dm-l January 2006

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Professional Development Workshops and Digital Humanities?
by Arianna Ciula 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

-----Original Message----- From: Humanist Discussion Group [mailto:humanist@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)kcl.ac.uk>) Sent: 26 January 2006 06:47 To: humanist(a)Princeton.EDU Subject: 19.576 Professional Development Workshops and Digital Humanities? Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 576. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/ www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist(a)princeton.edu Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:40:04 +0000 From: Melissa Terras <m.terras(a)ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Professional Development Workshops and Digital Humanities? Dear Humanists, In the past few years, the ACH/ALLC Annual Conference has often been preceded by a series of workshops, usually providing basic introductions to XML, TEI, and other technologies of interest to those who aim to partake in the digital humanities community. However, there has been little provision of training for academics and practitioners in the field who may like to undertake some professional development at a more advanced level. There has been some discussion within the ALLC committee as to whether it would be beneficial to the community to organise and support workshops prior to the Digital Humanities conference(s) which may be focussed at providing some kind of professional development training. These would probably be one day workshops on the day prior to the conference. Topics which have been suggested include (but are not limited to) -content management systems - digital image colour management - eXist databases/servers - visualisation and 3d visualisations - grid technologies and e-science applications in the humanities - xml, SQL and databases - gaming technologies, narratives (and theory?) - three dimensional scanning: tools, techniques and usability. Would members of the Digital Humanities community be interested in such an endeavour? Are there any topics we should be focussing on? Is the involvement of the organisation(s) in the area of professional development a good idea? If we build it, will you attend? Thanks Melissa Terras (Acting Secretary of ALLC) _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE Lecturer in Electronic Communication School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Henry Morley Building University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras(a)ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/ Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/

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Brief report on the Digital Philology conference in Hamburg
by Juan Garces 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Dear all, Here is just a brief report on the Digital Philology conference you might find of interest: The TEUCHOS centre <http://www.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/> - an institution that aims to provide digital research infrastructure in the fields of scholarly editing, paleography, manuscript research and history of philology and is located at the University of Hamburg - organized between 20 and 22 January a conference with the title Digital Philology - <http://www.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/?page_id=34> Problems and Perspectives. The presentations focused on tools, imaging, resources, cataloguing, and editing, and was preceded by a workshop on the digital edition of letter corpora. It did indeed provide a good overview over the state of digital editing and the tools and technologies necessary to produce these - both their achievements and problems. Some of the issues that came up during the conference were: * the legal situation created by current copyright laws * the relation of the digital research environment to traditional research discourses * the need for broader agreement on issues of standards and unique identifiers * the development of new protocols in referring to digital products * the availability of digital editions and the tools to produce them Another aspect was the conversations and the networking facilitated between work in different projects, countries, and languages: not only between projects mostly in German, English, French, or Italian, but also several Russian projects. The conference organizers will no doubt wish to share more information about both the conference and the TEUCHOS project as whole in time. It is very much hoped that the TEUCHOS centre succeed in obtaining the necessary funding to begin such important work in Germany in a truly international and collaborative spirit. Best, Juan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Juan Garcés Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Kay House, 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX T: +44 (0)20 7848 1393 F: +44 (0)20 7848 2980

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TEI and XML Course: Feb 20-21 2006.
by James Cummings 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Oxford University Computing Services is running a 2 day course on TEI and XML on 20th/21st February 2006. Although this is part of our regular IT Learning Program, we'd also be happy to see folks from outside Oxford University. The teachers are Lou Burnard, James Cummings and Sebastian Rahtz. Between us, we'll talk about XML, text encoding, the TEI scheme, Roma, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and anything else which comes up. Throughout, we'll be addressing TEI P5 only. Details at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/courses/detail.xsp?code=TWDA Those from outside the University of Oxford can register by emailing: courses(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk

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brief report on DIGIMED
by Arianna Ciula 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Dear all, I would like to report briefly on the DIGIMED conference (http://web-linux.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/) held last week in Arezzo - Italy. The University of Siena-Arezzo (specifically the Dipartimento di Teoria e Documentazione delle Tradizioni Culturali and the Centro Interdipantimentale di Studi sui Beni Librari e Archivistici) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London were involved as European partners (together with the Italian foundation Fondazione Ezio Franceschini) in the organisation of the international seminar entitled "Digital Philology and Medieval Texts". The event has been successful on different levels and from different perspectives: - first of all the programme itself was rich and combined both scholars presenting the most advanced humanities computing approaches to philology and scholars keen on the traditional methods of philology. Many presentations and discussions revealed that the latter - the traditional methods of philology - are very much perceived as not adequately represented by the available digital resources and tools. In some cases, these critics are the results of a basic misunderstanding: is up to the philologist as such to develop a "proper" (whatever this means for the editor itself) digital edition. The dichotomy between "us" as philologists and "you" as computer scientists or whoever else is never fruitful as we all know. However, it is necessary to acknowledge that digital philology as a discipline is not mature at all both in principles - as the debates at the conference stressed out - and in practices (where the discipline itself seems to enlarge and become a "transdiscipline"). Some talks though excelled in showing that this is not always true. Ambitions are high both in the development of new tools and in the contextualisation of the discipline in a specific theoretical framework. - the attendance was very much over the organisers' expectations and most importantly, besides the big names in the field, featured a crowd of young people (undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as young researches from all over Italy and, in some cases, from other European countries). Their subscriptions to the workshop exceeded the available seats. However, they didn't intervene at the open discussion itself. What does this mean? Would the debate been different if lead by a younger generation? Do they prefer doing rather than talking? Do they privilege the direct experience and then model the theory on it? Do they see less the discrepancies and more the challenges? - the debate at the round table was passionate and stimulating. Being all compressed in one afternoon, the discussion became rather abstract and intense, detached from the single presentations. Rather than concentrate on the single implementation and ideas, the juice of the substantial issues came out leaving the audience, or at least me, immobilised by the flood. - even if dominated by the Italian language, the multilingual (and multicultural) aspect of the conference emerged during the presentations, the discussions and the social moments, reminding us of a wider challenge beyond the one of digital philology itself. Another occasion for creating bounds and think of future collaborations. Some of the materials related to the presentations are already available on the conference website. All the best, Arianna

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FWD: (CFP) Marginalia
by James Cummings 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

FYI ------- Forwarded Message ------- Call for Submissions *Marginalia* /A new, interdisciplinary graduate journal of the Middle Ages/ /'Illumination'/: The theme for the third issue of Marginalia is 'Illumination'. In recent months, the 'Cambridge Illuminations' exhibition has provoked much thought on illumination in textual and manuscript studies. For the third issue of Marginalia, we invite contributors to consider broader approaches to issues of 'illumination', in the Middle Ages, and in scholarly approaches to this period. We welcome submissions from graduates working in all areas of Medieval studies, which might address illumination in terms of - sight and the visual - spiritual or metaphorical revelation - scientific discoveries of the Middle Ages - issues of epistemology and knowledge - overturning the stigma of the 'dark ages' We invite submissions in the form of long articles (approximately 5,000 words) and shorter /Notes and Queries/ style articles (approximately 1,000 words), which must conform to the MHRA style guide (available online at www.mhra.org.uk <http://www.mhra.org.uk/>). Please see our <http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/nta.php> <http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/nta.php>Notes for Contributors <http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/nta.php> for further details regarding style requirements and guidance about the form long and short articles should take. Submissions should be sent no later than *17th March 2006* to the editors via emails to <mailto:submissions@marginalia.co.uk> <mailto:submissions@marginalia.co.uk>submissions(a)marginalia.co.uk <mailto:submissions@marginalia.co.uk>. We will be happy to see brief proposals and to answer queries before the deadline (please email proposals and queries to the email address above). */The editors of Marginalia are graduate students, advised by a board of academics, from the University of Cambridge./* For more information, see www.marginalia.co.uk <http://www.marginalia.co.uk>

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DM News: Publication Announcement: Cædmon's Hymn: A Multi-media Study, Edition and Archive
by caedmon＠uleth.ca 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

A new article has been added to the news section at DigitalMedivalist.org -- Publication Announcement: Cædmon's Hymn: A Multi-media Study, Edition and Archive To view this article, please follow this link: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news.cfm?n_ID=42

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DM News: Medieval Academy Survey of Computing
by caedmon＠uleth.ca 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

A new article has been added to the news section at DigitalMedivalist.org -- Medieval Academy Survey of Computing To view this article, please follow this link: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news.cfm?n_ID=41

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Digital Philology conference in Hamburg, January 20-22
by Daniel O'Donnell 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

[please scroll down for English version] Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, das vorläufige Programm unserer Hamburger Konferenz "Digitale Philologie -- Probleme und Perspektiven" (20.-22. Januar 2006) ist jetzt unter <http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RV/other/projects/conference.html> verfügbar. Um künftige Informationen zur Entwicklung unseres "Teuchos"-Zentrums gezielter zu verteilen, haben wir eine elektronische Mailingliste eingerichtet. Wenn Sie auch weiterhin Ankündigungen und Hinweise von uns erhalten möchten, senden Sie bitte eine E-Mail, die eine Textzeile der Form (die Platzhalter bitte durch Ihre E-Mail-Adresse usw. ersetzen): subscribe teuchos-announce Ihre_Mailadresse@Ihre_Domain (Ihr voller Name) enthält, an <majordomo(a)lists.uni-hamburg.de>. Sie erhalten nach einigen Stunden eine (halb-)automatische Bestätigung. Alle über die Liste versandten E-Mails haben im Betreff "[teuchos]" vorangestellt, so daß Sie diese Mails leicht automatisch weiterverarbeiten können. Außerhalb der Mailingliste werden wir künftig nur noch sehr vereinzelt Informationen versenden. Mit freundlichen Grüßen zu den Festtagen Dieter Harlfinger *** Dear colleagues, the preliminary programme for our conference "Digital philology -- problems and perspectives" (Hamburg, 20-22 January 2006) is now available at <http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RV/other/projects/conference.html>. We created an automated mailing list to distribute future information regarding the "Teuchos" centre only to those who wish to have them. To continue to receive announcements etc. from us, please send an email with the line (please insert your email address and name): subscribe teuchos-announce your_address@your_domain (Your full name) in the body to <majordomo(a)lists.uni-hamburg.de>. You'll receive a confirmation after a few hours. All mails going through the list will have "[teuchos]" prepended to their subject line to facilitate automatic processing. We will send announcements outside of the mailing list only very sporadically in the future. Season's greetings, Dieter Harlfinger -- Prof. Dr. Dieter Harlfinger Universität Hamburg Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie Von-Melle-Park 6 D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: 040 / 42838-4770 Fax: +49 40 42838 4764 -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Acting Chair and Associate Professor Director, Digital Medievalist Project Department of English, University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2378 Fax +1 (403) 382-7191 http://www.uleth.ca/fas/eng/ http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

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[Fwd: CESG - Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen]
by Daniel O'Donnell 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

An announcement that was lost in the Christmas mail: apologies. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Acting Chair and Associate Professor Director, Digital Medievalist Project Department of English, University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2378 Fax +1 (403) 382-7191 http://www.uleth.ca/fas/eng/ http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

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[Fwd: Re: CLIR Fellowship Announcement]
by Daniel O'Donnell 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

For your information. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Acting Chair and Associate Professor Director, Digital Medievalist Project Department of English, University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2378 Fax +1 (403) 382-7191 http://www.uleth.ca/fas/eng/ http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

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