dm-l September 2009

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Mining Medieval Data
by Peter Stokes 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Dear all, I have a question about what tools and techniques people are using for data mining in medieval studies, especially for authorship attribution and scribal identification. If you use them then which systems do you use? How do you verify the results? Do you trust the system to work and not simply to reproduce your own views? If you don't use these systems then why not? I'm thinking of a recent article in LLC 23 (2008) by Sculley and Pasanek which seems to me to raise some important questions about the validity of data mining, but I'm also asking as a designer myself. If I'm producing software for scribal identification or authorship attribution, what can I do (if anything) that will convince you to use and trust my system? Peter -- Dr Peter Stokes Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic The University of Cambridge 9 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Tel: +44 1223 767314 Fax: +44 1223 335092

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Digital Middle Ages conference June 16-17 2010
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

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Fwd: Object, Artefact and Script: digital approaches to inscribed surfaces
by Dot Porter 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

[from Digital Classicist, apologies for cross-posting] We should like to let you know about a two-day seminar, 'Object, Artifact and Script: digital approaches to inscribed surfaces', to be held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh on (Thursday and Friday) 8-9 October, 2009. (Programme will be posted at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1014/ .) The event description follows: The text upon an object is both evidence for and part of its form and therefore its function; just as the construction and purpose of an object gives context to and aids in the interpretation of text. Indeed, the form of an object effects the placement and design of text and decoration upon it. Non-verbal decorations drawn or painted on an object fall somewhere between (2-D) text and (3-D) physical object: like the text they are added by the scribe or artist, they have semantic (if not verbal) connotation, and are often taken out of the material context of the object; like the object, however, they are considered as artistic and visual content, and are hard to digitize meaningfully. Nevertheless they sometimes come closest to crossing the artificial boundary and may be studied by both philologists and archaeologists. Text may also be constrained by the placement of decoration on a surface, or vice versa. This conference will bring together scholars from a variety of fields who study objects and texts side by side to discuss the ways in which advanced computer science methods can enhance both their own work and the nature of their collaborations with other researchers working on the same objects. Methods to be considered will include (but need not be restricted to): * Linking/connecting text and images of objects within digital editions/projects, or making object description an intrinsic part of a text edition; * Advanced imaging (3D surface scanning, multi-spectral imaging, non-invasive volumetric scanning, stereographic/photogrammetric imaging) to bring lost or damaged text/engraving out of objects; * Automated text/character analysis; identification of text fields/columns/lines; * Reconstruction and visualization of damaged, unclear or complex text-bearing objects; * Digital placing of objects in historical and archaeological contexts to highlight textual/non-textual features. If you are interested in attending this event, please register on the eSI website, and confirmation will be sent you as soon as possible. Regards, Gabriel Bodard Stuart Dunn -- 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/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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FW: Conference, The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research
by Malte Rehbein 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

-----Original Message----- From: apilist-bounces(a)cnrs-orleans.fr [mailto:apilist-bounces@cnrs-orleans.fr] On Behalf Of Denis Muzerelle Sent: 16 September 2009 17:33 To: APILIST Subject: [Apilist] Digital Middle Ages conference June 16-17 2010 Please find attached hereto the call for papers for THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES: TEACHING AND RESEARCH JUNE 16-17, 2010 BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, USA Note that the proposed subjects include in particular: - Digital palaeography - Encoding of medieval manuscripts D.M. -- Denis MUZERELLE Resp. de la section "Paléographie latine" Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS) 40, av. d'Iéna, F-75116 Paris -- Dr. des. Malte Rehbein Universität Würzburg Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie und Neuere Deutsche Literaturgeschichte Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14 Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg fon +49.(0)931.31.88773 email malte.rehbein(a)uni-wuerzburg.de web http://www.denkstaette.de

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Recommendations for Field Laser Scanning Providers?
by Dan O'Donnell 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi all, For a grant application, I need to submit quotes on field laser scanning. We need to scan the Bewcastle, Ruthwell, and perhaps Brussels crosses to a very high degree of detail. Ruthwell is in a church, Bewcastle exposed in a field, and Brussels in a cathedral treasury. Ruthwell and Bewcastle are stone and around 15 feet tall; Brussels is partially gilt, and a couple of feet tall at most. In the past we've used Archaeoptics, but my understanding is that they are now defunct. We also have had quotes from the CNS in Pisa. Does anybody have other recommendations? Obviously vendors in the U.K. would be obvious choices, but our experience is that the travel costs are not the largest part of the expense and that vendors on the continent can compete with British vendors quite well. I greatly appreciate any suggestions! -- 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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TEI meeting in Oslo Oct. 3, 2009
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

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Holinshed's Chronicles
by Digital Medievalist: James Cummings 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

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International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009)
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

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Case studies in the humanities - call for expressions of interest
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

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Re: [dm-l] lexicometrics for dummies (from Francesco Stella)
by Marjorie Burghart 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Thank you Francesco! STELLA FRANCESCO VINCENZO a écrit : > Dear Marjorie, > as far as I know, the best tools for non-semantic lexicometry are on the > portal "TAPoR", a development of the old TACT software. Less advanced > concordance-programs are to be found on the web (f.e. Concapp and many > others). Wordsmith (with restricted access, but there is a free trial > version) is also good. I find also still useful "Analisi Lessicale", a very > old tool based on Access, which works quite good on Latin texts: > http://www.funsci.com/fun3_it/lessico/manuale.htm. As for the methodology > about ancient literatures, you can consult a provisional version of an > experiment on the Epistolae duorum amantium with further bibliography at > http://www.tdtc.unisi.it/files/materiale_didattico/stella/EDA-Statistiche%2…. > > Best wishes > > Francesco Stella > > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:00:18 +0200, Marjorie Burghart > <marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr> wrote: > >> Hello list! >> >> I have to confess that, unlike many digital medievalists and humanists, >> I am neither a linguist nor a lexicographer... Although, I have long >> been tempted to use lexicographic tools on my sources (for the records, >> latin homiletic literature). I am particularly interested in >> cooccurrences, techniques of authorship attribution, and automatic >> identification of "borrowed" spans of text, for instance. The problem is >> I feel a bit clueless / helpless when it comes to put things into gear... >> >> Would any of you have already gone the same way, and could direct me to >> some introduction accessible to non-linguists, and maybe to some >> lexicometry softwares? I am particularly interested in softwares that >> would be able to deal "intelligently" with Latin (most of them seem to >> handle very nicely contemporary, widespread languages like English, but >> I haven't seen any specializing in Latin). >> >> Thanks! >> M. >> -- Marjorie BURGHART EHESS (pôle de Lyon) / UMR 5648 Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux 18 quai Claude Bernard 69007 Lyon - FRANCE

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