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HASTAC 2015 Deadline Tomorrow, 10/31!
by Kristen Mapes 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

*HASTAC 2015: Exploring the Art & Science of Digital Humanities* May 27-30, 2015 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Submissions *Deadline EXTENDED to: October 31, 2014*, 5:00pm EST (Proposals are welcomed at: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hastac2015>) Join us on the campus of Michigan State University to celebrate and explore the range of Digital Humanities Scholarship, Research, and Performance! We welcome sessions that address, exemplify, and interrogate the interdisciplinary nature of DH work. HASTAC 2015 challenges participants to consider how the interplay of science, technology, social sciences, humanities, and arts are producing new forms of knowledge, disrupting older forms, challenging or reifying power relationships, among other possibilities. Themes addressed by the conference include: - the changing nature of humanities research and scholarship - indigenous culture, decolonial and post-colonial theory and technology - technology and education - open learning, peer learning, and issues of access, equity for primary and/or higher education - communication of knowledge, publishing, and intellectual property - digital cultural heritage and hegemony - crowd dynamics, global outreach, and social media - technology and social identity and roles: gender, race, and other identities - digital animation and other visualization media arts and sciences - games and gaming, including for learning - community development including the importance of art and culture districts - mobile technologies, activity streams, and experience design - cognitive and other dimensions of creativity, innovation, and scholarship HASTAC 2015 will include plenary addresses, panel presentations (variations detailed below), maker sessions, workshops, exhibitions, performances and tech demos. We seek proposals for participant presentations in the following categories: * 5-8 minute lightning talks * 15-20 minute talks * 75 minute curated panels (lightning talks, longer talks, curated conversation) * project demos * digital and/or print posters * creative performances or exhibitions * maker sessions or workshops For each submission, we will need the following information from you: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, email, and institutional affiliation, if any; 2) 500 word abstract of the work you would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference themes; 3) any technical requirements or other support (including space requirements) that may be required for the presentation. For exhibitions or other performances, please indicate any equipment that is absolutely required and that you cannot bring with you. In the event that we cannot guarantee access to the equipment, we regret that we may not be able to accept your proposal. All proposals will be peer-reviewed, but we regret that we cannot provide detailed reviewer feedback. We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their careers from all disciplines and fields, from private sector companies and public sector organizations, from artists and public intellectuals, and from networks and individuals. Submit your proposal here. <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hastac2015> If you have any questions or require more information, please e-mail us at hastac2015(a)gmail.com Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Specialist College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University 718-216-5695 kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Job: Director of Academic IT Services, University of Oxford
by James Cummings 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Please consider coming to be our Director of Academic IT Services, or forwarding to others who might be interested. ==== **Director of Academic IT Services** IT Services, Central Oxford In the region of £70,000 p.a. Closing Date: 1 December 2014 We are looking for an experienced, highly skilled and strategically-minded individual to lead the Academic IT Group of IT Services, managing a group of over 30 highly skilled staff. The group works with academics, students, and staff to assist in the effective use of technologies for teaching, learning and research. It develops and supports the University’s virtual learning environment (VLE); offers services to record and publish lectures, seminars and events; and develops collections of reusable and open educational materials. The group also provides guidance to Oxford academics in support of research projects from provision of websites, to assistance with research data management, software selection, and collaborative tools. As Director of Academic IT, you will co-ordinate and promote a range of services offered at local, national and international level and be responsible for the strategic development of the group reflecting the priorities of Oxford University and IT Services. You will also work with Pro-Vice Chancellors and other Oxford units in the development and implementation of a digital education strategy. - Do you have extensive knowledge of current e-learning and e-research initiatives? - Do you have a vision for the future of digital technologies in learning, teaching and research? - Do you have the motivational skills to develop this at a world-leading university? - Are you aware of current trends in the provision of IT services within Higher Education? - Do you have excellent management skills? If so we look forward to hearing from you. You are expected to have a high level of knowledge, intellectual capacity, reasoning and analytical skills to degree level or equivalent (which may be in experience). http://bit.ly/OxfordAcademicIT https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… Contact: recruitment(a)admin.ox.ac.uk ====

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Job in Cologne: Software Developer/Digital Humanist
by Franz Fischer 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

*** Apologies for cross posting *** The Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) at the University of Cologne (Germany) is offering a position for a Digital Humanist / Software Developer (3 years, TV-L 13, full-time with part-time option, starting 1 January 2015) Tasks Collaboration on different projects; among others an international EU-funded project aiming at providing access to archival material for academics and the public: - implementation of open-source Web 2.0 features and tools - usability of technical tools in the environment of digital archival material - crowdsourcing tools for indexing and transcription on the basis of a web-based XML WYSIWYM - gamification features - development / enhancement / implementation of tools for image cropping, text image linking, image annotation (supported by tagging taxonomies, vocabularies and folksonomies) - information enrichment (e.g. named entities) with authority files, Required skills - x-technologies (XML, XSLT, XQuery, XML-DB) - web technologies (including deeper understanding of JavaScript) - software development experience - experience in distributed collaboration using git and issue tracking software - dissemination & communication skills Desirable skills - additional programming languages (e.g. Java/C++, Ruby, Python, PHP) - data and metadata standards in the Digital Humanities (CEI/TEI, EAD) - digitization of cultural heritage objects (artifacts / images / texts) - understanding humanities concepts and finding ways to realize them as technical solutions A working knowledge / understanding of German should be acquired within 1 year. Application Deadline: 17 November 2014 Applications should include a brief cover letter and a CV and may include links to projects. Applications must be sent electronically to info-cceh(a)uni-koeln.de. For further information or in case of queries contact Dr. Patrick Sahle at info-cceh(a)uni-koeln.de. http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/node/565 Please circulate widely! -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities 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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REMINDER & UPDATE_7th Annual Schoenberg Symposium
by Lynn Ransom 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

**with the usual apologies for cross-posting** 7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age November 6-8, 2014 Collecting Histories In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 7th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium highlights the work of the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts by bringing together scholars and digital humanists whose work concerns the study of provenance and the history of collecting pre-modern manuscripts. The life of a manuscript book only just begins when the scribe lays down his pen. What happens from that moment to the present day can reveal a wealth of information about readership and reception across time, about the values of societies, institutions, and individuals who create, conserve, and disperse manuscript collections for a variety of reasons, and about the changing role of manuscripts across time, from simple vehicles of textual transmission to revered objects of collectors' desires. The study of provenance is the study of the histories of the book. PROGRAM ADDITION: In addition to the regular program of papers and workshops, we will be offering an opportunity to test-drive a prototype for the public user interface for the NEH-funded New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts on Friday, November 7, at 5 pm. This interface will allow users to contribute, edit, and evaluate manuscript data. All registrants are invited to this special session. We need your input! For more information and to register online, go to http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium7.html. Or contact Lynn Ransom at lransom(a)upenn.edu.

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RTI Renderings of the St Chad Gospels Available
by Endres, William F 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Dear Colleagues, I am happy to announce that I have interactive Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) files of the 8th-century St Chad Gospels available for viewing on the Web: https://lichfield.as.uky.edu . This past summer, I used RTI (originally known as Polynomial Texture Mapping, PTM) to capture dry-point glosses and the state of pigments in the 8th-century St Chad Gospels. RTI proved wonderfully successful, even capturing dry-point glosses that had previously gone unnoticed. These files are viewable in a regular browser and allow viewers to control the angle of light and adjust a specular enhanced view of surface details. I also have a short video about RTI and the Chad Gospels' dry-point glosses on the website, but it is also viewable directly on YouTube: http://youtu.be/SEr0rO3UHjs . All best, Bill -- Manuscripts of Lichfield Cathedral https://lichfield.as.uky.edu Bill Endres University of Kentucky Division of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies Lexington, KY 40506 859-257-8337

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HASTAC 2015 CFP Deadline Extended to 10/31!
by Kristen Mapes 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

*HASTAC 2015: Exploring the Art & Science of Digital Humanities* May 27-30, 2015 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Submissions *Deadline EXTENDED to: October 31, 2014*, 5:00pm EST (Proposals are welcomed at: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hastac2015>) Join us on the campus of Michigan State University to celebrate and explore the range of Digital Humanities Scholarship, Research, and Performance! We welcome sessions that address, exemplify, and interrogate the interdisciplinary nature of DH work. HASTAC 2015 challenges participants to consider how the interplay of science, technology, social sciences, humanities, and arts are producing new forms of knowledge, disrupting older forms, challenging or reifying power relationships, among other possibilities. Themes addressed by the conference include: - the changing nature of humanities research and scholarship - indigenous culture, decolonial and post-colonial theory and technology - technology and education - open learning, peer learning, and issues of access, equity for primary and/or higher education - communication of knowledge, publishing, and intellectual property - digital cultural heritage and hegemony - crowd dynamics, global outreach, and social media - technology and social identity and roles: gender, race, and other - identities - digital animation and other visualization media arts and sciences - games and gaming, including for learning - community development including the importance of art and culture - mobile technologies, activity streams, and experience design - cognitive and other dimensions of creativity, innovation, and scholarship HASTAC 2015 will include plenary addresses, panel presentations (variations detailed below), maker sessions, workshops, exhibitions, performances and tech demos. We seek proposals for participant presentations in the following categories: * 5-8 minute lightning talks * 15-20 minute talks * 75 minute curated panels (lightning talks, longer talks, curated conversation) * project demos * digital and/or print posters * creative performances or exhibitions * maker sessions or workshops For each submission, we will need the following information from you: 1) complete contact information including valid phone, email, and institutional affiliation, if any; 2) 500 word abstract of the work you would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference themes; 3) any technical requirements or other support (including space requirements) that may be required for the presentation. For exhibitions or other performances, please indicate any equipment that is absolutely required and that you cannot bring with you. In the event that we cannot guarantee access to the equipment, we regret that we may not be able to accept your proposal. Digital and/or Print Posters Wanted! Print posters (4 x 3¹) and electronic posters (to be projected) are solicited for emerging projects, ideas, and scholars. In presenting your research with a poster, you should aim to use the poster as a means for generating active discussion of your research. Limit the text to about one-fourth of the poster space, and use visuals (graphs, photographs, schematics, maps, etc.) to tell your story. Use the regular submission form, but indicate that you are proposing a Poster by checking the appropriate box. Maker Sessions & Workshops We will provide some room and resources for individuals or groups to create informal maker spaces, where conference participants can share, exchange, and experiment with new online tools, personal fabrication technologies, open source electronics such as Arduino, and other creative and learning devices and gadgets. To propose a maker session or workshop, please use the standard submission form and indicate that yours is a maker session. Please also tell us how long the session Requires! All proposals will be peer-reviewed, but we regret that we cannot provide detailed reviewer feedback. We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their careers from all disciplines and fields, from private sector companies and public sector organizations, from artists and public intellectuals, and from networks and individuals. Submit your proposal here. <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hastac2015> **Submissions will be processed using EasyChair. If you do not already have an EasyChair account, you will need to sign up for one in order to submit a proposal.** If you have any questions or require more information, please e-mail us at hastac2015(a)gmail.com Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Specialist College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University 718-216-5695 kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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latest blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 12 Oct '14

12 Oct '14

This week, the Virginias... https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/manuscript-road-trip-on… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis 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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CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, July 22-24 2015
by Dot Porter 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

(apologies for cross-posting) See call for presentations below for the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference. The name of the conference is taken from Pennsylvania's official nickname "The Keystone State," and although we encourage proposals from within the state we welcome proposals from anywhere, and from any area of the digital humanities. *** Keystone Digital Humanities, a conference at the University of Pennsylvania with the KeystoneDH Initiative CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS The Keystone Digital Humanities conference will be held in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, July 22-24, 2015. Proposals are now invited for long presentations (20 minutes), short presentations (7 minutes), and project showcases (10 minutes) in all areas of digital humanities. Presentations may take the form of interactive presentations, short papers, project demos, or panel discussions. We welcome proposals from emerging and veteran students, teachers, and scholars. For more information, visit our conference website at http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/KeystoneDH/. The community will be invited to vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. The 10 proposals with the highest scores are guaranteed a slot at the conference. The Program Committee will curate the remainder of the program in an effort to ensure diversity in program content and presenters. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions. Please send your name, email address, and a proposal of 200-300 words to keystonedh.conference(a)gmail.com. The proposal deadline is January 2, 2015, and community peer review will run from January 15-February 15. Proposers will be notified by March 1. We anticipate that we will have a small number of travel bursaries for graduate and undergraduate students. Thanks from the Conference Organizing Committee Dawn Childress, Penn State University Molly Des Jardin, University of Pennsylvania Mitch Fraas, University of Pennsylvania Patricia Hswe, Penn State University Diane Jakacki, Bucknell University David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania Dennis Mullen, University of Pennsylvania William Noel, University of Pennsylvania James O'Sullivan, Penn State University Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania Katie Rawson, University of Pennsylvania Matt Shoemaker, Temple University Stefan Sinclair, McGill University Rebecca Stuhr, University of Pennsylvania -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Database of the Letters of Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085)
by Christian Schwaderer 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Dear Digital Medievalists I'm glad to inform you about a database which might be of some interest to those of you working on the late eleventh century, the investiture conflict or papal history. Today, I've finished and published a database collecting and containing information on where and in which collections/contexts the letters of pope Gregory VII were transmitted. www.g7ldb.history.uni-tuebingen.de No full text of any letter is included (yet?) but nevertheless you can do rather advanced search queries. There are also a synopsis of letters and collections and a visualisation of the transmission. Both show ALL elements by default, but are designed to display your selection of items. I appreciate any feedback, via mail or the forms at the bottom of each page in the database. For those of you rather interested in the technical side, just a few words: The raw data is all in XML, with some elements in TEI. Wherever possible, static HTML pages are created via XSLT. Search and synopsis and visualisation of user selections are also done with XSLT, but in real time on the server using Saxon/C. PHP is used to manage these transformations and also the user sessions. eXist or any other XML database is nowhere involved. I guess, this solution is somehow “unorthodox”, but after all: It's working! (At least, I hope so.) I hope, the database is of some use at least to some of you! Best regards Christian -- Dr. Christian Schwaderer (Akademischer Mitarbeiter) Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Philosophische Fakultät Fachbereich Geschichtswissenschaft Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte Wilhelmstraße 36 (Hegelbau)· 72074 Tübingen · Germany Zimmer 212 Telefon +49 7071 29-72990· Telefax +49 7071 29-5905 christian.schwaderer(a)uni-tuebingen.de

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Call for papers 'Software as Scholarship', Bern, 29-30 January 2015
by Tara Andrews 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Abstracts are now invited for a two-day workshop, jointly organised by Digital Humanities @ Uni Bern and Infoclio.ch, to be held 29-30 January 2015. The full call for participation is now online: http://www.dh.unibe.ch/en/2014/08/software-scholarship/ https://infoclio.ch/en/node/135615 Deadline for abstract submission: 11 October 2014. With best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities, Universität Bern http://www.dh.unibe.ch/ *Scholarship in Software, Software as Scholarship: From Genesis to Peer Review* *‘Expressions’, 29 January 2015: Workshop on Software-based Scholarship* *Organizer: Digital Humanities, Universität Bern* Computation and software analysis have entered nearly every imaginable field of scholarship in the last decades, in a variety of forms from digital publication of results to computational modelling embedded in experimental work. In each of these digital outputs – be it an interactive publication with mapping of relevant geo-referenced data, or perhaps a statistical program for the categorization of millions of books according to their literary genre – there is some manifestation directly in the computer code of the scholarly thought that underlies the project, of the intellectual argument around which the outcome is based. The fact that scholarly software includes scholarly content is reasonably well-accepted. What remains controversial is the attempt at identification, in any particular instance, of what scholarly contribution has been made by a piece of software. Its makers tend to express the scholarship in writing separate from the software itself, if they even make explicit at all the scholarly reasoning that went into the code; its reviewers and users tend either to treat the software as a ‘black box’, opaque to informed scrutiny and therefore to be looked on with grave suspicion, or to deny that this particular software has any scholarship inherent to the source code. Given that our mechanisms for identifying and evaluating the scholarship within computer code are nearly nonexistent, we must ask: how do intellectual arguments — how does scholarship — come to be expressed in the software of digital humanities? How does this scholarship, so evident in theory but so elusive in practice, fit into the scientific process of advancement of knowledge? *‘Evaluation’, 30 January 2015: Round table on Peer Review for Digital Scholarly Work* *Organizer: Infoclio.ch* Related to the question of the expression of scholarship in software, and in other forms of digital publication as well, is the question of how to evaluate it. This topic will be the focus of a half-day roundtable, Peer Review for Digital Scholarly Work, to be held on 30 January 2015. Digital scholarly works such as Digital Editions, Digital Libraries, Digital Exhibitions, Data Visualization, Geographical Information Systems and the like are increasingly frequent in the Humanities, as main or secondary output of research projects; the question of how best to evaluate them takes on ever greater importance. At the moment, researchers doing digital scholarly work are usually unable to obtain academic credit for their work—in order to obtain scholarly recognition, they must additionally publish a “normal” article in a print-based journal about their digital work. As universities and national research funding agencies across the world move toward encouraging more digital scholarship in the humanities, there is an urgent need to discuss the criteria and benchmarks that should be in place for evaluating digital scholarly work. We welcome contributions about existing initiatives in this domain as well as more theoretical contributions that treat the topic of peer review of digital scholarly work.

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