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Programmer position at U of Maryland Libraries
by Herdsman Caedmon 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

A new vacancy has been posted to the DM bulletin board. Follow http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ to see the most recent articles, or http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news.cfm?n_ID=76 to go to the vacancy. -dan

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Server temporarily down
by Daniel O'Donnell 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

Hello all, A quick note. The database server that powers our site has been down for maintenance since 8am. It is supposed to be back up at 12. I hadn't realised the DM site was affected by the shutdown (I'd thought the database for that site was on a different server) so I didn't take any steps to cover for the lost time. Sorry. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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[Fwd: Image Markup Tool release]
by Herdsman Caedmon 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

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Re: [dm-l] Digital presses (science)
by Patricia Kosco Cossard 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Dear Dan et al., As you may remember the Medieval Academy has recently begun planning for an expansion of its Electronic Editions Series. Do you think this is an area we should look into publishing? thanks Patti ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:24:33 -0500 >From: michellezi(a)aol.com >Subject: Re: [dm-l] Digital presses (science) >To: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca, dm-l(a)uleth.ca > > Most science text books now come with a CD of > additional materials for both students and teachers. > They have all kinds of information for students: > study guides, textbook graphics, quizzes, extra > photos for graphic intensive subjects like > microscopy. The faculty CDs will come with teaching > guides, text banks, powerpoint slides, text book > graphics to make our own powerpoints, suggested lab > experiments, etc. These CDs have really been the > difference in which textbooks are adopted for large > classes. Science classes are often huge (>100 in > single lecture rooms or multiple sections) and each > department tends to adopt the same text book for all > sections of say microbiology or anatomy, so these > are truly large text book purchases. The publishers > have really jumped on CDs and websites as making the > difference in getting the textbook order. On the > downside, textbook prices have skyrocketed. Its not > unusual for a basic science text book to cost > > $100.! > > Other digital publications include all kinds of > government agencies and university institutes. Our > Institute of Biosecurity (Public Health) at St. > Louis U publishes about a half-dozen CDs on > bioterrorism response that are sent out to > government agencies and primary responders. I'm > sitting here looking at an Avian Flu Compendium that > was supplied in both paper and on a CD (in the same > package). The CD contains the entire paper > compendium as pdfs. Given that the CD has images of > all the relavent public health notices and reports > it is a modern primary source compendium as well. > > I suspect that it won't be very long before science > is virtually paperless.... > > Michelle Ziegler > > > -----Original Message----- > From: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca > To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > Sent: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 4:24 PM > Subject: [dm-l] Digital presses > > Hi all, > > I have a question: we all know presses that publish CD-ROMs of textual > projects, and some graphics projects. But what about things like > corpora, linguistic research, dictionaries, and other digital material > that are not intended as representations of primary sources? I can think > of some obvious examples (e.g. the DOE, I suppose the OED); but what > about projects on a smaller scale? > > Any ideas? > > -dan > -- > Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD > Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> > Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> > Associate Professor and Chair of English > University of Lethbridge > Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 > Vox: +1 403 329 2378 > Fax: +1 403 382-7191 > Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------ > > Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of > free safety and security tools, free access to > millions of high-quality videos from across the web, > free AOL Mail and more. >________________ >_______________________________________________ >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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Programming job at CCH
by Herdsman Caedmon 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

The following announcement has been posted to http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news.cfm?n_ID=74 Project Research Officer The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London CCH is both a department with responsibility for its own academic programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. In its latter capacity, it is looking for someone to assist with the technical development work in research projects. The projects cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences. The successful candidate to this position would be required to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them using XML-related technologies; to design, write and modify programs to search, query, retrieve and display them; and to collaborate in the creation of integrated HTML-based interfaces to publish them. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is essential, as is familiarity with standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. Awareness of the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines and/or of emerging XML technologies (XSLT 2.0, XQuery and Schemas) is highly desirable. Proven experience in creating dynamic XML-based applications using technologies such as Cocoon and/or native XML databases would be a significant advantage. In addition you will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. This appointment is on the RA1A scale, currently ranging from 20,645 to 30,902 per annum plus of 2,323 London Allowance. For further details and an application form, please contact Personnel Department, King's College London: strand-recruitment(a)kcl.ac.uk. Closing date for receipt of applications is 14 December 2006. The interview date is to be confirmed. Please quote reference W1/AAV/159/06.

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TAN: Software Questions - Mandala Diagrams
by Dan Kline 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Many thanks for the suggestions so far- And forgive the slight digression here. I think I might have had something like Mandala diagrams in mind. I actually remember seeing on some History or Discovery Channel type show a software package used to track phone numbers, etc. for linking criminal syndicates together. The phone numbers were listed around the circumference of a circle and then each number was linked to every other with a line across the circle, and the color of the line indicated the strength of the connection (in number of calls placed or received). It looked like a nifty way to see a variety of relationships within a coherent body of material. I wonder if anything like that is available for analyzing language. Does anyone have any experience with the software used in the Canterbury Tales Project? dkline ____________________________________ Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English U of Alaska Anchorage (PSB 212-C) 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99508 907-786-4364 | afdtk(a)uaa.alaska.edu The Electronic Canterbury Tales: http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/ect_main.htm "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

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Digital presses
by Dan O'Donnell 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Hi all, I have a question: we all know presses that publish CD-ROMs of textual projects, and some graphics projects. But what about things like corpora, linguistic research, dictionaries, and other digital material that are not intended as representations of primary sources? I can think of some obvious examples (e.g. the DOE, I suppose the OED); but what about projects on a smaller scale? Any ideas? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Associate Professor and Chair of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 329 2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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[Fwd: [MEDIEV-L:50049] Genealogical software]
by Daniel O'Donnell 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

This seems like an appropriate question for this forum. Though a bit out of the usual type of discussion. Any suggestions? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Two Open Literature Positions at the University of Lethbridge
by Daniel O'Donnell 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Apologies for cross-posting. I'd like to call members of this list's attention to two vacancies at the University of Lethbridge: http://www.uleth.ca/hum/Services/career_fac/English_Academic_Assistant_Nove… I believe these are quite unusual positions and they may be of great interest to some on this list. They are probationary teaching positions focusing entirely on English literature. The probationary period is for two years at which point successful candidates will be given a continuing (i.e. permanent) contract. The rank is Academic Assistant (Instructor). The positions are still subject to budgetary approval. We expect the focus of the positions will be junior-level (first and second year) literary and genre courses. Candidates with a PhD will be eligible to teach senior level courses in their area of specialisation. We do not anticipate any composition component (composition is handled by a different unit), there is no research requirement, and the course load is 3:3:1 or equivalent. We are willing to consider almost any area of specialisation. Among the areas where we have senior level courses open is Middle English. We don't have any Digital Humanities courses at the moment, though as hosts of the Digital Medievalist, we are active in the field. What we are looking for in these positions are people who are enthusiastic and innovative post-secondary teachers. The jobs would be particularly well suited to PhD holders who love to teach but are less interested in maintaining an active research program. We will expect the successful candidates to stay current with contemporary developments in pedagogy and their discipline. The position is open to all qualified applicants including those without Canadian citizenship or residency although preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Application details can be found by following the link above. The closing date is February 15th, 2007. But please feel free to contact the chair of the department informally if you'd like to discuss the positions. The Department Chair is Daniel Paul O'Donnell (i.e. me). -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Software question
by Dan Kline 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi, folks- Please forgive if this is a pure newby question. I'm looking to do some analysis of a large body of poetry, and I'd like to be able to sort according to individual words and then map those usages against other terms to map out their relationships. I'd also like to be able to tag the terms in a number of ways, especially according to date of appearance. I know I've run across references to software that allows this kind of thing (other than just fancy SQL programming), but I can't call any of it to mind. Anyone know of any easily accessible and not too expensive software that does this kind of thing? Or is my memory completely faulty? Thx, and best from Anchorage, Dan ____________________________________ Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English U of Alaska Anchorage (PSB 212-C) 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99508 907-786-4364 | afdtk(a)uaa.alaska.edu The Electronic Canterbury Tales: http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/ect_main.htm "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

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