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Post-Doc position
by James Ginther 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Dear Colleagues: I know it is very late in the game for this kind of posting, but circumstances are such that I am looking for a post-doc research fellow for the T-PEN project for immediate hire. At this point, residence in St Louis is negotiable (although the successful candidate must already be able to work legally in the USA). Feel free to share the details with everyone and anyone. Jim __________________________ Saint Louis University, a Jesuit Catholic institution dedicated to education, research, healthcare and service, seeks applications for a full-time, limited contract, Research Fellow (Senior Research Assistant) in the Center for Digital Theology. The successful candidate will join a research team which is developing a web-based application in digital humanities: T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation) is a web-based tool that assist scholars who wish to transcribe from digitized, unpublished manuscripts. T-PEN has been in development for a year, and the new Research Fellow will contribute to its completion over the next year. Details of the project may be found at digital-editor.blogspot.com<http://www.slu.edu/jobs/digital-editor.blogspot.com> Reporting to the Principal Investigator, the Research Fellow works alongside a Java Developer and GUI Developer as well as the project's other Co-PI, Professor Abigail Firey (University of Kentucky). The Research Fellow contributes to T-PEN's general development (which features to create or modify, how to make the application more usable, etc.), participates in bug reporting and usability testing, attends weekly staff meetings, and executes a transcription project that will act as a major use case for T-PEN. That project will be based on one or more the 2,600 manuscripts that T-PEN currently has permission to use, which are drawn from five partnering digital repositories (Parker on the Web, e-codices, CEEC, Hougthon Library [Harvard] and Assisi). The Research Fellow will publish a working digital edition of the text based on the transcription work using T-PEN throughout the academic year. The Research Fellow also contributes posts to T-PEN's blog and must be willing to "tweet" about the project on a regular basis on Twitter. The successful candidate will possess a doctorate in medieval studies (or a single humanities discipline with a medieval research focus) and will have strong, demonstrated skills in paleography and Latin and/or a medieval vernacular language. Some experience in text editing would also be an asset. The successful candidate must have demonstrable experience in the digital humanities (such as digital text editing, software development, digital image analysis, database development, etc.). Experience with XML encoding would also be an asset. (S)he must also possess strong interpersonal skills, be able to work in a team environment, and be able to work to set deadlines. The position will begin immediately upon hire and will terminate on 30 April 2011. The annual salary will be $40,000, paid on a monthly basis. The position includes medical and other minor benefits. Summary of Qualifications Required - PhD in Medieval Studies (or a single humanities discipline with a medieval research focus) - Demonstrated skill in Paleography and Latin (and/or a medieval vernacular language) - Demonstrable experience in digital humanities - Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment - Able to work to set deadlines Desirable - Experience in text editing - Experience with XML encoding Applications are to be submitted on line at http://jobs.slu.edu. Please include a letter of application, a CV, a list of URLs of previous projects or a sample written piece that engages the methods of digital humanities, and a list of three referees. Potential applicants are welcome to contact Professor James Ginther, Director, Center for Digital Theology, for any additional information at ginthej(a)slu.edu<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=ginthej@slu.edu> . Saint Louis University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. -- ---------- James R. Ginther, PhD Professor of Medieval Theology & Director, Center for Digital Theology Saint Louis University ------------------------- ginthej(a)slu.edu Faculty Page: Departmental Page<https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/james-ginther/> <https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/james-ginther/>Research Blog: http://digital-editor.blogspot.com Twitter: DH_editor <http://twitter.com/#!/DH_editor> <http://digital-editor.blogspot.com> "Blessed are the Geeks for they shall encode the Earth" "...debet esse oratio devota, ne mens sit in foro dum os psallit in choro." - Robert Grosseteste "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." -Edward V. Berard

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Semantic MediaWiki workshop and lecture, 26 September 2011
by Ashton, Anna 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Please see details below of a workshop and lecture organised by the Centre for e-Research, King's College London. All are welcome, but please register to attend (separate registration required for each event). Semantic MediaWiki: a tool for collaborative databases Monday 26th September 2011 In association with Judaica Europeana the British Library, and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project 15:30 - 17:00, Anatomy Museum WORKSHOP: Semantic MediaWiki: a practical workshop Led by Yaron Koren 18:00, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, followed by drinks LECTURE: The Judaica Europeana Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) database With an introduction by Lena Stanley Clamp, Director, European Association for Jewish Culture. Part of the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series. For more information and to register to attend, see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/semanticmediaw… VENUE: Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London 6th floor, King's Building, Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS ___ Anna Ashton Communications Manager Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: anna.ashton(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:anna.ashton@kcl.ac.uk> Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cerch Follow us on Twitter @KingsCeRch

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Digital Humanities 2012 - Call for Papers
by Spence, Paul 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2012 - Call for Papers Hosted by University of Hamburg 16-22 July 2012 http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ Abstract deadline: November 1, 2011 (Midnight GMT). Please note: The Program Committee will not be offering an extension to the deadline as has become customary in recent years. The deadline of November 1 is firm. If you intend to submit a proposal for DH2012, you need to submit it via the electronic submission form on the conference website by November 1 Presentations include: Posters (abstract max of 1500 words) Short papers (abstract max of 1500 words) Long papers (abstract max of 1500 words) Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General Information The International Program Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2012 conference, which is 'Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods'. With the Digital Diversity theme in mind, we especially invite submissions from scholars representing emerging digital humanities communities, scholars in the digital arts and music, in spatial history, and in the public humanities. The conference web site is at http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ and will be developing over the next few weeks. The program committee aims for a varied program and for that reason will normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of authors for presentation at the conference. Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities: research on data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium; computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning; the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas; the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; the role of digital humanities in academic curricula. In the spirit of the conference theme, and in consultation with the ADHO Standing Committee on Multilingualism & Multiculturalism (MLMC), we particularly invite proposals on the potential and impact of digital methods and models in fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism, and on the challenges and potential presented to DH in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. Proposals regarding endangered, lesser-known or minority languages and cultures are especially welcome, as are case studies demonstrating the successful integration of multilingualism and multiculturalism with digital methods. Selected papers may be eligible for inclusion in future ADHO publications devoted to the topic of multilingualism and multiculturalism. The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2011. Since the deadline is firm, we urge you to begin preparing your proposals before the submission form is ready. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 1, 2012. The electronic submission form will be available on the conference site at the beginning of October 2011. See below for full details on submitting proposals. A separate call for pre-conferences and workshops will be issued by the Program Committee shortly. In addition, proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer, Jan Christoph Meister, as soon as possible. His email address is jan-c-meister(a)uni-hamburg.de. All other proposals should be submitted to the Program Committee through the aforementioned electronic submission form on the conference web site. For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Program Committee may be of four types: (1) poster presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; and (4) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission preferred should be specified on the application; however, the committee may accept the application in another category based on the number of proposals and the nature of the abstracts. In part this addresses the incredible response to recent calls and in part recognizes that all applications are refereed and that the types of presentations are therefore equal in importance. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 1) Poster presentations Please submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words. Poster presentations may include any work in progress on any topic of the call for papers as outlined above, computer technology, project demonstrations, and software demonstrations. Posters and software demonstrations are intended to be interactive, with the opportunity of the presenter to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with board space to display their work, computer connections may be available, and presenters are encouraged to provide a URL, business card, or handouts with more detailed information. Posters will be on display at various times during the conference, and a separate conference session will be dedicated to them when presenters should be present to explain their work and to answer questions. Additional times may be assigned for software or project demonstrations. Poster sessions may showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in the digital humanities. In recognition of this, the Program Committee will award a prize for best poster. 2) Short papers This is a new category of presentation, allowing for up to five short papers in a one-hour session, with the length held to a strict ten (10) minutes each in order to allow time for one to two questions per paper. Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting shorter experiments; describing work in progress; and for describing newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. At the behest of the Program Committee, short papers may be presented as both a short paper and as a poster session. For research or projects further along in development, presenters should consider applying for a long paper presentation. 3) Long Papers Proposals for long papers (750-1500 words) are for reporting substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; the development of significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions. Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should indicate how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in formulating and addressing the research questions, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Papers that concentrate on a particular application or digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the literature. 4) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes) are either: Three long papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or, A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 1, 2011. Several points about the sessions papers: papers that are submitted as parts of special sessions may *not* also be submitted individually for consideration in another category. Session proposers should justify bundling the three papers into a special session, i.e., explaining the added value of the special session as opposed to including the papers separately, particularly how the special session addresses the conference theme. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the online submission form, found at the conference web site at http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de beginning October 1, 2011. Anyone who has previously used the confTool system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact Paul Spence at paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk IV. Information about the conference venue Hamburg on the river Elbe has about 1.8 million inhabitants within the city limits, making the old Hanseatic merchant city Germany's second largest metropolis. Hamburg is characterized by its port, its international orientation and a cosmopolitan flair. The University of Hamburg was founded in 1919. Today the Faculty of the Humanities is home to over 10,000 students. Since its inception Hamburg University has maintained a strong focus on foreign languages and cultures. To foster and to explore such diversity is a key task of the Humanities - and to provide theories, methods and tools to this end poses a particularly interesting challenge to the Digital Humanities. We hope you will join in the discussion on "Digital Diversity" at the DH2012 and look forward to seeing you in Hamburg! V. Bursaries for young scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Young scholars who wish to apply for a bursary will find guidelines on the ADHO website http://www.digitalhumanities.org later this autumn (roughly November 1st). More details will be issued about this subject in the next few weeks. VI. International Program Committee Susan Brown (SDH-SEMI - Vice Chair) Arianna Ciula (ALLC) Tanya Clement (ACH) Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI) Dot Porter (ACH) Jan Rybicki (ALLC) Jon Saklofske (SDH-SEMI) Paul Spence (ALLC - Chair) Tomoji Tabata (ALLC) Katherine Walter (ACH) ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Acting Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx

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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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Fwd: IMPORTANT: towards a revision of the Critical Apparatus module
by Marjorie Burghart 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Dear Digital Medievalists, I would like to bring this message to your attention, for two reasons: the first is that, with the rather heavy traffic on TEI-L these days, it may have slipped your attention. The second is that maybe some people interested and/or involved in TEI digital editions may be DM subscribers while not following closely the discussions on TEI-L. Please jump in and contribute :) Best wishes, Marjorie -------- Message original -------- Sujet: IMPORTANT: towards a revision of the Critical Apparatus module Date : Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:23:45 +0200 De : Marjorie Burghart <marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr> Répondre à : Marjorie Burghart <marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr> Pour : TEI-L(a)listserv.brown.edu Dear TEI community members, We have been talking a lot of the Future of the TEI recently, and I'd like to offer you an oportunity to make this future better by contributing to the revision of a very important module :) During a workshop of the latest TEI MM in Zadar, it was decided, in the work plan of the SIG for 2011, to start a special workgroup on the critical apparatus chapter / module. This workgroup, which I've been convening, has been discussing the issues of this module, trying to identify its shortcomings and the ways it could be improved. We have produced a document on the TEI Wiki, summarizing our email discussions: http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Critical_Apparatus_Workgroup There have been several threads on the list, recently, about problems related to the Critical Apparatus module. I would like to invite all those who use the module, or would like to use it, to seize this oportunity to share on the list (and/or on the wiki page) their feedback on the Crit. App. module and chapter, the issues they have had while working on TEI critical editions, or the good points they want to stress in the module. Suggestions for improvement are, of course, welcome. The outcome of the discussion will be discussed further during the SIG meeting at the TEIMM 2011 in Würzburg. It strikes me that many people feel unhappy with this crucial module, each time thinking that it's because the module has been designed with other usages / users in mind: scholars interested in "born-digital" editions representing the variance of a text complain that the module has been designed with print editions in mind, while scholars wo endeavour to encode a print edition complain that it's not adequate either. There must be some way to make everybody happy - at least, why not give it a try? ;) Best wishes, 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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CFP: Interedition's 8th Bootcamp (Würzburg)
by Joris van Zundert 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

=== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION === Interedition 8th Bootcamp: 7 October - 11 October 2011 ----------------------------------------------------- == ABOUT INTEREDITION == Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu) is a COST (http://www.cost.eu) funded Action whose objective is to further the interoperability of tools in digital scholarship. Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. This activity takes two forms: firstly, meetings in which researchers in digital scholarship can network their knowledge of tools and avenues towards their interoperability; secondly, the development of proof-of-concept implementations of interoperable tools. These proof-of-concept tools are the focus of Interedition's periodic bootcamps, which offer the open source development community in the humanities opportunities to meet, network, and exchange knowledge. == THE BOOTCAMP == Interedition is inviting all interested to participate in the upcoming Development Bootcamp, which will take place from 7 October to 11 October 2011 at the Universität Würzburg, coinciding with the start of the TEI-meeting (http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/) which also takes place there. We hope thus to offer a good occasion for members of both groups to confer on the subject of interoperability. As special Think Tank for this is foreseen on 12 October, for which seperate bursaried may be acquired. The bootcamp and think tank are organized through the kind efforts of: - Fotis Jannidis (Universität Würzburg) - Malte Rehbein (Universität Würzburg) - Gregor Middell (Universität Würzburg) - Susan Schrebman (Trinity College Dublin) == OBJECTIVES == The primary objective of the bootcamp is the development of prototypes for interoperable 'microservice' tools for textual scholarship and digital editions. Interedition's working group 3 has identified transcription and annotation of physical textual sources one of the pivotal scholarly tasks involved with creating digital editions. At the 2010 München bootcamp in less than 5 minutes more than 18 transcription & annotation related tool development projects were identified. Non of these is adhereing to any machine to machine protocol or format for interchange. All results of high quality scholarly work on transcribing and commenting within these data silos are therefor locked in and hadrly (re)useable for further scholarly processing and analysis. Interedition wants to inspire an open source development movement around this problem of interoperabilty and invites anyone who can make a hands on contribution to a prototype distributed reference implementation of an interoperable model for text. We aim to have the participants returning to their local projects with a shared idea on how to approach text resource exchange, and GUI and back end tools to show for it. Suggested goals for the bootcamp are both models and proof of concept implementations for the following use cases: ** Use Case 1 ** ** Resource discovery & Highly granular text addressing/markup ** A text repository hosts a set of marked-up texts, possibly organized in different subsets (collections). Clients access the repository via RESTful protocols, particularly via the AtomPub protocol in order to get notified about newly created or recently modified texts in the repository and/or about certain layers of markup applied to them. The client could filter those feeds based on the text collection or markup/annotation type of interest. The Atom feeds' content is constructed dynamically based on customized queries against the repositories' content and would thus augment established standards for resource discovery that usually operate on the level of curated metadata (e.g. OAI-PMH). Automatized dissemination of transcribed texts in a decentralized, loosely coupled network of repositories is thus facilitated in a manner comparable to the way in which the blogosphere functions. ** Use Case 2 ** ** Text source exchange ** Use case: Texts can be replicated between repository installations and/or other datastores. The exchange includes the textual content as well as any chosen set of markup/ annotation layers associated with the text. Markup is allowed to overlap arbitrarily in the repositories own model while lossless transformation of text and markup information into XML-based encodings provides for the integration with existing tool chains. Interoperability and data interchange is thus facilitated. ** Use Case 3 ** ** Transcription & Annotation workflow ** Texts can be marked-up with several independent annotation layers such that a collaborative transcription and annotation workflow becomes feasible. For example an editor could start by transcribing a text with a minimal set of markup applied. A tool for language recognition listens for new texts in the repository and as soon as the editor submit the transcript, the tool adds annotations to it identifying the language(s) present in the transcript. Then a language-specific POS tagger, listening for repository events of added language annotations processes the transcript further by adding part-of-speech tagging. Later on automatic name entity recognition might be applied to the tagged transcript and finally another editor is notified (via an Atom feed or via e-mail), that the automatically tagged transcripts is ready to be reviewed. FEEL CHALLENGED? Come and code! BURSARIES COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' is offering bursaries to early stage researchers (< Ph.D. + 10 years) and developers that want to join the bootcamp. The bursaries will consist of an 100 Euro per diem allowance and will cover travel expenses fully (limitations apply). HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in participating in the bootcamp, please send an email to joris.van.zundert-AT-huygens.knaw.nl by **25 September 2011**. You don't need an intricate motivation, but please state your affiliation, and add a very short (certainly not more than 200 words) description of your current or related development work in digital humanities. If you partook in an earlier Interedition bootcamp, you may refer to the motiviation you provided at the time. Please note that if you do join the bootcamp, some formal paperwork will be necessary to get you the bursary - but until now all participants passed that test with flying colors. PROGRAM Friday 7 October - Introduction of participants - Introduction the principles of microservices - Introduction to the Gothenburg and Palo Alto models for distributed solutions - Challenge - Planning Game Saturday 8 October - Hacking Sunday 9 October - Hacking - Social event Monday 10 October - Hacking Monday 11 October - Hacking - Presentation & discussion of results - Write up - Drinks ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If you require more information --e.g. you want to join, but are wondering about specific requirements, different arrangements, etc. etc.-- please don't hesitate to use the email address provided above. Or join us on IRC at #interedition. -- Joris van Zundert Chair COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities Huygens ING - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information at http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ Apologies for possible cross posting!

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