dm-l August 2008

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Contribute to the Greek and Latin Treebanks at Perseus!
by Dot Porter 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

(posted on behalf of Greg Crane at the Perseus Project; the usual apologies for cross-posting) 8/28/08: Contribute to the Greek and Latin Treebanks at Perseus! We are currently looking for advanced students of Greek and Latin to contribute syntactic analyses (via a web-based system) to our existing Latin Treebank (described below) and our emerging Greek Treebank as well (for which we have just received funding). We particularly encourage students at various levels to design research projects around this new tool. We are looking in particular for the following: * Get paid to read Greek! We can have a limited number of research assistantships for advanced students of the languages who can work for the project from their home institutions. We particularly encourage students who can use the analyses that they produce to support research projects of their own. * We also encourage classes of Greek and Latin to contribute as well. Creating the syntactic analyses provides a new way to address the traditional task of parsing Greek and Latin. Your class work can then contribute to a foundational new resource for the study of Greek and Latin - both courses as a whole and individual contributors are acknowledged in the published data. * Students and faculty interested in conducting their own original research based on treebank data will have the option to submit their work for editorial review to have it published as part of the emerging Scaife Digital Library. To contribute, please contact David Bamman (david.bamman(a)tufts.edu) or Gregory Crane (gregory.crane(a)tufts.edu). http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/ -- *************************************** 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 dot.porter(a)gmail.com 859-257-1257 x.82115 ***************************************

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Kalamazoo papers for 2009
by Peter Robinson 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Dear everyone The Digital Medievalist is once more sponsoring sessions at Kalamazoo. We have had proposals for one panel and two paper sessions accepted, thus: Panel: What every digital medievalist should know This session will take up the theme of Jim Marchand's famous 'WEMSK' series, focussing on how the omnipresence of digital technology has changed what every medievalist -- teacher, scholar, reader, anyone -- should know. We used only to have books; then we had films, television, and now we can everything in a small box, or in a browser on our screen -- even, in a mobile phone. How does this change what we should do, how we should do it, what we should know? Papers: Exemplary instances of research using digital methods and materials Several decades into the digital revolution, we may fairly ask: what has changed? For all the digital technology about us, are we still doing research in the same way? We invite contributions from scholars who have found research possibilities for any aspect of medieval studies which could not have been available in the pre-digital world. This may be because the materials were not available, or it may be because the methods were not available, or any combination of the two. Papers: Using digital materials in the classroom We invite papers narrating how teachers have used digital materials relating to any aspect of medieval studies in the undergraduate (or graduate) classroom. What are the benefits, difficulties, virtues and dangers in their use? What can be achieved in the classroom with digital materials which could not be achieved through traditional print matter? We have space in all these sessions. If you are interested in taking part in any of these sessions, please send, by 8 September: For the panel: your name and brief resume, a few sentences on what you would say as a panel member, and a completed participant identifier form (PID!) For the paper sessions: as usually required for Kalamazoo -- a 300 word abstract and completed PID You can download the PID form from http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF In the past, these have been excellent and stimulating sessions. And I will personally buy a beer or other beverage of choice to any participant. I recommend Bells Oberon (taste of summer, etc) 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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Diogenes: Past development and future plans (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Digital Classicist/Institute for Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 22nd August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Peter Heslin (Durham) 'Diogenes: Past development and future plans' ALL WELCOME Diogenes is an open-source application for accessing the databases of ancient texts in Latin and Greek published on CD-ROM by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute. It is nearly ten years old now, and this talk will trace the history of its development and outline its future prospects. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see 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/

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Fall 2008: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium at the Univ. of Pennsylvania
by Lynn Ransom 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

1st ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE OCTOBER 24-25, 2008 On the Nature of Things: Modern Perspectives on Scientific Manuscripts In partnership with the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 1st Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, to be held in Philadelphia, October 24-25, 2008, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania. This annual symposium, organized by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI), brings together scholars from around the world to present research related to the study of manuscript books produced before the age of printing and to discuss the potential for digital technologies in advancing manuscript research. This year's symposium examines scientific manuscript book production in Western Europe, Asia, and the Arabic world before the year 1600. For more information, program details, and registration, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium1.html. Registration is free and open to the public, but seating is limited for Saturday, October 25. Advance registration required.

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Fwd: Call for Papers: Marco Manuscript Workshop, U of Tennessee, February 6-7, 2009
by Dot Porter 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

(with apologies for cross-posting) Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Textual Trauma: Violence Against Texts" February 6-7, 2009 Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies The University of Tennessee, Knoxville A two-day workshop on manuscript studies will be held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Roy M. Liuzza (English) and Maura K. Lafferty (Classics). The workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants will be invited to share both their successes and frustrations, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and paleographical work in Medieval Studies. Last year's workshop focused on the problems of editing texts characterized by constant change in pre-print culture; this year's workshop will explore the theme of violence, deliberate or otherwise, against texts. Texts are inextricably bound to their material context, and material damage can have significant implications both for the reading of a text and for our understanding of its reception and use. Erasures and other deletions call attention to themselves, often dramatically, insisting on the presence of their absence, constantly reminding the reader to remember to forget what has been altered or removed. Damage and defacement can convey a powerful message; they may tell us just as much about reading practices, ownership (of individual books and of the meaning of the text itself), claims of authority, assertions of power, the circulation of texts, and the interactions of textual communities as more positive marks like glosses, annotations, and colophons. Apart from damage through accident or neglect, which may leave incomplete or illegible fragments whose original status must be reconstructed, many manuscripts have erasures or corrections by contemporary or later scribes; words are deleted, names erased, text excised or cancelled. Violence can be done in damnatio memoriae; equally severe damage can result from a modern curator's efforts to preserve or recover faded readings. Some books fall apart from overuse; others are dismembered as being worthless. Texts can also be violated in ways that are less damaging to their physical material, but equally shattering: rewritings can fundamentally alter the text's meaning, sections can be extracted and placed in new contexts, contradictory texts can be bound together, commentary that attacks or distorts the text can be copied alongside it, and so on. Arguably, even modern printed critical editions imposes this sort of violence on the texts they hope to preserve. How should we regard these many forms of violent engagement with texts? Is an act of textual violence always a violation, the destruction of a privileged original, a gap that must be repaired? Or can editors and readers learn to regard the violence itself as an element of the text's identity as a cultural and social construct? How can we read such violence to understand the later use, appropriation, or abuse of the text, and its new role(s) in a changing world? We invite papers from scholars in all fields concerned with textual editing, manuscript studies, and epigraphy, especially those who are working on damaged, distorted, or otherwise traumatized texts; we hope to include both scholars working on the recovery of damaged or decayed readings and those who are examining the cultural implications of these acts of textual trauma. The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank who are engaged in manuscript research. Individual 90-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with this material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. We particularly invite works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation. The deadline for applications is October 1, 2008. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, U of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email to <rliuzza(a)utk.edu>. The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to present their work but may be interested in learning more about manuscript studies. Non-presenters will not receive a stipend, but are encouraged to participate fully in discussions and other activities. Those wishing to attend should visit <http://web.utk.edu/~marco/workshop/manuscript.shtml> or contact Roy Liuzza for more information. [The Marco Manuscript Workshop is sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and supported by the Humanities Initiative Committee and the Office of Research at the University of Tennessee] -- *************************************** 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 dot.porter(a)gmail.com 859-257-1257 x.82115 ***************************************

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Seminar: Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships
by Mahony, Simon 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 15th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Ioannis Doukas (KCL) Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships ALL WELCOME In this paper we shall explore the possibilities opened in the digital scholarship of Ancient Greek literature. We shall focus on the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.484-759), as it is a text that calls for a series of different scholarly approaches, and try to identify and present the use of the appropriate digital tools to accomplish these approaches. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html ------------------------------------------------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Digital Classicist (http://www.digitalclassicist.org/) 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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Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Position available at NYU
by Dot Porter 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Forwarded from the Digital Classicist listserv. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rodney Ast <rla2118(a)columbia.edu> Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:58 AM Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Position available at NYU To: DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)jiscmail.ac.uk New York University Programmer/Analyst (7421BR) New York University's Division of the Libraries seeks a Programmer/Analyst to work on the "Papyrological Navigator"(http://papyri.info), a major web-based research portal that provides scholars worldwide with access to texts, transcriptions, images and metadata related to ancient texts on papyri, pottery fragments and other material. The incumbent will work closely with the Project Coordinator (at Columbia University) and with scholars involved in the project at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Duke University and the University of Heidelberg, as well as with NYU Digital Library Technology staff. The incumbent's initial responsibilities will include: migrating existing PN software applications from Columbia University to NYU; optimizing performance as needed; establishing a robust production environment at NYU for the ongoing ingest and processing of new and updated Greek text transcriptions, metadata and digital images; performing both analysis and programming of any required changes or enhancements to current PN applications. This is a grant-funded position and is available for 2 years. Candidates should have the following skills: Bachelor's degree in computer or information science and 3 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination Must include experience developing applications using Java Demonstrated knowledge of Java, Tomcat, Saxon, Lucene, Apache, SQL, XML, XSLT Experience with metadata standards (e.g. TEI, EpiDoc) Experience working in a Unix/Linux environments Preferred: Experience with image serving software (eRez/FSI), Java Portlets, Apache Jetspeed-2, and Velocity templates. Preferred: Experience designing, building, and deploying distributed systems. Preferred: Experience working with non-Roman Unicode-based textual data (esp. Greek) Excellent communication and analytical skills Applicants should submit resume and cover letter, which reflects how applicant's education and experience match the job requirements. Please apply through NYU's application management system: www.nyu.edu/hr/jobs/apply. At this page click on "External Applicants" then "Search Openings." Type 7421BR in the "Keyword Search" field and select search. NYU offers a generous benefit package including 22 days of vacation annually. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. New York University Libraries: Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 40,000 students and faculty and contain more than 4 million volumes. New York University is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Research Libraries Group, the Digital Library Federation; serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium that includes three academic institutions. The Library's website URL is http://library.nyu.edu -- *************************************** 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 dot.porter(a)gmail.com 859-257-1257 x.82115 ***************************************

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From Stone to Byte: Implications of the XML publication of inscriptions (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2008 Friday 8th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Charlotte Roueché (King's College London) 'From Stone to Byte: Implications of the XML publication of inscriptions' ALL WELCOME While there have always been conventions of marking-up Classical texts, the study and publication of literary texts have evolved separately from documentary materials. The corpus of ancient verse is enormously enlarged by the large number of verse inscriptions found inscribed on stone – principally funerary verse. Scholarly traditions have made it difficult to look at 'literary' and documentary' verse together. This kind of barrier can perhaps at last be surmounted by the intelligent use of TEI XML, although tensions will remain. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see 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/

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Job at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
by Alexander Czmiel 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Dear colleagues, I would like to point you to an open position at the Telota-Initiative ("The electronic life of the Academy") of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (http://www.bbaw.de/). Though the job advertisement is in German and knowledge of German is advantageous the project language is not necessarily German. http://www.bbaw.de/schein/stelle/Ausschreibung_Telota_2008-08-01.pdf Basic data: - position: research associate - duration: 1 October 2008 until 31 December 2009 - qualifications: - knowledge in developing digital humanities resources - knowledge of XML and related technologies - knowledge of a programming language You can find an overview of our last projects at http://www.telota.de and http://pom.bbaw.de/index-en.html Applications via email should be addressed to Renate Neumann (neumann(a)bbaw.de) referring to reference number AG/06/08. Please don't hesitate to contact me for further informations. Best Regards, Alexander Czmiel -- Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities "Telota-LAB - The electronic life of the Academy" Jaegerstrasse 22/23 Tel: +49-(0)30-20370-276 10117 Berlin - http://www.bbaw.de - http://www.telota.de

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