dm-l September 2005

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xsltproc and xsl
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi all, I just discovered xsltproc in linux. Does anybody know what XSL process it is? It seems quite good. Is there a reason not to prefer it to Saxon? -dan

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Font editors for Linux
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I'm passing on a question I read about on Scribus-L, a list server devoted to a linux desktop publishing program: > Are there any Linux font editors? > > I may need something to make a font. A serious font for linguistics > work (IPA characters, plus regular characters, plus typesetting > features such as ligatures, various dashes, etc., so the font can be > used for publishing books). > > Fontlab seems to be the reigning monarch in the Win/Mac world. > What is the best font editor currently available in the Linux world? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Google being sued by authors for copyright violation
by Norman Hinton 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

This in today's NYTimes, about the Google plan to digitize whole libraries: Writers Sue Google, Accusing It of Copyright Violation By EDWARD WYATT Published: September 21, 2005 Three authors filed suit against Google yesterday contending that the company's program to create searchable digital copies of the contents of several university libraries constituted "massive copyright infringement." The University of Michigan has agreed to let Google create a searchable database of its library collection. Related Class Action Complaint (The Authors Guild v. Google) Readers Forum: Technology and the Internet The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court in Manhattan, is the first to arise from the Google Print Library program, the fledgling effort aimed at a searchable library of all the world's printed books. Google intends to make money from the project by selling advertising on its search pages, much as it does on its popular online search-engine site. The plaintiffs, who are seeking class-action status, also include the Authors Guild, a trade group that says it represents more than 8,000 published authors. Listed as plaintiffs in the suit are Daniel Hoffman, a former consultant in residence at the Library of Congress and the author of many volumes of poetry, translation and literary criticism; Betty Miles, an author of children's and young adult fiction; and Herbert Mitgang, the author of a biography of Abraham Lincoln as well as novels and plays. Mr. Mitgang is a former cultural correspondent and editorial writer for The New York Times. Each of the plaintiffs claim copyright to at least one literary work that is in the library of the University of Michigan, according to the suit. Michigan is one of three universities, along with Harvard and Stanford, that agreed last year to let Google create searchable databases of their entire collections. The New York Public Library and Oxford University also entered into agreements with Google, but only for the works in their collections that are no longer covered by copyright. Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, said the organization did not know whether Google had yet copied any of the works by the plaintiffs. But he noted that they were seeking an injunction against copying and a declaration that the program violates copyright law, as well as damages from any violations so far. The suit contends that Google knew or should have known that the Copyright Act "required it to obtain authorization from the holders of the copyrights in these literary works before creating and reproducing digital copies of the works for its commercial use and for the use of others." Google has said from the beginning that its program is covered by the "fair use" provision of the copyright law, which allows limited use of protected works. In a statement issued in response to the suit, Google also said its program respected copyrights. "We regret that this group has chosen litigation to try to stop a program that will make books and the information within them more discoverable to the world," the statement said. "Google Print directly benefits authors and publishers by increasing awareness of and sales of the books in the program. And, if they choose, authors and publishers can exclude books from the program if they don't want their material included. Copyrighted books are indexed to create an electronic card catalog and only small portions of the books are shown unless the content owner gives permission to show more." Google temporarily suspended its library project last month to give authors and other copyright holders until November to opt out by telling it that they did not want certain works to be copied. But Mr. Aiken said that offer turned longstanding precedents in copyright law upside down, requiring owners to pre-emptively protect rights rather than requiring a user to gain approval for use of a copyrighted work. Some aspects of the Google Print program have encountered relatively little opposition, particularly one that invites publishers to submit their books to Google for scanning and inclusion in the Google search engine. Most of the large commercial publishing houses have submitted books to Google for scanning, in the hope that the program will lead users to find and buy their books more easily.

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Digital Classicist
by Gabriel BODARD 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

(English below) Dieser Aufruf zur Beteiligung kann man auch bei der Url http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/de-index.html auf deutsch lesen | Cet appel à participation se trouve aussi en français à l'url http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/fr-index.html | Questa richiesta di partecipazione e' disponibile anche in Italiano all'indirizzo http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/it-index.html | versión español próximamente We should like to announce the creation of a new project and community, hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (KCL), applying humanities computing to the study of the ancient world. The Digital Classicist has a pilot web site at http://www.digitalclassicist.org, which, as well as serving as a placeholder for further content, sets out our aims and objectives in a preliminary manner. As you will see, key sections of the website and summaries of articles will, where possible, be translated into the major languages of European scholarship: e.g. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish etc. The project also comprises a discussion list, a Wiki, and a Blog. The project, which is committed to being ongoing and available in the long term, fills a gap in the current academic environment: there are countless important digital research projects in the classics, including many that offer advice and share tools; there are sites that discuss, host, or list such resources (the Stoa, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford, EAGLE in Rome, to name but a few); but there is no single platform for scholars and interested experts in the international and polyglot community to discuss problems, share experiences, post news and advice, and go to for help on all matters digital and classical. We shall of course work closely with other organisations and projects that are active in these areas (in particular the Stoa, and other subject communities such as the Digital Medievalist, including specialists in archaeological, historical, and geographical technologies), to avoid excessive overlap and maximise co-operation and collaboration. At this point we especially need members of the international scholarly community to contribute to the project. If you feel you could get involved in an editorial capacity, or you could recommend somebody else to do so, please do get in touch. There is no obligation that editors give up many hours of their time, of course--editorial roles are discussed in a posting at http://tinyurl.com/cpdsu . In addition we should be very grateful if you could suggest other people--especially those in non-Anglophone Europe--who might be interested in participating in this project in any way. And in any case, please spread the word, join the mailing list and get involved in the discussions as we establish this new project and community. Best regards, The Editors digitalclassicist.org -- ======================================= Gabriel BODARD Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80 =======================================

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Manuscript databases and OAI
by JE Oskamp 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Dear Colleagues, The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL, www.cerl.org) has set up a project for developing a federated search facility for manuscripts. One of the options now being worked on is using the technique of harvesting through the OAI protocol. In order to make a recommendation on how to proceed after the project phase I would like to know a bit more about how many manuscripts databases (both with and without images) support harvesting through OAI. I am hoping you could help me with this. Those of you involved with manuscript databases I would like to ask the following three questions: - do you support searching by Z39.50 or SRU, or harvesting through OAI? - what kind of material does your database contain (period, spatial coverage, number of records)? - might you, in principal, be interested in taking part in an international federated search facility? I thank you in advance for your input in this small investigation, best wishes, Liesbeth Oskamp _______________________________________ Liesbeth Oskamp Consortium of European Research Libraries Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE Den Haag Postbus 90407, 2509 LK Den Haag The Netherlands Tel. +31 (0)70 314 0377 Fax +31 (0)70 314 0633 E-mail: Liesbeth.Oskamp(a)cerl.org Website: www.cerl.org

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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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Re: [dm-l] 3 listservs ...
by Patrick Conner 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

one of those embarassing moments when everyone in the room stops talking at once... usually just after I've given the punch line of a bad joke in a voice just slightly loudened with liquor. <sigh> >>>psb6m(a)virginia.edu 09/12 6:13 pm >>> Patrick Conner wrote: >... have had nothing to serve since 9/9 in the early afternoon. These >are Digital Medievalist, Ansax-l, and MedtextL. Is it a wider phenomenon? > >--Pat Yes, everyone has sunk into lethargy at the same time. Peter Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l(a)uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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3 listservs ...
by Patrick Conner 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

.. have had nothing to serve since 9/9 in the early afternoon. These are Digital Medievalist, Ansax-l, and MedtextL. Is it a wider phenomenon? --Pat

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RCH Fellowship for Scholars Affected by Katrina
by Dot Porter 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

(I don't know how many folks on the list live in the area affected by Katrina, but please pass this message along to anyone who may qualify) We at the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH) at the University of Kentucky are so impressed by the recent announcement that The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park (http://www.mith.umd.edu/) is offering a fellowship for scholars affected by Hurricane Katrina that we have petitioned the College of Arts and Sciences at UK to support a similar position at RCH. Please distribute this announcement to other lists and post as you see fit. A web version of the announcement is posted at http://www.rch.uky.edu/fellowship.html. Thank you, Dot Porter, Program Coordinator, RCH NOTE: The RCH website may be unavailable Friday, September 9, until the late afternoon. ***** *Announcement: Residential fellowship available for scholar displaced by Hurricane Katrina* With the support of the College of Arts & Sciences and the University of Kentucky Libraries, the newly reorganized Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH) at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, is pleased to be able to offer an immediate residential fellowship available to any one faculty member or ABD doctoral candidate at an institution closed by Hurricane Katrina. As described in our new mission statement, RCH brings together faculty and students from Engineering and the Humanities for research projects with benefits for all involved. We provide infrastructure, technical assistance, and grant writing assistance to individuals and groups who propose projects under its auspices. We also encourage and support interdisciplinary projects among individuals and groups from UK and around the world. We invite proposals from individual scholars who are currently working on a humanities computing project and require facilities to continue work OR who are in the process of starting a new project and require facilities and other assistance in getting the project off the ground. Projects through RCH have traditionally focused on image-based editing of medieval and, more recently, classical materials, however we are currently in the exciting process of branching out and investigating new topics. Any project focused on the electronic editing of or access to humanistic materials (manuscripts, rare books, artworks) would be acceptable. For more details on RCH, please visit our website at http://www.rch.uky.edu/. The fellowship includes: * Private workspace, including both PC and Macintosh workstations. * Access to our own hardware and software, and that of the Preservation and Digital Programs Division <http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/Special/> of the University of Kentucky Libraries (a list of hardware available at http://www.rch.uky.edu/index-prop.html#Fac) * An opportunity to speak through the "Wednesday Seminar" series at the Center for Computational Sciences <http://www.ccs.uky.edu/>. * Access to the RCH and Stoa.org <http://www.stoa.org> development and production servers. This includes online publication space, as well as archival storage space. * Consulting on issues of digital scholarship. Although we will probably not be able to offer a stipend, we are able to provide some funding for relocation and assistance with a search for housing. To apply, please send a letter of inquiry describing your project, a CV, and contact information for three references. Please send application materials by email to Dot Porter, the RCH Program Coordinator, at dporter(a)uky.edu <mailto:dporter@uky.edu>, or by regular mail to: Dot Porter Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities 351 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456 Consideration of applications will begin immediately. Applications from women and minorities and graduate students and faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is encouraged. Ross Scaife and Jurek Jaromczyk, Directors http://www.rch.uky.edu/ -- *************************************** 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: [dm-l] CFP: User Interfaces at Kalamazoo
by Patricia Kosco Cossard 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Oops, sorry I sent that private email to the group. Mea culpa (-: ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:37:01 -0600 >From: Jesse Hurlbut <jesse_hurlbut(a)byu.edu> >Subject: [dm-l] CFP: User Interfaces at Kalamazoo >To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > >CFP: Kalamazoo, May 2006 >Finding a Friendlier Front End: User Interface Design for Electronic >Critical Editions > >Abstract submission deadline: Sept. 15, 2005 > >This session hopes to feature both real practices and imagined ideals >for crafting a better presentation of data in electronic critical >editions. While some presentations may deal in part with tools or >initiatives for developers, the focus is really on the user. Are >there factors of layout and design that make it easier for the user >to access complex data? What tools can we provide that facilitate the >user's experience with an ancient text? In what ways can we yet >exploit the new media to enhance the interaction of the reader with a >textual tradition? What are some best practices in designing an >interface that adequately reflects the 'mouvance' of a text? What is >the potential functionality of an electronic critical apparatus? >Topics need not be limited to existing technologies. > >Send abstracts (include websites if appropriate) to Jesse D. Hurlbut at: > >jesse_hurlbut(a)byu.edu > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Digital Medievalist Project >Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org >Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm >RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm >Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php >Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l >Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm >Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca >dm-l mailing list >dm-l(a)uleth.ca >http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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