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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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Project Officer, VLE for Palaeography, Diplomatic & MS. Studies
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

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Job: Research Fellow, ITSEE, Birmingham
by Hugh Houghton 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

With apologies for cross-posting RESEARCH FELLOW ON THE PAUL COMMENTARIES PROJECT A research fellow is being sought to work on a new project scheduled to begin this autumn analysing the biblical text of the earliest commentaries on the Pauline Epistles in Greek and Latin. The research fellow will be a member of a team led by Dr Hugh Houghton and based at the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing in Birmingham ( www.birmingham.ac.uk/itsee ). He or she will examine early biblical commentaries of the fourth and fifth centuries, comparing them with their manuscript tradition and related works. The work will involve identifying and adding relevant material to the project database and making electronic transcriptions of primary sources. Candidates should have a doctoral degree in a relevant subject, excellent linguistic ability in Latin or Greek and very good computer skills. As it says in the advertisement, an eye for detail and good self-motivation to persist with repetitive and sometimes tedious text- critical work are essential! The post is full-time and fixed-term, initially for three years. The closing date is 14th September 2011. Further details may be found at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADC511/ and http://www.epistulae.org/ which both have links to the job description and online application form. Dr Hugh Houghton Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion University of Birmingham

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De Ricci's Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta Digitized Archive
by Lynn Ransom 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

In collaboration with the Senate House Library at the University of London, the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the completion of the Seymour de Ricci Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta Digitized Archive, a corollary project to the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. The archive is a searchable database containing the digitized notes of the historian and bibliographer Seymour Montefiore Robert Rosso de Ricci (1881-1942), made for the compilation of his unfinished census of pre-1800 manuscripts in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. De Ricci's notes, gathered in thirty-four boxes containing over 60,000 index cards, are currently housed in the Senate House Library. They are divided into two main sections: one for repositories (approximately 40,000 slips) and one for collectors (approximately 20,000 slips). The cards contain information gleaned from wide reading and especially from sale catalogues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As the Senate House Library website for the archive states, the notes are "idiosyncratic but recklessly and persistently useful." To learn more and access the archive, go to http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/dericci/index.html ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851 http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg

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Schoenberg Symposium Announcement
by Lynn Ransom 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

**with apologies for cross-posting** 4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age at the University of Pennsylvania & The Free Library of Philadelphia October 21-22, 2011 Writing the East: History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 4th annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium will explore a range of issues relating to Asian reading and writing cultures, especially as they pertain to the manuscript source. Our focus will be on manuscripts from the Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian traditions. We will bring together scholars representing these traditions to examine the ways in which hand-produced texts shape both meaning and interpretation, and to a larger extent, the cultural norms that define their use. We will also consider the role that modern digital technology can play in facilitating the study of manuscripts today. This year's program will feature a special Friday afternoon workshop, "Bringing Out the Best from Your Collections: Ask the Experts!", on the care and preservation of manuscripts and documents from Asian manuscript traditions. For more information and to register, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium4.html ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851 http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg

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Update on “Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan”
by Kropf, Evyn 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

*Please excuse cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, The University of Michigan Library is in the final year of a three-year, grant-funded project to fully catalogue its Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Supported by a “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” grant administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project, “Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan” has sought to engage established and emerging scholars by involving them in the cataloguing process – examination, description and generation of searchable metadata – for the collection of roughly 1,100 manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish dating from the 8th to the 20th century CE. The manuscripts are being digitized and made freely accessible through the HathiTrust Digital Library in order to facilitate the cataloguing work, which leverages a web-based “crowdsourcing” approach to generate rich and detailed descriptions addressing both material and textual characteristics. The efforts of project staff at the University of Michigan, led by project cataloguer Evyn Kropf, are thus supplemented by contributions from the wider scholarly community as colleagues interact with brief inventory descriptions and the digitized manuscripts via the project website ( http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic ) As of now, 686 of the roughly 870 previously uncatalogued manuscripts have been fully or near fully catalogued. 134 of these are manuscripts for which digitization is not possible at this time. We greatly appreciate your support for the project thus far, and would be especially grateful for any further contributions you could make to the cataloguing of the remaining manuscripts, including review of existing descriptive data where available. Of the manuscripts remaining to be fully catalogued, most are from the following collections Heyworth-Dunne http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/heyworth-dunne F. E. Nuttall http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/nuttall Sulaiman Purchase http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/sulaiman-purchase-collec… Stephen Spaulding http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/stephen-spaulding-mss McGregor http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/mcgregor Cataloguing is also still underway for a number of fascinating manuscripts from the Abdul Hamid Collection http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/abdulhamid including: several calligraphy albums http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/?s=calligraphic+abdulhamid a possible collection of declarations issued by certain grand viziers during the reign of Mehmet II http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/4269 several majmūʻāt, not all previously identified as such, among them http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/4247 and this “biographical work,” likely a collection of Ottoman chancery documents http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/3833 Your expertise is an invaluable complement to our local cataloguing efforts. Treasures from the collection are being unearthed, and we appreciate your continued participation in the cataloguing endeavors. We look forward to seeing your comments posted to the project site and thank you in advance for your valuable contribution to this project. Please feel free to forward any questions, comments and/or suggestions to project staff at islamic.manuscripts(a)umich.edu All best, Evyn Kropf ________________________________________________________________ Evyn Kropf | Islamic Manuscripts Project Cataloguer University Library Area Programs | M117B Hatcher Library North The University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 (734) 764-1220 | ekropf(a)umich.edu

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Re: [dm-l] FW: [Humanist] 25.232 Roberto Busa, SJ, 1913-2011
by Kevin Roddy 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

I met Father Busa at one of the early Computers and the Humanities conferences, and in 1985 invited him to present at UC Davis. The night before, at dinner, we were telling jokes, and I told the one about the cannibal who had eaten both Protestant and Catholic missionaries, and had an ecumenical movement. Since the Italians at the table didn't quite understand, the always understanding Father Busa translated, if somewhat grimly. The next night, at a banquet, we took turns regaling each other with computer horror stories. Father Busa admitted that a while before, two sets of the *Index,* on tape, were to be transported to a new location, and two trucks were hired. Someone, however, mixed up the sets, and sure enough, one truck crashed and burned. That might have been the end of decades of work, but Father Busa and probably Thomas Aquinas got it all back together. He was not only a great and towering man, he was a very human man, Kevin Roddy University of California, Davis

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FW: [Humanist] 25.232 Roberto Busa, SJ, 1913-2011
by Simpson, Grant Leyton 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

On 8/10/11 8:23 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" <willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 232. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist(a)lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:22:09 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk> > Subject: Roberto Busa 1913-2011 > >My sad duty this morning is to announce the death of Roberto Busa, SJ, >on 8 August at the age of 98. See http://tinyurl.com/3ne2aj6 (in >English) and http://tinyurl.com/3qhu6bg (in Italian) for more. > >My thanks to Sarah Schmidt for letting me know. Reflections on the man >and his great contributions to all that we do will be welcome but will >have to wait until Humanist reawakens later this month. > >Yours, >WM >-- >Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's >College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western >Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); >Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); >www.mccarty.org.uk/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >List posts to: humanist(a)lists.digitalhumanities.org >List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist >Listmember interface at: >http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php >Subscribe at: >http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php

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Job: Research Associate - Digital Humanities at Oxford - Network Support (12 month contract)
by James Cummings 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Some of you may know someone interested in a 12 month Research Associate position at Digital.Humanities@Oxford: === Research Associate - Digital Humanities at Oxford - Network Support (12 month contract) Grade: 7 Salary: £29,099 - £35,788 pa Closing date: Monday 29th August '11, 12.00pm For further details, see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/jobs/research-associate-digital-humanities-at-oxfo… === -James -- Dr James Cummings, InfoDev, Computing Services, University of Oxford

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(seminar) Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

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