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2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 09 Nov '09

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Re: [dm-l] 500 members
by O'Donnell, Dan 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

I agree with Dot. I see facebook's relationship to DM much like a favorite bar to a department: a place where people who wish hang out sometimes but no real work is done. ----------- Daniel O'Donnell University of Lethbridge (From my mobile telephone) --- original message --- From: "Dot Porter" <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [dm-l] 500 members Date: November 7, 2009 Time: 3:38:24 I don't think anyone is suggesting shutting down the DM listserv and website and wiki and moving us to Facebook. In fact that's a pretty terrible idea. The suggestion was to have a DM page on FB, it would just be another place to post news and announcements. There is, however, already a DM page on FB that doesn't get much use (I use FB a lot myself and have only visited the page a couple of times). In addition, there is the pretty major hurdle that any page on FB can only be used if you have an account on FB, and many people have many good reasons for not having one. If we were to push FB too much I would be concerned that DM discussions (especially) would start to happen on FB and not on the list - which is where they belong. My own feeling is that the FB page is more likely to pull people onto the list from FB, rather than the other way around. I have no doubt that there are academics around the world, particularly at smaller institutions, who have never heard of DM but may noodle their way to the FB page. If we make a clear link from there to here (where the action is) we're doing a lot more good than if we place a link to FB from the DM web page. Everybody already knows about FB, right? Just my $.02 of course. Dot On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Peter Baker <psb6m(a)virginia.edu> wrote: > Christian Frey wrote: >> >> RSS can help :-) >> >> I really like the idea of using facebook. We have made good experiences >> with that in our institute. >> >> > Groan . . . I've so far been holding out against Facebook, but I can see my > days of freedom and happiness are numbered. > > Peter > > > Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ > Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org > News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ > Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ > Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Call for Papers: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital AgCall for Papers: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age IIe II
by Christiane Fritze 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Dear (500) dm list members, thank you in advance for considering the CfP below. Call for Papers Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II - It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) undertook an initiative entitled "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age". Yet its first results have already been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" was launched at an international symposium in Munich. Here, experts from all over the world met as a community to share their knowledge, interests and concerns regarding digital issues in the various fields of manuscript research. The feedback on both the anthology and the conference has been remarkably positive, not least from experts who are less acquainted with digital methods. For the first time, widely dispersed, cutting-edge research in the field of computer-aided codicology and palaeography can be surveyed and assessed as a whole phenomenon. Yet, despite the fact that the anthology gives a broad insight into theory and practice, some relevant subjects and questions have not been covered. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a second volume of "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age". The following questions in particular should now be addressed: * To what extent can quantitative approaches and the analysis of codicological databases be complemented by a systematic analysis of digital manuscript facsimiles? * How can manuscript-related research in the history of arts or in musicology be supported by digital tools and methodology? * How successfully can methods from the sciences be applied to the analysis of manuscripts (e.g. DNA analysis of parchment)? * How can electronic manuscript-catalogues and virtual libraries be brought together by means of comprehensive portals and hybrid research environments in order, for example, to facilitate exhaustive semantic studies? * How can existing digital tools for palaeographic transcription be promoted and improved? How can the range of applications be expanded? How can philological analysis and further use in literary studies be enhanced? * How can questions about the history of script be addressed by digital methods? * How can digital resources best supplement the originals, in the context of restoration and preservation? How can archives, libraries and museums take advantage of the opportunities, for public benefit? * To what extent are software-generated answers to codicological and palaeographic questions sustainable, verifiable and reliable? Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous CfP) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German or Italian. Again, the launch of the volume will be accompanied by an international symposium. Proposals of not more than 500 words should be sent by 30 November 2009 to kpdz-ii(a)ide.de or any of the editors listed below. Organisation: * Franz Fischer (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), f.fischer(a)ria.ie * Christiane Fritze (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), fritze(a)bbaw.de * Georg Vogeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), g.vogeler(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de * Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, Cologne Center for eHumanities), sahle(a)uni-koeln.de * Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel), schassan(a)hab.de * Malte Rehbein (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), malte.rehbein(a)uni-wuerzburg.de * Bernhard Assmann (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne), as(a)ba.tuxomania.net Dates: 30. November 2009: Abstract Submission Deadline 30. April 2010: Paper Submission Deadline Kind regards, Christiane -- Christiane Fritze The German Text Archive Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Jaegerstr. 22/23 10117 Berlin phone: +49 (0)30 20370 523 email: fritze (at) bbaw (dot) de http://www.deutsches-textarchiv.de IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de

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Job announcement: Virtual Research Enviroment on Averroes, Cologne, Germany
by Patrick Sahle 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hello all, the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne (Germany) is looking for two or more research associates in a newly funded project "Digital Averroes Research Environment" (DARE). In general there is one position for the "technical" side and one position for "medieval philosophy", but we are free to shape these positions as fits best to the setup of possible candidates. Please see the complete announcement at http://www.dare.uni-koeln.de/stellen/index.php and note that German language skills (beyond understanding the job advertisement) are not a precondition. Best, Patrick Lecturer in Humanities IT (50%) Cologne Center for eHumanities (50%) University of Cologne, Germany Universitätsstraße 22, D-50923 Köln, +49 - (0)221 - 470 1750 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing / Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik: http://www.i-d-e.de

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Fwd: [dm-l] 500 members
by James Cummings 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 15:16, LIU G. <gerald.liu(a)durham.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > It sounds right. Maybe we can make the list show only names and places, > where individuals are working/studying, to registered members. For private > communication, I'd suggest to attach the displayed name with an internal > mail function, which requires some little work. Personal information should > not be revealed to the public, not even to the registered public. But do we > actually have any personal information registered with the website. If so, I > must have missed something; if not, the website needs to have its own > account management function first. The information you have on the website is whatever you provided when you registered for the mailing list. This is, in most cases, a name and your email address. The point is that revealing subscriber lists of mailing lists is usually frowned upon because spam bots will read the mailing list and send you lots of messages about things they want you to buy. That is why I'm reluctant to make it open, or even open only to subscribers (because a spammer could join with a plausible sounding name, copy the list of email addresses, and leave). > And congratulation for the 500 mark! Thanks! We wouldn't have gotten here without all of you. (literally) ;-) -James Director, Digital Medievalist.

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500 members
by Dan O'Donnell 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Woo Hoo! DM's 500th subscription was just approved. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Announcing Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

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[Fwd: [MEDTEXTL] Wang --O.T.]
by Dan O'Donnell 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Surely, this is one for us! Make sure you cc Norman in case he isn't on the list... -dan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MEDTEXTL] Wang --O.T. Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:42:04 -0600 From: Hinton <normanhinton(a)SBCGLOBAL.NET> Reply-To: Medieval Texts - Philology Codicology and Technology <MEDTEXTL(a)LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU> To: MEDTEXTL(a)LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU I have a friend who needs to convert some old (of course) files from Wang to Word -- if you know any firm that does this, and have an opinion of their expertise, I would appreciate hearing either or both. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Website downtiime
by James Cummings 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Dear DM-L, There was a problem with the Digital Medievalist website today owing to outgoing network problems at the University of Lethbridge, where the site is hosted. The newsfeed for the site is hosted elsewhere (at wordpress.com) and imported into the DM site as an atom feed. The XInclude fallback (that says the news is temporarily unavailable) was not being displayed reliably in all cases, and this was have a derogatory effect on the rest of the site. Now that uleth.ca is again seeing the outside world the problem seems to have rectified itself, but we will be taking steps to attempt to minimize such disruptions in the future. Apologies to anyone who attempted to use the site in the meantime. Sincerely, Dr James Cummings Director, Digital Medievalist www.digitalmedievalist.org

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Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

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