dm-l May 2008

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DM Election
by Torsten Schassan 09 May '08

09 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear DigitalMedievalists, this is the message on the voting procedures: From tomorrow, 10th of May, 0am, GMT, until Friday, 16th of May, 12pm, GMT, you may cast your vote for the second elected Digital Medievalist Executive Board. For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. We have four open slots and eight names on the slate. You may vote for one, two, three or four names. If you submit more than four names all of your votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are acceptable but count as one of your four votes. Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with the most votes will come to the Executive Board. Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to election(a)digitalmedievalist.org ************************************* Burghart, Marjorie. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France. Burgart holds a M.A. in Medieval Studies and a M.Sc. in computer sciences. She prepares a PhD Thesis in Medieval studies: study and edition of the /Sermones ad status/ collection by the 13th century friar Gilbert of Tournai, OFM. Since 2000, she has worked as a computer scientist particularly focusing on digital humanities. In her current position at the /Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France, she coordinates the computing aspects of several projects involving the electronic edition of medieval documents in TEI format (from latin sermons to accounts corpora, not to mention the /Glossa ordinaria/ of the Bible), as long as databases and, to a certain extent, GIS. She has led or been involved in the development of various tools (/ScolastiX/, a collaborative XML annotation platform ; /BibliOpera/, a multi-user online bibliographical database manager ; /COL/, a latin spellchecker for MS Word and OpenOffice ; a meta-search engine for a libraries portal without Z3950 ; ...). She is currently working at a companion guide for scholars wanting to produce an electronic edition. She also occasionally acts as a consultant for other academic institutions, on computing aspects of History and Archaeology related projects. Her sensibility to scholarly edition has been developed by her role as a member, since 2002, of the editorial committee of the /Médiéviste et l'Ordinateur <http://lemo.irht.cnrs.fr>/ journal. ========== Cummings, James. Research Officer, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford. Cummings is the Senior RTS Project Officer of the Oxford University Computing Services. His PhD was in medieval studies, and he works on a number of projects such as the Text Encoding Initiative, and ENRICH (and EU-funded project standardising medieval manuscript metadata across Europe). His work for Digital Medievalist (DM) has mainly been on the technical side. He was responsible for redesigning the technical infrastructure of DM's new website (using TEI XML inside Apache's Cocoon with custom XSLT, and fed automatically by the DM subversion server). He has also moved the wiki and improved the DM mail handling systems. James is running again for the DM Board so that he can continue such work. ========== Murray McGillivray. Professor (formerly Head) of English, University of Calgary. McGillivray has been a digital medievalist (practitioner, theorist, enthusiast) for over twenty years and has been involved with DM since the beginning. His primary scholarly interest is the use of computer methods in the development and distribution of scholarly editions. His current digital projects include an electronic edition of the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript (BL Cotton Nero A.x.) and the Online Corpus of Old English Poetry. ========== Porter, Dorothy Carr. Program Coordinator, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky. Porter is Program Coordinator of the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH; http://www.rch.uky.edu/) and lead in the Computational Humanities group at the Center for Visualization (http://www.vis.uky.edu/), both at the University of Kentucky. She has served on the Digital Medievalist board since 2006 and has also served on the journal editorial board. Porter is the chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources (http://www.medievalacademy.org/) (2006-2009) and has served on the technical council of the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) (2006 and 2007). She has worked on many digital projects in medieval studies and classics including the Electronic Boethius (http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm) and the Homer Multitext project (http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/homer_multitext). Her particular research interests are the relationship between text and image in encoding and digital publication, and interdisciplinary collaboration. ========== Rehbein, Malte. Marie Curie Research Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway and member of the Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing (TEXTE) programme. Rehbein is a graduate in history and mathematics from University of Göttingen and gained his first experience in the Digital Humanities as an associate in the Duderstadt digitization project at Max-Planck-Insitute for History in Göttingen (1996-99). His main research interest is on methodology for creating digital scholarly edtions of historical texts. Among other projects, he is currently working on an edition of multi-layered late medieval town statutes. He also has work experience as a software developer and business consultant. ========== Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto. Associate professor, University of Torino. Rosselli Del Turco is an associate professor at the University of Torino and also teaches a Text Encoding course at the University of Pisa. He is the director of the Digital Vercelli Book project, a project aiming at producing a diplomatic edition of the Vercelli Book manuscript by means of a TEI transcription of all the texts it holds; he is also a member of the TEI Manuscript Transcription SIG, to improve the effectiveness of TEI tools and guidelines for transcription of primary sources. He is a founder of the Digital Medievalist Project and has served on the Board during the last term. His interests lie in text encoding with TEI, text- and image-based digital editions, usability and design of digital edition software. ========== Twycross, Meg. Professor Emeritus, MA, BLitt, CertEd (Oxon), FRSA. Twycross is Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies at Lancaster University, a leading expert in medieval and early Renaissance theatre and pageantry, and Executive Editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre. She is currently using 'virtual restoration' techniques on high-resolution digital images of the York Ordo paginarum, a severely damaged document listing the pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play, to recover the original 1415 readings from underneath later erasures and rewriting. ========== Vogeler, Georg. University of Lecce. Vogeler has studied Historical Auxiliary Sciences at Freiburg and Munich. He wrote his PhD thesis about tax administration in the late medieval German territorial states. Scince 1996 he worked as lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the chair for Historical Auxiliary Sciences in Munich. At the moment he is travelling through Italy with a scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation studying the use of the documents of Frederich II. His interest in the use of the computer for historical research dates back to several seminars held by Manfred Thaller he attended in the 1990s. He is editor of the Virtual Library Historical Auxiliary Sciences (http://www.vl-ghw.lmu.de), published several articles on the use of the computer for diplomatic research, put forward the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de) and recently organized an international conference on "Digital Diplomatics" (February 2007). He is member of the "Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik" (Institute for documentology and editorial science, http://www.i-d-e.de) and of the board of the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net). - -- 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 iD8DBQFIJDzNq4nZEP2KS4QRAqn6AJ4psAM6SSfeB0CgPusPU0hwI6HWsQCfbMoy fw67HycfU8XptVnK545svUc= =UeZ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2007 Annual Edition]
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 08 May '08

08 May '08

With usual apologies -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English, University of Lethbridge Chair, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). http://www.tei-c.org/ Director, Digital Medievalist Project. http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Voice: +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 Surface: Department of English University of Lethbridge 4401 Univevrsity Drive W. Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4 Canada

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Call for Papers (updated): Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity
by Brent Nelson 07 May '08

07 May '08

Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity A seminar to be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis, a Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Seminar and Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008 A “Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity” seminar will be held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon 16 October 2008 and will feature guest speakers: * Meg Twycross, Professor Emeritus of English, Lancaster University, and Executive Editor of Medieval English Theatre (new speaker, replacing Melissa Terras) * Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Centre, University of California Los Angeles It will be held in conjunction with CaSTA 2008, 17-18 August, featuring guest speakers: * David Hoover, Professor of English at New York University (keynote) * Hoyt Duggan, Professor Emeritus in English at University of Virginia * Geoffrey Rockwell, Associate Professor in Humanities Computing and Multimedia at University of Alberta * Cara Leitch, PhD candidate in English at University of Victoria CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR “DIGITIZING EARLY MATERIAL CULTURE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY” The organizing committee also invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working on the application of digital technology to the study of material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity.” Final submissions should aim to be 2,500-5,000 words in length and may address digital projects, programs of research, digital tools and practices, or theory related to the digitization of material culture to the end of the seventeenth century. Complete papers will be circulated in advance of the conference and participants (presenters and non-presenters) will sign up for and participate in two to three sessions on Thursday, 16 October, having read the complete papers (2-3 per session) in advance. Each session will comprise short introductory summaries by presenters (5-10 minutes) followed by extensive discussion of the circulated texts. Participants can expect to receive concrete and expert advice from other participants as they pool expertise (together with our invited speakers) to consider how the project, tool, or theory can be further developed toward publication or implementation. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Complete papers will be published on the conference Web-site prior to the conference. Contributors to the seminar will also be invited to submit papers for a collection on “Digitizing Early Material Culture, from Antiquity to 1700,” to be edited by Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) for the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies series at MRTS (series editors Ray Siemens and William Bowen). Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf file to: Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, brent.nelson(a)usask.ca. In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008, and complete papers will be due 15 September 2008 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR “NEW DIRECTIONS IN TEXT ANALYSIS” The organizing committee of CaSTA 2008 also invites proposals from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working in any area of technical or textual studies addressing the conference theme, “New Directions in Text Analysis.” This will be the sixth annual CaSTA conference, held in association with TAPoR (the Text Analysis Portal). The two days of the conference (17-18 October) will feature keynote and plenary addresses, papers, panels, and posters on a wide range of topics related to the future of digital text analysis. Presentations might address such topics as• changing notions of what constitutes a text - the relationship of the material text (its physical manifestation) to the ideal text (the text as an abstraction of words in a particular combination) - editing and publishing digital texts for a changing readership - new media and digital textual scholarship - new tools and methodologies for text analysis - digital texts and analysis in the scholarly mainstream - working with graduate students and research teams Abstracts of 500-700 words should propose presentations in one of three forms: - Single papers (max of 3,000 words) - Panels (three to five papers on a common theme) - Posters (max of 750 words), either hard copy (approximately two square metres of board space) or digital with terminal access provided. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference and there will be a designated session time for presenters to discuss their work. Abstract proposals should include the following information: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including e-mail; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusion. CaSTA 2008 especially wants to encourage the participation of graduate students, whose work is even now incubating many of the new directions that this conference will begin to explore. Cara Leitch (PhD candidate, University of Victoria) will conduct sessions of particular interest to graduate students and to projects that involve significant student training and participation. Travel grants will be available to students who travel to attend the conference. All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Abstracts will also be published on the conference Web-site prior to the conference. Selected papers from the conference will be included in a special issue of the peer reviewed journal, Text Technology. Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf file to: Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, brent.nelson(a)usask.ca In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008 Please see the conference website for further developments: http://ocs.usask.ca/casta08 -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ======================= my office ph.: (306) 966-1820 main office ph.: (306) 966-5486 fax.: (306) 966-5951 e-mail: nelson(a)arts.usask.ca =======================

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Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Call for Papers (Updated): Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity
by Dot Porter 06 May '08

06 May '08

>From digital classicist~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: brent.nelson(a)usask.ca <Brent.nelson(a)usask.ca> Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:13 PM Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Call for Papers (Updated): Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity To: DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)jiscmail.ac.uk A Seminar to be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Seminar and Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008 A "Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" seminar will be held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon 16 October 2008 and will feature guest speakers: * Meg Twycross, Professor Emeritus of English, Lancaster University, and Executive Editor of Medieval English Theatre (new speaker, replacing Melissa Terras) * Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Centre, University of California Los Angeles It will be held in conjunction with CaSTA 2008, 17-18 August, featuring guest speakers: * David Hoover, Professor of English at New York University (keynote) * Hoyt Duggan, Professor Emeritus in English at University of Virginia * Geoffrey Rockwell, Associate Professor in Humanities Computing and Multimedia at University of Alberta * Cara Leitch, PhD candidate in English at University of Victoria CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR "DIGITIZING EARLY MATERIAL CULTURE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY" The organizing committee invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working on the application of digital technology to the study of material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on "Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity." Final submissions should aim to be 2,500-5,000 words in length and may address digital projects, programs of research, digital tools and practices, or theory related to the digitization of material culture to the end of the seventeenth century. Complete papers will be circulated in advance of the conference and participants (presenters and non-presenters) will sign up for and participate in two to three sessions on Thursday, 16 October, having read the complete papers (2-3 per session) in advance. Each session will comprise short introductory summaries by presenters (5-10 minutes) followed by extensive discussion of the circulated texts. Participants can expect to receive concrete and expert advice from other participants as they pool expertise (together with our invited speakers) to consider how the project, tool, or theory can be further developed toward publication or implementation All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Complete papers will be published on the conference Web-site prior to the conference. Contributors to the seminar will also be invited to submit papers for a collection on "Digitizing Early Material Culture, from Antiquity to 1700," to be edited by Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) for the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies series at MRTS (series editors Ray Siemens and William Bowen). Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf file to: Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, brent.nelson(a)usask.ca. In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008, and complete papers will be due 15 September 2008 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR "NEW DIRECTIONS IN TEXT ANALYSIS" The organizing committee of CaSTA 2008 also invites proposals from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working in any area of technical or textual studies addressing the conference theme, "New Directions in Text Analysis." This will be the sixth annual CaSTA conference, held in association with TAPoR (the Text Analysis Portal). The two days of the conference (17-18 October) will feature keynote and plenary addresses, papers, panels, and posters on a wide range of topics related to the future of digital text analysis. Presentations might address such topics as• changing notions of what constitutes a text - the relationship of the material text (its physical manifestation) to the ideal text (the text as an abstraction of words in a particular combination) - editing and publishing digital texts for a changing readership - new media and digital textual scholarship - new tools and methodologies for text analysis - digital texts and analysis in the scholarly mainstream - working with graduate students and research teams Abstracts of 500-700 words should propose presentations in one of three forms: - Single papers (max of 3,000 words) - Panels (three to five papers on a common theme) - Posters (max of 750 words), either hard copy (approximately two square metres of board space) or digital with terminal access provided. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference and there will be a designated session time for presenters to discuss their work. Abstract proposals should include the following information: title of paper, author's name(s); complete mailing address, including e-mail; institutional affiliation and rank, if any, of the author; statement of need for audio-visual equipment. Abstracts of papers should clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusion. CaSTA 2008 especially wants to encourage the participation of graduate students, whose work is even now incubating many of the new directions that this conference will begin to explore. Cara Leitch (PhD candidate, University of Victoria) will conduct sessions of particular interest to graduate students and to projects that involve significant student training and participation. Travel grants will be available to students who travel to attend the conference. All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available subsequently through the conference Web-site. Abstracts will also be published on the conference Web-site prior to the conference. Selected papers from the conference will be included in a special issue of the peer reviewed journal, Text Technology. Proposal abstracts should be sent electronically as a MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf file to: Brent Nelson, conference committee chair, brent.nelson(a)usask.ca In consideration of our change in speakers, the deadline for proposal submissions is now 15 June 2008 Please see the conference website for further developments: http://ocs.usask.ca/casta08 -- *************************************** 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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Kalamazoo sessions this year and next
by Peter Robinson 05 May '08

05 May '08

For all those digital medievalists who are going to Kalamazoo this year and are planning to go next year... Once more this year, DM is organizing a series of sessions at the Kalamazoo medieval congress. This years sessions are: 446 -- Text and Image in Digital Materials, Schneider 1360, 1.30 Saturday: a chance particularly to see the wonderful work being done in Marburg on digitization of medieval charters. I'll also show some work we have been doing on Codex Sinaiticus. 499 -- Long term preservation of Digital Medieval Resources, Schneider 1360, 3.30 Saturday: a panel discussion with various eminent persons addressing what happens with digital materials once we have finished making them 583 -- The future of electronic editions of medieval materials, Schneider 1125, 10.30 Sunday. What it says! In addition, Dot Porter is involved in the workshops on digitization of primary materials for medievalists (sessions 298, 351). Following the success of these sessions over the last years, we have already started planning the Kalamazoo sessions for DM for 2009. We (the board, or at least some of the board) thought of three possible topics for sessions for next year: 1. What every digital medievalist should know (with apologies to Jim Marchand): a panel 2. Exemplary research applications using digital methods (papers) 3. Digital materials in the medieval classroom (papers -- note the slightly ambiguous use of the term medieval here) We are very open to suggestions as to further topics/changes in these. We are particularly keen on sessions which will bring in people outside the usual central DM small circle -- it is excellent that this year, most of the presentations in DM sessions are from people who have not taken part in DM sessions at Kalamazoo before. By May 16 we have to present our list of proposed sessions to the conference organizers so if you have any ideas, approach myself or anyone else from the DM board at Kalamazoo. All the best Peter Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson(a)bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk

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Job at MITH/National Gallery
by Dot Porter 02 May '08

02 May '08

Sent on behalf of Doug Reside. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Doug Reside <dougreside(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:20 AM Subject: TEI ad To: Dot Porter <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is seeking a full time TEI encoder to work on in-house text encoding projects as well as a collaboration with the National Gallery in Washington DC on a new digital archive under development: "The History of the Accademia di San Luca, 1589-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato, Rome." The successful candidate will have experience with humanities encoding projects and knowledge of TEI (preferably P5). Experience with transforming TEI via XSL and DOM manipulations is preferred. MITH is the University of Maryland's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, electronic literature, and cyberculture, as well as the home of the Electronic Literature Organization, the most prominent international group devoted to the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. MITH functions as an applied think tank for the digital humanities in its symposia and weekly seminar series; in its furthering the excellence of MITH Fellows' research; and in its cultivation of an innovative in-house research agenda that currently clusters around digital tools, text mining and visualization, and the creation and preservation of electronic literature, digital games, and virtual worlds. MITH and the University of Maryland will host the international Digital Humanities 2009 conference. Salary range: $40,000 to $50,000 plus benefits. We will begin accepting applications immediately and will continue until the position is filled. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to MITH's assistant director, Doug Reside (dreside At umd dot edu). -- Doug Reside, Assistant Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland b0131 McKeldin Library College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-5897 -- *************************************** 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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DM Nominee Announcement
by Torsten Schassan 02 May '08

02 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Digital Medievalist is pleased to announce the second election of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board. Four posts are open. Per the Digital Medievalist Bylaws, Board members will be expected to serve the DM membership by serving on an editorial committee responsible for the production of the DM journal, overseeing the operation of the DM wiki, moderating the dm-l listserv, and/or organizing conference and poster sessions on behalf of Digital Medievalist. Board members serve two-year terms. For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html Voting will be held by email from May 10 through May 16. Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. Watch for an announcement with details on how to cast your vote on May 09. ************************************* Burghart, Marjorie. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France. Burgart holds a M.A. in Medieval Studies and a M.Sc. in computer sciences. She prepares a PhD Thesis in Medieval studies: study and edition of the /Sermones ad status/ collection by the 13th century friar Gilbert of Tournai, OFM. Since 2000, she has worked as a computer scientist particularly focusing on digital humanities. In her current position at the /Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France, she coordinates the computing aspects of several projects involving the electronic edition of medieval documents in TEI format (from latin sermons to accounts corpora, not to mention the /Glossa ordinaria/ of the Bible), as long as databases and, to a certain extent, GIS. She has led or been involved in the development of various tools (/ScolastiX/, a collaborative XML annotation platform ; /BibliOpera/, a multi-user online bibliographical database manager ; /COL/, a latin spellchecker for MS Word and OpenOffice ; a meta-search engine for a libraries portal without Z3950 ; ...). She is currently working at a companion guide for scholars wanting to produce an electronic edition. She also occasionally acts as a consultant for other academic institutions, on computing aspects of History and Archaeology related projects. Her sensibility to scholarly edition has been developed by her role as a member, since 2002, of the editorial committee of the /Médiéviste et l'Ordinateur <http://lemo.irht.cnrs.fr>/ journal. ========== Cummings, James. Research Officer, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford. Cummings is the Senior RTS Project Officer of the Oxford University Computing Services. His PhD was in medieval studies, and he works on a number of projects such as the Text Encoding Initiative, and ENRICH (and EU-funded project standardising medieval manuscript metadata across Europe). His work for Digital Medievalist (DM) has mainly been on the technical side. He was responsible for redesigning the technical infrastructure of DM's new website (using TEI XML inside Apache's Cocoon with custom XSLT, and fed automatically by the DM subversion server). He has also moved the wiki and improved the DM mail handling systems. James is running again for the DM Board so that he can continue such work. ========== Murray McGillivray. Professor (formerly Head) of English, University of Calgary. McGillivray has been a digital medievalist (practitioner, theorist, enthusiast) for over twenty years and has been involved with DM since the beginning. His primary scholarly interest is the use of computer methods in the development and distribution of scholarly editions. His current digital projects include an electronic edition of the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript (BL Cotton Nero A.x.) and the Online Corpus of Old English Poetry. ========== Porter, Dorothy Carr. Program Coordinator, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky. Porter is Program Coordinator of the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH; http://www.rch.uky.edu/) and lead in the Computational Humanities group at the Center for Visualization (http://www.vis.uky.edu/), both at the University of Kentucky. She has served on the Digital Medievalist board since 2006 and has also served on the journal editorial board. Porter is the chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources (http://www.medievalacademy.org/) (2006-2009) and has served on the technical council of the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) (2006 and 2007). She has worked on many digital projects in medieval studies and classics including the Electronic Boethius (http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm) and the Homer Multitext project (http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/homer_multitext). Her particular research interests are the relationship between text and image in encoding and digital publication, and interdisciplinary collaboration. ========== Rehbein, Malte. Marie Curie Research Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway and member of the Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing (TEXTE) programme. Rehbein is a graduate in history and mathematics from University of Göttingen and gained his first experience in the Digital Humanities as an associate in the Duderstadt digitization project at Max-Planck-Insitute for History in Göttingen (1996-99). His main research interest is on methodology for creating digital scholarly edtions of historical texts. Among other projects, he is currently working on an edition of multi-layered late medieval town statutes. He also has work experience as a software developer and business consultant. ========== Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto. Associate professor, University of Torino. Rosselli Del Turco is an associate professor at the University of Torino and also teaches a Text Encoding course at the University of Pisa. He is the director of the Digital Vercelli Book project, a project aiming at producing a diplomatic edition of the Vercelli Book manuscript by means of a TEI transcription of all the texts it holds; he is also a member of the TEI Manuscript Transcription SIG, to improve the effectiveness of TEI tools and guidelines for transcription of primary sources. He is a founder of the Digital Medievalist Project and has served on the Board during the last term. His interests lie in text encoding with TEI, text- and image-based digital editions, usability and design of digital edition software. ========== Twycross, Meg. Professor Emeritus, MA, BLitt, CertEd (Oxon), FRSA. Twycross is Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies at Lancaster University, a leading expert in medieval and early Renaissance theatre and pageantry, and Executive Editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre. She is currently using 'virtual restoration' techniques on high-resolution digital images of the York Ordo paginarum, a severely damaged document listing the pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play, to recover the original 1415 readings from underneath later erasures and rewriting. ========== Vogeler, Georg. University of Lecce. Vogeler has studied Historical Auxiliary Sciences at Freiburg and Munich. He wrote his PhD thesis about tax administration in the late medieval German territorial states. Scince 1996 he worked as lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the chair for Historical Auxiliary Sciences in Munich. At the moment he is travelling through Italy with a scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation studying the use of the documents of Frederich II. His interest in the use of the computer for historical research dates back to several seminars held by Manfred Thaller he attended in the 1990s. He is editor of the Virtual Library Historical Auxiliary Sciences (http://www.vl-ghw.lmu.de), published several articles on the use of the computer for diplomatic research, put forward the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de) and recently organized an international conference on "Digital Diplomatics" (February 2007). He is member of the "Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik" (Institute for documentology and editorial science, http://www.i-d-e.de) and of the board of the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net). - -- 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 iD8DBQFIGx36q4nZEP2KS4QRAtcPAJ9XkT/KrbFIcfhfWtiXXz75VhAHiQCeLMF+ ImfJgPZlZXhG1Q4F3wUTYrc= =kRo/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: Institute of Classical Studies Work-in-Progress seminars (London)
by Dot Porter 01 May '08

01 May '08

(from Digital Classicist) (Apologies for cross-posting.) **Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars** Institute of Classical Studies Fridays at 16:30 in NG16, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU (June 20th, July 4th-18th seminars in room B3, Stewart House) (June 27th seminar room 218, Chadwick Bdg, UCL, Gower Street) **ALL WELCOME** 6 June (NG16) Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford), The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services 13 June (NG16) Brent Seales (University of Kentucky), EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials 20 June (STB3) Dot Porter (University of Kentucky), The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool 27 June (UCL Chadwick 218) Bruce Fraser (Cambridge), The value and price of information: reflections on e-publishing in the humanities 4 July (STB3) Andrew Bevan (UCL), Computational Approaches to Human and Animal Movement in the Archaeological Record 11 July (STB3) Frances Foster (KCL), A digital presentation of the text of Servius 18 July (STB3) Ryan Bauman (University of Kentucky), Towards the Digital Squeeze: 3-D imaging of inscriptions and curse tablets 25 July (NG16) Charlotte Tupman (KCL), Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman Libya 1 Aug (NG16) Juan Garcés (British Library), Digitizing the oldest complete Greek Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus project 8 Aug (NG16) Charlotte Roueché (KCL), From Stone to Byte 15 Aug (NG16) Ioannis Doukas (KCL), Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships 22 Aug (NG16) Peter Heslin (Durham), Diogenes: Past development and future plans **ALL WELCOME** We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in the application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient world to come and introduce their work. The focus of this seminar series is the interdisciplinary and collaborative work that results at the interface of expertise in Classics or Archaeology and Computer Science. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. (Sponsored by the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London.) For more information please contact gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk or simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, or visit the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html -- 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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Postdoctoral Researcher, digital scholarly edition, Cologne, Germany
by simon mahony 01 May '08

01 May '08

copied from Humanist - usual apologies if you have already seen this. ------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 07:08:28 +0100 From: Torsten Schassan <schassan(a)hab.de> Subject: Job: Postdoctoral Researcher, digital scholarly edition, Cologne, Germany 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 to 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(a)unikoeln.de; phone: +49 221 470 2309). Complete Applications must be submitted before 31st May 2008 to the Thomas Institute, University of Cologne, Universit=E4tsstrasse 22, 50923 K=F6ln, Germany. cf. http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de/forschung/theophilus/vacancies.html - -- 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 ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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

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