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Reminder: DH Awards Nominations closing
by James Cummings 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

Just a reminder that nominations for the open DH Awards 2013 close today Tuesday 31 December at Midnight GMT. === The annual open DH Awards 2013 are now accepting nominations! Please nominate any Digital Humanities resource you feel deserves to win in any of this year's categories. The open DH Awards 2013 are openly nominated by the community and openly voted for by the public as a DH awareness activity. There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won and an icon for your website. Nominations will be open until 31 December 2013 (midnight GMT), voting will take place in January 2014. Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that were launched/finished/created in 2013. To nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/ The categories we are accepting nominations for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2013 are: === **Best DH tool or suite of tools** Nominations for this category should be for a tool or suite of tools created by members of the DH community, used for enabling, encouraging, and/or accomplishing DH work. **Best DH contribution not in the English language** Nominations for this category should be for DH resources or publications that are not in the English language. **Best use of DH for fun** Nominations for this category should be for projects/resources/sites for DH which are designed to be fun or inherently playful. **Best DH blog post, article, or short publication** Nominations for this category should be for a specific short DH publication (peer-reviewed or not) whether article, blog post, or other publication. **Best DH visualization or infographic** Nominations for this category should be for a graphic, infographic, or visualization created for or by the DH community. **Best DH project for public audiences** Nominations for this category should be for a DH project designed to be used by audiences primarily outside of higher education, including educators, students, enthusiasts, genealogists, engaged citizens, etc. === Again, to nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/ If you have any questions please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ or ask at james(a)dhawards.org or tweet @DHawards James Cummings DHawards.org

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies and Medieval Icelandic Studies
by Haraldur Bernharðsson 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Dear all, The University of Iceland is now accepting applications for Viking and Medieval Norse Studies and Medieval Icelandic Studies: (1) Medieval Icelandic Studies is a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters' (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester's worth (30 ECTS) master's thesis. The summer semester is the thesis semester, which means that the program can be completed in 12 months. See http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat… (2) Viking and Medieval Norse Studies is a four-semester (120 ECTS) graduate program run in cooperation with the University of Oslo in Norway, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University in Denmark. The first year--60 ECTS' worth of course work--takes place in Iceland, but the third semester is spent either in Oslo, Aarhus, or Copenhagen, completing 30 ECTS of courses. The fourth semester is devoted to writin the master's thesis, and can be spent in Iceland or Oslo. See http://oldnorse.is/ Application deadline for both programs is February 1, 2014. Please pass this information on to those interested. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Best wishes, Haraldur. --------------------- Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medieval Studies University of Iceland -- The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies Árnagarði við Suðurgötu IS-101 Reykjavík I C E L A N D + 354 525-4023 / +354 891-7511 - haraldr(a)hi.is - https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/ - Skype: haraldur_bernhardsson --------------------- Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Program: http://oldnorse.is/

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies and Medieval Icelandic Studies
by Haraldur Bernharðsson 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

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this week's blog - medieval manuscripts in Utah
by Lisa Fagin Davis 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

This week, medieval manuscripts and a Utahan mountain lion: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/manuscript-road-trip-st-… Happy new year! - 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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Announcing the Digital Vercelli Book (beta)
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

After years of hard work, the Digital Vercelli Book is now online! This is a beta version though, lacking several features that will be present in the final edition, scheduled for publication in 2014. At the moment only two texts, The Dream of the Rood and Homily 23, are available: the plan is to improve the current user interface and software on the basis of the suggestions and comments that will be sent to us, publish the revised software at some point next year and then progressively put online all the texts after a final cross-revision has been accomplished. Read the full announcement here: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/?p=2047. Browse the Digital Vercelli Book (beta) at this URL: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta/. Send feedback to the project team here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YlJp_78gZANsyDRU0EKhusJWpjLP8mQ6bwOYvcdkb0…. Any comment and/or suggestion will be very much appreciated. 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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this week's manuscript road trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

This week, exploring medieval manuscripts in the great state of Colorado: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/manuscript-road-trip-chr… Wishing you Merry and Happy - 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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Updates to the Manuscript Average
by Jesse Hurlbut 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

I've come up with two new ways to look at the Manuscript Average (a continuation of my previous essay posted a few months ago). There's a short addendum to Part 1 http://jessehurlbut.net/wp/mssart/?page_id=2097#dp and an entirely new approach in Part 2 http://jessehurlbut.net/wp/mssart/?page_id=2887 It's a project that may be more about the journey than the destination. Jesse

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this week's blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 14 Dec '13

14 Dec '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip takes the long way to Wyoming: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/manuscript-road-trip-the… - 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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CLIR post-doc in early modern data curation at Penn
by Dot Porter 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Thrilled to share this announcement, and apologies for cross-posting. Please share widely. Deadline is December 27. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Full description and application details: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/pennsylvania-ems2014 Dot ******* University of Pennsylvania *P**e**n**n Provenance Project Fellow* The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek an innovative and energetic CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies to play an integral role in the working life of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Penn’s Van Pelt Library, including overseeing the transition of the Penn Provenance Project (PPP) and its data to a new platform. *P**e**n**n Provenance Project (PPP)* Through its faculty and library resources, the University of Pennsylvania has long been at the forefront of book history and material text research, especially in the early modern era. Building on this strength, the Kislak Center is actively becoming a node for provenance history research. This research is essential for understanding how texts moved through the early modern world, what kinds of books collectors and libraries of the period valued, and the nature of print and manuscript cultural production. The fellow will play a key role in developing this field through his or her research and involvement in working with book historical data at the Kislak Center through the Penn Provenance Project. Born out of a CLIR hidden collections grant, the PPP was created by the Kislak Center’s cataloging team which has captured more than 12,000 images of provenance markings, bookstamps, and bindings. Dating largely from the early modern period, these invaluable witnesses to the history of book culture and circulation are available to the world through Flickr for viewing, comment, and identification ( http://www.flickr.com/people/58558794@N07/). The Penn Provenance Project differs from many other provenance initiatives in that it places digital images of markings, stamps, and inscriptions alongside bibliographic information. This visual data allows researchers and the public to compare physical objects all around the world and will eventually enable scholars to survey the landscape of early modern book culture with ease and precision. There have been over one million page views of content from the site and the project has proved useful in identifying a number of previously unknown book owners. The global community for the site includes people from many backgrounds, including experts in paleography from Germany as well as non-academics like Pedro Joaristi who identified one of his father’s books based on our photographs. The Kislak Center is now poised to develop the Penn Provenance Project well beyond the boundaries of our own collections in order to help identify and curate marks of ownership from book and manuscript holdings worldwide. Currently a wealth of information about early modern book owners and libraries exists within the PPP’s Flickr site but this data is largely unstructured and is not in easy machine-readable conversation with other resources. The CLIR fellow will be an integral part of the Penn Provenance Project team as it plans and executes the transition from Flickr and will have the responsibility of curating the data generated by the expanded project. In order to bring as many data sources to bear on the project as possible, the fellow will work closely with several partner institutions. For example, the curators of rare books and manuscripts at the Folger Library have agreed to participate in growing the PPP by contributing provenance information from their rich early modern holdings. The fellow will ensure that all data gathered and generated by the PPP and partners is available openly and linked with larger early modern data repositories like the Consortium of European Research Libraries’ (CERL) online provenance database. *P**e**n**n Provenance Project Fellow responsibilities:* - Project management: ensuring the project stays on time and others' tasks are done in a timely manner - Data mapping and transformation: working with colleagues to implement a data model and managing the movement of data from Flickr to a new repository - Bringing in new data: working with colleagues to ingest images and provenance descriptions from both Penn and partner institutions into the PPP. - Expanding the range of partner participants: offering guidance and instruction to the faculty, students, and library staff that will be generating new data for the project. - Linking data: working with colleagues and partners to ensure that PPP data is linked with other data sources in the field, such as the VIAF and CERL authority files. - Promoting use of the PPP: through teaching, independent research, papers, online or live presentations, workshops and/or symposia that help scholars, students, librarians, and the general public understand the significance of provenance data to Early Modern Studies. - Strategic development of the PPP: planning and experimenting with innovative ways of displaying and analyzing the project’s data. At Penn the fellow will report to Will Noel (Director – Kislak Center) and receive mentoring and guidance from experts in the field. These include, Dot Porter (Curator of Digital Research Services), Doug Emery (Digital Content Programmer), Zack Lesser (Associate Professor, Department of English), Peter Stallybrass (Professor, Department of English) as well as the wider Philadelphia history of the book community. The fellow will also be a member of the English Department at Penn and will have access to the resources and faculty of that body. He or she will also have the opportunity to participate in the programs of the Kislak Center and the English Department including organizing seminars on best digital practices, delivering lectures, and curating exhibitions. The fellow will help plan, solicit contributions, and speak at the seventh annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age in 2015. This will provide the fellow with a platform for presenting new developments in the field of early modern data curation, including those to which he or she has contributed. *Qualifications* The candidate will hold a PhD in an area of early modern studies, with a concentration in the history of the book. Working knowledge of at least one non-English language is preferred. Experience with prior digital projects and some knowledge of programming preferred. Prior work experience in special collections is desirable. *About the Kislak Center* The Kislak Center is the product of a $17 million renovation project and houses an extraordinary collection of rare books and manuscripts. Its mission is to bring its collections together with modern technology and a wide base of patrons in order to provide access to and understanding of our common cultural and intellectual heritage. The fellow will benefit from the combined skills and knowledge of the Kislak Center’s curators, researchers, and technology professionals as well as the faculty of various humanities departments and the wider resources of the University. The Kislak Center has a deep commitment to provenance research and book history and the fellow will be able to draw upon the resources and expertise already extant here. For instance, the Center already supports the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SBDM). The SBDM is the largest repository of manuscript provenance data in the world, currently containing over 200,000 records, with more being added each day, representing the movements of approximately 90,000 manuscripts. The records in the SBDM represent not only a wealth of data on manuscripts produced in the early modern period but also records of countless book transactions and sales from that era. In addition, the Kislak Center hosts digital facsimiles of more than 3,000 manuscript books from the early modern period in its collections, which might fruitfully be used in the Penn Provenance Project. The Center also has extensive expertise in working with data. The Curator for Digital Research Services, for example, is a co-Director of the Mellon-funded Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) project to aggregate data on digitized medieval collections of manuscripts and other objects. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Digital Humanities Opportunity: XQuery Summer Institute
by Michelson, David Allen 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Dear DM-L subscribers, With apologies for cross-posting, please consider joining us for this event: Vanderbilt University invites you to participate in a summer seminar for humanities scholars working with XML documents (such as TEI, EAD, or MODS). The XQuery Summer Institute is designed for scholars with basic experience marking up texts who would like to acquire advanced skills in how to query and computationally analyze XML documents. We welcome applications from archivists, faculty members, librarians, alt-ac professionals, and advanced graduate students. Over the course of two weeks, we will teach you how to program in XQuery, a language designed for querying and manipulating XML documents. You will leave the Institute knowing how to maximize the value of your XML encoding. The Institute will take place from Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 20 in 2014 on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. It will be led by six instructors with experience in the digital humanities (see http://xqueryinstitute.org/instructors), including Jonathan Robie, Lead Editor of the XQuery and XPath specifications at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There are no registration costs to the Institute thanks to generous support from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities (see the announcement of Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant- ... -july-2013<http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant-news/announcing-3-institutes-advance…>). We will also provide subventions for participants’ travel, lodging, and meals. Participation is limited to twelve. Applications are due by February 14, 2014. Please join us! Take your XML skills to the next level in Nashville this summer. For information about the Institute and the application process, see http://xqueryinstitute.org/. Questions? Please email Clifford Anderson, Director for Scholarly Communications, at Vanderbilt University: clifford.anderson(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:clifford.anderson@vanderbilt.edu>. Best, David David A. Michelson Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School Affiliate Assistant Professor of Classics, College of Arts & Sciences Vanderbilt University www.syriaca.org

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