dm-l August 2007

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Fwd: 21.232 report on university publishing in commentable form
by Dot Porter 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Forward from the Humanist listserv. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty < willard.mccarty(a)kcl.ac.uk>) <willard(a)lists.village.virginia.edu> Date: Aug 27, 2007 7:08 AM Subject: 21.232 report on university publishing in commentable form To: humanist(a)princeton.edu Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 232. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist(a)princeton.edu Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:38:22 +0100 From: Shana Kimball <kimballs(a)umich.edu> Subject: University Publishing in a Digital Age Dear JEP readers: On behalf of the Journal of Electronic Publishing and its publisher, the Scholarly Publishing Office, I am writing to announce the availability of the recent Ithaka report, "University Publishing in a Digital Age," in interactive, commentable form at <http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/> http://scholarlypublishing.org/ithakareport/ -- *************************************** 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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Re: [dm-l] Anybody use subversion with people who don't use, commandlines?
by Philipp Steinkrüger 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi Dan, there are several subversion clients for windows. Once I set up a system for people who wanted an easy to use system without or with little technical background. I used TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) which i think is the programm to go for as it is easy to use, mature and open source. TortoiseSVN is basically a shell extension for windows explorer, so usage should be really straightforward. Best, Philipp > Hi all, > > I am helping a project that is working on a really interesting text. > Nobody on the project is particularly technical. > > Because the members of the project are spread all over the place, they > need a version control system for keeping track of their documents. I'd > say they need subversion (the documents are PDFs and XML files), but I > need them to be able to see it in something like windows explorer. > > Has anybody any experience in setting up something like subversion for > use with Windows? > > -dan -- Philipp Steinkrüger Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln IDE - Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik philipp.steinkrueger(a)uni-koeln.de http://www.thomasinst.uni-koeln.de || http://www.i-d-e.de

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English Medieval Latin Charters: Attribution and Exploration through textual analyses
by simon mahony 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------ The first seminar in this year's Humanities Computing series will take place at 1pm on Thursday 30th August 2007 in the Seminar room, 1st floor, Kay House, 7 Arundel St; *** English Medieval Latin Charters: Attribution and Exploration through textual analyses *** Dr Michael Gervers, University of Toronto It is estimated that about a million charters survive as originals or copies from twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, the great majority of which were issued without dates. The DEEDS Project, founded at the University of Toronto in 1975, has developed an XML encoded database of over 9,500 charters from c. 1100 to 1310, dated either internally, or by an editor, to within a year of the actual date of issue. These conveyances have been extracted from over 190 printed sources, which in total contain over 100,000 documents. Charter metadata includes chronological and topographical information, details of the religious house or lay household from which the document came, and the roles, titles and social status of grantors and recipients. All are welcome! Each year the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, presents a series of lectures and demonstrations by leading scholars, postgraduate students and practitioners from across the disciplines of the humanities and nearby social sciences. The series aims not only to present work at the leading edge of application but also to provide a forum in which this work is subject to critical reflection and thoughtful probing. ---------------------------------------- Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Tel: 020 7848 2861 Fax: 020 7848 2980 Email: cch(a)kcl.ac.uk --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- 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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Anybody use subversion with people who don't use command lines?
by Daniel O'Donnell 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi all, I am helping a project that is working on a really interesting text. Nobody on the project is particularly technical. Because the members of the project are spread all over the place, they need a version control system for keeping track of their documents. I'd say they need subversion (the documents are PDFs and XML files), but I need them to be able to see it in something like windows explorer. Has anybody any experience in setting up something like subversion for use with Windows? -dan

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Second Call: Digital Media and Peer Review in Medieval Studies
by Timothy Stinson 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Call for Papers for the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-11, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources invites submissions to the following sponsored session: "Digital Media and Peer Review in Medieval Studies" Medievalists are increasingly turning to digital media both to produce new types of scholarship such as encoded texts and non-bookish digital projects (e.g. archives and interactive electronic resources) and to advance and increase the efficiency of traditional forms of scholarship such as critical editions. There is not yet widespread agreement, however, regarding how this new work should count for academic promotion, and many scholars working in these new media find that there are few established avenues for getting their work peer reviewed. At the same time, we are witnessing rapid and widespread changes in how we use print texts (e.g. often in scanned, searchable copies), and many traditional publishers of print journals and monographs are under enormous financial pressures from declining sales and print runs, thereby further limiting access to peer review and opportunities for publication. How can we, as a community, bring scholarship, publishing, and the need for peer review into balance? Please email abstracts (not to exceed 300 words) to Timothy Stinson ( stinson(a)jhu.edu). Please include name, professional/university affiliation, and contact information. -- Timothy L. Stinson Postdoctoral Fellow Johns Hopkins University http://dkc.jhu.edu/~tstinson/

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E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents
by simon mahony 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS Sub-Faculty of Ancient History E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities E-Science initiative to support research on the application of Information Technology to ancient documents. Both posts are attached to a project which will develop a networked software system that can support the imaging, documentation, and interpretation of damaged texts from the ancient world, principally Greek and Latin papyri, inscriptions and writing tablets. The work will be conducted under the supervision of Professors Alan Bowman FBA, Sir Michael Brady FRS FREng (University of Oxford) and and Dr. Melissa Terras (University College London). 1. A Doctoral Studentship for a period of 4 years from 1 January, 2008. The studentship will be held in the Faculty of Classics (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) and supported at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Oxford E-Research Centre. The Studentship award covers both the cost of tuition fees at Home/EU rates and a maintenance grant. To be eligible for a full award, the student must have been ordinarily resident in the UK for a period of 3 years before the start of the award. 2. A postdoctoral Research Assistantship for a period of 3 years from 1 January, 2008. The post will be held in the Faculty of Classics (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) and supported at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Oxford E-Research Centre. The salary will be in the range of £26,666 - £31,840 p.a. Applicants must have expertise in programming and Informatics and an interest in the application of imaging technology and signal-processing to manuscripts and documents. The deadline for receipt of applications is 21 September 2007. Further details about both posts, the project, the qualifications required and the method of application are available from Ms Ghislaine Rowe, Graduate Studies Administrator, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles' , Oxford OX1 3LU (01865 288397, ghislaine.rowe(a)classics.ox.ac.uk). It is hoped that interviews will be held and the appointments made on 11 October. Professor Alan Bowman Camden Professor of Ancient History Brasenose College, Oxford OX1 4AJ +44 (0)1865 277874 Director, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents The Stelios Ioannou School for Research in Classical and Byzantine Studies 66 St Giles' Oxford OX1 3LU +44 (0)1865 610227 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/classicists.html --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- 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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Software for doing source criticism
by James Ginther 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Dear Sapientes: Does anyone know of software that will aid in the comparison of two or more texs in order to determine specific use of sources? Ideally, the software would recognize a base text and then compare it to other texts that are potential sources. I know of software applications like Collate that does some basic comparative work in order to create an apparatus criticus for critical editions, or the "authorship" testing software that Peter Miliken at Leeds developed using stylometrics (which only outputs statistical results and no textual output). But I am looking for software that would compare units of texts (such as sentence to sentence) and one--here's the kicker--that might also work with an inflected language like Latin (so that it would include returns that differ only in terms of case ending). I know that's a tall order, and I have my doubts that something like this exists--but I thought someone on this list might know of some code kicking around in somebody's virtual basement. Many thanks, Jim -- -------------------- Dr James R. Ginther, PhD Assoc. Professor of Medieval Theology & Director of Graduate Studies Dept of Theological Studies St Louis University ginthej(a)slu.edu --------------------------------- dept: http://theology.slu.edu/ research: http://www.digitaltheology.org/ ----------- "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." -Wernher von Braun

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A Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts
by simon mahony 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

With apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------- Announcing the last in this Summer's Digital Classicist/ICS work in progress seminar series. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments and as always, all are welcome. Friday 17th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Charles Crowther (Oxford) 'A Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts' The scholar interpreting an ancient documentary text has a broad range of relevant electronic tools available; but the interaction is largely in one direction and the experience is fragmented by the dispersal of the electronic resources. Decipherment and transcription are scholarly activities that naturally benefit from shared visualisation and multiple perspectives, but the potential of ICT to mediate collaborative investigation has yet to be fully exploited. A VRE for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts is a two-year JISC funded project designed to explore these challenges through the construction of an integrated collaborative environment for the study of ancient documentary artefacts. ---------------------- 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: [MEDTEXTL] Call for Proposals - Marco Manuscript Workshop, U of TN
by Dot Porter 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Forwarded from MedTextL: This may be of interest to some on the list. I've attended this for the past two years and it is a really excellent experience. If you don't want to participate as a speaker you may want to consider attending as a non-speaker. http://web.utk.edu/~marco/workshop/manuscript.shtml Dot ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Liuzza <rliuzza(a)utk.edu> Date: Aug 10, 2007 3:45 PM Subject: [MEDTEXTL] Call for Proposals - Marco Manuscript Workshop, U of TN To: MEDTEXTL(a)listserv.uiuc.edu (with apologies for cross-posting) Call for Proposals Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Texts in Motion" February 8-9, 2008 Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies The University of Tennessee, Knoxville The University of Tennessee in Knoxville announces a two-day workshop on manuscript studies to be held in February of 2008 and sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The workshop, organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants will be invited to share both their successes and frustrations, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and paleographical work in Medieval Studies. Last year's workshop focused on how the non-textual aspects of manuscript presentation influence the way texts are read; this year's workshop, "Texts in Motion," will consider the effect of time on texts. Virtually all manuscript texts vary to some degree from one copy to another; some texts underwent more radical expansion, continuation, or revision, by their authors or others, and significantly different versions of the same text circulated alongside one another. These multiform texts raise a number of challenging questions for a modern editor: what is the relationship, both textual and contextual, between the different versions of the text? Which version should form the basis for an edited text? How can the range of textual differences be represented? How much of this material ought to be presented? Is it possible, finally, to capture the spirit of a medieval text in motion? We invite proposals for presentations by anyone working on texts that have undergone significant changes through time—abbreviation, expansion, continuation, excerpting, quotation in other texts, dramatic changes in format or context, even glosses and translations. The theme is meant to be understood as broadly as possible, and we welcome proposals that expand our definition of "text" to material objects besides manuscripts, such as images, inscriptions, relics, or buildings. The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank. Individual 90-minute sessions will be devoted to each presentation; participants will introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with this material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. We particularly invite proposals describing works in progress, unusual textual problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2007. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, U of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or (preferably) via email to <rliuzza(a)utk.edu>. The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to present their work but may be interested in learning more about manuscript studies. Non-presenters will not receive a stipend, but are encouraged to participate fully in discussions and other activities. Those wishing to attend should visit <http://web.utk.edu/ ~marco/workshop/manuscript.shtml> for more information. -- *************************************** 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: TEI members meeting - call for late-breaking posters]
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

This may be of interest to members of this list. This year's TEI members' meeting (which is open to non-members) at the University of Maryland is introducing conference-style sessions, of which two may be of particular interest to members of this list: markup as theory, and manuscript markup. For a complete programme, see http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/schedule.html -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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