrate how RTI is able to overcome challenges of image lighting as well as providing a more reflexive environment for observation and processes of ‘looking at’ inscribed surfaces.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

Institute of Classical Studies Digital Classicist Seminar, Summer 2011 Fridays at 16:30 in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

June 3
Kathryn Piquette and Charles Crowther (Oxford),
Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material

June 10
David Scott and Mike Jackson (Edinburgh University),
Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR): Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data

June 17
Charlotte Roueché and Charlotte Tupman (King’s College London), Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer

June 24
Alessandro Vatri (Oxford University),
HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study
July 1
Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”),
Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures: From practice to requirements

July 8
Timothy Hill (New York University),
Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity
July 15
Elton Barker (Open University) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton), Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus

July 22
Sandra Blakely (Emory),
Modeling the mysteries: GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace
July 29
Marco Büchler (Leipzig),
Bringing Modern Spell Checking Approaches to Ancient Texts: Automatized Suggestions for Incomplete Words

August 5
Daniel Pett (British Museum),
The Portable Antiquities Scheme: a tool for studying the Ancient landscape of England and Wales
August 12
Valentina Asciutti & Stuart Dunn (King’s College London),
Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace

ALL WELCOME

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/live-stream

Posted by: Peter Webster (Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk).

“Text, Image and the Digital Research Environment: Parker Library-Keio EIRI Conference on Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Books”

Friday 9 September 2011

Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

The monumental Parker on the Web project has now been up and running for several years, with constant updates and improvements. The Parker Library and the EIRI Project at Keio University (Tokyo) are co-organising a one-day conference focusing on new and future advances in digitisation and digitial resources and on the ways in which they are creating new research environments for medieval manuscripts and rare books. Papers will range from individual research papers to institutional projects. More information about speakers and the registration can be found at:

http://parkerkeio2011.wordpress.com/

For further information, please contact:
　Gill Cannell and Suzanne Paul (Parker Library): parker-library＠corpus.cam.ac.uk
　Satoko Tokunaga (Keio University/Corpus Christi College): satoko＠flet.keio.ac.jp

Posted by: Satoko Tokunaga (satoko@flet.keio.ac.jp).

I am most pleased to announce the appearance of the first issue of the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter (ISSN 2078-3841).

The Newsletter can be downloaded from http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/COMSt_Newsletter_1_2011.pdf.

From now on, the Newsletter will be appearing in regular installments: the editors are hoping that the second issue can be finalized and published this fall, making it a semi-annual publication.

Please contact us if you or your institution would like to have a printed copy of the issue. And do feel free to join the COMSt virtual network – and to suggest contributions for the forthcoming Newsletter issues.

With my very best regards, and wishing you all an enjoyable read,

Evgenia Sokolinskaia (Coordinator COMSt)
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Universität Hamburg
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Tel./Fax +49-40-42838-7777/-3330

http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/
http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/ethiostudies/

Posted by: Evgenia Sokolinskaia (eae@uni-hamburg.de).

We are asking for contributions of original research and scholarship that meet the mission statement of Digital Medievalist. Contributions should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus. This includes notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, algorithms, tools and software, etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports. All contributions will be reviewed by authorities in humanities computing prior to publication.

Journal submissions or enquiries should be emailed to:
editors@digitalmedievalist.org

Submissions guidelines are available at
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/

With this forthcoming volume, we are re-establishing our “rolling issue” policy which means that contributions will be published as soon as they are ready for publication without firm deadlines. To allow inclusion in volume 7, however, submission before end of August 2011 is recommended.

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 technical collaboration and instruction, exchange of expertise, and the development of best practice. The project operates an electronic mailing list and discussion forum, on-line refereed journal, news server for announcements and calls for papers, a wiki and FAQ. It also organises conference sessions at international medieval and humanities computing congresses. It is an elected organization and has developed some governing bylaws. The Digital Medievalist Project is overseen by an eight-member executive of medievalists with considerable experience in the use of digital media in the study of medieval topics. See our website at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org for more information.

Malte Rehbein (Editor-In-Chief), Peter A. Stokes and Dan O’Donnell (Associate Editors), Rebecca Welzenbach (Reviews Editor)

–
Dr. Malte Rehbein

Universität Würzburg
Zentrum für digitale Edition
Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

fon     +49.(0)931.31.88773
email   malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
web     http://www.denkstaette.de

Joe Zucca, Director, Planning & Communication

215-573-4643

zucca@pobox.upenn.edu

Posted by: David McKnight (dmcknigh@pobox.upenn.edu).

It takes place from July 25th-29th, at Oxford University Computing Services and Wolfson College.

The summer school introduces a range of digital research components to researchers, project managers, research assistants, or students working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital data for the humanities.

Please visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/DHSS2011/ for details.

The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS),Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), e-Research South, and Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster, under the direction of Sebastian Rahtz and Dr James Cummings at OUCS.

The programme will consist of:

• Two parallel streams of morning practical sessions using the well-equipped It teaching facilities at OUCS
• Two parallel streams of afternoon workshops at Wolfson College concentrating on techniques and best practice • Guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts about their research projects

Our guest plenary speakers for this year include:

David De Roure, Professor of e-Science at OeRC
Jeni Tennison, UK eGov guru
John Coleman, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory
Min Chen, Professor of Visualization at OeRC
Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria

Topics include:
• Best practice for digital linguistic corpora
• Building queryable document-based websites
• Creating community collections and digital outreach
• Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI
• Working with maps
• Critical apparatus and digital genetic editions in TEI
• Database design for humanities projects
• Digital Images for the Humanities
• Digital library technologies and best practice
• Getting funding: quality, impact, sustainability.
• Introduction to copyright and open licensing
• Introduction to document/project modelling
• Introduction to XML databases
• Managing Digital Humanities Projects
• Practical RDF modelling and conversion
• Publishing XML files using XSLT
• RDF querying and visualization
• TEI for linking text and facsimiles
• Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora
• Visualization using jQuery
• Working with audio files

Posted by: James Cummings (dhss@oucs.ox.ac.uk).

First CALL for PAPERS

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPDigHum2011

Workshop associated with RANLP 2011, 12-16 September 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/start3.php

Following several digitization campaigns during the last years, a large number of printed books, manuscripts and archaeological digital objects have become available through web portals and associated infrastructures to a broader public. These infrastructures enable not only virtual research and easier access to materials independent of their physical place, but also play a major role in the long term preservation and exploration. However, the access to digital materials opens new possibilities of textual research like: synchronous browsing of several materials, extraction of relevant passages for a certain event from different sources, rapid search though thousand pages, categorisation of sources, multilingual retrieval and support, etc.

Methods from Language Technology are therefore highly required in order to ensure extraction of content-related semantic metadata, and analysis of textual materials. There are several initiatives in Europe aiming to foster the application of language technology in humanities (CLARIN, DARIAH). Through such initiatives as well as many other research projects, the awareness of such methods for the humanities has risen considerably. However, there is still enough potential on both sides:

· on one hand, there are still research tracks in the humanities which still do not sufficiently and effectively exploit language technology solutions

· on the other hand, there are many languages, especially historical variants of languages, for which the available tools and resources still have to be developed or adapted to serve the various humanities applications.

The current workshop aims to bring together researchers from humanities and language technologies and foster the above-mentioned directions.

We are looking for submissions of original, unpublished work, related (but not restricted) to:

· language tools and resources for analysis of old textual material or language variants

· (semi-) automatic extraction of content related metadata

· semantic linkage of heterogeneous data within digital libraries

· multilingual applications in digital libraries

· pilot applications in humanities using language technology methods

Papers can be submitted via the workshop submission tool, which will be announced in the second call. Submissions should be between 6 and 8 pages and should conform to the format of the main conference (http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/submissions.php)

Shorter submissions of project demonstrations (4 pages) are also encouraged.

Selected contributions will be considered for publication in an international journal.

Important Dates

· paper submission: 19 June 2011

· notification of acceptance / rejection: 28 July 2011

· final paper submission: 22 August 2011

Programme Committee

Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
David Baumann (Perseus, Tufts University)
Günther Görz (University Erlangen, Germany)
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University , Berlin, Germany)
Gábor Proszéky (MorphoLogic, Hungary)
Laurent Romary (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France)
Éric Laporte (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Manfred Thaler (Cologne University, Germany, Germany)
Tamás Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Nuria Bel (University of Barcelona)
Nicoletta Calzolari (University of Pisa)

Organising Committee

· Stelios Piperidis (ILSP Athens)
spip AT ilsp DOT gr

· Milena Slavcheva (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
milena AT lml DOT bas DOT bg

· Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)
cristina DOT vertan AT uni-hamburg DOT de

· Petya Osenova (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
petya AT bultreebank DOT org

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

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:29:20 -0600
From: Michael Ullyot
Subject: Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2012

NB: Topic #3, below, will be of interest to digital humanists.]

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) will sponsor four panels at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., 22-24 March 2012.

Organized by Steven W. May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP @ RSA links the RSA with scholars studying the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print.

We invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and manuscripts from 1350 to 1700, within one or more of these four topics:

1. WHEN READERS WRITE: What led manuscript anthologists to copy the texts they did? An enormous volume of transcribed works in prose and verse circulated widely in early modern England and the Continent. What can we learn about contemporary interests and taste from the choices reflected in a given document or documents?

2. DRESSING GENDER IN PRINT: How did printers or editors exploit the gender of an author on their title pages or paratexts? Did they often (or ever) in fact treat male and female writers differently?

3. MANICULES AND THE ‘DIGITAL’ HUMANITIES: What are digital humanists doing now with early modern books and manuscripts? Ann M Blair recently argued that medieval and early modern systems of “managing textual information in an era of exploding publications” are precedents for modern information management systems. Do early reference books, annotations and compilations inform, anticipate, or otherwise influence our computer-assisted thinking?

4. THE INTERSECTION OF MANUSCRIPT AND PRINT: It has become increasingly clear that scribal and print culture were complexly intertwined during the Renaissance. What do we learn about the transmission of texts and contemporary regard for both media from works that appeared in both and authors who published in script and print?

Please send paper titles and abstracts (150 words) and one-paragraph CVs to *each* of the three organizers: < ullyot@ucalgary.ca > and and < steven_may@georgetowncollege.edu > by *Friday, 6 May 2011* (this is earlier than RSA’s own deadline).

For more information on SHARP, see < http://www.sharpweb.org/ >.

For more information on the Renaissance Society of America, see < http://rsa.org/ >. All participants must be members of the RSA by August 2012 or they cannot be included in the programme.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor
Department of English, University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~ullyot/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

***
Wait – what’s a poster session?

The way a poster session works is that all participants have space to set up a poster (and / or a computer if the presentation involves a software demonstration of some sort, and maybe a handout), and people who attend the session are free to walk through and see the posters, and talk to the presenters. There isn’t really a formal presentation, nor a time constraint. In the past when I’ve presented posters I’ve found it very helpful to have a couple of minutes of patter – almost an elevator pitch, just enough to give people an idea of what I’m working on. Some people pass right by; others might spend more time and ask a lot of questions, it just depends. It’s quite a different experience from giving a traditional presentation, much more informal and more personal as well.

OK – Thanks! On with the call.
***

This is a meta-session intended for speakers *who have already had a paper accepted at another session at the congress*. Its purpose is to allow for followup, the presentation of additional details or demonstrations, and also simply as a way of letting people catch up on papers they might have missed because of scheduling conflicts. An informal session at the 2009 Congress was extremely well attended, with lots of discussion, questions, and posters.

Posters are welcome on any aspect of the use of digital media, tools, techniques, and principles in medieval studies. The only restriction is that they must be associated with a paper already accepted for presentation at the 2011 Congress. Acceptable posters might share exactly the same focus and the presented paper, or they might focus on the presentation, demonstration, or elaboration of aspects from the presentation that are better suited to the poster format.

If you are interested in presenting a poster, please contact the session organisers, Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com), Jim Ginther (james.ginther@gmail.com), or Dan O’Donnell (caedmon@uleth.ca) for further information or inquiries.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:37:10 +0100
From: Albert Lloret
Subject: Digital Philology – Call for Submissions

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
Call for Submissions

Digital Philology is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, the journal aims to foster scholarship that crosses disciplines upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries, and periodizations. Digital Philology also encourages both applied and theoretical research that engages with the digital humanities and shows why and how digital resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield radical results.

Digital Philology will have two issues per year, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

One of the issues will be open to all submissions, while the other one will be guest-edited and revolve around a thematic axis.

Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the 3rd edition (2008) of the MLA style manual, and be between 5,000 and 9,000 words in length, including footnotes and list of works cited. Quotations in the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their English translation.
Digital Philology welcomes submissions for the 2012 and 2013 open issues. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be sent to dph@jhu.edu, addressed to the Editor (Albert Lloret) and Managing Editor (Jeanette Patterson). Digital Philology will also publish reviews of books and digital projects.

Correspondence regarding digital projects and publications for review may be addressed to Timothy Stinson at tlstinson@gmail.com.

Editorial Board

Tracy Adams (Auckland University)
Benjamin Albritton (Stanford University)
Nadia R. Altschul (Johns Hopkins University)
R. Howard Bloch (Yale University)
Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania)
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV) Suzanne Conklin Akbari (University of Toronto)
Lucie Dolezalova (Charles University, Prague)
Alexandra Gillespie (University of Toronto)
Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University)
Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University)
Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Joachim Küpper (Freie University of Berlin)
Deborah McGrady (University of Virginia)
Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo)
Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
Timothy Stinson (North Carolina State University)
Lori Walters (Florida State University)

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

***

Dear all,

The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce a Request For Proposal to collaborate with OAC researchers for building implementations of the OAC data model and ontology. The OAC is seeking to collaborate with scholars and/or librarians currently using and/or curating established repositories of scholarly digital resources with well-defined audiences of scholars. The OAC intends to fund a set of four projects that are complementary in content media type and use cases that leverage the OAC Data Model to the fullest extent, and that leverage existing annotation tools or at least have articulated an interesting scholarly annotation use case.

Two of the successful Respondents will collaborate with OAC
researchers at the University of Maryland and the other two will collaborate with OAC research at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. (For these collaborations, Illinois and Maryland will provide guidance on the implementation of the OAC data model and ontology, help in defining extensions of the data model that might be necessary, advice on existing tools that might be adaptable for the demonstration experiment, feedback on correctness of mappings from/to native annotation formats and/or annotations created.)

The full text of the RFP can be found at
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/openAnnotationRFP.pdf

The IP agreement attachment to this RFP is available at:
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/openAnnotationIP_Agreement_forRFP.pdf

A FAQ about this RFP is available at:
http://www.openannotation.org/RFP_FAQs.html

Please make all submissions regarding this RFP, including your letter of intent and proposal, to oac2rfp@support.lis.illinois.edu

Questions: regarding any details of this RFP should also be emailed to oac2rfp@support.lis.illinois.edu; answers to substantive questions from individuals will be posted immediately on the RFP FAQ page mentioned above (so as to available to all proposers).

The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Cheers,
Neil

The 2012 meeting will take place in Glasgow, Scotland from 11-14th April 2012. We welcome papers on any of the above topics. A full CFP is
available from: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/index.php. The deadline for the submission of papers and sessions is 1st May 2011. Enquiries can be made to Ian Gregory (I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk).

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

‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ One-Day Symposium
5th September 2011, King’s College London

The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography.

In recent years, scholars have begun to develop and employ new technologies and computer-based methods for palaeographic research. The aim of the symposium is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects which overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies. Possible topics could include:

• Project reports and/or demonstrations
• Palaeographical method; ‘Digital’ and ‘Analogue’ palaeography • Quantitative and qualitative approaches
• ‘Scientific’ methods, ‘objectivity’ and the role of evidence in manuscript studies • Visualisation of manuscript evidence and data
• Interface design and querying of palaeographical material

To propose a paper, please send a brief abstract (250 words max) to digipal@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 8th May 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 20th May 2011.

*This is reminder call for presentations. Please note the fast approaching deadline: April 15th.*

(Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate widely–we welcome proposals from students as well as established researchers.)

The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars in Summer 2011, on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. Themes could include, but are by no means limited to, visualization, information and data linking, digital textual and linguistic studies, and geographic information and network analysis; so long as the content is likely to be of interest both to classicists/ancient historians/archaeologists and information scientists/digital humanists, and would be considered serious research in at least one of those fields.

The seminars run on Friday afternoons (16:30 – 19:00) from June to mid-August in Senate House, London, and are hosted by the Institute of
Classical Studies (University of London). In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published in an online special
issue of Digital Medievalist, a printed volume from Ashgate Press, a BICS supplement (in production), and the last three years have been
released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher.

We have a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire).

Please send a 300-500 word abstract togabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by April 15th, 2011. We shall announce the full programme at the end of April.

http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html

(Coörganised by Will Wootton, Charlotte Tupman, Matteo Romanello, Simon Mahony, Timothy Hill, Alejandro Giacometti, Juan Garcés, Stuart Dunn & Gabriel Bodard.)

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

It is with pleasure and relief that the editors, staff, and board of The Heroic Age announce the release of “Issue 14 Part 2.” We had the very great advantage of having two sections edited for us by two quality editors on two different themes. In November 2010, we were able to work with the print journal postmedieval to release a joint issue The State(s) of Early English Studies edited by Eileen Joy; now we are announcing the release of the second section, Anglo-Saxon Law edited by Andrew Rabin. Point your browser to http://www.heroicage.org and click on Issue 14 (under Current Issue). I would like to thank Andrew, Eileen, my co-editor Deanna Forsman, our readers, copy-editors and editors for taking time from their classes, families, and other activities to work on this issue.

Sincerely,

Larry Swain
Editor in Chief, The Heroic Age

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

Position: Associate Director, MITH; Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research, Libraries

Category: Faculty, Full-time (12-month Appointment)

Salary: $80,000 – $110,000, commensurate with experience.

Benefits: 22 Days Annual Leave, 15 Days Sick Leave, 3 Days Personal Leave, 15 Paid Holidays

DESCRIPTION:

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the University Libraries at the University of Maryland are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and highly talented individual to fill a joint position as an Associate Director of MITH and Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research in the Libraries. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for developing joint projects between MITH and the University Libraries, coordinating activities and initiatives between the two units, and developing a digital
scholarship strategy for the Libraries and its digital humanities collections.

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 among the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, distinguished by the cultural diversity so central to its identity. In recent years, MITH has achieved a track record of prominent and successful grant funded projects from NEH, the IMLS, the Mellon Foundation, and the NSF, among other agencies and funders. Its collaborators include the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian, among many others. MITH’s strength is its collegial spirit, born of the value it places on its staff and their experiences, and the ideas they bring to the team. The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library system in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area, serving 37,000 students and faculty of the flagship College Park campus. The Libraries are new members of the HathiTrust digital library and are in a position to build upon that membership, existing library digital programs, a new strategic plan, and planned growth. The position therefore offers the right scholar-professional unique possibilities to establish a new and vibrant cooperative model between a digital humanities center and university research library. Situated just miles outside of Washington DC, the University of Maryland’s College Park campus also offers all of the opportunities that come from the libraries, museums, and cultural institutions of the area.

The successful candidate will occupy a position of influence that will serve as a platform for a complete digital humanities research agenda spanning both a leading digital humanities center and a major university research library. We have a particular interest in individuals with expertise in humanities data curation and sustaining digital scholarship. Qualifications include:

* Experience in developing strategic vision and plans for digital humanities scholarship

* Experience in developing digital humanities projects and seeing them to successful conclusion

* Demonstrated record of success in developing partnerships within and between institutions

* Demonstrated record of success in writing grants

*Strong grasp of the latest developments in online humanities scholarship, including social media

*Strong record of publication and professional participation in digital humanities

*Ability to analyze and advise on structure and organization of digital programs and cyberinfrastructure

*Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and to communicate well and work with people from a variety of disciplines and a number of different career paths

Position is appointed to Librarian Faculty Ranks as established by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. Rank at appointment is based on the successful applicant’s experience and relevant
credentials. For additional information, consult the following website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/groups/la/APPSC/index.html.

APPLICATIONS: Electronic applications required. Please apply online at https://jobs.umd.edu, click faculty. The University of Maryland Libraries will not sponsor individuals for employment. You must be legally able to work in the United States. An application consists of a cover letter which includes the source of advertisement, a Curriculum Vitae, and names/e-mail addresses of three references. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and accepted until April 15, 2011.

The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

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

This is a meta-session intended for speakers who have already had a paper accepted at another session at the congress. Its purpose is to allow for followup, the presentation of additional details or demonstrations, and also simply as a way of letting people catch up on papers they might have missed because of scheduling conflicts. An informal session at the 2009 Congress was extremely well attended, with lots of discussion, questions, and posters.

Posters are welcome on any aspect of the use of digital media, tools, techniques, and principles in medieval studies. The only restriction is that they must be associated with a paper already accepted for presentation at the 2011 Congress. Acceptable posters might share exactly the same focus and the presented paper, or they might focus on the presentation, demonstration, or elaboration of aspects from the presentation that are better suited to the poster format.

If you are interested in presenting a poster, please contact the session organisers, Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com), Jim Ginther (james.ginther@gmail.com), or Dan O’Donnell (caedmon@uleth.ca) for further information or enquiries.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

These Library Research Grants, which have a value of up to € 2.000 each, are meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Vercelli during the tenure of the grant. The length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal, but is ordinarily up to one month. Library Research Grants awarded in this year are tenable from May 2011 to April 2012 (except from 18th July to 4th September), and the deadline for applications is 15 April 2011. No applications will be accepted after that date.

Applicants are asked to complete an Application Form (download from www.tesorodelduomovc.it [1]) and submit a Word or PDF file (the latter is the preferred format) containing a Budget Form, a full Curriculum Vitae and a Research Proposal not exceeding one thousand words in length. Application should be sent by postal mail to the Library Research Grants Committee or by Email at the address given below. Applicants must also arrange for two Confidential Letters of Recommendation to be sent directly to the Library Research Grants Committee by postal mail or Email.

The proposal should address specifically the relevance to the proposed research of unique resources found in the Biblioteca and Archivio Capitolare collections or in the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo collection (The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris Grant) and in the Biblioteca Capitolare collections (Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies Grant). Prospective grantees are urged to contact the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books for detailed descriptions of the collections. The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare reserves the right to have a copy of the research that the applicant will publish at the end of her or his studies.

A committee consisting of members by University of Piemonte Orientale, Turin, Oxford, Kiel and of the Library Management will award the grants on the basis of the relevance of the proposal to unique holdings of the library and museum, the merits and significance of the project, and the applicant’s scholarly qualifications.

[1] Note that the application form might not be available online at the time of the announcement: please send your application via email to Dr. Timoty Leonardi in that case, email address reported below.

*************************************************

Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare
piazza Alessandro D’Angennes, 5
13100, Vercelli – ITALY
www.tesorodelduomovc.it

Dr. Timoty Leonardi
Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books
timoty.leonardi@tesorodelduomovc.it
Tel. and fax: +39 0161 51650

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

SDH-SEMI 2011 Conference, 30 May – 1 June 2011, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

The 2011 SDH-SEMI conference will be held this year on May 30 and June 1 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The theme of the conference is “The Undiscovered Country”: Exploring People and Places through Digital Humanities. See also our call for papers (but note that the deadline was extended for technical reasons).

The final deadline for consideration is March 13, 2001.

Abstracts may be submitted via http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool/

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

The research program ANR GRAPHEM (2008-2011), lead by the LIRIS (UMR 5205, Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’information), federates four resarch teams: 2 laboratories in computer science (LIFO, EA 4022, Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale d’Orléans, and LIPADE, Laboratoire d’Informatique Paris Descartes, former CRIP5) and 2 in human sciences (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des Textes and Ecole nationale des chartes). Its aim is to improve the data mining and image processing techniques applied to medieval scripts and their classification.

This symposium will not only present the technological achievements or the software and tools produced during this research program, but also draw a methodological conclusion on interdisciplinary work in the field of Palaeography and Image Analysis.

Program

— 14 April

* Denis Muzerelle (IRHT): Image Analysis Techniques applied to Medieval Scripts (« Les techniques d’analyse d’images appliquées aux écritures médiévales »)
* Matthieu Exbrayat (LIFO): Spatial Exploration and Interaction: Implementation in the Research Program Graphem (« Exploration et interaction spatiale: mise en œuvre dans le cadre du projet Graphem »)
* Stéphane Brès (LIRIS): Script Characterization from Local Visual Signs (« Caractérisation d’écritures à partir d’indices visuels locaux »)
* Nicole Vincent (LIPADE): A Proposal of Script Property Descriptors for Typological Grouping (« Proposition de descripteurs des propriétés des écritures en vue d’apparentements typologiques »)
* Round table (moderator: Marc Smith, École nationale des chartes): Current applications of informatics in paleography, by which methods and for what purposes?

— 15 April

* Permanent Seminar on Cursive Scripts [specific program: http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/actualites/seminaire-permanent-sur-la-cursivite-paris-irht-15]

URL [fre] : http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/colloques/analyse-image-paleographie-systematique URL [eng] : http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/en/node/1453

Posted by: Dominique Stutzmann (dominique.stutzmann@irht.cnrs.fr).

Salary: £29,099 – £30,870 (As at 1 October 2011)

A two-year research and teaching appointment in Digital Humanities from October 2011 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career.
These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford.
Applicants must have obtained his or her doctorate by 1 October 2011, and should not normally have completed it earlier than 1 October 2007. We welcome applications from all whose research is in the digital humanities, involving the innovative and productive application of digital tools or resources to research questions in any subject under the Humanities Division (see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/).
The Fellow will be employed by the Faculty closest to his/her academic interests. A college association will be arranged for this post, and he/she will also become a Research Associate at the OeRC (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/).

For further details, information about how to apply and an application form, please visit: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/ Applications must be received by midday on Wednesday 23 March 2011.

Posted by: Camille Fairbanks (herdsman.caedmon@gmail.com).

Philology in the Digital Age
2011 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium University of Würzburg, Germany

http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/

* Deadline for submissions: May 1st, 2011
* Meeting dates: Wed 12 October to Sat 15 October, 2011
* Workshop dates: Mon 10 October to Wed 12 October, 2011 (see separate call)

The Program Committee of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI – www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel
sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, scholarly editing or any topic that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:
• TEI and scholarly editing
• TEI and textual criticism
• TEI and the evolution of digital philology
• TEI and text corpora
• The relation between representation (encoded text) and presentation (visualisation, user-interface)
• TEI encoded data in the context of quantitative text analysis • Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards • TEI as metadata standard
• TEI as interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data (in particular in relation to other formats or software environments)

In addition, we are seeking proposals for 5 minute micropaper presentations focused on experiences with the TEI guidelines gained from running projects and discussing one specific feature.

Submission Types

Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Submission should be made in the form of an abstract of 750-1500 words (plus bibliography).

Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including:

* three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics

* round table discussion: 5-8 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations.

Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster presenter is expected to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session.

Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 1st, 2011 (please check on the conference website for the availability of conftool).

You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract.

* Individual paper or poster proposals (including tool
demonstrations): Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted.

* Micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 500 words. Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented!

* Panel sessions (three paper panels): The panel organizer submits a proposal for the entire session, containing a 500-word introduction explaining the overarching theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers, together with a 750-1500 words section for each panel member.

* Panel sessions (round table discussion): The panel organizer submits a proposal of 750-1500 words describing the rationale for the discussion and includes the list of panelists. Panelists need to be contacted by the panel organizer and have expressed their willingness in participation before submission.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers.

Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room.

Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org.

Conference submissions will be considered for conference
proceedings, edited as a special issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming.

Posted by: Camille Fairbanks (herdsman.caedmon@gmail.com).

Philology in the Digital Age
2011 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium University of Würzburg, Germany

http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/

* Deadline for submissions: May 1st, 2011
* Meeting dates: Wed 12 October to Sat 15 October, 2011
* Workshop dates: Mon 10 October to Wed 12 October, 2011 (see separate call)

The Program Committee of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI – www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel
sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, scholarly editing or any topic that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:
• TEI and scholarly editing
• TEI and textual criticism
• TEI and the evolution of digital philology
• TEI and text corpora
• The relation between representation (encoded text) and presentation (visualisation, user-interface)
• TEI encoded data in the context of quantitative text analysis • Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards • TEI as metadata standard
• TEI as interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data (in particular in relation to other formats or software environments)

In addition, we are seeking proposals for 5 minute micropaper presentations focused on experiences with the TEI guidelines gained from running projects and discussing one specific feature.

Submission Types

Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Submission should be made in the form of an abstract of 750-1500 words (plus bibliography).

Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including:

* three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics

* round table discussion: 5-8 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations.

Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster presenter is expected to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session.

Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 1st, 2011 (please check on the conference website for the availability of conftool).

You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract.

* Individual paper or poster proposals (including tool
demonstrations): Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted.

* Micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 500 words. Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented!

* Panel sessions (three paper panels): The panel organizer submits a proposal for the entire session, containing a 500-word introduction explaining the overarching theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers, together with a 750-1500 words section for each panel member.

* Panel sessions (round table discussion): The panel organizer submits a proposal of 750-1500 words describing the rationale for the discussion and includes the list of panelists. Panelists need to be contacted by the panel organizer and have expressed their willingness in participation before submission.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers.

Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room.

Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org.

Conference submissions will be considered for conference
proceedings, edited as a special issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming.

For the international programm comittee,

Laurent Romary (programm committee chair)

Posted by: Malte Rehbein (malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de).

Salary: £29,099 – £30,870 (As at 1 October 2011)

A two-year research and teaching appointment in Digital Humanities from October 2011 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career.

These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford.

Applicants must have obtained his or her doctorate by 1 October 2011, and should not normally have completed it earlier than 1 October 2007.

We welcome applications from all whose research is in the digital humanities, involving the innovative and productive application of digital tools or resources to research questions in any subject under the Humanities Division (see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/).

The Fellow will be employed by the Faculty closest to his/her academic interests. A college association will be arranged for this post, and he/she will also become a Research Associate at the OeRC (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/).

For further details, information about how to apply and an application form, please visit: www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/index/230311/arrs7423j/

Applications must be received by midday on Wednesday 23 March 2011.

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).

ISBN 978-3-8423-5032-8. Hardcover, 464 pp., incl. numerous illustrations.

[Online version coming out in summer 2011. Further information below and on the IDE website: http://www.i-d-e.de/]

INTRODUCTION / EINLEITUNG

Digital technology changes the way scholars work with manuscripts. This volume deepens the questions raised by the first volume on palaeography and codicology in the digital age, published a year ago, particularly questions on digitisation and cataloguing, on character recognition and the analysis of script. Moreover, the focus has been widened to include the fields of computer-aided manuscript research in musicology and history of art, as well as to methodologies applied in computational and natural sciences. Besides Latin, this  volume covers also Greek, Glagolitic, Judeo-Arabic and other scripts. The spatio-temporal frame stretches from ancient Egypt of 1800 BC to Paris of the 20th century.

Der Einsatz digitaler Technik verändert den wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit der handgeschriebenen Überlieferung. Dieser Band vertieft Fragen zu Digitalisierung und Katalogisierung, zu automatischer Schrifterkennung und Schriftanalyse, und er erweitert eine Diskussion, die mit dem im letzten Jahr erschienenen ersten Band zur digitalen Handschriftenforschung angestossen worden ist: Welche Erkenntnisse können etwa naturwissenschaftliche Methoden liefern? Welche musik- und kunsthistorischen Fragestellungen lassen sich mit Hilfe moderner Informationstechnologien beantworten? Wie lassen sich Methoden einer digitalen Auswertung lateinischer Handschriften auf griechische, glagolithische oder ägyptische Texte anwenden? Der raum-zeitliche Rahmen der hier von einer internationalen Autorenschaft zusammengetragenen 22 wissenschaftlichen Beiträge reicht vom alten Ägypten bis ins Paris der Postmoderne.

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INHALTSVERZEICHNIS / CONTENTS

Vorwort / Preface

Einleitung / Introduction:

FRANZ FISCHER, PATRICK SAHLE: Into the Wide – Into the Deep: Manuscript
Research in the Digital Age

DIGITALE REPRODUKTION / DIGITAL REPRODUCTION

PÁDRAIG Ó MACHÁIN: Irish Script on Screen: the Growth and Development of a Manuscript Digitisation Project

ARMAND TIF: Kunsthistorische Online-Kurzinventare illuminierter Codices in österreichischen Klosterbibliotheken

ALISON STONES, KEN SOCHATS: Towards a Comparative Approach to Manuscript Study on the Web: the Case of the Lancelot-Grail Romance

MELISSA M. TERRAS: Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital Imaging of Ancient Texts

DIGITALER KATALOG UND SEMANTIK / DIGITAL CATALOGUE AND SEMANTICS

SILKE SCHÖTTLE, ULRIKE MEHRINGER: Handschriften, Nachlässe, Inkunabeln& Co.: Die Erschließung der deutschen Handschriften und die Bereitstellung von Sonderbeständen in Online-Katalogen an der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen mit TUSTEP

MARILENA MANIACI, PAOLO ELEUTERI: Das MaGI-Projekt: Elektronische Katalogisierung der griechischen Handschriften Italiens

EZIO ORNATO: La numérisation du patrimoine livresque médiéval : avancée décisive ou miroir aux alouettes ?

TOBY BURROWS: Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Medieval Manuscript Research

ROBERT KUMMER: Semantic Technologies for Manuscript Descriptions — Concepts and Visions

HANDSCHRIFTEN UND NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN / MANUSCRIPTS AND THE SCIENCES

LIOR WOLF, NACHUM DERSHOWITZ, LIZA POTIKHA, TANYA GERMAN, RONI SHWEKA, YAACOV CHOUEKA: Automatic Palaeographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts

DANIEL DECKERS, LEIF GLASER:Zum Einsatz von Synchrotronstrahlung bei der
Wiedergewinnung gelöschter Texte in Palimpsesten mittels Röntgenfluoreszenz

TIMOTHY STINSON: Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis
to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production

PETER MEINLSCHMIDT, CARMEN KÄMMERER, VOLKER MÄRGNER: Thermographie – ein neuartiges Verfahren zur exakten Abnahme, Identifizierung und digitalen Archivierung von Wasserzeichen in mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Papierhandschriften, -zeichnungen und –drucken

DIGITALE PALÄOGRAPHIE / DIGITAL PALAEOGRAPHY

PETER A. STOKES: Teaching Manuscripts in the Digital Age

DOMINIQUE STUTZMANN: Paléographie statistique pour décrire, identifier, dater. . . Normaliser pour coopérer et aller plus loin ?

STEPHEN QUIRKE: Agendas for Digital Palaeography in an Archaeological Context: Egypt 1800 BC

MARKUS DIEM, ROBERT SABLATNIG, MELANIE GAU, HEINZ MIKLAS: Recognizing
Degraded Handwritten Characters

JULIA M. CRAIG-MCFEELY: Finding What You Need, and Knowing What You Can Find: Digital Tools for Palaeographers in Musicology and Beyond

TRANSKRIPTION UND TEXTKODIERUNG / TRANSCRIPTION AND TEXT ENCODING

ISABELLE SCHÜRCH, MARTIN RÜESCH: Ad fontes – mit E-Learning zu ersten Editionserfahrungen

CAROLE DORNIER, PIERRE-YVES BUARD: L’édition électronique de cahiers de travail : l’exemple de Mes Pensées de Montesquieu

SAMANTHA SAÏDI, JEAN-FRANÇOIS BERT, PHILIPPE ARTIÈRES: Archives d’un lecteur philosophe. Le traitement numérique des notes de lecture de Michel Foucault

ELENA PIERAZZO, PETER A. STOKES: Putting the Text back into Context: A Codicological Approach to Manuscript Transcription

APPENDICES

Kurzbiographien / Biographical Notes

KPDZ 1 – CPDA 1

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

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, is pleased to announce a PhD studentship in digital methods in palaeography funded by a European Research Council project, the ‘Digital Resource of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’. The studentship is to be held in CCH as part of a PhD in Digital Humanities.

Context

The aim of Digital Resource of Palaeography is to bringing the methods and resources of digital humanities to bear on palaeographical exploration, citation and teaching of late Anglo-Saxon script. It involves a web resource which will allow scholars to rapidly retrieve digital images, verbal descriptions, and detailed characterisations of the writing, as well as the text in which it is found and the content and structure of the manuscript or charter. It will incorporate different ways of searching, using images, maps, timelines and image-processing as well as conventional text-based browsing and searching. The palaeographical content will focus on a case-study of vernacular English script from the eleventh century, but the project will allow scholars to test and apply new general developments in palaeographical method which have been discussed in theory but which have hitherto proven difficult or impossible to implement in practice. Some further details of the project are av!

ailable on the KCL news pages.

The studentship

Applicants should propose a research project which can benefit from and contribute to the Digital Resource in Palaeography project but which remains distinct from it. Possibilities may include the detailed study of a particular manuscript or small group of manuscripts. A comparative study could apply the research methodologies of the ERC project to a different corpus, perhaps focusing on the products of a single scriptorium or scribe, looking at variance and variation in script; or focusing on a corpus (such as manuscript fragments) that has proven difficult to manage with conventional approaches. Another possibility may be more methodological, focusing on the possibilities and limits of Digital Humanities in palaeographical scholarship.

The student will be based at King’s College London, in the Centre for Computing in Humanities and will benefit from the CCH PhD Seminar. A second supervisor will be assigned according to the requirements of the project. It is also expected that the student will maintain contact with other departments in King’s, such as History or English. The student will also have access to resources and seminars across the University of London more widely, including Senate House Library and its Palaeography Room, the Institute of Historical Research’s seminars and library, and seminars and expertise at the Institute of English Studies.

Value

For the three years of the studentship (starting no later than October 2011) the grant is c. £14,000 per annum. Students liable to pay fees at the overseas rate are welcome to apply, but should make sure that they can cover the difference between the award and the full overseas fee. The studentship must be held full-time.

Eligibility, Timetable & Application Process

Applicants for these awards are expected to begin PhD study on 1 October 2011. Applicants should hold (or have nearly completed) a Master’s degree or equivalent in Old English, Anglo-Saxon/early Anglo-Norman history, or another relevant area of medieval studies. A good knowledge of the language(s) of the manuscripts under study is required (Old/Middle English and/or Latin), and a background or demonstrable interest in manuscript studies is highly desirable.

Applicants must submit the following documentation by the deadline of 1 March 2011:

1. An Admissions Application form & all supporting documents – submitted to the Centre for Arts & Sciences Admissions (CASA) via the online admissions portal at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply/
2. A one page statement of interest including a description of the proposed research, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
3. A one-page statement of your research training, background and suitability to the project, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
4. A sample of written work (3000-5000 words), submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk

An interview will be arranged with shortlisted applicants, either face to face or by teleconference, after the closing date.

Enquiries

Please email Dr Peter Stokes at peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk or telephone him on +44 (0)20 7848 2813 in the first instance with any queries about this studentship.

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).

Project Developer (Maternity Cover) – InfoDev
Grade: Grade 7
Salary: £29,099 – £35,788 – Full-time, 1 year fixed term

This is a 1 year fixed term maternity cover post.
The post is within the Information and Support Group’s
Development Team (InfoDev; http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/infodev/) of the Computing Services. InfoDev is responsible for providing data solutions, undertaking web projects, and delivering research support to the department and the University. Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS; http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/) offers facilities, training, and advice to members of the University in all aspects of academic computing.

Do you have:
* A strong IT background with experience of providing client-facing services?
* Experience of web design and development technologies (e.g. HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, Javascript, jQuery)?
* A good knowledge of at least one common programming language (e.g Perl, Python, PHP, Java)?
* Some experience with content management systems (e.g. Drupal)?
* A proven track record of both individual and collaborative development work to a specification and deadline?
* An interest in providing intuitive and easy to use web front ends?
* A good understanding of software development technologies and practices?
If so, this may be your opportunity to join a friendly team working on a wide range of data development and web projects. You will be working with other members of the InfoDev team to provide maintenance, troubleshooting and administration for ongoing services as well as developing new bespoke websites and applications to clients’ specifications.

Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 14 March 2011. Interviews will be held on Thursday 24 March 2011.
For more information please see:

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/infodev.xml

-James

http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/

We would like to encourage in particular young scholars and graduate
students to present their ideas and projects on using the new technologies for studying old documents. Travel grants will be provided.

We are looking forward to hear from you

for the organization comitee

Georg Vogeler

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).

With the support of :
• Institut Romand des Sciences Bibliques (IRSB, FTSR, Unil)
• Fonds National Suisse (FNS)
• Anthropos (Unil)
• Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire (FDi, Unil)
• CUSO Théologie
• CUSO EDOCSA
• Association pour l’histoire du livre et de la lecture en Suisse Romande

Organisation
Claire Clivaz (IRSB, FTSR),
Jérôme Meizoz (FDi, Arts and Humanities)
François Vallotton (SHC, Arts and Humanities)

This conference in Arts and Humanities seeks to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural technologies. The present evolution of the ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition are questionned : modern history and contemporary analysis have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital turn. Details on :

www.unil.ch/digitalera2011

Conferences : Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard, USA), David Bouvier
(Unil , CH), François Bovon (Harvard, USA), Claire Clivaz (Unil ,
CH), Michel Fuchs (Unil , CH), Christian Grosse (Unil , CH),
Kim Haines-Eitzen (Cornell, USA), Philippe Kaennel (Unil , CH),
Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL, CH), Thomas Kraus (independant researcher),
Rudolf Mahrer (Unil , CH), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis
University, USA), David Parker (Birmingham, UK), Holt Parker
(Cincinnati, USA), Lukas Rosenthaler (Basel, CH), Ulrich Schmid
(Münster, DE), Paul Schubert (Unige, CH), François Vallotton
(Unil , CH), Christian Vandendorpe (Ottawa, CA),
Joseph Verheyden (Leuven, BE).

Call for papers for scholars and PhD students in Sciences of Antiquity, New Testament and Early Christianity, Biblical Sciences, Modern History, French and English Literature.
Deadline : 30th April 2011.

The colloquium will be concluded by a public evening, on august 25th with posters, editors’ booth, artistic animations and a round table discussion, bringing together publishers and scholars and led by a journalist from Radio-télévision Suisse : “What Will Come After the Book ?”

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).

There has been much speculation to the age of the Koran, and now through digital imaging, we hope to solve this riddle. The manuscript measures H: 876mm x W: 592mm x D:184mm and weighs approximately 52kg, and is beautifully illuminated throughout.

944 images were created, photographing the Koran in its entirety. The manuscript will be available online, through the John Rylands Unviersity library, using Turning the Pages, which will create a virtual version. All information and progress of the project can be found online on our blog;

www.gatewaytothekoran.wordpress.com

Posted by: James Robinson (james.robinson-3@manchester.ac.uk).

Marie-Christine Bornes-Varol, Marie-Sol Ortola, Jean-Daniel Gronoff,
Avant-propos. Le projet ALIENTO

Éditer un texte parémiologique
Hugo Oscar Bizzarri, ¿Reproducir o reconstruir? El refranero en la
periferia de la crítica textual
Paloma Diaz Mas, Carlos Mota, Los Proverbios Morales de Sem Tob de Carrión, entre la literatura de adâb, la sabiduría rabínica y la tradición hispánica
Francisco Crosas, Sobre Burley y su edición

Traduction, intention et spécificités textuelles
Cristiano Leone, La réception occidentale du Mukhtâr al-hikam à travers ses traductions
Ahmed-Salem Ould Mohamed Baba, La collection parémiologique d’Azzajjâlî (XIIIe siècle)
Barry Taylor, Los libros de proverbios bilingües: disposición e intención
Haviva Ishay, The Political Philosophy In The Proverbs Of Shmuel Ha-Nagid, Servant Of Two Kings
Nili Shalev, Proverbs in Rhymed Poems: Joseph Qimhi’s Sheqel Ha-Qodesh and Medieval gnomic literature

Traditions spécifiques et questions de définition
Nejmeddine Khalfallah, Les préludes d’une théorie du genre sapientiel chez ‘Abd al-Qâhir al-Jurjânî (m. 474/1078)
Revital Refael Vivante, Meshal Haqadmoni by Isaac Ibn Sahula Adab book (Spain 13th Century)
Mary-Nelly Fouligny, Les Adages d’Érasme : définition, genèse et sources de l’adage selon l’auteur et étude rapide de quelques exemples d’adages recourant à des sources cicéroniennes
Maria-Celeste Augusto, De quelques particularités des corpora portugais : une lecture lexico-sémantique de l’élément zoomorphique
Pour commander :
CID – 31, boulevard Saint-Michel – 75000 PARIS – Tél. 01 53 10 53 95 – Fax : 01 40 51 02 80
ACHAT en ligne : http://www.lcdpu.fr/editeurs/pun

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

The Undiscovered Country: Exploring People and Places through Digital Humanities 30 May – 1 June 2011

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Deadline for Submission: 1 March 2010 (delegates will be notified by 15 March in order to be able to register at the discount rate before 31 March)
The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2011 Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in Fredericton, NB, from 30 May-1 June.
This years Congress theme is Coasts and Continents: Exploring People and Places, and our societys annual meeting focuses that wider Congress theme upon the digital humanities. Although the digital age has arrived, replete with descriptions, counter-descriptions, and critical commentary on digital natives, digital immigrants, e-books, and e-readers, etc., the digital still represents something of an undiscovered country, even to those who work in the digital humanities community. As we continue to define and explore research projects that will lead us into the future of humanities scholarship, we also renegotiate our relationships to the people and places both of the past and of the present. We encourage papers and panels likely to contribute to an understanding of how digital technologies are fostering digitally enabled inquiry into people, places, text, images, and data. Mindful of the politics of appropriation, we also encourage papers that explore the dynamics of return (that is to say, the notion of giving back to the community), which we see ranging widely across a series of issues: e.g. the ethical repatriation of cultural (especially digital) artifacts to indigenous communities, the scholarly return of open access to scholarship and data sets, the political and economic return of open source software.
Submissions informed in any way by these themes are especially encouraged, but we also encourage any submission relevant to the digital humanities. Of particular interest to those likely to attend would be papers on any of the following topics:
* GIS — spatialization and mapping
* chronologies — temporality and history
* communities — virtual or real-world
* gaming studies
* multimedia arts
* 3D modeling
* simulations
* archival projects
* prosopographies
* textual analysis, editing or encoding
* database theory
* cyberculture
* postcolonialism and globalization
Graduate students are particularly welcomed to submit a proposal to present at, or even simply to attend, SDH/SEMIs annual meeting. The Society has some funding available to support a graduate student panel.
Interested applicants should inquire using the contact information listed below. In the recent past, papers presented at the annual meeting of SDH/SEMI have been revised and submitted for publication in the Societys on-line journal Digital Studies/ Le champ numeriques. Submissions
Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until 1 March 2011 via the SDH-SEMI website at
. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the
time of the conference. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper’s thesis, methodology, and conclusion.
Accepted Formats:
* Traditional Papers: 20 mins (3 per 1 hour session)
* Panel Proposals: 3-6 speakers on a unified theme (1 panel per 1 hour session) * Roundtables: 4-8 people addressing each others work (1 per 1 hour session) * Posters
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Appel de communications

Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs
«Le Pays inconnu»: l’exploration des peuples et des lieux par les sciences humaines numériques

30 mai – 1er juin 2011
Fredericton, Nouveau Brunswick, Canada
Date limite de réception des propositions de communication: 1 mars 2010
(les conférenciers recevront une réponse avant le 15 mars afin de pouvoir s’inscrire au congrès à un tarif réduit avant le 31 mars)
La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2011 de la Fédération canadiennes des sciences humaines à Fredericton, NB, du 30 mai au 1er juin.
Le thème du congrès cette année est Rivages et continents: exploration des peuples et des lieux, et la réunion annuelle de notre société élargie la réflexion à cette thématique pour inclure les sciences humaines numériques. Bien que l’ère du numérique soit déjà arrivé, remplie de descriptions, contredescriptions, et de commentaires critiques sur les natifs numériques, immigrants numériques, livrels, liseuses, etc., le numérique représente toujours à un certain niveau un «pays inconnu», même pour ceux qui oeuvrent dans la communauté des sciences humaines numériques. Pendant que nous continuions d’explorer et d’articuler des projets de recherche qui nous guiderons vers le futur des études en sciences humaines, nous renégocions également les relations que nous entretenons aux peuples et aux lieux présents et passés. Nous encourageons les communications et symposia susceptibles de contribuer à une compréhension de la façon dont les nouvelles technologies nourrissent des enquêtes numériques sur les individus, lieux, textes, images, et informations. Sensibles à la politique de l’appropriation, nous encourageons également les propositions qui explorent la dynamique du «retour» (soit la notion de redonner à la communauté), qui s’applique à une panoplie de questions: p.ex. le rapatriement éthique des artéfacts (spécialement numériques) aux communautés indigènes, le retour érudit au libre accès à l’érudition et aux ensembles de données, le retour politique et économique des logiciels à code source libre.
Les soumissions qui s’articulent autour de ces thématiques sont particulièrement encouragées, mais nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des science humaines numériques. Les sujets qui seraient particulièrement pertinents pour ceux qui assisteront au colloque sont les suivants:
* SIG — spatialisation et cartographie
* chronologies — temporalité et histoire
* communautés — virtuelles ou réelles
* études des jeux
* arts multimédia
* modélisation 3D
* simulations
* projets d’archivage
* prosopographies
* analyse, édition, et codage de textes
* théorie des bases de données
* cyberculture
* postcolonialisme et globalisation
Les étudiants aux cycles supérieurs sont particulièrement bienvenus à soumettre une proposition, ou simplement à assister, à la réunion annuelle de la SDH/SEMI. La société a des fonds limités pour permettre la participation d’un symposium étudiant. Les requérants intéressés pourront se renseigner en utilisant les coordonnées fournies ci-dessous. Dans le passé récent, les conférences présentées à la réunion annuelle de la SDH/SEMI ont été révisés et soumis pour publication dans la revue en ligne de la Société Digital Studies/ Le champ numerique.
Soumissions
Les propositions de communication et/ou de session seront acceptées jusqu’au 1 mars 2011 via le site web de la SDH-SEMI à <http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool/>. Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la SDH/SEMI au moment de la conférence. Les résumés de propositions devraient compter entre 150 et 300 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion.
Formats acceptés:
* Communications traditionnelles: 20 mins (3 par session d’une heure et demie)
* Propositions de symposium: 3 à 6 présentations sur un thème uni (1 panel par session d’une heure et demie)
* Tables rondes: 4 à 8 intervenants qui abordent le travail de chacun (1 par session d’une heure et demie)
* Posters

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

Context

The aim of Digital Resource of Palaeography is to bringing the methods and resources of digital humanities to bear on palaeographical exploration, citation and teaching. It involves a web resource which will allow scholars to rapidly retrieve digital images, verbal descriptions, and detailed characterisations of the writing, as well as the text in which it is found and the content and structure of the manuscript or charter. It will incorporate different ways of searching, using images, maps, timelines and image-processing as well as conventional text-based browsing and searching. The palaeographical content will focus on a case-study of vernacular English script from the eleventh century, but the project will allow scholars to test and apply new general developments in palaeographical method which have been discussed in theory but which have hitherto proven difficult or impossible to implement in practice. Some further details of the project are available on the KCL news page s.

The studentship

Applicants should propose a research project which can benefit from and contribute to the Digital Resource in Palaeography project but which remains distinct from it. Possibilities may include the detailed study of a particular manuscript or small group of manuscripts from the corpus of eleventh-century vernacular English script. A comparative study could apply the research methodologies of the ERC project to a different corpus, perhaps focusing on the products of a single scriptorium or scribe, looking at variance and variation in script; or focusing on a corpus that has proven difficult to manage with conventional approaches, such as manuscript fragments. Another possibility may be more methodological, focusing on the possibilities and limits of Digital Humanities in palaeographical scholarship.

The student will be based at King’s College London, in the Centre for Computing in Humanities and will benefit from the CCH PhD Seminar. A second supervisor will be assigned according to the requirements of the project. It is also expected that the student will maintain contact with other departments in King’s, such as History or English. The student will also have access to resources and seminars across the University of London more widely, including Senate House Library and its Palaeography Room, the Institute of Historical Research’s seminars and library, and seminars and expertise at the Institute of English Studies.

Value

For the three years of the studentship (starting no later than October 2011) the grant is c.£14,000 per annum. Students liable to pay fees at the overseas rate are welcome to apply, but should make sure that they can cover the difference between the award and the full overseas fee. The studentship must be held full-time.

Eligibility, Timetable & Application Process

Applicants for these awards are expected to begin PhD study on 1 October 2011. Applicants should hold (or have nearly completed) a Master’s degree or equivalent in Old English, Anglo-Saxon/early Anglo-Norman history, or another relevant area of medieval studies. A good knowledge of the language(s) of the manuscripts under study is required (Old/Middle English and/or Latin), and a background or demonstrable interest in manuscript studies is highly desirable.

Applicants must submit the following documentation by the deadline of 1 March 2011:

1. An Admissions Application form & all supporting documents – submitted to the Centre for Arts & Sciences Admissions (CASA) via the online admissions portal at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/apply/
2. A one page statement of interest including a description of the proposed research, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
3. A one-page statement of your research training, background and suitability to the project, submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
4. A sample of written work (3000-5000 words), submitted to peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk

An interview will be arranged with shortlisted applicants, either face to face or by teleconference, after the closing date.

Enquiries

Please email Dr Peter Stokes or telephone him on +44 (0)20 7848 2813 in the first instance with any queries about this studentship.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk).

Osaka Symposium on Digital Humanities 2011
The Inaugural Symposium of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

28-9 March 2011
http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~osdh2011/

Hosted by the Graduate School of Language and Culture, University of Osaka

Co-Sponsored by:
Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
International Institute for Digital Humanities
Center for Evolving Humanities, University of Tokyo Center for Informatics in East Asian Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
British Academy/Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences

Submission deadline: 7 February 2010 (Midnight JST).

Presentations include:

Papers (abstract max of 300 words) or
Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 300 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

I. General Information

The OSDH2011 Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of no less than 300 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to
interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field. The symposium web site is in development at
http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~osdh2011/. The Programme Committee
aims for a varied programme.

Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities:

� research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium;

� computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning;

� the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and related areas;

� the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;

� the role of digital humanities in academic curricula;

Abstracts should be sent to osdh2011@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp. The deadline for submitting abstracts to the Programme Committee is 7 February 2011. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on 14 February 2011.

II. Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Programme Committee may be either: (1) paper presentations or (2) multi-paper sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). Papers/sessions should be given in English.

1) Paper presentations: Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions.

2) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes): The session/panel organizer should submit an abstract of 300 words describing the session/panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.

III. Programme Committee

Hiroyuki Akama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Gerhard Brey (CCH, King’s College London)
Maki Miyake (GSLC, Osaka)
A. Charles Muller (Tokyo)
Kiyonori Nagasaki (Institute for Digital Humanities)
Lisa Lena Opas-H�nninen (Oulu, Finland)
Espen S. Ore (Oslo, Norway)
Masahiro Shimoda (Tokyo)
Tomoji Tabata (GSLC, Osaka)
Christian Wittern (Kyoto)

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

INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES-BLOOMINGTON
Metadata/Cataloging Librarian
Visiting Assistant Librarian (Two Year, Non-Tenure Track Appointment)

The IU Bloomington Libraries are seeking an innovative and service oriented individual for the position of Metadata/Cataloging Librarian at the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries. This is a two-year, full-time, non-tenure track appointment in the Libraries Technical Services Department.

Founded in 1820, Indiana University-Bloomington has grown from a small state seminary into the flagship campus of a great public university with over 42,000 students and almost 3,000 faculty. Innovation, creativity, and academic freedom are hallmarks of IU Bloomington and its world-class contributions in research and the arts. The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries (http://www.libraries.iub.edu) are among the leading academic research library systems in North America, having recently been named the top university library by the Association of College and Research Libraries. The IUB Libraries provide strong collections, quality service and instructional programs, and leadership in the application of information technologies. The collections support every academic discipline on campus and include more than 6.6 million books, journals, maps, films, and audio/visual materials in over 900 languages. Users can access more than 400 databases, 43,000 electronic journals, and 22 4,000 electronic books, as well as locally developed digital content.

The IUB Libraries are active members of regional and national associations and consortia including the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and is a founding member of HathiTrust, a shared digital repository. IU is the principal investigator for Kuali Open Library Environment (OL and is working with academic library partners to develop a next generation open source library management system.

The Technical Services Department consists of two divisions: Acquisitions and Cataloging. Reporting to the Head of the West European Cataloging Section (WECS) of the Cataloging Division, the incumbent will provide an integral knowledge link from MARC to non-MARC descriptive metadata activities for cataloging staff. This position will play an important role in assisting managers to develop and define the ongoing evolution of metadata in a traditional cataloging environment. In addition, the successful candidate will catalog materials in Western European languages in multiple MARC formats via the SirsiDynix Symphony integrated system and OCLC.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Metadata/Cataloging Librarian will:
Participate in all aspects of non-MARC descriptive metadata for digital projects within the Cataloging Division: project development and planning, implementation, document preparation, training and creation of metadata using standard schemas Serve as non-MARC metadata resource person for Technical Services
Provide full-level cataloging for monographs and CD-ROMs, including e-books, in English and West European languages, creating original cataloging records and enhancing cataloging copy
Contribute monographic original and enhanced cataloging copy to BIBCO, the monographic bibliographic record program of the Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Provide full-level cataloging for archive collections (mixed materials format) by creating original cataloging records
Establish new name, series, and subject authority records for contribution to the national online name authority file via NACO and SACO, the name authority and subject authority cooperative programs of the Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging Manage the rush cataloging workflow for non-continuing resources Supervise student assistants

QUALIFICATIONS: Required: M.L.S. from an ALA-accredited library school; minimum of one year relevant non-MARC metadata experience in an academic or research library system; minimum of one year original monograph cataloging experience in an academic or research library system; evidence of effective planning, implementation, document writing, and training of non-MARC metadata for digital projects; demonstrated working knowledge of cataloging rules, standards, and tools such as AACR2rev, LCRI, DACS, LC classification, and subject headings; demonstrated working knowledge of MARC (books format) and at least one other standard metadata scheme (e.g. TEI, MODS, Dublin Core, EAD); relevant experience with OCLC and an integrated library system; facility with at least one West European language; demonstrated ability to perform NACO authority work; excellent oral and written communication skills. Preferred: Demonstrated supervisory experience; cataloging experience with mixed materials M
ARC format; relevant experience with the SIRSIDynix Symphony integrated library system; experience in crosswalking, normalizing, and transforming XML-based metadata; working knowledge of XML-related technologies such as XSLT and XPath.

SALARY AND BENEFITS: This is an entry-level position, with minimum starting salary of $40,400. Benefits include a university healthcare plan, university-funded base retirement plan, a 100% university paid group life insurance plan, and a generous paid time off plan. For a full list of benefits programs, please refer to the following resources: Web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefits/neweeo-profe.html. Video: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefitsvideo/academic.html.

TO APPLY: Review of applications will begin February 1, 2011. The position will remain open until filled. Please send letter of application, professional vita, and the names/addresses/telephone numbers of six references to:

Jennifer Chaffin
Director of Human Resources
Libraries Human Resources
Herman B Wells Library 201B
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812-855-8196
Fax: 812-855-2576
Email: libpers@indiana.edu

For more information about Indiana University Bloomington go to http://www.iub.edu.

Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Indiana University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and in that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

To Browse other open academic positions at IU Bloomington, please go to http://www.indiana.edu/~vpfaa/baalist.shtml and see the Bulletin for Academic Appointees.

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

SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT

With apologies for cross posting.

InterFace 2011 — 27-29 July 2011, University College London

InterFace is a symposium for humanities and technology. In 2011 it is being jointly hosted by colleges across London and will be an invaluable opportunity for participants to visit this active hub of digital scholarship and practice.

The symposium aims to foster collaboration and shared understanding between scholars in the humanities and in computer science, especially where their efforts converge on exchange of subject matter and method. With a focus on the interests and concerns of Ph.D students and early career researchers, the programme will include networking activities, opportunities for research exposition, and various training and workshop activities.

The details of the workshops and training sessions are still in preparation but they are expected to include hands-on work with:

* bibliographic software;
* sound analysis for speech and music;
* data visualisation;
* user studies and social research;
* discourse analysis in the sciences, technology and the humanities; * applying for research funding;
* getting work published;
* computer modelling.

A core component of the programme will be a lightening talks session in which each participant will make a two-minute presentation on their research. The session will be lively and dynamic. Each presentation must be exactly two minutes long, making use of necessary,
interesting, appropriate, or entertaining visual or sound aids, and condensing a whole Ph.D’s worth of ideas and work into this short slot.

Finally, the symposium will conclude with an unconference; a participatory, collaborative, and informal event in which the form and content is decided on by participants as it unfolds and in which discussion and production is emphasised over presentation and analysis. Participants may wish to share their own skills, learn a new skill, establish and develop a collaborative project, or hold a focused discussion.

In January we will be seeking applications for participation in this symposium. An announcement and call for papers will be issued in the New Year.

For any general enquiries related to the symposium please email:

enquiries@interface2011.org.uk

or see the website:

http://www.interface2011.org.uk/

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

English Canada Research Chair (Tier II) (closing date: January 14, 2011)
Carleton Universitys Department of English, in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, invites applications for nomination for a Tier II Canada Research Chair (http://www.chairs.gc.ca/).

We seek an outstanding candidate whose research strengths intersect with the theoretical area which constitutes the central focus of our doctoral program, The Production of Literature: questions about what people understand by the idea of literature in different times and places, and why it matters; about who should have access to literature, either as readers or writers; about the power of literature to forge communities, and in doing so, to be a force for change; and about how these issues are mediated by the shaping influence of broader legal, technological, political, and social contexts. All historical and geographical areas are eligible. Candidates whose work frames these issues in terms of either New Digital Media or issues related to globalization are especially welcome. More information about our doctoral program can be found at: http://www.carleton.ca/ENGLISH/gradstudies/phd_program.html

This position is dependent upon final approval by the Canada Research Chair (CRC) program. The successful candidate will work with the University to submit a nomination for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in the spring 2011 competition. Tier II chairs are intended for recently established scholars (within 10 years of Ph.D.). The successful candidate must be eligible for SSHRC funding. Appointment is anticipated for January 1 or July 1, 2012 subject to approval of the nomination by the CRC program.

Applications, including a curriculum vitae and statements of teaching and research interests, should be emailed to paul_keen@carleton.ca. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent by email. Applications will not be considered complete until the letters are received. Initial screening of complete applications will begin on January 14, 2011 and continue until the applicant is chosen and has agreed to let his/her name stand.

Located in the nations capital, Carleton University is a dynamic research and teaching institution with a tradition of leading change. Its internationally recognized faculty, staff and researchers provide more than 24,000 full- and part-time students from every province and more than 100 countries around the world with academic opportunities in more than 65 programs of study, including public affairs, journalism, film studies, engineering, high technology, and international studies. Carletons creative, interdisciplinary and international approach to research has led to many significant discoveries and creative works in science and technology, business, governance, public policy and the arts. As an innovative institution Carleton is uniquely committed to developing solutions to real-world problems by pushing the boundaries of knowledge and understanding daily.

Carleton University is strongly committed to fostering diversity within its community as a source of excellence, cultural enrichment, and social strength. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our faculty and its scholarship including, but not limited to, women, visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Persons from these groups are especially encouraged to apply.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Applications from Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. All positions are subject to budgetary approval.

Entry was posted on Friday, November 12th, 2010 at 2:42 pm in News

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

The workshop will be primarily concerned with the processes of creating databases for humanities research. As such it will be of interest to humanities researchers who are working with or considering developing research databases and who wish to stay abreast of the latest developments and opportunities. It is also likely to appeal to technologists involved in the provision of research services. We hope to provide a forum in which ideas can be exchanged and new approaches to humanities data illustrated.

The workshop is being organised as part of the Sudamih Project (Supporting Data Management Infrastructure in the Humanities), funded by the JISC.

Workshop website: http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/databases_workshop.xml

Please register via the website or by emailing sudamih@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Date: Friday 21st January, 2011.
Location: Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA.

A buffet lunch will be provided from 12 noon, with the workshop itself commencing at 1pm and concluding by 4:45pm. There is no charge for attending the workshop.

Posted by: James A J Wilson (james.wilson@oucs.ox.ac.uk).

The post holder will be based at CCH, an academic department in the School of Arts and Humanities focusing on research into the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship. The project, ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ is funded by the European Research Commission (FP7). Its primary aim is to create an online resource for palaeographical study, discovery and citation, emphasizing the vernacular scripts of eleventh-century England.

The post holder will work closely with the Principal Investigator and others in the project team to work with original manuscripts to compile palaeographical and codicological data, to prepare this data and the associated images for online delivery, to contribute to innovative ideas about the display and interrogation of palaeographical data on line, and to help disseminate the project’s findings through conferences and colloquia.

A PhD or equivalent on a relevant medieval topic involving the study of manuscripts is essential, as is an appreciation of the potentials and limits of humanities computing. A high level of skill in palaeography and codicology is required, as is working knowledge of Old English and Latin. Some experience working with XML, databases and/or digital images is desirable.

The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications and experience, within the Grade 6 scale, £33,070 inclusive of £2,323 London Allowance, per annum. Benefits include an annual season ticket loan scheme and a final salary superannuation scheme.

This post is fixed term until 30 September 2014.

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Peter Stokes on +44 (0)20 7848 2813, or via email at peter.stokes.

Further details and application packs are available on the College’s website at cass-recruitment. All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number G6/AAV/629/10-HK

The closing date for receipt of applications is 5 January 2011.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk).

“My project involves applying image processing methods to multi-spectral images in order to enhance or reveal difficult-to-read text.

The type of images that I need are the full-spectrum of unmodified, multi-spectral images of manuscripts or documents. The methods that I use will try to enhance text from this manuscripts. Ideally the images should be from palimpsestic text, where at least one of the text is very difficult to see or image with visible light captures.”

Alejandro Giacometti alejandro.giacometti.09@ucl.ac.uk
Dept. of Medical Physics & Bioengineering
Dept. of Information Studies

This profile was developed to fill a need tied to our participation in the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, which brings over 3,000 medieval scholars to Western Michigan University annually. WMU Libraries and its digitization program have participated in workshops for the Congress which highlighted the problems of small institutions (holding only one or two items) and individual scholars who wish to provide metadata for digitized manuscripts, but do not have the right combination of technical and subject skills.

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

We seek single-witness editions of Medieval and Renaissance texts under 6,000 words accompanied by a brief introduction (1000-1500 words) and translation. We invite submission of a broad range of pre-modern texts including but not limited to literary and philosophical works, letters, charters, court documents, and notebooks. Texts should be previously unedited and the edition must represent a discrete text in its entirety.

For more information or to view a sample edition, go to opuscula.usask.ca or write Frank Klaassen, General Editor at editor@opuscula.usask.ca.

OSTMAR is an on-line and open-access journal published by Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan under a creative commons license. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review and must be accompanied by readable digital facsimiles of the original documents.

Posted by: Brent Nelson (brent.nelson@usask.ca).

Computer Science has played a critical role in many areas of inquiry, but nowhere are the potential implications greater than in the Humanities. We are transforming the ways in which we can relate to the past and understand the relationship of that past to the world in which we live. We need a new generation of researchers who can develop new methods from the computational sciences to advance the intellectual life of humanity.

The presence of the Perseus Project (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu) at Tufts since 1992 has allowed Tufts play a significant role in the emerging field of Digital Humanities. The Tufts Department of Computer Science (http://www.cs.tufts.edu/) now provides unique opportunities for emerging researchers with an interest in the Digital Humanities to develop those interests within the department of Computer Science, combining rigorous course work with opportunities to develop projects relevant to various areas within the humanities. Tufts can support a wide range of backgrounds and career goals.

Undergraduates at Tufts and elsewhere with an interest in Digital Humanities are encouraged to combine either a major or a minor in Computer Science with another area of the Humanities. Such a combination will provide a foundation for undergraduate research projects of tangible value.

Students who have a strong humanities background and wish to develop a rigorous foundation in Computer Science for subsequent Digital Humanities work are encouraged to consider the Post-Baccalaureate Minor Program in Computer Science (http://www.cs.tufts.edu/academics/cs_minor_grad). The Post-Bac CS Minor will enable students either to pursue subsequent graduate work in Computer Science or lay the foundations for Digital Humanities research within a graduate program in the humanities.

More advanced students may consider the Masters Program in Computer Science. This can either lead to a Phd program in Computer Science or an area within the Humanities but it can also prepare students for work developing the digital infrastructures within libraries, cultural institutions, and major media.

The Tufts Phd Program in Computer Science provides a framework in which students with a strong background in some area of the Humanities can develop research and teaching agendas that bridge the gap between Computer Science and areas within the Humanities. A Phd in Computer Science at Tufts can give you a unique position in revolutionizing the intellectual life of humanity. More information will become available with an update on http://www.cs.tufts.edu. For more information, students can contact digitalhumanities@cs.tufts.edu.

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

Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA): 2-6 May 2011

The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce the third 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 five 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 part 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 part 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.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk).

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

The John Gower Society is holding its second International Congress at the University of Valladolid, Spain, in July 2011.

Spain has been chosen as a site for this Congress in recognition of Gower’s unique transnational presence, as Confessio Amantis was the first English work ever translated into Continental languages -first Portuguese, and then Castilian, both in the fifteenth century. The II International Congress of the John Gower Society has therefore a double purpose, the study of John Gower in his historical, political, social, cultural and literary context, and the promotion of a more in-depth knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese translations of Confessio Amantis as well as the Anglo-Spanish historical, political and cultural relations in the Late Middle Ages.

Brief proposals (250 words max.) are invited for 20-minute papers addressing any aspect of Gowerian studies. Email the submission form you’ll find at the JGS website (www.johngower.org) BOTH to the Organizing Committee (jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com) and to RF Yeager (rfyeager@hotmail.com).

Topics include -but are not limited to- the following areas:
Biographical aspects
Manuscripts
French works
Latin works
English works
Antiquity and classics
French influence and contemporary French authors
Chaucer
Linguistics, literary language and dialects
Influence in later authors
Influence in Iberian authors
English politics and usurpation
Iberian (historical) context
Literary theory and critical approaches
Narratology
Women and gender
Multilingualism
Cinema and theatre
Animals
London
Aesthetics
Law
Philosophy and theology
Gower and the Mediterranean
Gower and the Other
Gower and the material

Participants may also propose thematic panels, to include papers delivered by 3 or 4 participants. Please contact directly RF Yeager (rfyeager@hotmail.com).

The abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee, and the authors will be notified the results of the selection process.

Submission deadline: Dec 1st 2010
Confirmation of acceptance: Jan 15th 2011
Registration period: April-June 2011

The following plenary speakers have already confirmed their attendance:
- Winthrop Wetherbee (Cornell University)
- Alastair Minnis (Yale University)
- M. Luisa López-Vidriero Abello (Biblioteca Real, Madrid)
- Fernando Galvan Reula (Universidad of Alcala de Henares)

For further information, visit the John Gower Society website: www.johngower.org The organising committee – II International Congress of the John Gower Society Dept. Filologia Inglesa – Universidad de Valladolid
Pza. del Campus s/n – 47011 Valladolid (Spain)
jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com

Posted by: Ana Saez-Hidalgo (jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com).

TEI By Example (TBE) offers a series of freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document
in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive tests and exercises. The tutorial materials are contextualised with a TBE validator application, allowing you to test your TEI encoding as you type!

We hope you will consider using TEI by Example in your (online)teaching and refer students of markup to these tutorials.
We also hope you will submit more examples of encoding for inclusion in TBE.

We’re eager to receive your comments and learn about your use of TEI by example in (self-)teaching environments.

Please contact the editorial team with any feedback at teibyexample.

Funding for the project has been made available by the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Centre for Computers and the Humanities – King’s College London, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature.

• Melissa Terras
• Ron Van den Branden
• Edward Vanhoutte

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (on behalf of Melissa Terras, Ron Van Branden, Edward Van Houtte) (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

On 13 December 2010 Sheffield Hallam University, in association with the University of Victoria, will host a one-day symposium entitled “Beyond the Facsimile: Rich Models of Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts”.

It’s concerned with doing more, and doing things better, with our digital surrogates of books and pictures from the 15th to the 17th centuries. We’ve gotten very good at taking pictures of impressed papers, inscribed parchments, and painted canvases, but computer models do not have to be merely pictures.

The symposium will present eight talks from international scholars working in this area, each offering their own perspectives on the future of computerized representations of important documents. Speakers and their titles can be found at http://gabrielegan.com/BTF.

The meeting is open to anyone who wants to hear the papers and coffee and a free lunch will be provided to all who email the organizer, Gabriel Egan (mail@gabrielegan.com), by 13 November. (It is quite acceptable to simply turn up on the day without giving advance notice, but then you can’t have the free lunch.) Exact details of the venue, with maps and transportation advice, will appear on the symposium web-page at the above address.

Programme

(Speakers please note that paper slots are 30 minutes, including questions)

9.30-10am Coffee on arrival

10-10.15am Gabriel Egan (Loughborough University) “Welcome and Aims of the Meeting”

10.15-10.45am Takako Kato (Leicester University) “The Virtues and Challenges of XML: Making a Digital Edition of Malory’s Morte Darthur”

10.45-11.15am Paul Vetch (King’s College London) “A Map for All Seasons: Experimenting with the Gough Map”

11.15-11.30am Coffee

11.30am-12noon James Cummings (University of Oxford) “Interrogating and Accessing Digital Scholarly Editions”

12noon-12.30pm John Bradley and Stephen Pigney (King’s College London) “Images and Text: Towards an Understanding of the Early Modern Illustrated Book”

12.30-1.15pm Lunch

1.15-1.45pm Ari Friedlander (University of Michigan) “Are We Being Digital Yet?”

1.45-2.15pm Shawn Martin (University of Pennsylvania) “Images, Texts, and Records: Tools for Teaching in a Confusing Landscape”

2.15-2.30pm Coffee

2.30-3pm Eugene Giddens (Anglia Ruskin University) “The Death of Digital Editions”

3-3.20pm Ray Siemens (University of Victoria) “Beyond the Facsimile”

3.30-4pm Round Table involving all speakers

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Description of Topic

For many late medieval and early modern texts researchers have access to rudimentary digital representations. Virtually all books printed in Britain before 1800 are available as digital facsimiles via the databases Early English Books Online (EEBO) and ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online). The former also provides searchable electronic transcriptions for about a quarter of the corpus–via the Text Creation Partnership (TCP)–and the latter is completely searchable, albeit via unreliable ‘dirty’ electronic texts produced by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). For virtually all texts that may be considered literary we also have relatively reliable searchable electronic texts made by double-keyboarding for the Literature Online (LION) project. For a small number of texts of special interest there are digital editions of much higher quality. The Scholarly Digital Editions of Chaucer’s poetry combine high-resolution colour facsimiles of multiple manuscripts with accurate scholarly searchable transcriptions of them, and the Shakespeare Quartos Archive project aims to do the same for early printed editions of his plays and poems that reside in major research libraries. However, with even the best of these enhanced resources, there remain important scholarly questions that cannot be answered without going back to the original documents, which is not an option for most researchers.

Facsimiles are good for seeing the surface image of ink inscribed or impressed onto paper or parchment, but not for taking accurate measurements of the size of the writing nor for examing the deformation of the surface caused by the impressure of the ink. (The only reliable way to tell which side of a sheet was printed first is to look for the bumps made by the type pressing into it.) Electronic transcriptions can accurately reflect the writing’s letters and punctuation marks but not the competing hypotheses about the creation of a document that scholars may want to test using the transcription. For example, a print edition may have been typeset by two compositors, each expressing spelling preferences from which we may distinguish their work-stints. Where two scholars disagree about the division of these stints, an electronic transcription that encodes each hypothesis would allow questions of the kind “if Scholar X is right about the division of the stints, what is Compositor A’s preference in the spelling of the word Lady/Ladie? And what if Scholar Y is right about the stints?”. There remains a lot to be done in digitizing texts for the purposes of scholarly research on them.

This Digital Humanities Day at Sheffield Hallam University is an opportunity for those concerned with the use of advanced digital surrogates (whether as creators or as readers) to discuss the following:

• The state of the art in the creation of electronic versions of texts used by scholars in the humanities
• The advantages and disadvantages of particular technologies for going beyond the facsimile, for example 3D modelling of paper/parchment versus advanced textual encoding
• The kinds of questions that cannot currently be answered by the digital surrogates we have, and how best to produce surrogates that suit our needs
• Case studies of particular projects, their achievements and the lessons learnt

Those interested in attending or speaking should contact Gabriel Egan: mail@gabrielegan.com.

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

The research project is conducted in partnership between Bangor University and the Warburg Institute (University of London), in collaboration with the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College, London). It will present the first systematic study of mise-en-page – the ways in which verbal text, musical notation and other graphic devices interact on the written or printed page – for sources of polyphonic music from the period c.1480-1530; it will also investigate how meaning was and is constructed by readers and performers on the basis of this interaction.

The successful candidate will, in collaboration with the other members of the research team, contribute to an online catalogue of mise-en-page information for all extant sources from this period, providing above all descriptions of the initials, borders, and other visual devices present in the manuscripts. S/he will also research and analyse a number of manuscript sources and their layout in detail with regard to strategies of production and use; the results of this research will be published both in print form and in an online environment.

The appointee, based at the Warburg Institute, will be an art historian with a doctorate or equivalent qualification; s/he will have specialist knowledge of art of the 15th and 16th centuries, specifically of manuscript illumination. Expertise in codicology, or a willingness to acquire such expertise, will be essential, as will be some knowledge of Latin and of paleography; an interest in music of the period and knowledge of musical notation would be desirable. The candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her own research within the context of the project.

The post will begin on 1 December 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. It is tenable for a fixed term of three years. The appointment will be to Level 7 (Research), currently GBP 28,983-35,646 p.a. plus London Allowance of GBP 2,134 p.a., making a total of GBP 31,117-37,780 p.a.

Further details of the project, the studentship and how to apply can be found at http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/. Informal enquiries may be addressed to the project director, Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste, at mus205@bangor.ac.uk.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday, 1 November 2010, and interviews will be held in London on Thursday, 11 November 2010.

Posted by: Thomas Schmidt-Beste (mus205@bangor.ac.uk).

There might be still some minor adjustments necessary, but we think it will basically stand as it is now.

I would also like to inform you that the program committee together with the local organizers decided to impose a 20% surcharge on all registrations received after Oct. 25, due to the organizational overhead this will cause. So, to ensure a smooth preparation and to avoid unnecessary surcharges, please go to the TEI webshop [2] at your earliest convenience to register for the conference, if you have not done so yet. There are also a few seats left in the pre-conference workshops, which can be booked from the same page.

Looking forward to see all of you soon,
for the program committee,

Christian Wittern (Chair)

[1] http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/sessions.php
[2] http://tei-shop.org

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

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

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

First Call for Papers

Securing the Past, Rescuing the Present:
a workshop and symposium on cross-disciplinary theory and practice.

North-West University, Potchefstroom
24-26 February 2011

Following the publication of Paul Eggerts Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), the symposium is intended to further the interdisciplinary conversation concerning the fabric, texts, scores and performances of representational and plastic art, buildings, sites, literature and music. The initial workshop will be designed to open up the conversation for those working within a single discipline and for younger scholars unaware of the possibilities of the field. Participants will include Paul Eggert (Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales at ADFA), Dyfri Williams (Research Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, The British Museum), and Dirk van Hulle (University of Antwerp). Participation and submission of proposals from scholars working in any related fields, especially music, will be welcomed. Proposals for papers of forty or fifty minutes, with twenty/ten min
utes of discussion time, should be sent to John Gouws (john.gouws@gmail.com ) by 31 October. Parallel sessions are not envisaged.

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

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically once a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in any discipline and period of medieval studies. We are also interested in book reviews on recent works that reflect on some aspect of our theme: an abbreviated list of possible review titles appears on our website. Given the wide scope of the theme, we invite additional proposals for reviews. For further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net

Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of exile political, spiritual, or intellectual – in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. Expulsion, banishment, or prolonged separation from ones homeland was experienced by many in the medieval world; it is likewise one of the earliest topics in literature. From the Biblical depiction of Adam and Eve, to the Life of St. Brendan, Grettirs Saga, and the works of Dante, the pain and difficulty inherent in the experience of exile lent itself to metaphoric exploitation. Exile appears, too, in various religious traditions as a symbol of separation, alienation, and the need for redemption. Hence, an expanded definition of exile might encompass any forced displacement, be it political, social, cultural, or spiritual. Though loss is inherent in the experience of exile, it may also represent an opportunity for change and growth. Self-imposed exile could be a form of prot est against, or a search for something in opposition to, known experience.

Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:

-Literary and artistic depictions of exile
-Kings, conflicts, and legal exile
-Cultural aspects of separation: ethnicity, religion, gender -Christian exile in the Celtic tradition
-The depiction of Classical exile in medieval literature
-Exile in the Jewish imagination
-Exile in hagiography
-Religious exiles: interdict, excommunication, anathema, the expulsion of heretics -Treatments of the Garden of Eden; the concepts of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
-Self-imposed exile: quest and transformation; exile as a form of political protest, as pilgrimage, in anchoritic monasticism -Diseases, such as plague and leprosy, and exclusion
-Women as migrants and exiles

The 2010 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2011. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1, 2011.

Posted by: Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies (submit@hortulus.net).

The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library (CDL) announces the launch of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) website (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), supporting a robust open-source application for providing access to digital content.  Developed and maintained by the CDL, XTF functions as the primary access technology for the CDL’s digital collections and similar projects worldwide.

XTF excels in supporting rapid, customized application development and deployment. Its high degree of extensibility and performance (even for large documents and large collections) frees implementers to focus on building sophisticated presentations for their digital object collections.

“It’s all about balancing flexibility and ease of use: putting infinite customization ability in the hands of curators and scholars with a driving need to provide deep access to their special collections,” says XTF lead developer Martin Haye.

XTF-based applications range from primary source image collections to publishing platforms and archival finding aid repositories at the University of California and many other institutions, including Northwestern University, the University of Sydney (Australia), Indiana University, Visual Arkiv (Sweden), Morehouse College, Durham University (UK), and the University of Virginia.

Highly customized implementations include:

• CDL’s eScholarship (http://www.escholarship.org/ ), UC’s open access scholarly publishing platform, which publishes recent research from across the 10 campuses as well as nearly 40 UC-based scholarly journals. XTF customizations include a streamlined facet-selection interface, dynamic PDF snippets called “KWIC Pics,” PDF document previews in the browser, and support for a deep hierarchy of contributing academic units.
• CDL’s Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/), a collection of more than 20,000 archival finding aids and 200,000 digital primary sources (images and texts) from more than 150 archives, libraries, and other institutions in the state of California. XTF implementation features full-text search and display, detailed descriptive metadata, and a robust finding aid interface.
• Indiana University’s The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/), a digital repository of transcriptions of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts. Site features a seamless blend of various web tools, including XTF as the search technology.
• The Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/), a collaboration between the Chicago  Historical Society, Northwestern University, and the Newberry Library. Site integrates XTF with an image zoomer to display a large collection of historic photographs and maps, as well as using XTF for search and display of descriptive metadata.

Lightly customized implementations include:

• OhioLink Finding Aids Repository (http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/), this consortium of archives, libraries, and other institutions in the state of Ohio uses the default XTF implementation with dedicated branding and other slight modifications.
• University of Buffalo Finding Aids (http://libweb1.lib.buffalo.edu:8080/findingaids/search) uses a basic XTF application to enable browse and search of collection guides from the university’s archival and manuscript collections.

The new site serves as an expanded resource for programmers, librarians, and the general public to explore and implement the Java and XSLT 2.0-based framework.  Features include:

• XTF application download – full release or core updates to maintain customizations (http://xtf.cdlib.org/download/)
• Documentation, including downloadable deployment guide, programming guide, and tag reference (http://xtf.cdlib.org/documentation)
• Video tutorials focusing on basic setup and customization of XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/getting-started-tutorials)
• Example XTF implementations highlighting customized features. (http://xtf.cdlib.org/xtf/)

For a full list of XTF’s features and benefits, as well as a technical overview, please visit http://xtf.cdlib.org/about or address queries to Martin Haye at Martin.Haye@ucop.edu.

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Lisa Schiff, Ph.D.
Technical Lead
Publishing Group

California Digital Library http://www.cdlib.org/
University of California
Office of the President
415 20th Street, 4th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612-2901

510-987-0881 (t) 510-893-5212 (f)

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

Call for Papers for the 2011 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010

Conference dates: January 27-29, 2011

www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/gradstudents.html

We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies.

We hope to include at least one panel of papers dealing with the digital humanities.

Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium.

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Faculty and graduate students from Center for Renaissance Studies consortium schools are eligible to apply for travel funding to attend Center for Renaissance Studies programs or to do research at the Newberry Library. Contact your school’s faculty representative for details: www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html. The Center’s main web page is: www.newberry.org/renaissance.

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Karen Christianson, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610-7324
phone: 312-255-3539
fax: 312-255-3502
christiansonk@newberry.org
www.newberry.org/renaissance

Posted by: Karen Christianson (christiansonk@newberry.org).

The theme for 2010 is Representations: Image, Word, Artefact, and we are delighted to announce that Professor Michelle P. Brown of the University of London will be our keynote speaker.

Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive, and all variations on this theme will be welcome.

A selection of papers will be published in our peer-reviewed Imbas Journal. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts.

Abstracts of 250 words for a twenty minute paper must be submitted before September 30, 2010. Abstracts can be sent to imbasnuig@gmail.com or forwarded to Imbas/Trish NMhaoileoin, c/o Roinn na Gaeilge, as na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na hreann, Gaillimh, re.

Further information can be found at our website http://medieval.starlight.ie/cms/view/63 and on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=324841995338&ref=ts .

Posted by: Imbas Committee (imbasnuig@gmail.com).

Applications are invited for a fully-funded research studentship (fees and stipend at AHRC level, currently at GBP 13,590), as part of this major research project funded by the AHRC. The studentship will begin on 1 December 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. The topic of the PhD will be, broadly conceived, ‘Music, Words and Image in Printed Sources of Polyphony, 1500-1530′. The student will work as part of an interdisciplinary research team, led by Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste. The research project is based in Bangor but involves a partnership with the Warburg Institute (University of London), the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM), and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College, London).

We are looking for a musicologist, but one with interdisciplinary interests in art history, codicology, and the history of the book. Candidates should have completed appropriate research training or have equivalent research experience.

For more information on the studentship and the project, see http://www.bangor.ac.uk/scholarships/proms.php.en

The studentship is open to UK and EU applicants. For the latter, the full stipend is only payable if the appropriate residency requirements are fulfilled – see the AHRC’s Guide to Student Eligibility Version 1.1, Dec 2009, available on the AHRC website.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to the project director, Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste (mus205@bangor.ac.uk).

The closing date for applications is

Friday 24 September

Interviews will be held in Bangor on Friday 8 October 2010.

Posted by: Thomas Schmidt-Beste (mus205@bangor.ac.uk).

19-22 June 2011
http://dh2011.stanford.edu

Abstract deadline: November 1, 2010 (Midnight GMT).

Please note: The Program Committee will not be offering an extension to the deadline as has become customary in recent years. The deadline of November 1 is firm. If you intend to submit a proposal for DH2011, you need to submit it via the electronic submission form on the conference website by November 1

Presentations include:

* Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)
* Short papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
* Long papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
* Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 500 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

I. General Information

The international Program Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2011 conference, which is Digital Humanities 2011: Big Tent Digital Humanities. With the Big Tent theme in mind, we especially invite submissions from Latin American scholars, scholars in the digital arts and music, in spatial history, and in the public humanities. The conference web site is in development at http://dh2011.stanford.edu will be developing over the next few weeks. The program committee aims for a varied program and for that reason will normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of authors for presentation at the conference.

Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities:

research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium;

computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages;

the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media, and related areas;

the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;

the role of digital humanities in academic curricula;

The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press.

The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2010. Since the deadline is firm, we urge you to begin preparing your proposals before the submission form is ready. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on February 15, 2011. The electronic submission form will be available on the conference site the beginning of October 2010. See below for full details on submitting proposals.

A separate call for pre-conferences and workshops will be issued by the Program Committee next week. In addition, proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer, Glen Worthey, as soon as possible. His email address is gworthey@stanford.edu. All other proposals should be submitted to the Program Committee through the aforementioned electronic submission form on the conference web site.

For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site.

II. Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Program Committee may be of four types: (1) poster presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; and (4) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). This year, the committee is approaching submissions in a different way. The type of submission preferred should be specified on the application; however, the committee may accept the application in another category based on the number of proposals and the nature of the abstracts. In part this addresses the incredible response to recent calls and in part recognizes that all applications are refereed and that the types of presentations are therefore equal in importance.

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

1) Poster presentations

Please submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words. Poster presentations may include any work in progress on any topic of the call for papers as outlined above, computer technology, project demonstrations, and software demonstrations. Posters and software demonstrations are intended to be interactive, with the opportunity of the presenter to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with board space to display their work, computer connections may be available, and presenters are encouraged to provide a URL, business card, or handouts with more detailed information. Posters will be on display at various times during the conference, and a separate conference session will be dedicated to them when presenters should be present to explain their work and to answer questions. Additional times may be assigned for software or project demonstrations. Poster sessions may s
howcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in the digital humanities. In recognition of this, the Program Committee will award a prize for best poster.

2) Short papers

This is a new category of presentation, allowing for up to five short papers in a one-hour session, with the length held to a strict ten (10) minutes each in order to allow time for one to two questions per paper. Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting shorter experiments; describing work in progress; and for describing newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. At the behest of the Program Committee, short papers may be presented as both a short paper and as a poster session. For research or projects further along in development, presenters should consider applying for a long paper presentation.

3) Long Papers

Proposals for long papers (750-1500 words) are for reporting substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; the development of significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions.

Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should indicate how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in formulating and addressing the research questions, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Papers than concentrate on a particular application or digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the literature.

4) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes) are either:

* Three long papers. The session organizer should submit 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;

or,

* A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.

The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 1, 2010.

Several points about the sessions papers: papers that are submitted as parts of special sessions may *not* also be submitted individually for consideration in another category. Session proposers should justify bundling the three papers into a special session, i.e., explaining the added value of the special session as opposed to including the papers separately, particularly how the special session addresses the conference theme.

III. Format of the Proposals

All proposal must be submitted electronically using the online submission form, found at the conference web site at http://dh2011.stanford.edu beginning October 1, 2010. Anyone who has previously used the confTool system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact dh2011@digitalhumanities.org. As noted above, the electronic submission form will be available on the conference site the beginning of October 2010.

IV. Information about the conference venue
Situated on the peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, Stanford University is in the heart of Silicon Valley, not far from magnificent redwood forests and the vineyards of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Stanford has a special culture and history to offer the Digital Humanities, sharing both rich traditions in the humanities, arts, and sciences, and a deep kinship with the world of computing, beginning well before the late 1930s founding of Hewlett-Packard by two recent Stanford graduates in a Stanford professor’s now-legendary garage, and continuing through the founding of Google by two other Stanford graduate students in the late 1990s. We welcome new pioneers of DH2011 to Stanford.

V. Bursaries for young scholars

A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Young scholars who wish to apply for a bursary will find guidelines on the ADHO website http://www.digitalhumanities.org later this fall (roughly November 1st). More details will be issued about this subject in the next few weeks.

VI. International Program Committee

Arianna Ciula (ALLC)
Dominic Forest (SDI-SEMI)
Cara Leitch (SDI-SEMI)
John Nerbonne (ALLC)
Bethany Nowviskie (ACH)
Daniel O’Donnell (SDI-SEMI)
Dot Porter (ACH)
Jan Rybicki (ALLC)
John Walsh (ACH)
Katherine Walter (ACH: Chair)

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

See http://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancies/academic/full-details-104447-en.html

Job Posted: 30 Jul 2010
Closing Date for Applications: 13 Aug 2010
School: School of English
Contract Type: fixed term whole-time
Job Type: Academic
Salary: 35,357 – 56,967
The School of English at UCC wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Old English. This will be a two year appointment, from September 2010 to September 2012.

The post will be offered on the Lectureship scale (35,357 – 56,967), depending on qualifications and current salary. The lowest salary to which an appointee with a PhD may be appointed is the 5th point of the scale, 43,708.

The appointee will have an expertise in Old English language, literature, and culture evidenced by a completed doctorate in a relevant area and a strong publication record. He/she will have a demonstrated ability to teach the grammar, language, and literature of the Anglo-Saxon period at all levels, from first-year undergraduate through to MA and doctoral supervision. The candidate should also have experience teaching Old English to small and large groups. Preference will be given to candidates with an interest in one or more of the following:

* The interconnections of literary, visual, and material cultures of the period 600-1400.

* Manuscript studies and the new histories of the book, including palaeography and codicology.

* Digital humanities.

* The representation of the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval periods in later writing and culture, including film.

* Critical theory and its application to Old English writing.

* Old Norse and/or Old Icelandic language and literature.

Experience in the following is also desirable:

* The delivery of undergraduate lectures.
* Innovative approaches to teaching earlier period literatures to undergraduates, especially those learning ab initio. * MA teaching and dissertation supervision.
* PhD supervision.

A record of applications for external research funding, or the willingness to do so, commensurate with the level of the post and the experience of the applicant, will also be expected.

For a full list of duties and selection criteria please see the particulars of post below.

For further information on the School of English, please see http://www.ucc.ie/en/english

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Andrew King (a.king@ucc.ie ) or Professor James Knowles (j.knowles@ucc.ie ).

Please note: Interviews will be held in early September 2010, and the appointee will be expected to be available to teach by late September 2010.

To Apply:

Completed application forms must be returned to:

Department of Human Resources, University College Cork, Ireland.

Tel: + 353 21 4903073 / Email: recruitment@per.ucc.ie / Fax + 353 21 4271568

Closing date: 12 pm, Friday 13th August 2010

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent upon University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector

Posted by: Orla Murphy (o.murphy@ucc.ie).

Proposals due 30 September 2010

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artefacts–electronic books being just one type of many–that must sustain those practices now and into the future.

This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, and [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area.

The gathering is offered in conjunction with the /Text & Literacy/ conference (16-17 December) and is sponsored by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands), the Book and Digital Media Studies department of Leiden University, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments research group.

We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area. Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal. Please send proposals before 30 September 2010 to siemens@uvic.ca.

____________

R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498
siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/

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

The theme of the conference is “TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources,” though papers and posters on other subjects are also included.

The conference programme includes two keynote lectures, twenty-one regular papers in parallel sessions (with additional space being held back for our September call for “late breaking” papers), numerous posters and demos, and a number of five minute micro-paper+poster demonstrations of the use of TEI XML. And of course there will be the TEI’s famous “poster-slam” where presenters have one minute to discuss their paper in a plenary session, will also be held. The annual TEI members meeting will be held at this conference and the results of the annual election for board and council will be announced.

Our keynote speakers for 2010 are

• Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK)

The conference will be preceded by seven intensive workshops, led by many of the most significant members of the TEI and wider markup communities including

• C. M. Sperberg-McQueen on XQuery and XForms
• Norm Walsh on XProc
• The TEI@Oxford team (Lou Burnard, Sebastian Rahtz, James Cummings) on the TEI ODD Metalanguage (Introduction and Advanced Topics)
• Elena Pierazzo and Malte Rehbein on the TEI’s new proposal for Module for the Transcription of Genetic Documents
• Andreas Witt, Thomas Schmidt, Hanna Hedeland, Timm Lehmberg on the use of TEI for Speech Transcription

In keeping with the relevance of this line up to the wider community, the TEI is for the first time also offering a special commercial rate on its workshops and conference registration in addition to its usual Academic and heavily discounted member/subscriber and student/retired rates. In addition to individual registration prices, a 3-day pass is also available allowing attendance at any workshops over the pre-conference period for a 15% discount.

/A 20% early registration discount for workshops (15% for conference registration) is available for registrations before September 8, 2010. Members and subscribers are eligible for up to an additional 50% discount on conference registration and workshops/.

An overview of conference and workshop registration options can be found at the TEI Membership Centre (http://www.tei-shop.org/). You can also learn how to join the TEI as an individual subscriber or institutional member there.

Relevant sites:

Conference Registration/TEI Subscription and Membership
(http://www.tei-shop.org/)
Conference programme, housing, and local information
(http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/)
Call for late breaking proposals (due Sept. 30th):
http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/call4latebreakingproposals/index.en.html
Main TEI Consortium site (http://www.tei-c.org/)

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

The practical arrangements are in the hands of M. J. Driscoll and Ragnheiður Mósesdóttir of the Arnamagnæan Institute and Ivan Boserup and Marie Vest of the Royal Library.

Papers are invited on various subjects related to the care and conservation of manuscripts in the widest sense.

Please send us a preliminary title and short abstract as soon as possible and at the latest by the 1st of September 2010.

The principal language of the conference is English but papers in German will also be welcome. We hope that you will support our efforts by spreading information about the seminar to your colleagues and students.

At this moment we cannot promise any financial support to our speakers, but we will apply for funds as usual and hope to be able to pay travel and hotel costs for those who do not have any other support. The final decision about the programme will be made by the 1st of October 2010.

For further information please visit our website at http://nfi.ku.dk/cc/.

Proposals for papers should be sent to: The Arnamagnæan Institute, Njalsgade 136, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, fax (+45) 35 32 84 68, or by email to ami@hum.ku.dk, by the 1st of September 2010.

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

**Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010**

Friday July 23rd at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Mike Priddy (King’s College London)
‘On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities’

**ALL WELCOME**

Virtual Research Environments are often highly specialised concentrating efforts around a single collection. The gMan project aims to demonstrate cross-collection discovery, annotation, reporting & management in an on-demand VRE (using gCube) with three heterogeneous classical collections: The Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis (HGV), Projet Volterra & The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (IAph).

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For the full programme see:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html

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

The Fifth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, February 4 and 5, 2011, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).

In this year’s workshop we hope to consider how the tools we use to study texts have shaped, and continue to shape, our practice of editing. Do the editorial principles we adopt arise from the reality of medieval texts, or do they construct that reality? Does our choice of one convention of presentation over another predispose us and our readers to certain kinds of interpretations? Are concepts like ‘variant’, ‘apparatus’, even ‘text’, a reflection of the material we study, or the social history of printed editions?

Meanwhile, changing technology for presenting and organizing texts and images make it seem that the most venerable principles might suddenly be negotiable and the most basic conventions unnecessary; whatever can be imagined can be achieved. But do new tools for studying manuscripts require new rules for reading and making editions? What are the new principles and conventions used to create electronic editions? And if these new tools free us from the constraints of traditional printed text, do they impose other constraints not yet apparent to us? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.

The deadline for applications is October 1, 2010. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to rliuzza@utk.edu, or by mail to the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.

The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Further details will be available online later in the year; meanwhile please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.

[The Marco Manuscript Workshop is sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, with support from the Hodges Better English Fund and the Office of Research in the College of Arts and Sciences.]

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

The MEI Council is pleased to announce the first collaboratively-designed method for encoding the intellectual and physical characteristics of music notation documents and their scholarly editorial apparatus. MEI has the ability to manage complex source situations and will dramatically improve the search, retrieval and display of notated music online, benefiting music scholars and performers. Because of MEI’s software independence, the data format defined by the schema also serves an archival function.

The MEI model is free and available for download at http://music-encoding.org/. The site also offers tutorials, examples, and experimental software for MEI conversion – more will be available in the near future. Information about the future of the project and how to get involved are also on the site.

The MEI Council is an international group of scholars, technologists, and educators representing a broad range of musicological, theoretical, and pedagogical interests. The Council was created through funding to the University of Virginia Library and the University of Paderborn from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

About the University of Virginia
With 14 physical locations as well as the original Rotunda, the U.Va. Library contains more than 5 million books, 17 million manuscripts, rare books and archives, and rapidly growing digital collections. The Library is a leader in developing collections, tools, and collaborations that foster scholarship at the University and worldwide. It is known, in particular, for its strength in American history and literature and its innovation in digital technologies. The MEI project is a continuation of work begun in 2000 at U.Va.

About the University of Paderborn
The University of Paderborn has a special focus on Computer Science, exemplified by its Heinz-Nixdorf Institute. Together with the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, the University conducts the Seminar for Musicology where, in 2004 and in cooperation with the Carl Maria von Weber Complete-Edition project, preliminary work was performed regarding digital critical editions of music. Its “Edirom” project (also DFG-funded) has been developing platform- independent solutions for musical editions since 2006.

About the granting agencies
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is the central, self-governing research funding organization, serving all branches of science and the humanities by funding research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany and facilitating cooperation among investigators.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

Any views, finding, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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

http://openfontlibrary.org/files/psb6m/177

Happy summer to all,
Peter Baker

[From the accompanying document (Eadui.pdf):]

EADUI THE FONT IS NAMED FOR A SCRIBE WHO worked at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the first half of the eleventh century and signed himself “Eaduuius cognomento Basan.” This Eadui Basan was a leading practitioner of the scribal hand known to paleographers as style IV English caroline minuscule. Like caroline minuscules generally, this one is notable for its legibility; and Eadui’s work, at its best, possesses a formal beauty that is matched by few scribes of his time.

This font, based on Eadui’s hand, uses OpenType features to emulate the characteristics of written script: numerous ligatures and contextual variants give the script the slightly irregular look of a handmade thing. Eadui works best with applications that make available the OpenType features of fonts. These include Adobe InDesign and XeTeX; many features of Eadui are also accessible in Mellel and iWorks, fewer in word processors like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org.

• Marjorie Burghart,
• James Cummings,
• James Ginther,
• Takako Kato

The Digital Medievalist Board would like to thank all candidates who allowed their names to stand for election. The slate this year was extremely strong and votes were cast by over 10% of the Digital Medievalist membership. Most of the decisions were one or two votes at most.

Posted by: Daniel O’Donnell and Peter Stokes (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Peter Stokes has reserved a table for Digital Medievalist at the Edgar Wallace (a link to google maps is appended below) at 11:30 am on Wednesday, July 7. I’ll be by the DH registration tables from 11: 15 until 11:25 (the Edgar Wallace is just around the corner). I’ll be the one with the baby.

I’ve already received word from several people who intend to come. If you’d like to add your name please contact me (dot.porter@gmail.com ), but if you find yourself available on the day please feel free to stop by the Edgar Wallace and look for us. I expect we’ll be there for a while.

See you there!

Dot Porter

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

On behalf of Dr Stuart Lee and the Oxford University Faculty of
English, I am pleased to announce the launch of the Woruldhord
Project, which opened on the 1st of July 2010 and is now
receiving submissions.

The Woruldhord Project is a joint initiative of the Oxford
University Computing Services and the Faculty of English. It aims
to combine the expertise of literary scholars, historians,
archaeologists, art historians and linguists together with
material from museums, historical sites and members of the
general public to create a comprehensive online archive of
written, visual and audio-visual material related to Old English
and the Anglo-Saxon period.

The Project is currently inviting contributions from anyone
researching or teaching on the Anglo-Saxon period at a university
level. We are particularly interested in images, audio/video
recordings, handouts, essays, articles, presentations,
spreadsheets, databases, course notes, lesson plans and materials
used in undergraduate teaching, but welcome submissions of any type.

Any material submitted will be made freely available worldwide
for educational purposes on the Project Woruldhord website
(http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/index.html), hosted by
the University of Oxford. However, all intellectual property
rights in the material will be retained by the contributor,
contributors will be named on the site, and all visitors will be
provided with a citation guide enabling them to properly
acknowledge the authors of the resources. Contributors can also,
if desired, attach links to their own or their University’s
website to their contributions, increasing their own web presence.

Timed to correspond with renewed public interest in the
Anglo-Saxons following the recent discovery of the Staffordshire
Hoard, this project presents an excellent opportunity to apply
computing technology to the study of Anglo-Saxon literature,
history and culture. It also aims to allow members of the public
across the world to access rare or difficult-to-obtain material
as well as the expertise of specialists in the field. We hope
that academics and teachers are willing to share this material,
especially if they feel it will be of benefit to the discipline.
The Woruldhord Project follows on from the Great War Archive
(http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/), a very successful project
which collected manuscript material, letters and other materials
from the First World War from March-November 2008.

To submit material to the project, simply visit
http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord

This page will take you through the simple-to-use submission
process where you can upload your object and provide some basic
information about it.

Other pages that may be of interest include:

http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/ – The main website
http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/ – The project blog
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/faq/index.html – Our
‘help’ section including a ‘how to get started guide’ and an FAQ
http://groups.google.com/group/project-woruldhord – A discussion
group for the project

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email the
project at: woruldhord@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Thanks in advance for any contributions you may send!

Anna Caughey
Research Officer, The Woruldhord Project
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/index.html
tel: 0787 923 4840
e: woruldhord@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010

Friday July 2nd at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Mona Hess (University College London)
3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts

ALL WELCOME

Digital technologies, like 3D colour laser scanning and 3D imaging, are not only challenging the traditional methods in the heritage field but they are also opening up new paths for scientific analysis of museum artefacts. I will discuss possibilities of integration of 3D image analysis in the daily museum workflow.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For the full programme see:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html

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

There are 4 vacancies on the board and eight candidates. Eligible voters may vote for up to four candidates.

Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about.html
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html

Candidate biographies are available at:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/election2010/

The ballot is available at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YFN6TLW

In order to check eligibility, voters will be asked to supply the email address they use for their subscription to dm-l. This information will not be used for any other purpose, and will be discarded after the election.

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

Under the direction of the project’s Principal Investigator Professor Patrick Geary and the Project Manager Dr. Julian Hendrix, the Research Associate will be responsible for directing and performing archival and library research, and for identifying and analyzing the linguistic, orthographic, paleographic and textual features of some 168 medieval manuscripts for the research project “Creation of Virtual Libraries of the Carolingian Monasteries of St. Gall and Reichenau.” Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this project will make accessible online digital images, descriptions, and contextual data of ninth-century manuscripts from libraries at St. Gall and Reichenau. The Research Associate will assist the Project Manager with the development of XML
templates and user interfaces for the project’s manuscript website. The Research Associate will also assist the Project Manager in creating descriptions and indices of the manuscripts’ contents as well as be responsible for writing thematic essays highlighting significant elements of the manuscript collection for publication on the project website.

Candidates must have a PhD in some area of medieval studies and strong Latin and German, as well as extensive knowledge of Carolingian paleography and codicology, and experience working with early medieval manuscripts. Experience working with XML markup and web design is strongly preferred.

This is a two-year (07/01/10 – 06/30/12), grant-funded position. The availability of the position is subject to the grant being awarded. In addition to completing the online application at hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=56376 (you can not be considered for the position without applying on-line), please send a copy of your letter of application (cover letter) and CV to the project PI, Professor Patrick Geary, by email to geary@ucla.edu.

–
Julian Hendrix
Staff Research Associate
UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
302 Royce Hall
Box 94551485
Los Angeles CA
90095-1485

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

Friday June 18th at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Tim Hill (King’s College London)
After Prosopography: Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre

ALL WELCOME

Database technology profoundly altered the scope and power of the prosopography; more recently developed technologies have the potential to transform the genre yet again. Advances in the areas of digitised social network analysis, natural language processing, and ontological reasoning have the potential not only to extend the research reach and utility of the prosopography, but also to allow us to ask new questions of the past. The purpose of this paper is to outline these new technologies and tentatively to explore where these new questions might take us.

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, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html

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

http://opuscula.usask.ca/

We seek single-witness editions of Medieval and Renaissance texts under 6,000 words accompanied by a brief introduction (1000-1500 words) and translation. We invite submission of a broad range of pre-modern texts including but not limited to literary and philosophical works, letters, charters, court documents, and notebooks. Texts should be previously unedited and the edition must represent a discrete text in its entirety.

For more information or to view a sample edition, go to opuscula.usask.ca or write Frank Klaassen, General Editor at editor@opuscula.usask.ca.

OSTMAR is an on-line and open-access journal published by Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan under a creative commons license. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review and must be accompanied by readable digital facsimiles of the original documents.

Posted by: Jason Underhill (opusedit@opuscula.usask.ca).

AccessTEI is a digitization program that allows member institutions of the TEI to realize saving and workflow efficiencies in the outsourcing of digitization work normally available only to the largest and most active of institutions. By taking advantage of economies of scale among the TEI membership, AccessTEI is able to offer preferred pricing even on very small jobswhile still providing users with access to individual project management and Quality Assurance programs. Pricing is set by the output kilobyte, providing cost certainty.

Using the AccessTEI web portal member institutions submit work for digitization. In recognition of the fact that TEI members work with a wide variety of content, AccessTEI accepts a very wide variety of original documents from modern print to manuscript and in western and non-western character sets. An innovative pricing matrix allows users to determine the cost effectiveness of any particular job, ensuring that limited resources (including the time of skilled researchers) are applied with maximum efficiency.

Submissions to this program are encoded in TEI Tite, a special TEI-developed customization developed to ensure maximum keyboarding efficiency. Users can easily transform documents encoded in Tite into TEI P5 XML or other standard markup languages.

Contact the TEI to learn about how your project can become a member in order to take advantage of this program. Already a member? Contact membership@tei-c.org to set up your AccessTEI account.

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

Friday June 11th at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Hafed Walda (Kings College London) and Charles Lequesne (RPS) ‘Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology’

*ALL WELCOME*

This paper will describe the process of bulding a set of guidelines for an informational model based on Geographical Information System technology to organise Libyas archaeological data and publish it in an electronic form accessible to scholars and excavators both worldwide and especially in Libya itself.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For the full programme see:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html

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

Due to success and interest given by the two previous editions, which were organised as local events, we thought to give an international dimension to the third edition by adding the presence of foreign speakers choosen among experts from both sides. The opportunity to host part of the workshop inside the Biblioteca Capitolare at Vercelli, a site deputed to the conservation and valorisation of a codicological heritage highly relevant at national and international level, and to have the possibility to have a direct look to manuscripts themselves in such an historical framework, imparts an added value to the event.

The argument of the workshop concerns with the Italian early Medieval scriptoria. Italian scholars, highly trained in their respective fields of research, will present scientific and historical-artistic studies concerning illuminated manuscripts from the main Italian scriptoria in the period IV-X century (Nonantola, Bobbio, Vercelli, etc.). It will be an important occasion to discuss about aspects of common interest.

Foreign speakers will bring a highly relevant contribution by presenting studies on early medieval manuscripts from foreign scriptoria, mainly from France and British Isles. The speakers are researchers working at foreign Universities (University of Amsterdam, Kiel, London) or at museums of  great international prestige (British Library at London, Trinity College Library at Dublino, Victoria & Albert Museum at London). Their competence will then be particularly welcome, making it possible to start collaboration on common projects.

The workshop will be organised on two days, June 10th and 11th 2010. The first day, scheduled at the Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare inside the Sala del Trono of the Palazzo Arcivescovile at Vercelli, will be devoted to some oral contributions, after whom a guided visit will be proposed to the manuscripts held in the Biblioteca Capitolare. The second day, organised at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Eastern Piedmont – Ala Conventuale of the Sant’Andrea Abbey, will include oral contributions in the morning, a poster session after lunch break and again oral contributions. Publication of a proceedings volume will be realised, as in the previous editions; in this case publication will be either on paper and in online format, spreading information about it on this web site (http://www.arc.unito.it/index.php?lang=en).

Organisation is due to the following committees:
Scientific committee:

* Dott. Maurizio Aceto (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale)
* Prof. Pietro Baraldi (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
* Dott. Danilo Bersani (Università degli Studi di Parma)
* Prof.ssa Giusi Zanichelli (Università degli Studi di Salerno)

Organising committee:

* Dott. Maurizio Aceto (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale)
* Dott. Angelo Agostino (Università degli Studi di Torino)
* Dott.ssa Anna Cerutti Garlanda (Coordinatrice dei Comitati Scientifici presso la Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare)
* Dott. Timoty Leonardi (Conservatore Manoscritti e Rari presso la Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare)
* Prof. Saverio Lomartire (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale)

For any information please contact:

Dott. Maurizio Aceto
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Vita
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Viale Teresa Michel, 11
15100 – Alessandria
phone  +39 0131 360265
print +39 0131 260250
mail maurizio.aceto@mfn.unipmn.it

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

We have received a pleasing number of proposals for the ESTS conference in Pisa/Florence November 25-2, this year.  However, we still have spaces for a few more proposals, preferably on the conference theme of ‘Texts worth editing’.  Possible participants should note that the conference is excellent value: we keep the registration fee low (likely only €50), accommodation in Pisa is plentiful and cheap, even without the special deal we have arranged.

The call text is:

All text editing begins with a choice: what text to edit.  How do we choose the text we edit? Are all texts worth editing, simply because they are texts? Even once we have chosen what we are to edit, further choices lie ahead of us.  If a text exists in many versions, and in many documents: are all versions, and all documents, equally worthy of editing?  If we choose to focus on a particular version, or a particular document, how do we make this choice, and how do we justify it to others?  Once we have made these decisions: choices of method will also be affected by perceptions of value.  Should we publish the full text of a particular version or document; or publish its variants only, in an apparatus? and if we choose to publish variants only: what are our criteria to determine which variants are worth publishing?
The programme chairs invite the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to the discussion of current research into the different aspects of textual work, preferably focusing on the topics mentioned above. Proposals and abstracts (250 words) should be submitted electronically to: Peter Robinson,  p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk, by 11 June 2010.

The full call is at http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2010.html.
Proposals should be emailed to me (not to the list, please!)

best wishes
Peter

Peter Robinson
Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing
Elmfield House, Selly Oak  Campus
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston B29 6LG
P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk
p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376
www.itsee.bham.ac.uk

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

We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l at uleth.ca) and have made some demonstrable contribution to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or to the field of digital medieval studies.

If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, Peter Stokes and Dan O’Donnell, at

election at digitalmedievalist.org

who will treat your nomination in confidence. The nomination period will close at 0000 UTC Friday June 18 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the end of the week of July 2, 2010.

Many thanks,

Peter Stokes and Dan O’Donnell

election at digitalmedievalist.org

Posted by: Peter Stokes and Dan O’Donnell (election@digitalmedievalist.org).

“Balisage: The Markup Conference” (http://www.balisage.net/) is an annual peer-reviewed XML conference: how to create markup; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space).

Come to lovely Montreal, Canada from August 3rd to 6th for four action-packed days of angle brackets! Here’s a baker dozen (or so) sampling from the much larger list of Balisage 2010 presentations:

• gXML, a new approach to cultivating XML trees in Java
• Java integration of XQuery – an information unit oriented approach
• Reverse modeling for domain-driven engineering of publishing technology
• Managing semantics in XML vocabularies
• XML pipeline processing in the browser
• Where XForms meets the glass: Bridging between data and interaction design
• Schema component paths for schema analysis
• A streaming XSLT processor
• Multi-structured documents and the emergence of annotations vocabularies
• Processing arbitrarily large XML using a persistent DOM
• Automatic upconversion using XProc
• Scripting documents with XQuery
• XQuery design patterns
• Parallel processing and your XML data

Schedule At-a-Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2010/At-A-Glance.html.

Detailed schedule with descriptions: http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html.

Pre-conference symposium: XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/index.html.

Tower of Modern Babel Contest – Chance to win an Apple 15″ (i5)
MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook Air, or USD $2000: http://www.balisage.net/contest.html.

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

More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/workshops/.

Students and members of the TEI consortium receive a 33% discount on registration.

All workshops are held at Brown University and are led by Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman, and John Melson.

July 21-23, 2010
Introduction to TEI
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

August 16-18, 2010
Introduction to TEI Customization
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

September 24-25, 2010
Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI
$300 ($200 for students and TEI members)

November 5-6, 2010
Essential Tools for Digital Scholarship
$300 ($200 for students and TEI members)

December 3-4, 2010
Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI
$300 ($200 for students and TEI members)

Coming in 2011: Introduction to XSLT

We hope to see you in Providence!

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/
http://library.brown.edu/cds/

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

TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010

http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/

The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication.

Each day will also include a number of afternoon 2.5 hour parallel workshops on related technologies and topics. These will include: TEI Publishing; TEI for Language Resources; Transforming TEI with XSLT; TEI in Libraries; Creating a TEI-based Website with the eXist XML Database; and Genetic Editing: transcribing documents, transcribing the process. There will also be optional surgery sessions for those who wish to consult with TEI@Oxford about their particular projects or encoding issues. There will also be guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts familiar with the TEI talking about their own projects.

If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text, this course is for you.

The course runs from Monday 12 July – Wednesday 14 July, 2010. The course runs from 09:30 – 17:30 each day in our fully-equipped computer training rooms. Lunch and refreshments are included in the course fee.

Questions about booking on the workshop: courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Dr James Cummings
Research Technologies Service
University of Oxford

We are happy to announce that registration for the European Summer School, Culture & Technology, is now open. Supported by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing the Summer School will take place at Leipzig University, Germany, from the 26th to the 30th of July.

The Summer School is directed at an international audience. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, and postdocs from the Humanities, Engineering or Computer Sciences from all over Europe, as well as academics, librarians and technical assistants who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries or archives, or wish to do so are its target audience. School teachers who plan to carry out technology-based projects with their students and want to discuss them in a wider context are welcome as well.

The Summer School seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences, as well as in Libraries and Archives everywhere. The Summer School aims at integrating these activities into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked. The Summer School plans to show-case possible realisations of such questions via the presentation of concrete projects.

The Summer School will offer Humanities students in particular the possibility to gain practical knowledge of the application of computational methods to the digitalisation, description, analysis and production of humanities contents and artefacts (languages, texts, images, etc.), to discuss related theoretical questions and to forge new perspectives on the study and preservation of languages, cultures and cultural memory and the translation between cultures.

Computer and Engineering Sciences students, for their part, will be given the opportunity at the Summer School to acquire insights into the nature of humanities data, to get to know the areas in the Arts and Humanities in which computational methods are employed, to learn to recognise the difference of the Humanities approach to these methods and to confront themselves with the challenges that work with diffuse and extremely complex data presents for soft- and hardware solutions.

The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The Summer School will close with a round table discussion focusing on the necessity, structure and contents of curricula for Digital Humanities und e-Humanities.

The following workshops will be offered:

* Introduction into the Creation of a Digital Edition
* From Document Engineering to Scholarly Web Projects
* Methods in Textual Analysis
* XML and the Modelling of Knowledge Contained in Historical Sources
* Image-based Digital Editing of Text-bearing Objects

Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Information on how to apply for a place in one of the workshops can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/

Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and describe this project in a qualified way.

Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they support their expectations from the summer school with good arguments.

If more funding can be secured fees will be reduced and a bursary scheme will be put into place.

For important dates and other relevant information please consult the multilingual Web-Portal of the European Summer School Culture & Technology: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/.

Univ.-Prof’in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth BurrFranzische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut f Romanistik
Philologische Fakult
Universit Leipzig
Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307
Beethovenstr. 15
D-04107 Leipzig
Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/
elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), Dublin, Ireland
1 Year Fixed Term Contract

Applications are invited for a one year fixed term contract position of Digital Humanities Specialist to the DHO. The DHO is designing, constructing, and hosting a digital repository of humanities research. This joint national platform, funded under Cycle 4 of PRTLI, is being constructed for the RIA and its partners to provide for the building, coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level.

Reporting to the DHO Director, the Digital Humanities Specialist will join a team to promote and support the use of advanced computing techniques as applied to the humanities in Ireland.

Further information and details of the application process are available at http://dho.ie/vacancies/#dhs

The closing date for applications is Monday 24th May 2010 at 4 p.m.

The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer

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

In addition to the members meeting and the academic conference, we are planning an exciting array of workshops in the days preceding the conference; details will be announced shortly.

Home page of the conference: http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/

Original call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/2010/03/01/tei-members-meeting-2010-call-for-proposals/

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

The program committee for the upcoming members meeting of the TEI has
decided to extend the deadline for the call for papers to May 15th, 2010.

In addition to the members meeting and the academic conference, we are
planning an exciting array of workshops in the days preceding the
conference; details will be announced shortly.

**PLEASE NOTE – ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST PRESENT A LIGHTNING TALK BASED ON AN ABSTRACT**
**DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 10th**

InterFace is a new type of annual non-profit event. Based on the format of last year’s successful forum at the University of Southampton, this year follows in the same footsteps: part conference, part forum, part networking opportunity. The conference aims to bring PhD students, early postdocs and other early researchers together from the fields of Technologies and Humanities in order to foster cutting-edge collaboration. Delegates can also expect to receive illuminating talks from experts, presentations on successful interdisciplinary projects and on how to succeed as academics.

Abstract Submissions:
If you are interested in attending, please submit an original abstract of 500-1000 words, describing an idea or concept you wish to present. Following acceptance of your submission you will need to give a three-minute presentation of your paper at the conference. Papers should focus on potential, realistic areas for collaboration between the Technologies and Humanities sectors, either by addressing particular problems, new developments or both. As such, the scope is extremely broad but topics might include:

Technologies:
Agent Based Modelling, Computer Graphics & Visualization, Internet Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Online Collaboration, Pervasive Technologies, Sensor Networks, Semantic Web, Web Science

Humanities:
Applied Sociodynamics & Social Network Analysis, Archaeological Reconstruction, Dynamic Logics, Electronic Corpora, History & Art History, Information Ethics, Linguistics New Media, Spatial Cognition, Text Editing and Analysis, Teaching Methodologies

Due to the limited number of places, papers will be subject to review by committee and applicants notified by email as to their acceptance.

Important Dates:
* Paper Submission Deadline: 10th May 2010
* Acceptances Announced: 17th May 2010
* Conference: 15-16 July 2010

For full timetable and list of external speakers, visit: http://www.interface2010.org.uk/timetable
For further information, please visit the conference website: http://www.interface2010.org.uk or e-mail contact@interface2010.org.uk

Kind Regards,
InterFace 2010 Committee

K E Y N O T E S P E A K E R S
=====================================
MORRIS EAVES, University of Rochester
LISA GITELMAN, New York University
WILL NOEL, Walters Art Museum
DAVID STORK, Ricoh Innovations
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Program Chair: Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland
Deadline for Proposals: October 31, 2010

After many years of successful meetings in New York City, the Society for Textual Scholarship is inaugurating a new venue for its biennial conference: Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. This new venue will accommodate the STS in a state of the art conference center with up-to-date technology support and other amenities (http://www.pshs.psu.edu/pennstater/pshome.asp), which will in turn facilitate the introduction of several new session formats. The new formats, new venue, and stellar line-up of confirmed keynote speakers–addressing textual and media scholarship and theory, conservation and archival practices, and relevant aspects of computer science–promises to make the 2011 conference an especially invigorating and important one for the STS.

Accordingly, the Program Chair invites submissions devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of current research into particular aspects of textual work: the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, history of science and technology, computer science, library and information science, archives, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater, linguistics, and textual and literary theory.

As always, the conference is particularly open to considerations of the role of digital tools and technologies in textual theory and practice. Papers addressing newer developments such as forensic computing, born-digital materials, stand-off markup, cloud computing, and the sustainability of electronic scholarship are especially encouraged. Papers addressing aspects of archival theory and practice as they pertain to textual criticism and scholarly editing are also especially welcome.

This year the conference is introducing several new formats. Submissions may therefore take the following form:

1. Papers. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. They should offer the promise of substantial original critical or analytical insight. Papers that are primarily reports or demonstrations of tools or projects are discouraged.

2. Panels. Panels may consist of either three associated papers or four to six roundtable speakers. Roundtables should address topics of broad interest and scope, with the goal of fostering lively debate between the panel and audience following brief opening remarks.

3. Seminars. Seminars should propose a specific topic, issue, or text for intensive collective exploration. Accepted seminar proposals will be announced on the conference Web site (http://www.textual.org) at least two months prior to the conference and attendees will then be required to enroll themselves with the posted seminar leader(s). The seminar leader(s) will circulate readings and other preparatory materials in advance of the conference. No papers shall be read at the seminar session. Instead participants will engage with the circulated material in a discussion under the guidance of the seminar leader(s). All who enroll are expected to contribute to creating a mutually enriching experience.

4. Workshops. Workshops should propose a specific problem, tool, or skillset for which the workshop leader will provide expert guidance and instruction. Examples might be an introduction to forensic computing or paleography. Workshop proposals that are accepted will be announced on the conference Web site (http://www.textual.org) and attendees will be required to enroll with the workshop leader(s). Workshop leaders should be prepared to offer well-defined learning outcomes for attendees.

Proposals for all four formats should include a title, abstract (one to two pages) of the proposed paper, panel, seminar, or workshop, as well as the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation for all participants. Format should be clearly indicated. Seminar and workshop proposals in particular should take care to articulate the imagined audience and any expectations of prior knowledge or preparation.

***All abstracts should indicate what if any technological support will be required.***

Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically, as plain text, to:

Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum
mkirschenbaum -at- gmail -dot- com

Additional contact information:

Department of English
2119 Tawes Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20740

Phone: 301-405-8505
Fax: 301-314-7111 (marked clearly to Kirschenbaum’s attention)

All participants in the STS 2011 conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary Meg Roland at mroland@marylhurst.edu or visit the Indiana University Press Journals website and follow the links to the Society for Textual Scholarship membership page. For conference updates and information, see the STS website at http://www.textual.org.

Please post and recirculate this CFP as appropriate.

Robin G. Schulze
Professor of English
Head, Department of English
Penn State University
117 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802-6200

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

One of the activities during the conference will be a workshop “Rhetorical and Semantic Possibilities of Links: Cultural and Literary Applications of Links” on Sunday, June 13. Anyone who wants to understand how a link can express meaning and how we use links to communicate (for example, elit writers and readers, social media developers, web developers, and … you … ) is encouraged to attend.  If you are interested in attending, you are encouraged to submit a position paper by Friday, April 30, 2010 to deenalarsen@yahoo.com.  This paper should address your background, experience in hypertext and hypermedia, and questions that you wish to address have concerning how links work in communication. Notifications will be by Monday, May 3 and the last day for early bird registrations is Wednesday, May 5.

Mark Bernstein has written that the link is “the most important new punctuation mark since the comma.” More than that, the link actually conveys meaning.  But how do people use links to communicate ideas? This workshop is designed to uncover the semantic value of the link and its potential rhetorical effects.  We want to know what has been the cultural, literary, rhetorical, and semantic impact of the link to date, and what future effects can we anticipate and bring about.  We will explore the link in hands-on exercises and examinations of electronic literature and other hypermedia examples.  Ideally, the audience will be broad, composed of anyone who wants to develop a further understanding of this tool.

We seek to network amongst ourselves and to continue the dialogue between the creative members of the hypertext community and those who make the software that enables expression.  Exploring how links work will help create new foundations for Hypermedia and Web 2.0 environments (social linking, mapping, visualizing, network linking, etc), studies on adaptive hypermedia (adaptive navigation such as link hiding, linking used in recommendation strategies, and linking methods for personalized libraries and e-learning), highlight our understanding of links as a new component of writing and communication, and increase our understanding of the ways that they are used in education, research, journalism, and literature.

For more information, please email deenalarsen@yahoo.com.

Mary Stromme
PhD Candidate, English
University of North Dakota
Editorial Assistant, The Oral History Review
ohr.oxfordjournals.org
mary.stromme@gmail.com

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

ESF-COST Conference on
Networked Humanities: Art History in the Web
Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 9-14 October 2010
http://www.esf.org/conferences/10342

Chair: Hubertus Kohle – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Deutsches Historisches Institut, DE
Programme Committee: Claudine Moulin – Trier University, DE & Lea Rojola – University of Turku, FI

Since the earliest times, new technologies have contributed to profound scientific advances and have transformed the ways we can do research. It is claimed today that the World Wide Web offers revolutionary models of scientific cooperation, which promise to
instantiate a utopian democracy of knowledge. This claim has repeatedly been associated with the development and introduction of a collaborative Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0 as well as its offspring, a semantically enriched Web 3.0 still in the making The aim of this conference is to bring together art historians and other researchers (including digital humanists) in order to investigate the intersection between the web and collaborative research processes, via an examination of electronic media-based cooperative models in the history of art and beyond.
The conference will not only be an occasion to exchange ideas and present relevant projects in the field,
but, with contributions spanning from art history (and digital art) to philosophy and cultural studies,
from psychology and sociology of knowledge to computer graphics, from semiotics to curatorial practices
it will offer a unique forum for the representation of both diversified and complementary approaches to the topic of Networked humanities.

Conference format:
* lectures by invited high level speakers
* short talks by young & early stage researchers
* poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods
* forward look panel discussion about future developments

Invited Speakers will include:
* Patrick Danowski, CERN Geneva, CH
* Matteo d’Alfonso, Universitdi Bologna, IT
* Francesca Gallo, University of Rome La Sapienza, IT
* Charlie Gere, University of Lancaster, UK
* Gudrun Gersmann, German Historical Institute Paris, FR
* Guenther Goerz, University of Erlangen, Institute of Computer Science, DE * Halina Gottlieb, Interactive Institute, Kista, SE
* Gerhard Nauta, University of Leiden, NL
* Robert Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Arts, US
(List to be completed)

A good number of grants are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s)
in the paragraph Grant application of the application form (http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=342&meetno=1).

Full conference programme and application form are accessible online from http://www.esf.org/conferences/10342.

ESF-COST Contact for further information: Zuzana Vercinska – Zuzana.Vercinska@cost.eu

Closing date for applications: 18 July 2010

This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with COST European Cooperation in Science and Technology.

Posted by: Corinne Wininger (clemoal@esf.org).

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES

DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts

Sunday 5th September – Wednesday 8th September 2010

Brunel University, West London

www.drha2010.org.uk

CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity

The conferences overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this respect it will offer an interrogation of practices that are indebted to the innovative exchange between the sensual, visceral and new technologies.

At the same time, the aim is to look to new approaches offered by various emerging fields and practices that incorporate new and existing technologies. Specific examples of areas for discussion could include:

Delineation of new collaborative practices and the interchange of knowledge

Collaborative interdisciplinary practices of embodiment and technology

Integration/deployment of digital resources in new contexts

Connections and tensions that exist between the Arts, Humanities and Science

Notions of the solitary and the collaborative across the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

eScience in the Arts and Humanities

Use of digital resources in collaborative creative work, teaching, learning and scholarship

Open source and second generation Web infrastructure

Digital media in time and space

Music and technology: composition and performance

Dance and interactive technologies

Taking inspiration from SET: imaging, GPS and mobile technologies

Evaluating the experience among providers and users / performers and audiences

Interface Design and HCI

Performative Practices in SecondLife or other virtual platforms

New critical paradigms for the conferences theme

The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. This years conference is hosted by Brunel University, West London. It will take place from Sunday 5th September to Wednesday 8th September 2010. It will be held across various innovative spaces, including the newly expanded Boiler House laboratory facilities, housed in the Antonin Artaud Building, and state of the art conference facilities plus high standard accommodation.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

- Richard Coyne – Professor of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh.

- Christopher Pressler: Director of Research and Learning Resources and Director of the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham.

- Thecla Schiphorst: Media Artist/Designer and Faculty Member in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

- STELARC, Chair in Performance Art at Brunel University and Senior Research, Fellow in the MARCS Labs at the University of Western Sydney.

We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, workshop sessions and other events that address the conference theme, with particular attention to the Sensual Technologies focus. We encourage proposals for innovative and non-traditional session formats.

DRHA 2010 will include a SecondLife roundtable/discussion event, led by performance artist Stelarc, which will enable international participants to present performative work via Second Life. For this event, we particular encourage submission of Machinima works that can be screened as part of this panel.

Short presentations, for example work-in-progress, are invited for poster presentations.

Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit http://www.drha2010.org.uk for information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available.

All proposals – whether papers, performance or other – should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA 2010.

The deadline for submissions will now be: 14 April 2010.

At this stage, only abstracts are due and these should be between 600 – 1000 words.

Full papers can be submitted after the conference for peer-review to specifically themed issues of the Body Space and Technology Journal (Brunel University), as well as to the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, (Intellect Publishing).

Letters of acceptance will be sent by mid/late May 2010.

Please see http://www.drha2010.org.uk more information and a link for online submission.

Franziska Schroeder

DRHA 2010 Programme Chair

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

To enable humanists to locate software tools of relevance to their
research, the tools sections of www.arts-humanities.net has been
extended to describe a large number of software tools, drawn from the experiences of several hundred arts & humanities research projects with digital components catalogued on arts-humanities.net.

http://www.arts-humanities.net/tools

We welcome feedback, and would encourage you to post comments about tools listed on the site. We will continue to add new tool descriptions over the coming months: please contact us if you would like to suggest a tool for inclusion in the collection (admin@arts-humanities.net).

Regards,
Torsten
–
Dr. Torsten Reimer
Development Manager
Community Infrastructures and e-Learning
http://www.arts-humanities.net
Centre for e-Research, King’s College London
http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/
+44 (0)20 7848 2019

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

‘Text Encoding with the TEI’ will offer two concurrent workshop strands in text encoding for both beginners and intermediate practitioners. These two-day courses entitled ‘From Text Encoding to Digital Publishing’ and ‘TEI for Handwritten Texts’ will run on Wednesday, 7th and Thursday, 8th April. Both will focus on the theories and practicalities of creating electronic scholarly editions utilising the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, the standard in the field. They will be led by experts in the field of text encoding: Dr. Susan Schreibman, Mr. Kevin Hawkins, Dr. Malte Rehbein and Dr. Justin Tonra. Registration is required to participate in these workshops.

‘Using Digital Resources for Research and Teaching in Irish Studies’, which will take place on Friday, 9th April, will offer two half-day sessions . Participants may register for one or both of the workshops. The morning session, ‘Integrating Digital Content into Teaching Practices’ will focus on how one can integrate the wealth of primary and secondary resources now available into the field of Irish Studies in the classroom. The afternoon session, ‘New Research Practices using Digital Content’ will introduce participants to a number of freely available tools to transform and, indeed, deform data to discover new patterns, new themes, and new insights.

For more information and instructions on how to register for the above events, please follow the links below to their respective event pages. Please note that places are free but limited. They will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis numbers so early registration is advised.

Text Encoding with the TEI: http://dho.ie/node/679

Using Digital Resources for Research & Teaching in Irish Studies: http://dho.ie/node/680

–
Susan Schreibman, PhD
Director
Digital Humanities Observatory
Pembroke House
28-32 Upper Pembroke Street
Dublin 2, Ireland

– A Project of the Royal Irish Academy –

Phone: +353 1 234 2440
Fax: +353 1 234 2400
Mobile: +353 86 049 1966
Email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com
Email: s.schreibman@ria.ie

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

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

(a) First, there are seven full- and half-day workshops that are scheduled for immediately before DH2010.  All are also hosted at King’s in the same building where DH2010 will occur.  They are all free.  You can read about them at the conference website page:

http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/academic-programme/pre-conference-workshops.html

and register to attend one or more of them via the DH2010 conference registration system.

(b) Second, there will be, for the first time, a THATCamp scheduled to occur with the Digital Humanities conference. THATCamps are user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities.  The THATCamp idea has been developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and THATCamp London is jointly sponsored by CHNM, CCH and CeRch at King’s and ADHO. You can read more about the London THATCamp at:

http://www.thatcamplondon.org/

and you can apply to attend via the THATCamp registration form.  The deadline for the THATCamp application is 10 May, 2010.

These events promise to further enrich what is already going to be an exciting experience at DH2010.  I hope that many DH2010 attendees can join us for the workshops and the THATCamp too.

———————————————
John Bradley
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King’s College London
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2680

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

This is a call for contributions for the next issue of the Digital Medievalist journal (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/). As we all know, there are now many scholarly resources which have been published online as websites but which have never been reviewed as scholarly publications. This is a problem both for us as practitioners and for the discipline in general, not least because it can imply that these publications are somehow less scholarly. Furthermore, the career of academics and research departments often depends on having reviewed publications, as a result of which many online publications are inadmissible for tenure, research assessment and the like.

This problem is being addressed by bodies such as the MLA, but still there are relatively few reviews being written. To help encourage this process, the editors at DM have decided to take action and will include as many of these reviews as we can manage in our next issue (and thereafter). We therefore ask (a) for suggestions of resources that should be reviewed, and (b) offers from reviewers. Of course the ideal is to offer both a resource and a review.
As usual, reviews should be approximately 1,500 words and should consider the publication both from the ‘digital’ and ‘medieval/humanities’ standpoints. We are interested primarily in projects on medieval topics, but as always we are open to anything of interest to medievalists. See the journal’s Submission Guidelines for further details (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/).

Please note also that we are thinking specifically of freely available online publications, not printed books, CD-ROM publications or subscription-only resources (although we will of course still consider reviews of these as usual). In particular, this means that we cannot promise reviewers copies of the publication being reviewed, or access to subscription-only sites.

Thanks, and we look forward to your suggestions,

The Editors, Digital Medievalist
editors@digitalmedievalist.org

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/). Our on-line, refereed Journal 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.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (pas53@cam.ac.uk).

2 Phd Positions involving speech and text analysis are open within TCD.

http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/

The bursaries include payment of fees, some research costs, and a stipend of 16K per annum. The funding covers four years of study within a structured PhD program. This funding is equivalent to that provided by IRCSET awards.

Position 1: Speaking the 1641 Depositions

This innovative project under the theme of  “Digital Humanities and Sustainable Records” will attract candidates who are interested in independent and advanced research linking speech synthesis and important historical documents. It will involve application of advanced linguistic and statistical methods, using the latest tools and technologies, for the analysis and rendering into speech of large bodies of annotated historical text. The project will last for four years and research costs, a stipend, and coverage of fees, etc., will be offered. Successful applicants will have a background in either history or computing. They will have keen analytical skills and will join a small team of researchers with similar interests in the way people speak and present information. They will be especially interested in expressing personality through speech synthesis, and in attempting to render historical texts in order to express character through the synthesised voices.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB01)

Position 2: Technology for harmonising interpersonal communication

We explore how contemporary modes of interaction, typically at a distance via electronic devices, can be supplemented to support the sorts of information flow and inference that evolution has endowed humans sensitivity to in face-to-face communications. The research entails that various prototype applications be constructed, deployed and analyzed. A successful candidate will have demonstrable expertise in computer programming, preferably with experience of end-user application delivery. The candidate will be engaged in the delivery of software alongside performance of quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic data. The background research topic is in discerning sentiment and other non-propositional content of textual communications (such as text messages) and projecting the same through appropriate vocal synthesis. Prior expertise in text and dialogue analysis as well as speech synthesis will be an advantage. Candidates should be comfortable with computational theoretical frameworks for syntax and formal semantics, as well as statistically oriented approaches to language analysis.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB08)

Corpus TLIO aggiuntivo

For not yet lemmatized texts awaiting inclusion in the Corpus OVI, an additional corpus has been created, the Corpus TLIO aggiuntivo, which at present contains 306 texts with 1,189,808 words and 71,900 different word forms.

Archivio Datini

In collaboration with the Archivio di Stato of the Tuscan town of Prato, OVI has developed a lemmatized database containing all published letters (3000 texts with 1,100,987 words and 50,139 different word forms, 7,591 lemmas and 146,741 lemmatized occurrences) in the archive of the great Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini (1335-1410).

Corpus ARTESIA

Corpus ARTESIA, created by University of Catania, is hosted on the OVI server. It consists of 239 early Sicilian texts, with currently 1,025,367 words.

Further informations

www.vocabolario.org

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Institute Opera del Vocabolario Italiano

Firenze, via di Castello 46

I-50141

tel. +39 055 452841

fax +39 055 452843

e-mail ovi@ovi.cnr.it

Posted by: Giulio Vaccaro (piovanoarlotto@gmail.com).

The DHO is pleased to announce that registration for the 2010 DHO Summer School, in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative, is now open.

The Summer School welcomes registrants from the various fields of the humanities, information studies, and computer science. Workshops and lectures cover subjects as diverse as text encoding, virtual worlds, and geospatial methods for the humanities. These are facilitated by leading experts, with plenty of time during evening activities for informal interaction.

This year, in addition to four-day workshop strands, the DHO is also offering mid-week, one-day workshops. For those unable to attend the entire Summer School, it is possible to register separately for these mid-week workshops and lectures.

As in previous years, the Summer School brings together Irish and International scholars undertaking digital projects in diverse areas to explore issues and trends of common interest. The programme will offer attendees opportunities to develop their skills, share insights, and discover new opportunities for collaboration and research. Activities focus on the theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of digital humanities projects today.

The pricing for the full Summer School, as well as one-day workshops and lectures, is available on the registration page: http://dho.ie/ss2010/registration.

A number of subsidised places are available for attendees at HSIS institutions. For more information about these places, please contact the DHO Consultative Committee representative at your institution. Names of representatives can be found at: http://dho.ie/committee.

Full details of the workshop strands, lectures and guest speakers can be found on the Summer School website at: www.dho.ie/ss2010.

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin.

–
Emily Cullen, Ph.D.,
Programme Co-ordinator
Digital Humanities Observatory
28-32 Upper Pembroke Street
Dublin 2
Ireland

Tel: +353(0)1-2342442
Fax:+353(0)1-2342400
E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie
http://dho.ie

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

http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/

* Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010
* Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010
* Workshop proposals due Wed 31 March 2010

Traditionally, the TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting has been preceded by educational or research workshops. The goal of these workshops is to give members of the TEI community an opportunity to learn more about the use of the TEI markup under the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners. In the past such workshops have ranged from a basic introduction to the use of TEI markup to more specialized sessions on specific aspects of the TEI or its use in specific domains. They have ranged in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two days. Workshops are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the workshop.

We are now soliciting proposals for workshops for the 2010 Conference and Members’ Meeting, to be held November 8-14 at University of Zadar, Croatia. Workshops are distinct from other conference activities, such as papers, sessions, and Special Interest Group meetings and we have tentatively reserved three days for them. These workshops should be educational in focus or involve hands-on work with a research problem. They should propose topics that are likely to be of interest to recognizable segments of the TEI community. Possible topics include:

• An Introduction to TEI
• TEI and libraries
• Editorial practice and the TEI
• Extending and customizing the TEI
• Introduction to the ODD system
• Using the TEI with other standards and markup languages
• Images and the TEI
• Use and development of tools and processes

Proposals addressing other topics are welcome and encouraged. If you are interested in proposing a workshop for the 2010 Members Meeting and Conference, please email meeting@tei-c.org by 31 March 2010. Expressions of interest should include as much as possible of the following information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in developing their proposals):

• A proposed topic
• A rationale explaining why this topic is likely to be of interest to the TEI community
• A proposed instructor or slate of instructors including brief discussion of relevant experience
• Method of instruction
• Preferred length for the workshop
• A preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if any).

Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local organising committee.

Proposals will be evaluated by the program committee primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community, the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction, and cost. The committee will work with selected organizers after this date to refine the details of their workshops.

For the international programm comittee,

Christian Wittern (chair)

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

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

InterFace is a new type of annual non-profit event. Based on the format of last year’s successful forum at the University of Southampton, this year follows in the same footsteps: part conference, part forum, part networking opportunity. The conference aims to bring PhD students, early postdocs and other early researchers together from the fields of Technologies and the Humanities in order to foster cutting-edge collaboration. Delegates can also expect to receive illuminating talks from experts, presentations on successful interdisciplinary projects and on how to succeed as academics.

Paper Submissions
If you are interested in attending, please submit an original paper of 1000 words or less, describing an idea or concept you wish to present. Following acceptance of your submission you will need to give a three-minute presentation of your paper at the conference. Papers should focus on potential, realistic areas for collaboration between the Technologies and Humanities sectors, either by addressing particular problems, new developments or both. As such, the scope is extremely broad but topics might include:

Technologies:
Agent Based Modelling, Computer Graphics & Visualization, Internet Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Online Collaboration, Pervasive Technologies, Sensor Networks, Semantic Web, Web Science

Humanities:
Applied Sociodynamics & Social Network Analysis, Archaeological Reconstruction, Dynamic Logics, Electronic Corpora, History & Art History, Information Ethics, Linguistics New Media, Spatial Cognition, Text Editing and Analysis, Teaching Methodologies

For further information, please visit the conference website: http://www.interface2010.org.uk, or e-mail the committee: contact@interface2010.org.uk

Kind Regards,
InterFace 2010 Committee

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

Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing
http://dho.ie/node/673

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

The TEI Council and the Digital Humanities Observatory, a project of the Royal Irish Academy, invite you to participate in a one-day Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing, to be held 28 April 2010 in conjunction with a meeting of the TEI Council. Invited speakers from universities, publishing organizations, and private industry will identify current difficulties in making publication systems interoperable and identify priority actions for the TEI to intervene in this arena.

During the presentations, there will be simultaneous discussion in the backchannel #teipublishing and in a publicly readable and editable Google Docs file for collaborative identification of priority actions for the TEI. To avoid infestation by spambots, we will not include the actual URL in announcements. Please type “docs.google.com” into your browser and then paste the following after it:

/Doc?id=dv3dx7h_12gtqzjxg5

We encourage participation on the backchannel and in this collaborative writing exercise by all, even those unable to attend in person.

Registration to attend in person is free but required. For further information, please see http://dho.ie/node/673

Posted by: Kevin Hawkins (kevin.s.hawkins@ULTRASLAVONIC.INFO).

2010 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium

http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/

• Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010
• Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010

The Program Committee of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, language resources and any topic that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:

• TEI and natural language processing
• TEI and language resources
• Analyzing and quantifying encoded texts
• Aggregation and compilation
• Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards
• Tools that create and process TEI data
• TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards
• TEI as:
  • metadata standard
  • interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data

In addition, we are seeking micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on how you applied TEI.

Submission Types

Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers.

Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including:

• three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics

• round table discussion: 3-6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations.

Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session.

Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 1st, 2010.

You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract.

• Individual paper or poster session proposals (including tool demonstrations):
  • Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the “Abstract” field.
  • Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted.
• Micropaper:
  • The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 300 words, but may be as short as the name of the feature.
  • Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented!
• Panel sessions:
  • The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 500 words in the “Abstract” field.
  • The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above.

The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers.

Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room.

Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org.

Conference submissions will be considered for conference proceedings. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming.

For the international programm comittee,

Christian Wittern (chair)

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

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

With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research. The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to you and other researchers.

The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, you will find it online at . Your identity will be kept confidential. All documents and participants will be identified only by code number. Digital data records will be kept on password-protected hard drives and on disks stored in locked filing cabinets. Only the principal investigator and the co-investigators will have access to the data. If you have any concerns about your treatment or rights as a research participant, you may contact the Research Subject Information Line in the UBC Office of Research Services at 604-822-8598. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw from the study at any time. Your completion and submission of the survey will indicate your consent to participate.
In consideration of your time, you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire.

We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or katay164@interchange.ubc.ca.

Best regards,

Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team
Associate Professor
Director, Digital Literacy Centre
University of British Columbia
c/o Department of Language & Literacy
2125 Main Mall,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4

Posted by: Karen Taylor (katay164@interchange.ubc.ca).

Conference Programme

Mercoledì 3 marzo 2010

14.30 Saluti delle Autorità
15.00 Apertura dei lavori

15.00-15.45 Federico Giusfredi / Alfredo Rizza (Hethitisches Wörterbuch, Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – Dep. of Linguistics, UCB, Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar)
Zipf’s Law and the Distribution of Signs

15.45-16.30 Manuela Anelli / Marta Muscariello / Giulia Sarullo (Istituto di Scienze dell’Uomo, del Linguaggio e dell’Ambiente, Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milano)
The Digital Edition of Epigraphic Texts as Research Tool: the ILA Project

16.30-17.15 Margherita Farina (Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico, Università di Pisa)
Electronic analysis and organization of the Syro-Turkic Inscriptions of China and Central Asia

Pausa

17.45-18.30 Mariachiara Pellegrini / Alfredo Trovato (Laboratorio del Lessico di Linguistica – Dipartimento di Linguistica, Letteratura e Scienze della Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Verona)
Analisi informatica dei fenomeni di interferenza grafematica nelle iscrizioni di Selinunte

18.15-19.00 Federico Boschetti (Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello [CIMeC], Università degli Studi di Trento)
Modello collaborativo per migliorare l’accuratezza dell’OCR del Greco antico

Giovedì 4 marzo 2010

9.30 Inizio dei lavori

9.30-10.15 Matteo Romanello (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London)
L’edizione critica digitale di frammenti: problemi teorici e soluzioni tecniche

10.15-11.00 Alessandro Bausi (Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg)
Il progetto COMst (Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies); Etiopistica e filologia digitale

Pausa

11.30-12.15 Manuel Barbera (Dipartimento di Scienze letterarie e filologiche, Università di Torino)
Intorno a Schema e storia del ‘Corpus Taurinense’

12.15-13.00 Marco Tomatis (Dipartimento di Scienze letterarie e filologiche, Università di Torino)
Aspetti computazionali e metodologici della disambiguazione del ‘Corpus Taurinense’

Pausa (Buffet lunch)
15.00 Ripresa dei lavori

15.00-15.45 Odd Einar Haugen (Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen)
Do we need all these characters? On the transcribing and encoding of medieval vernacular manuscripts

15.45-16.30 Matthew James Driscoll (Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet)
Mapping the manuscript matrix

16.30-17.15 Marina Buzzoni (Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, Università Ca’ Foscari)
The ‘Electronic Hêliand Project’: theoretical and practical updates

Pausa

17.45-18.30 Stefano Minozzi (Dipartimento di Linguistica, Letteratura e Scienze della Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Verona)
Latin WordNet: una rete semantica per il latino

18.30-19.15 Franco D’Agostino / Matteo Scalzo (Dipartimento di Studi Orientali, Università La Sapienza)
Toward a Knowledge Based Approach to the Sumerian Culture

Venerdì 5 marzo 2009

9.30 Inizio dei lavori

9.30-10.15 Enrica Salvatori (Dipartimento di Storia, Università di Pisa)
Umanista esperto di informatica o informatico umanista?
Ragionamenti su discipline, ricerche e professioni a cinque anni
dalla nascita di Informatica Umanistica all’Università di Pisa

10.15-11.00 Roberto Rosselli del Turco (Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, Università di Torino)
Filologia digitale: ragioni, problemi, prospettive di una disciplina

Pausa

11.30-12.15 Paola Cotticelli Kurras/ Alfredo Rizza / Alfredo Trovato (Laboratorio del Lessico di Linguistica – Dipartimento di Linguistica, Letteratura e Scienze della Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Verona)
Lessico di Linguistica On line: A Linguistics Lexicon Archive

12.15-13.00 Adele Cipolla / Federica Goria (Dipartimento di Anglistica, Germanistica e Slavistica Università degli Studi di Verona – EdiText Torino)
Open BMS: a New Software for a Snorri’s Edda Annotated Bibliography

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

30 et 31 mars 2010

INP-BNF, Auditorium Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris
Entrée libre
Reservations, renseignements : emilie.maume@inp.fr

Parallèlement au lancement de programmes de masse consacrés aux livres imprimés et à la presse, la numérisation des manuscrits et des archives écrites devient progressivement un enjeu majeur des politiques scientifiques et de valorisation du patrimoine écrit.

D’abord cantonnée à des projets limités ou consacrés aux « trésors » des institutions qui les conservent, elle prend aujourd’hui de nouvelles dimensions, souvent dans le cadre de projets coopératifs, nationaux ou internationaux.

Le lancement du projet européen Europeana Regia, consacré à trois grands ensembles de manuscrits du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance aujourd’hui dispersés, est l’occasion de faire le point sur cette question. Le colloque, qui associe présentation de réalisations effectives, projets en cours ou en gestation, aspects techniques et scientifiques, se veut tout à la fois réflexif, pratique et opérationnel. Il est destiné aux responsables de collections, aux chefs de projets, aux chargés de numérisation, dans les Bibliothèques, les Musées et les Archives.

Comité scientifique : Thierry Delcourt, conservateur général des bibliothèques, directeur du département des Manuscrits de la BnF et Gennaro Toscano, professeur des universités, directeur de la recherche et des relations scientifiques de l’INP

Organisation : Emilie Maume, chargée des manifestations culturelles et scientifiques et du mécénat

Mardi 30 mars

9h 30
Ouverture du colloque
Eric Gross, directeur de l’Institut national du patrimoine
Bruno Racine, président de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

9h 45
La numérisation du patrimoine, politique stratégique du Ministère de la Culture
Philippe Bélaval, directeur général des patrimoines, MCC
Jacqueline Sanson, directrice générale de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

10h 15
Le projet « Europeana regia » et son intégration dans les politiques de numérisation des bibliothèques
Thierry Delcourt, directeur du département des manuscrits, BnF
Claudia Fabian, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

11h
La numérisation des manuscrits carolingiens : choix scientifiques, critères de conservation
Modérateur : Thierry Delcourt
Charlotte Denoël, département des manuscrits, BnF
Marie-Pierre Dion, directrice de la Bibliothèque municipale de Valenciennes

11h 45
La reconstitution virtuelle d’une bibliothèque perdue : la librairie de Charles V
Modérateur : Thierry Delcourt
Marie-Hélène Tesnière, département des manuscrits, BnF
Ann Kelders, cabinet des manuscrits, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Yann Sordet, bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

12h 30
Déjeuner

14h
La librairie des rois aragonais de Naples
Modérateur : Frédéric D. Martin, département de la coopération, BnF
Gennaro Toscano, directeur de la recherche et des relations scientifiques, Institut national du patrimoine
Marie-Pierre Laffitte, chef du service des manuscrits médiévaux, BnF
Henry Ferreira-Lopes, directeur de la bibliothèque municipale de Besançon

14h 45
Les manuscrits de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Modérateur : Frédéric D. Martin, département de la coopération, BnF
Michèle Sacquin, département des manuscrits, BnF
Barbara Roth, Bibliothèque de Genève
C. De Alberto, Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale (sous réserves)

15h 30
Pause

16h
Des catalogues aux métadonnées
Modératrice : Emmanuelle Bermès, département de l’information bibliographique et numérique, BnF
Matthieu Bonicel, département des manuscrits, BnF
Florent Palluault, service du livre et de la lecture, MCC
Matthieu Gerbault, responsable du patrimoine, bibliothèque municipale de Reims

17h
Aspects techniques de la numérisation du patrimoine écrit
Modérateur : Marie-Elise Fréon, département de la conservation, BnF
Lotfi Belkhir, Kirtas Technologies
Hermann und Kramer, I2S

Research Associate: The post holder will co-ordinate the various aspects of the project. They will write up the documentation for the amateur transcribers, run the publicity campaign which will recruit them, act as moderator of the submitted transcripts, and help to draft the qualitative user study and the final report.
See https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1129607 for further information.

Research Associate (IT): The post holder will be working with the other Research Associate and the web developer to create an attractive and intuitive interface. They will take responsibility for the mark-up of the existing transcripts from MS Word into TEI compliant XML, link the digital images to the existing database catalogue and the transcription tool, and help draft user documentation and a qualitative user study.
See https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1129779 for further information.

Closing date for both applications is 8th March 2010. Please get in touch with Philip Schofield (p.schofield@ucl.ac.uk) or Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk) if you have any queries, or want further information.

Posted by: Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk).

Under the leadership of Patrick Yott, Director of Digital Technologies, the CDS brings together several groups, each with its own long history:

The Scholarly Technology Group
Founded in 1994, STG has been a center of activity in digital humanities scholarship, with a strong program of research and publication projects, events and grant development and support.

The Women Writers Project
First funded in 1988, the WWP is a research group with a dual focus on early women’s writing and the impact of digital textuality on humanities scholarship. The WWP publishes Women Writers Online and conducts grant-funded research on text encoding and digital scholarship; it also provides seminars, workshops, and documentation on using the TEI Guidelines.

The Center for Digital Initiatives
Founded in 2001, the CDI provides high-quality digitization, metadata development, repository services, and consultation on digital projects.

Please visit the CDS site at http://library.brown.edu/cds/ and in particular:

• Our database of CDS projects, http://library.brown.edu/cds/ projects

• Our research library of papers, reports, and documentation, http://library.brown.edu/cds/research/publications-and-documents

• Our listing of outreach programs, http://library.brown.edu/cds/programs/education-and-outreach

On behalf the CDS,

Julia Flanders and Elli Mylonas
Center for Digital Scholarship
Brown University Library
Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

The Academy of Finland research unit Ancient Greek written sources (CoE) is organizing a symposium “Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage: Technological Challenges and Solutions”. The symposium takes place on 28-29 October, 2010, in Helsinki, Finland.

The programme comprises of two plenary sessions that are open for public, two workshops that are intended for the speakers only, and one open session on end-user perspective.

Participation in the symposium is free of charge (however, registration is compulsory). For the accepted speakers the CoE will be covering the travel and accommodation costs.

Maarit Kinnunen
tel. + 358 50 577 9153
maarit.kinnunen@expericon.fi

http://www.dho.ie/ss2010

The DHO is pleased to announce that registration for the 2010 DHO Summer School, in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative, is now open.

The Summer School welcomes registrants from the various fields of the humanities, information studies, and computer science. Workshops and lectures cover subjects as diverse as text encoding, virtual worlds, and geospatial methods for the humanities. These are facilitated by leading experts, with plenty of time during evening activities for informal interaction.

This year, in addition to four-day workshop strands, the DHO is also offering mid-week, one-day workshops. For those unable to attend the entire Summer School, it is possible to register separately for these mid-week workshops and lectures.

As in previous years, the Summer School brings together Irish and International scholars undertaking digital projects in diverse areas to explore issues and trends of common interest. The programme will offer attendees opportunities to develop their skills, share insights, and discover new opportunities for collaboration and research. Activities focus on the theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of digital humanities projects today.

The pricing for the full Summer School, as well as one-day workshops and lectures, is available on the registration page: http://dho.ie/ss2010/registration

Full details of the workshop strands, lectures and guest speakers can be found on the Summer School website at: http://www.dho.ie/ss2010

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with support from the British Library, in Summer 2010 on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. We are especially interested in work that demonstrates interdisciplinarity or work on the intersections between Ancient History, Classics or Archaeology and a digital, technical or practice-based discipline.

The Digital Classicist seminars run on Friday afternoons from June to August in Senate House, London. In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published(*) in a special issue of an online journal (2006), edited as a printed volume (2007), and released as audio podcasts (2008-9); we anticipate similar publication opportunities for future series. A small budget is available to help with travel costs.

Please send a 300-500 word abstract to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by March 31st 2010. We shall announce the full programme in April.

Regards,

The organizers

Gabriel Bodard, Kings College London
Stuart Dunn, Kings College London
Juan Garc, Greek Manuscripts Department, British Library
Simon Mahony, University College London
Melissa Terras, University College London

* See http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/ (2006), http://www.gowerpublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=1064&sort=pubdate&forthcoming=1&title_id=9797&edition_id=12252 (2007), http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html (2008-9).

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

The GAHOM has been created by Jacques Le Goff 30 years ago. The team dedicated to the studies of Exempla has elaborated 4 databases :

- BIBLIEX (BIBLIography about EXempla) is an international bibliography about medieval Exempla with about 3000 references, 2 updates each year. We are pleased to receive new references and even off prints.

- ThEMA (Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi) is an index of around 8000 exempla, from 46 collections of exempla mainly in Latin, but also in old French, Middle English, Toscan, Spanish and Catalan. People all around the world can index at the same time for ThEMA as it is a collaborative database. For each exemplum, you can find a memento about the collection and its author, a summary, keywords, sources, bibliography, translations, references in repertories, such as Index Exemplorum by F. C. Tubach. The keywords are in French, English, Deutch, Spanish and Italian and the queries can be adressed in these languages, but the summaries of exempla are mainly in french.

- ReLEX (Ressources on Line about EXempla) : is a kind of portal to indicate tools of research, databases and collections of exempla (old editions and manuscripts), available on the Web, some have been digitized by the team.

- CEL (Caire de Heisterbach on Line) : is a digitized edition of Caire of Heisterbachs Dialogus miraculorum,  J. Strange, 2 vol., 1851. Queries in full text are available.

If you have any question or information, please, contact us : pcollomb@yahoo.fr
polo@ehess.fr

Posted by: Polo de Beaulieu (polo@ehess.fr).

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature and cultures of the medieval world. Published electronically once a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. For further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net.

Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of monsters and monstrosities in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. We are also interested in book reviews on foundational works that would be helpful for graduate students exploring medieval monsters and monstrosities for the first time, such as Asa Sim Mittman, Maps And Monsters In Medieval England, (2008) and Karin E. Olsen, L. A. J. R. Houwen, eds., Monsters and the monstrous in medieval northwest Europe (2001). Article submissions may address but are not limited to:

• Bestiaries and manuscript illuminations of monstrosities
• Classical and Eastern transmissions and receptions of monsters
  Desires and sins of the flesh that degrade humans into monstrosities in allegories, commentaries, exempla, hagiography, miracle collections, and sermons
• The Green Man, the Owl Man, the Wild Man and the Wild Woman
• Medical accounts of monstrous births and the monstrous female, intersexed, or male body
• Monsters and monstrosities in epics, exempla, fables, lais, and romances
• Monsters and monstrosities in chronicles and travel literature
• Purgatorial and demonic monsters and monstrosities in Visionary literature The racial other as a monstrosity
• Saints as and/or versus monsters and monstrosities in vitae and legends Transformations of humans into animals and vice versa

The 2009 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2010. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1 2010.

Posted by: Grace Windsor (gwindsor@eircom.net).

Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is a large-scale collaborative research project in the digital humanities directed by Dr. Ray Siemens, Department of English, University of Victoria, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our research team is examining the complex processes of human engagement with information that is available digitally. Specifically, we are interested in identifying and understanding the ways in which social sciences and humanities readers engage with forms such as the electronic scholarly edition, the academic monograph, scholarly journal and essay collections, and electronic literature.

With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research. The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to you and other researchers.

The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, you will find it online at  http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s34325.htm . Your identity will be kept confidential. All documents and participants will be identified only by code number. Digital data records will be kept on password-protected hard drives and on disks stored in locked filing cabinets. Only the principal investigator and the co-investigators will have access to the data. If you have any concerns about your treatment or rights as a research participant, you may contact the Research Subject Information Line in the UBC Office of Research Services at 604-822-8598. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw from the study at any time. Your completion and submission of the survey will indicate your consent to participate.

In consideration of your time, you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire.

We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or <katay164@interchange.ubc.ca>.

Best regards,

Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team
Associate Professor
Director, Digital Literacy Centre
University of British Columbia
c/o Department of Language & Literacy
2125 Main Mall,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4

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

The first workshop, ‘Seeing Data Differently: Emerging Tools for Scholarly Analysis and Presentation’, will combine a project clinic with hands-on demonstrations of web tools which can be used for managing, communicating and presenting data within and between digital humanities projects.

The second, ‘A Date With Data: What is this Markup Stuff Anyway?’, will provide beginners an introduction to metadata, markup and document encoding.

For more information and instructions on how to register for Seeing Data Differently and A Date With Data, please follow the links below to their respective event pages. Places are free but numbers are limited so early registration is recommended. Registration is done of a first come, first serve basis.

Seeing Data Differently: http://dho.ie/node/660
A Date With Data: http://dho.ie/node/674

Yours,

Faith

–

K. Faith Lawrence, PhD
Digital Humanities Specialist
Digital Humanities Observatory
28-32 Pembroke Street Upper
Dublin 2

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

Want to get more out of it? Want to stretch it to the limit? Come to Balisage 2010, the peer-reviewed conference that makes you a markup geek (or at least feel like one)! Whether you’re into theory or practice, this is the place to be to find out where the cutting edge is-and go beyond it. Balisage looks at every aspect of markup, from its theoretical and philosophical underpinnings to the newest and coolest ways of applying it to real-world problems.

Got Something To Say About Markup? (of course you do!)

We want to hear from you at Balisage 2010. We welcome submissions on any aspect of markup and structured information in theory or practice, generic or application specific, including by not limited to:

• principles for the design, development, and documentation of markup vocabularies
• applications of XML, Topic Maps, and related specifications
• use or implementation of XSLT, XQuery, XProc, and other tools for processing marked up data
• XML and databases
• libraries and designs for supporting XML (or other forms of descriptive markup) in general-purpose programming languages
• efficiency in XML processing
• techniques for quality assurance in markup systems
• handling overlapping structures in markup
• alternatives to XML
• formal models of markup and structured information
• principles and practice of data validation (including uses of XSD, Relax NG, Schematron, and other schema languages)
• best practice in the organization of XML workflows
• problems of data longevity and reusability
• fundamental principles of information structure and organization
• achieving interoperability in applications of common vocabularies

How:
Submit full papers in XML to info@balisage.net Guidelines, DTDs, schemas, and details at http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html
Apply to the Peer Review panel http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html

More Information:
Read about Balisage: http://www.balisage.net
Sign up for the Markup conference announcement list: http://www.balisage.net/MarkupAnnounce.html
Follow Balisage on Twitter: http://twitter.com/balisage

Schedule:

19  March 2010 – Peer review applications due
16  April 2010 – Paper submissions due
16  April 2010 – Applications due for student support awards
20  May 2010 – Speakers notified
9  July 2010 – Final papers due
2  August 2010 – Pre-conference Symposium
3-6 August 2010 – Balisage: The Markup Conference

Help make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montréal!

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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010          mailto:info@balisage.net
August 3-6, 2010                                                        http://www.balisage.net
pre-conference symposium: August 2, 2010                  Montreal, Canada
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Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

On behalf of the program committee and the organizing team,

Christian Wittern

[1] http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/registration.html

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

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

Application deadline is March 1, 2010. Participants will be notified by March 12.

This seminar assumes a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore manuscript encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup.

This seminar is part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants’ projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and encoding strategies, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded sample documents and templates. We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed.

Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant.

For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/.

The rest of the seminar schedule is as follows: