dm-l June 2012

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Reminder: Last Day! DM Board Elections Open! Vote Now!
by James Cummings 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

The DM Board elections are still open until midnight tonight (UK Time). Vote now! If you get this email, you are allowed and encouraged to vote! For those who haven't looked at the ballot yet, the candidates are: Alexei Lavrentiev (ICAR, CNRS & Lyon University) Barbara Bordalejo (University Saskatchewan) Grant Simpson (Indiana University) Orietta Da Rold (University of Leicester) Takako Kato (De Montfort University) Timoty Leonardi (Capitulary Library of Vercelli) Toby Burrows (University of Western Australia) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Cummings <James.Cummings(a)digitalmedievalist.org> Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:03 PM Subject: DM Board Elections Open! Vote Now! To: Digital Medievalist list <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Dear DM-L subscribers, The Digital Medievalist Executive Board elections are now open. To vote, please fill in the brief survey at: http://surveymonkey.com/s/DM-elections2012 You do _not_ have to be a medievalist to vote, nor highly technical. If you are on the DM-L mailing list (where this message has been posted), then that is the only qualification needed to vote. The only information we ask is to confirm the email address you are subscribed with and choose (up to four) candidates to vote for. There is an optional question for feedback about DM at the end. The biographies of the candidates are available on the survey page. Any personal information will be deleted afterwards. We have a good slate of seven candidates with a wide range of experience to choose from. The DM Executive Board is responsible for the running of DM and the day-to-day management of its outputs such as the journal, wiki, this mailing list, and conference sessions. One of the first tasks of the new DM Board will be to choose a new director (potentially from among one of the newly elected members). The survey will close at midnight GMT at the end of: Friday 29 June 2012. James Cummings Dominique Stutzmann election(a)digitalmedievalist.org

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Summer School "Digital Edition - Advances Methods and Technologies", 8.-12.10.2012
by Georg Vogeler 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Dear list members, the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) organized together with the Institut für Germanistik of TU Chemnitz a Summer School *Digital Editing – Advanced Methods and Technologies* It takes place 8. – 12. October 2012 in Chemnitz (Germany) The school adresses scholars working on any kind of edition (historical, philological) who have already a basic experience in the concepts and standard technologies of digital editing. It deals with sofwarte tools and more complex coding schemes and techniques zu preparte and in particular publish their editions. The teaching language will be German. Further informations (progam, modalities of inscription) can be found at <http://www.i-d-e.de/school1210> We are looking forward to your inscriptions -- Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenchaften - Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz <http://www.uni-graz.at/zim/> Merangasse 70 - A - 8010 Graz Tel. +43 316 380 8033 Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de> Association Paléographique Internationale - Culture . Ecriture . Société (APICES) <http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm> International Center for Archival Reserach (ICARus) <http://www.icar-us.eu>

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Digital Medievalist Elections Open! Vote Now!
by Digital Medievalist » News: James-C 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

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DM Board Elections Open! Vote Now!
by James Cummings 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Dear DM-L subscribers, The Digital Medievalist Executive Board elections are now open. To vote, please fill in the brief survey at: http://surveymonkey.com/s/DM-elections2012 You do _not_ have to be a medievalist to vote, nor highly technical. If you are on the DM-L mailing list (where this message has been posted), then that is the only qualification needed to vote. The only information we ask is to confirm the email address you are subscribed with and choose (up to four) candidates to vote for. There is an optional question for feedback about DM at the end. The biographies of the candidates are available on the survey page. Any personal information will be deleted afterwards. We have a good slate of seven candidates with a wide range of experience to choose from. The DM Executive Board is responsible for the running of DM and the day-to-day management of its outputs such as the journal, wiki, this mailing list, and conference sessions. One of the first tasks of the new DM Board will be to choose a new director (potentially from among one of the newly elected members). The survey will close at midnight GMT at the end of: Friday 29 June 2012. James Cummings Dominique Stutzmann election(a)digitalmedievalist.org

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Introduction: Robert D. Peckham
by Bob Peckham 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

This is my first list message. I am Robert D. Peckham (common net handle = TennesseeBob). I am not an expert in the production of facsimiles or "surrogates". As a French teacher at the University of Tennessee at Martin, I manage the Muriel Thomlinson Language Resource Center. For about a year, we ran MkLinux.org until it moved out to California. As a scholar, my area is medieval French, and I am founder/webmaster of Société François Villon, which has a yearly online bibliography. I have taken on a medieval manuscript project for the Andy Holt Virtual Library. In the larger project Web for Medieval Source-based Textual Scholarship http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/codicol.shtml I simply wanted to link lessons and discussions about codecology and paleography, along with digitized manuscript facsimiles. I had hoped to be able to find some that the UCLA team had not, with Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/mdmss.shtml In July at the AATF convention in Chicago, I will be presenting the only part of this that I am really qualified to do: Manuscripts of Medieval France with Vernacular Texts http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/frmedmss.shtml This is a work in progress, and I have been taking advice from colleagues on MEDTEXTL, researchers in a European Research Council Project, editors with Libraria, Pecia and Archivalia, basically anyone with the tolerance to answer questions. TennesseeBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D. Professor of French Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques University of Tennessee at Martin Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-gate Intercultural Web Project

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DDH London Meeting 27 June
by Richard Lewis 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

With apologies for cross posting. Decoding Digital Humanities (DDH) London will be meeting again on * Wednesday 27 June 18:00 * at The Jeremy Bentham, 31 University St., WC1E 6JL (Please note the change of venue; in fact, back to where it all started!) This month we will be reading: Steve Anderson. "Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History". In Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson (eds.) Interactive Frictions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (forthcoming). <http://www.technohistory.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Anderson_Past_Indis…> Please feel free to disseminate this announcement. We look forward to seeing you there. Best wishes, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London t: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 j: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li @: lewisrichard s: richardjlewis http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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best practice: photographc facsimile?
by Birnbaum, David J 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

Dear Digital Medievalist, For a couple of new Internet editions of medieval manuscripts I've procured high-resolution tiff images, which I'm publishing with a "magnifying glass" overlay. This is in a "responsive" context, so the components of the page, including the images, resize to fit the window dimensions. There's a sample at: http://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/pages/supr001r.html The current images were prepared quickly for a demo, and are not of consistent size or resolution. I would now like to go back to get this part of the site up to production quality, and I would be grateful for advice about how to manage the images, an area where I don't have much (= any) knowledge of best practice. I'd like small image files that load quickly, and I think I don't mind slightly lossy compression if that would reduce the file size substantially--but if that's a mistake, I'd be grateful for a warning. I think there are two questions: 1. What's an appropriate file format and resolution (size, dpi, color depth, etc.) for the base image, the one that is displayed in full to the right of the transcription, and that resizes as the user resizes the window? Currently the image files are in jpg format and vary in size from about 2M down to 250k. I can regenerate them all at a common size, resolution, color depth, etc. from the original tiffs, but I don't know whether there is any sense of best practice concerning what that size should be. If I go the lossy route, what's a reasonable value? 2. What's an appropriate degree of magnification for the magnifying-glass inset view? Currently the magnifying glass inset always shows the image at 200% of the actual file size (not the size of the page as displayed without magnification in the browser window!). You can see the difference by comparing, say, folio 30v (about 2MB) to 284r (about 270k), where the magnification is much greater in the former than the latter. I can set the level of magnification anywhere I'd like, but is there any agreement about best practice here? By way of orientation in the question: the purpose of the full image is to allow the user to see the image conveniently alongside the transcription, verifying any moments where our editorial judgment might appear surprising or questionable. The point of the magnified inset is to let the user examine details that may not be visible at lesser magnification, such as erasures, corrections, etc. My casual impression is that 30v looks pretty good and loads reasonably quickly (although quicker would be better), but I don't place great confidence in my own casual impressions. Thanks, David djbpitt(a)pitt.edu

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Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation
by Dot Porter 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

(Apologies for cross-posting) We are very pleased to announce that, following a one-year planning grant, the Mellon Foundation has awarded the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) a three-year implementation grant. MESA serves two related purposes: to develop a federation of digital medieval resources, and to provide peer review for scholarly digital projects in all areas of medieval studies. MESA is a federation both in the sense of a community - of scholars, librarians, and students developing and using digital resources - and as a website that federates disparate collections and projects. The website will provide a search across various types of resources spanning the disciplines, geographical areas, and temporal spans that make up the Middle Ages, in the broadest sense. MESA joins with Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online (www.nines.org), 18thConnect (www.18thconnect.org), and the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) project as a node of the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC). ARC is a developing organization, centered at Texas A&M University and directed by Laura Mandell, which serves to provide support for the constituent nodes. This support includes coordination, sustainability, and scalability by providing shared infrastructure - including development of the COLLEX platform and maintenance of a shared catalog including metadata from objects represented in all the nodes. During the second half of 2012, we will be loading the first group of 12 resources into the MESA website. The site will launch with those resources in late 2012. At the same time we will be developing our procedures and policies for including other resources in the site. We have already started compiling a list of projects and collections that we would like to include in MESA in the second phase of the project (after the initial launch). If you have a project that you would like to see included in MESA, please contact us. MESA Co-Directors Dot Porter, Indiana University Bloomington Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University MESA federation blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ Press Release from NCSU: http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/technology/wms-medieval-online/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Monastic Manuscript Project
by Albrecht Diem 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Dear digital medieval colleagues: I am new to this list and would like to introduce the project I am currently working on: I try to document the manuscript transmission of late antique and early medieval monastic texts. I especially focus on monastic rules and on understudied texts with a wide dissemination. As a side product I collected links to all catalogues of medieval manuscripts that are online or available on archive org - which turned out to be a rather useful tool. I am also collecting links to ongoing digital manuscript projects. Especially for these pages I would be very happy to get some input from you. Here are the links: http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/index.html http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/Catalogues-of-Latin-Manuscripts.html http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/listoflinks.html#Digital Have a great summer! Albrecht Albrecht Diem Dept. of History Syracuse University

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Seminar: Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

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