dm-l September 2012

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Workshop “Historical Documents in the Digital Age”, 25th-26th October 2012 – University of Rouen
by Dominique Stutzmann 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Workshop “Historical Documents in the Digital Age”, 25th-26th October 2012 – University of Rouen <http://www.docexplore.eu/?p=328> ******************************************************* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / APPEL A PARTICIPATION Historical Documents in the Digital Age 25th-26th october 2012 – University of Rouen http://hdda2012.sciencesconf.org/ ******************************************************* (French version below / Version française ci-dessous) **Purpose The aim of the Workshop is to bring together those whose professional work involves the study of historical documents or who have a responsibility for increasing their accessibility, with technologists developing techniques to support the analysis and management of digital documents. The Workshop will encourage a greater understanding of how these two communities can work productively together and how crossing the traditional disciplinary boundaries can create opportunities for supporting better historical research while also increasing the general public ‘s awareness of their rich cultural heritage. This workshop should be interesting for: * Historians and others interested in sharing their experiences of document analysis with scientists developing computer-based tools to support such activities. * Those who have a responsibility for preserving and managing historical documents and making them available both to specialists using them for research and detailed study, and the general public seeking to benefit from the rich cultural legacy embodied by such documents. * Scientists and engineers developing advanced technologies in areas such as image processing, pattern recognition and digital media engineering relevant to document analysis. The workshop will provide an opportunity for a diverse range of researchers and other professionals, including end users, to share experiences and explore ideas at the crossroads of traditional disciplinary boundaries, otherwise barriers to rapid progress in improving the accessibility of documents which can contribute so fundamentally to an understanding of our cultural heritage. For each session of the workshop, we invited European specialists of the field to share their experience of the domain, as an opening for an open debate with all attendants. The workshop is opened to all, we only require those wishing to attend to freely register on the website before October 17th in order to manage the logistical constraints of the venue. The languages of the workshop will be French and English, with simultaneous translation provided. **Program Session 1 : La gestion des collections à l'ère du numérique / Libraries and archives in the Digital Age * Matthieu Bonicel, BNF, Paris * Jean-François Moufflet, Archives de France, Paris * Alixe Bovey, CMEMS, University of Kent or Cressida Williams, CCA Session 2 : Des outils informatiques pour transcrire et indexer / Digital tools for annotating and indexing * Alison Wiggins, CELL, Glasgow * Marçal Rusinol, CVC, Barcelona * Frank Lebourgeois, LIRIS, Lyon * Stéphane Nicolas, LITIS, Rouen Session 3 : Paléographie numérique / Digital paleography * Marc Smith, Ecole des Chartes * Véronique Eglin, LIRIS, Lyon * Elisabeth Lalou, GRHIS, Rouen * Richard Guest, EDA, University of Kent Session 4 : Les nouvelles modalités pour la valorisation du patrimoine / ICT in Cultural Heritage * Clive Izard, British Library, London * Oliver Hitchcock, VirtuaSense, Rouen * Alexandre Chautemps, labo BnF, Paris * Clotilde Vaissaire-Agard, CF2ID Session 5: Les humanités numériques: réalité ou fiction ? / Digital Humanities: present and future * Dominique Stutzmann, IRHT, Paris * Melissa Terras, UCL, London * Alison Wiggins, CELL, Glasgow * discussion ouverte / round table **Registration The workshop is opened to all, we only require those wishing to attend to freely register on the website before October 17th in order to manage the logistical constraints of the venue. The languages of the workshop will be French and English, with simultaneous translation provided. **Organizing committee The workshop is organized by the InterReg IVa DocExplore project ( www.docexplore.eu <http://www.docexplore.eu/www.docexplore.eu>), a collaboration between computer scientists, historians and archivists, on both sides of the Channel, to build a software suite. This suite is aimed at both historians and librarians, providing transcription and multimedia annotation functionalities, from which interactive books can be produced to reach a broader audience. Contact : hdda2012(a)sciencesconf.org<http://www.docexplore.eu/hdda2012@sciencesconf.org> ******************************************************* APPEL À PARTICIPATION Historical Documents in the Digital Age Documents historiques à l’ère numérique 25-26 octobre 2012 – Université de Rouen http://hdda2012.sciencesconf.org/ ******************************************************* **Propos Comment plonger les documents historiques dans l’ère numérique ? Les photographier est une première étape non triviale mais clairement insuffisante. Comment à partir des masses d’images ainsi produites obtenir des documents numériques ? Comment les annoter, les transcrire, analyser leur structure ? Comment gérer leur nombre, comment améliorer leur accessibilité ? Le but du séminaire *Historical Documents in the Digital Age* est de faire un point entre historiens, conservateurs, bibliothécaires, et informaticiens sur ces questions complexes. Pour ce faire, nous avons invité différents spécialistes européens de ces problèmes à faire le bilan de leurs expériences, d’une manière accessible à tous. Ces exposés seront un prélude à des discussions thématiques que nous souhaitons fructueuses, confrontant les différentes perceptions des participants sur ces problèmes communs. **Programme Session 1 : La gestion des collections à l'ère du numérique / Libraries and archives in the Digital Age * Matthieu Bonicel, BNF, Paris * Jean-François Moufflet, Archives de France, Paris * Alixe Bovey, CMEMS, University of Kent or Cressida Williams, CCA Session 2 : Des outils informatiques pour transcrire et indexer / Digital tools for annotating and indexing * Alison Wiggins, CELL, Glasgow * Marçal Rusinol, CVC, Barcelona * Frank Lebourgeois, LIRIS, Lyon * Stéphane Nicolas, LITIS, Rouen Session 3 : Paléographie numérique / Digital paleography * Marc Smith, Ecole des Chartes * Véronique Eglin, LIRIS, Lyon * Elisabeth Lalou, GRHIS, Rouen * Richard Guest, EDA, University of Kent Session 4 : Les nouvelles modalités pour la valorisation du patrimoine / ICT in Cultural Heritage * Clive Izard, British Library, London * Oliver Hitchcock, VirtuaSense, Rouen * Alexandre Chautemps, labo BnF, Paris * Clotilde Vaissaire-Agard, CF2ID Session 5: Les humanités numériques: réalité ou fiction ? / Digital Humanities: present and future * Dominique Stutzmann, IRHT, Paris * Melissa Terras, UCL, London * Alison Wiggins, CELL, Glasgow * discussion ouverte / round table **Inscription Pour assister à cette conférence, vous devez vous inscrire gratuitement sur le site web de la conférence avant le *17 octobre*. Repas et pauses cafés vous sont offertes, mais nous avons besoin d'un nombre ferme et définitif suffisamment longtemps à l'avance pour pouvoir passer commande. Si vous ne vous êtes pas inscrits avant le 17 octobre, vous ne pourrez pas participer aux repas. Le campus fournit néanmoins de nombreuses possibilités de restauration par vos propres moyens. **Comité d'organisation Ce séminaire est organisé par le projet Interreg IVa DocExplore ( www.docexplore.eu), auquel participent des historiens, des bibliothécaires et des informaticiens, français et anglais, qui vise à la construction d’une suite logicielle. Cette suite est destinée aux historiens comme aux bibliothécaires, elle facilite annotations multimédia et transcriptions, mais permet également à partir de celles-ci la création de feuilleteurs à destination par exemple d'un plus grand public. Contact : hdda2012(a)sciencesconf.org M. Dominique Stutzmann Chargé de recherche à l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (CNRS, UPR 841) http://www.irht.cnrs.fr Chargé de conférences à l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr Membre du bureau exécutif de Digital Medievalist http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

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NDSU Job posting for medievalist with digital humanities experience
by Michael L Widner 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Passing this one along: "The North Dakota State University Department of English seeks and Assistant Professor tenure track in Medieval literature beginning August 2013 to teach Medieval literature / Chaucer / Early British Survey and other general education courses, produce published scholarship, and contribute to the English department’s undergraduate and MA/PhD programs. Duties: 2/2 course load, conducting research, serving on appropriate committees, supervising graduate research, and curricular development. " One of the desired specialities is digital humanities. Here's the posting: http://www.ndsu.edu/english/medieval_specialist_search/ Mike -- Michael Widner Ph.D. candidate, Department of English The University of Texas at Austin PAR 108, Mailcode B5000 Austin, TX 78712

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Job: the Semantic Web, metadata schemas and Web site development
by Takako Kato 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. Two post-doctoral Research Fellow positions are available at De Montfort University, Leicester, to work on the AHRC funded FuzzyPhoto project that is developing and testing computer-based “finding aids” for recommending potential matches between historical photographic exhibition catalogue records and images of photographs that appear in online collections. One will have a knowledge of the Semantic Web, metadata schemas and Web site development, the other will be responsible for investigating and trialling modern database engines and management systems. For further details see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFD578/research-fellow-semantic-web/ and http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFD581/research-fellow-data-warehousing/ Closing Date: 30 September 2012 Interview Date: 9 October 2012 Thanks and best wishes, Tak -- -------------------------- Dr Takako Kato TakakoKato123(a)gmail.com TKato(a)dmu.ac.uk School of Humanities Clephan Building De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH, UK

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In the Denver, CO, area? THATCamp in November
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

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Registration Opens for DigiPal Symposium...
by Brookes, Stewart 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Opens for "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DigiPal One-Day Symposium Date: 22nd November 2012, Venue: University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, W1W 6UW (Room CLG.09) Time: 9.30am-5.30pm The DigiPal team (http://digipal.eu/) at King's College London are delighted to announce that registration is now open for their second symposium. If you haven't pre-reserved a place, you can register by emailing digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk<http://kcl.ac.uk/> This year's theme is the implications of the increasing reliance of the scholarly community upon digital images and technologies. Bringing together art historians, palaeographers, medievalists and the Digital Humanities, the symposium will share theoretical approaches and methodologies and, crucially, test prevalent assumptions. ------------------------------- Invited speakers include ------------------------------- Marc Michael Epstein (Vassar College) Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds) Melissa Terras (University College London) Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) ------------------------ Proposing a paper ------------------------ It is still not too late to propose a paper. For details, see http://www.digipal.eu/blogs/news/digipal-cfp/ The deadline for the receipt of submissions is 10.23pm on Friday 14th September 2012 We look forward to hearing from you, Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes -- DigiPal, taking each day one folio at a time: http://digipal.eu/ Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London

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Digital Philology Releases Inaugural Issue
by Albert Lloret 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross posting. I am pleased to announce that Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures has released its inaugural issue. This new venue for medieval studies published by the Johns Hopkins University Press is accessible through Project Muse. You may reach Digital Philology's webpage, which includes the most current Call for Submissions at: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html . You may access the first issue of the journal through your library's subscription to Project Muse at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/toc/dph.1.1.html . The HTML version of the Founding Editors' editorial statement is available open access at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/v001/1.1.nichols.html . All Best, Albert Lloret Albert Lloret, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Spanish and Portuguese University of Massachusetts 433 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 Managing Editor Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html>

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Schoenberg Symposium Announcement
by Lynn Ransom 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

*****With apologies for cross-posting***** 5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age November 16-17, 2012 Taxonomies of Knowledge In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are pleased to announce the 5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium considers the role of the manuscript in organizing and classifying knowledge. Like today's electronic databases, the medieval manuscript helped readers access, process, and analyze the information contained within the covers of a book. The papers presented at this symposium will examine this aspect of the manuscript book through a variety of topics, including the place of the medieval library in manuscript culture, the rise and fall of the 12th-century commentary tradition, diagrams, devotional practice, poetics, and the organization and use of encyclopedias and lexicons. Participants include: * Katharine Breen, Northwestern University * Mary Franklin-Brown, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities * Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford * Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London * William Noel, University of Pennsylvania * Eric Ramirez-Weaver, University of Virginia * Lesley Smith, University of Oxford * Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania * Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania * Sergei Tourkin, McGill University * Joanna Weinburg, University of Oxford For more information and registration, go to: <http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium5.html> http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium5.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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TEI Conference 2012: Late-breaking call
by Elena Pierazzo 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

With usual apologies for cross-posting ======================== As in the previous years, the Programme Committee for the TEI Members Meeting in College Station (Texas) has reserved some limited slots on the program for late breaking submissions. Please notice that these submissions, although evaluated by the programme committee, do not undergo the normal peer review process and therefore will only be considered for inclusion in the conference proceedings after further peer review. Otherwise the requirements and proposal formats are very similar; details of the call for paper can be found at the conference web page http://idhmc.tamu.edu/teiconference/ We hope that the announcement of this possibility will come as a relief to those who missed the deadline of the first round of submissions, but still would like to have a chance to contribute to the program of the meeting. The deadline for late breaking submissions is the 1st of October 2012. You can submit your proposal via conftool: http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ There will also be an exciting slate of pre-conference workshops to be announced really soon now, so please watch this space, or the conference website for further information. For the programme committee, Elena Pierazzo -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Chair of the Teaching Committee Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo(a)kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh

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Humanities Hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the Reinvention of the Edition in a Digital Space
by Monica Berti 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

Hi All, Apologies for cross-postings. I am very pleased to send you the RFP of "The Banquet of the Digital Scholars", a humanities hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the reinvention of the edition in a digital space, which will be held at the University of Leipzig on October 10-12, 2012. For further details, please visit http://www.e-humanities.net/events/athenaeus-hackathon.html All the best, Monica Berti ____________________________ The Banquet of the Digital Scholars. Humanities Hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the Reinvention of the Edition in a Digital Space October 10-12, 2012 Universität Leipzig (ULEI) & Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) Berlin Co-directors: Monica Berti - Marco Büchler - Gregory Crane - Bridget Almas The University of Leipzig will host a hackathon that addresses two basic tasks. On the one hand, we will focus upon the challenges of creating a digital edition for the Greek author Athenaeus, whose work cites more than a thousand earlier sources and is one of the major sources for lost works of Greek poetry and prose. At the same time, we use the case Athenaeus to develop our understanding of to organize a truly born-digital edition, one that not only includes machine actionable citations and variant readings but also collations of multiple print editions, metrical analyses, named entity identification, linguistic features such as morphology, syntax, word sense, and co-reference analysis, and alignment between the Greek original and one or more later translations. Request for Proposal Program 2 days: hands-on hackathon 1 day: eTRACES techniques (Usage of the Text re-use Webdebugger and the annotation framework for text re-use) Registration Deadline September 30, 2012 Requirements / Who should apply TEI XML competence is prerequisite. Participants can establish this by going through http://balmas.github.com/tei-digital-age/ Language skills in ancient Greek maximum 25 students How to apply Please visit www.e-humanities.net Contact address hackathon(a)e-humanities.net Overview The Deipnosophists (Δειπνοσοφισταί, or “Banquet of the Sophists”) by Athenaeus of Naucratis is a 3rd century AD fictitious account of several banquet conversations on food, literature, and arts held in Rome by twenty-two learned men. This complex and fascinating work is not only an erudite and literary encyclopedia of a myriad of curiosities about classical antiquity, but also an invaluable collection of quotations and text re-uses of ancient authors, ranging from Homer to tragic and comic poets and lost historians. Since the large majority of the works cited by Athenaeus is nowadays lost, this compilation is a sort of reference tool for every scholar of Greek theater, poetry, historiography, botany, zoology, and many other topics. Athenaeus’ work is a mine of thousands of quotations, but we still lack a comprehensive survey of its sources. The aim of this “humanities hackathon” is to provide a case study for drawing a spectrum of quoting habits of classical authors and their attitude to text reuse. Athenaeus, in fact, shapes a library of forgotten authors, which goes beyond the limits of a physical building and becomes an intellectual space of human knowledge. By doing so, he is both a witness of the Hellenistic bibliographical methods and a forerunner of the modern concept of hypertext, where sequential reading is substituted by hierarchical and logical connections among words and fragments of texts. Quantity, variety, and precision of Athenaeus’ citations make the Deipnosophists an excellent training ground for the development of a digital system of reference linking for primary sources. Athenaeus’ standard citation includes (a) the name of the author with additional information like ethnic origin and literary category, (b) the title of the work, and (c) the book number (e.g., Deipn. 2.71b). He often remembers the amount of papyrus scrolls of huge works (e.g., 6.229d-e; 6.249a), while distinguishing various editions of the same comedy (e.g., 1.29a; 4.171c; 6.247c; 7.299b; 9.367f) and different titles of the same work (e.g., 1.4e). He also adds biographical information to identify homonymous authors and classify them according to literary genres, intellectual disciplines and schools (e.g., 1.13b; 6.234f; 9.387b). He provides chronological and historical indications to date authors (e.g., 10.453c; 13.599c), and he often copies the first lines of a work following a method that probably goes back to the Pinakes of Callimachus (e.g., 1.4e; 3.85f; 8.342d; 5.209f; 13.573f-574a). Last but not least, the study of Athenaeus’ “citation system” is also a great methodological contribution to the domain of “fragmentary literature”, since one of the main concerns of this field is the relation between the fragment (quotation) and its context of transmission. Having this goal in mind, the textual analysis of the Deipnosophists will make possible to enumerate a series of recurring patterns, which include a wide typology of textual reproductions and linguistic features helpful to identify and classify hidden quotations of lost authors. Goals This humanities hackathon is meant as a mini-course for training participants in editing Athenaeus’ work and his quotations, focusing on these topics: marking up quotations and text re-uses in Athenaeus annotating syntax and aligning translation of Athenaeus’ text using Athenaeus as a way to demonstrate the new Perseus SoSOL (http://sosol.perseus.tufts.edu/sosol/) Greek OCR on Athenaeus’ editions identifying and investigating quotations and text re-uses of Homer and Plato by Athenaeus comparing the ways in which Athenaeus and Plutarch quotes Homer and Plato; the goal is to use the computer to investigate how stable is an author’s re-use style in different sources results of this Hackathon will be made publicly available under CC licence Applications should be sent to hackathon(a)e-humanities.net

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