dm-l February 2009

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Ideal informatics training [TAN, maybe]
by Dan O'Donnell 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi all, As many of you know, I've been wondering for quite some time about the basic information studies literacy we should be teaching across programmes at the university (i.e. not just humanities computing, but more broadly what should university graduates know as basic information literacy). We're looking into establishing a campus wide certification in informatics here which we have the luxury of building more or less ex nihilo--i.e. lots of willing people and departments, very few existing institutional silos and/or jealousies that need to be worked in or around. The goal is to build this as a companion programme--something like a big minor, a certification, or an emphasis--that would in theory be open to combination any domain baccalaureate. In the end you could graduate with "English and informatics", or "Biology and informatics," etc. The informatics certification would not be intended to cover all possible informatics angles (so somebody doing bio-informatics or advanced humanities computing would have to do additional work). But the goal would be to produce students with domain competency and a core set of informatics skills and knowledge. I am looking at some existing programmes--e.g. Melbourne, Syracuse, etc. But I'm also asking people helping put the programme together to think on the basis of a blank page: what skills, knowledge, experience should an undergraduate have when they finish such a programme. Here are some of mine. What do others think? * Knowledge of basic internet infrastructure and protocols: what a server is, how pages are served out, what packets are, how domain-names are registered and looked up, all the various transfer protocols * Knowledge of basic languages and standards like xml, html, unicode * Experience in setting up a multipage interactive website at an arbitrary domain name (i.e. buy a domain name, point it at an IP address, set up the server, write the pages * Knowledge of the major genres and applications and an ability to analyse existing sites in terms of their use of these (e.g. know what a wiki is, newserver, version control, other things) * Have some sense of constraints that affect the use of cyberspace: gender, economic, legal issues, etc. * Have a knowledge of various social organisations and processes on the web: communities of practice, crowd sourcing * Be able to analyse information flows and other aspects of a problem and design technological solutions to it * some experience with data design, analysis, and retrieval These seem to me to be too much of a mishmash of different types of scope, categories, and the like. And also too much focussed on the type of thing I do. Any suggestions for the skills, knowledge, and experience a typical undergraduate ought to have if they were to be certified as being basically competent in contemporary web technologies alongside their core domain? -dan

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31 March 2009 - Medieval Studies and New Media: A symposium proposed by the Digital Medievalist community
by Marjorie Burghart 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

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New digital project at IHR
by Jenny Benham 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Dear Colleague, [Please redistribute to relevant parties] A major new project entitled 'Early English Laws' has started at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London. The project aims to edit or re-edit, translate, introduce and comment on all 142 early legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215, and to make these materials available online. For more information, please visit http://www.history.ac.uk/ Thanks, Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer EARLY ENGLISH LAWS Institute of Historical Research, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Direct line: 020 7862 8787

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Workshops at Kalamazoo: Metadata for Medievalists
by Dot Porter 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

[apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely] The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two workshops to be held at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2009. Both workshops will be on Thursday, May 7 (sessions 54 and 166; see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete conference schedule). Workshop registration online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d 1) Metadata for Medievalists I: Introduction to Metadata Formats Session 54, Thursday 7 May, 10am This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, led by Sheila Bair, Western Michigan University's Metadata Librarian. Instruction includes an introduction to the concept of metadata, an overview of metadata types of interest to medievalists working in a variety of textual and image formats, and an overview of methods for metadata implementations (database, encoded data, printed copy, etc.). Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. 2) Metadata for Medievalists II: Introduction to the Text-Encoding Initiative Session 166, Thursday 7 May, 3:30pm This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, Dot Porter, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. Sheila Bair is the Metadata Librarian at Western Michigan University and holds an MS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dot Porter is the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and extensive experience in text encoding in the medieval studies and classics. Both workshops are limited to 35 participants, and registration is required. The pre-registration fee per workshop for students is $40/$55 (Medieval Academy members/nonmembers), for non-students is $50/$65. To register, complete the online form at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d Questions about registration should be directed to James W. Brodman at jimb(a)uca.edu Questions about the workshops should be directed to Dot Porter at dot.porter(a)gmail.com -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke 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

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How useful are digital resources? Last chance to share your thoughts!
by Kathryn Eccles 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Dear all, The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford, and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are currently involved in a study of the impact of digital resources in the Humanities. We are collecting feedback on how these resources are being used. Many thanks to those of you who have already contributed to our survey. The survey will be running until Friday March 6th. If you haven't completed the survey, but would like to, please follow this link: http://survey.oii.ox.ac.uk/Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=Use_of_Digital_Resourc es This survey takes most participants under 20 minutes to complete. Your feedback will only reach us if you reach the end of the survey and click 'submit'. The statistical results will be publicly reported, but all information provided by individuals will be anonymized and not tied to any individual. If you would like the results of the survey e-mailed to you, there will be an opportunity at the end of the survey to provide an e-mail address for this purpose. For more on this project: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51 Many thanks! Kathryn Dr Kathryn Eccles Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS e-mail: kathryn.eccles(a)oii.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=138 Telephone (+44 (0) 1865 287202 Fax (+44 (0) 1865 287 211 www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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Fwd: Tuition Scholarships, 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (U Victoria, June 8-12, 2009)
by Dot Porter 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

[Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting] Tuition Scholarships for the 2009 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria, June 8-12, 2009 http://www.dhsi.org We are pleased to announce that funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and other partners, makes it possible for us to offer of a limited number of tuition scholarship spots in the 2009 Summer Institute. The scholarships are open to everyone and are awarded on the basis of need and merit; scholarships cover all tuition costs, with the exception of a small administration fee. The application form is available on line at http://www.dhsi.org/home/scholarships. The application deadline for this year is March 15th, with news of scholarships returned no later than the end of March. Please note that scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis, to expedite travel planning and other arrangements, and there are a limited number of scholarship spots in each course. Please apply early! * Additional ACH Travel Bursary The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://www.ach.org) is again offering several bursaries to assist graduate students in defraying travel and lodging costs. You may apply for this bursary at the same time as for DHSI scholarships by indicating on the scholarship application form that you are a graduate student member of the ACH and would like to be considered for the ACH bursary. * Mandate The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation. * Host and Sponsors The institute is hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre, and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and has been sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others. * Curriculum Institute Lectures (to be confirmed): Melissa Terras (University College London) Dot Porter (Dublin, DHO) Donald Bruce (Guelph) Robert Blake (UC Davis) Daniel O'Donnell (Lethbridge) Introductory offerings: [1] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Julia Flanders [Brown U] and Syd Bauman [Brown U]) [2] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application (instructed by Robin Davies [Vancouver Island U] and Michael Nixon [Vancouver Island U]) Intermediate offerings: [3] Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources using TEI-conformant XML (instructed by Matthew Driscoll [Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen]) [4] Expressing Physical Materiality in Digital Projects (instructed by Dot Porter [Dublin, DHO]) [5] Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments (instructed by Aimee Morrison [U Waterloo]) [6] Teaching and Learning with Technology in Applied Linguistics (instructed by Catherine Caws [U Victoria] and Ulf Scheutze [U Victoria]) [7] Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journals System (OJS) (instructed by PKP Staff [Alec Smecher and James MacGregor]) Advanced consultations: [8] Issues in Large Project Planning and Management (instructed by Lynne Siemens [U Victoria], with seminar speakers TBA.) [9] Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities (instructed by David Hoover [New York U]) [10] Digital Tools for Literary History (instructed by Susan Brown [U Alberta, Guelph] and Stan Ruecker [U Alberta]) * Registration Fees ($ CDN) Early registration fees for the institute are $950 for faculty and staff, and $500 for students. Standard fees will apply as of April 1st. * Website For further details -- such as the list of speakers, a tentative schedule, the registration form, and accommodation information – see the institute's website, at this URL: http://www.dhsi.org. -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke 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

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Linguist List Issue: IPA Trainer now available online
by linguist＠linguistlist.org 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca thought you might be interested in this item from the LINGUIST List ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca says ... Please pass this on to others. It looks like a fantastic resource. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message1: IPA Trainer now available online Date:10-Feb-2009 From:Rasmus Rimestad rasmusrim(a)gmail.com LINGUIST List issue http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-429.html I have programmed the first version of a tool I call IPA Trainer. It is a tool supposed to help students learn the IPA characters. I believe and have experienced that it is very helpful. Any lecturer can register, and then customise an IPA consonants chart containing only the IPA characters that are relevant to his/her students and in the order he/she teaches them. A link can then be distributed to the students, and they can go practice these characters. I believe you will also find this interesting, and I would be happy if you would add a link to it on your site. Any feedback/bugs are also very welcome. The system is in English. The system can be found at: http://www.ipatrainer.com An introduction page for lecturers can be found at: http://www.ipatrainer.com/user/site/index.php?pageID=for_lecturers A manual can be downloaded from: http://www.ipatrainer.com/data/pdf/manual_en.pdf I really hope the system can be of use! Rasmus Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Also you can take a look at it by visiting http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-429.html Read other LINGUIST List posts: http://linguistlist.org/issues/index.html Get your own free subscription to The LINGUIST List: http://linguistlist.org/LL/subs-index.cfm

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How useful are digital resources survey
by Dan O'Donnell 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

With apologies for cross posting. Dear all, The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford, and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are currently involved in a study of the impact of digital resources in the Humanities. Contribute your feedback on how you are using digital resources by following this link: http://survey.oii.ox.ac.uk/Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=Use_of_Digital_Resour… This survey takes most participants under 20 minutes to complete. Your feedback will only reach OII/JISC if you reach the end of the survey and click 'submit'. The statistical results will be publicly reported, but all information provided by individuals will be anonymized and not tied to any individual. If you would like the results of the survey e-mailed to you, there will be an opportunity at the end of the survey to provide an e-mail address for this purpose. For more on this project: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51 Many thanks! _____________________ Christine McCarthy Madsen Oxford Internet Institute 1 St. Giles :: Oxford OX1 3JS christine.madsen(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:christine.madsen@oii.ox.ac.uk>

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Digital Medievalist hits 450 subscribers
by Dan O'Donnell 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Just approved our 450th subscriber. What a large number of people interested in the topic! Make sure you take advantage of it: there must be experts on everything digital here! -dan

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Fwd: EEF: Natural Language Processing for Ancient Languages
by Dot Porter 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

From: "Serge Rosmorduc" <s.rosmorduc(a)iut.univ-paris8.fr> To: <eef(a)lists.yale.edu> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 3:26 PM Subject: EEF: Natural Language Processing for Ancient Languages Second call for papers: "Natural Language Processing for Ancient Languages" Guest editors: Joseph Denooz and Serge Rosmorduc The TAL journal launches a call for papers for an special issue of the journal on NLP for Ancient Languages. « Ancient Languages » is here understood on a large basis: we consider both dead languages (Akkadian, Ancient Egyptian, Latin...) and old stages of modern languages (Old and Middle French...). Proposals may deal with all aspect of computer storage and processing of ancient languages, as for instance: automated morphological or syntactic analysis of ancient languages; text corpora (creation of a corpus, searches systems, etc.); dictionaries; encoding of ancient languages (scripting system, text representation, unicode and ISO 10646, etc.); XML, TEI and ancient languages (use of XML to model ancient documents, corpus representation, DTD or schemas for dictionaries) ; text capture, OCR and ancient texts, links between pictures corpora and structured representations; NLP as a tool for the philologist (practical uses of NLP in the context of philological or grammatical research). uses of NLP in teaching ancient languages. diachronic studies (models for language change, diachronic databases, etc.) The Journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is a forty year old international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic mode of publication, with printing on demand - see http://atala.org/-Revue-TAL-. This affects in no way its reviewing and selection process. Practical issues Contributions (25 pages maximum, PDF format) must be sent by e-mail to the following address: (rosmord _at_ iut dot univ-paris8 dot fr) Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal: http://atala.org/English-style-files. Language: manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit in French. Important dates 27/02/2009 Deadline for submission. 31/04/2009 Notification to authors. 03/06/2009 Deadline for submission of a revised version. 03/07/2009 Final decision. October 2009 Parution Invited editorial board François Barthélémy, CEDRIC, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France Mahé Ben Hamed, Laboratoire Dynamique du langage, CNRS - Université Lumière Lyon 2 Francesco Citti, Université de Bologne, Joseph Denooz, LASLA, Université de Liège, Belgique Gérard Huet, Équipe Sanscrit, INRIA, France Wojciech Jaworski, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Bastien Kindt, Institut orientaliste, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique George Kiraz, Gorgias Press, USA Christiane Marchello-Nizia, ICAR, ENS Lyon Nicolas Mazziotta, , Université de Liège, Belgique Sylvie Mellet, BCL, CNRS, Remo Mugnaioni, Centre Sciences du Langage, EA 85, Université de Provence Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews Mark Olsen, ARTFL, Université de Chicago Gerald Penn, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Serge Rosmorduc, Équipe Langues et littératures de l'Égypte ancienne, EPHE Ivième section, Wolfgang Schenkel, Université de Tügingen, RFA Richard Sproat, University of Illinois, USA, Achim Stein , Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik, Universität Stuttgart Paul Tombeur, CTLO (Turnhout), Belgique Laurence Tuerlinckx, Institut orientaliste, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, Jean Winand, Service d'Égyptologie, Université de Liège, Belgique This call for paper is available in various formats on http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/TAL/ -- Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette Research Fellow, Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and the Long Room Hub Papyri digitisation project Dept. of Classics (Room B6007) Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353 (01) 896 3487 Fax: +353 (01) 671 0862 Honorary Research Assistant Institute of Archaeology, University College London -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke 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 -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke 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 -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke 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

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