dm-l July 2010

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15 discussions

Question about preservation of digital content
by Daniel Mondekar 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Dear Digital Medievalists and TEI members, I have a question about preservation of digital content especially medieval manuscripts. I am writing a small article on the topic and I have consulted a lot sources (papers, handbooks) but most of them do not say anything about the "life span" of the data in specific formats. To clarify this - a .doc file crated in 1995. Will be most likely unreadable in 2010. What about other formats? Has anyone done some research on "life span" of a specific version of digital formats and when it becomes clear that the new version and the old one are not compatible anymore? And here I am talking about pdf, rtf, doc (and all office files), djvu, tiff, jpg , mpg etc. (texts and images especially) In my work I am also making a small remark on XML as a data container since it is, in my opinion, the best way to go and the standard will surely be around for years. But what kind of steps do you make to ensure the preservation of documents that have been encoded in xml I would also like to hear if there are opposing views on xml. I also have the same question about the media. I found some research about the longevity of CDs and DVDs but I am also interested in other media like older hard disks, zip drives and magnetic media. I am sorry to bother you with this, but I can use any help I can get Thank you in advance Daniel Mondekar

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Call for papers: International seminar on the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

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Zotero metadata for DM Journal?
by Dot Porter 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

A public note to the DM Editors: I am just starting to use Zotero and I'd like to include my favorite online sources, including the DM journal. However, I don't have the option of automatically adding it. I assume you need some kind of metadata in the site header? Perhaps you all could look into adding this? Preferably for the individual articles, as well as the full issues. Thanks! Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Shameless self promotion
by O'Donnell, Dan 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi all, An op-ed I'd written for the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences in response to the Canadian government's consultations on the digital economy was just placed by them today in the Edmonton Journal: http://bit.ly/aApodN The argument is that today's internet is as much or more about use applications than engineering--and that Humanists and Social Scientists have played a pretty surprising role in its development and success. Michael Everson: if you're on this list, I mention you by name ;) -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell 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-confidential) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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seminar: On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

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Eadui font
by Peter Baker 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

Many thanks to those who tested my Eadui font, which tries to faithfully reproduce the English Caroline Minuscule hand of the eleventh-century Canterbury scribe Eadui Basan. I've released version 1.0 under the Open Font License on the Open Font Library website: http://openfontlibrary.org/files/psb6m/177 Happy summer to all, Peter Baker

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Call for Papers: Marco Manuscript Workshop, University of Tennessee, February 4-5, 2011
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

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Music Encoding Initiative Council announces the release of MEI
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

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Burghart, Cummings, Ginther, Kato elected to Digital Medievalist Board
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

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DM Lunch at DH2010, July 7
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

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