dm-l March 2012

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Junicode 0.7.4
by Peter Baker 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

The Junicode font version 0.7.4, released today, adds the Gothic range in the regular face, based on the "Junius" Gothic typeface as used in Geo. Hickes, Thesaurus (1704), but with changes for accuracy and improved design. Also two new lookups, ss19 (Latin-to-Gothic transliteration) and ss20 (Gothic to Latin transliteration). Otherwise there are no significant changes from the previous version. Peter Baker http://junicode.sourceforge.net

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TEI Conference and Members' Meeting - Call for workshops and tutorials
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

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CfP ESTS conference: Editing Fundamentals (Nov. 22-24, Amsterdam)
by Peter Boot 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

(please redistribute widely) On November 22-24, 2012 the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands organizes the 9th conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. This conference, which will take place in Amsterdam, will be an international academic forum for communication between different approaches to historical and literary source editing. It aims at bringing together academics working in disciplines that have so far worked within independently operating scholarly traditions, promoting innovative, multidisciplinary exchange and dialogue. The Call for Papers is now available. CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 2012 Editing Fundamentals: Historical and Literary Paradigms in Source Editing Amsterdam, November 22-24, 2012 Deadline for paper proposal submissions: May 15, 2012 Keynote speakers: Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne) Godfried Croenen (University of Liverpool) Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) The 9th conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship will be an international academic forum for communication between different approaches to historical and literary source editing. Edited source texts, documents and databases are essential to literary, political, historical scholarship, as well as to social studies, art history, music, philosophy or theology. The conference aims at bringing together academics working in disciplines that have so far worked within independently operating scholarly traditions, promoting innovative, multidisciplinary exchange and dialogue. The conference will examine the transformation of traditional editorial practice into a digital environment and the creation of innovative opportunities like the use of digital tools and media. Scholars of any discipline related to editing texts and data nowadays have at their disposal almost limitless possibilities to present texts and data to the public. Traditionally reflection and practice show seemingly different approaches to textual scholarship and documentary editing of historical sources. The aim of this conference is to debate these topics and to strive for a common approach towards the challenges of publishing. Key concepts are heuristic, selection, representativeness and presentation to the user. The conference is organized by the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Huygens ING), a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences institute. For more information about appropriate subjects and practical details, please see http://www.textualscholarship.nl/?p=10313. More information about registration and possibilities of accommodation will be published soon on a conference website.

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TEI Conference and Members' Meeting 2012: Call for Papers
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

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FW: [Medieval-research-l] FW: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Call for Papers
by Da Rold, Orietta (Dr.) 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Apologies for cross-posting ******************** Dear Colleagues, I'm pleased to announce the Call for Papers for a new bi-annual conference, hosted by the Humanities Research Institute, which will take place in Sheffield during September 2012: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 I would be grateful if you could circulate this link and the attached Call document to other interested colleagues. With best wishes Mike -- Michael Pidd HRI Digital Manager Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield 34 Gell Street Sheffield S3 7QY Tel: 0114 222 6113 Fax: 0114 222 9894 Email: m.pidd(a)sheffield.ac.uk Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri Times Higher Education University of the Year _______________________________________________ Medieval-research-l mailing list Medieval-research-l(a)lists.le.ac.uk http://lists.le.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/medieval-research-l

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DDH London Meeting 28 March
by Richard Lewis 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

With apologies for cross posting. Decoding Digital Humanities (DDH) London will be meeting again on * Wednesday 28 March 18:00 * at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LH <http://g.co/maps/vftpw> This month we will be reading: Carlson, S., and Anderson, B. (2007). What are data? The many kinds of data and their implications for data re-use. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 15. <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/carlson.html> Please feel free to disseminate this announcement, which is encapsulated in the following page: <http://tinyurl.com/6oukjsj>. You will be very welcome to join us for a drink and to discuss what data have to do with the humanities. Best wishes, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Junicode 0.7.3
by Peter Baker 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Yet another release of Junicode, the font for medievalists, at http://junicode.sourceforge.net. These are the major changes: * By request, improved handling of Turkish and some Eastern European languages. * Small caps in the bold face. * Capital Eszett at U+1E9E in all four faces now; also a small cap version accessible via OpenType feature c2sc. * Obsolete MUFI characters (for some three years now rendered unusable by a superimposed x) have been removed. * Various characters added by user request. * The usual bug fixes (minor) and outline cleanups. Thanks to all those who have left recommendations and reviews. As always, bug reports and feature requests are welcome. Peter Baker

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CeRch seminar: Digitization and Collaboration in the Study of Religious History: Rethinking the Dissenting Academies in Britain, 1660-1860
by Stuart Dunn 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Digitization and Collaboration in the Study of Religious History: Rethinking the Dissenting Academies in Britain, 1660-1860 Simon Dixon and Rosemary Dixon, Queen Mary, University of London Tuesday 13 March, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum (directions: http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location) Followed by drinks Register to attend at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2658496635 Do you tweet? Please use hashtag #cerchseminars The writing of religious history has generally been the preserve of individual scholars, conducting their research alone in libraries and archives, using traditional research methods. Humanities computing, however, not only facilitates but also demands collaborative work. Bringing together humanists and scientists based at different institutions to work on collaborative research projects allows more ambitious schemes to be undertaken, new methodologies to be developed, and new histories to be written. The creation of online databases as a means of studying the history of religion aids collaboration not just on an individual project, but between discrete research projects addressing related subject matter. This chapter discusses the planning and implementation of two closely related projects, both of which are making significant advances in understanding the historical significance of religious dissent in the British Isles: A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860; and Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860. At the heart of the projects is a pressing need to develop a greater understanding of the significance of dissenting academies in the history of British Protestant dissent. The academies, first established in the 1660s, were intended to provide Protestant students dissenting from the Church of England with a higher education similar to that available in the English universities (Oxford and Cambridge). The first of the two projects, which ran from 2008-2011, involved the collection of reliable empirical evidence about the academies and the creation of an online relational database containing information about the institutions, their tutors and students, and surviving archival material. This work underpins the research for a new multi-authored study: A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860. The libraries of the academies were central to the teaching they offered, and the Dissenting Academies Libraries project (2009-2011) involved the digital reconstruction of their holdings and loans through the creation of a Virtual Library System. As well as providing valuable data for contributors to the Dissenting Academies project, the project will change our understanding of the role of books within dissenting culture and education. In describing their work on these two projects, Rosemary Dixon and Simon Dixon will reflect on the potential of digital humanities methodologies to fundamentally alter the way in which historians of religion approach their work. About the Speakers Rosemary Dixon is a lecturer in early modern English literature at King’s College London. Rose’s research is concerned with the literary and religious culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the history of the book. Her PhD thesis on John Tillotson (1630-94) concentrated on printed sermons, which were among the most successful and popular books published during this period. This research will form the basis of her first book: a study of the commercial, theological, and cultural life of the printed sermon in Restoration and eighteenth-century England. Rose is particularly interested in the histories of libraries, and what they can reveal about the ways that the readers of the past perceived, organised, and used their books. Before joining King’s, she was postdoctoral research fellow for the AHRC-funded ‘Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers’ project, a collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London and Dr Williams’s Library. A major outcome of the project is the Virtual Library System, an innovative online reconstruction of the holdings and loan records of dissenting academy libraries. Simon Dixon is a research assistant in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford, working on ‘The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland’. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Dissenting Academies Project from June 2008 until May 2011. With Inga Jones he created Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia and is a contributor to the multi-authored volume, A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860. His work at Oxford involves the construction of a prosopographical database of nineteenth-century professionals and will lead to a series of articles and the development of a major research project. His doctoral thesis on ‘Quaker Communities in London, 1667- c1714’ was completed at Royal Holloway in 2005 and is currently being revised for publication as The Quakers in London, 1667-1714. His research makes extensive use of digital technologies, in particular the construction of databases to manage and analyse large and complex sets of historical data and the creation of high impact research resources such as Dissenting Academies Online. and is a contributor to the multi-authored volume, . His work at Oxford involves the construction of a prosopographical database of nineteenth-century professionals and will lead to a series of articles and the development of a major research project. His doctoral thesis on ‘Quaker Communities in London, 1667- c1714’ was completed at Royal Holloway in 2005 and is currently being revised for publication as . His research makes extensive use of digital technologies, in particular the construction of databases to manage and analyse large and complex sets of historical data and the creation of high impact research resources. -- Dr Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1

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(no subject)
by Tara Andrews 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Dear colleagues, Registration is now open for the workshop "Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts", to be held at the KU Leuven and the Royal Flemish Academy in Brussels on 2-3 April 2012. Please see the programme in attachment. To register, please send an email before 26 March to tara.andrews(a)arts.kuleuven.be with your name and institutional affiliation, the day(s) you expect to attend, and whether you will join us for lunch. Best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Dr. Tara Andrews Post-doctoral Researcher, OE Griekse Studies Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Blijde-Inkomststraat 5 / bus 3316, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

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Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2012
by James Cummings 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

(Apologies for cross-posting, but feel free to forward!) Save the date! The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) 2012 is scheduled for the first week of July! >From the 2nd - 6th of July 2012 DHOXSS delegates visiting the University of Oxford, UK, will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Delegates will follow one of our 5 day workshops on: * An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative * Working with TEI Texts (Advanced) * An Introduction to Digital Humanities Tools and Approaches * A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking, Querying and Visualisation on the Semantic Web Each day will also contain plenary guest lectures by experts in their fields, plus a number of sessions on a wide variety of Digital Humanities topics. There will be morning surgery sessions to discuss projects and possibilities with tutors. The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), with the assistance of the Humanities Division, the Bodleian Library, the Oxford Internet Institute, and e-Research South. The Summer School will be located at Merton College, OUCS, and the OeRC, all of which situated in the centre of the city of Oxford, UK. Booking for this event will open in April 2012 and more information can be found at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/ including a general outline of the schedule, workshop descriptions, and registration fees. Further information will be published there as it becomes available. courses(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk @dhoxss on twitter

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