dm-l March 2013

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Re: [dm-l] New article on "Medievalists and the Scholarly Digital Edition"
by Andrew Dunning 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

I really enjoyed this paper as well. I think it's pretty obvious why digital editions are not more popular with both authors and readers, some of which are touched on in the article: - Compared to a printed book, they're miserable to read, since they tend to be designed first for technical analysis, and any attention to typography is typically a very low priority. (Granted, this is a problem with most e-books.) - There's no guarantee in many cases that citations made from digital editions will be stable. - It's far easier to put a good printed edition together than a good digital edition, especially because of the lack of standard, user-friendly tools. - There is no standard way of presenting online critical editions (whereas most printed texts are published in series that follow a style guide). - Delving into academic politics, publishers hate them and many universities don't count digital projects toward tenure. None of these problems are insurmountable, and most have been tackled already by someone, but I'm really looking forward to a solution that at least tackles the technical aspects of these problems. Andrew Dunning PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Editing Medieval Texts Centre for Medieval Studies University of Toronto On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco < rosselli(a)ling.unipi.it> wrote: > > Dot, what a very good job! I am only a bit surprised that we are not > > making steady progress towards some goal -- that's not really the wqy > > human beings do things -- but it is a litttle disconcerting to think that > > while more and more people are doing digital or difitized editions (I > > agree with that very ueful distinction), users of editions seem ro remain > > happy with print. If I were younger (I was there at Hoyt's PP/SEENET > > paper). I might try to think of some kind of campaign, but perhaps it's > > best to let things develop as they will ? > > I took part to a workshop about digital scholarly edition organized by > NeDiMAH last November > ( > http://www.nedimah.eu/call-for-papers/expert-meeting-digital-scholarly-edit… > ) > and gave a paper titled "The battle we forgot to fight: Should we make a > case for digital editions?". In short, no, I think we should definitely > advocate creation and use of digital editions ... but also that first we > should define more clearly what a digital edition *is*, see Dot's > distinction above as a starting point (there surely are many other types > and sub-types). Personally I think we lack a clear perspective and need a > sort of "DEI" (Digital Edition Initiative) that can help interested > scholars with support, guidelines etc. (also help gather together, > conferences like ESTS and such are very useful, but we lack a "central" > place where to go). > > R > > > > 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 > > >

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Digital Diplomatics 2013 - deadline extended
by Georg Vogeler 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Dear list members, if you considered to present a paper at the Digital Diplomatics conference in November (14th-16th) this year, please note, that we extended the deadline for proposals to April 15th. You can find the details fot the call at <http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl13/call-for-papers> We're looking forward to them. Best regards from the program committee Georg Vogeler -- Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenchaften - Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz <http://www.uni-graz.at/zim/> Merangasse 70 - A - 8010 Graz Tel. +43 316 380 8033 Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de> Association Paléographique Internationale - Culture . Ecriture . Société (APICES) <http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm> International Center for Archival Research (ICARus) <http://www.icar-us.eu>

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Re: [dm-l] New article on "Medievalists and the Scholarly Digital Edition"
by Norman Hinton 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Dot, what a very good job! I am only a bit surprised that we are not making steady progress towards some goal -- that's not really the wqy human beings do things -- but it is a litttle disconcerting to think that while more and more people are doing digital or difitized editions (I agree with that very ueful distinction), users of editions seem ro remain happy with print. If I were younger (I was there at Hoyt's PP/SEENET paper). I might try to think of some kind of campaign, but perhaps it's best to let things develop as they will ? On Mar 13, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Dot Porter <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> wrote: My article looking at how medievalists use and consider digital editions has just been published in Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. It may be of some interest to folks on the list (and constructive criticism, directly to me to to the list, is most welcome!) http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2013/essays/essay.porter.html Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org MESA blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 SEB+NER: 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

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postdoc position in medieval medical history (deadline: 15 April 2013)
by Monica Green 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Colleagues, I write with the good news that I have been awarded funds from the Mellon Foundation to support a postdoctoral position, starting September 2013 and continuing through August 2014. The details of the position are laid out below. The successful applicant will be based at Saint Louis University (SLU), where they will have access to the Vatican Film Library Collection (http://libraries.slu.edu/special_collections/vfl) and where they will work with the team of scholars and programmers affiliated with the Center for Digital Theology (https://www.slu.edu/x27122.xml). The postdoc will be engaged in producing a "born-digital" edition of the Antidotarium magnum, a large (really, massive!) Latin compendium of medical recipes compiled in the last quarter of the 11th century. For more information on the text-editing program that will be employed for the project, see here: http://t-pen.org/TPEN/. As noted below, queries can be directed either to me or to the postdoc's other sponsor, James Ginther at SLU. The formal application needs to be submitted through SLU, as noted below. Eligibility is not limited to U.S. citizens; however, applicants who are not already citizens or permanent residents would need to be responsible for making any necessary arrangements for permission to work in the U.S., since no extra funds are available to cover that expense. -- Monica H. Green Professor of History School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Box 874302 975 S. Myrtle Ave Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-4302 U.S.A. Monica.green(a)asu.edu<mailto:Monica.green@asu.edu> https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/384868 http://healthanddisease2012.acmrs.org<http://healthanddisease2012.acmrs.org/index.html>/ ---------- Research Fellow in the Center for Digital Theology Saint Louis University, a Jesuit Catholic institution dedicated to education, research, healthcare and service, seeks applications for a full-time, twelve-month limited contract, Research Fellow (Senior Research Assistant) in the Center for Digital Theology. The successful candidate will join a research team which is developing a web-based editing application for pre-modern texts. This new digital tool will support the creation and publication of digital editions that employ one of the five major editing methods of scholarly editing (Lachmannian, diplomatic, single-manuscript, base-text and mouvance). Development is already underway and will be completed by December 2014. The Research Fellow will be responsible for one of six use cases that will test the functionality and feature set of the software. The successful candidate for this position will collaborate with Professor Monica Green of Arizona State University on an edition of an eleventh-century medical text in Latin. The main tasks will be to complete transcriptions of the extant manuscript witnesses, assist in creating the editorial apparatus, and prepare the edition for digital publication using features of the software in development. In addition to the work of scholarly editing, the Research Fellow will also participate in bug reporting, usability testing and weekly staff meetings. The successful candidate will possess a doctorate in medieval studies (or a single humanities discipline with a medieval research focus). A background in medical history is preferred. S/He will have strong, demonstrated skills in Latin paleography. The successful candidate will also have taken advanced courses in editing or will have at least one year experience in scholarly text editing. In addition to Latin, skill in ancient/medieval Greek and/or Arabic will be highly beneficial, as is competence in modern European languages. S/He must also possess strong interpersonal skills, be able to work in a team environment, and be able to work to set deadlines. The position will commence on 1 September 2013 and will terminate on 31 August 2014. Working off-campus (telecommuting) may be an option for exceptional candidates. The annual salary will be $50,000, paid on a monthly basis. The position includes medical and other minor benefits. For benefits details, consult SLU’s HR web-site: http://www.slu.edu/x40345.xml. Review of Applications will begin 15 April 2013. Applications are to be submitted on line at jobs.slu.edu<file:///C:\Users\ginthej.SLU\Dropbox\T-PEN\jobs.slu.edu>. Please include a letter of application, a CV, and a list of three referees. Potential applicants are welcome to contact Professor James Ginther, Director, Center for Digital Theology, for additional information at ginthej(a)slu.edu<mailto:ginthej@slu.edu>; or Professor Monica Green at Monica.Green(a)asu.edu<mailto:Monica.Green@asu.edu>. Saint Louis University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. Summary of Qualifications Required · PhD in Medieval Studies (or a single humanities discipline with a medieval research focus) · Demonstrated skill in Paleography and Latin · Demonstrable experience in scholarly editing of pre-modern texts · Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment · Able to work to set deadlines Desirable · Experience with digital humanities projects · Experience with XML encoding, such as TEI · Background in medical history · Skill in ancient/medieval Greek and/or Arabic

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Medieval Texts and Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
by Center for Comparative Studies 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Program of a Louvain Workshop scheduled on April 4.-6. 2013, concerning the COST Action IS 1005.

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Biblioteca and Archivio Capitolare of Vercelli: Grant for Graduate Foreign Students 2013/2014
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

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Invitation to submit papers on the Digital Humanities to ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Sep 2013
by Tamir Hassan 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

We would like to encourage you and your colleagues to submit a paper to the 13th ACM Document Engineering Symposium (DocEng) which will be held in Florence, Italy Sep 10-13 this year. DocEng provides an annual international forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. It is a nice friendly conference with around 70 attendees preceded by a day of workshops and tutorials. Initially DocEng had a fairly technical focus but in the last few years it has broadened scope to include important application areas including the digital humanities. The idea is not to compete with existing digital humanities publishing venues but rather to provide a quality venue for papers that describe techniques and applications of document processing within the digital humanities. Please think about submitting a paper to DocEng. More information including the CFP is available at http://www.doceng2013.org Best regards Kim Marriott (Program Chair), Simone Marinai (Symposium Chair), Tamir Hassan (Publicity Chair) ===================== Important dates • Workshop and tutorial proposals due: Friday, March 15, 2013 • Full papers: • abstracts due: Sunday, March 31, 2013 • papers due: Sunday, April 7, 2013 • acceptance notice: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 • Short papers: • abstracts due: Sunday, May 19, 2013 • papers due: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 • acceptance notice: Friday, June 14, 2013

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CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Data Curation in Medieval Studies, NCSU
by Timothy Stinson 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

I'm happy to report that North Carolina State University has been awarded a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Data Curation in Medieval Studies. The full job description is pasted below and may also be viewed at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/ncsu2013. More information on the program may be viewed at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/dc-medieval. I will be working directly with the fellow and am happy to answer any questions. Tim Stinson --- Desired Skills & Expertise Familiarity with or interest in learning HTML, XML, and WordPress. Strong organizational and communication skills to coordinate with project partners across campus and at other institutions. Ability to make effective use of social media for public outreach. Programming skills and/or familiarity with metadata standards desirable but not required. Fellow's Role The Fellow will serve as a liaison between academic departments, faculty researchers, and the Digital Libraries Initiatives (DLI) Department on NCSU’s campus. The fellow will have the opportunity to work on four NCSU-based projects involving data curation in medieval studies: the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA); the Manuscript DNA project; the Siege of Jerusalem Electronic Archive (SJEA); and the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (PPEA). The fellow will also serve as a liaison between NCSU and partners at other universities engaged in related research projects, including the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC), a meta-federation comprising MESA, the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn), 18thConnect, the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), and Modernist Networks (ModNets). The fellow will have the opportunity to conduct original research on data curation strategies and will be encouraged to participate actively in the larger community of CLIR postdoctoral fellows, including the cohort of fellows in the Data Curation in Medieval Studies Fellowship program. A strong emphasis will be placed not only on the ways that the Fellow can contribute to our institution, but to the professional development of the Fellow in the fields of medieval studies and library science. Duties and Responsibilities Study data curation strategies in use on other campuses and in other fields, including the sciences, and develop a set of recommendations for best practices for the curation of humanities data. This work will be done in consultation with the online DH Curation Guide and will form the basis of contributing new resources and information to that guide. Seek solutions for linking humanities data and datasets to related scholarship in new forms of interactive publications; the Fellow will be encouraged to consult and seek partnerships with relevant initiatives such as Anvil Academic and Open Humanities Press as well as with ARC partners, including JSTOR, ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and Project MUSE Present original research at professional conferences as appropriate Collaborate with software developers on the creation, modification, and augmentation of tools related to digital projects in the field (e.g., development of the Collex browser for MESA, enhancements to the fuzzy search capabilities built into SJEA and MESA to accommodate non-standardized medieval spelling practices) Conduct user testing of software and web portals using the NCSU Libraries’ Usability Research Lab Use social media for public outreach related to NCSU Libraries, the Data Curation Fellowship program, and medieval studies projects on which the fellow is working Participate in the organization of workshops and symposia, including digital public humanities events and meetings of the Advanced Research Consortium held on NCSU’s campus Local Guidance and Professional Development Support As a member of the Digital Libraries Initiatives (DLI) Department the Fellow would be a member of a 14-person team that works in the areas of data curation, digital repositories, web and mobile applications, digital media, data visualization, and geospatial data. The Fellow would participate in departmental teams and meetings, and would have the opportunity to collaborate with staff that have a variety of technical and domain-specific skill sets. The Fellow would have access to technology support and consultation services from DLI staff members as well as from the Information Technology Department, which maintains the Libraries’ technical infrastructure. The Fellow would work closely with Professor Timothy Stinson in the Department of English on the four interdisciplinary projects listed above, as well as with Professor James Knowles of English, the project manager for PPEA. Cumulatively, these projects include a wide variety of data related to medieval studies, including large genomic datasets from the Manuscript DNA project, XML-encoded transcriptions and descriptions of manuscripts, images of manuscripts from SJEA and PPEA, and tens of thousands of RDF metadata records from MESA. The Fellow would be encouraged to be part of the intellectual life of the English department, including speakers series, symposia, and workshops, and would be offered the option of teaching one or more medieval studies courses in the department during his or her tenure. The Fellow will also be joining a vibrant community of medievalists spanning the closely linked campuses of NCSU, UNC Chapel Hill, and Duke University. Opportunities include participating in the Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar, the UNC Medieval & Early Modern Lecture Series, the Duke Medieval & Renaissance Lecture Series, colloquia at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and special events at the nearby National Humanities Center. -- Timothy L. Stinson Assistant Professor Department of English North Carolina State University http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/tlstinso

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RE: [dm-l] TAN: Publishing screen shots
by O'Donnell, Dan 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Thanks very much. I've been trying to explain the resolution issue to them. I spouse shrinking them to up the effective resolution is an option: they don't all need to be full screen size in the page layout. Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Tony Harris <awh28(a)cam.ac.uk> Date: To: "O'Donnell, Dan" <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca>,"dm-l, MailList" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Subject: RE: [dm-l] TAN: Publishing screen shots Dear Daniel Given that you are taking screen shots, the optimal way to do this on Windows would be using CTRL+ALT+prt sc which will capture the current window in focus to the clipboard and then you can cut and paste this to an imaging program such as Photoshop, the full version of Acrobat which allows you to “create a PDF from the clipboard” or something similar. If you have Google Picasa3 running in background then it will pick up the fact you have captured a screenshot to the clipboard and will allow you to manipulate it. Mac has its own equivalents and utilities for these sequences. See: http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X I would recommend against using a digital camera to photograph a display because you will have an inevitable drop in quality of the final image compared to a screen grab. However, the thing to appreciate is that screen resolution is very low compared to print resolution and depends on both the horizontal and vertical resolution as well as the screen size. For example a typical wide laptop screen with a resolution of 1600x900 would equate to only around 72dpi on a screen grab. You will find this website useful in terms of telling you what your effective dpi is when you do a screen grab on your computer: http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html If your publisher is saying they need 300dpi TIFF for screen shots, then it may just be that they don’t understand what you want to achieve. However, it is certainly possible to achieve this by decreasing the physical size of the image. As one example, a 1600x900 pixel screen grab image off a 22”x12.5” laptop display equates to ~72dpi. Change the image size to 300dpi in Photoshop (use constrain proportions and do not use resampling) and this gives you a 5” x 3” image. This might seem a bit weird at first but probably the best way to think about this is that you are fitting more pixels into a smaller area which would probably suit an A5 (or USA equivalent) size page. Probably the best thing to do initially is just to do a screen grab, convert it to a TIFF or PDF using any one of the many utilities that exist to do this and then email it to the publisher and see what they say. You’ll probably find they also accept JPG. Most publishers do. Hope this helps. Best regards Tony Harris University of Cambridge -----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Daniel O'Donnell Sent: 05 March 2013 18:54 To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Subject: [dm-l] TAN: Publishing screen shots Hi all, I have a tangential topic: what is normal practice regarding screen shots in print and PDF? I have an article coming out and the production manager wants 300 dpi TIFFs for my images. But the images are for the most part screen shots and, since I'm talking /about/ navigation and representation issues in virtual environments, I can't go with the second option they offered me: giving URLs rather than presenting that actual images in the text. I'm sure I've seen screenshots in both print and PDFs before. What is normal practice? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 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<mailto:dm-l@uleth.ca> Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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TAN: Publishing screen shots
by Daniel O'Donnell 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi all, I have a tangential topic: what is normal practice regarding screen shots in print and PDF? I have an article coming out and the production manager wants 300 dpi TIFFs for my images. But the images are for the most part screen shots and, since I'm talking /about/ navigation and representation issues in virtual environments, I can't go with the second option they offered me: giving URLs rather than presenting that actual images in the text. I'm sure I've seen screenshots in both print and PDFs before. What is normal practice? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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