dm-l September 2004

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[Fwd: New website]
by Daniel O'Donnell 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: New website Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:19:20 -0500 From: Jim Marchand <marchand(a)UIUC.EDU> Reply-To: Medieval Texts - Philology Codicology and Technology <MEDTEXTL(a)listserv.uiuc.edu> To: MEDTEXTL(a)listserv.uiuc.edu The latest issue of our German Department newsletter (The Weekly Green) has a recommendation by Professor Claudia Bornholdt for a new website: www.mediaevum.de/haupt2.htm. A great new (Sept. 2004) site, well-organized. Should get better. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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CFP: Digital Medievalism: Making the Old New Again, kzoo2005
by James Cummings 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

[Reminder] Call For Papers: Making the Old New Again: Digital Medievalism in an Ever-Changing World The Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford, invites abstracts for 20 minute papers to be delivered in the above sponsored session at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (May 5-8, 2005). Session Abstract: This session aims to bring together medievalists working with digital projects to discuss their experiences with the every-changing and evolving nature of these resources. As increasingly more electronic research tools are created and computing technology changes, making the old resources accessible in new contexts is often extremely challenging. What do you do when your campus upgrades to a new operating system and your 'Teach Yourself Old English' software no longer functions? How do you convert electronic manuscript editions from a couple decades ago into a format so they will work with new software? Other related issues which could be included in the session include: the re-purposing of older material to enable comparability in new resources, the transformation of legacy data into standards-compliant formats, the introduction of out-dated material into new online publishing frameworks, and the special challenges faced by medieval resource creation. It is hoped that this session will attract those with both negative and positive experience of data migration and resource creation, and allow them to share their experience to help medievalists work towards common goals of preservation of the digital medieval resources we already have and best practice in future resource creation. Please send abstracts (max. 500 words) for proposed papers with an even shorter summary c.v. to: James.Cummings(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk before 1 September 2004. Make sure to include complete contact information and AV requirements, and note that accepted participants must commit themselves to attend. For more information concerning this conference please see: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/ Please feel free to circulate this call for papers to anyone you think might be interested. -James --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital Medievalism (Kalamazoo) and Early Drama (Leeds) see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jamesc/cfp.html

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Find Glyph Installation
by Daniel O'Donnell 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

From the horse's mouth: >Hi Daniel > >I don't know why this problem cropped up; naturally the FindGlyph program does not itself muck about with people's operating systems: it's really just a little script bundled up with some MS Visual Basic runtime libraries, and the installation program is all Microsoft's. I ran the installer myself just now (on Win2k) and I noticed that it suggested I shut down other applications in case it had to "install system files" or "update shared files". This is an entirely generic message built into Visual Basic's installer program. Your colleague's report is a bit thin on actual details, so I don't know, but this may be what they're referring to? If so, it is actually quite normal for VB programs to depend on several runtime DLL libraries which are often, but not always, already installed on users' computers. Typically the installer program will pop up a dialog box when there is an existing version file, and offer the user the option to keep their existing file, or replace it with the newer version. > >HTH > >Con > I did get the same warning about shutting down other applications when I installed, but like Con, didn't see anything unusual. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Find Glyph
by Daniel O'Donnell 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

I'd promised a link to a utility that does for Windows what the calculator seems to do for OS X. Conal Tuohy wrote this for me last year. It is a superb program: <http://www.nzetc.org/downloads/find-glyph.zip>. This can be supplemented with character agent: <http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_fonts.html#agent>. A useful page full of utilities is <http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_fonts.html>. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Re: [dm-l] mini-DM conference at Kazoo?
by Larry Swain 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Capital idea! > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > ---------------- > To be honest, I was just thinking of maybe organising a meeting (black > swan-style dinner?) for computer oriented medievalists at K'zoo this > coming year. Then we could coordinate session proposals for 2006 (and > have another dinner). What say? > > Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote: > > >Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > >---------------- > >Il ven, 2004-09-03 alle 18:42, Dot Porter ha scritto: > > > > > >>Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > >>---------------- > >>Hello List, > >> > >>At Kzoo next year there are at least three groups sponsoring a total of five > >>sessions with an electronic focus - Digital Medievalist, the Oxford Text > >>Archive, and Research in Computing for Humanities. Dan O'Donnell and I were > >>discussing the problem of market saturation that might come from having so > >>many similar sessions, and he suggested that we look into organizing a mini > >>DM conference-within-a-conference for next year's (2006) Kalamazoo Congress. > >>This would bring together all the various people who regularly organize > >>digital sessions and sell them to the Congress organizers as a group. The > >>Institute for Cistercian Studies at Western Michigan has been doing > >>something similar for years (as long as the Congress itself, I believe) with > >>great success. I think this is a super idea - what do others think? > >> > >> > > > >I agree, that would great. But were you thinking of Kzoo 2005 or 2006? > >Can we organize it for Kzoo 2005? > > > >Ciao > > > > > > > > -- > Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD > Associate Professor of English > University of Lethbridge > Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 > Tel. (403) 329-2377 > Fax. (403) 382-7191 > E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> > Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > dm-l mailing list > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l -- _____________________________________________________________ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. >From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze

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Re: Re: Re: [dm-l] mini-DM conference at Kazoo?
by Dorothy C. Porter 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Well that was *supposed* to be off list - sorry guys! :-/ Dot -----Original Message----- From: "Dorothy C. Porter" <dporter(a)uky.edu> To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:04:49 -0400 Subject: Re: Re: [dm-l] mini-DM conference at Kazoo? Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm ---------------- Hi Roberto - replying off list, The 2005 meeting has already been organized, so we couldn't do this until 2006 (it's 2004 now! Time sure does fly...) Dot -----Original Message----- From: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli(a)ling.unipi.it> To: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 08:47:01 +0200 Subject: Re: [dm-l] mini-DM conference at Kazoo? Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm ---------------- Il ven, 2004-09-03 alle 18:42, Dot Porter ha scritto: > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > ---------------- > Hello List, > > At Kzoo next year there are at least three groups sponsoring a total of five > sessions with an electronic focus - Digital Medievalist, the Oxford Text > Archive, and Research in Computing for Humanities. Dan O'Donnell and I were > discussing the problem of market saturation that might come from having so > many similar sessions, and he suggested that we look into organizing a mini > DM conference-within-a-conference for next year's (2006) Kalamazoo Congress. > This would bring together all the various people who regularly organize > digital sessions and sell them to the Congress organizers as a group. The > Institute for Cistercian Studies at Western Michigan has been doing > something similar for years (as long as the Congress itself, I believe) with > great success. I think this is a super idea - what do others think? I agree, that would great. But were you thinking of Kzoo 2005 or 2006? Can we organize it for Kzoo 2005? Ciao -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) _______________________________________________ Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ dm-l mailing list dm-l(a)uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l *************************************** Dorothy Carr Porter, Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities University of Kentucky 351 William T. Young Library Lexington, KY 40506 dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 *************************************** _______________________________________________ Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ dm-l mailing list dm-l(a)uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l *************************************** Dorothy Carr Porter, Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities University of Kentucky 351 William T. Young Library Lexington, KY 40506 dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ***************************************

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Re: Re: [dm-l] mini-DM conference at Kazoo?
by Dorothy C. Porter 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

Hi Roberto - replying off list, The 2005 meeting has already been organized, so we couldn't do this until 2006 (it's 2004 now! Time sure does fly...) Dot -----Original Message----- From: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli(a)ling.unipi.it> To: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 08:47:01 +0200 Subject: Re: [dm-l] mini-DM conference at Kazoo? Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm ---------------- Il ven, 2004-09-03 alle 18:42, Dot Porter ha scritto: > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > ---------------- > Hello List, > > At Kzoo next year there are at least three groups sponsoring a total of five > sessions with an electronic focus - Digital Medievalist, the Oxford Text > Archive, and Research in Computing for Humanities. Dan O'Donnell and I were > discussing the problem of market saturation that might come from having so > many similar sessions, and he suggested that we look into organizing a mini > DM conference-within-a-conference for next year's (2006) Kalamazoo Congress. > This would bring together all the various people who regularly organize > digital sessions and sell them to the Congress organizers as a group. The > Institute for Cistercian Studies at Western Michigan has been doing > something similar for years (as long as the Congress itself, I believe) with > great success. I think this is a super idea - what do others think? I agree, that would great. But were you thinking of Kzoo 2005 or 2006? Can we organize it for Kzoo 2005? Ciao -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) _______________________________________________ Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ dm-l mailing list dm-l(a)uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l *************************************** Dorothy Carr Porter, Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities University of Kentucky 351 William T. Young Library Lexington, KY 40506 dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ***************************************

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FW: Useful Unicode tool in Mac OS X [from TEI-L]
by Dan 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

A verry useful tip for Mac users. There is a free utility available for Win machines that does something similar, though not the character maths. I'll post the link later. -----Original Message----- From: David Sewell Date: 2/9/04 14:58 To: TEI-L(a)LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU Subj: Useful Unicode tool in Mac OS X I just discovered a great and somewhat hidden feature of the OS X Calculator application: it does Unicode display and "math". That is, you can display any Unicode character that your system fonts can display by entering its numeric value, and you can display characters that are plus or minus any offset you want by doing addition or subtraction. It's a useful thing to have if you're working with an XML document containing numeric character entities and you want to know what they represent. To access this, go to "View - Display Format - Unicode" from the menu. If you had a numeric value in the previous display, it will be replaced by the equivalent Unicode character. You can display different characters by hitting the Clear button and then entering a new value. (The display will update each time you enter a numeral, since the calculator has no way of knowing whether you're going to enter a 2-digit, 3-digit, 4-digit or whatever value.) You can do Unicode math by hitting the + or - button and entering a value; the display will update to the appropriate offset from the character in the display. This works for hexadecimal, too, if you start out with the hex calculator. David -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell(a)virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://www.ei.virginia.edu/

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Heroic Age article of interest
by Daniel O'Donnell 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hello all, The latest issue of Heroic Age, an on-line journal, has just been published. I have a small article in there that might be of interest, particularly to novices in electronic editing, containing advice on ensuring longevity of electronic projects. The advice is all fairly standard: <http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/7/ecolumn.html>. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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