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Call for talk proposals: Spring 2014, Centre for e-Research Seminar Series, King's College London
by Centre for e-Research 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Hello all, apologies for cross-posting, We now invite proposals for presentations in the Spring Term 2014 Centre for e-Research (CeRch) seminar series at King's College London. The CeRch seminars provide a venue for discussion and engagment of a range of projects, applications, methods and theories spanning the Centre's academic interests in computing, library and archives research, digital culture, information science and digital scholarship. Talks can cover any topic within CeRch's areas of interest and expertise, including applied and theoretical papers and discussion of early results. More details about the CeRch Seminar Series are at the bottom of this email. The call is open to all, including people at any stage in their academic career and those working outside academia, with the possibility to facilitate remote speakers. Seminars will be streamed live and published as online video after the event, unless the speaker requests otherwise. Reasonable limited travel expenses can be met, along with one night's accommodation in London if necessary. Please submit an abstract of up to 400 words to Anna Jordanous, via email to cerch(a)kcl.ac.uk by *Thursday 12th December 2013*. Please also contact Anna if you have any questions. Seminars will take place on Tuesday 6.15pm-7.30pm, provisionally on 21st Jan, 4th Feb, 18th Feb, 4th March, 18th March 2014. Please indicate your availability for these dates or alternative Tuesdays (January-March 2014) in your submission email. We look forward to hearing from you, Regards, Anna Jordanous Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. * **--- Centre for e-Research Seminar Series* The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King's College London runs an interdisciplinary seminar programme on alternate Tuesday evenings during term time. With viewpoints from many disciplines including the sciences, social sciences and humanities, the series' primary focus is to stimulate discussion and provide new and innovative insight into design, development and use of digitally-based methods and technologies, and the theoretical issues that they raise (especially where they interact with a range of other fields). Previous topics have included visualisation, webometrics, digital research infrastructures, computational creativity, motion data, computational linguistics, cultural value and social network analysis, among many others. Details of recent seminars in this series can be seen at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/ . The series invites contributions for talks engaging with innovative questions or applications, using technology-enhanced methods. The series provides excellent networking opportunities, and will be of interest to anyone interested in debates around theories and practice in computing and digital technologies. Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Museum Space, at King's College London, Strand Campus (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx). Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. Twitter: @KingsCeRch hashtag: #cerchseminars --- Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL

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Fwd: [PhillyDigitalHumanities] GLAM Hack Philly - Feb 1-2, 2014
by Dot Porter 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Chad Nelson* Date: Friday, November 22, 2013 Subject: [PhillyDigitalHumanities] GLAM Hack Philly - Feb 1-2, 2014 To: phillydh <phillydigitalhumanities(a)googlegroups.com> GLAM Hack Philly is a free, weekend-long hackathon focused on building apps with open data from Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. It will take place the weekend of February 1-2, 2012 at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections. The event will bring together programmers, curators, librarians, designers, archivists, and anyone else with a passion for GLAM data, to build fun and interesting apps with the tremendous amount of GLAM data that is openly and freely available. On the morning of Saturday, February 1st, participants can pitch ideas for projects related to a specific data set or for broader GLAM-related applications. This could be anything from creating Omeka plug-ins to building a virtual city tour app using local digital collections. Small groups will form and participants will begin working on their projects through Sunday, with a goal to present a working prototype by Sunday afternoon. Challenges and Data We are seeking proposals of Data Challenges for teams to work on during the hackathon. Challenges can be as simple as a dataset and a vague idea of what could be done with that data, or could be an already identified problem with your data that you are seeking help to solve. The only requirements for proposing a challenge are: - Someone from your organization commits to participating in the event. They will help steward teams who take up that challenge by giving context to your data. - If you r challange includes a dataset, that data should be made available for use and reuse. Providing your data openly means that anyone can build applications with your data before, during, and after the hackathon. Submit a Challenge Now <http://bit.ly/1bp5xpV> If you’re not sure how your organization's data could be used or want some help brainstorming a challenge, just get in touch with glamhackphilly(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'glamhackphilly(a)gmail.com');>, we're happy to help. You can also submit your dataset without proposing a challenge<http://bit.ly/1cg6bEr>. We'll highlight your dataset on our website for attendees consideration. But I'm not a programmer -- can I participate? The input of content specialists like museum curators, librarians, archivists, catalogers,GLA researchers and others who know the data produced by GLAM organizations, is crucial to creating successful projects. We don't just want your participation, we need it! You can find more information on http://glamhack.com Thanks, Philly GLAM Hack organizers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Greater Philadelphia Digital Humanities Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to PhillyDigitalHumanities+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'PhillyDigitalHumanities%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com');>. To post to this group, send email to PhillyDigitalHumanities(a)googlegroups.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'PhillyDigitalHumanities(a)googlegroups.com');>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/PhillyDigitalHumanities. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Regesta Pontificum Romanorum online
by Thorsten Schlauwitz 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

*Apologies for cross-posting* The database "Regesta Pontificum Romanorum" has been launched at the beginning of this week. In the near future there will be a regest for every papal contact prior to the year 1198. Please visit www.papsturkunden.de. As of now just 282 regesta of the Bohemia-Moravia have been released, but there will be coming more soon. Best regards Thorsten Schlauwitz -- Thorsten Schlauwitz M.A. wiss. Mitarbeiter an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg BMBF-Projekt "Schrift und Zeichen. Computergestützte Analyse von hochmittelalterlichen Papsturkunden. Ein Schlüssel zur Kulturgeschichte Europas"

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Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip finds an old friend in Iowa: http://wp.me/p3RUQ3-de - 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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3-year ESR Fellowship in France
by Marjorie Burghart 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

[Apologies for cross-posting] The DIXIT ITN is offering 12 fellowships for Early Stage Researchers (not yet doctors, having obtained a Master degree in the past 4 years, and NOT having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3 years). One of those 3-year fellowships is based at the EHESS Lyon (ESR 5), under my general supervision*. See here for more information: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/esr.html#c18481 The research project is designed to be carried out as a PhD thesis and includes the following tasks: - Preparation of a digital edition of a medieval work (preferably a collection of biblical *distinctiones*). - Assessment & evaluation of methods and tools for digital scholarly editing. - Assessment of, and proposition for the ergonomy and usability of digital scholarly editions. If you are interested, please follow the procedure described in the link above, and do not hesitate to get in touch with me for more information. Warning: the deadline for application is Dec. 10th 2013!! Best regards, Marjorie Burghart CIHAM UMR 5648 - EHESS Lyon (France) * please note that, while I am supervising the EHESS part of the DIXIT project, the actual supervision of the fellow's PhD will be done by the person best suited to the topic chosen.

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CeRch Seminar: They're reading our minds: humanities research and digital thinking with CENDARI
by kcl - cerch 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: They're reading our minds: humanities research and digital thinking with CENDARI Kate Macdonald (Ghent University) and Alessandro Salvador (University of Trento), Visiting Researchers at the Centre for e-Research, King's College London Date: Tuesday, 26th November, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand campus) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-theyre-reading-our-minds-humanit… All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) provides and facilitates access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history (specifically the First World War period) through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. As part of this project, the Centre for e-Research is currently hosting two visiting researchers: Kate Macdonald and Alessandro Salvador, who are investigating how CENDARI can assist their own research work. At tonight's seminar Kate Macdonald and Alessandro Salvador will discuss their ongoing research, within the context of CENDARI. Kate Macdonald’s presentation will outline a methodology and early findings from reading British popular fiction magazines published for the entirety of the First World War, looking for depictions of the war-wounded ex-soldier, and the civilian who had been impaired by disease, congenital causes, or industrial injury. This stream of cultural production at this time has never been investigated before, yet it presents important evidence for how the ordinary reader regarded, or was expected to regard, physical impairment at a time when the demographics of the physically impaired were changing dramatically, and new technologies were changing treatments, rehabilitation, and living with impairment. This is part of a wider project investigating such depictions during and after WW1 and up to 1939, exploring the hypothesis that some kinds of disability were more deserving than others. She will discuss her role in the CENDARI project as a case study and guinea-pig for exploring humanities research processes. Alessandro Salvador: My contribution will focus on the main topic of my research and the reasons and goals of my current work within the CENDARI project. I am currently in the final stage of a research about demobilization and reinstatement into civilian life of the Italian-speaking soldiers enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. In particular, I researched the activities of the Italian government in managing a group of Italian-nationals belonging to an enemy State within a complex series of events that started in 1915 and finished in 1921. This topic represented a challenge for archival research, as the sources are spread throughout archives in Italy, Russia, Austria and UK. This brought to the idea of creating an online research guide in which archival information can be gathered and made public for researchers needing to access sources on this topic. Thus, my current work mostly deals, as pilot project, with Italian sources. My contribution will give a brief introduction to the topic and the problematic issues in order to explain the kind of data I am collecting, the way of organizing them and what advantages I expect that this project will offer to researchers. Bios: Kate Macdonald teaches British literary history and poetry at Ghent University, and is the author of several books, chapters and articles on British publishing culture from 1880 to 1950. Alessandro Salvador studied contemporary history in Trieste and Trento, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2010. After a period as exchange scholar (DAAD Program) at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, he obtained a post-doc position at the University of Trento. Currently he is part of a research group on WWI involving the University and the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento.

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2013 Schoenberg Symposium_This week!
by Lynn Ransom 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '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 * 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 and to register go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium6.html ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 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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Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip visits Minnesota... http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/manuscript-road-trip-mon… - 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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17 Fellowships in Europe: Digital Scholarly Editing
by Patrick Sahle 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) <http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/> (Substitute, Professorship on Digital Humanities) Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing <http://www.i-d-e.de> (Managing Director) Postal: Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln Office: Universitätsstr. 22, Attic floor right Telephone: +49 - (0)221 - 470 3894 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Publication: Patrick Sahle, Digitale Editionsformen - http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/s7-9-digitale-editionsformen Further information: http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26 <http://www.uni-koeln.de/%7Eahz26>

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this week's blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 09 Nov '13

09 Nov '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip spotlights pre-1600 manuscripts in Wisconsin... http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com - 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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