dm-l January 2010

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the future of palaeography at King's College London
by George FERZOCO 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

King’s College London is undertaking what they call ‘strategic disinvestment’ and have recently informed Professor David Ganz that funding for his Chair in Palaeography will cease from 31 August this year, when he will be out of a job. This is part of a wider context whereby all academic staff in the School of Arts and Humanities at King’s have to re-apply for their own jobs before the 1st of March. They think this the “most humane way” of losing 22 academic posts. This is the only established chair in Palaeography in the UK (previously held by Julian Brown and Tilly de la Mare). The more people who write in protest the better. The people to write to are: Professor Richard Trainor, MA DPhil FRHistS AcSS FKC The Principal King’s College The Strand London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom principal(a)kcl.ac.uk copied to: Professor Jan Palmowski Head of the School of Arts and Humanities King’s College The Strand London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom jan.palmowski(a)kcl.ac.uk -- George FERZOCO gpferzoco(a)gmail.com

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Three jobs at King's College London (CCH)
by Spence, Paul 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Job posting: three Project Research Associates required [With apologies for cross-posting] The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London is looking for three highly motivated and technically sophisticated individuals to work on its text-based research projects. The positions will involve using computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship. CCH is both a department with responsibility for its own academic programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. Its research projects cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences. The successful candidates will possess strong analytical and problem solving skills: they will be required to identify and engage with the core scholarly questions in a highly collaborative research context; to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them using XML-related technologies; to design and develop systems for editing and delivering text-based scholarly materials and to collaborate in the design of integrated HTML-based publication. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is highly desirable, in particular textual materials encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines. All successful candidates will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and will be expected to make a strong contribution to the departmental research profile. They will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. They must have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English. One position is for one year on Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) - within the Grade 5 scale, currently £28,074 to £32,176, inclusive of London Allowance. Two positions are for one year on Fixed Term Contract - within the Grade 6 scale, currently £30,070 to £39,038 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. Closing date: 12th February 2010 Please view and apply for positions at the following URLs: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde… and http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde… ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Project Manager (Digital Text) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/ http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/research/projects/

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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

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new on arts-humanities.net
by Torsten Reimer 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

[with apologies for cross-posting] arts-humanities.net gives you access to a wide range of resources for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. These include: a catalogue of digital A&H projects; a calendar of upcoming workshops, conferences and events; guidance on creating digital resources; a directory of experts working in the field; a job portal; briefing papers, case studies and much more! http://www.arts-humanities.net/ SPOTLIGHT on NEW PROJECTS High Throughput Humanities e-Research (HiTHeR) and FReSH (Forging Restful Services for e-Humanities) HiTHeR created a prototype system for analysing the Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (NCSE) corpus that contains approximately 430,000 articles digitised from several 19th Century periodicals. The follow-on project, FReSH expands upon this work by incorporating tools that support deep analysis of the textual content. http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/high_throughput_humanities_e_resear… Mapping Medieval Chester The project asks questions about how medieval inhabitants imagined and represented the urban space around them. A key aspect of the project is to integrate geographical and literary mappings of medieval Chester using cartographic and textual sources and to understand more how about urban landscapes were navigated by inhabitants. http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/mapping_medieval_chester Read more on these and over 300 other projects in our projecs catalogue, including information on the digital resources created and the methods and tools used in the research. URL: http://www.arts-humanities.net/project RSS: http://www.arts-humanities.net/project/feed The EVENTS CALENDAR lists over 50 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. URL: http://www.arts-humanities.net/events iCal: http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/ical/ FEATURED EVENT: 2010 DHO Summer School http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/2010_dho_summer_school The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July. The event will see workshop strands such as: a practical introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative or data visualisation for the humanities. FEATURED EVENT: Digital Futures Academy: From Digitization to Delivery: Sydney, Australia http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/digital_futures_academy_digitization_d… Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting 5 days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage, media and cultural sectors. NEW USER GROUP The London Digital Humanities Group A network of London-based early career scholars working in the digital humanitites. http://www.arts-humanities.net/london_digital_humantities_group 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 Community Infrastructures and e-Learning http://www.arts-humanities.net Centre for e-Research, King's College London http://kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/

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Registration for conference New Directions in Textual Scholarship now open
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

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Call for participation: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

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Palaeography exercises: the sources are now available
by Marjorie Burghart 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Dear list, Last week, I presented to you a website (http://paleographie.castellanie.net) with some palaeography exercises created with a customized version of Image Markup Tool. I have now made the sources for this customization available, and they can be freely downloaded from the Image Markup Tool website, under "Paleography": http://tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/paleography.php Best regards, 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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Call for Papers 2010. Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

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CFP: The Computational Turn (with website)
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

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Online paleography exercises created with Image Markup Tool
by Marjorie Burghart 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Dear list, I'm pleased to announce that Castellanie.net, a website publishing images and soon transcriptions of the XIIIth century account rolls of the House of Savoy, now proposes self-corrective online paleography exercices to help students and beginners to learn how to read those accounts. Four exercices are available now, with more to come. They can be accessed from the main website (www.castellanie.net) or directly at this URL: http://paleographie.castellanie.net What may also be of interest to some of you is that those exercices are generated directly from Image Markup Tool, thanks to a customized XSL, CSS and Javascript, making it very easy to create new exercices, including for scholars with zero web design skills. I plan to make the XSL / CSS / Javascript available online very soon, after just a little bit of polishing. Besides, as we plan to extend the collection of exercices, any feedback about the interface, functionalities, etc. will be most welcome :) Best regards, an Happy New Year! Marjorie -- 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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