dm-l October 2013

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This week's blog: Book-breaking in the Buckeye State
by Lisa Fagin Davis 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

This week's installment of The Manuscript Road Trip: Otto Ege and the great state of Ohio! http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/manuscript-road-trip-in-… -- 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 - October 15th (Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta)
by kcl - cerch 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta (Kristen Schuster, University of Missouri, Columbia) Tuesday, October 15th, 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/8348401293 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the very best, Valentina Asciutti 15th October: Kristen Schuster, University of Missouri, Columbia Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta Abstract: Published by the Society of Antiquarians of London Vetusta Monumenta is a compendium of text and images describing and representing ancient artifacts and buildings from Europe (primarily England). Created over a number of years multiple volumes and editions of the work exist, three of which now reside in Ellis Library, Special Collections, at the University of Missouri Columbia. Although high quality scans have been made, currently only limited descriptive, administrative or technical metadata exists. In an effort to remedy this situation a group of librarians and English Department faculty have begun collaborating to synthesize scholarly and historical commentary with images in order to explore the potential of linked data. Beginning as a 'simple' digital libraries project, it has since evolved into an exploration of the potential for descriptive metadata to enhance the value of digitized materials. In particular, this project has made it necessary to ask: how should images and text interact in a digital library? Over the past decade questions like this have catalyzed a concerted exploration of information seeking behaviors in digital environments. While systems for negotiating text or images exist, each schema, protocol or controlled vocabulary is rather specialized and, thus, depends on users acquiring information or visual literacy skills - as opposed to a synthesis of the two. The collaboration between librarians and scholars has made it possible to re-contextualize the idea of linked data by directly linking scholarship to the materials it references. Using the Visual Resource Associations (VRA) VRA Core schema and Cataloging Cultural Objects content standard it has been possible to exploit the accuracy and extensibility of OCLCs Dublin Core schema through the use of SCALAR, a new digital library interface developed by the University of Southern California. As an ongoing project participants are endeavoring to use the digital surrogates of images to enhance the readability and value of written scholarship by associating text and images in an innovate manner. Bio: Kristen is currently a second year doctoral student in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri Columbia. Her experiences as a librarian have primarily consisted of metadata management in visual resource departments, which has been quite useful in her current work and research in the area of digital humanities. She began collaborating with the English Department last spring to develop a digital edition of three volumes of Vetusta Monumenta, an antiquarian text of prints and essays on ancient British monuments published by the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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Manuscript Road Trip blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

Latest blog post on the Manuscript Road Trip: a 12th-century manuscript fragment in 21st-century Pittsburgh... http://wp.me/p3RUQ3-45 - 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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2013 Schoenberg Symposium__Online Registration Opened
by Lynn Ransom 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

**With apologies for cross-posting** 6th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age November 21-23, 2013 Thinking Outside the Codex In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium will encourage participants to "think outside the codex" and turn the tables on traditional approaches to manuscript study. We will explore such topics as how format shapes and limits interpretation, use, and production of manuscripts and how technologies have changed and challenged traditional methods of scholarship. We are especially considering instances of and responses to failure in the history of manuscript production and scholarship. In doing so, we hope to provoke new questions and forge new approaches to the study of the pre-modern book. To kick off the event, a reception and the keynote address will be held Thursday evening, November 21, at the Free Library of Philadelphia. This year's keynote speaker will be Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Director of the History of the Material Text Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania. The symposium begins Friday morning at the newly renovated Special Collections Center of the University Pennsylvania Libraries. Speakers include: * Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University * Christopher Blackwell, Furman University * Benjamin Fleming, University of Pennsylvania * Martin Foys, King's College, London * Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan * David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania * Kathryn Rudy, University of St. Andrews * Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University * Marie Turner, University of Pennsylvania * Elaine Treharne, Stanford University In addition, four workshops will be held throughout the symposium to offer hands-on exploration of problems and issues related to the study of manuscripts in the digital age. The Handwritten and the Printed: The limits of format and medium in Japanese premodern books Leaders: Julie Davis and Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania Demo Workshop for T-Pen: Transcription for paleographical and editorial notation Leader: James Ginther, Saint Louis University Scholarship Outside the Codex: Citation-based digital workflows for integrating objects, images and text without making a mess Leader: Christopher Blackwell, Furman University Of Apples and Apple Pie: Exploring the relationship between raw data and digital scholarship Leaders: Dot Porter and Doug Emery, University of Pennsylvania For more information go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium6.html

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