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ACLS OPENS COMPETITION FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

**EXTRA! THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE ACLS**=20 =20 =20 ACLS OPENS COMPETITION FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM =20 The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its new Digital Innovation Fellowship program, in support of digitally based research projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These fellowships, created with the generous help of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project of a digital character that advances humanistic studies and best exemplifies the integration of such research with use of computing, networking, and other information technology-based tools. The online application for the fellowship program is located at http://ofa.acls.org <http://ofa.acls.org/> ; applications must be completed by November 10, 2005 (decisions to be announced in late March 2006). =20 This is the first national fellowship program to recognize and reward humanistic scholarship in the digital sphere, and to help establish standards for judging the quality, innovation, and utility of such research. Many scholars have been working in the humanities for years with such tools as digital research archives, new media representations of extant data, and innovative databases-and now the ACLS sees an important opportunity to start identifying and providing incentive for distinctive work, on a national basis. "Information technology can be the means for scholars to answer new and old questions that have so far resisted our curiosity and our effort. This program will support a rising generation of scholars in making exactly that kind of progress," says James O'Donnell, provost of Georgetown University, Chair of the ACLS Executive Committee of Delegates, and author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (1998). =20 Up to five Digital Innovation Fellowships will be awarded in this competition year, for tenure beginning in 2006-2007. As this program aims to provide the means for pursuing digitally-based scholarly projects, the fellowship includes a stipend of up to $55,000 to allow an academic year's leave from teaching, as well as project funds of up to $25,000 for purposes such as access to tools and personnel for digital production, collaborative work with other scholars and with humanities or computing research centers, and the dissemination and preservation of projects. =20 The ACLS criteria for judging applications include the project's intellectual ambitions and technological underpinnings, likely contribution as a digital scholarly work to humanistic study, satisfaction of technical requirements for a successful research project, degree and significance of preliminary work; potential for promoting teamwork and collaboration (where appropriate), and articulation with local infrastructure at the applicant's home institution. =20 Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States as of the application deadline date and must hold a Ph.D. degree conferred prior to the application deadline. However, established scholars who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications and professional experience may also qualify. =20 =20 Applications for the 2005-06 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship Program Deadline: November 10, 2005 Contact: American Council of Learned Societies, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Phone: (212) 697-1505 E-mail: sfisher(a)acls.org Web: www.acls.org/difguide.htm

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dtd/schema generators?
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi, There used to be a very good (free) dtd and schema generator at http://www.hitsw.com/xml_utilites/. This site allowed you to upload an xml file and produce a rough Document Type Definition (dtd) or Schema file that was suitable for tweaking. I used it as recently as this past April, but it doesn't seem to be there any more. Does anybody know of an equivalent? -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> University of Lethbridge

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CFP: International Medieval Congress, Leeds 2006, Digital Medievalist Sessions (01-Sept-2005; 10-13-July-2006)
by James Cummings 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Call For Papers: International Medieval Congress 2006, Leeds Digital Medievalist Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 September, 2005 The Digital Medievalist project invites abstracts to be submitted for 20 minute papers to be delivered in either of two sessions at the thirteenth International Medieval Congress which will take place in Leeds, UK, from 10-13 July 2006. Session Abstracts: Digital Medievalist General Session: Electronic Surrogates The general session investigates any use of digital technology in Medieval Studies, but especially concentrates on the formulation of best practice in digital resource creation, particularly the problems and possibilities of electronic 'surrogates' (e.g. electronic representations of primary material, including but not limited to editions, facsimiles, databases) in researching the Middle Ages. Digital Medievalist Specific Session: Text vs Data The specific session focuses on the nature of textual data in electronic editions. Are there fundamental differences between primary source text when it is seen as text and when it is seen as data (e.g. in a textual database)? What are the benefits and drawbacks of one over the other? How do the differences affect our research with electronic media? To submit proposals for either of these sessions please fill out the online form available at http://purl.org/cummings/DM-Leeds2006.html before 1 September, 2005. --James Cummings Digital Medievalist Project. www.digitalmedievalist.org

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Fonts
by Abdullah Alger 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Does anyone know where I can download a font which has tironian notae and punctus elevatus? Abdullah

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Many hands make light work?
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi all, I'm writing to encourage members of the list to add to Wiki entries anything useful or interesting they see on, receive from, or contribute to the list. To name some recent examples: if you are the member of a project, institute or organisation, please consider adding a brief profile (see http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Projects for other examples); if you know or learn of a special font or tool, consider adding a page about it or adding to a relevant existing entry; if you see a term or acronym you didn't understand, consider adding an entry on it once you know what it means. Adding to the Wiki is really quite a quick and simple process (especially after you've tried once) and it is difficult for much to go wrong: we can undo any changes (you can do so yourself), and a couple of us keep track of all changes to the wiki to look for formatting errors, etc. we can repair. The goal here is not to add a burden to posters to the list (we are all busy people and don't necessarily have the time to answer questions twice). But the Wiki is in some ways intended to serve as the collective intelligence of the community. Just as on other lists, poster often post summaries of replies they receive to questions, on this list, you can post answers to the Wiki. Any attention you can devote to this, is very much appreciated. -d -- Dr. Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 vox: +1 (403) 329-2377 fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 URL: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ Digital Medievalist Project: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ (@wiglaf)

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Junicode semi-final
by Peter Baker 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

I can now say with a fair amount of confidence that the next version of Junicode, 0.6.5, is in stable condition. That is, it installs correctly under Windows, Linux and the latest version of OS X, and all the programming works, to the extent that I have been able to test it. Get it at this URL: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/junicode.html Click the "Beta" link at the very bottom. I will not promote this to official release status until I have brought the documentation up to date, but the fonts themselves should not change. As has generally been the case, the Regular style is much fuller than the bold, italic, and bold italic. When I get urgent requests for bold or italic characters to match the regular ones, I do try to comply. Many thanks to Mark Stansbury for stress-testing under OS X. Peter Baker

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Re: dm-l Digest, Vol 11, Issue 6
by Martin Holmes 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi there, Responding to Dieter's post below: first I'd like to thank you for your XDOM libraries, which I'm beginning to use for some of my Delphi projects. Great work! I agree that scholars currently have little to gain from developing tools, from the point of view of their academic careers. However, there's another group of individuals like me, who are working in the academic context as programmers and in similar roles, who do this kind of work for a living. John Bradley would be another good example. Our work initially got going in the realm of language teaching support (Computer-Assisted Language Learning), giving birth to quite widely-used tools such as our Hot Potatoes programs; recently, we've morphed from a Language Centre into a Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and our work is focused more and more on HC, digital documents and encoding. Our experience has been that when we release tools which gain approval and acceptance, the university is generally pleased and appreciative; they've also helped us spin off some of our work commercially, to everyone's financial benefit. While individual departments and tenure committees may not (yet) give much weight to this kind of work, other parts of the university administration are more supportive. The emergence of centres such as ours, which have relatively stable workforces (as opposed to the ad-hoc temporary hires associated with grant-supported projects) means that tools tend to be rewritten and updated steadily, which gives them more credibility (Hot Potatoes is now at version 6, for example, and has been out since 1997). This model of tool development, where a centre with long-term staff creates tools for the use of several projects, and maintains them over time, is much more likely to be successful than the case where an academic working on a temporarily-funded project hires in programmers to write something for a specific purpose, releases it, then moves on to the next piece of research, leaving the code to languish like an abandoned vehicle in a field (which is what "open-sourcing" a project often turns out to mean). Cheers, Martin At 09:37 AM 29/06/2005, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:14:24 +0200 >From: Dieter K?hler <d.k(a)philo.de> >Subject: [dm-l] Tools for humanities computing (WAS: Are markup > languages obsolete?) >To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca >Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20050624114827.025b2050(a)pop3.philo.de> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed > >I often think that the free "tools" aspect had been underestimated in >humanities computing. Of course, there exist a couple of good examples like >the TEI XSLT style sheets or some open source archival software etc. >Nevertheless, the situation is not satisfactory and I wonder what are its >causes and by which means it could possibly be improved. Briefly >summarized the main causes, I can think of, are the following: > >- Most software development in the humanities takes place in an ad hoc >fashion: People have specific problems and develop specific solutions. >- There is a lack of institutional support for developing tools for others. >Tools are only by-products. >- If there is institutional support for developing tools for others, these >tools need to be sold in order to re-finance the work. >- It is not advisable for a scholar trying to build an academic career on >developing tools for humanities computing. >- There exists no academic infrastructure *focused* on developing tools for >the humanities, ie. a specific society, journal and annual conference. > >Since one of my main research interests is considered with the development >of tools for humanities computing, I would be very interested in the >opinions of others on the above list of causes. Perhaps together we could >find ways to improve the situation. > >Dieter Köhler > >Institute of Philosophy and >Centre for Multimedia Studies >University of Karlsruhe >Germany ______________________________________ Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre mholmes(a)uvic.ca martin(a)mholmes.com mholmes(a)halfbakedsoftware.com http://www.mholmes.com http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/ http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com

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