dm-l April 2013

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Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) Workshop at Kalamazoo
by Dot Porter 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

[apologies for cross-posting] The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) is sponsoring a workshop, led by Dot Porter and Tim Stinson, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. The workshop is scheduled for Friday, May 10, 10am, Waldo Library Classroom A. This room is a computer lab. No registration is required, just come if you are interested in learning more about MESA. Wat is MESA? Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MESA is a federated international community of scholars, projects, institutions, and organizations engaged in digital scholarship within the field of medieval studies. MESA seeks both to provide a community for those engaged in digital medieval studies and to meet emerging needs of this community, including making recommendations on technological and scholarly standards for electronic scholarship, the aggregation of data, and the ability to discover and repurpose this data. MESA is also a website, providing a federated search across digital medieval projects and collections. This workshop will focus on the use of the website (which is set to launch publicly in early Summer). In this workshop, we’ll do three things: First, we’ll demonstrate MESA’s functionality and use. This will answer the most basic question: What is MESA, and what can it be used for? This part of the workshop will be useful both for a generally interested audience of scholars, and for individuals and groups who may be interested in having their projects in MESA. Next, we’ll practice using MESA for research purposes. This will be the most hands-on part of the workshop, and we encourage participants to come ready to search, comment, and perhaps even to start to build scholarship in the workshop. Finally, we’ll present background on how federating projects into MESA actually works. This part of the workshop is aimed particularly at individuals and groups who may be interested in having their projects in MESA, although others may be interested to learn about the process. This will involve some technical discussion and in-workshop coding examples. Workshop attendees representing projects are invited to bring project metadata with them, and we will work on extracting the RDF metadata required by MESA during the workshop. If you are interested in having your project used as an in-workshop example, please email dot.porter(a)gmail.comto express interest. To read more about MESA, please visit our blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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ACM DocEng 2013 -- Short paper submission now open
by Tamir Hassan 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Just to let you know that we are now accepting submissions of short papers, application notes and demos for the 13th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. * Short papers should report on smaller complete works of research or novel challenges or visions; * application notes should describe systems or tools of interest to the DocEng community; * posters should report on research in progress. Submissions should be of up to 4 pages in length (2 pages for posters). The following deadlines apply: * May 19: Abstracts due * May 22: Manuscripts due The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering provides an annual international forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. You can find the Call for Papers here: https://sites.google.com/site/doceng2013/call-for-papers All papers should be submitted on the EasyChair site. You can find the submission instructions here: https://sites.google.com/site/doceng2013/call-for-papers/submission-procedu… Looking forward to seeing you at DocEng 2013. Best regards, Tamir Hassan University of Konstanz, Germany Publicity Chair, DocEng 2013

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Connecting Textual Corpora and Dictionaries - Kraków
by Center for Comparative Studies 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Connecting Textual Corpora and Dictionaries 25-26 April 2013, Kraków (Poland) One of the numerous objectives of COST Action 1005 "Medioevo Europeo" is the development of the Virtual Centre of Medieval Studies (VCMS) which shall integrate hitherto dissipate databases, textual collections, and dictionaries into a mature tool for carrying out research on Middle Ages. This goal, however, can only be achieved with reflection on the existing tools, practices, and users' needs. These are the crucial questions which we want to address with our workshop which focuses on the corpus-dictionary interface. The meeting will start with a short presentation of the digital projects that are being carried out in the Institute of Polish Language in Kraków (Polish Academy of Sciences) which hosts the workshop. The first working session (State of Art: Good (and Bad) Practices, Formats, APIs, Interfaces) will comprise brief "state of art" reports dealing with the existing tools of the lexicographical and textual research. It will provide us with a deepened insight into the technical issues of the prospective tools' integration and will contribute to the description of good and bad practices of dictionary and corpora linking. Each participant will try to describe the databases according to the strict protocol which includes their chronological and geographical scope, search and browsing capabilities, interface type, file formats, encoding standards, licensing model, and web APIs. The second working session (Corpora Use in Lexicographic Practice) provides real-world scenarios of the use of corpora-dictionary interface. Practising lexicographers will demonstrate how corpora facilitate everyday dictionary writing processes and how text collections can be exploited in order to enrich the lexicon. The contributions gathered in this section shall help to precise what are the features of the prospective VCMS that would satisfy the lexicographers' community, and what are the interlinking models that would match its needs. The last two sections (Mature Projects: Goals, Tools, Challenges and Emerging Projects: Perspectives and Challenges) of the workshop will group demonstrations, mock-ups, and practical learning sessions. Creators of mature projects and research infrastructures will share their experience in what concerns the syntactic and semantic interoperability of their services. They will also offer other participants a short training. Those, in turn, whose projects are only in the construction or planning phase, will demonstrate their scientific goals, and the problems they encounter in assuring high data linking profile. Local Organizer Institute of Polish Language Polish Academy of Sciences al. Mickiewicza 31 31-120 Kraków http://scriptores.pl/workshop http://scriptores.pl/workshop/schedule/

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Workshop: XML-TEI for Ancient and Medieval Lexicographical Works
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

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Computerised Management of Ancient Scripts: State of the Question and Perspectives
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

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Research Developer (City Witness and Schenker Documents Online)
by Spence, Paul 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Job Posting: Research Developer (City Witness and Schenker Documents Online) [Please feel free to pass this message on to any suitable candidates] The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is looking for a technically imaginative and creative research developer to work on two exciting projects: City Witness (which will create an interactive digital atlas of Swansea and 3D visualisations based on eleven witness testimonies describing the hanging of the Welshman William 'Cragh' in the late 13th century) and the well-established Schenker Documents Online project, which is publishing the writings of the twentieth century's leading theorist of tonal music (see http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org). Technical curiosity and interest in any or all of linked data, web-based visualisation, or web mapping would be a real advantage. Every research project within the department is characterised by innovation, and the successful candidate will be expected to develop technically imaginative, creative, and elegant solutions whilst at the same time sustaining an awareness of best practices and standards compliance. Full details at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde… The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 May 2013 ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx Twitter: @dhpaulspence (English)/@hdpaulspence (castellano)

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Fwd: Collaboration needed: Creating "cheatsheets" to define best practice for frequent tasks
by Marjorie Burghart 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Dear Digital Medievalists, I would like to share with you this message I just sent to the TEI list. This projects needs collaboration from a wide range of scholars, even those who are not familiar with the TEI but would like to help listing the various individual tasks and phenomena involved in scholarly works like critical editions. Best regards, Marjorie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marjorie Burghart <marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr> Date: 8 April 2013 22:34 Subject: Collaboration needed: Creating "cheatsheets" to define best practice for frequent tasks To: TEI-L(a)listserv.brown.edu Dear TEI users, I would like to invite you to participate in a project that is very dear to my heart. Two years ago, I created a Critical Apparatus Cheatsheet<http://marjorie.burghart.online.fr/?q=en/content/tei-critical-apparatus-che…> giving in a nutshell the "translation" (if I may say so) in TEI of phenomena familiar to scholars making critical editions. Today, I would like to develop the "cheatsheets" as an alternative way of learning TEI, specially targetting people who are familiar with the Humanities concepts behind the encoding, but not the encoding itself. I believe that the advantages of such best practice guides would be twofold: - provide a low-threshold way of learning to encode in TEI for some categories of people at least - provide tool developpers with a clear list of tasks for several operations (i.e. encoding a critical edition, for instance) and the recommended way(s) to encode them, which would greatly facilitate interface building. I have summarized my thought on this TEI Wiki page: http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI_Cheatsheets and suggested some Cheatsheets we could start creating collaboratively on the Wiki. Please give it some thought, and suggest some tasks, phenomena, and their best encoding(s) in TEI! Best regards,

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Fwd: CFP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing Conference, Saskatoon July 11-13
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

FYI. This looks like a very exciting conference. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing Conference, Saskatoon July 11-13 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:21:47 -0600 From: Peter Robinson <P.M.Robinson(a)BHAM.AC.UK> Reply-To: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship <TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: <TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Proposals are invited for the Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing conference, to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, from 11-13 July 2013. This conference comes at a critical inflection point in the transformation of scholarly editing caused by the two massive shifts of the digital revolution: the movement of all data into digital form and the creation of new modes of collaboration. For the first: the creation of massive amounts of data in digital form has already transformed the basic materials of scholarly editing, while digital tools offer new methods for exploration and publication. For the second: where scholarly editing in the past has been typically the work of a single dedicated scholar, the development of social media opens up the possibilities of collaborative work across whole communities. These changes affect every aspect of scholarly editing. This conference will explore the theoretical, practical, and social implications of these changes. Proposers accepted from this open call will join some thirty invited conference participants, drawn from scholarly editing, digital humanities, and the 'citizen scholar' movement. Confirmed participants are Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Ben Brumfield, Gabriel Egan, Paul Eggert, Paul Flemons, Alex Gil, James Ginther, Tuomas Heikkilä, Fotis Jannidis, Laura Mandell, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Catherine Nygren, Dan O'Donnell, Roger Osbourne, Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez, Elena Pierazzo, Ken Price, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Shillingsburg, Ray Siemens, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Joshua Sosin, Melissa Terras, Edward Vanhoutte, and Joris van Zundert (to be confirmed: Hans Gabler and Jerome McGann). The conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop on collaborative editing systems. Proposals should focus on some aspect of contemporary digital scholarly editing. We welcome descriptions of current projects, theoretical or speculative discussions, bibliographic work, or any aspect of scholarly digital editing. Papers considering scholarly editing in a communal, collaborative context are particularly encouraged. Proposals will be accepted under two strands: one for students of graduate and doctoral programs, one for all others. We particularly welcome proposals from the GO::DH <http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/> (Global Outlook::Digital Humanities) community, addressing digital scholarly editing in a global context. We will able to offer financial support for accepted proposals, if needed, in the form of bursaries and/or funding for all travel and other costs, and will give preference in allocating funding to proposers from circumstances where support is rarely or never available. As well as a 500 word abstract, proposers should submit a cover letter explaining their interest in the conference theme, why they want to attend and indicate what level of support (if any) they might need to come to the conference. Proposal submission will close on 26 April; successful proposers will be notified by 10 May 2013. The call is athttps://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13/schedConf/cfp.; the conference website is at https://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13. On behalf of the conference organizing committee: Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Dan O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Ray Siemens

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Versus differentiales
by Peter Binkley 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

On a Friday afternoon here's something that, I hope, might amuse some Latinists. Out of the flotsam of an old research project that will never get finished, I've set up a twitter feed that will give you a daily versus differentialis of the sort associated with Serlo de Wilton, distinguishing homonyms with short or long penultimate vowels, like this: Est uitrum saphĭrum, pro gemma dico saphīrum. The feed can be followed at https://twitter.com/versdiff , and the verses also get posted to a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VersusDifferentiales and to a Wordpress blog at http://versdiff.wallandbinkley.com/ where there's some background information and a bit of scholarly apparatus. Peter Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services peter.binkley(a)ualberta.ca 2-10K Cameron Library University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 phone 780-492-3743 fax 780-492-9243

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