dm-l June 2007

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20 discussions

Silchester Roman Town: developing virtual research practice
by simon mahony 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Apologies for cross posting ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- This Friday's seminar in the Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Summer Series is: Professor Michael Fulford (Reading) 'Silchester Roman Town: developing virtual research practice' Time: Friday 29 June at 16:30 Place: Room NG16 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Brief abstract: The Silchester Roman Town Life Project is experimenting with new digital approaches to the capture of data from the excavation and to the subsequent analysis and publication of the stratigraphic record and its associated sets of material and biological finds. The overarching aim is to speed up the process between excavation in the field and subsequent publication, including the more effective integration of the research team into the publication programme. All are welcome. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments after which everyone is also welcome to join us in entertaining the speaker at a local venue. Best regards Simon ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel St London WC2R 3DX Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX

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Seminar: Representations of past worlds in electronic media
by simon mahony 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Apologies for cross posting --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcing this week's instalment of the Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Summer seminars Tim Hill (Cambridge) 'Wiser than the Undeceived? Past Worlds as Virtual Worlds in the Electronic Media' Time: Friday 22 June at 16:30 Place: Room NG16 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Brief abstract: Despite frequent claims that the electronic media represent a decisive break with the textual past, when software designers claim to recreate historical realities in their work questions long-familiar to classicists immediately arise. What can or should be represented? What ought the relationship between reality and representation be? What is the relationship between cognition and emotion in artistic representations? In earlier periods, the limitations of computer processing speed and power rendered answers to such questions de facto or purely speculative; as the sophistication of digital representation increases, however, it is becoming clear that meaningful modern responses to these ancient philosophical questions must be based not upon computational, but formal and generic, criteria. All are welcome. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments after which everyone is also welcome to join us in entertaining the speaker at a local venue. Best regards Simon ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel St London WC2R 3DX Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX

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[Fwd: AHDS response to the recent announcement from JISC on funding]
by James Cummings 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

FYI (Apologies for cross-posting) ===== The AHDS has made the following response to JISC's announcement of 13 June concerning the future funding of our service. (JISC's announcement appears below the response.) ---------------------------------------------------- AHDS response to JISC announcement The AHDS recognises that it is not possible for the JISC alone to continue to fund the AHDS as it is currently constituted. The AHDS welcomes the decision by the JISC to explore with the AHDS, partner organisations and the wider community alternative approaches to maintaining its strong support for the arts and humanities community beyond March 2008. The AHDS will be working closely with the JISC and partner organisations over the next few months to identify a legacy plan and future agenda that will ensure the expertise and achievements of the AHDS are not lost to the community, and that will help to meet the many challenges of the future. We are deeply grateful to the JISC for their generous support of the AHDS over the last eleven years which has, in combination with the support provided by the AHRC in more recent years, allowed us to achieve so much in support of the creation, curation and preservation of digital resources and the use of ICT in the arts and humanities. In the meantime, and at least until 31st March 2008, the AHDS will continue to give advice and guidance on all matters relating to the creation of digital content arising from or supporting research, teaching and learning across the arts and humanities, including technical and metadata standards and project management. If you have a data creation project, please do not hesitate to contact us for advice. The AHDS will continue to work with those creating important digital resources to advise on the best methods for keeping these valuable resources available and accessible for the long-term in a form that encourages their further use for answering new research questions, and their use in teaching and learning. This advice will include exploring with content creators and owners suitable repositories in which they might deposit their materials for long term curation and preservation, and how to ensure that their materials can continue to be discovered and used by the wider community. If you are currently in negotiation with the AHDS to deposit your digital collection, please continue to work with us to ensure the future sustainability and accessibility of your resource. The AHDS will continue to make available its rich collection of digital content for use in research, teaching and learning, and to preserve those collections in its care. The AHDS intends to discuss with the JISC and the AHRC the long term future of these collections beyond April 2008 with the intention of securing their continued preservation and availability. Last, but not least, the AHDS will continue with its portfolio of projects and related services, and to make an active contribution to the different communities of practice with whom we have so enjoyed working over the last eleven years, and with whom we look forward to working in the future. Sheila Anderson Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service 13 June 2007 ---------------------------------------------------- Supporting research in the Arts and Humanities: JISC to review its services Following the decision by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) to cease funding the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) from March 31st 2008, JISC has decided that it is unable to fund the service alone and that therefore its own funding of the service will, in its current form, cease on the same date. In its 11 years of existence the AHDS has established itself as a centre of expertise and excellence in the creation, curation and preservation of digital resources and has been responsible for a considerable engagement of the Arts and Humanities community with ICT and a significant increase in that community’s knowledge and use of digital resources. Its contribution to the development of technical standards, its outreach to sectors beyond higher education, such as cultural heritage, arts, museum and archive organisations and its support for the development of a national e-infrastructure and repository system have been among its many significant achievements. In the light of these achievements and the consequent risks to the continued development of the Arts ands Humanities community’s engagement with ICT, JISC is exploring with the AHDS, partner organisations and the wider community alternative approaches to maintaining its strong support for that community beyond March 2008. JISC has a long history of support for Arts and Humanities research, beginning with the founding of the AHDS in 1996 and continuing with its collaboration with the AHRC over the ICT Methods Network, the Arts and Humanities e-Science initiative (with the AHRC and EPSRC), its contribution to the wider e-Science Initiative, and in particular the Research Grants and Studentships Scheme and the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHESSC). JISC’s Support of Research committee has also funded the Aria Projects and a related Projects and Methods database which have now been merged into an integrated resource, the ICT Guides. At its meeting yesterday, the JISC Board reaffirmed its strong commitment to continuing this engagement but in the light of wider developments reluctantly acknowledged that the AHDS as currently constituted would not be part of its service provision beyond next year. Chair of JISC, Professor Sir Ron Cooke, paid tribute to the AHDS, saying: “The AHDS has achieved a great deal in the last 11 years and we would like to thank its staff for their skill, dedication and hard work over these years. One of the AHDS’s many achievements has been establishing capacity and expertise within the Arts and Humanities community. JISC will continue to support that community in its engagement with ICT in order to meet the many challenges of the future.” 13 June 2007 ---------------------------------------------------- -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk

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[Fwd: announcing the TEI Members Meeting, 31st October - 3rd November 2007]
by Daniel O'Donnell 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Let me recommend this meeting/conference. The format is quite different from previous years and will involve quite an interesting conference in addition to the usual posters, keynotes, and member's business. There is one session on the markup of manuscripts, for example. Also, we will be having a granting roundtable with representatives of many of the major funding agencies: IMLS, NEH, NSF (U.S.), DFG (Germany), almost certainly SSHRC (Canada) and possibly agencies from the U.K. and EU. These will be discussing new directions in Digital Humanities funding. This should be a very interesting event. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox: +1 403 329-2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191

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DM letter to the AHRC
by Daniel O'Donnell 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Thanks very much to James for forwarding the announcement of our joint letter to the AHRC on behalf of the boards of the DM, TEI, Digital Classicist, and Antiquist. It really is sad to see what looks like a retrenchment in what has been to outsiders at least a model programme. -- 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: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Open letter to AHRC]
by James Cummings 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Open letter to AHRC Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:07:39 +0100 From: Gabriel BODARD <gabriel.bodard(a)KCL.AC.UK> Reply-To: The Digital Classicist List <DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Dear colleagues, A letter has been sent to the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, asking for clarification on the future of digital preservation and dissemination of good practice given the AHRC’s recent announcement [[1]] that funding for the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) will be terminated early next year. This information-seeking letter (copied at [[2]]) has been signed on behalf of the Digital Classicist, Antiquist, Digital Medievalist, and TEI communities. Any comments on this letter, or on the AHRC's eventual response, may be discussed here and/or in the comments thread at [[3]]. [[1]] http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_… [[2]] http://www.stoa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ahrc-letter.pdf [[3]] http://www.stoa.org/?p=658 Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) 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 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk

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[Fwd: Press release: JISC reviews its services in support of the Arts and Humanities]
by James Cummings 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Dear DM-L, This may be of interest to some of you, especially in the UK. -James -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Press release: JISC reviews its services in support of the Arts and Humanities Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:59:25 +0100 From: Philip Pothen <p.pothen(a)JISC.AC.UK> Reply-To: Philip Pothen <p.pothen(a)JISC.AC.UK> To: JISC-ANNOUNCE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK *Press release* * * *Supporting research in the Arts and Humanities: JISC to review its services* 13 June 2007. Following the decision by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) to cease funding the AHDS <http://www.ahds.ac.uk/> (Arts and Humanities Data Service) from March 31^st 2008, JISC has decided that it is unable to fund the service alone and that therefore its own funding of the service will, in its current form, cease on the same date. In its 11 years of existence the AHDS has established itself as a centre of expertise and excellence in the creation, curation and preservation of digital resources and has been responsible for a considerable engagement of the Arts and Humanities community with ICT and a significant increase in that community’s knowledge and use of digital resources. Its contribution to the development of technical standards, its outreach to sectors beyond higher education, such as cultural heritage, arts, museum and archive organisations and its support for the development of a national e-infrastructure and repository system have been among its many significant achievements. In the light of these achievements and the consequent risks to the continued development of the Arts ands Humanities community’s engagement with ICT, JISC is exploring with the AHDS, partner organisations and the wider community alternative approaches to maintaining its strong support for that community beyond March 2008. JISC has a long history of support for Arts and Humanities research, beginning with the founding of the AHDS in 1996 and continuing with its collaboration with the AHRC over the ICT Methods Network <http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/>, the Arts and Humanities e-Science initiative <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humani…> (with the AHRC and EPSRC), its contribution to the wider e-Science Initiative <http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/default.htm>, and in particular the Research Grants and Studentships Scheme <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humani…> and the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre <http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/> (AHESSC). JISC’s Support of Research committee has also funded the Aria project <http://aria.dmu.ac.uk/whatIs.html> and a related Projects and Methods database <http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/pmdb-extension/#details> which have now been merged into an integrated resource, the ICT Guides <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>. At its meeting yesterday, the JISC Board reaffirmed its strong commitment to continuing this engagement but in the light of wider developments reluctantly acknowledged that the AHDS as currently constituted would not be part of its service provision beyond next year. Chair of JISC, Professor Sir Ron Cooke, paid tribute to the AHDS, saying: “The AHDS has achieved a great deal in the last 11 years and we would like to thank its staff for their skill, dedication and hard work over these years. One of the AHDS’s many achievements has been establishing capacity and expertise within the Arts and Humanities community. JISC will continue to support that community in its engagement with ICT in order to meet the many challenges of the future.” For further information, please contact Philip Pothen on 020 3006 6049, (m) 07887 564 006 or p.pothen(a)jisc.ac.uk <mailto:p.pothen@jisc.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anything in this message which does not clearly relate to the official work of the sender's organisation shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by that organisation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk

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Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3D
by Dot Porter 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

This article in Wired magazine may be of interest to the list: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan Tooting the University of Kentucky horn, Dot -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter(a)vis.uky.edu ***************************************

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[Fwd: [MEDTEXTL] Digitized Brunetto Latino Bestiary MS]
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

FYI -- 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: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Job and Phd studentship at Oxford]
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

FYI: although it is classics, members of this list may have the requisite skill set. -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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