dm-l June 2008

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Seminar today: The value and price of information: reflections on e-publishing in the humanities
by Gabriel Bodard 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

(With apologies for cross-posting.) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studeies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 27th June at 16:30, in room 218, Chadwick Building, UCL **Note the new venue, for today only** Bruce Fraser (Cambridge) 'The value and price of information: reflections on e-publishing in the humanities' ALL WELCOME The paper attempts a change of focus from the single project to a broader range of e-publishing, considered by content and by target audience. The … [View More]

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Assistive technologies for Old English
by Peter Baker 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

I just got a query from someone about whether there exist any assistive technologies for Old English--she especially mentioned screen readers. I've never looked into this: I have no idea whether such technologies exist, or if they don't, what it would take to make a screen reader read Old English. Does anyone here have any knowledge or experience of this kind, suggestions for this person, or advice about possibly creating a tool for reading Old English aloud? Thanks, Peter Baker … [View More]

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Digitisation Survey
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hello all, The Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org) is exploring the feasibility of a benefit of membership in the form of a negotiated vendor discount for producing machine-readable, xml-encoded text in small- to medium-scale digitization projects. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at the link below in order to provide us with information that would help us negotiate with vendors on the basis of an accurate assessment of the nature and extent of demand for … [View More]

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The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool (seminar)
by Mahony, Simon 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work-in-Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 20th June at 16:30, in B3, Stewart House, Senate House, Malet Street, London **please note - this is a different room. Stewart House is the building on the Russell Square side of Senate House.** *Dot Porter (University of Kentucky)* ‘The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool’ ALL WELCOME I shall discuss the Son of Suda On Line (SoSOL), a proposed web-based, fully … [View More]

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D+MECH, the DEEDS Project new charter dating program
by Rodolfo Fiallos 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

*DOCUMENTS OF EARLY **ENGLAND** DATA SET* *(DEEDS PROJECT)* *Directed by* *Michael Gervers, PhD* *University** of **Toronto*** * * * * For several decades, the DEEDS Project has had as its major research objective the development of a computer program to provide chronological context for undated English private charters issued after the Norman Conquest in 1066 and before the reign of Edward II in 1307. During this period, approximately 95% of these documents were promulgated without … [View More]dates. Only after the start of the 14^th century was internal dating regularly applied to conveyances. The program which has been developed, and is now available on line, produces a date based on the comparison of word-strings in the test document with similar word-strings in a database of 10,000 dated charters. We would like to invite you to test this program using Latin texts from the period. You will find the site at: http://scriptor.deeds.utoronto.ca:7777/d_mech Once at the home page, click on "Go" at the bottom centre. Paste your document to be dated in the empty rectangle and click on "next". If you wish, edit your text. This entails exchanging personal or place name with the letter "P" (& note also what appears under "DOCUM" on the home page). Continue to click "next" and finally "Date it". The result will appear in Roman numerals in the upper left of your screen, and in Arabic numerals at the lower right. Generally speaking, these machine-generated dates provide accuracy within ± 10 years about 65% of the time. To bring the remaining 35% in line, we will need to develop additional algorithms. The statistical background for the program was developed by Professor Andrey Feuerverger of the Department of Statistics, and his PhD student, Gelila Tilahun. The dating program, and the website, were created by Rodolfo Fiallos of the DEEDS Project. Based on tests using the dated documents in the DEEDS corpus, the program can provide reasonable accuracy from about 1160; before that time there are very few dated documents available to serve as comparative material. We are always looking for documents to add to the database, especially for the period 1066 to 1200, and would welcome examples from sources other than those we have already searched (about 190 printed sources up to this point). In fact, our efforts would benefit greatly from the collaboration of interested colleagues, both in providing us with the texts of transcribed documents on the one hand, and in testing the dating program with them on the other. We also have a search engine which provides access to the content of the 10,000 documents in the manner of a concordance. By this means, the database is fully searchable, and each column can be arranged in alphabetical or numeric order by clicking at the top of the column: http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research/ Click on Medieval Latin Charters > Search Place a word or word-string into the "Query" box. Click on the bullet "Context". Enter the no. of words you would like to find at either end of your chosen string. Click on "Execute". This is a beta program. We have worked long and hard to develop it, while at the same time knowing that there is always room for greater accuracy and improvement. We hope you will find it useful and that you will send us your reactions. Michael Gervers m.gervers(a)utoronto.ca <mailto:m.gervers@utoronto.ca> Rodolfo Fiallos r.fiallos(a)utoronto.ca <mailto:r.fiallos@utoronto.ca> Toronto, 8 June 2008 -- Rodolfo Fiallos Research Network/Database Administrator The DEEDS Project, University of Toronto www.utoronto.ca/deeds Tel./Fax: 416-978-4882 [View Less]

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Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services (seminar London)
by simon mahony 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

This is to announce the first seminar in this summer's Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress series. Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford) 'The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services' Time: Friday 6th June at 16:30 Place: room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Brief abstract: The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names was established 35 years ago to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names. Thorough maintenance of the IT infrastructure … [View More]

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