dm-l January 2014

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Rare Book School: The Medieval Mauscript in the 21st Century
by Dot Porter 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

[apologies for cross-posting] I'm co-teaching a course at Rare Book School this summer, June 9-13 (RBS is located in Charlottesville, VA, but we are teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia). The course is THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, and we (Will Noel and myself) are hoping to get a good mix of students with primary interest in (medieval) manuscripts, primary interest in developing software for working with (digitized) manuscripts, and some with both. If this sounds like you please consider applying, and please share this message with colleagues who may be interested. You can also contact me off-list if you have any questions. Link to the course description (Application link in the left-hand menu): http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m95/ And I'm pasting the full description below: This course is designed to introduce students of both the digital humanities and manuscript studies to the concepts and realities of working with medieval manuscripts in the twenty-first century. Through the course, students and faculty will examine materials from the collections of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, as well as digitized versions of those materials and others. Students in the course will consider four issues relating to using medieval manuscripts in a digital world. The first issue is theoretical, considering the relationship between medieval manuscripts and their digital counterparts, and questioning the notion of digital surrogacy. What does "digital surrogacy" mean and how might it affect our consideration of the physical objects represented through the surrogate? The second issue is the practical one of imbuing best practices when creating digital assets out of medieval manuscripts. If we are to digitize manuscripts, how can we ensure that those digital versions are the best they can be? And again: what does that mean? The third issue concerns the present landscape for digital medieval manuscripts (and medieval studies more generally), including current publication technologies and the place of Open Data. The fourth issue is that of building resources with and for digitized medieval manuscripts. What tools are available to enable us to create something new? As a final project, students and faculty in the course will work together to build something new--either "hacking" an application to display and sort medieval manuscript data, or creating an exhibition using an existing platform (such as Omeka). The specific direction of the final project will depend upon the skill sets available in the room. Students should plan to bring a laptop with them to class. In their personal statement, applicants should indicate their background, special interests, and expectations from the course. They should clearly state their experience working with manuscripts or manuscript-related courses they have taken, as well as any experience using digital technologies. Although it is expected that some students will have some technological experience, it is not a requirement for the course. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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DH Awards 2013: voting open!
by James Cummings 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

(please forward) It is my pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2013 is open for voting! http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/ Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open 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 (http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/committee/) reviewed each nomination. We're sorry if your nomination was not included, all decisions are final once voting opens. Please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ for this and other frequently asked questions. Anyone is allowed to vote, yes anyone, but please only vote once. Please cast vote by looking at the nominations and following the link to voting form at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/ before midnight (GMT) on Friday 14 February 2013 when voting will be closed. Good luck! james(a)dhawards.org -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford

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Centre for e-Research talk: Pieter Francois, 6.15pm Tues 4 Feb, KCL, London
by Centre for e-Research 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Dear all, apologies for cross-posting. Next week, on Tuesday 4th February at 6.15pm, Pieter Francois (Oxford) will be giving a talk in the Centre for e-Research seminar series at King's College London. The talk is on: "Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples." More details are at the bottom of this email. The event is free of charge but please would you register beforehand, at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-exploring-very-large-collections… Our seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm in the Anatomy Museum, on the 6th floor of King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/projects/completed/at… . Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. The full programme for this term can be found at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14.aspx. We hope you can join us. Regards, Anna Jordanous (CeRch) --- *Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples* Pieter Francois (Oxford) Abstract: This presentation introduces the 'Sample Generator', a digital tool which allows users to generate structured unbiased samples of (digital) texts from the nineteenth century British Library holdings. Using the Sample Generator allows researchers to explore quickly a very large dataset (the British Library has approximately 1.8 million nineteenth century holdings) in a methodologically robust way. Furthermore the generated samples are easily citable and shareable. The overall intellectual background of the Sample Generator is that of the 'generative humanities' in which a creative process of going back and forth between data and the conceptual drawing board takes centre stage. In addition to saving valuable research time, the main contribution of the Sample Generator is that it is a hypothesis generating and testing tool. This presentation will address the ideas behind the Sample Generator, offer a hands on showcasing of its main functionalities and will finally demonstrate the value and potential of the Sample Generator by zooming in briefly on one case study, i.e. an analysis of the changes in nineteenth century travel routes in Europe. More details at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14/s8ex… -- Anna Jordanous Centre for e-Research (CeRch) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL www: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/

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Fwd: Conference
by Orietta Da Rold 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

FYI Begin forwarded message: *********************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500 Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP 01223 335089 Fellow of St John´s College Cambridge, CB2 1TP 01223 768181 od245(a)cam.ac.uk

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CFP El'Manuscript: Textual Heritage and Information Technologies (Varna, Bulgaria, 15-20 Sept. 2014)
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

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this week's blog: San Francisco
by Lisa Fagin Davis 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip hangs out in the City by the Bay: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/manuscript-road-trip-nor… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Acting Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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The sum of medieval knowledge
by peter 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

I have submitted a presentation to the London Wikimania conference taking place 6-10 August 2014 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_sum_of_medieval_kn… . Anyone interested can sign their name up. The presentation is about making source documents (manuscripts, editions) more freely available on the web. Ed Buckner

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Training School: Creation and Use of Medieval Textual Corpora (16-24 Sep. 2014)
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

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Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA)
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

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Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) - DiXiT Camp 1
by Franz Fischer 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

* Apologies for cross-posting * Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) - DiXiT Camp 1 28 April – 2 May 2014, Cambridge & London We are very pleased to announce the fifth year of this course, funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), and run by DiXiT with the Institute of English Studies (London), the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King’s College London. For the first time, the course will run in two parallel strands: one on medieval and the other on modern manuscripts. The course is open to any arts and humanities doctoral students working with manuscripts. It involves five days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval or modern manuscripts to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats. The first half of the course involves morning classes and then afternoon visits to libraries in Cambridge and London. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning’s themes to concrete examples. In the second half we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers. The course is free of charge but is open only to doctoral students (PhD or equivalent). It is aimed at those writing dissertations relating to medieval or modern manuscripts, especially those working on literature, art or history. Some bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation. There are eighteen vacancies across the medieval and modern strands, and preference will be given to those considered by the selection panel likely to benefit most from the course. Applications close on 14 February 2014 but early registration is strongly recommended. For further details see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda.html or contact dixit-mmsda(a)uni-koeln.de - Please circulate widely! - -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 Email: franz.fischer(a)uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de http://www.i-d-e.de http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de http://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de http://confessio.ie

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