dm-l May 2009

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John of Gaunt (ot)
by Dot Porter 14 May '09

14 May '09

Hello list, My brother has asked if I can recommend a good book about John of Gaunt, he's out of my area and I'm not on any medieval history lists but perhaps there is someone here on DM who can help. He said he's been reading something by Norman Cantor (who writes a lot of popular medieval history) but he's finding it less than adequate. He reads massive amounts about history so I'd be quite comfortable recommending him something directed at a scholarly (as opposed to a popular) audience. He just wants to learn about John of Gaunt. Thanks for any suggestions. Dot -- 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

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TEI@Oxford Summer School 2009 -- now open for bookings!
by James Cummings 06 May '09

06 May '09

TEI@Oxford Summer School 2009 -- now open for bookings! 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/ 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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Call for nominees for Digital Medievalist board.
by James Cummings 06 May '09

06 May '09

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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Digital Medieval Reception and Poster Session at Kalamazoo
by Dot Porter 05 May '09

05 May '09

[apologies for cross-posting] International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Thursday, May 7, 2009, 6:30 pm Fetzer 1035 On Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 6:30pm, Digital Medievalist (DM) and the Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Electronic Resources (CER) and Electronic Editions Advisory Board (EEAB) will be co-sponsoring a reception. This reception is an ideal opportunity for speakers and audience members participating in the more than 40 digital sessions at this year's congress to meet and learn about each other's research. To assist in this networking and community-building, a number of medievalists engaged in digital-based or focussed research will be displaying posters and short powerpoint presentations during the reception. This will be a forum for speakers to give potential audience members an advance taste of what they will be lecturing about, and for speakers who have already presented to remind colleagues about your research and projects and invite further comment. We hope to see you at the reception and poster session, which will be held in Fetzer 1035 at 6:30 PM on Thursday. -- 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

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TEI Conference redux
by Dan O'Donnell 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi all, I was just asked what kind of affiliation one needs to participate in the TEI conference. The answer is none at all. This is a digitization conference at which TEI members also meet rather than a meeting with lectures. We also very much encourage non-TEI-centric views: we regularly invite keynote speakers and accept papers that are critical of, sceptical of, or otherwise questioning about TEI activities or guidelines--or document modelling more generally. The range runs from highly technical to quite theoretical, so there should be scope for most active Digital Humanists. So like many academic conferences, there is no need to be a member in order to participate. Of course you will have a chance to join the TEI at the conference if you wish! We might even let you drink the Koolaid ;) -dan -- 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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CALL FOR PROPOSALS, Text encoding in the era of mass digitization TEI Conference and Meeting, Nov. 11-15, 2009
by Dan O'Donnell 04 May '09

04 May '09

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Text encoding in the era of mass digitization 2009 Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/teimeeting09/ November 11–15, 2009 • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Program Committee of the 2009 Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on the theme “Text encoding in the era of mass digitization.” == Submission Topics == Topics might include but are not restricted to: * In-depth encoding vs. mass digitization * Is text encoding sustainable? * Is text encoding scalable? * Using TEI to create: o scholarly editions o hybrid publications (digital and print) o databases and other resources * Tools that create and process TEI data * TEI used in conjunction with other technologies and standards * TEI as: o metadata standard o interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data * TEI and its contribution to digital scholarship * TEI and markup theory * Learning the TEI * The future of the TEI * When not to use the TEI In addition, we are seeking P5 micropaper proposals for 5 minute presentations on the topic “How I’ve customized TEI encoding to meet my needs.” == Submission Types == Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including: * three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics * round table discussion: 3–6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations. Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session. P5 micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes. == Submission Procedure == All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by 15 May 2009. The system is not yet ready to accept submissions but will be ready to accept submissions in mid-April. You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract. * Individual paper or poster session proposals (including tool demonstrations): o Please submit a brief abstract (no more than 500 words) in the “Abstract” field. o Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. * P5 micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper except that the abstract should be no more than 300 words. * Panel sessions: o The panel organizer submits an abstract for the entire session, listing the proposed papers, and explaining the organizing theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers in no more than 800 words in the “Abstract” field. o The panel members each submit a separate complete individual paper proposal; see above. The program committee reserves the right to accept papers submitted as part of a panel without accepting the whole panel. All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Conference submissions will be considered for a conference proceedings. Further details on the submission process for the conference proceedings will be forthcoming. -- 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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