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FW: The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released
by Lynn Ransom 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Dear colleagues, I post the below announcement on behalf of Will Noel. Best, Lynn Ransom ************************ Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to conserve, image, and study the manuscript. After ten years of work, involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of people working around the world, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has released its data. It is a historic dataset, revealing new texts from the ancient world. It is an integrated product, weaving registered images in many wavebands of light with XML transcriptions of the Archimedes and Hyperides texts that are spatially mapped to those images. It has pushed boundaries for the imaging of documents, and relied almost exclusively on current international standards. We hope that this dataset will be a persistent digital resource for the decades to come. We also hope it will be helpful as an example for others who are conducting similar work. It published under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution license, to ensure ease of access and the potential for widespread use. A complete facsimile of the revealed palimpsested texts is available on Googlebooks as ³The Archimedes Palimpsest². It is hoped that this is the first of many uses to which the data will be put. For information on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, please visit: www.archimedespalimpsest.org <http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org> For the dataset, please visit: www.archimedespalimpsest.net <http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net> We have set up a discussion forum on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project. Any member can invite anybody else to join. If you want to become a member, please email: wnoel(a)thewalters.org I would be grateful if you would circulate this to your friends and colleagues. Thank you very much Will Noel The Walters Art Museum October 29th, 2008.

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Call for Papers: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age
by Rehbein, Malte 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

Call for Papers: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age The reproduction of the European cultural heritage into digital resources is on its way. Among the various activities undertaken in this field, online catalogues of manuscrips have become an important research tool: Manuscripta Medievalia, for example, is a well established central catalogue in Germany. Important European libraries like the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the British Library or the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana have published their catalogues online. Directories with regional focus like the manuscript catalogue of Tuscany (CODEX) are seen alongside the European integrative project ENRICH. At the same time, the digitisation of the manuscripts themselves has gained momentum. What impact has this new situation on palaeographic and codicologic research? Successful projects have shown that data that emerges from such cataloguing and digitising activities can be processed and enriched by digital technologies: there are algorithms to compare character patterns and enable palaeographic analyses. Comprehensive codicological data is available via electronic catalogues to allow statistical research on the archaeology of manuscripts. Digital editions embed images of their underlying manuscripts. Online resources enable web-based teaching of palaeography in a way far beyond the traditional facsimile collections. The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) calls for contributions to an anthology on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" to be published in Summer 2009. The purpose of this volume is threefold. Firstly, it aims at recording forward-looking digital work with manuscripts. This involves state-of-the-art technology as well as realistic ideas for future implementations. Secondly, it examines the field from the users perspective: how can codicological and palaeographic work benefit from digital resources and technologies? Are there new results that had not been possible before? Or is there at least a significant increase in efficiency compared to traditional methodology? We are therefore particularly encouraging contributions that describe research based on such digital resources. Finally, an outlook on the future development of the digital research on manuscripts will be given. Possible topics for contributions can include but are not restricted to: * reports on research based on digital resources * Integration of and statistical research on data from manuscript catalogues * palaeographic databases (scripts, scribes, characters) * codicological databases (e.g. watermarks, book covers) * (semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes * digital tools for transcriptions * visions and prototypes of other digital tools * teaching palaeography The editors are open to proposals beyond these suggestions that fit into the outlined purpose of the volume. Contributions can be made either in German, Italian, English or French. The launch of the volume will be accompanied by an international symposium to which the IDE wants to invite the authors of the four best contributions to present their work. Proposals of not more than 500 words shall be send by 30 November 2008 to: Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing c/o Malte Rehbein Moore Insitute National University of Ireland, Galway malte.rehbein(a)nuigalway.ie --- The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) is a network of researchers working on the application of digital methods on historical documents. Its members participate in important international research activities. The IDE, established in 2006, sees itself as a nucleus for IT technologies in the field of scholarly editing and documentology, understanding a historical document as a carrier for text as well as a physical object. To achieve this, IDE members take an active part in ongoing discussions, contribute reviews and research articles, organise conferences and workshops, counsel trend-setting projects and teach academic junior scientists. Website: http://www.i-d-e.de

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What are the new digital genres
by Daniel O'Donnell 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hi all, I have a question. I'm just finishing off an article and I am about to refer to the extent to which humanists now need to know something about the "new digital genres". By that I mean the things that if you have been traditionally trained and were bookish rather than videogamish or technologically oriented as a teenager, you might not know much about: blogs wikis MOOs and MUDs and other text-based games (an older genre, I know) SIMs and other immersive game-like environments (ranging from second life through doom) Others? Corrections? I'm trying to think how to get something with GPS in there. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD 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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Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
by Peter Stokes 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Apologies for cross-posting, but please see below for details of a new training programme for graduate students in the UK. All the best, Peter Stokes Dr Peter Stokes Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic The University of Cambridge 9 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Tel: +44 1223 767314 Fax: +44 1223 335092 -- Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 16–21 February 2009 The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce a new AHRC-funded course in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King's College London. The course involves six days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts in the digital age to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats. The first three days involve morning classes and then visits to libraries in Cambridge and London in the afternoons. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning's themes to concrete examples. The final three days focus on cataloguing and describing manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These three days will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers. The course is free of charge and open to all arts and humanities doctoral students registered at UK institutions. It is principally aimed at those writing dissertations which relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art and history. Priority will be given to PhD students funded by the AHRC. Class sizes are limited to twenty and places are 'first-come-first-served' so early registration is strongly recommended. For further details see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/study/mmsda/ or contact the course organisers at mmsda(a)sas.ac.uk.

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