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Re: [dm-l] Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) Launches
by Norman Hinton 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

I tried to join -- sat and read 2 chapters in a book while the on-screen box said "loading", finally just left. On Jul 8, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Dot Porter <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> wrote: We are pleased to announce that the MESA federated search is live at http://www.mesa-medieval.org The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (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. Read about MESA, click through to the Advanced Search, create an account, add some tags, join in (or start) a discussion! Many thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for funding, to the MESA Steering Committee for steering us through the implementation process, to our project partners for agreeing to have their projects and collections included in the first iteration of MESA, and to all the medievalists who have expressed support and interest through the last year. Any comments, thoughts, or criticism, please contact us at mesa-medieval(a)gmail.com. Most Sincerely, Tim Stinson and Dot Porter, MESA co-directors -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) Launches
by Dot Porter 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

We are pleased to announce that the MESA federated search is live at http://www.mesa-medieval.org The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (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. Read about MESA, click through to the Advanced Search, create an account, add some tags, join in (or start) a discussion! Many thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for funding, to the MESA Steering Committee for steering us through the implementation process, to our project partners for agreeing to have their projects and collections included in the first iteration of MESA, and to all the medievalists who have expressed support and interest through the last year. Any comments, thoughts, or criticism, please contact us at mesa-medieval(a)gmail.com <mesamedieval(a)gmail.com>. Most Sincerely, Tim Stinson and Dot Porter, MESA co-directors -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Call for talk proposals: Centre for e-Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2013
by Centre for e-Research 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

*Call for talk proposals: Centre for e-Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2013* The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/index.aspx> at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London runs an interdisciplinary seminar programme on alternate Tuesday evenings during term time. We now invite proposals for presentations in the Autumn Term 2013 CeRch seminar series. Seminars can cover any topic within CeRch's areas of interest and expertise, including applied and theoretical papers and presentation of early results. See below for more details or visit the seminars web page <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/index.aspx>. The call is open to all, including people at any stage in their academic career and those working outside academia, with the possibility to facilitate remote speakers. Seminars will be streamed live and published as online video after the event, unless the speaker requests otherwise. Reasonable travel expenses can be met, along with one night's accommodation in London if necessary. Please submit an abstract of up to 400 words to Anna Jordanous, via email to cerch(a)kcl.ac.uk by /Thursday 1st August 2013/. Seminars will take place on Tuesday 6.15pm-7.30pm, provisionally on 1st, 15th, 29th October, 12th, 26th November, 10th December 2013. Please indicate your availability for these dates in your submission email.* * We look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Anna Jordanous (CeRch)* *PS Apologies for any unwanted cross posting. Please do forward this to any people or groups you think may be interested. If you have any questions, please contact Anna Jordanous via the cerch(a)kcl.ac.uk email. --- *Centre for e-Research Seminar Series *The CeRch seminars provide a venue for discussion and engagment of a range of projects, applications, methods and theories spanning the Centre's academic interests in computing, library and archives research, digital culture, information science and digital scholarship. With viewpoints from many disciplines including the sciences, social sciences and humanities, the series' primary focus is to stimulate discussion and provide new and innovative insight into the design, development and use of digitally-based methods and technologies, especially where they interact with a range of other fields. Previous topics have included digital manuscript studies, visualisation, webometrics, computer art, motion data, and network analysis, among many others (details of recent seminars in this series can be seen at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/.) The series invites contributions for talks engaging with innovative e-research questions or applications. The series provides excellent networking opportunities, and will be of interest to anyone interested in debates around computing technologies. Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum, at King's College London, Strand Campus (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx). Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. /Twitter: @KingsCeRch hashtag: #cerchseminars/ -- Anna Jordanous Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL

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DM needs you!
by Da Rold, Orietta (Dr.) 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder that the DM election will close on Tuesday 9th July. Please make sure to vote by Tuesday next week. Best wishes, Orietta To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow <http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> ================== To VOTE fill out the survey here: <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/336XR2R> ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (alphabetical order by surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of up to 4 votes. After voting please remember to click DONE! ***************************** BENJAMIN ALBRITTON He is currently working for the Stanford University Digital Library Systems and Services as a Digital Manuscript Specialist on several medieval projects including the digitization of Stanford's manuscript collection, Parker on the Web (<parkerweb.stanford.edu>), and with community development for interoperability of digital manuscript projects (<lib.stanford.edu/dmss> and <lib.stanford.edu/DMSTech>). He holds a PhD in musicology and is particularly interested in mark-up for corpus analysis of fourteenth-century song. He is a member of the editorial team for the new edition of the complete works of Guillaume de Machaut, which will have a significant electronic component. ***************************** SUZANNE PAUL Suzanne Paul is the Medieval Manuscripts Specialist at Cambridge University Library (<http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/>). She is currently developing a new online catalogue of the library's medieval manuscripts using TEI and participating in the ongoing digitisation of the collection in the Cambridge Digital Library (<http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/>). From 2007 to May 2013 she was sub-librarian at the Parker Library (<http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-us/parker-library/>), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with particular responsibility for creating and updating metadata in XML and database formats for Parker on the Web (<http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/>). She has extensive experience of collaborating with researchers and other librarians on digital projects. ***************************** PHILIP SHAW I am a medievalist with around ten years' experience in digital humanities. My first academic post was on the Partonopeus de Blois Electronic Edition Project (<http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/partonopeus/>), where I worried about the textual difficulties of an Old French romance alongside straightening out the project's automated text processing needs. Since then I've developed a tool for gathering linguistic data from Twitter, used by Ruth Page in her _Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction_ (Routledge, 2012), have created tools for generating the indices of the Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220 project (<http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/>), and was part of the team responsible for HALOGEN (<http://halogen.le.ac.uk>). I am currently working on software tools for comparison across Middle English texts with divergent orthographic forms and on the application of cluster analysis to historical onomastic data. I would welcome the opportunity to contribute to the running of Digital Medievalist as an Executive Board member. ***************************** PETER STOKES I am currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. I have a degree in Classics and English Literature and another in Computer Engineering, as well as a PhD in Anglo-Saxon palaeography. I have worked as Research Associate, Analyst and/or Developer on the LangScape (<http://langscape.org.uk/>), Anglo-Saxon Cluster (<http://ascluster.org/>), and Electronic Sawyer (<http://esawyer.org.uk/>) projects at King's. I have also held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship on computer-based methods in palaeography, and was awarded a major research grant for DigiPal (<http://digipal.eu/>), which I lead as Principal Investigator. I lecture in Digital Humanities and in palaeography, I advise on external digital projects, and I am Principal Coordinator of Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA; <http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-courses/medieval-…>), a five-day training programme for PhD students. A full CV is available at <http://peterstokes.org/cv/>. I have served on the Executive Board of Digital Medievalist and been Associate Editor of the Journal since 2009, and I have been Director of DM since 2012. In addition to these roles I have contributed to DM in many other ways, including updates, improvements and emergency fixes to the website; running conference sessions; helping introduce term limits for the Board; and co-acting as Returning Officer for the 2010 elections. DM's membership has grown significantly during this time, increasing by more than 15% in the last year, so if re-elected my key goal will be to establish the expertise and infrastructural stability necessary to allow this growth to continue in the longer term. ***************************** DOMINIQUE STUTZMAN Stutzman, Dominique (2011-2013). After degrees in Classics, History and German studies at the Sorbonne, Dominique Stutzmann studied at the École nationale des Chartes (<http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/>; archiviste paléographe, 2002), received a MLIS and worked at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (MSS Dept.) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (<http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html>; Digital Information Dept.). He completed a PhD on scribal practices of Cistercian communities in medieval Burgundy, for which he developed the statistical analysis of scribal profiles based on TEI encoding. Since 2007, he is lecturer of medieval paleography at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (<http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/>) and, since 2010, research fellow at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (<http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/>; CNRS). In the Graphem project (<http://liris.cnrs.fr/graphem/>; 2008-2011), he co-organized an international colloquium on computer-aided script analysis, categorization and classification (Paris, 14-15 April 2011). He is now principal investigator of the ORIFLAMMS project (<http://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/>; 2013-2016), joining Computer Vision, Linguistics and Palaeography (allographic transcriptions, ontology of forms) in study of the variety of medieval scripts and its factors (place, time, language, formality, function). ***************************** SEAN SWANICK My name is Sean Swanick and I am the Islamic Studies Liaison Librarian at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Since starting in 2009, I have, amongst my other duties of collection development, reference work and teaching, and related activities curated a number of exhibitions highlighting McGill's rich manuscript collection. Noteworthy for the members of Digital Medievalist are the 2012 exhibition "Book Culture in the Medieval Mediterranean World" (co-curated with Dr. C. Hilsdale of the Art History department and Ms. J. Garland of Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill), the Shahnmeh exhibition of the famous Persian epic poem which was also an online exhibition (<http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/shahnameh/index.php>) and the Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) exhibition and accompanying booklet. Through these efforts, I strive to combine research exercises with professors and students in order to highlight the rich collections of McGill University. In addition, I have co-curated an Islamic Calligraphy exhibition in 2010 which was later digitized (<http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_calligraphy/index.php>). If elected, I will serve the community in engaging in scholarly activities and leading and ensuring that the overall direction of the organisation and the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes remain a priority and continue to flourish. ***************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold Director MA English Studies School of English University of Leicester University Road LE1 7RH Tel. +44 (0)116 252 2778 e-mail: odr1(a)le.ac.uk<mailto:odr1@le.ac.uk> web: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/oriettadarold

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CFP - Manuscript Studies Across the Disciplines
by Albert Lloret 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

Correcting an accidental line-break in the original posting. Apologies. AL CALL FOR PAPERS - Manuscript Studies Across the Disciplines 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University; May 8-11, 2014 Sponsored by Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jeanette Patterson (Princeton University) In line with one of the editorial mandates of Digital Philology, in this session, we seek to promote discussion around how manuscript research may be predicated upon effective cross-disciplinary work. We invite submissions that not only bring to light new discoveries about a particular manuscript, but also reach across disciplinary boundaries by asking broader methodological or theoretical questions, including but not limited to: . the materiality of the codex . the sociopolitical lives of books . border crossings: a manuscript that travels across geographical space, across social milieux or, more abstractly, across languages, genres, media or other categories . our digital engagement with medieval books Please send a 100-word abstract and Participant Information Form to Albert Lloret at lloret(a)spanport.umass.edu by September 10. Albert Lloret, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Spanish and Portuguese University of Massachusetts 433 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 Managing Editor Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html>

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[dm-l] The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (seminar). London, July 5
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

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CFP- Manuscript Studies Across the Disciplines
by Albert Lloret 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

CALL FOR PAPERS - Manuscript Studies Across the Disciplines 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University; May 8-11, 2014 Sponsored by Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jeanette Patterson (Princeton University) In line with one of the editorial mandates of Digital Philology, in this session, we seek to promote discussion around how manuscript research may be predicated upon effective cross-disciplinary work. We invite submissions that not only bring to light new discoveries about a particular manuscript, but also reach across disciplinary boundaries by asking broader methodological or theoretical questions, including but not limited to: . the materiality of the codex . the sociopolitical lives of books . border crossings: a manuscript that travels across geographical space, across social . milieux or, more abstractly, across languages, genres, media or other categories . our digital engagement with medieval books Please send a 100-word abstract and Participant Information Form to Albert Lloret at lloret(a)spanport.umass.edu by September 10. Albert Lloret, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Spanish and Portuguese University of Massachusetts 433 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 Managing Editor Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html>

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VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2013
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

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VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2013
by Takako Kato 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Voting will be OPEN until TUE 9th JULY, GMT midnight. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow < http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> ================== To VOTE fill out the survey here: <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/336XR2R> ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (alphabetical order by surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of up to 4 votes. After voting please remember to click DONE! ***************************** BENJAMIN ALBRITTON Benjamin Albritton works as the digital medieval program manager at Stanford University Libraries. In that role, he oversees the Parker on the Web project (<http://parker.stanford.edu>), the preservation of Walters Art Museum digital manuscript content in the Stanford Digital Repository (< goo.gl/GvCba>), and ongoing content collaborations with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the University of Pennsylvania, and others. In addition to content-based projects, he coordinates the Mellon-funded Digital Manuscript Technology program: an international manuscript interoperability project dedicated to cross-repository collaboration. This effort, shared by many collaborators, has spawned SharedCanvas (< http://www.shared-canvas.org/>) and the International Image Interoperability Framework (<http://lib.stanford.edu/iiif>). The primary aim of the project is increased access to distributed resources and tools for medieval scholars in order to enable comparative work across manuscript collections. Benjamin is committed to bringing content owners, software developers, and scholars together to further research in medieval topics. In addition to his digital library work, he remains active as a musicologist. Current projects include: "Machaut in the Book" (co-PI), an interdisciplinary and collaborative study of the role of Guillaume de Machaut as author in the surviving witnesses to his works, with particular focus on poetic miscellanies; and "A Comparative Kalendar", a nascent tool for navigation across digitized manuscripts that contain liturgical calendars. ***************************** SUZANNE PAUL Suzanne Paul is the Medieval Manuscripts Specialist at Cambridge University Library (<http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/>). She is currently developing a new online catalogue of the library's medieval manuscripts using TEI and participating in the ongoing digitisation of the collection in the Cambridge Digital Library (<http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/>). From 2007 to May 2013 she was sub-librarian at the Parker Library (< http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about-us/parker-library/>), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with particular responsibility for creating and updating metadata in XML and database formats for Parker on the Web (< http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/>). She has extensive experience of collaborating with researchers and other librarians on digital projects. ***************************** PHILIP SHAW I am a medievalist with around ten years' experience in digital humanities. My first academic post was on the Partonopeus de Blois Electronic Edition Project (<http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/partonopeus/>), where I worried about the textual difficulties of an Old French romance alongside straightening out the project's automated text processing needs. Since then I've developed a tool for gathering linguistic data from Twitter, used by Ruth Page in her _Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction_ (Routledge, 2012), have created tools for generating the indices of the Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220 project (< http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/>), and was part of the team responsible for HALOGEN (<http://halogen.le.ac.uk>). I am currently working on software tools for comparison across Middle English texts with divergent orthographic forms and on the application of cluster analysis to historical onomastic data. I would welcome the opportunity to contribute to the running of Digital Medievalist as an Executive Board member. ***************************** PETER STOKES I am currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. I have a degree in Classics and English Literature and another in Computer Engineering, as well as a PhD in Anglo-Saxon palaeography. I have worked as Research Associate, Analyst and/or Developer on the LangScape (<http://langscape.org.uk/>), Anglo-Saxon Cluster (< http://ascluster.org/>), and Electronic Sawyer (<http://esawyer.org.uk/>) projects at King's. I have also held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship on computer-based methods in palaeography, and was awarded a major research grant for DigiPal (<http://digipal.eu/>), which I lead as Principal Investigator. I lecture in Digital Humanities and in palaeography, I advise on external digital projects, and I am Principal Coordinator of Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA; < http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-courses/medieval-…>), a five-day training programme for PhD students. A full CV is available at <http://peterstokes.org/cv/>. I have served on the Executive Board of Digital Medievalist and been Associate Editor of the Journal since 2009, and I have been Director of DM since 2012. In addition to these roles I have contributed to DM in many other ways, including updates, improvements and emergency fixes to the website; running conference sessions; helping introduce term limits for the Board; and co-acting as Returning Officer for the 2010 elections. DM's membership has grown significantly during this time, increasing by more than 15% in the last year, so if re-elected my key goal will be to establish the expertise and infrastructural stability necessary to allow this growth to continue in the longer term. ***************************** DOMINIQUE STUTZMAN Stutzman, Dominique (2011-2013). After degrees in Classics, History and German studies at the Sorbonne, Dominique Stutzmann studied at the École nationale des Chartes (<http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/>; archiviste paléographe, 2002), received a MLIS and worked at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (MSS Dept.) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (< http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html>; Digital Information Dept.). He completed a PhD on scribal practices of Cistercian communities in medieval Burgundy, for which he developed the statistical analysis of scribal profiles based on TEI encoding. Since 2007, he is lecturer of medieval paleography at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (< http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/>) and, since 2010, research fellow at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (<http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/>; CNRS). In the Graphem project (<http://liris.cnrs.fr/graphem/>; 2008-2011), he co-organized an international colloquium on computer-aided script analysis, categorization and classification (Paris, 14-15 April 2011). He is now principal investigator of the ORIFLAMMS project (< http://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/>; 2013-2016), joining Computer Vision, Linguistics and Palaeography (allographic transcriptions, ontology of forms) in study of the variety of medieval scripts and its factors (place, time, language, formality, function). ***************************** SEAN SWANICK My name is Sean Swanick and I am the Islamic Studies Liaison Librarian at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Since starting in 2009, I have, amongst my other duties of collection development, reference work and teaching, and related activities curated a number of exhibitions highlighting McGill's rich manuscript collection. Noteworthy for the members of Digital Medievalist are the 2012 exhibition "Book Culture in the Medieval Mediterranean World" (co-curated with Dr. C. Hilsdale of the Art History department and Ms. J. Garland of Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill), the Shahnmeh exhibition of the famous Persian epic poem which was also an online exhibition (< http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/shahnameh/index.php>) and the Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) exhibition and accompanying booklet. Through these efforts, I strive to combine research exercises with professors and students in order to highlight the rich collections of McGill University. In addition, I have co-curated an Islamic Calligraphy exhibition in 2010 which was later digitized (< http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_calligraphy/index.php>). If elected, I will serve the community in engaging in scholarly activities and leading and ensuring that the overall direction of the organisation and the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes remain a priority and continue to flourish. *****************************

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TEI Conference 2013: online registration opened
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

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