dm-l June 2010

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DM lunch at DH2010 (London, Wednesday July 7)
by Dot Porter 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Dear DM Community, Many of you are aware of the Digital Humanities 2010 conference (to be held in London July 7-10), I hope some of you will be there as well. If you're curious, here is the website: http://dh2010.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ We'd like to give DM folks an opportunity to meet informally during the conference, so I'm working with Peter Stokes (who won't be able to attend the conference, but who lives in London) to organize a lunch on one of the days of the conference. It looks like Wednesday will be the best day to meet; although it's technically registration day (no sessions until the evening keynote and reception following), the other days have association AGMs during lunch, and we want to encourage people to attend those if they can. So... If you are going to be at DH2010, and/or if you live in London, and if you would like to meet informally with other DMers, and if you will be available at lunchtime on Wednesday July 7 (or, if you would like to petition that we aim for another day), please send me a message at dot.porter(a)gmail.com to let me know. Peter is looking at local venues, but it would help if we could have a rough estimate of how many people we might expect. Thanks! Hope to see some of you in London soon. Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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DM Elections 2010
by James Cummings 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Dear DM-L, You'll have seen the announcement posted recently concerning the Digital Medievalist Elections 2010, and I would also like to encourage you to vote in the elections. Digital Medievalist as a project and community of practice has grown steadily over the last few years and most of this is down to the hard work put in by the DM Board. The DM Board does more than merely oversee Digital Medievalist, it is a working board and all board members have contributed their time and energy, whether it is in copy-editing journal articles, arranging conference sessions, moderating news posts, or any other range of activities. It has been my pleasure to be Director of Digital Medievalist for the last year and we've undertaken some significant improvements to the way it works and hopefully it will continue to thrive in the future. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the current and previous DM Board members for their hard work, enthusiasm, and commitment to Digital Medievalist. I would especially like to thank those DM Board members who have chosen not to stand again this year, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco and Dorothy Carr Porter, for their generous work over many years and hope that they will continue to be active DM volunteers. Marjorie Burghart and myself have chosen to add our names again to the very strong ballot of candidates up for election. Digital Medievalist is made up of all of the people who are part of this community: Digital Medievalist is not just the DM Board, but all of us working together. If you are receiving this email, then you are part of DM-L and thus part of the Digital Medievalist community. I would encourage any DM-L member who wants to contribute to the ongoing efforts of Digital Medievalist to take the first step in actively participating by voting in this election. A reminder that candidate biographies are available at: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/election2010/ and that the ballot itself is available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YFN6TLW Many thanks, Dr James Cummings Director, Digital Medievalist

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seminar: 3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

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Reminder: Digital Medievalist Elections
by Peter Stokes 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Dear all, This is a reminder to please vote now for the DM Executive Board. This is a working executive, so the people you elect will run the journal, conference sessions, mailing-list, news server, and everything else to do with DM. For this reason, it is important that you vote to ensure that we have the best people possible. Anybody currently subscribed to Digital Medievalist is eligible to vote. There are 4 vacancies on the board and eight candidates. Eligible voters may vote for up to four candidates. Candidate biographies are available at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/election2010/ The ballot is available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YFN6TLW In order to check eligibility, voters will be asked to supply the email address they use for their subscription to dm-l. This information will not be used for any other purpose, and will be discarded after the election. Many thanks, Peter Stokes and Dan O’Donnell election at digitalmedievalist.org -- Dr Peter Stokes Research Associate (Analyst) Centre for Computing in Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980

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GIDOC: Gimp-based Interactive transcription of old text DOCuments
by Marjorie Burghart 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Dear list, I have recently discovered this tool, by a Spanish team, named GIDOC or "Gimp-based Interactive transcription of old text DOCuments": it is defined as a "computer-assisted transcription prototype for handwritten text in old documents", and is, interestingly, built as a GIMP plugin. It can be downloaded here, together with some demonstration material, a demo video etc: http://prhlt.iti.es/projects/multimodal/idoc/content.php?page=gidoc.php Much remains to be done in terms of OCR and automatic / assisted transcription of ancient documents, and this tool certainly isn't the definitive solution to all our problems, but I find the approach interesting (open source, plugged in another tool like GIMP, etc.) Any thoughts / experiences? Best, 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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Digital Medievalist Elections Open June 24 through July 4, 2010.
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

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Blogging the digitization of St. Chad's Gospel
by Dot Porter 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Christopher Blackwell is with a team now at Lichfield scanning St Chad's Gospel, and a Wycliffe Bible too. He's blogging the experience: http://nobleswineherd.blogspot.com/2010/06/litchfield.html And yes, the images will be released under a Creative Commons license. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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St Gall Priscian Glosses
by Pádraic Moran 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Dear all, I'd like to announce the launch of a new digital resource: ST GALL PRISCIAN GLOSSES Rijcklof Hofman (transcription), Pádraic Moran (digital edition) http://www.stgallpriscian.ie/ St Gall MS 904 is a copy of Priscian's monumental Institutiones Grammaticae (Foundations of Grammar) written in 851. It contains c. 9,400 marginal and interlinear glosses. About one-third of the glosses are in Old Irish (the remainder in Latin), making the manuscript an important resource for Celticists. It is also a valuable witness for language teaching and scribal culture in the ninth century. Rijcklof Hofman published about half of the glosses in print in 1996, but now the full text of all of the glosses is available for the first time, online. The digital edition also incorporates the underlying text of Priscian (thanks to http://kaali.linguist.jussieu.fr/CGL/), links to manuscript images (via http://www.e-codices.ch), and other resources. Comments, criticisms, suggestions especially welcome! Lege feliciter, Pádraic -- Dr Pádraic Moran Classics (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) National University of Ireland, Galway http://www.nuigalway.ie/classics/moran/ http://www.stgallpriscian.ie/ http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/

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St. Gall virtual library - manuscripts specialist
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

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Mentoring for digital medievalists
by Dot Porter 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hello everyone, The recent announcement that the MAA will be organizing mentoring at the IMC in Leeds next month[1] got me thinking a bit about mentoring generally, and potential DM mentoring specifically. The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) has sponsored a mentoring program at the Digital Humanities series of conferences (formerly the ACH/ALLC joint conference) for several years now and it's always been successful. In addition to one-on-one mentoring (organizers get volunteers on both sides and pair them up based on shared interest) there is also a networking event, specifically for mentors and mentees but open to anyone who is interested. I've participated in this program a few times as a mentor and it's a great experience. So what about starting a DM mentor program? Are there younger scholars and students who feel they might benefit from a one-on-one relationship with someone who has been doing digital work in medieval studies for a while? How about more experienced scholars willing to donate their time to mentoring? Because there is not really one "Digital Medieval" event that everyone attends, I would rather not attach a mentoring program to a specific event. Instead a program would rely on the initiative of individuals. I would be very happy to coordinate mentor/mentee matching, but following an initial introduction it would be up to the pairs to correspond as they are most comfortable (email, phone, Skype, in-person meetings if they are fortunate enough to be geographically close). I'll start by gauging interest. Please write back to the list, or to me directly if you are shy (dot.porter(a)gmail.com). If there is one willing mentor and one person needing a mentor I'll match you up, but given the range of interests in the community it would be better to have a larger pool to match from. Thanks. I think this could be a really fun and valuable initiative. Dot [1] In case you missed the announcement, there is still an opportunity to sign up (until June 25). It looks like the mentors and mentees are both graduate students: http://medievalacademygsc.org/gradstudents/form.html -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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