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Organizing DM sessions for Leeds 2011
by Dot Porter 19 Jun '10

19 Jun '10

Dear DM community, The call for proposals for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds is now online (and has been online for a while): http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2011_call.html Session proposals are due on September 30. The DM board typically organizes conference sessions, but before we do so this year we wanted to ask you all if there is anyone amongst you (perhaps one or more someones) who would like to be involved. If you have an idea for a session, or would like to organize one, if you have an idea and would like to co-opt the DM name, please respond to the list (or if you're shy, you can write me privately: dot.porter(a)gmail.com). The theme of next year's conference will be "Poor...Rich." From the description on the website: "As the global economy attempts to recover from the recent staggering economic downturn, and scholars and journalists describe the enormously uneven concentrations of wealth that took place in the decade preceding that downturn, it seems only natural to turn our scholarly gaze to issues of wealth and poverty in the Middle Ages." I'm not sure how the theme could be applied to a digital session (suggestions?), but in any case non-thematic session proposals are always welcome. Thanks, Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Stemmatics data: for testing phylogenetic analysis on actual manuscript traditions
by Peter Robinson 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

As part of the Studia Stemmatalogica project (led by Tuomas Heikkilä, Teemu Roos and Petri Myllymäk of the University of Helsinki), I have prepared a page giving access to five full sets of data prepared for phylogenetic analysis: four for sections of the Canterbury Tales, one for the Old Norse Solarljod. These datasets have been produced with exceptional care, to give the most accurate and complete portrayal of the variation in each tradition. For each dataset, we also present an expert scholarly analysis. Our hope, in releasing this data, is to encourage researchers interested in the possibilities and challenges of the application of phylogenetic methods to stemmatics to experiment with different methods of analysis on 'real' datasets. We would be glad to hear of any and all uses made of this data. The data is at http://www.textualscholarship.org/newstemmatics/data/index.html. Best wishes Peter Robinson Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson(a)bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk

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After Prosopography: Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

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Reminder: TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010
by James Cummings 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

(apologies for cross-posting, feel free to forward) Book soon! TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010 http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/ The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication. Each day will also include a number of afternoon 2.5 hour parallel workshops on related technologies and topics. These will include TEI Publishing; TEI for Language Resources; Transforming TEI with XSLT; TEI in Libraries; Creating a TEI-based Website with the eXist XML Database; and Genetic Editing: transcribing documents, transcribing the process. There will also be optional surgery sessions for those who wish to consult with TEI@Oxford about their particular projects or encoding issues. There will also be guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts familiar with the TEI talking about their own projects, including C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor of the XML Spec and one of the founding editors of the TEI). 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! The course runs from Monday 12 July – Wednesday 14 July, 2010. The course runs from 09:30 – 17:30 each day in our fully-equipped computer training rooms. Lunch and refreshments are included in the course fee. Questions about booking on the workshop: courses(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk Dr James Cummings Research Technologies Service University of Oxford

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Fw: Fulbright in digital humanities at Galway
by Marjorie Burghart 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

The following information, circulated on the Humanist list by Willard McCarthy, could be of interest to some of our fellow Digital Medievalists :) Best, Marjorie /////// [Please note: as a first step, interested individuals should write directly to Professor Nicholas Canny, nicholas.canny(a)nuigalway.ie, asking for a letter of invitation to apply. --WM] Call for Applications Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Ireland Award in Digital Humanities to be based at the Moore Institute, National University of Galway Ireland DEADLINE for APPLICATONS: 2nd August 2010 Country: Ireland Award Title: Humanities/Digital Humanities Activity: Teaching/Research Disciplines: History (non-U.S.), Information Sciences, Language and Literature (non-US), Library Science Ph.D. Required: Yes Specializations: Digital humanities, literature, history, languages, and information technology. Grant Activity: Teach one undergraduate seminar to a maximum of fifteen students in digital humanities in the fall semester, for two hours per week for eleven weeks. Advise fifteen to twenty graduate students and liaise and cooperate with faculty in related fields for a maximum of 15 hours. Collaborate with the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies and its key academic staff on the following key research activities: 1) Texts, Contexts, Cultures 2) TEXTE: Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing, 3) Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive. Additional Qualifications: PhD; five years teaching experience preferred. Locations: Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, University Rd, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute/. The Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies was established under Ireland’s Higher Education Authority's Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 2, (PRTLI 2), as an international research community of upwards of thirty early-stage researchers concerned with the full range of humanities disciplines, and on the interconnection between creativity and innovation. It is located within the National University of Ireland, Galway’s College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies and has links with researchers in each of the Six Schools of the College. Length Of Grant: 10 months Starting Date: September 2011 Special Features: This award is cost-shared by the host institution. Additional Comments: Letter of invitation recommended. Contact: Professor Nicholas Canny, Director, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway; nicholas.canny(a)nuigalway.ie; telephone: 00353.91.493902; To Apply: See http://catalog.cies.org/viewAward.aspx?n=1247 -- 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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Re: [dm-l] Multiple streams / stages of footnotes: what solutions?
by Marjorie Burghart 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Dear Philipp, thanks for the feedback! My question was more out of general interest BTW, without a particular project in mind (although I might certainly be interested in such solutions myself). When you need to use LaTex fot the typesetting of a "complicated" edition, wouldn't you recommend encoding it in TEI in the first place, then XSLT it in LaTex? Actually, I had until recently vaguely thought that XSL FO could handle multiple layers of footnotes, making it possible to create a camera-ready PDF directly from the XML TEI file, but according to a discussion on another list (http://listserv.inist.fr/sympa/arc/tei-fr/2010-06/msg00002.html) it doesn't seem possible. Best, Marjorie Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > Dear Marjorie, > > you mention three major constraints: time, money, and the > unavailability of someone to do the typesetting for you. However, it > is a bit unclear whether you are looking for a solution for a > particular editing project of your own or for something to recommend > to somebody else, for example to students. Also, what do you want this > software to do, other than multiple footnote levels? What kind of text > are you editing? How large is it? Are there multiple alphabets > involved? Does the edition make heavy use of cross-references? Is > there a need for managing a bibliography? > > Personally I would still recommend LaTeX for critical editions, but > with a good frontend to make it accessible. On that front I would > recommend LyX, which is effectively a graphical document processor > that uses LaTeX for producing printed output, so that one hardly ever > has to get into the \more{intimidating} aspects of LaTeX. There is a > bit of a learning curve, but LyX does a very good job of keeping it > manageable. It may be somewhat geeky, but then again philology in > general and critical editions in particular are already slightly nerdy > endeavours in themselves, and as long as the final PDF looks fine the > geekiness of the process does not really matter much, or so it would > seem to me. > > Regarding multiple footnote levels, there are LaTeX packages to do > that (for example "bigfoot" by David Kastrup) and examples how to make > them accessible as LyX modules (e.g. > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg77335.html). > There is also a rather friendly user community and mailing list. > > Personally I've used it for a recently-finished 320-page manuscript > with edited text in three alphabets, including right-to-left text and > heavy use of diacritics, some fifty graphical figures, an > automatically-generated 550-entry bibliography and and some 1500 > cross-references. Only one footnote level, though, but multiple levels > would have been no problem. > > Philipp > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Marjorie Burghart > <marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr> wrote: > >> Dear Godfried, >> Of course, you have a point there: typesetting is a job on its own. >> Although, there are occasions on which you might want to handle the multiple >> layers of footnotes: either when you have to prepare the camera-ready file >> without the help of a professional typesetter (I know many students, for >> instance, who have to use LaTex for the critical edition included in their >> thesis, just to obtain the mandatory multiple layers), or also when you >> simply want to have a "cleaner" apparatus for your own use on a >> "work-in-progress" critical edition. >> >> Marjorie >> >> >> Croenen, Godfried wrote: >> >>> Dear Marjorie, >>> >>> I fully recognise the problem but unless you want do the typesetting >>> yourself, then there is no real need to use any of these packages. My >>> personal experience teaches me that professional typesetters can perfectly >>> set as many layers of footnotes as you need and many of them will take XML >>> or SGML files as input. >>> >>> Godfried >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of >>> Marjorie Burghart >>> Sent: 15 June 2010 09:54 >>> To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca >>> Subject: [dm-l] Multiple streams / stages of footnotes: what solutions? >>> >>> Dear list, >>> As those of you who have had the pleasure to tackle critical editions in >>> printed form know, the traditional >>> mutiple streams or "stages" of footnotes (variants + biblical references + >>> sources, for instance) are a real pain, and very few solutions are offered. >>> >>> I knew of two, mainly (leaving aside InDesign and the like): LaTex (for >>> the bold and slightly geeky critical editor with time on his hands), and the >>> Classical Text Editor, an apparently quite interesting text editor dedicated >>> to critical editions (unfortunately rather expensive). >>> >>> I have just discovered that, apparently, a word processor for MacOSX is >>> capable of handling those multiple layers: >>> http://www.redlers.com/mellelscholars.htm >>> See also for a more detailed explanation of the footnotes features p. 111- >>> 124 in the PDF manual: >>> http://www.connectnw.com/redlers/MellelGuide.pdf >>> Unfortunately, I have no MacOsX at hand for the moment, and haven't been >>> able to give this word processor a test yet. But I would be very interested >>> to hear from the DM-L list members, if ever some of you had tried this >>> Mellel software. >>> >>> More generally, do some of you use other solutions to handle multiple >>> streams of footnotes in their *printed* editions, and what is your assesment >>> of the various solutions? >>> >>> 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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DM Nominations: Final Reminder
by Peter Stokes 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Dear all, This is a final reminder to submit your nominations for the Digital Medievalist Executive Board by *this Friday* June 18, 0000 UTC. We very much encourage you to nominate either yourself or someone you think would be good, as a strong executive board is vital for the community as a whole. If you are at all interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate then please contact the returning officers, Peter Stokes and Dan O’Donnell, at election at digitalmedievalist.org; we will treat your nomination in confidence. We are also very happy to field questions about eligibility, what is involved, or any other aspect of the Board and its election. The nomination period will close at 0000 UTC Friday June 18 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the end of the week of July 2, 2010. 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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Multiple streams / stages of footnotes: what solutions?
by Marjorie Burghart 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Dear list, As those of you who have had the pleasure to tackle critical editions in printed form, the traditional mutiple streams or "stages" of footnotes (variants + biblical references + sources, for instance) are a real pain, and very few solutions are offered. I knew of two, mainly (leaving aside InDesign and the like): LaTex (for the bold and slightly geeky critical editor with time on his hands), and the Classical Text Editor, an apparently quite interesting text editor dedicated to critical editions (unfortunately rather expensive). I have just discovered that, apparently, a word processor for MacOSX is capable of handling those multiple layers: http://www.redlers.com/mellelscholars.htm See also for a more detailed explanation of the footnotes features p. 111- 124 in the PDF manual: http://www.connectnw.com/redlers/MellelGuide.pdf Unfortunately, I have no MacOsX at hand for the moment, and haven't been able to give this word processor a test yet. But I would be very interested to hear from the DM-L list members, if ever some of you had tried this Mellel software. More generally, do some of you use other solutions to handle multiple streams of footnotes in their *printed* editions, and what is your assesment of the various solutions? 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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Managing Editor
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

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AccessTEI Launched: New Digitization Benefit for Member Institutions Now Available from TEI
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

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