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CFP: Editing Old English: Ælfric's Lives of Saints (Kalamazoo 2012)
by Simpson, Grant Leyton 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

(Apologies for cross-posting.) Dear DM Members, Below is the CFP for a special session that we are hosting at Kalamazoo next year. We feel that such a hypothetical edition needs to have a digital component and what this component would look and feel like is of interest to many DM members. Best, Grant Simpson Rachel Anderson Editing Old English: Ælfric's Lives of the Saints Special Session at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2012) 2012 marks the 100-year anniversary of the death of W. W. Skeat, the eminent lexicographer and editor of Anglo-Saxon texts. Skeat is known among Ælfric scholars as the editor of the four-volume Lives of Saints (1881-1890). This edition has numerous limitations, including an incomplete scholarly apparatus, a dated translation, and infrequent availability. A new edition is needed - but what would it look like? Who would it be for? This session will feature papers that examine Skeat's editorial choices and look towards what is needed for a future edition. Please send abstracts of around 300 words to Grant Simpson at glsimpso(a)indiana.edu by September 15. (Early submissons would be much appreciated.)

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Help with embedded images
by O'Donnell, Dan 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi all, I have a pretty basic HTML question, I think. I want to embed a couple of MP4 videos in an HTML file. Using something like the following code, I can do this relatively easily: > <div class="figure" id="d0e690"> > <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" > codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="480" > width="640"> > <param name="src" value="Pictures/Movie1.m4v"/> > <param name="autoplay" value="true"/> > <embed src="Pictures/Movie1.m4v" type="image/x-macpaint" > pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download" autoplay="true" > height="480" width="640"> > </object> > </div> The trouble is that Movie1 is 30 odd megabytes and there are other movies in the file. So I'd rather use a place holder. Googling around I discovered that the recommended way of doing this is to make a 1 frame movie saying something like "click on me" which you put on the src attribute, and then you add an href attribute with the name of the "real" movie. If you add target="_self" it is supposed to replace the place holder with the longer movie. This would be the code: > <div class="figure" id="d0e690"> > <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" > codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="480" > width="640" href="Pictures/Movie1.m4v" target="_self"> > <param name="src" value="Pictures/Movie1poster.m4v"/> > <param name="autoplay" value="true"/> > <embed src="Pictures/Movie1poster.m4v" type="image/x-macpaint" > pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download" autoplay="true" > height="480" width="640" href="Pictures/Movie1.m4v" target="_self"/> > </object> > </div> The problem is that Firefox at any rate seems to understand the src attribute as a base URL. If I click on the player and copy the URL that is produced or look at it in a full screen, Firefox is looking for the href video at Pictures/Movie1poster.m4v/Pictures/Movie1.m4v instead of Pictures/Movie1.m4v I've tried everything I can think of to get around this: moved the files into the root directory of the page, added ../ to the href to try and get it to back up a directory. Nothing seems to work. Since this is a very common thing on the internet, I must be doing something stupid. Does anybody know how to do it? -- *Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Professor of English, University of Lethbridge <http://www.uleth.ca/> Co-President, Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs <http://www.sdh-semi.org/> Co-Editor, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique <http://www.digitalstudies.org/>/ Founding Editor, /Digital Medievalist <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal>/ *

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CFP: 'Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies' (Kalamazoo 2012)…
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

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3rd call: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov 2011 Copenhagen
by Christiane Fritze 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

With apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who might be interested. *Third call for papers – Extended deadline to August 1!* *SDH 2011 Supporting Digital Humanities: Answering the unaskable* 17-18 November, Copenhagen Following up on the success of the first SDH conference, held in Vienna in 2010, the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives have decided to jointly organise the second SDH conference, to be held in November 2011 at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH. Digital technologies have the potential to transform the types of research questions that we ask in the Humanities, allowing us both to address traditional questions in new and exciting ways but also to answer questions that we were not even aware we could ask – hence the title of this conference. How can digital humanities help us not just to find the answers to our research questions more quickly and more easily, but also to formulate research questions we would never have been able to ask without access to large quantities of digital data and sophisticated tools for their analysis? Supporting Digital Humanities will be a forum for the discussion of these innovations, and of the ways in which these new forms of research can be facilitated and supported. CLARIN and DARIAH are creating European research infrastructures for the humanities and related disciplines. SDH2011 aims to bring together infrastructure providers and users from the communities involved in these two infrastructure initiatives. The conference will consist of a number of topical sessions where providers and users will present and discuss results, obstacles and opportunities for digitally-supported humanities research. Participants are encouraged to engage with honest assessments of the intellectual problems and practical barriers in an open and constructive atmosphere. The first SDH conference in 2010 gave a broad and multi-facetted presentation of the domains of interest to CLARIN and DARIAH. This time we have chosen a somewhat more focussed approach, concentrating on two major themes, but not excluding other themes of interest for the humanities. The two themes are: • Sound and movement – music, spoken word, dance and theatre • Texts and things – texts, and the relationship between texts and material artefacts, such as manuscripts, stone or other carriers of texts Submissions are invited for individual papers and posters, as well as panels. Focus should be on tools and methods for the analysis of digital data rather than on digitisation processes themselves, both from the provider and from the user perspective. We want to pay special attention to inspiring showcases that demonstrate the innovative power of digital methods in the humanities. *Some important dates* July 15, 2011: Submission of suggestion for panels August 1, 2011: Submission of abstracts (1,000-1,500 words) August 15, 2011: Notification on panel proposals September 15, 2011: Author notification October 15, 2011: Final version of papers for publication (8 pages). November 17-18: Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark *Submission of abstracts* SDH2011 uses the EasyChair conference system, accessible at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdh2011 You will need to log in in order to make a submission. If you already have an EasyChair account, you have to use that one. Otherwise you will need to create an account by signing up. To do so, simply follow the instructions on the EasyChair website. *Guidelines for authors* Guidelines for authors are available at the conference website http://cst.ku.dk/sdh2011/ *Programme committee* Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, Netherlands Helen Bailey, University of Bedfordshire, UK Tim Crawford, Goldsmith’s University of London, UK Matthew James Driscoll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, United States Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany Fotis Jannidis, Würzburg University, Germany Helen Katsiadakis, Academy of Athens, Greece Krister Lindén, Helsinki University, Finland Heike Neuroth, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany Laurent Romary, INRIA, France Nina Vodopivec, Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia Peter Wittenburg, MPI, Netherlands/Germany Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK *Conference website* http://cst.ku.dk/sdh2011/ *Contact* bmaegaard(a)hum.ku.dk Best regards, Christiane Fritze on behalf of the DARIAH-EU Coordination Office -- Christiane Fritze Joint Secretary General DARIAH-EU Coordination Office Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities Papendiek 14 37073 Goettingen Germany phone: +49 551 39 9061 fax: +49 551 39 3856 mail: cfritze(a)gcdh.de web: http://www.gcdh.de/

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Text-Image Linking Environment 1.0
by Dot Porter 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

(Apologies for any cross-posting) http://mith.info/tile/ The TILE team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0. The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts. This version of TILE includes: - Import/export of TEI P5, and the ability to easily create custom data importers - Improved workflow and accuracy using the Auto Line Recognizer (ALR) - An improved API for plugin developers - Enhancements and bug fixes to TILE’s interface - Detailed release notes for more information A MITH-hosted sandbox version of TILE allows you to test the tool online without installing it on your machine. We encourage users to download a copy to install on their own servers to customize the tool. Users can import their own data into the software, or get started by playing with pre-loaded data of Algernon Swinburne’s poem Anactoria, provided by John Walsh at Indiana University. The development of TILE has been supported by an NEH Preservation and Access Grant, and it is a collaboration between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (Dave Lester, Grant Dickie, Jim Smith, Doug Reside) and Indiana University (Dot Porter, John Walsh, Jeffrey Mudge, Tim Bowman). We’d love to hear how you are using TILE, and what questions or suggestions you have, either in blog comments or on the TILE forums. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Job Posting: Inaugural Curator of the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies
by Lynn Ransom 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Dear colleagues: I send this on behalf of David McKnight, Director Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Lynn Ransom **************************************** Search for Inaugural Curator of the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies In April 2011, The University of Pennsylvania Libraries was the recipient of an extraordinary gift – The Lawrence J Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts. Mr. Schoenberg’s collection is widely known in manuscript circles and he has generously provided physical and digital access to scholars around the world for over a decade. The Schoenberg Collection documents through its many fine exemplars the transformation of knowledge through the lens of pre-early modern, hand-copied books in a variety of languages and scripts which document the evolution of the study of science, medicine and mathematics, among other subjects. Please visit http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljscollection/index.cfm to learn more about the Schoenberg initiatives at UPenn. In recognition of the Schoenberg gift, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the creation of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS). The new institute will form one of the cornerstones of the new Special Collection Center now being constructed. The two year renovation project will transform the former Rare Book and Manuscript Library into a 21st Century scholarly hub for the study of material and digital texts. To provide leadership for the Schoenberg Institute, the UPenn Libraries is seeking an experienced and qualified manuscript studies scholar to serve as the Institute’s inaugural curator. For a complete job description and access to the online application, please follow the link to the University of Pennsylvania’s job site: http://www.library.upenn.edu/hr/professional/curator.html Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience from the mid 60s and up. Includes a generous benefits package – additional information available at http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/benefits.asp . Submitted by David N McKnight, Director Rare Book and Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania Libraries dmcknigh(a)upenn.edu

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Computational Archaeology
by Simpson, Grant Leyton 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Dear Digital Medievalists, The July 2011 issue of the IEEE Computer Society's periodical, Computer, is a special issue on computational archaeology. This may be of interest to list members. http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/mags/co/2011/07/toc.htm Best, Grant

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Cursus Liturgical Database
by Bettina Wagner 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Could anybody please explain what the relation between the CURSUS database and the CANTUS-Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant (http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/) is? If there is one, but they seem to cover the same sort of material. But I have to admit that I have never used CURSUS. Kind regards, Bettina Wagner _______________________________________ Dr. Bettina Wagner Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Ludwigstr. 16 D-80539 Muenchen Germany email: bettina.wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de Tel. +89 / 28638-2982 Fax. +89 / 28638-12982 oder 2266 postbox: D-80328 Muenchen http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/lehrbeauftragte/wagner/i… _______________________________________ Inkunabelkatalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB-Ink) online http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Inkunabelkatalog-BSB-Ink.181.0.html _______________________________________ Aktuelle Ausstellung (11.-31.7.2011): Stiftungen bewirken Wunder. Königin Hildegard und das Kloster Kempten http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Einzeldarstellung.403+M52d779ab436.0.html

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Seminar: GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

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Re: Fwd from Peter: Re: Welcome Dominique (et al.)!
by Marjorie Burghart 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

I'm not certain of my whereabouts and access to Skype on Aug. 2nd - there's a good chance I'll be on a train. Le 18/07/2011 16:59, Marjorie Burghart a écrit : > > We usually have a meeting on the last Tuesday of each month, however, > > in this case I'll be running our week long Digital.Humanities@Oxford > > Summer School that week. Would it be possible to move this to Tuesday > > 2 August instead? Should we poll again for acceptable times since we won't have to > > accommodate Dan's timezone? > > Certainly do a poll, but the whole first week of August is out for me (I'm at ISAS). After that I'm around for the rest of the summer. -- 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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