Dear DM-L Colleagues,
I and two colleagues have just published a study correcting a “misdiagnosed” plague image from the 14th century: Monica H. Green, Kathleen Walker-Meikle, and Wolfgang Müller, “Diagnosis of a ‘Plague’ Image: A Digital Cautionary Tale,” in Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, inaugural issue of The Medieval Globe 1 (Fall 2014), 309-26, available open-access at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_globe/1/. (Open-access funding was …
[View More]underwritten in this case by the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh.)
I’m sending notification to this list because this study may have implications for the wider Digital Medievalist community. What we argue is that a mistaken label was attached to an image being sold in the British Library’s “Images Online” database (where high-quality images are sold for a fee): the BL labels it “Plague victims blessed by priest." As far as we were able to determine, the misinformation originated with the staff of the BL and did not come from earlier scholarly misinterpretations. We argue that in fact it is clearly an image of leprosy—a “reading” of the image supported both by medieval iconographic traditions and, more importantly, by the text which surrounds the image in its original manuscript context. (We provide a full edition and translation of the Latin text in our study.)
The British Library has been apprised of our study, and they responded that they do intend to alter the meta-data attached to the image in their databases. I assume that also means that they will cease to market it as a “plague” image. (Images Online is the fee-based distribution office of the BL; the image is also available, at a lower resolution, in the BL Illuminated Manuscripts catalogue, where it is under a CC0 license.) Even if they correct the metadata, however, there is no way to “take back” all the incorrect uses of the image, given how widely it has already been disseminated into popular culture with the mistaken interpretation. (Most recently, in the BBC’s History magazine, October 2014, p. 90.)
I am not a coder myself and have only a user’s appreciation of the technical side of Digital Humanities. Still, given that metadata might well be seen as having a comparable value to the medieval texts and images we are concerned to digitize and/or analyze digitally, I thought this might be a case that people might find instructive.
Please feel free to contact me directly (monica.green(a)asu.edu) should you have any further questions about the image or our study.
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Monica Green
Professor of History
School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Box 874302
975 S Myrtle Ave
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
U.S.A.
monica.green(a)asu.edu<mailto:monica.green@asu.edu>
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/science/leprosy-still-claiming-victims.ht…
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death - inaugural issue of
The Medieval Globe (published 21 November 2014)
http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_globe/1/https://asu.academia.edu/MonicaHGreenhttps://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/384868
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This week, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies:
http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/manuscript-road-trip-the…
- Lisa
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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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Subject: [open-humanities] Digital Manuscripts Toolkit project job
vacancies
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:00:11 +0000
From: Iain Emsley <iainemsley(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: A list for people interested in the use of open source tools
and open access in humanities teaching and research
<open-humanities(a)lists.okfn.org>
To: A list for people interested in the use of open source tools and
open access in humanities teaching and research
<open-…
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Hi,
I've just come across a couple of job vacancies that may be of interest
on the Digital Manuscripts Toolkit project:
Front end/Javascript Developer:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJX020/front-end-javascript-developer/
Open Source Community Manager:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKB773/open-source-community-engagement-manager/
Details of the vacancies and so on are on the links as well as how to
apply.
Thanks,
Iain
Iain Emsley
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With the usual apologies for cross-posting
(French version below)
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The University ‘Stendhal’ of Grenoble 3, the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme-Alpes, L’Université Grenoble 2, the Humboldt Chair for Digital Humanities and HISOMA organise the conference “Digital Humanities: the example of Antiquity”. The conference will take place in Grenoble, from the 2nd to the 4th of September 2015.
The goal of this conference is twofold: at the same time an assessment of existing …
[View More]methodologies and a looking forward to new ones. It also has the objective of evaluating current practices of the application of Digital Humanities to the study of antiquity, practices which are quite numerous but also sometimes disconnected from each other and without an overall understanding. The conference also aims to contribute toward the design of new projects and the opening new paths, by establishing a dialogue between scholars for whom the Digital Humanities are already familiar and those wishing to acquire knowledge and practice in this domain.
The confirmed Keynote speakers are Gregory Crane (Tufts University & University of Leipzig) and Charlotte Roueché (King’s College London). The conference will be preceded by a workshop, particularly aimed at doctoral students, but open to everybody.
The study of Antiquity encompass very large geographical, historical and linguistic domains: from the Mediterranean to the borders of Europe and Asia, from the end of Prehistory to the Middle Ages, and from Greek and Latin to the languages of the Near and Middle East. This study is also distributed among different disciplines: Linguistics, Philology, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History, Archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics, etc. In all these disciplinary traditions, the application of computational techniques has been employed for several decades now, an application that has left quite a strong mark on the study of Antiquity. The employment of digital methods has also enabled substantial changes of methodology, the extent of which remains to be assessed.
Considering the diversity of such approaches in a context of research which is more and more internationalised, it seems worthwhile to present to scholars and PhD students an overview of current research in order to develop future endeavours.
The conference will be organised around four key topics: Editions of literary texts; Study of scholia and commentaries; Archaeology and Epigraphy; Prosopography and historical geography. Papers will focus on methodological questions and/or discuss general issues emerging within such topics. We also encourage proposals of posters presenting work in progress.
Please send your proposals of up to 300 words, in French or English (which will be the languages of the conference) by the 15th of January 2015 to the organisers:
icogitore(a)msh-alpes.fr
elena.pierazzo(a)u-grenoble3.fr
NB: In order to encourage the participation of young researchers, we will provide a limited number of bursaries. If you wish to be considered for one of these then please include a letter of motivation with your application.
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[French version]
Le colloque «Humanités numériques : l’exemple de l’Antiquité», qui aura lieu à Grenoble du 2 au 4 septembre 2015, est organisé par l’Université Grenoble 3, l’Université Grenoble 2, la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme-Alpes, The Humboldt Chair for Digital Humanities, HISOMA.
L’ambition de ce colloque est double, tournée vers du bilan et des perspectives, dans une orientation méthodologique. Ainsi, il a pour objectif de faire le point sur les pratiques actuelles, déjà nombreuses, mais souvent éparses, dans le domaine des humanités numériques appliquées à l’étude de l’Antiquité. En outre, il contribuera à définir de nouveaux projets et à ouvrir des pistes nouvelles en établissant un dialogue entre des spécialistes déjà habitués au numérique et des enseignants-chercheurs désireux de développer leurs connaissances et leur pratique dans ce domaine.
Les keynote speakers ayant confirmé leur participation sont Gregory Crane (Tufts University & Univ. of Leipzig) et Charlotte Roueché (King’s College London).
Les deux jours de colloque proprement dit (3 et 4 septembre) seront précédés d’une journée d’ateliers destinés spécialement aux doctorants mais ouvertes aussi aux enseignants chercheurs.
Les sciences de l’Antiquité embrassent un très large domaine géographique (de la Méditerranée aux confins de l’Europe et de l’Asie), historique (de la fin de la Préhistoire au début du Moyen Âge) et linguistique (principalement grec et latin, mais sans négliger les langues du Proche- et Moyen-Orient). Elles reposent également sur des traditions disciplinaires variées : linguistique, philologie, critique littéraire, philosophie, histoire, archéologie, épigraphie, numismatique, etc. Dans toutes ces traditions disciplinaires, l’application de technologies numériques a connu, depuis plusieurs décennies, un développement considérable, qui n’a pas manqué de se marquer aussi dans les sciences de l’Antiquité. Les technologies numériques ont permis des renouvellements méthodologiques, dont nous n’avons pas encore pris toute la mesure.
Devant la diversité de ces approches, dans un contexte de plus en plus internationalisé, il semble intéressant de proposer aux enseignants-chercheurs et aux doctorants un tour d’horizon de la recherche actuelle, qui permettra de dégager des perspectives pour le futur.
Quatre axes ont été retenus : éditions de textes littéraires ; études de scholies et commentaires ; archéologie et épigraphie ; prosopographie et géographie.
Les communications devront porter sur des questions méthodologiques et/ou poser des problèmes inhérents à ces démarches. Il est également possible de proposer des posters présentant des projets en cours.
Les propositions de communication ou de posters (300 mots maximum, en français ou anglais, qui seront les langues de communication du colloque) sont à adresser au comité d’organisation :
icogitore(a)msh-alpes.fr
elena.pierazzo(a)u-grenoble3.fr
au plus tard le 15 janvier 2015
NB : Quelques bourses sont prévues pour permettre la participation des jeunes chercheurs et doctorants. Si vous êtes intéressés par cette aide, merci de l’indiquer et d’argumenter votre demande par une lettre de motivation.
--
Elena Pierazzo
Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities
Bureau F307
Université de Grenoble 3 'Stendhal'
BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9
Tel. +33 4 76828032
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
King's College London
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL
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Probably more directed to the digital classicists, but I'm not on that
list, and with not much change, much of this would apply to medievalists
too.
-Sara
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Subject: ESSAY: on becoming a classics professor
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:34:32 +0000
From: Clark, Stephen <srlclark(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Reply-To: Clark, Stephen <srlclark(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
To: PHILOS-L(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
________________________________________
Via: humanist-bounces(a)…
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[humanist-bounces(a)lists.digitalhumanities.org] on behalf of Humanist
Discussion Group [willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk]
Sent: 21 November 2014 07:45
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:30:45 +0100
From: Gregory Crane <gregory.crane(a)tufts.edu>
Subject: Essay: "So you want to become a professor of Greek
and/or Latin?"
For what its worth: it is the time of year when people apply for PhD
programs in Classics (and everything else). I wrote this essay because I
think that the Digital Humanities have now reached a point where anyone
who wants to start a Classics career now (and thus would, if just out of
college, be looking at a career that could run through 2060) really
needs to come to grips with the "digital turn". I don't know of any PhD
program for Greek and Latin that really addresses the challenges that we
face as we reinvent our field to flourish in the digital world of which
we are all already a part. (I am hoping to be buried with counter-examples!)
Gregory Crane*
So you want to become a professor Greek and/or Latin? Think hard about
a PhD in Digital Humanities.
Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities
Universität Leipzig
Professor of Classics
Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship
Tufts University
I decided to write this piece because this is the time of year when
those who wish to become professional students of Greek and Latin are
deciding where they should apply for graduate schools. I am now starting
to see that the most interesting Phd projects on Greek and Latin are
taking place in PhD programs for the Digital Humanities and I think that
anyone who wishes to develop a career of sustained satisfaction needs to
think carefully about how they move forward. At the present time, I am
not aware of any traditional program in Greek and Latin that prepares
students for satisfying and sustainable careers.
This essay falls into three parts. First I suggest some words of
caution, including the well-known challenges about actually landing a
permanent faculty position, the amount of work that you will need to
commit if you want to maximize your chances for success and then, more
substantively, something about the actual work that supports faculty
Greek and Latin faculty positions in the United States and (much of)
Europe. The second section briefly touches upon some fundamental topics
that we must resolve if we are to rethink the study of Greek and Latin
(as I think we must if we are to survive, or perhaps even flourish): the
information that we produce, the knowledge that we internalize, the
values that we advance and the basis for the survival of our field. The
third section describes some topics that you will probably not find in a
standard program for Greek and Latin but that would greatly enhance your
ability to develop a sustainable career.
[for the rest: http://tinyurl.com/mwx6m35]*
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(Apologies for cross-posting, please share.)
On December 4th, staff from the Folger Shakespeare Library's Early Modern
Manuscripts Online (EMMO) Project (
http://collation.folger.edu/2013/11/emmo-early-modern-manuscripts-online/)
and the University of Pennsylvania Library's Kislak Center for Special
Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts (www.library.upenn.edu/kislak/)
will be on hand to introduce participants (and anyone who happens to wander
by) to the art of transcribing English …
[View More]manuscripts from the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. The Transcribathon will take place in the Class of
1978 Orrery Pavillion in the Kislak Center on the 6th floor of Penn's Van
Pelt Library, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA.
Transcribathon website: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/Transcribathon/
If you like puzzles and/or are interested in the early modern period then
you should consider joining the transcribathon! Work by yourself or with
friends. You might stay for just a few lines, or get hooked and transcribe
an entire piece.
Early Modern Manuscripts Online, or EMMO, is an IMLS-funded three-year
project that will ultimately provide scholars and the general public with
convenient web access to a searchable database of transcriptions and
digital images of a substantial number of the Folger Shakespeare Library's
English manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: letters,
diaries, wills, coats of arms, literary works, recipe books, miscellanies,
and more. The first phase of the project consists of creating and gathering
transcriptions, in order to create a corpus that is then vetted for
accuracy and consistency.
--
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
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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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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Dear colleagues,
you might be interested in the conference
"Historical Sources Just One Click Away. The Issue of Digital Editions
and Accessing Historical Sources in Virtual Space"
held at Masaryk University, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Department of
Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies
(the Conference Room: Arna Nováka 1, Building C, 2nd floor, Dean Office)
on
1st – 2nd December 2014
http://www.phil.muni.cz/wpvh/home/Downloads/workshop%20digi%20edice.pdf
Contact:
Petr Elbel
…
[View More]elbel(a)phl.muni.cz
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Assistant Professor Dr. Georg Vogeler
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung -
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Universität Graz
A-8010 Graz | Merangasse 70
Tel. +43 316 380 8033
<http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at> - <http://gams.uni-graz.at>
Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de>
International Center for Archival Research ICARus <http://www.icar-us.eu>
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Subject: [DHSI] Call for Papers: Women's History in the Digital World 2015
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:42:35 -0700
From: Evan McGonagill <emcgonagil(a)brynmawr.edu>
To: institute(a)lists.uvic.ca <institute(a)lists.uvic.ca>
Apologies for cross-posting
*Call for Papers: Women's History in the Digital World 2015*
The Second Conference of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center
for the History of Women's Education
May 21-22, 2015, Bryn Mawr …
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Women’s History in the Digital World 2015, the second conference of The
Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education
<http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu/>, will be held on the campus of Bryn
Mawr College <https://www.brynmawr.edu/> on May 21-22.
We aim to bring together experts, novices, and all those in between to
share insights, lessons, and resources for the many projects emerging at
the crossroads of history, the digital humanities, and women’s and
gender studies. Continuing a conversation begun at our inaugural meeting
in 2013, the conference will feature the work of librarians and
archivists, faculty, students, and other stakeholders in the development
of women’s and gender histories within digital scholarship.
The conference will feature a keynote address by Claire Bond Potter
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://chronicle.com/blognetwork…>,
Professor of History and Co-Director of the Humanities Action Lab at The
New School for Public Engagement.
Panels will be scheduled during the day Thursday, May 21, and the
morning of May 22; a projects showcase and digital lab will offer
opportunities for unstructured conversation and demonstrations.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We invite individual papers or full panel proposals on women’s and
gender history projects with a digital component, investigating the
complexities of creating, managing, researching and/or teaching with
digital resources and digitized materials.
All thematic areas, geographies, and time periods are welcome: this is a
chance to share knowledge, network, and promote collaborations that
locate new possibilities.
To submit a proposal, please send the following information by email to
greenfieldhwe(a)brynmawr.edu <mailto:greenfieldhwe@brynmawr.edu>:
complete contact information including current email and
institutional affiliation, if any;
short (150-200 word) biography for each presenter; and
abstract (s) of the proposed presentation (500 words for single
paper, poster, or demonstration, or 1,500-2000 words for panels of 3 papers)
The deadline for submissions is *Friday, January 16, 2015*.
INFORMATION ON THE GREENFIELD DIGITAL CENTER
Women’s History in the Digital World 2015 is organized by The Albert M.
Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education with the
support of Bryn Mawr College Libraries and The Gladys Krieble Delmas
Foundation. Launched in 2011, and housed in Bryn Mawr College Special
Collections, the Center serves as an online locus of scholarship on the
history of women’s higher education. Through its blog, exhibits,
instructional lesson plans, and digital collections the Center provides
informative materials and a digital space for teaching and learning on
these topics.
Bryn Mawr College is located less than fifteen miles outside of Center
City Philadelphia <http://www.brynmawr.edu/campus/visiting.shtml>,
easily accessible by both car and public transportation.
Visit the 2013 conference repository to read more about our first
meeting: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/greenfield_conference/
<http://repository.brynmawr.edu/greenfield_conference/>.
To learn more about the Greenfield Digital Center, visit
http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu <http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu>.
For updates, follow the Greenfield Digital Center on Twitter:
@GreenfieldHWE
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://twitter.com/GreenfieldHW…>
and the conference hashtag, #WHDigWrld
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://twitter.com/hashtag/whdi…>.
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Dear Colleagues,
Please forgive any duplication of this message in your inbox.
We are in the process of putting together a volume of chapters and commentary, currently under strong consideration by Amsterdam University Press, discussing the problems and opportunities of digital methods and tools for the specific humanistic problems scholars working with medieval texts and materials face. You do not have to self-identify as a digital humanities scholar to contribute – only have an interest in …
[View More]what is made possible by these new methodologies or a project you are working on that includes a digital element. It is also our desire that the volume becomes a conversation, and as such we would like all authors writing for the volume to read and comment on the other chapters when the topics are of interest.
If you have an idea for a chapter that you think might fit the planned outline of the book, attached below, please send an abstract of your proposed chapter (roughly a page) to matthew(a)matthewedavis.net <mailto:matthew@matthewedavis.net> by December 1st. Our plan is that all chapters will be completed and in the editors hands by November of 2015 and the completed volume, including commentary, will be in the hands of the publishers by March of 2016.
Thank you,
Matthew Evan Davis
North Carolina State University
Tamsyn Rose-Steel
Johns Hopkins University
Ece Turnator
University of Texas at Austin
—
The book will be organized into four broad categories intended to reflect the practice of digital humanities in medieval studies, and reflecting our desire to explore both the contributors’ work on digital medieval projects and their thoughts on how digital tools and methods have changed medieval study. These categories should not be seen as an attempt to wall off methods of scholarship – the intention of the volume is that the contributed pieces will be in dialogue with each other – but to place thematically similar pieces in proximity to each other. The categories are:
• Texts and Contexts
The binary foundation of the digital – the zero and one or off and on at the heart of it – causes its division into discrete pieces. That tendency them migrates up the chain of data categorization, placing those discrete items into their own pigeonholes. Those things that resist neat categorization or binary distinction have a tendency to be lost, and that loss will only increase as more and more analog cultural artifacts are described and categorized digitally. Those chapters in the Texts and Contexts section are thus concerned not only with the content of a work – things intentionally placed such as the text of a poem, the image of an artistic work or sculpture, or the presentation layer of a website – but with the ancillary elements that define, or once defined, the context of the work and which are equally important to its production and understanding.
• Things and Spaces
Complementary to the question of text and context is one of representation: how do you represent a three-dimensional object, with its real, physical presence, in an essentially two-dimensional digital construct presented on a screen? Should there be large- scale visualization spaces available so that individuals can ‘walk’ inside a scale representation of a medieval cathedral, for example, and if so how should the cathedral be represented? Should its artificial nature be occluded in an attempt at true verisimilitude or should it be acknowledged and the real and physical privileged? Furthermore, our relationships with virtual representations of small objects, such as codices, appear on the surface to be well-trod ground but in fact their reconstruction forces us to think anew about concepts such as reception and memory. The chapters in this section engage with the presentation of objects as objects, with their own physicality and cultural weight, and question how best to both engage with and honor all of those aspects digitally.
• Tools and Techniques
Because very few digital tools and platforms are actually built for humanities questions, much less the specific questions that medievalists working with those tools might ask, there is a tension between what the researcher wants from the tool, what the tool can do, and what the tool might be reasonably be made able to do. The chapters in this category deal primarily with the technical opportunities and issues of using computational tools to do medieval humanities scholarship. What exactly are the underlying implications of choosing a particular metadata standard – can such choices be seen as ‘neutral’? In choosing a tool such as TEI or creating an algorithm to track word usage across a corpus, to what are scholars committing themselves, and what are they discarding?
• Collaborations
Due to the nature of training in the humanities and the hardware and software packages necessary to undertake a digital project, there are very few scholars who can engage in a digital project alone. Thus, unlike the traditional model of the lone scholar working on a monograph, digital scholarship tends both to be collaborative and to require significant funding. The scholar who manages such a project faces two interrelated challenges: first, that the project not exceed its original scholarly intent – a condition known to the programming community as “scope creep.” Second, that all members of the collaborative team be rewarded in the ways that are meaningful to their particular discipline – a CV line for the scholar, a service item or additional technical tool for a library employee, or a particularly challenging technical “hack” that can then be used elsewhere or foregrounded on the resume for the programmer. The chapters in this section discuss specific pitfalls involved in trying to explain and justify a medievally-focused digital project to the larger funding structures of an institution.
Intentionally broad, these categories are not designed to be traditionally disciplinary. Instead, our aim is that they reflect the interdisciplinary nature of some of the best digital humanities projects, the holistic nature of medieval culture that has been artificially divided by modern disciplinary boundaries, and the push towards interdisciplinary scholarship in the academy. Furthermore, by suggesting an alternate way of thinking about the objects of our study and the scholarship produced, notions that this “isn’t my area” are abolished and discussions amongst the participants – either in the volume itself or in an ancillary website – are fostered.
We are envisioning roughly sixteen chapters to the volume divided amongst the four categories, with a different author writing each chapter. After completing their chapters the authors will be encouraged to read and comment on each other’s work, and that conversation will be included in the volume and hopefully on an ancillary, ongoing website forum.
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