dm-l February 2013

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Future of digital availability
by Bob Peckham 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Any comments on this news from France? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130212/17065121955/dirty-deeds-french-na… TBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D. Professor of French University of Tennessee at Martin Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-gate Intercultural Web Project

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Job at Cambridge University Library
by Hanna Vorholt 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

*Cambridge University Library * *Medieval Manuscripts Specialist, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives (Special Collections Division)* *Grade:* 7 *Salary Range:* £27,854 - £36,298 p.a This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and proactive individual to work at the heart of one of the world’s major research libraries with an outstanding collection of western medieval manuscripts. The successful candidate will lead the development of high quality reader-focussed services to support scholarship on the manuscripts, promoting them to the research community at local, national and international level. He/she with deal with all aspects of the care and administration of medieval manuscripts and will be outward-looking in developing innovative digital services alongside traditional methods to support the University in its teaching, learning and research and to make the medieval manuscripts accessible to the widest possible audience. He/she will have the necessary skills and enthusiasm to exploit the opportunities created by the Cambridge Digital Library (http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk) and to take a leading part in planning and implementing a new online catalogue of medieval manuscripts. Informal enquiries are welcomed by Dr Patrick Zutshi, Keeper of Manuscripts and University Archives (tel: 01223 333149; email: Patrick.Zutshi(a)lib.cam.ac.uk). Further details can be downloaded from http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Vacancies/medieval_manuscripts.pdf or are available from the Librarian’s Office, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR, tel: 01223 747413; email: Charlotte.Ross(a)lib.cam.ac.uk. Applications, in the form of a completed CHRIS/6 form ( http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/chris6/), a covering letter, curriculum vitae and contact details for three professional referees should be sent to the University Librarian either by post to Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR or electronically to Charlotte.Ross(a)lib.cam.ac.uk *(but not both)* by *5pm* on the closing date. *Interviews are expected to take place in mid-April* *Closing Date: Monday 18 March 2013*

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2013 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium: Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Marjorie Burghart 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

Call for Workshops and Tutorials The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web 2013 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium 2-5 October 2013 Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy * Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2013 * Workshop dates: 30 September - 2 October 2012 Conference website: http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/ The Programme Committee of the 2013 Annual Conference and Members Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI – http://www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites proposals for educational tutorials or workshops to precede the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to give an opportunity to learn more about the use of TEI markup under the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners, whereas workshops are an opportunity for specific groups to meet and work together on a TEI related subject. Workshops and tutorials range in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two days. Tutorials are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the tutorial. Workshops are expected to be free of charges. If you are interested in proposing either a workshop or a tutorial for the 2013 Members’ Meeting and Conference, please contactmeeting(a)tei.org ***as early as possible*** and submit your proposal before 31 March 2013 via Conftool, the availability of which will be announced shortly. Expressions of interest should include as much as possible of the following information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in developing their proposals): * Topic * Rationale explaining why this topic is likely to draw sufficient attention of the TEI community * Length of the event * Infrastructural requirements - (In the case of a tutorial) ---- * Proposed instructor or slate of instructors including brief discussion of relevant experience ---- * Preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if any) - (In the case of a workshop) ---- * Core list of people who are likely to participate, keeping in mind that workshops are by essence open for participation ---- * Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local organising committee Tutorial proposals will be evaluated by the programme committee primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community, the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction, and cost. Please send queries to meeting(a)tei-c.org. For the Programme Committee Arianna Ciula 2013 TEI Conference and Members Meeting Programme Committee: Marjorie Burghart Lou Burnard Fabio Ciotti Arianna Ciula (chair) Gianfranco Crupi Sebastian Rahtz

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Invitation: Introduction to Medieval Theology
by Emilia Żochowska 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Dear All, I realize that I have a pleasure to address the experts, but sometimes even experts may enjoy a small /repetitio/: in a couple of days we start an online course "Meet the Queen. Introduction to Medieval Theology" at Collegium Volatile. After all, when did you last write a /questio/? Or discussed the existence of God? We will read source texts and talk. Join us. With very best regards, Emilia Zochowska Details: Meet the Queen. Introduction to Medieval Theology Which is the queen of sciences? Mathematics? Logic? Philosophy? In the Middle Ages there was no doubt: it´s Theology. In this period Christianity shaped the framework for culture: literature, philosophical enquiry and even architecture were revolving round the central notion of God – and God could have been accessed through intellectual enquiry. The unique structure of this course takes us to the three places where theology was practiced: *university* (scholastic theology), *cloister* (monastic theology) and *parish church* (sermons and preaching). We will also give a voice to women and other laymen – people who contributed to the theological milieu of the period even though they were not professional theologians. This course is a must for those interested in any aspect of the Middle Ages. The course is an introduction: it will lead you inside the huge building of Medieval Theology, but it will not make you an expert. You will meet many significant authors, hear some more names and book titles and get a general idea about the intellectual milieu of the period. Still, many other great names and books will be absent. You will also get an opportunity to present and explore your own favorite Medieval authors. On the reading list you will find, among others: *Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Bernard de Clairvaux, Birgitta of Sweden, Anthony of Padua, Francesco Savonarola*. This course is quite time consuming (ca. 5 h/week, most of that is individual reading): in relatively short time you will be immersed into a world of Medieval literature (*many* *source texts to read*!). All texts will be available in English translation. *The course is designed and taught by Emilia Żochowska <http://collegiumvolatile.com/?page_id=24>*. The teacher will provide reading material, stimulate and moderate discussions on the course internal forum. Every week a new unit begins with Emilia´s short video talk and completes with a live online chat session – a meeting in our virtual classroom. *The students are expected* to read the provided materials, take active part in discussions and in the live chat session once a week. We try to make this course a social experience, so be prepared to meet other students and share your reading . It takes *6 weeks* to complete the course. *Workload:* ca. 5 hours a week. *We start* on 3 March. *To enroll* visit the course´s homepage: https://www.coursesites.com/s/_IntroMedievalTheo. We use CourseSites as our virtual classroom. *The Course fee:* *700 DKK / 90 EUR / 110 USD *payable via PayPal or credit card. If you would like to enroll but are unable to afford the fee, please contact Collegium <mailto:office@collegiumvolatile.com> (office(a)collegiumvolatile.com) We do not want anyone to be excluded from our activities for financial reasons. We find sponsors for bursaries covering the costs of tuition for students who are unable to pay.

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French medieval drama
by Bob Peckham 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

The goal of the Manuscripts of Medieval France with Vernacular Texts http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/frmedmss.shtml is to present a reasonable subject-categorised collection of medieval French manuscript facsimiles with vernacular texts. With this goal in mind, I announce The Andy Holt Virtual library's next page of this collection: Textual Sources for Vernacular Theater in Medieval France http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/drame.shtml We welcom any suggestions. TBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D. Professor of French University of Tennessee at Martin Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-gate Intercultural Web Project

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CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2013, Paris nov. 2013
by Georg Vogeler 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

** Sorry for cross-Posting! *** Dear list, CfP: Digital Diplomatics 2013: What is Diplomatics in the Digital Environment? Diplomatics has changed fundamentally in the last few decades due to dramatic developments in information technology. While consolidating itself as an autonomous science with its own centuries-old theory, methodology, analytical processes and tools, focused on research on medieval and early modern legal documents, it has also grown into an interdisciplinary field, expanding its area of inquiry to all kinds of textual traditions, documentary forms and creation processes through the use of sophisticated digital tools. "We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us", said Marshal McLuhan. Following the two conferences on Digital Diplomatics that took place in 2007 in Munich and 2011 in Naples, this conference, to be held in Paris, 14-16th november 2013, has the goal to further the scholarly reflection on the way in which diplomatics has developed as a result of both the opportunities offered by digital tools to study historical documents and the challenges presented by born digital documents and by the need to understand their structure and of the complex digital environments in which they reside. You can find the full call for papers with all the necessary informations on how to send in your proposal at http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl13/call-for-papers. The deadline is set to 2013, March 15. We are looking forward to your proposals! in the name of the program committee: Georg Vogeler -- ------------------------------------- Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Merangasse 70 - A-8010 Graz Tel. +43 (0)316 380 - 8033 Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik <http://www.i-d-e.de> Association Paléographique Internationale - Culture . Ecriture . Société (APICES) <http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm>

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Bursaries available for EpiDoc workshop
by Tupman, Charlotte 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

A reminder that we are inviting applications for a training event in digital encoding of epigraphy and papyrology at the Institute for Classical Studies, London, April 22-5, 2013 (see full announcement below). Thanks to the generosity of the British Epigraphy Society, we now have a limited number of bursaries available to assist students with attending this workshop. If you would like to apply for financial support in attending the EpiDoc workshop, please note in your application email that you would like to be considered for a bursary, approximately how much you expect the trip to cost you, and what other sources of funding you have. If you have already applied for the training, please just send an additional email asking to be considered, and we'll add a note to this effect to your application. A decision will be made shortly after the closing date on March 1st. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 22-25, 2013 We invite applications for a 4-day training workshop on digital text-markup for epigraphic and papyrological editing, to be held in the Institute for Classical Studies, London. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL), James Cowey (Heidelberg), Simona Stoyanova (KCL) and Charlotte Tupman (KCL). There will be no charge for the teaching, but participants will have to arrange their own travel and accommodation. EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a set of guidelines for using TEI XML (tei-c.org) for the encoding of inscriptions, papyri and other ancient documentary texts. It has been used to publish digital projects including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Tripolitania, the US Epigraphy Project, Vindolanda Tablets Online and Curse Tablets from Roman Britain, Pandektis (inscriptions of Macedonia and Thrace), and the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML and markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object description in EpiDoc as well as use of the tags-free Papyrological Editor (papyri.info/editor). No technical skills are required to apply, but a working knowledge of Greek or Latin, epigraphy or papyrology and the Leiden Conventions will be assumed. The workshop is open to participants of all levels, from graduate students to professors or professionals. To apply for a place on this workshop please email gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk with a brief description of your reason for interest and summarising your relevant skills and background, by Friday March 1st, 2013. -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 E: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ -- EpiDoc Collaborative for Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML http://epidoc.sf.net Markup List Archives: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/markup.html The Stoa Consortium: http://www.stoa.org/ -- Dr. Charlotte Tupman Project Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7145

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Training school in codicology
by Matthew James Driscoll 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Training school in codicology Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 29 April – 3 May 2013 A five-day intensive training school in codicology organised under the auspices of COST Action IS 1005, ‘Medioevo Europeo: Medieval Studies and Technological Resources’. Codicology, the study of manuscript books as material objects, is an important discipline within manuscript studies. Topics covered will include writing materials, formats and layout, with particular focus on presenting a typology of medieval manuscripts, illustrated by Bibles, manuscripts of the Latin classics and literary and legal manuscripts in the vernacular. A significant component of the school will be instruction in the use of TEI-conformant XML to record and analyse codicological data. There will also be a presentation of Manuscripta mediaevalia, a joint online venture of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München and the Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, which gives access to the manuscript collections of hundreds of libraries in Europe and the United States. The language of instruction will be English. Instructors: M. J. Driscoll, Curator, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen (XML) Robert Giel, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Manuscripta Mediaevalia) J. P. Gumbert, Prof. em., Universiteit Leiden (Manuscript miscellanies) Silvia Hufnagel, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen (XML) Eef Overgaauw, Leiter, Handschriftenabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Bibles and Latin classics) Elena Pierazzo, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London (XML) Lena Rohrbach, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Medieval and post-medieval Scandinavian legal manuscripts) The school is open to doctoral- and post-doctoral-level students with a background in medieval studies and at least some experience of working with manuscripts; previous experience with XML, while an advantage, is not required. Places are limited to a maximum of twenty students. There is no fee for the course itself, but participants will be expected to arrange their own accommodation and travel. Ten bursaries of € 800 each will be available to cover the costs of travel and accommodation. Only students registered at institutions in countries participating in this COST Action are eligible for bursaries (for a list of participating countries see http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1005?parties). Please send applications, including a full CV, to the school’s organisers, Eef Overgaauw (Everardus.Overgaauw(a)sbb.spk-berlin.de<mailto:Everardus.Overgaauw@sbb.spk-berlin.de>) and M. J. Driscoll (mjd(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:mjd@hum.ku.dk>), at the latest by the end of February. M J Driscoll Afdelingsleder Den Arnamagnæanske Samling Nordisk Forskningsinstitut Københavns Universitet Njalsgade 136, Bygn. 27, 2300 København S. DIR 35328471 mjd(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:mjd@hum.ku.dk>

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R: Fwd: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line
by centrostudicomparati＠libero.it 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

I am afraid this is the same procedure as for British Library, Bodleian Library, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien, Paris BNF and many others, even if these are public institutions and not private, as BAV is. According to my experience, one has to pay for getting and reproducing images of the mss such libraries preserve. The law for Italian (not Vatican) State libraries, for example, allows to give free permission just for non commercial publications under a given print run. Best wishes F. Stella ----Messaggio originale---- Da: cormierrj(a)longwood.edu Data: 03/02/2013 22.50 A: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca"<dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Ogg: Fwd: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line .EmailQuote { margin-left: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; border-left: #800000 2px solid; } -> .EmailQuote { margin-left: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; border-left: #800000 2px solid; } ->--> Back in late 2009, I tried to obtain permission from the BAV to use one image of a folio from a Virgil manuscript as a cover or at least as a frontispiece for my forthcoming monograph, "The Methods of Medieval Translators (2011). Permission denied. -Raymond Cormier Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab -------- Original message -------- Subject:Re: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line From:Neven Jovanović <neven.jovanovic(a)ffzg.hr> To:dm-l@uleth.ca Cc: Hi, regarding Vatican's copyright statement, I think that there are some things that can be built, or prototyped -- e. g. a text linking to a page of a MS like they did in <monumenta.ch> -- that do not infringe Vatican Library's copyright. Such projects, surely, risk that the link will vanish overnight -- but the site does offer us (in German, I guess) "Persistente URL" for its images. And I guess that it would depend what we ask the authorisation for. A scholarly undertaking, such as publishing an on-line edition which uses BAV's images, should be acceptable, and they should actually be glad that somebody wants to do this. Otherwise, why spend so much money for digitisation? Best, Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia > On 2 February 2013 02:58, Dot Porter <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> "Neither the text nor the images may be reproduced, in any form, without >> the authorisation of the Vatican Library, 00120, Vatican City. " >> > > Is this from the BAV website? I haven't noticed that... If it means the > BAV > think they hold a copyright on the *TEXT* in the manuscript, that's totaly > unheard of - and absurd! :s > Or does "text" refer to the manuscript descriptions? In this case, fair > enough. > > Marjorie, a bit puzzled :) > Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ > Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org > News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ > Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 > Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting!
by James Cummings 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

It is my pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2012 is open for voting! Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities that they benefit. There is no financial prize associated with these community awards. There were many nominations and the international nominations committee took quite awhile to review and debate each nomination. We're sorry if your nomination was not included. Please see http://dhawards.org/faqs/ for this and other frequently asked questions. Anyone is allowed to vote, yes anyone, but please only vote once. Please cast vote at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2012/voting/ before midnight (GMT) on Sunday 17 February 2013 when voting will be closed. Good luck! James Cummings, Craig Bellamy, Sheila Brennan, Marjorie Burghart, and Kiyonori Nagasaki james(a)dhawards.org

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