dm-l September 2009

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lexicometrics for dummies
by Marjorie Burghart 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

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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FINAL CFP: Collaborative Editing and Handwriting Recognition in medieval studies, Kzoo 2010
by Dot Porter 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

**We are still looking for papers for both sessions, please respond ASAP if you are interested in participating in either session** The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009. See below for session names and descriptions. Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson(a)bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009. Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and analysis for medieval documents Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years, and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition systems may be applicable to medieval studies. Further, the increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis. We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas, or which seek to establish methodologies. Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide applicability to medieval studies. This leads to questions about the nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of collaboration. Reports form the coal face on collaborations which have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration. Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson(a)bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Should Digital Humanities be more like Medieval Studies?
by James Cummings 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Hi there, I'm here at the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2009 Conference in Belfast (http://www.dho.ie/drha2009/). I was listening earlier today to someone talking about the way that Digital Humanities centres try to find funding and was struck be some of the similarities (and differences) between the way these and centres for medieval studies (and similar) are often organised. When I did my PhD at Leeds many years ago it was still a 'centre' for medieval studies -- it has since become an 'institute' but I think model is probably still fairly similar (someone do correct me if I'm wrong). In this case there are some central medieval studies staff, but the medievalists in the rest of the humanities departments contribute to this centre (whether by dept. funding or more likely teaching part of an MA course, etc.). But overall the model is on of cooperation and collaboration in which a majority of the faculty of the centre for medieval studies may be primarily employed in one or other humanities departments. But there are, of course, other models. Sometimes a CMS is set up with a large number of dedicated staff who are not part of other humanities departments, sometimes the 'centre' is entirely virtual with the courses primarily located and part of degrees in those humanities departments, but open to 'medieval studies' students, or sometimes there are some CMS staff but these work in conjunction with faculty from other departments to provide the breadth required. I didn't know whether that actually reflected how most CMSes (and CMRSes, and similar centres and departments) were organised. So I wondered if people might be willing to fill out a quick straw poll (open only until Wednesday evening) to describe their Centre for Medieval Studies (or similar). Please do fill it out even if you aren't involved with the CMS, but know how it works: http://www.doodle.com/krz8w8ykya6icp35 For 'Your Name' in the poll feel free just to put the name of the institution. It is just meant to be a quick straw poll, hardly a deeply scientific sample. The reason I'm asking is that I think Digital Humanities could probably learn a thing or two in this area from Medieval Studies when it comes to organising departments to provide some of their teaching and staff. How to go about convincing departments to also let some of their staff to officially do a small bit of digital humanities teaching is another question! Thanks for your help! Dr James Cummings Director, Digital Medievalist

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[Fwd: Reference Projects Interrupted]
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

Hi all, This is from SHARP-L, a book history list. I thought we might find some very knowledgeable people here (and on DC, where I'll also be sending it). You should make should you include the cc'd person (Jack Lynch) in your responses, as I don't believe he is on either DM or DC. -dan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Reference Projects Interrupted Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:21:06 -0400 From: Jack Lynch <jlynch(a)ANDROMEDA.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: SHARP-L Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing <SHARP-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> To: SHARP-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Dear all, I'm collecting stories of reference works (or other large-scale publishing projects) that have been interrupted in mid-course by the rise of electronic publishing -- cases in which plans that made sense when the project began have been scrapped because of the transformative effects of the Internet. The first example to come to my mind was the third edition of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature -- the whole was commissioned some years ago, and vol. 4 (1800-1900), ed. Joanne Shattuck, appeared in 1999, but the whole project was abandoned a few years ago when CUP realized it would be impossible to sell the hard-copy volumes, and couldn't think of a way to recover costs on an on-line version. All the contributors were released from their contracts, the project has been dropped, and vol. 4 remains orphaned in libraries. Of course plenty of long-term projects have taken advantage of new technologies. When I first spoke with John Simpson about OED3 in the '90s, he said the plan was still for a print version; the most recent time I spoke with the OED lexicographers, they said a print edition is unlikely -- still, the project goes on apace, and it continues to get plenty of resources. I'm more interested in genuine interrputions, whether wholesale abandonment, significant trimming of expectations, dropping of a major institutional sponsor, or what-have-you. Have any of the major encyclopedia or dictionary publishers officially called it quits? -- are decades-long works like the Corpus vitrearum medii aevi still going ahead? I'll be able to make the most sense of English-language examples, but there's no need to stick to them exclusively. -- 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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Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) at TU Darmstadt
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

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XML Summer School in Oxford, 20-25 Sept
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

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2007 TEI Meeting Proceedings published
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

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Beta version of the Early Irish Glossaries Project available
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

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new on arts-humanities.net
by Torsten Reimer 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

[with apologies for cross-posting] arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. Join over a thousand individual members, a dozen expert centres and various projects. http://www.arts-humanities.net/ arts-humanities.net gives you access to a wide range of resources, including an extensive catalogue of digital arts and humanities projects; a calendar of workshops, conferences and other events; a taxonomy of research methods for creating digital resources; and other materials such as a bibliography, case studies and briefing papers. Registered members can use the site to feature their own research; blog and discuss issues with others; and search a directory of over 1,100 members. We also provide customisable email updates on new content and news from the community. FEATURED: EVENTS CALENDAR The events calendar lists about 100 upcoming events related to the digital arts and humanities. You can also access an archive of several hundred past events. We provide a RSS feeds and an iCal feed that you can plug directly into your calendar or website. http://www.arts-humanities.net/events http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/ical/ FEATURED PROJECT Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) The project aims to assemble an online corpus of all the material gathered by Prof Joyce Reynolds during her numerous visits to Libya. The project consists in the digitisation of some 2000 inscriptions from Roman Cyrenaica, nearly a third of which have never previously been published. The new corpus will be presented as a series of documents; but it will also link to an online map of Roman Cyrenaica, being prepared as part of the Pleiades project http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_roman_cyrenaica_ircyr OTHER NEW PROJECTS Integrating Digital Papyrology (IDP) http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/integrating_digital_papyrology_idp Inscriptions of Aphrodisias http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/inscriptions_aphrodisias NEW USER GROUPS Digital Classicist The Digital Classicist is a community interested in the application of innovative digital digital methods to research on the ancient world. http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_classicist Social Software in the Digital Humanities A group that discusses the theoretical and practical application of social software within the digital humanities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/deliberative_humanism_social_software_digita… FORUM / DISCUSSIONS DRHA 2009 meet and greet Meet some of the delegates of the DRHA 2009 conference and learn about their interests, projects and activities. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/drha_2009_meet_greet Discussing Digital Humanities 2009 A live-blog from the DH09 conference in June 2009. http://www.arts-humanities.net/forumtopic/discussing_digital_humanities_09 arts-humanities.net is hosted by the Centre for e-Research at King's College London and is developed in collaboration with several groups and projects, including the UK Network of Expert Centres. It is funded by the JISC. -- Dr. Torsten Reimer Development Manager http://www.arts-humanities.net Centre for e-Research, King's College London http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/ +44 (0)20 7848 2019

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Re: Medievalists using digital/electronic resources (Dot Porter)
by Yin Liu 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Here are the resources I use most: 1. The online OED. Almost every day: for research, teaching, and sheer pleasure. Definitely more convenient than the hardcopy form, and, of course, more up to date. 2. Google Books. It has been a great way to get things like old EETS editions that I'm too lazy to take out of the library, or to chase down obscure footnotes in obscure publications that I don't want to trouble the interlibrary loans people about. 3. The Auchinleck MS online. Mostly for teaching; a lovely resource. The availability of good-quality MS facsimiles online has made a huge difference to my teaching, especially when I am located in the Canadian West, where medieval MSS are sparse. Hats off to the NLS for its generosity in sharing this important MS with the rest of us, and to Alison Wiggins and the late David Burnley for a beautiful edition. Yin Liu > So, out of scholarly curiosity, what is your favorite > digital/electronic/online resource (or type of resource), and why? > > Dot > -- Yin Liu Department of English University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 Canada +1 (306) 966-1835 yin.liu(a)usask.ca

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