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PhD in digital humanities
by Daniel O'Donnell 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

With apologies for cross-posting. Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:26:56 +0100 From: Sarah Davenport <sarah.davenport(a)kcl.ac.uk> Subject: CCH studentship for the PhD in Digital Humanities The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, is very pleased to announce the availability of a studentship for its PhD in Digital Humanities, to commence October 2006. Applications must be received by 7 April, so almost immediate action is required. If you know someone who might be interested, please see that he or she receives a copy of this message as soon as possible. Application is a two-stage process, as follows: 1. Candidates must first commence application to the PhD in Digital Humanities. This may be done online. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/pg/apply.html for information and the form. 2. They must then apply for the Studentship itself. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/gsstdship.html for information and the form. The studentships will provide funding for a minimum of three years, subject to satisfactory progress, to cover tuition fees at the home level and a stipend of 14,300 GBP for the first year, increasing in line with national stipend levels in subsequent years. All applications received will be acknowledged and candidates will be notified of the College's decision by early May 2006. The CCH would appreciate a brief note of intent to apply, to Sarah Davenport, sarah dot davenport at kcl dot ac dot uk. (Confirmation of receipt will be sent.) In this note please indicate your area of interest, and please send along a c.v. if you have one. As part of the application process we ask for a preliminary research proposal, but this need not be done until after the official application forms have been submitted. The PhD in Digital Humanities itself began in Autumn 2005. For information on the degree itself, please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/pg/courses/phd.html. ****************************************** Sarah Davenport Postgraduate Programme Administrator Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel Street London, WC2R 3DX Tel : +44 (0)20 7848 2371 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 www.kcl.ac.uk/cch

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[Fwd: Re: [dm-l] virtual commons]
by Daniel O'Donnell 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

>From Amy Ostrom...

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XML/TEI Workshop at Kalamazoo 2006
by Daniel O'Donnell 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Some information on TEI/XML sessions that may be of interest to our members (apologies for cross posting): XML and TEI: Introduction Thursday, May 4, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Session 59: Waldo Library Classroom A Instructor: James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, James Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes: introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as new TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, manuscript description metadata, XML Editors, including assignments to be completed during clinic (11:30 - 12:30). Limited to 33 participants, registration is required (for info: pcossard(a)umd.edu). Fee is $50 for pre-registrants, $60 for walk-ins. Please mail c/o Patti Cossard, Architecture Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Include your contact information and check for fee payable to Medieval Academy of America. XML and TEI: Clinic I Thursday, May 4, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Waldo Library Classroom A This clinic immediately follows the "XML and TEI: Introduction" workshop (10:00 - 11:30 a.m.), assignments from that class can be completed during this proctored clinic. XML and TEI: Advanced TEI P5 Customization and Transformation Thursday, May 4, 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Waldo Library Classroom A Instructor: James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive This workshop offers advanced instruction in customization and transformation of TEI encoded XML files, taught by a medievalist, James Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes: advanced-level concepts of TEI P5 modularization and customization for individual projects, schemas, XSLT for XML transformation, Xquery and XML Databases, including assignments to be completed during clinic (5:00 - 6:00). Limited to 33 participants, registration is required (for info: pcossard(a)umd.edu). Fee is $50 for pre-registrants, $60 for walk-ins. Please mail c/o Patti Cossard, Architecture Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Include your contact information and check for fee payable to Medieval Academy of America. XML and TEI: Clinic II Thursday, May 4, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Waldo Library Classroom A This clinic immediately follows the "XML and TEI: Advanced TEI P5 Customization and Transformation" workshop (3:30 -5:00 p.m.), assignments from that class can be completed during this proctored clinic.

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Fwd: Summer School in Manuscript Studies 2006
by Dot Porter 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

This might be of interest to some on the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Abdullah Alger <Abdullah.Alger-2(a)postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> Date: Mar 29, 2006 8:50 AM Subject: [ANSAX-L] Fwd: Summer School in Manuscript Studies 2006 To: ANSAX-L(a)listserv.wvu.edu ----- Forwarded message from cmps(a)sas.ac.uk ----- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:23:50 +0100 From: cmps(a)sas.ac.uk Reply-To: cmps(a)sas.ac.uk Subject: Summer School in Manuscript Studies 2006 This is just to let you know that registration is now open for the Summer School in Manuscript Studies, 26 - 30 June 2006. Further details and registration forms are available online at: http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/cmps/Events/Courses/SummerSchool/ <http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/cmps/Events/Courses/SummerSchool/> I would be very grateful if you could forward this link to any colleagues, students, researchers and others who might be interested. Many thanks. Jon Millington ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies Institute of English Studies University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU 020 7862 8680 cmps(a)sas.ac.uk CMPS Website: http://www.sas.ac.uk/cmps Research Training: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/nrts ----- End forwarded message ----- ********************************************************************* Reminder: For assistance write to Bill Schipper (schipper(a)mun.ca) -- *************************************** Dot 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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virtual commons
by Daniel O'Donnell 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

At Kalamazoo last year, I heard a discussion of a project that was planning to use an virtual commons--i.e. a place where users could contribute to the development of the project through shared annotation, textual development, and the like (I think they actually described it as a piazza. As I understood the idea, and in discussion at the Digital Medievalist business meeting a couple of people mentioned similar proposal, the idea was to build what we might now think of as adding wiki-like capabilities to a larger, unified, scholarly project. Does anybody know of any scholarly projects that have actually implemented such virtual piazza-type interaction? I'm interested in projects that allows arbitrary users to contribute to the content, either with or without refereeing. -d

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RE: virtual commons; was RE: dm-l Digest, Vol 20, Issue 7
by Scat 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

One such "virtual commons" discussed last year at Kalamazoo and the year before at Pisa was the one that a large international medieval historical education group, the Society for Creative Anachronism, was establishing for group discussion of medieval anthroponymy, toponymy, and heraldry, focussing on individual names and naming practices, especially in areas of cross-cultural contact, and on specific coats of arms. It is expected to be up and running by this fall; it's still in beta at present. Scott Catledge At Kalamazoo last year, I heard a discussion of a project that was planning to use an virtual commons--i.e. a place where users could contribute to the development of the project through shared annotation, textual development, and the like (I think they actually described it as a piazza. As I understood the idea, and in discussion at the Digital Medievalist business meeting a couple of people mentioned similar proposal, the idea was to build what we might now think of as adding wiki-like capabilities to a larger, unified, scholarly project. Does anybody know of any scholarly projects that have actually implemented such virtual piazza-type interaction? I'm interested in projects that allows arbitrary users to contribute to the content, either with or without refereeing. -d

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[Fwd: RE: [dm-l] Switching XSL on the web (Lazy question)]
by Dan O'Donnell 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

>From Michael Beddow ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: RE: [dm-l] Switching XSL on the web (Lazy question) From: "Michael Beddow" <mb(a)mbeddow.net> Date: Sat, March 25, 2006 5:18 pm To: "Daniel O'Donnell" <daniel.odonnell(a)ULETH.CA> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Dan, A couple of hours back I was quaffing a double-shot latte in a supermarket cafe near the Scottish border when, as invariably happens in such circumstances, a former student of mine emerged from nowhere and said "there was a posting on DM-L a while back about dynamic XSLT sheet switching you could have answered". So I took a peek when I got home (I don't subscribe to DM-L) and behold, 'twas even so. I think my first response would have been to say do the transform server side. It's certainly not necessary to get embroiled with Cocoon to do that. Half a dozen lines in any common scripting language that has an XSLT library will get you a CGI script that will accept as params from your browser an xml file name and a stylesheet name, then apply the xslt to the xml and send the html back to the browser. However, it looks like you want a client side solution, so I've hacked a quick one together for you as a demo. If you go *using IE6 on Windows* to http://www.anglo-norman.net/sitedocs/workshop/switch-demo.html you will get a page that lets you apply any of a choice of three xslt sheets to it client-side. If you like, you can also download www.anglo-norman-net/sitedocs/workshop/switch-demo.zip that contains all the necessary files: an xml document; three xslt sheets; and the loader switch-demo.html file itself, which contains the actual code that does the business. But the only essential thing is the html; beyond that you can plug in any xml and xslt you like and the thing will work on that data instead. I have tried to explain the workings of the dynamic html in the html file itself. I haven't similarly commented the XSLT, because that's not really the point of concern here. The sample I provide is for IE6 on Win32 only. Before that brings down the wrath of the self-righteous upon me, let me say that it can just as readily be done in Mozilla/Firefox on any platform using its internal Transformix engine instead of the MS DLL I use here, although the necessary code is a bit more complicated and you have to be more careful about the mime-type configuration of any server from which you deliver. But if any knee-jerk anti-Windowers care to put their brains where their zeal is, they will I'm sure soon be able to put together a Redmond-free version. Please feel free to repost this on my behalf if you think it would be of any broader interest. Bon weekend! Michael -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191 (@webmail)

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RE: [dm-l] virtual commons
by Binkley, Peter 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

There is a cluster of projects around MetaScholar and the Ockham project that are working on this kind of framework: http://www.metascholar.org/ and http://www.ockham.org/ . I haven't kept up with them recently to see what's actually been deployed, though. They are producing open-source tools to do this kind of work, so it would be interesting to try them out in the digital medieval community. Among digitization projects the most radical I'm aware of is Project Runeberg in Sweden, which allows users to proofread the OCR text against the page images and submit corrections. http://runeberg.org (the server seems to be slow at the moment, though). Sample page: http://runeberg.org/hagberg/e/0046.html . Peter -----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Daniel O'Donnell Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:17 PM To: Digital Community mailing list Subject: [dm-l] virtual commons At Kalamazoo last year, I heard a discussion of a project that was planning to use an virtual commons--i.e. a place where users could contribute to the development of the project through shared annotation, textual development, and the like (I think they actually described it as a piazza. As I understood the idea, and in discussion at the Digital Medievalist business meeting a couple of people mentioned similar proposal, the idea was to build what we might now think of as adding wiki-like capabilities to a larger, unified, scholarly project. Does anybody know of any scholarly projects that have actually implemented such virtual piazza-type interaction? I'm interested in projects that allows arbitrary users to contribute to the content, either with or without refereeing. -d _______________________________________________ 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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Junicode's new home
by Peter Baker 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

It's been a month and ten days since I moved Junicode, the font for medievalists, to Sourceforge, the big Open Source software distribution service. Today I'm celebrating the 999th download from that site by releasing version 0.6.7, which fixes bugs and continues to chase after the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative specification. The new URL is http://junicode.sourceforge.net. If you have Junicode and have not updated your copy lately, I urge you to do so, for it continues to offer new features. Recent additions, for example, include characters in all styles for the transliteration of medieval Arabic and characters and OpenType features to support African languages. If you wish to keep up with releases (and I suggest you do, since releases include bug fixes and cosmetic improvements as well as new features), you can sign up at the Junicode website for the junicode-announce mailing list, which I promise will emit an e-mail *exclusively* when a new release is posted. Peter Baker

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[Fwd: New jobs at CCH, King's College London]
by Daniel O'Donnell 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

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