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Digitization Workshop at Kalamazoo: final announcement
by Dot Porter 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

**Several slots are still available in the workshop. Leadership will be provided by staff from the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Western Michigan University Libraries' Digitization Center. If you would like to register, please contact me asap at dporter(a)uky.edu. If the workshop does not fill it will also be possible to register on-site Friday at 1pm, before the workshop begins.** Digitization of Primary Materials for Medievalists: A Workshop Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources Hosted by the Western Michigan University Libraries' Digitization Center Friday, May 9, 1:30-5:00 The process of digitization project planning is essential for endeavors large and small. Every project to digitize medieval primary sources, whether undertaken by major libraries or by individual scholars, must take into account issues of legality (can I post these digital images on the web?), equipment (can I use a flatbed scanner, or should I use a camera?), specifications (300 or 600 dpi? And what's dpi??) and metadata standards (what's metadata?). Our seminar, "Elements of Digitization Project Planning" will describe why a Digitization Project Plan is essential for every project, and will go over what each element of a project plan entails. We will discuss the nine elements of successful project planning, and show resources and references for developing digitization project plans. Experienced professionals, including librarians and image experts, will share their expertise and provide examples of previous successful project plans. We will also cover other important aspects of digitization technology, including the methodology and technology of digital preservation. Registration is $50 for MAA members and $65 for non-members. To register, contact Dot Porter at dporter(a)uky.edu. Space is limited to 35. -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities http://www.rch.uky.edu Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments http://www.vis.uky.edu dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115 ***************************************

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[dm-l] Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] EpiDoc Summer School, July 14th-18th, 2008
by Dot Porter 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

[forwarded from Digital Classics] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk> Date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:52 AM Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] EpiDoc Summer School, July 14th-18th, 2008 To: DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)jiscmail.ac.uk (Apologies for cross-posting) The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The training is designed for epigraphers and papyrologists (or related text editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would like to learn the skills and tools required to mark up ancient documents for publication (online or on paper), and interchange with international academic standards. You can learn more about EpiDoc from the EpiDoc home page [1] and the Introduction for Epigraphers [2]; you wil find a recent and user-friendly article on the subject in the Digital Medievalist [3]. (If you want to go further, you can learn about XML [4] and about the principles of the Text Encoding Initiative [5].) The Summer School will not expect any technical expertise, and training in basic XML will be provided. Attendees (who should be familiar with Greek/Latin and the Leiden Conventions) will need to bring a laptop on which has been installed the Oxygen XML editor [6] (available at a reduced academic price, or for a free 30-day demo). The EpiDoc Summer School is free to participants; we can try to help you find cheap (student) accommodation in London. If any students participating would like to stay on afterwards and acquire some hands-on experience marking up some texts for the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica project [7], they would be most welcome! All interested please contact both charlotte.roueche(a)kcl.ac.uk and gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk as soon as possible. Please pass on this message to anyone who you think might benefit. Links: [1] http://epidoc.sf.net/ [2] http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/5/introeps.html [3] http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/bodard/ [4] http://www.w3.org/XML/ [5] http://www.tei-c.org/ [6] http://www.oxygenxml.com/ [7] http://ircyr.kcl.ac.uk/ -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL 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/ -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities http://www.rch.uky.edu Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments http://www.vis.uky.edu dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115 ***************************************

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Job: Scholarly editing
by Torsten Schassan 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de/forschung/theophilus/vacancies.html The Thomas Institute, University of Cologne, invites applications for a two-year fixed-term contract position of a Postdoctoral Researcher (TVL-E 13) in conjunction with the Theophilus project. The project aims take a new approach to the treatise on mediaeval handcrafts of Theophilus Presbyter and will present a digital scholarly edition, based on a comprehensive documentation of the variant manuscript traditions. The Position: * Research on manuscript witnesses and sources * Transcription and critical annotation of the variant text versions * Digitisation of existing editions and translations * Creation of a comprehensive digital edition * Cooperation with IT-specialists and art historians and with similar edition projects * Presentation of results and assistance in the organisation of an exhibition on medieval arts and crafts Qualifications: * PhD in a relevant mediaeval discipline * Very good knowledge of Latin language, palaeography and codicology * Experiences in the creation of scholarly editions * Good awareness of similar digital humanities ventures / willingness to undergo intensive training An extensive description of the project is provided at the homepage of the Thomas Institute: www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Andreas Speer (email: andreas.speer (at) uni-koeln.de; phone: +49 221 470 2309). Complete Applications must be submitted before 31st May 2008 to the Thomas Institute, University of Cologne, Universitätsstrasse 22, 50923 Köln, Germany. - -- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIDGmcq4nZEP2KS4QRAiZDAJ4iS5OLkqZAaqKFoUNCgNOD5GtVvwCfWk4c mYKBtoyS4N+jpn6sKSAgS9Y= =dZiQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Reminder: Call for Nominations: DM Board
by Torsten Schassan 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear colleagues, please cross-post this reminder as the deadline for nominations is approaching. Notice that different from what has been announced so far, I will act as returning officer. Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of this month for four positions to its board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the over all direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. With the election of these four positions, Digital Medievalist will complete its transition from an investigator-driven project to a community-governed organisation. Information about the organisation, including its bylaws, is available at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ (see particularly http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about/) We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for these vacancies. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred by subscription to the organisation's mailing list, dm-l(a)uleth.ca). If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officer, Torsten Schaßan, at schassan(a)hab.de. The nomination period will close at 0000 UTC Thursday April 24 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the end of the week of April 28th, 2008. Best, Torsten - -- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIDEznq4nZEP2KS4QRAlBjAJ9UEeiLKn/QKyhM/WwBvrQ0AjiUzACfRNIG 2JW3WAQUjnA8VJD8qGXFHIo= =YPtT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: [Corpora-List] Processing Latin texts
by Barbara Need 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

I thought this might be of interest to some people on the list. Barbara Begin forwarded message: > From: Dag Trygve Truslew Haug <d.t.t.haug(a)ifikk.uio.no> > Date: 16 April 2008 9:17:39 CDT > To: corpora(a)uib.no > Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Processing Latin texts > > At the University of Oslo, we are currently creating a parallel > dependency treebank consisting of the old Indo-European versions of > the > New Testament: for the moment we are working on the Greek original and > the Latin, but the treebank will eventually cover the Gothic, Armenian > and Old Church Slavonic translations as well. > > We have annotated 3039 sentences of Greek and 5303 sentences of Latin > and proceed at about 1000 sentences pr. week; though only 637 Greek > and > 409 Latin sentences have been reviewed so far. There remains some work > to do before we can 'go public', but we plan to open our site and make > available our data in a couple of weeks' time. I will announce the > opening on the list. > > --------------------------------------------- > Dag Haug > Associate Professor of Latin > Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas > PO Box 1020 Blindern > N-0315 Oslo > Norway > > daghaug(a)ifikk.uio.no > > > _______________________________________________ > Corpora mailing list > Corpora(a)uib.no > http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora

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Digitization Workshop at Kalamazoo: second announcement
by Dot Porter 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

Digitization of Primary Materials for Medievalists: A Workshop Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources Hosted by the Western Michigan University Libraries' Digitization Center Friday, May 9, 1:30-5:00 The process of digitization project planning is essential for endeavors large and small. Every project to digitize medieval primary sources, whether undertaken by major libraries or by individual scholars, must take into account issues of legality (can I post these digital images on the web?), equipment (can I use a flatbed scanner, or should I use a camera?), specifications (300 or 600 dpi? And what's dpi??) and metadata standards (what's metadata?). Our seminar, "Elements of Digitization Project Planning" will describe why a Digitization Project Plan is essential for every project, and will go over what each element of a project plan entails. We will discuss the nine elements of successful project planning, and show resources and references for developing digitization project plans. Experienced professionals, including librarians and image experts, will share their expertise and provide examples of previous successful project plans. We will also cover other important aspects of digitization technology, including the methodology and technology of digital preservation. Registration is $50 for MAA members and $65 for non-members. To register, contact Dot Porter at dporter(a)uky.edu. Space is limited to 35. -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities http://www.rch.uky.edu Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments http://www.vis.uky.edu dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115 ***************************************

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TEI Text and Graphics SIG: Announcement and Meeting
by Dot Porter 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

[excuse cross posting, and forward at will] The Text and Graphics special interest group of the Text Encoding Initiative will be convening during the TEI Member's Meeting in November. The TEI Guidelines are used to encode many diverse, graphically rich documents, including illuminated manuscripts, laboratory notebooks, art books, children's illustrated books, comics and graphic novels, and so on. These types of graphically rich documents present special concerns, considerations, and challenges, both conceptually at the encoding level and technically at the transformation, presentation, and publishing layers of digital document development. The purpose of this SIG will be to discuss, develop, and document various strategies and best practices for implementing the digital facsimile structures available in TEI P5, especially as relates tovgraphically rich texts, and for developing methods to extend the TEI when existing structures are not suitable. We are organizing a session of graphics-focused papers for the member's meeting as well. If you would like to participate, please contact Dot Porter <dporter(a)uky.edu> by April 25. Details about the member's meeting at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/cocoon/tei2008/index.html. Discussions leading up to the meeting in November will be held on the SIG listserv. To join the listserv, visit http://listserv.brown.edu/?A0=TEI-GRAPHICS-SIG. The Text & Graphics SIG wiki page can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/wiki/index.php/SIG:Text%26Graphic. Thank you, John Walsh and Dot Porter T&G SIG Conveners -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities http://www.rch.uky.edu Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments http://www.vis.uky.edu dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115 *************************************** -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities http://www.rch.uky.edu Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments http://www.vis.uky.edu dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115 ***************************************

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[Fwd: Digitization Workshop at Kalamazoo Medieval Congress]
by Dan O'Donnell 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Dot Porter <dporter(a)UKY.EDU> Reply-To: SHARP-L Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing <SHARP-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> To: SHARP-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Digitization Workshop at Kalamazoo Medieval Congress Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:00:41 -0400 Digitization of Primary Materials for Medievalists: A Workshop Part of the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources Hosted by the Western Michigan University Libraries' Digitization Center Friday, May 9, 1:30-5:00 The process of digitization project planning is essential for endeavors large and small. Every project to digitize medieval primary sources, whether undertaken by major libraries or by individual scholars, must take into account issues of legality (can I post these digital images on the web?), equipment (can I use a flatbed scanner, or should I use a camera?), specifications (300 or 600 dpi? And what's dpi??) and metadata standards (what's metadata?). Our seminar, "Elements of Digitization Project Planning" will describe why a Digitization Project Plan is essential for every project, and will go over what each element of a project plan entails. We will discuss the nine elements of successful project planning, and show resources and references for developing digitization project plans. Experienced professionals, including librarians and image experts, will share their expertise and provide examples of previous successful project plans. We will also cover other important aspects of digitization technology, including the methodology and technology of digital preservation. Registration is $50 for members of the Medieval Academy of America and $65 for non-members. To register, contact Dot Porter at dporter(a)uky.edu. Space is limited to 35. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox: +1 403 329-2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191

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[Fwd: scriptorium: medieval and early modern manuscripts online]
by Arianna Ciula 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

This may be of interest to readers of this list: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: scriptorium: medieval and early modern manuscripts online Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:09:51 +0100 From: Christopher Burlinson <cmb29(a)CAM.AC.UK> [...] With apologies for self-promotion, and for any cross-posting. I would like to announce the Phase 1 launch of Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, an AHRC-funded project based at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University. http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk Scriptorium will comprise full digital facsimiles of at least twenty late medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books, along with descriptions, transcriptions and bibliographical information; a set of research and teaching resources for students and scholars working on manuscript studies; and an enhanced version of English Handwriting: An Online Course, our interactive palaeography tool: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/ All parts of the site will remain freely and publicly available. Currently, the resource includes images of St Johns College, Cambridge, MS S.23, an early seventeenth-century poetic miscellany. More images and information will be added progressively in the coming weeks and months, as the site is enhanced, expanded and developed. We hope that the resource will be useful to the wide scholarly community. -- Dr Christopher Burlinson Emmanuel College Cambridge Senior Research Associate Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk Faculty of English 9 West Road Cambridge Tel.: 01223 331970 (college) / 767310 (faculty) e-mail: cmb29(a)cam.ac.uk

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[Fwd: scriptorium: medieval and early modern manuscripts online]
by Torsten Schassan 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI. Best, Torsten - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: scriptorium: medieval and early modern manuscripts online Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:09:51 +0100 From: Christopher Burlinson <cmb29(a)CAM.AC.UK> Reply-To: Online Manuscript Research <MANUSCRIPTS-ONLINE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: MANUSCRIPTS-ONLINE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK With apologies for self-promotion, and for any cross-posting. I would like to announce the Phase 1 launch of Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, an AHRC-funded project based at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University. http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk Scriptorium will comprise full digital facsimiles of at least twenty late medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books, along with descriptions, transcriptions and bibliographical information; a set of research and teaching resources for students and scholars working on manuscript studies; and an enhanced version of English Handwriting: An Online Course, our interactive palaeography tool: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/ All parts of the site will remain freely and publicly available. Currently, the resource includes images of St Johns College, Cambridge, MS S.23, an early seventeenth-century poetic miscellany. More images and information will be added progressively in the coming weeks and months, as the site is enhanced, expanded and developed. We hope that the resource will be useful to the wide scholarly community. - -- Dr Christopher Burlinson Emmanuel College Cambridge Senior Research Associate Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk Faculty of English 9 West Road Cambridge Tel.: 01223 331970 (college) / 767310 (faculty) e-mail: cmb29(a)cam.ac.uk - -- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH+dWjq4nZEP2KS4QRAmEcAJ9pRFBztcZyn4QmaL6GC84Vwx88TACdG6X9 CNX4UiOlAYe9JRq401MEv0M= =+qQD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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