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Digital History Seminar, Tuesday 14 May: Matthew Hammond 'The People of Medieval Scotland Database: A Prosopographical Survey'
by Seth Denbo 09 May '13

09 May '13

*Digital History Seminar*Matthew HammondThe People of Medieval Scotland Database: A Prosopographical Survey5:15pm (BST) on 14 May 2013<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Digital+History+Se…> Room 243 (Senate House) and live on the Web at History SPOT<https://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts> ‘The People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1314’ is a prosopographical database that has been in production since 2007, and has been freely available online since the summer of 2010. Since the relaunch of the database last year, the site has had over 40,000 unique visitors from across the globe. Now nearing completion, the database contains records on over 20,000 individuals, drawn from over 8500 medieval, mostly Latin documents. The paper will examine some of the PoMS project’s technical innovations as well as the new directions we hope to take in the coming years. The seminar will take you behind the scenes of the public website to see how this database evolved from the factoid prosopography model created for the ‘Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’ (PASE) by John Bradley of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, now Department of Digital Humanities, at Kings College London. PoMS has developed what might be called a ‘transactional model’ of factoid prosopography, due to the fact that it is comprised almost entirely of transactional documents like charters. Rather than simply recording events, the transactional model is explicitly interested in relations between individuals as recorded in the documents. We will examine the new structures PoMS incorporates to allow end users the ability to research the terms of the transaction, and thus the nature of the interaction between people, as well as multiple transactions happening at different times within the same document. We will look at the work of Michele Pasin, formerly of DDH, in developing new ways for users to both search and visualise these transactions. The seminar will finish with a consideration of the capabilities of the database for studying the social networks, and visualising the relationships between large numbers of people. *Matthew Hammond* is a Research Associate in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow and former Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2007, he has been a team member of the AHRC-funded projects that created the ‘People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286’ database (www.poms.ac.uk) and is now working on a Leverhulme-funded project to expand the capabilities of that database, especially in the area of Social Network Analysis.

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Request for Comments: Interoperability between Stemmatological Microservices
by Tara Andrews 07 May '13

07 May '13

Dear colleagues, Thanks to a Project Support Grant awarded by the ALLC this year, we have the opportunity to connect two related web services for stemmatological analysis of texts: Stemweb (https://github.com/Stemweb/Stemweb) provided by researchers at the University of Helsinki, and Stemmaweb ( http://byzantini.st/stemmaweb/) provided by the Tree of Texts project at KU Leuven in collaboration with the Huygens Institute. After a meeting in Helsinki we have produced a white paper on our plans for interoperability, and we warmly invite comments or suggestions from any interested scholar, researcher, and/or developer. We intend to begin work in June, so comments received by the end of May would be particularly helpful. The white paper is available here: http://treeoftexts.arts.kuleuven.be/?p=58 Comments may be mailed directly to the authors, or preferably added directly to the blog post for open discussion. Best wishes, Tara Andrews (tara.andrews(a)arts.kuleuven.be) Teemu Roos (teemu.roos(a)cs.helsinki.fi) Joris van Zundert (joris.van.zundert(a)huygens.knaw.nl)

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PhD students in Digital Humanities at Passau
by Malte Rehbein 07 May '13

07 May '13

Dear list, In addition to the recently advertised PostDoc, I am searching for two PhD students to join the Digital Humanities team at Passau as research and teaching fellows. Find more details in the job description: http://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote/… International candidates are welcome to apply in English, and German is not a requirement for your research and teaching. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. The deadline for applications is May 27th. Best regards, Malte -- Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities Universität Passau Gottfried-Schäffer-Straße 20 / 204 D-94032 Passau fon: +49.851.509.3450 email: malte.rehbein(a)uni-passau.de web: http://www.uni-passau.de/rehbein

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Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition (Abstracts Due June 30, 2013)
by Daniel O'Donnell 05 May '13

05 May '13

**** Please Cross Post **** Hi all, Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities, The University of Lethbridge, and The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations is pleased to announce the first Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition. http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digi… This is an open competition for research papers on the national, regional, or international practice of the Digital Humanities--a broad topic that has been designed to give authors the greatest possible scope. Authors may write on individual projects or problems or broader philosophical, geographical, sociological, political, or other aspects of the practice of Digital Humanities in a global context. Papers discussing the practice of DH by or with marginalised communities or in areas that are currently less well represented by ADHO are particularly welcome. The competition is open to any interested party including students, graduate students, junior faculty, and researchers unaffiliated with a university or research institution. We would like to especially encourage submissions from students, junior and unaffiliated researchers, and authors belonging to marginalised communities or communities currently less well represented by ADHO. The competition is offering a minimum of 4 prizes of $500 (CAD) each. Initial selection (for a prize of $200) is by abstract/proposal. A further $300 will be awarded to the authors of the winning abstracts upon satisfactory completion of a full-length paper based on their original proposal. All submissions will be eligible for review and publication in the ADHO journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://digitalstudies.org/). For further information about the competition, please see the competition web page: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digi…. The competition organisers can also be contacted by email at prizes(a)globaloutlookdh.org The initial deadline (abstracts/proposals) is June 30, 2013. -Daniel Paul O'Donnell -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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DigiPal (Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography) website relaunch…
by Brookes, Stewart 05 May '13

05 May '13

Dear all, With great delight, the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities (King's College London) announce the launch of the new DigiPal website at http://digipal.eu For those of you who haven't been following our progress, DigiPal is a web-based resource for the delivery of palaeographical content. Although our test case is eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon vernacular script, the underlying DigiPal framework has been designed to work with multiple periods and languages, and we already have Scandinavian and Hebrew projects using our tools, with the intention to extend the framework to further materials, including cuneiform. At present, there are c. 300 high quality images available on our site and we've annotated over 12,000 individual letters. Oh, and thanks to funding from the ERC (EU FP7), everything is available for free ;-) To get you started, here are a couple of serving suggestions: A) For f. 29v of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 173, visit: http://www.digipal.eu/digipal/page/110/ Things you might like to try: 1) Turn annotations On/Off 2) Click on a highlighted letter to see our description 3) Click on "Filter annotations" to highlight a particular letter, or series of letters, that we have annotated 4) Click on the "Annotations by allograph" tab. If you click on an allograph, it will take you back to the ms context, with that letter highlighted 5) Click on the "This record has 19 images" to see other folios from this ms. NB: The metadata is very basic at the moment. Eventually, there will be all sorts of information, including Ker, Scragg, Gneuss, Sawyer, etc. numbers. A summary of the content of the manuscript. Information aggregated from other projects who have generously shared their data, e.g. "English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220": http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.CCCC.173.htm B) To see all the manuscripts from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College currently in the DigiPal database, visit: http://www.digipal.eu/digipal/page/?town_or_city=&repository=Corpus+Christi… NB: Click on the "Images" button on the right to see thumbnail images. With a big thank you to everyone who has helped us to get this far! There's c. 18 months of the project left and *much* more to come still. So, please get in touch with feedback and encouragement ;-) Have fun, Stewart -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College London

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PostDoc in Digital Humanities at Passau
by Malte Rehbein 03 May '13

03 May '13

Dear list, I am searching for a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow to join the newly established Digital Humanities team in the beautiful city of Passau (Bavaria, Germany). I am offering a three-years full-time contract (with possible renewal, six years max.) and the possibility to conduct your own research on fundamental methodology of DH. German is not a requirement for international candidates. You are welcome to apply and also to teach in English and contribute to Passau University's growing international programme. Have at look at the job posting for more details (http://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote/…) and get in touch with me if you have any questions. Deadline for applications: 20 May. Best regards, Malte -- Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities Universität Passau Gottfried-Schäffer-Straße 20 / 204 D-94032 Passau fon: +49.851.509.3450 email: malte.rehbein(a)uni-passau.de web: http://www.uni-passau.de/rehbein

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