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DiXiT - Marie Curie fellowships now open for application
by Franz Fischer 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

** Apologies for cross-posting ** The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) offers 12 Marie Curie fellowships to early stage researchers (ESRs) for a period of 3 years and 5 Marie Curie fellowships to experienced researchers (ERs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. Fellowships are now open for applications. For details visit: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html Please circulate widely! About DiXiT: DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network) is an international network of high-profile institutions from the public and the private sector that are actively involved in the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. DiXiT offers a coordinated training and research programme for early stage researchers and experienced researchers in the multi-disciplinary skills, technologies, theories, and methods of digital scholarly editing. DiXiT is funded under Marie Curie Actions within the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme and runs from September 2013 until August 2017. For more information visit the DiXiT website: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de APPLICATION Academic Requirements: Early-Stage Researchers must be in the first 4 years of their research careers and not yet have a doctoral degree. This is measured from the date when they obtained the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate, irrespective of whether or not a doctorate is envisaged. Experienced Researchers must be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience. At the time of recruitment by the host organisation an experienced researcher must also have less than 5 years of full-time equivalent research experience. It should be noted that an individual researcher may not be recruited first as an ESR and subsequently as an ER in the same project. Marie Curie ITN mobility requirement: Researchers can be of any nationality. They are required to undertake trans-national mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) when taking up their appointment. One general rule applies to the appointment of researchers: At the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Short stays such as holidays and/or compulsory national service are not taken into account. Application process: Please note that applications from any qualified applicants, regardless of gender, ethnicity or country of origin are welcome if they meet the eligibility requirements. Applicants should send their applications directly to the institution hosting the desired fellowship. Applications for more than one post are welcome – however, multiple applications should be indicated via the obligatory DiXiT application form (which has to be submitted separately from the application documents send to the hosting institution). Application deadline: The deadline for applications is the 10th December 2013. Please note that the four remaining ER fellowships will start at a later date and the possibility of application will be announced accordingly. For further details visit http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 Email: franz.fischer(a)uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de http://www.i-d-e.de http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de http://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de http://confessio.ie

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this week's blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip gilds the Lilly... http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/manuscript-road-trip-gil… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Acting Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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CeRch Seminar: Thinking Big: escaping the Small Data fallacy in Historical Linguistics
by kcl - cerch 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Thinking Big: escaping the Small Data fallacy in Historical Linguistics (Gard Jenset and Barbara McGillivray, University of Oxford/University of Bergen/Oxford University Press) Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348441413 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: Historical Linguistics studies the evolution of historical languages and earlier stages of living languages. By necessity, historical linguistics has traditionally been based on the analytical study of exemplars from written collections of texts. Given the technological constraints and the aims of historical comparative philology of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the reliance on qualitative assessment of a few exemplars was justified. Towards the end of the last century, formalized collections of texts known as corpora bloomed with the advent of computer technology. This made it feasible to automatically create very large corpora (> 100 million words), annotate them various linguistic information, and efficiently search and systematically retrieve information from them. However, technological advances can only change a field if they find their place in an appropriate methodological framework. The qualitative methods of comparative philology (manually searching for exemplars) underutilize the information available in today's historical corpora, and contemporary historical linguistics is still largely based on the traditional methodology. Few things are more commonly taken for granted in historical linguistics than the assumption that the researcher should eyeball every piece of data relevant to her analysis. We disagree with this position, which we will henceforth refer to as the Small Data Fallacy. Instead, we believe that methods inspired by Big Data can and should influence Historical Linguistics, and that such a move would entail a qualitative leap forwards in Historical Linguistics research methods. We will discuss some of the benefits, challenges, and limitations of applying the Big Data framework to historical linguistics. We will also touch upon the impact this would have on the fundamental aims of Historical Linguistics in the21st century. Bios: Gard Jenset is a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford, with research interests in historical corpus linguistics, corpora in ELT, statistics and quantitative research methods in linguistics, corpus methods for semantics and cognitive linguistics. Barbara McGillivray is a computational linguist, and works as a language engineer in the Dictionary Department of Oxford University Press. She holds a PhD in computational linguistics form the University of Pisa. Her research interests include: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Latin computational linguistics, quantitative historical linguistics, and computational lexicography. NB This seminar will not be live-streamed.

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Fwd: [Adabiyat] Webcast: Conference on the Digital Humanities + Islamic & Middle East Studies
by Evyn Kropf 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

FYI, with apologies for duplication Programme and links to live webcasts at http://islamichumanities.org/conference2013/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elias Muhanna <qifanabki(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:12 PM Subject: [Adabiyat] Webcast: Conference on the Digital Humanities + Islamic & Middle East Studies To: adabiyat(a)lists.uchicago.edu Dear colleagues, On October 24-25, Brown University will be hosting an international Conference on the Digital Humanities + Islamic & Middle East Studies. The complete program may be found at the conference website, where you may also view a live web-cast of the presentations. Please feel free to circulate this announcement to interested colleagues. Best wishes, Elias Muhanna -- Elias Muhanna Assistant Professor Comparative Literature & Middle East Studies Brown University elias_muhanna(a)brown.edu qifanabki.com ***************************************************************************** Adabiyat list for Middle Eastern Literary Traditions Post message via email: adabiyat(a)lists.uchicago.edu Post via web: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/compose_mail/adabiyat List Info: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/adabiyat Archives: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/arc/adabiyat ______________________________________________________

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2nd AIUCD Annual Conference 2013
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

[As usual apologies for cross-posting] ------------------------------------------------ 2nd AIUCD Annual Conference 2013 on Collaborative Research Practices and Shared Infrastructures for Humanities Computing 11-12 December 2013 Hosted by the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università degli studi di Padova Via Gradenigo, 6/B — 35131 Padova Italy http://www.dei.unipd.it/wdyn/?IDsezione=4448 Call for papers The AIUCD (Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) invites submissions of abstracts (max 4 pages/2000 words) for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. We particularly welcome submissions on interdisciplinary work and new developments in the field, and encourage proposals relating to the theme of the conference, or more specifically: Interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity Legal and economyc issues Tools and collaborative methodologies Measurement and impact of collaborative methodologies Sharing and collaboration methods and approaches Cultural institutions and collaborative facilities Infrastructures and digital libraries as collaborative environments Data, resources, and technologies sharing. The deadline for submitting papers to the Programme Committee is midnight CET (Central European Time), 15 November 2013. All submissions will be reviewed by the AIUCD Programme Committee and appointed external reviewers. Submissions have to be submitted using EasyChair and uploaded online at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiucd2013 Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 29 November 2013. R -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Studi rosselli at ling.unipi.it Umanistici Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)

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Fwd: Global Digital Library Symposium @ UVA, Oct. 31-Nov. 1
by Dot Porter 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

This may be of interest to those on the list who are in the mid-Atlantic. Medieval manuscripts will be discussed! *** http://www.rarebookschool.org/globaldigitallibraries/ Global Digital Libraries A symposium sponsored by Rare Book School, the Scholars' Lab, and the Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the Humanities at the Institute of the Humanities & Global Culture University libraries and humanities centers are shifting many resources toward the development of digital libraries and archives, intended to foster scholarly research in networks that span both national and financial borders. Large-scale projects along these lines, such as Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America, have developed out of academic discussions and endeavors initiated by professors and librarians. At the same time, large-scale, international, collaborative initiatives present new organizational challenges for humanities departments and research libraries alike. This symposium will explore and critique the kinds of models that have emerged for building global digital libraries, and the kinds of comparative research that have been made possible through them. The symposium is intended for digital humanists from departments throughout the UVA community and beyond, and is designed to contribute to UVA's strategic planning and development of ongoing and emerging global projects to digitize and interpret collections. The symposium will also foster collaborative relationships among UVA and other research centers that are helping to form global digital libraries. Events Wednesday, 30 October 10:00–11:00 am | Public lecture by Dot Porter. Scholars' Lab, 421 Alderman Library. Thursday, 31 October 12:00–1:30 pm | Luncheon and round-table discussion moderated by Will Noel and Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Limited to 24 participants. Rare Book School, 112 Alderman Library. 5:30 pm | Public lecture by Will Noel: "Global Digital Libraries: Some Principles and an Idea." This lecture will question the notion of digital surrogacy, discuss best practices for the presentation of digital information on books, and look at exploiting digital technologies to further the study of book archaeology. Auditorium of the Harrison Institute and Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Reception to follow at Rare Book School, 112 Alderman Library. Friday, 1 November 2:00–4:00 pm | Workshop led by Will Noel and Dot Porter: "Disbinding All the Books in the World." Using the combined skill sets of Rare Book School, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, and the Scholars Lab, this workshop will sketch out what needs to be done to enable the virtual disbinding of all digitized books openly available in standard formats. The takeaway will be a blueprint for building such a tool. Limited to 24 participants. Rare Book School, 112 Alderman Library. Registration To register for the luncheon and/or symposium workshop, please fill out the registration form. Registration for the luncheon and workshop is limited, so don't delay: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T6CCKZ2 Symposium Presenters Will Noel is Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, before which he worked at The Walters Art Museum as Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books. Among his books are The Harley Psalter (1995), The Oxford Bible Pictures (2005), and The Archimedes Codex (2007). An advocate for open manuscript data, during his tenure the Walters began to release full digital surrogates of its illuminated medieval manuscripts under a creative commons license. Will was a 2012 TED speaker, and in 2013 was honored as a White House Open Science Champion for Change. He has been a member of the Rare Book School faculty since 2005. Dot Porter is the Curator of Digital Research Services in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania. Dot holds Masters degrees in medieval studies and library science, and started her career working on image-based digital editions of medieval manuscripts. She has worked on a variety of projects, focusing on materials as diverse as ancient texts and Russian religious folklore, providing both technical support and scholarly expertise. Her research focuses on medievalists' use of digital resources. At Penn, she both provides general digital humanities support for faculty and graduate students, and plays with digitized medieval manuscripts. Michael F. Suarez, S.J. is the Director of Rare Book School, and a University Professor with a separate appointment as Professor in UVA's English department. In addition, he serves as Honorary Curator of UVA's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections department. Suarez's most recent publication is The Book: A Global History (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2013). He is co-Editor (with H. R. Woudhuysen) of The Oxford Companion to the Book (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-General Editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Internationally known for his work on both printed and digital materials, he is Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, a major digital undertaking (2010–2020) of Oxford University Press. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Update | Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan
by Evyn Kropf 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

*Please excuse cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, Earlier this year, we at the University of Michigan Library concluded a collaborative project to realize the cataloguing of our Islamic Manuscripts Collection. 883 new catalogue records were created in the course of the project representing 1447 titles in 877 volumes, 2 rolls, and 3 single leaves. Another 21 manuscript descriptions were significantly enhanced. While in the end most of the cataloguing was done by the project cataloguer, we are grateful to all who contributed remotely and locally, especially our local project staff who worked on manuscripts not yet digitized (http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/progress). We are pleased to report that the entire collection is thus fully catalogued with detailed, searchable descriptions for each manuscript appearing in the online Library catalogue, Mirlyn (http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/). The catalogue records should also appear soon in OCLC’s WorldCat. Further, descriptions and complete digital surrogates for 912 manuscripts from the collection appear in the online catalogue of the HathiTrust Digital Library (http://hathitrust.org/). To assist with navigating the collection and descriptive data, a research guide has been created with details on the collection history, size, and scope, as well as strategies for locating manuscripts of interest, instructions for viewing manuscripts in the Library, and advice on locating, viewing and downloading digitized manuscripts: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/islamicmss This guide will be enhanced and updated periodically as we continue to develop the collection. In addition, a research guide on Islamic Manuscript Studies has been created with more general advice on identifying and locating manuscripts, an introduction to palaeography and manuscript description, bibliographical resources and reading lists, as well as listings of digitized manuscripts and online catalogues with links and descriptions, a selection of the largest collections of Islamic manuscripts held in North America having some sort of web presence, and links to other relevant research guides and associations, institutes and research initiatives: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/islamicmsstudies This guide will also continue to evolve and we welcome any feedback on it. We also continue to welcome any comments you might have on the manuscripts or their descriptions posted to the collection project site: http://lib.umich.edu/islamic Just keep in mind that not all manuscripts from the collection currently appear there. In order to search all manuscripts from the collection, it is best to search Mirlyn. As always, feel free to be in touch with any questions or requests for assistance with navigating the collection. With all best wishes, Evyn Kropf _______________________________________ Evyn Kropf Librarian for Near Eastern and Religious Studies Curator, Islamic Manuscripts Collection University Library Area Programs M117B Hatcher Graduate Library North The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 (734) 764-1220 | ekropf(a)umich.edu

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Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 19 Oct '13

19 Oct '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip rolls into Detroit and finds the Apocalypse. http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/manuscript-road-trip-dra… -Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Acting Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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Fwd: [Digitalhumanities] Solutions Developer post
by Orietta Da Rold 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

Begin forwarded message: From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" <snd6(a)leicester.ac.uk> Subject: [Digitalhumanities] Solutions Developer post Date: 16 October 2013 10:20:18 BST To: "'digitalhumanities(a)le.ac.uk'" <digitalhumanities(a)leicester.ac.uk> Dear all, The revised advertisement for the Solutions Developer post is now live. See http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHL672/solutions-developer-linux-environment/ for details. We have slightly revised the job spec and changed the job title to emphasise the skills that we are looking for. Please forward to anyone who may be interested. I would also be grateful to know of any appropriate mailing lists that this might be placed on. Kind regards, Simon Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6(a)le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester _______________________________________________ Digitalhumanities mailing list Digitalhumanities(a)lists.le.ac.uk http://lists.le.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/digitalhumanities *********************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500 Faculty of English University of Cambridge 9 West Road Cambridge UK CB3 9DP od245(a)cam.ac.uk

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Multispectral visualizations for the St Chad Gospels
by Endres, William F 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Dear colleagues, I'm happy to announce that I have a collection of multispectral visualizations available for page 141 of the St Chad Gospels. Page 141 appears as if it might have erased text. This is significant because page 141 contains the oldest surviving examples of Old Welsh writing. These multispectral visualizations offer enhanced viewing of this area. Also, my viewer allows any of the multispectral visualizations to be overlaid with either the RGB or ultraviolet image and transparency adjusted to sort out interferences from what might be remnants of text: https://lichfield.as.uky.edu/content/page-141-multispectral . If you have any questions or comments, please contact me: bill.endres(a)uky.edu<mailto:bill.endres@uky.edu> . All best, Bill -- Bill Endres University of Kentucky Division of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Media Lexington, KY 40506 859-257-8337

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