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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2014: Registration Closes 23 June
by James Cummings 30 May '14

30 May '14

(apologies for cross-posting, please forward on!) A reminder that registration for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) will be closing in less than a month. DHOxSS is an annual event for anyone interested in Digital Humanities. This year's DHOxSS will be held on 14-18 July 2014. Register now at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2014/ Promotional video at: http://youtu.be/lBO7kT3D94A DHOxSS is for researchers, project managers, research assistants, students, and anyone interested in Digital Humanities. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our five-day workshops and supplements this with morning parallel lectures. There will also be a (peer-reviewed) poster session giving delegates a chance to present posters on their Digital Humanities work to those at the DHOxSS. This year's five-day workshops are: 1. Introduction to Digital Humanities 2. Taking Control: Practical Scripting for Digital Humanities Projects 3. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities 4. A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web 5. Using the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Scholarly Editions Morning additional parallel lectures include contributions from: James Brusuelas, Lou Burnard, Julia Craig-McFeely, Eugene Giddens, Emma Goodwin, Howard Hotson, William Kilbride,Eleanor Lowe, Christine Madsen, Carole Palmer, Allen H. Renear, Kerri Russell, Judith Siefring, Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Kenji Takeda, Zixi You, David Zeitlyn, and more. Opening and closing keynote lectures: Ray Siemens and Melissa Terras Evening events: Monday - a peer-reviewed poster session and reception at Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Tuesday - a guided tour around Oxford city centre; Wednesday - an elegant drinks reception and three course dinner at historic Wadham College; Thursday - The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Lecture by Martin Roth (Director of the V&A); Friday - Trip to the pub. 10% discount on registration fees if you block book 10 or more places from a single institution. DHOxSS is a collaboration between the University of Oxford's IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre, the Bodleian Libraries, the Oxford Internet Institute, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. We are very pleased this year to partner with the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to provide the Data Curation and Access workshop. Thanks to all our other external partners listed here: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/about.html. If you have questions, then email us at events(a)it.ox.ac.uk for answers. More details at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2014/ James Cummings Director of DHOxSS

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Proposed Changes to DM
by Stokes, Peter 27 May '14

27 May '14

Dear all, I apologise for the length of this e-mail, but I write regarding a series of fairly fundamental changes to the DM infrastructure that we have been planning for some time now. Given the scale of these changes, we on the DM Board think it is important to explain these in some detail and request feedback from the Community before we go ahead with them. They will also require a change of the Byelaws, and so again we need input from the Community for this. Unfortunately the existing infrastructure has proven unmanageable. The wiki and mailing-list have both been subject to large-scale spam attacks, such that the wiki now contains many many thousands of articles, only 70 or so of which are genuine. The wiki has also had almost no activity beyond that of the Board, and so it has not been doing the job that we had hoped. Furthermore the website itself, which we have been hosting and coding ourselves (with substantial help from James Cummings and Dan O’Donnell) is also proving increasingly difficult to manage: it depends on the generosity of James and Dan to host and administer, even adding new pages is not trivial, and it has needed a dramatic overhaul for some time but to do this requires much more time and effort than we have been able to manage. For all of these reasons, we propose the following: 1. Moving the static website from the existing infrastructure (Cocoon + TEI + custom XSLT) to a standard CMS (currently Wordpress). 2. Closing down the wiki entirely and replacing it with a blog. 3. For the moment we are leaving the Journal in place, but we are very likely to move it to a dedicated open journal hosting of some sort. We have been discussing this in some detail with Revues.org but are not yet committed to this. As most of you have realised, we have already set up a Wordpress version of the site at <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>, and this is already proving to overcome the problems listed above. The proposal is therefore to make this the DM site and close down the old one, except perhaps for the Journal. However, the current Byelaws require that DM maintains a wiki (see <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#wiki>). The Board is therefore not free to close the existing wiki without first changing the Byelaws. Even if we chose to keep the wiki, however, the Board feels that the Byelaws should not lock us into using any single technology, and so they should be changed even if we keep the existing infrastructure. The details of the proposed changes to the Byelaws will be posted shortly as a separate e-mail and on the new website, but in essence we propose simply to replace the term 'wiki' with 'information resources' and to adapt the containing sentences accordingly. We would be grateful for any feedback about any aspect of this, preferably by e-mail to the list for general discussion, or alternatively to board(a)digitalmedievalist.org or any members of the Board directly. The next Board meeting is 4pm GMT+1 on Monday 2 June, at which point any comments will be discussed, and any changes in the Byelaws will be presented to the membership for vote shortly after that (as specified in §9 of the Byelaws: <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#amendments>). Thank you, and we look forward to receiving your comments. Peter Stokes (on behalf of the Executive Board) -- Dr Peter Stokes Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 218, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk

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Job posting: Programmer Analyst, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
by Lynn Ransom 22 May '14

22 May '14

**Apologies for cross-posting & please distribute freely and widely!** Programmer Analyst, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries IT Graded Rank: B Ref. no: 50-17613 To apply, go to: https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/4129 Salary range: $39-$60,000 With a growing collection of over 215,000 records representing approximately 100,000 manuscripts, the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM <http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/index.html> ) is the largest freely available repository of data on manuscript books produced before 1600. The SDBM, maintained by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, is seeking to fill a three-year, full-time, NEH-funded Programmer Analyst position to redevelop the SDBM into an online, open-access, collaborative tool for researching the historic and current locations of the world's manuscripts. Working directly with the project manager and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS <http://schoenberginstitute.org/> ) Digital Content Programmer, the PA will build a crowd-sourced application providing web, mobile, and application interfaces for the discovery, access, and entry of manuscript data, using web development frameworks such as Django, jQuery, and Bootstrap. The PA will also work with the library's Information Technologies and Digital Development (iTaDD) department's Digital Library Architecture (DLA), which will provide core data access API's for the SDBM. Required are a Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information science, or relevant discipline and at least 1 year experience with web application development for publicly accessible, interactive websites using relevant technologies such as jQuery, Django, or Grails as well as using data structures from SQL or XML or equivalent combination of education and experience. The candidate should also possess the following: * Proven development skills, including developing rich interactive websites * Experience working with SQL databases * Experience working with source code version control systems, such as Git, Subversion, or Mercurial * Experience with unit and integration testing practices * Outstanding communication skills * Ability to work effectively with stakeholders and work collaboratively with technical staff * Demonstrated capacity to learn new methods and processes Not required, but desirable are: Knowledge of HTML5; mobile application development; document databases; Linked Open Data (LOD); and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines; and experience working in a digital humanities environment. To apply, go to: https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/4129 ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851 http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg

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Re: [dm-l] Proposed Changes to DM
by Kalvesmaki, Joel 21 May '14

21 May '14

My research in late antiquity falls between the worlds of classical and medieval scholarship. So when I first began to consider which Wiki to contribute to, DM or the Digital Classicist (wiki.digitalclassicist.org), I opted for the latter because it had garnered the most contributions and was at the time the most active. But I wondered at the time why medievalists and classicists really needed separate wikis anyway, since the material that was populating the pages applied to any field studying pre-modernity. Material surfaces in both spheres of exploration that could benefit any other. Thus, the "classicist" in "Digital Classicist" is not restricted to pre-2nd c. material; their wiki already has quite a lot of medieval and Byzantine content on it. So instead of altering the bylaws, why not simply have DM endorse either the DC wiki or a comparable one? Follow the road of collaboration? Best wishes, jk -- Joel Kalvesmaki Editor in Byzantine Studies Dumbarton Oaks 1703 32nd St. NW Washington, DC 20007 (202) 339-6435 ________________________________________ From: dm-l [dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca] on behalf of Stokes, Peter [peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:05 AM To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Subject: [SPAM - Header] - [dm-l] Proposed Changes to DM - Email found in subject Dear all, I apologise for the length of this e-mail, but I write regarding a series of fairly fundamental changes to the DM infrastructure that we have been planning for some time now. Given the scale of these changes, we on the DM Board think it is important to explain these in some detail and request feedback from the Community before we go ahead with them. They will also require a change of the Byelaws, and so again we need input from the Community for this. Unfortunately the existing infrastructure has proven unmanageable. The wiki and mailing-list have both been subject to large-scale spam attacks, such that the wiki now contains many many thousands of articles, only 70 or so of which are genuine. The wiki has also had almost no activity beyond that of the Board, and so it has not been doing the job that we had hoped. Furthermore the website itself, which we have been hosting and coding ourselves (with substantial help from James Cummings and Dan O’Donnell) is also proving increasingly difficult to manage: it depends on the generosity of James and Dan to host and administer, even adding new pages is not trivial, and it has needed a dramatic overhaul for some time but to do this requires much more time and effort than we have been able to manage. For all of these reasons, we propose the following: 1. Moving the static website from the existing infrastructure (Cocoon + TEI + custom XSLT) to a standard CMS (currently Wordpress). 2. Closing down the wiki entirely and replacing it with a blog. 3. For the moment we are leaving the Journal in place, but we are very likely to move it to a dedicated open journal hosting of some sort. We have been discussing this in some detail with Revues.org but are not yet committed to this. As most of you have realised, we have already set up a Wordpress version of the site at <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>, and this is already proving to overcome the problems listed above. The proposal is therefore to make this the DM site and close down the old one, except perhaps for the Journal. However, the current Byelaws require that DM maintains a wiki (see <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#wiki>). The Board is therefore not free to close the existing wiki without first changing the Byelaws. Even if we chose to keep the wiki, however, the Board feels that the Byelaws should not lock us into using any single technology, and so they should be changed even if we keep the existing infrastructure. The details of the proposed changes to the Byelaws will be posted shortly as a separate e-mail and on the new website, but in essence we propose simply to replace the term 'wiki' with 'information resources' and to adapt the containing sentences accordingly. We would be grateful for any feedback about any aspect of this, preferably by e-mail to the list for general discussion, or alternatively to board(a)digitalmedievalist.org or any members of the Board directly. The next Board meeting is 4pm GMT+1 on Monday 2 June, at which point any comments will be discussed, and any changes in the Byelaws will be presented to the membership for vote shortly after that (as specified in §9 of the Byelaws: <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#amendments>). Thank you, and we look forward to receiving your comments. Peter Stokes (on behalf of the Executive Board) -- Dr Peter Stokes Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 218, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk 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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Proposed Changes to Byelaws
by Stokes, Peter 21 May '14

21 May '14

Dear all, Following my earlier e-mail, full details of the proposed changes to the Byelaws are now available at <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/proposed-change-to-byela…>, and the relevant sections are reproduced below for your reference. As mentioned, any comments on the wording of the Byelaws should be received before the next meeting of the Board on 2 June 2014 by 3pm GMT. Even if we do retain the wiki, the opinion of the Board is that the Byelaws should still change, as we think it is not best practice to codify any single technology into a governance document like this. For that reason I'm hoping to keep the discussion of the Byelaws separate from that of the infrastructure, if that's possible, so I'll reply to the infrastructure thread shortly. All the best, Peter 1 Preamble 1. The name of this organisation is ‘Digital Medievalist’ (hereafter abbreviated ‘DM’). 2. The primary purpose of DM is to be an international community of practice supporting ‘digital medievalism’, which is understood to be an interest in the creation, use of, or research using digital objects relating to the Middle Ages. 3. DM will have other purposes and objectives as decided by the DM Board. These include: * To provide an online mailing list (dm-l) as a forum for members of DM to discuss digital medievalism. * To publish a free online open-access peer-reviewed journal entitled ‘Digital Medievalist’ as a high quality publication of work of interest to digital medievalists. * To host a wiki to record information online information resources of use to digital medievalists. [...] 3 DM Board 3.1 Organization and Responsibilities 1. DM will be governed by a Board elected by its membership. [See also now Election Procedures<http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/>, which provide guidance on this but which are not part of the Byelaws.] 2. The DM Board shall elect a Director annually from its ranks (see below), and appoint subcommittees and officers as necessary for the efficient running of the project. * Under normal circumstances, these subcommittees and officers should include: * A moderator/moderators for the dm-l listserv. * An editorial committee responsible for the production of the DM journal. * An editor or editors responsible for overseeing the operation of the DM wikionline information resources of use to digital medievalists. * An organiser/organisers for planning conference and poster sessions. [...] 3.3 Eligibility 1. In order to stand for election, candidates for the DM board must fulfil two conditions: * They must be members of DM. * They must have made a demonstrable contribution to the project or the field within the previous year. Such contributions might include: * Non-trivial editing or page creation for the DM wiki online information resources. * Inclusion in a sanctioned DM event (such as presenting in a conference session sponsored by DM). * Publishing of an article in the DM Journal. * Equivalent contributions (to be considered at the time of candidacy). 7 Wiki Information Resources 1. There shall be a wiki online information resources hosted by DM in order to act as a repository of information collected and edited by the membership. These may be implemented in the form of a wiki, blog, or other technology as deemed appropriate by the Board. 2. The Director will appoint administrators for the wiki information resources as and when they are needed. 3. Anyone wishing to provide useful contributions to the wiki information resources will be allowed to. 4. Disputes concerning edits of the wiki content will be settled by the wiki administrators of the resources and by appeal if necessary to the DM Board, whose decision will be final. -- Dr Peter Stokes Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 218, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk>

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Re: [dm-l] dm-l Digest, Vol 117, Issue 3
by Sarah L Pfannenschmidt 21 May '14

21 May '14

On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk> wrote:—Quick comment re the journal: I'd very much hope that wherever the journal migrates to (and Revues.org or similar would seem useful) the old, transparent, human-readable, "cool" URLs remain live permanently, even if as rewrites/redirects. I've cited many of those urls in dozens of places, including in print (!).— Seconded. This would be tres useful for many of us. Agreement on all points, and thanks to the hard-working few who have put so much into keeping the old site up this long. Out of curiosity, if we shut the wiki down, will the community still have the opportunity to contribute to the blog in a similar fashion? I realize that the original intent of the wiki was to have a resource created by the community. Since the current one was predominantly populated by the board members, it hasn't met with expectations. Does the Board envision that the proposed blog would encourage more input? Best, ~Sarah Pf. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:23 AM, <dm-l-request(a)uleth.ca> wrote: > Send dm-l mailing list submissions to > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dm-l-request(a)uleth.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dm-l-owner(a)uleth.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of dm-l digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Proposed Changes to DM (Kalvesmaki, Joel) > 2. Re: Proposed Changes to DM (Gabriel Bodard) > 3. Re: Proposed Changes to DM (Grover Zinn) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Kalvesmaki, Joel" <KalvesmakiJ(a)doaks.org> > To: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 13:45:34 +0000 > Subject: Re: [dm-l] Proposed Changes to DM > My research in late antiquity falls between the worlds of classical and > medieval scholarship. So when I first began to consider which Wiki to > contribute to, DM or the Digital Classicist (wiki.digitalclassicist.org), > I opted for the latter because it had garnered the most contributions and > was at the time the most active. But I wondered at the time why > medievalists and classicists really needed separate wikis anyway, since the > material that was populating the pages applied to any field studying > pre-modernity. Material surfaces in both spheres of exploration that could > benefit any other. Thus, the "classicist" in "Digital Classicist" is not > restricted to pre-2nd c. material; their wiki already has quite a lot of > medieval and Byzantine content on it. > > So instead of altering the bylaws, why not simply have DM endorse either > the DC wiki or a comparable one? Follow the road of collaboration? > > Best wishes, > > jk > -- > Joel Kalvesmaki > Editor in Byzantine Studies > Dumbarton Oaks > 1703 32nd St. NW > Washington, DC 20007 > (202) 339-6435 > > ________________________________________ > From: dm-l [dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca] on behalf of Stokes, Peter [ > peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:05 AM > To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > Subject: [SPAM - Header] - [dm-l] Proposed Changes to DM - Email found in > subject > > Dear all, > > I apologise for the length of this e-mail, but I write regarding a series > of fairly fundamental changes to the DM infrastructure that we have been > planning for some time now. Given the scale of these changes, we on the DM > Board think it is important to explain these in some detail and request > feedback from the Community before we go ahead with them. They will also > require a change of the Byelaws, and so again we need input from the > Community for this. > > Unfortunately the existing infrastructure has proven unmanageable. The > wiki and mailing-list have both been subject to large-scale spam attacks, > such that the wiki now contains many many thousands of articles, only 70 or > so of which are genuine. The wiki has also had almost no activity beyond > that of the Board, and so it has not been doing the job that we had hoped. > Furthermore the website itself, which we have been hosting and coding > ourselves (with substantial help from James Cummings and Dan O’Donnell) is > also proving increasingly difficult to manage: it depends on the generosity > of James and Dan to host and administer, even adding new pages is not > trivial, and it has needed a dramatic overhaul for some time but to do this > requires much more time and effort than we have been able to manage. For > all of these reasons, we propose the following: > > 1. Moving the static website from the existing infrastructure (Cocoon + > TEI + custom XSLT) to a standard CMS (currently Wordpress). > 2. Closing down the wiki entirely and replacing it with a blog. > 3. For the moment we are leaving the Journal in place, but we are very > likely to move it to a dedicated open journal hosting of some sort. We have > been discussing this in some detail with Revues.org but are not yet > committed to this. > > As most of you have realised, we have already set up a Wordpress version > of the site at <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>, and this is > already proving to overcome the problems listed above. The proposal is > therefore to make this the DM site and close down the old one, except > perhaps for the Journal. > > However, the current Byelaws require that DM maintains a wiki (see < > http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#wiki>). The Board > is therefore not free to close the existing wiki without first changing the > Byelaws. Even if we chose to keep the wiki, however, the Board feels that > the Byelaws should not lock us into using any single technology, and so > they should be changed even if we keep the existing infrastructure. The > details of the proposed changes to the Byelaws will be posted shortly as a > separate e-mail and on the new website, but in essence we propose simply to > replace the term 'wiki' with 'information resources' and to adapt the > containing sentences accordingly. > > We would be grateful for any feedback about any aspect of this, preferably > by e-mail to the list for general discussion, or alternatively to > board(a)digitalmedievalist.org or any members of the Board directly. The > next Board meeting is 4pm GMT+1 on Monday 2 June, at which point any > comments will be discussed, and any changes in the Byelaws will be > presented to the membership for vote shortly after that (as specified in §9 > of the Byelaws: < > http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#amendments>). > > Thank you, and we look forward to receiving your comments. > > Peter Stokes (on behalf of the Executive Board) > > -- > Dr Peter Stokes > Senior Lecturer > Department of Digital Humanities > King's College London > Room 218, 2nd Floor > 26-29 Drury Lane > London, WC2B 5RL > Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 > peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk > > > 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 > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk> > To: <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 15:00:27 +0100 > Subject: Re: [dm-l] Proposed Changes to DM > I'd be happy to see a lot of Byzantine and other Mediaeval-ish material > migrate to the DC wiki if desirable. The DC community are in fact just > starting a series of wiki sprints to further improve and build on the > content therein. (We sympathize with the problem of spam--we have resisted > this only by making editing the wiki by "invitation only", which means that > an admin has to create you an account to give you even the most basic > editing rights. It's a pain, and no doubt limits participation to those who > can be bothered to email us, but the DM experience that only board members > do much editing anyway probably suggests that this isn't a tragedy.) > > I don't think we'd want to see the DC wiki become a sort of generic > "Digital Pre-Modernist" site, though, so let's try to keep some basic > coherence. I think much of the content in DM was of a different order from > the DC wiki, anyway... > > Quick comment re the journal: I'd very much hope that wherever the journal > migrates to (and Revues.org or similar would seem useful) the old, > transparent, human-readable, "cool" URLs remain live permanently, even if > as rewrites/redirects. I've cited many of those urls in dozens of places, > including in print (!). > > Otherwise, I endorse everything Peter suggests below. > > Best, > > Gabby > > On 2014-05-21 14:45, Kalvesmaki, Joel wrote: > >> My research in late antiquity falls between the worlds of classical and >> medieval scholarship. So when I first began to consider which Wiki to >> contribute to, DM or the Digital Classicist (wiki.digitalclassicist.org), >> I opted for the latter because it had garnered the most contributions and >> was at the time the most active. But I wondered at the time why >> medievalists and classicists really needed separate wikis anyway, since the >> material that was populating the pages applied to any field studying >> pre-modernity. Material surfaces in both spheres of exploration that could >> benefit any other. Thus, the "classicist" in "Digital Classicist" is not >> restricted to pre-2nd c. material; their wiki already has quite a lot of >> medieval and Byzantine content on it. >> >> So instead of altering the bylaws, why not simply have DM endorse either >> the DC wiki or a comparable one? Follow the road of collaboration? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> jk >> -- >> Joel Kalvesmaki >> Editor in Byzantine Studies >> Dumbarton Oaks >> 1703 32nd St. NW >> Washington, DC 20007 >> (202) 339-6435 >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: dm-l [dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca] on behalf of Stokes, Peter [ >> peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:05 AM >> To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca >> Subject: [SPAM - Header] - [dm-l] Proposed Changes to DM - Email found in >> subject >> >> Dear all, >> >> I apologise for the length of this e-mail, but I write regarding a series >> of fairly fundamental changes to the DM infrastructure that we have been >> planning for some time now. Given the scale of these changes, we on the DM >> Board think it is important to explain these in some detail and request >> feedback from the Community before we go ahead with them. They will also >> require a change of the Byelaws, and so again we need input from the >> Community for this. >> >> Unfortunately the existing infrastructure has proven unmanageable. The >> wiki and mailing-list have both been subject to large-scale spam attacks, >> such that the wiki now contains many many thousands of articles, only 70 or >> so of which are genuine. The wiki has also had almost no activity beyond >> that of the Board, and so it has not been doing the job that we had hoped. >> Furthermore the website itself, which we have been hosting and coding >> ourselves (with substantial help from James Cummings and Dan O’Donnell) is >> also proving increasingly difficult to manage: it depends on the generosity >> of James and Dan to host and administer, even adding new pages is not >> trivial, and it has needed a dramatic overhaul for some time but to do this >> requires much more time and effort than we have been able to manage. For >> all of these reasons, we propose the following: >> >> 1. Moving the static website from the existing infrastructure (Cocoon + >> TEI + custom XSLT) to a standard CMS (currently Wordpress). >> 2. Closing down the wiki entirely and replacing it with a blog. >> 3. For the moment we are leaving the Journal in place, but we are very >> likely to move it to a dedicated open journal hosting of some sort. We have >> been discussing this in some detail with Revues.org but are not yet >> committed to this. >> >> As most of you have realised, we have already set up a Wordpress version >> of the site at <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>, and this is >> already proving to overcome the problems listed above. The proposal is >> therefore to make this the DM site and close down the old one, except >> perhaps for the Journal. >> >> However, the current Byelaws require that DM maintains a wiki (see < >> http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#wiki>). The Board >> is therefore not free to close the existing wiki without first changing the >> Byelaws. Even if we chose to keep the wiki, however, the Board feels that >> the Byelaws should not lock us into using any single technology, and so >> they should be changed even if we keep the existing infrastructure. The >> details of the proposed changes to the Byelaws will be posted shortly as a >> separate e-mail and on the new website, but in essence we propose simply to >> replace the term 'wiki' with 'information resources' and to adapt the >> containing sentences accordingly. >> >> We would be grateful for any feedback about any aspect of this, >> preferably by e-mail to the list for general discussion, or alternatively >> to board(a)digitalmedievalist.org or any members of the Board directly. >> The next Board meeting is 4pm GMT+1 on Monday 2 June, at which point any >> comments will be discussed, and any changes in the Byelaws will be >> presented to the membership for vote shortly after that (as specified in §9 >> of the Byelaws: <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/# >> amendments>). >> >> Thank you, and we look forward to receiving your comments. >> >> Peter Stokes (on behalf of the Executive Board) >> >> -- >> Dr Peter Stokes >> Senior Lecturer >> Department of Digital Humanities >> King's College London >> Room 218, 2nd Floor >> 26-29 Drury Lane >> London, WC2B 5RL >> Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 >> peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk >> >> >> 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 >> >> 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 >> >> > -- > Dr Gabriel BODARD > Researcher in Digital Epigraphy > > Digital Humanities > King's College London > Boris Karloff Building > 26-29 Drury Lane > London WC2B 5RL > > T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 > E: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk > > http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ > http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Grover Zinn <grover.zinn(a)oberlin.edu> > To: <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:23:07 -0400 > Subject: Re: [dm-l] Proposed Changes to DM > > Thanks to Peter for such a clear presentation of problems and solutions. I > support all suggestions from Peter and the board. > > Best > > Grover > > On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Gabriel Bodard <gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> I'd be happy to see a lot of Byzantine and other Mediaeval-ish material >> migrate to the DC wiki if desirable. The DC community are in fact just >> starting a series of wiki sprints to further improve and build on the >> content therein. (We sympathize with the problem of spam--we have resisted >> this only by making editing the wiki by "invitation only", which means that >> an admin has to create you an account to give you even the most basic >> editing rights. It's a pain, and no doubt limits participation to those who >> can be bothered to email us, but the DM experience that only board members >> do much editing anyway probably suggests that this isn't a tragedy.) >> >> I don't think we'd want to see the DC wiki become a sort of generic >> "Digital Pre-Modernist" site, though, so let's try to keep some basic >> coherence. I think much of the content in DM was of a different order from >> the DC wiki, anyway... >> >> Quick comment re the journal: I'd very much hope that wherever the >> journal migrates to (and Revues.org or similar would seem useful) the old, >> transparent, human-readable, "cool" URLs remain live permanently, even if >> as rewrites/redirects. I've cited many of those urls in dozens of places, >> including in print (!). >> >> Otherwise, I endorse everything Peter suggests below. >> >> Best, >> >> Gabby >> >> On 2014-05-21 14:45, Kalvesmaki, Joel wrote: >> >> My research in late antiquity falls between the worlds of classical and >> medieval scholarship. So when I first began to consider which Wiki to >> contribute to, DM or the Digital Classicist (wiki.digitalclassicist.org), >> I opted for the latter because it had garnered the most contributions and >> was at the time the most active. But I wondered at the time why >> medievalists and classicists really needed separate wikis anyway, since the >> material that was populating the pages applied to any field studying >> pre-modernity. Material surfaces in both spheres of exploration that could >> benefit any other. Thus, the "classicist" in "Digital Classicist" is not >> restricted to pre-2nd c. material; their wiki already has quite a lot of >> medieval and Byzantine content on it. >> >> So instead of altering the bylaws, why not simply have DM endorse either >> the DC wiki or a comparable one? Follow the road of collaboration? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> jk >> -- >> Joel Kalvesmaki >> Editor in Byzantine Studies >> Dumbarton Oaks >> 1703 32nd St. NW >> Washington, DC 20007 >> (202) 339-6435 >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: dm-l [dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca] on behalf of Stokes, Peter [ >> peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:05 AM >> To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca >> Subject: [SPAM - Header] - [dm-l] Proposed Changes to DM - Email found in >> subject >> >> Dear all, >> >> I apologise for the length of this e-mail, but I write regarding a series >> of fairly fundamental changes to the DM infrastructure that we have been >> planning for some time now. Given the scale of these changes, we on the DM >> Board think it is important to explain these in some detail and request >> feedback from the Community before we go ahead with them. They will also >> require a change of the Byelaws, and so again we need input from the >> Community for this. >> >> Unfortunately the existing infrastructure has proven unmanageable. The >> wiki and mailing-list have both been subject to large-scale spam attacks, >> such that the wiki now contains many many thousands of articles, only 70 or >> so of which are genuine. The wiki has also had almost no activity beyond >> that of the Board, and so it has not been doing the job that we had hoped. >> Furthermore the website itself, which we have been hosting and coding >> ourselves (with substantial help from James Cummings and Dan O’Donnell) is >> also proving increasingly difficult to manage: it depends on the generosity >> of James and Dan to host and administer, even adding new pages is not >> trivial, and it has needed a dramatic overhaul for some time but to do this >> requires much more time and effort than we have been able to manage. For >> all of these reasons, we propose the following: >> >> 1. Moving the static website from the existing infrastructure (Cocoon + >> TEI + custom XSLT) to a standard CMS (currently Wordpress). >> 2. Closing down the wiki entirely and replacing it with a blog. >> 3. For the moment we are leaving the Journal in place, but we are very >> likely to move it to a dedicated open journal hosting of some sort. We have >> been discussing this in some detail with Revues.org but are not yet >> committed to this. >> >> As most of you have realised, we have already set up a Wordpress version >> of the site at <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>, and this is >> already proving to overcome the problems listed above. The proposal is >> therefore to make this the DM site and close down the old one, except >> perhaps for the Journal. >> >> However, the current Byelaws require that DM maintains a wiki (see < >> http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#wiki>). The Board >> is therefore not free to close the existing wiki without first changing the >> Byelaws. Even if we chose to keep the wiki, however, the Board feels that >> the Byelaws should not lock us into using any single technology, and so >> they should be changed even if we keep the existing infrastructure. The >> details of the proposed changes to the Byelaws will be posted shortly as a >> separate e-mail and on the new website, but in essence we propose simply to >> replace the term 'wiki' with 'information resources' and to adapt the >> containing sentences accordingly. >> >> We would be grateful for any feedback about any aspect of this, >> preferably by e-mail to the list for general discussion, or alternatively >> to board(a)digitalmedievalist.org or any members of the Board directly. >> The next Board meeting is 4pm GMT+1 on Monday 2 June, at which point any >> comments will be discussed, and any changes in the Byelaws will be >> presented to the membership for vote shortly after that (as sp >> >> -- >> Dr Gabriel BODARD >> Researcher in Digital Epigraphy >> >> Digital Humanities >> King's College London >> Boris Karloff Building >> 26-29 Drury Lane >> London WC2B 5RL >> >> T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 >> E: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk >> >> http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ >> http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ >> >> 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 >> > > > -- > Grover Zinn > William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, emeritus > former Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences > Oberlin College > Oberlin, OH 44074 > grover.zinn (at) oberlin.edu > > > 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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This week's blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 17 May '14

17 May '14

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip heads south... http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/manuscript-road-trip-hea… - 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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Manipulus florum Colloquium / Colloque Manipulus florum: 16-17 May/mai 2014
by Digital Medievalist » News: pstokes 13 May '14

13 May '14

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Augment and share your digital codices with DocExplore.
by Pierrick Tranouez 11 May '14

11 May '14

Dear Digital Medievalists, DocExplore is a free open source software suite enabling the easy creation of interactive digital books suitable for the promotion of heritage collections. It's easy to use: 1.Import the pages of your book 2.Add text, images, sound and video to parts of the pages 3.View it on your computer or put it online on your website More information, demonstrations and downloads at www.docexplore.eu DocExplore is the result of an academic project, initiated by computer science laboratories LITIS (University of Rouen, France) and EDA (University of Kent, U.K.) in 2009, funded by the Interreg IVa program. It received contributions from historians, librarians and archivists of the GRHIS (University of Rouen), the Rouen Public Libraries, CMEMS (University of Kent) and the Archives of the Canterbury Cathedral. Please ask me if you have any questions. If people are interested, we will organise tutorial sessions in France and the UK in June. Best regards, ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Pierrick Tranouez Research Engineer LITIS EA 4108 http://www.litislab.eu/Members/ptranouez/ Tel: 332 32 95 51 20 Mob: 336 78 79 83 65 Université de Rouen UFR Sciences - Bureau 2.1.33 Site Universitaire du Madrillet Avenue de l'Université 76800 SAINT ÉTIENNE DU ROUVRAY FRANCE -----------------------------------------------------

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ProDoc@DocEng 2014: Doctoral Consortium on Document Engineering
by Tamir Hassan 02 May '14

02 May '14

-------------------------------------------------------------------- ProDoc@DocEng Doctoral Consortium at the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Call for Submissions Submission Deadline: June 1, 2014 (24:00 CEST) Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For the second time, the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering will feature a doctoral consortium, called ProDoc@DocEng. PhD students present their dissertation project and will get feedback from a panel of senior researchers as well as from the general audience. ProDoc@DocEng is intended to provide constructive criticism and help PhD students in formulating their research question, deciding about methods and approaches to use, and creating further ideas. It is a good place to learn about how to conduct a dissertation project and to learn about leading edge research, the results of which might be presented at one of the next Symposia. Participants of ProDoc@DocEng register for DocEng 2014 and will thus be able to attend all sessions of the Symposium. ProDoc@DocEng will take place during the Symposium. Each participant will be allocated 10 minutes for presentation, followed feedback and questions. There will be no publication for ProDoc@DocEng. You are not required to have an accepted paper/poster/demo for DocEng 2014 to be eligible for ProDoc@DocEng. However, if you are author or co-author of an accepted submission, we encourage you to present your dissertation project at ProDoc@DocEng. For participation, please provide a proposal, briefly outlining your dissertation topic. Please also state your affiliation or/and employer, your main supervisor and your academic background. See below for details. PhD students accepted for ProDoc@DocEng are eligible to apply for Student Travel Awards, for details see: <http://www.doceng2014.org/support-for-students> *Submission process* Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format by June 1, 2014, 24:00 CEST, via the easychair conference system: <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=doceng2014> Submissions must not exceed two pages and must conform to the ACM SIG Proceedings format <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>: - State the working title and your name and your affiliation or/and employer in the header. - State your main supervisor, your background (i.e., what kind of MA or MSc you obtained before, or what you are working on at the moment), when you started your PhD studies and when your thesis is planned to be completed. If your institution has certain rules with respect to the duration of PhD studies or internal and external readers, please add this information. Please also note if you are looking for a second/third supervisor/reader. - Then, describe your dissertation project including your research question, related work, and the current status of your work (i.e., preliminary ideas, proposed approach, and results achieved so far). - If you have already published on your topic, give references. (Skip abstract and categories, and start with information on your supervisor and personal background instead.) The language of the consortium is English. All submissions must be in English. Accepted submissions will not be published in the DocEng 2014 proceedings. *Review process* All submissions will be reviewed by two members of the ProDoc@DocEng panel (to be announced). The main evaluation criteria are: originality, significance, maturity, and clarity. Acceptance for the Doctoral Consortium is competitive in nature and is based on the evaluation criteria above. *Doctoral Consortium Chair* Cerstin Mahlow, University of Stuttgart (Germany) (cerstin.mahlow(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de) -- Sent by Tamir Hassan Research Scientist, Printing and Content Delivery Lab, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Publicity Chair, ACM DocEng 2014 To remove yourself from our mailing list or to let us know of any duplicate addresses, please reply to this email. Thanks!

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