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Junicode font, version 0.6.16
by Peter Baker 31 May '09

31 May '09

This is the first new release of Junicode, the font for medievalists (and others), since 1977. This release contains fixes of several bugs, improved coverage of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI) character set (though this is not yet complete). Most of the medievalist Unicode characters recently added in Latin Extended D and other ranges have been added. Many of these were already in the Private Use Area; the PUA characters remain for now, but users should begin to adopt the new, more standard encodings. The regular face currently contains 5870 glyphs; the italic, bold and bold italic faces are much less complete, though an effort is being made to make the italic face match the regular where appropriate. The design of several glyphs has been revised; those who prefer the old design should turn on "Style Set 9" in an OpenType-aware application. On the technical side, OpenType support has been improved and extended. TrueType instructions have been supplied for all glyphs: these are a mix of "auto-hints" added by FontForge and instructions written by hand. There are still feature requests that I have not gotten to yet; I'll work on these for the next release. Junicode is a SourceForge project: get it at http://junicode.sourceforge.net/. By request, the current version has also been uploaded to CTAN; I'm not sure how soon it will be available for download there. Best wishes to all, Peter Baker

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Fwd: [I-S] 1st European Summer School "Culture & Technology"
by George FERZOCO 30 May '09

30 May '09

Dear Digital Medievalist colleagues, I thought this summer school may interest some of you and/or your students, so I am forwarding this to the list. Best wishes, George -- George Ferzoco list owner, italian-studies gpferzoco(a)gmail.com Begin forwarded message: > From: Elisabeth Burr <elisabeth.burr(a)UNI-LEIPZIG.DE> > Date: 30 May 2009 14:14:53 BDT > To: ITALIAN-STUDIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [I-S] 1st European Summer School "Culture & Technology" > Reply-To: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies > <ITALIAN-STUDIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > > italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies > > We are happy to announce the 1. European Summer School „Culture & > Technology“ to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, > July 27-31, > 2009 > > http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ > > Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the > Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the > Summer School is > directed at an international audience. Students in their final > year, graduates, > postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians > and technical > assistants from all over Europe who are involved in the theoretical, > experimental or practical application of computational methods in > the various > areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do > so are the > target audience of the courses. > > The Summer School addresses also expressively engineers and computer > scientist who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and > Humanities, > who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with, > computational methods in the Humanities, and who wish to familiarise > themselves with the special demands put on the soft- and hardware > systems > they develop by arts and humanities-related data. > > The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive > programme consists of workshops, lectures and project > presentations. The > Summer School will close with a round table discussion on the > challenges > presented by technological developments and by the integration of the > Humanities and ICTs. > > Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The > number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. > Applications for a > place in a specific workshop are made on the Portal of the Summer > School. > > Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who > are planning, > or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and > describe this project in a qualified way. Young scholars of > Engineering and > Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and > interests in > such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they > support their > expectations from the Summer School with good arguments. > > Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation > to the > Summer School, participants who have no possibility of applying for > a refund > from another institution can apply for a contribution to their > travel and > accommodation costs. > > Important dates > > For planning reasons we ask everyone who is interested in the > Summer School > to express her or his interest asap by setting up a personal > account with > ConfTool. ConfTool is accessible from the portal of the Summer > School. See > under “registration”. > > People who would like to stay in one of the guest houses of the > university are > kindly asked to contact the organisers straight away. > > 15.06.2009 last day for the submission of the application for the > Summer > School via ConfTool > 30.06.2009 communication of the selection process results > 10.07.2009 last day for the payment of regular registration fees > 27.07.2009 Summer School starts > > For further details, such as the schedule, planned workshops, venue, > registration fees, accommodation ecc., see: http://www.culingtec.uni- > leipzig.de/ESU/. > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME > to: jiscmail(a)jiscmail.ac.uk > To send a message to the list, address it to: > italian-studies(a)jiscmail.ac.uk > To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies > to: jiscmail(a)jiscmail.ac.uk > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > italian-studies-request(a)jiscmail.ac.uk > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html

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Last Reminder: Vote for your DM Board!
by James Cummings 29 May '09

29 May '09

A final reminder of those of you who haven't voted yet to vote for your DM Executive board via either of the links below. The polls close at midnight on Saturday 30 May 2009. ====== Digital Medievalist Elections! The Digital Medievalist elections for 2009 have commenced and voting will remain open until midnight on Saturday 30 May 2009. Anyone who is one of the approximately 470 members of the Digital Medievalist mailing list (where this message has been posted) is entitled to vote whether you consider yourself a digital medievalist or not! Executive Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the over all direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). The DM Board members whose terms expire this year are: Arianna Ciula, Daniel O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, and Torsten Schassan. Digital Medievalist would like to thank them for their work over the last few years. Those running this year are: George Ferzoco, Franz Fischer, Michael Norton, Daniel O'Donnell, Malte Rehbein, Torsten Schassan, Peter Stokes, and Rebecca Welzenbach. Please vote for up to 4 of these people. If you vote for more than four people your ballot will be discounted. They have submitted biographical candidate statements to help you decide. Please vote for your Digital Medievalist board at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KsM74twOtUNMzFfAzxp_2bdw_3d_3d or http://snipurl.com/dm2009 We will post reminders occasionally through the week. Many thanks, James Cummings and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

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TEI Summer School: Time running out for 25% Discount!
by James Cummings 28 May '09

28 May '09

Just a reminder that there is a 25% discount if you pay before 1 June! ====== The TEI@Oxford team is pleased to announce that we are now taking bookings for our annual summer school. Dates: Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July Venue: Oxford University Computing Services Full information and online booking: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/2009-07/index.xml This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for the encoding of digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their application. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text, this course is for you. You should be generally computer literate (web, email, word-processors) for this course. You may already be broadly familiar with the idea of textual editing, perhaps (but not necessarily) with some experience of producing HTML web pages, or of traditional scholarly editing. You should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital technologies and keen to learn more. You should be prepared to get your hands dirty at the keyboard and you should not be afraid of a little technical jargon. At the end of the course we hope to have given you: 1. a good grounding in the theoretical issues underlying the use of text markup, XML in particular; 2. an understanding of the purpose and principles of the Text Encoding Initiative; 3. a survey of the full range of modules constituting the TEI's current Recommendations; 4. experience of how the TEI scheme can be customized for particular applications, and internationalized for different languages. 5. an introduction to some of the tools and methods in which TEI documents are published and processed Using OUCS' excellent teaching facilities, we will also provide you with practical experience in: * using online tools to build, verify, and document a TEI-conformant schema * using XML editing software to o create new encoded texts o standardize existing digital texts * using a variety of web-based and desktop tools to display and analyse TEI documents The course will be taught by the TEI@Oxford team: Lou Burnard, James Cummings, and Sebastian Rahtz, with the assistance of other invited TEI experts. -- Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk

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Reminder: Vote Now for your Digital Medievalist Board!
by James Cummings 27 May '09

27 May '09

A reminder of those of you who haven't voted yet to vote for your DM Executive board via either of the links below. ====== Digital Medievalist Elections! The Digital Medievalist elections for 2009 have commenced and voting will remain open until midnight on Saturday 30 May 2009. Anyone who is one of the approximately 470 members of the Digital Medievalist mailing list (where this message has been posted) is entitled to vote whether you consider yourself a digital medievalist or not! Executive Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the over all direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). The DM Board members whose terms expire this year are: Arianna Ciula, Daniel O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, and Torsten Schassan. Digital Medievalist would like to thank them for their work over the last few years. Those running this year are: George Ferzoco, Franz Fischer, Michael Norton, Daniel O'Donnell, Malte Rehbein, Torsten Schassan, Peter Stokes, and Rebecca Welzenbach. Please vote for up to 4 of these people. If you vote for more than four people your ballot will be discounted. They have submitted biographical candidate statements to help you decide. Please vote for your Digital Medievalist board at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KsM74twOtUNMzFfAzxp_2bdw_3d_3d or http://snipurl.com/dm2009 We will post reminders occasionally through the week. Many thanks, James Cummings and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

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Vote Now for your Digital Medievalist Board!
by James Cummings 25 May '09

25 May '09

Digital Medievalist Elections! The Digital Medievalist elections for 2009 have commenced and voting will remain open until midnight on Saturday 30 May 2009. Anyone who is one of the approximately 470 members of the Digital Medievalist mailing list (where this message has been posted) is entitled to vote whether you consider yourself a digital medievalist or not! Executive Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the over all direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). The DM Board members whose terms expire this year are: Arianna Ciula, Daniel O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, and Torsten Schassan. Digital Medievalist would like to thank them for their work over the last few years. Those running this year are: George Ferzoco, Franz Fischer, Michael Norton, Daniel O'Donnell, Malte Rehbein, Torsten Schassan, Peter Stokes, and Rebecca Welzenbach. Please vote for up to 4 of these people. If you vote for more than four people your ballot will be discounted. They have submitted biographical candidate statements to help you decide. Please vote for your Digital Medievalist board at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KsM74twOtUNMzFfAzxp_2bdw_3d_3d or http://snipurl.com/dm2009 We will post reminders occasionally through the week. Many thanks, James Cummings and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

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Call for Bids: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2010
by Dan O'Donnell 21 May '09

21 May '09

(also posted to the TEI News server: http://www.tei-c.org/News/index.xml#mm2010Call Please feel free to cross post) Call for Bids: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2010 The annual TEI Conference and Members' Meeting takes place every year in late October or early November. We are now seeking bids to host this event in 2010. The meeting this year (2009) will take place on November 11-15 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. The previous meetings have been: * London, England, November 6-8, 2008. hosted by King's College London. * College Park (MD), USA, October 31-November 3, 2007. Hosted by the University of Maryland. * Victoria, Canada, October 27-28, 2006. Hosted by the University of Victoria. * Sophia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2005. Hosted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. * Baltimore, USA, October 22-23, 2004. Hosted by Johns Hopkins University. * Nancy, France, November 7-8 2003. Hosted by ATILF. * Chicago, USA, October 11-12 2002. Hosted by the Newberry Library and Northwestern University. * Pisa, Italy, November 16-17 2001. Hosted by the University of Pisa. The site of the conference and meeting has typically alternated between Europe and North America, but that is not a fixed rule. We welcome proposals from other parts of the world, and in particular from areas where new TEI communities are arising. This year's conference and meeting will be a four-day event (plus pre-conference workshops), with approximately 120 attendees. The three days of the main conference will include a mix of plenary lectures by invited speakers, round-table discussions, and conference-style sessions; there will also be a business meeting of the membership. The fourth day (Sunday) will be a closed session for members of the Board. Meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs) may also scheduled for this day. Future meetings should assume roughly this shape, although there is considerable room for local initiative in consultation with the Board. The TEI Consortium guarantees direct costs of the conference and meeting up to a maximum of US$5200 with special provisions for funding attendance in excess of approximately 120 attendees. The conference organising committee is also expected to seek additional funds from local institutions, commercial sponsors, and other organisations. A conference registration fee is charged to assist the TEI in recovering its expenditure and ensure that it is able to underwrite the cost of future conferences. Bids should be sent to info(a)tei-c.org by no later than September 1, 2009, though institutions considering making a proposal are encouraged to contact chair of the TEI (daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca <mailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca>) much earlier in the process in order to discuss their ideas. Bids should include the following information: * The name of the institution(s) making the bid * The name, address, email, and telephone number of the contact person * A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food) * An indication of what financial support, if any, the hosting institution is prepared to give (for instance, sponsoring one or more receptions or pre-meeting workshops; payment of travel expenses for one or more plenary speakers; etc.) * Any other details that may be useful in assessing the bid (e.g. the presence of a conference on a related topic at the institution around the time of the meeting; the launch of a new TEI-related initiative at the institution, etc., ideas for a particular theme or focus). In submitting bids, local organisers are encouraged to be creative: the TEI is willing to work with hosts to reflect local interests and strengths. Further information about the requirements for the conference and members meeting may be found in our document on Hosting a Members Meeting <http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/meeting_hosting.xml> and the Board's own Practices and Procedures <http://www.tei-c.org/Board/procedures.xml#body.1_div.4> document. All bids will be reviewed by the TEI board, which makes the final decision. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Digital Classicist / ICS seminars
by Simon Mahony 20 May '09

20 May '09

We are very pleased to announce the programme for this summer's Digital Classicist seminar series. All are welcome. Simon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009* Fridays at 16:30 in STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU (NB: July 17th seminar in British Library, 96 Euston Rd, NW1 2DW) June 5 Bart Van Beek (Leuven) 'Onomastics and Name-extraction in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri' June 12 Philip Murgatroyd (Birmingham) 'Starting out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling and Mediaeval warfare logistics' June 19 Gregory Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts) 'No Unmediated Analysis: Digital services constrain and enable both traditional and novel tasks' June 26 Marco Büchler & Annette Loos (Leipzig) 'Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato's works' July 3 Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds) 'Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification' July 10 Cristina Vertan (Hamburg) 'Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology' July 17 Christine Pappelau (Berlin) *NB: in British Library* 'Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets ancient building structures' July 24 Elton Barker (Oxford) 'Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive' July 31 Leif Isaksen (Southampton) 'Linking Archaeological Data' August 7 Alexandra Trachsel (Hamburg) 'An Online Edition of the Fragments of Demetrios of Skepsis' 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. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces(a)bl.uk, or Simon.Mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Digital Classicist 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 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/

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Conf. Anouncement "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age", Munich, 3/4 July 2009
by Rehbein, Malte 20 May '09

20 May '09

Dear colleagues, The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) organises an international symposium on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" in Munich, 3/4 July 2009. Please find a brief description below and more information including the preliminary programme here: http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/tagung_kod_pal/…. You are all very welcome to participate. Kind regards, Malte Rehbein, NUI Galway International Conference "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age", Munich, 3-4 July 2009 The conference will focus on the challenges and consequences of using IT and the internet for codicological and palaeographic research. The authors of some selected articles of an anthology to be published this summer by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) will present and discuss their excellent research results with scholars and experts working on ancient books and manuscripts. The presentations will be given on current issues in the following fields: manuscript catalogues and descriptions, digitization of manuscripts, collaborative systems of research on manuscripts, codicological databases, manuscript catalogues, research based on digital resources, e-learning in palaeography, palaeographic databases (characters, scripts, scribes), (semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes, digital tools for transcriptions, visions and prototypes of other digital tools. A panel discussion will be held with renowned exponents in the field of codicology and palaeography and contributors of cutting edge research to get an overview of the state of the art as well as to open up new perspectives of codicological and palaeographic research in the "digital age". The conference is open to the public. ---- Malte Rehbein M.A. Marie Curie Research Fellow Moore Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Mob.: +353 85 8144 685 Email: malte.rehbein(a)nuigalway.ie Web: http://www.denkstaette.de

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Reminder: Call for nominees for Digital Medievalist board.
by James Cummings 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi all, Just a reminder that you have only a couple more days to nominate yourself or someone else to serve on the Digital Medievalist board. If you have any questions feel free to email election(a)digitalmedievalist.org and we'll give you an answer! See below for more information. Best, -James ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Cummings <James.Cummings(a)digitalmedievalist.org> Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM Subject: Call for nominees for Digital Medievalist board. To: Digital Medievalist list <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Please crosspost to other lists as appropriate Call For Nominees Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of this month for four positions to its board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the over all direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and if you are willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal) then please take this into consideration when nominating yourself or accepting a nomination. Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See particularly: - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about.html - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred by subscription to the organisation's mailing list, dm-l(a)uleth.ca) and and have made some demonstrable contribution to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or to the field of digital medieval studies. If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers: James Cummings and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco at: election(a)digitalmedievalist.org who will treat your nomination in confidence. The nomination period will close at 0000 UTC Thursday May 21 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the end of the week of May 29th, 2009. Many thanks, James Cummings and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco election(a)digitalmedievalist.org

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