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Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture
by Simon Mahony 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Forwarded from the Digital Classicist mailing list with usual apologies if you're on that list too (but this way you dont miss anything important)! Simon ------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Editors Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) invite submissions for a collection of essays on “Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture” to be published in the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series edited by Ray Siemens and William Bowen. This collection of essays will build on the accomplishments of recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing material cultures from roughly 500 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Scholars of the medieval and early modern periods have begun to pay more attention to the material world not only as a means of cultural experience, but also as a shaping influence upon culture and society, looking at the world of material objects as both an area of study and a rich source of evidence for interpreting the past. Digital media enable new ways of evoking, representing, recovering, and simulating these materials in non-traditional, non-textual (or para-textual) ways and present new possibilities for recuperating and accumulating material from across vast distances and time, enabling both preservation and comparative analysis that is otherwise impossible or impractical. Digital mediation also poses practical and theoretical challenges, both logistical (such as gaining access to materials) and intellectual (for example, the relationship between text and object). This volume of essays will promote the deployment of digital technologies to the study of material culture by bringing together expertise garnered from complete and current digital projects, while looking forward to new possibilities for digital applications; it will both take stock of the current state of theory and practice and advance new developments in digitization of material culture. The editors welcome submissions from all disciplines on any research that addresses the use of digital means for representing and investigating material culture as expressed in such diverse areas as: • travelers’ accounts, navigational charts and cartography • collections and inventories • numismatics, antiquarianism and early archaeology • theatre and staging (props, costumes, stages, theatres) • the visual arts of drawing, painting, sculpture, print making, and architecture • model making • paper making and book printing, production, and binding • manuscripts, emblems, and illustrations • palimpsests and three-dimensional writing • instruments (magic, alchemical, and scientific) • arts and crafts • the anatomical and cultural body We welcome approaches that are practical and/or theoretical, general in application or particular and project-based. Submissions should present fresh advances in methodologies and applications of digital technologies, including but not limited to: • XML and databases and computational interpretation • three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds • virtual research environments • mapping technology • image capture, processing, and interpretation • 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis • artificial intelligence, process modeling, and knowledge representation Papers might address such topics and issues as: • the value of inter-disciplinarity (as between technical and humanist experts) • relationships between image and object; object and text; text and image • the metadata of material culture • curatorial and archival practice • mediating the material object and its textual representations • imaging and data gathering (databases and textbases) • the relationship between the abstract and the material text • haptic, visual, and auditory simulation • tools and techniques for paleographic analysis Enquiries and proposals should be sent to brent.nelson[at]usask.ca by 10 January 2009. Complete essays of 5,000-6,000 words in length will be due on 1 May 2009. ----------------------------------------------------- -- Simon Mahony Research Associate Digital Classicist Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/

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Les historiens et l’informatique : un métier à réinventer - final ATHIS symposium in Rome, Italy, 4-6 December
by Marjorie Burghart 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi! Here's the program of a symposium soon to be held in Rome, at the Ecole française de Rome. It is organized jointly by French and Italian medievalists (from the Ecole française de Rome, LAMOP, and Reti Medievali), yet it is not restricted to the Middle Ages. Papers will be given in French and Italian. If you want to attend, please contact Marilyn Nicoud or Grazia Parrino, secrma(a)efrome.it Best wishes, Marjorie *Les historiens et l’informatique : un métier à réinventer * *Jeudi 4 décembre – 14 h 30 *Marilyn Nicoud (École française de Rome) /Accueil des participants /Jean-Philippe Genet (Université de Paris I) /Peut-on prévoir l’impact des transformations de l’informatique sur le travail scientifique de l’historien ? / *L’historien et ses sources : archives et bibliothèques - 15 h 00 *Anna Maria Tammaro (Università di Parma) /La biblioteca digitale verso la realizzazione dell'infrastruttura globale per gli studi umanistici /Roberto Delle Donne (Università di Napoli Federico II) /Storia e Open Archive /Christophe Dessaux (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication) /De la numérisation des collections à Europeana : des contenus culturels pour la recherche /Gino Roncaglia (Università della Tuscia) /Libri elettronici : un panorama in evoluzione /Stefano Vitali (Archivio di Stato di Firenze) /I mutamenti nel mondo degli archivi / 17 h 45-18 h 45 : Discussion *Vendredi 5 décembre – 9 h 00 **Éditer *Michele Ansani (Università di Pavia) et Antonella Ghignoli (Università di Firenze) /Testi digitali : nuovi media e documenti medievali /Pierre Bauduin (Université de Caen) et Catherine Jacquemard (Université de Caen) /La pratique de l’édition en ligne : expériences et questionnements /Paul Bertrand (IRHT, CNRS) /Autour de l’édition électronique et des digital humanities : nouvelle érudition, nouvelle critique ? / 10 h 30-11 h 00 : Discussion *Enseigner *Rolando Minuti (Università di Firenze) /Insegnare storia al tempo del web 2.0 : considerazioni su esperienze e problemi aperti /Giulio Romero (Atelhis) /Métier d’historiens, métiers d’historien : les impératifs d’une formation ouverte / 12 h 45-13 h 15 : Discussion *Communiquer* - 15 h 00 Pietro Corrao (Università di Palermo) /L’esperienza di Reti Medievali /Christine Ducourtieux (Université de Paris I) et Marc Smith (École nationale des Chartes), /L’expérience de Ménestrel / 16 h 00 - 16 h. 30 Discussion *Les nouveaux horizons du métier d’historien *Aude Mairey (CESCM, CNRS-Université de Poitiers) /Quelles perspectives pour la textométrie ? /Julien Alerini (Université de Paris I) et Stéphane Lamassé (Université de Paris I) /Données et statistiques : l’avenir du travail en ligne pour l’historien / 17 h 45-18 h 15 : Discussion *Samedi 6 décembre – 9 h 00 *François Giligny (Université de Paris I) /L’informatique en archéologie : une révolution tranquille ? /Jean-Luc Arnaud (Telemme, CNRS-Université de Provence) /Nouvelles méthodes, nouveaux usages de la cartographie et de l’analyse spatiale en histoire /Margherita Azzari (Università di Firenze) /Geographic Information Systems and Science. Stato dell’arte, sfide future / 10 h-30-11 h 00 : Discussion *L’historien et l’outil informatique *Serge Noiret (European University Institute) /Fare storia a più mani con il web 2.0 : cosa cambia nelle pratiche degli storici ? /Philippe Rygiel (Université de Paris I) /De quoi le web est-il l’archive ? Lectures historiennes de l’activité réseau /Jean-Michel Dalle (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI) /Peut-on penser le futur d’une communauté scientifique sans tenir compte de l’économie de l’innovation et de la créativité ? / 12 h 45-13 h 30 : Discussion *Conclusions d’Andrea Zorzi (Università di Firenze)*

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Manuscript Descriptions
by James Cummings 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi all, As some of you know I'm doing some work for the ENRICH project[1] which has created a subset of the TEI for medieval manuscript description[2]. At an upcoming meeting, one of the things we'd like to demonstrate is that potentially many more formats than we're planning to convert to this format could adequately be expressed in it should need arise. That is, that we've got a vocabulary for a manuscript description which most manuscripts could be described in, if desired. Or at least, we'd like to see where what we have *doesn't* allow for other types of (e.g. modern) manuscripts so at least we are aware of the limitations. If you happen to have any manuscript descriptions, in any format[3], of any time period[4] would you be willing to let me have a representative sample of them? I promise to abide by any restrictions of use you impose, will openly share my results with anyone who wants, and such. I'm not promising to write automatic conversions of them, but might want to choose a couple and do manual conversions to demonstrate that there is no loss of intellectual content. Thanks, -James [1] http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/ [2] http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ENRICH/ [3] We have some MASTER and TEI P5 ones, and while more of those are always welcome, other bizarre formats are even more appreciated. [4] While the project is medieval in nature for this purpose we aren't limited to medieval manuscripts.

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CFP: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture
by Brent Nelson 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Call for Papers: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Editors Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) invite submissions for a collection of essays on “Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture” to be published in the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series edited by Ray Siemens and William Bowen. This collection of essays will build on the accomplishments of recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing material cultures from roughly 500 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Scholars of the medieval and early modern periods have begun to pay more attention to the material world not only as a means of cultural experience, but also as a shaping influence upon culture and society, looking at the world of material objects as both an area of study and a rich source of evidence for interpreting the past. Digital media enable new ways of evoking, representing, recovering, and simulating these materials in non-traditional, non-textual (or para-textual) ways and present new possibilities for recuperating and accumulating material from across vast distances and time, enabling both preservation and comparative analysis that is otherwise impossible or impractical. Digital mediation also poses practical and theoretical challenges, both logistical (such as gaining access to materials) and intellectual (for example, the relationship between text and object). This volume of essays will promote the deployment of digital technologies to the study of material culture by bringing together expertise garnered from complete and current digital projects, while looking forward to new possibilities for digital applications; it will both take stock of the current state of theory and practice and advance new developments in digitization of material culture. The editors welcome submissions from all disciplines on any research that addresses the use of digital means for representing and investigating material culture as expressed in such diverse areas as: • travelers’ accounts, navigational charts and cartography • collections and inventories • numismatics, antiquarianism and early archaeology • theatre and staging (props, costumes, stages, theatres) • the visual arts of drawing, painting, sculpture, print making, and architecture • model making • paper making and book printing, production, and binding • manuscripts, emblems, and illustrations • palimpsests and three-dimensional writing • instruments (magic, alchemical, and scientific) • arts and crafts • the anatomical and cultural body We welcome approaches that are practical and/or theoretical, general in application or particular and project-based. Submissions should present fresh advances in methodologies and applications of digital technologies, including but not limited to: • XML and databases and computational interpretation • three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds • virtual research environments • mapping technology • image capture, processing, and interpretation • 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis • artificial intelligence, process modeling, and knowledge representation Papers might address such topics and issues as: • the value of inter-disciplinarity (as between technical and humanist experts) • relationships between image and object; object and text; text and image • the metadata of material culture • curatorial and archival practice • mediating the material object and its textual representations • imaging and data gathering (databases and textbases) • the relationship between the abstract and the material text • haptic, visual, and auditory simulation • tools and techniques for paleographic analysis Enquiries and proposals should be sent to brent.nelson[at]usask.ca by 10 January 2009. Complete essays of 5,000-6,000 words in length will be due on 1 May 2009.

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