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Registration Opens for DigiPal Symposium: Monday 1st September 2014 at King's College London...
by Brookes, Stewart 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Dear all, It is with great delight that the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities (King's College London) announce the programme for the fourth DigiPal Symposium. For those who have attended in previous years, it will be the usual mix of medieval manuscripts, computer-assisted techniques, camaraderie and palaeography. And if you haven't attended before, then now's an excellent time to start. Speakers include Julia Crick, Peter Stokes, Marc Smith, Dot Porter, Ben Pohl, Matilda Watson and Debora Matos. Registration is required, but it's free. And with lunch and wine thrown in, how could you go wrong? Aside from missing it ;-) More details, and a link to register, here: http://www.digipal.eu/blog/registration-for-digipal-iv-symposium-monday-1st… Hope to see you in September, Stewart -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College London www.digipal.eu

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Seminar: Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies
by Tupman, Charlotte 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday August 1st at 16:30, in Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford) and Gabriel Bodard (King's College London): 'Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names (SNAP:DRGN)' SNAP:DRGN (snapdrgn.net) is an AHRC-funded exploratory project which aims to address the problem of linking together large prosopographies (datsets containing information about persons, names and person-like entities) managed in heterogeneous systems and formats. This paper will explore the background to and results of the work, describe the problems, the data and the tools we can produce to illustrate of the value of the data, and demonstrate research methods for working with the new material and information produced. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014.html Best wishes, Charlotte -- Dr. Charlotte Tupman Project Research Associate & Study Abroad Tutor Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7145

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Job: XML Database Developer for EpiDoc-related project
by James Cummings 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

**Part-time XML Research Database Developer** Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford Grade 7: £29,837 - £36,661 p.a. (pro rata) https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… The Faculty of Classics seeks to appoint a part-time XML Research Database Developer. This is fixed-term for 12 months. We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a strong interest in Digital Humanities and classical text-editing to build an XML Database backed website for publication, analysis, and editing of EpiDoc TEI P5 XML documents for the I.Sicily project (0.4 FTE) and for the Ptolemaic Egypt project (0.1 FTE). *We are happy to consider applications from those who would wish to work remotely.* The postholder will design and implement a native XML Database application for the online publication, analysis, and editing of EpiDoc XML based on open source components; create a testing mechanism for the technical infrastructure for resilient deployment (and redeployment from backup) of the website; develop and maintain the project's technical infrastructure including XML Database installation and basic Linux server systems administration; and work closely with the IT Consultant and project PI in strategically designing and developing the infrastructure to ensure both reliable behaviour and potential for future expansion of the project. The successful candidate will have relevant experience of higher education research (preferably in Classics); demonstrable experience of native XML database development; significant experience with multiple web development languages (e.g. XSLT, XQuery, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, etc.); and experience in maintaining software deployed on Linux servers. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a CV and supporting statement as part of your online application and supply details of two referees who must be asked to send their references directly to the email address below by the closing date. Only applications received before 12.00 noon on 18 August 2014 can be considered. Contact Person: Mrs Brooke Martin-Garbutt Vacancy ID: 114327 Contact Phone: 01865 288372 Closing Date: 18-Aug-2014 Contact Email: recruitment(a)classics.ox.ac.uk Only applications received before 12.00 noon on 18 August 2014 can be considered. https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs…

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ONLY TODAY! Vote now for DM Board Elections 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

Vote NOW for the Digital Medievalist Board Elections 2014! Today is the last day! Cheers, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Dominique Stutzmann <dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr> >> Date: 2014-07-14 0:36 GMT+02:00 >> Subject: VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2014 >> To: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> >> >> >> Voting will be OPEN until SUN 27th JULY, GMT midnight. >> >> To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the >> Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow >> <http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to >> vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only >> seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. >> >> Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be >> re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall >> direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's >> many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates >> should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital >> Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on >> copy-editing of its journal). >> >> Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See >> especially: >> >> * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> >> * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> >> >> ================== >> To VOTE fill out the survey here: >> >> <https://fr.surveymonkey.com/s/TXHM3Y8> >> >> ================== >> >> CANDIDATE STATEMENTS >> >> The following biographical candidate statements (alphabetical order by >> surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to >> vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of >> up to 4 votes. After voting please remember to click DONE! >> >> ***************************** >> >> ALBERTO CAMPAGNOLO >> >> Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course >> for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, Italy and has >> worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National >> Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library >> London, London Metropolitan Archives, and is currently working at the >> Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials >> at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital >> Culture and Technology at King’s College London. He is now pursuing a PhD >> on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the >> Ligatus Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London. He is >> interested in building a dialogue between the world of Conservation in >> libraries, archives and museums and that of Digital Humanities, and in the >> digital representation of physical aspect of books, and medieval books and >> bookbindings in particular. >> >> ***************************** >> >> ELEONORA DURBAN >> >> After graduating in Milan in Historical Linguistics, I have obtained an >> MA degree in Medieval Studies from University College London and a PhD in >> Late Latin Philology at King's College London. I have subsequently worked >> at the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL for seven years, where I >> have worked on a series of Medieval History related projects. My main >> interests and expertise relate to XML encoding, manuscript studies, digital >> critical editions, virtual research environments, and the potentials of the >> application of computational linguistics tools to the world of digital >> philology. >> >> I have recently relocated to Italy for family reasons and I am looking >> for opportunities to develop new projects in or around Milan. >> >> >> ***************************** >> >> FRANZ FISCHER >> >> Franz Fischer works as a research associate at the Cologne Center for >> eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne [link: < >> http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/>]. He studied History, Latin and Italian >> in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval >> Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy >> [link: <http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de>]. From 2008-2011 he created a >> digital edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio [link: < >> http://www.confessio.ie>] at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He >> is a founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly >> Editing (IDE) [link: <http://www.i-d-e.de/>] teaching at summer schools >> and publishing SIDE [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften>], a series >> on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE [link: < >> http://ride.i-d-e.de/>], a new review journal on digital editions and >> resources. Franz Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie >> Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT [link: < >> http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/>]. Other activities include teaching Digital >> Humanities at NUI Maynooth [link: < http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/>] >> and facilitating various DH projects at the CCeH. >> >> >> ***************************** >> >> GRETA FRANZINI >> >> A classicist by training, Greta Franzini is a part-time PhD student at >> the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her doctoral research is producing >> the first electronic edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St. >> Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Her new palaeographical, codicological and >> philological contributions are informing her investigation of digital >> technologies that can help to best explore and electronically reproduce the >> manuscript. >> >> Greta is also working as a full-time Research Associate and Executive for >> the Open Philology Project at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at >> the University of Leipzig. Here, she oversees major data entry and book >> digitisation contracts aimed at producing a large volume of >> machine-readable open data pertaining to Greek and Latin sources. >> >> >> ***************************** >> >> ALEXEI LAVRENTIEV >> >> Alexei Lavrentiev is a research engineer at ICAR Research Laboratory >> <http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/> (CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr/> and Lyon >> University <http://lyon-university.org/>). His PhD thesis in French >> Linguistics (École normale supérieure de Lyon <http://www.ens-lyon.eu/>, >> France, 2009) was dedicated to the study of medieval French punctuation and >> was based on a corpus of multi-layer TEI-XML transcriptions of manuscripts >> and incunabula. He was involved in the Princeton Charrette Project >> <http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/> (2002-2006) and in the Saint-Petersburg >> Hagiography Corpus <http://project.phil.spbu.ru/scat/> (2004). Since >> 2004 he has been working on the BFM Old French Corpus >> <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=123> and on various >> related research and publication projects. He is responsible for the TEI >> encoding of the BFM texts, for their linguistic annotation and for >> providing user access to them. He manages the BFM public website >> <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/> and the web portal <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/>. >> This portal, developed by a team of ICAR researchers and engineers >> (Matthieu Decorde, Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev and >> Bénédicte Pincemin), provides a great number of services including KWIC >> concordances, a text selection interface, presentation of synoptic >> editions, statistical analysis, etc. He is a co-editor (with Christiane >> Marchello-Nizia) of the *Queste del Saint Graal* >> <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL> online >> edition <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL>. >> >> As a member of the DM Board (2012-2014), A. Lavrentiev was one of the >> wiki editors and news feed moderator. He represents the DM Board in the >> program committee of the El'Manuscript conference >> <http://textualheritage.org/content/view/486/209/lang,english/>. >> Nominated a deputy director early in 2014, he assisted P. Stokes in >> arranging and holding some board meetings. >> >> ***************************** >> >> GEORG VOGELER >> >> I studied "Historical Auxiliary Sciences" at Freiburg and Munich. I wrote >> a PhD on late Medieval Tax Adminstration Documents in the German >> Territorial States and worked in the field diplomatics (yes, charters not >> diplomats!) and cultural history of documentation (in particular in Italy >> during the reign of Frederic II) In 2004 got intrigued by the possibilities >> of the use of computer for medieval studies: I started the Charters >> Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), got involved in the >> monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net), became member of the >> Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de), created >> a e-Learning site on Palaeography (http://www.palaeographie-online.de), >> started recently thinking about how to edit medieval accounting documents ( >> http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem) – and thus ended up in 2011 at the Centre >> for Information Modelling/Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at Graz >> University (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at). Supporting the >> community of Digital Medievalists seems thus to be natural consequence to >> me which I would be happy to realize with a role in the editorial board of >> DM. >> >> >> >> >

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LAST DAYS: VOTE NOW for DM Board Elections 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Vote NOW for the Digital Medievalist Board Elections 2014! Only until Sunday 27th! Cheers, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dominique Stutzmann <dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr> > Date: 2014-07-14 0:36 GMT+02:00 > Subject: VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2014 > To: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> > > > Voting will be OPEN until SUN 27th JULY, GMT midnight. > > To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the > Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow > <http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to > vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only > seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. > > Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be > re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall > direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's > many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates > should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital > Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on > copy-editing of its journal). > > Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See > especially: > > * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> > * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> > > ================== > To VOTE fill out the survey here: > > <https://fr.surveymonkey.com/s/TXHM3Y8> > > ================== > > CANDIDATE STATEMENTS > > The following biographical candidate statements (alphabetical order by > surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to > vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of > up to 4 votes. After voting please remember to click DONE! > > ***************************** > > ALBERTO CAMPAGNOLO > > Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course > for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, Italy and has > worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National > Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library > London, London Metropolitan Archives, and is currently working at the > Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials > at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital > Culture and Technology at King’s College London. He is now pursuing a PhD > on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the > Ligatus Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London. He is > interested in building a dialogue between the world of Conservation in > libraries, archives and museums and that of Digital Humanities, and in the > digital representation of physical aspect of books, and medieval books and > bookbindings in particular. > > ***************************** > > ELEONORA DURBAN > > After graduating in Milan in Historical Linguistics, I have obtained an MA > degree in Medieval Studies from University College London and a PhD in Late > Latin Philology at King's College London. I have subsequently worked at the > Department of Digital Humanities at KCL for seven years, where I have > worked on a series of Medieval History related projects. My main interests > and expertise relate to XML encoding, manuscript studies, digital critical > editions, virtual research environments, and the potentials of the > application of computational linguistics tools to the world of digital > philology. > > I have recently relocated to Italy for family reasons and I am looking for > opportunities to develop new projects in or around Milan. > > > ***************************** > > FRANZ FISCHER > > Franz Fischer works as a research associate at the Cologne Center for > eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne [link: < > http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/>]. He studied History, Latin and Italian in > Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin > for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy [link: < > http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de>]. From 2008-2011 he created a digital > edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio [link: <http://www.confessio.ie>] at > the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He is a founding member of the > Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) [link: < > http://www.i-d-e.de/>] teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE > [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften>], a series on digital editions, > palaeography & codicology, and RIDE [link: <http://ride.i-d-e.de/>], a > new review journal on digital editions and resources. Franz Fischer is > currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network > on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT [link: <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/>]. > Other activities include teaching Digital Humanities at NUI Maynooth [link: > < http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/>] and facilitating various DH > projects at the CCeH. > > > ***************************** > > GRETA FRANZINI > > A classicist by training, Greta Franzini is a part-time PhD student at the > UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her doctoral research is producing the > first electronic edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St. > Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Her new palaeographical, codicological and > philological contributions are informing her investigation of digital > technologies that can help to best explore and electronically reproduce the > manuscript. > > Greta is also working as a full-time Research Associate and Executive for > the Open Philology Project at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at > the University of Leipzig. Here, she oversees major data entry and book > digitisation contracts aimed at producing a large volume of > machine-readable open data pertaining to Greek and Latin sources. > > > ***************************** > > ALEXEI LAVRENTIEV > > Alexei Lavrentiev is a research engineer at ICAR Research Laboratory > <http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/> (CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr/> and Lyon > University <http://lyon-university.org/>). His PhD thesis in French > Linguistics (École normale supérieure de Lyon <http://www.ens-lyon.eu/>, > France, 2009) was dedicated to the study of medieval French punctuation and > was based on a corpus of multi-layer TEI-XML transcriptions of manuscripts > and incunabula. He was involved in the Princeton Charrette Project > <http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/> (2002-2006) and in the Saint-Petersburg > Hagiography Corpus <http://project.phil.spbu.ru/scat/> (2004). Since 2004 > he has been working on the BFM Old French Corpus > <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=123> and on various > related research and publication projects. He is responsible for the TEI > encoding of the BFM texts, for their linguistic annotation and for > providing user access to them. He manages the BFM public website > <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/> and the web portal <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/>. > This portal, developed by a team of ICAR researchers and engineers > (Matthieu Decorde, Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev and > Bénédicte Pincemin), provides a great number of services including KWIC > concordances, a text selection interface, presentation of synoptic > editions, statistical analysis, etc. He is a co-editor (with Christiane > Marchello-Nizia) of the *Queste del Saint Graal* > <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL> online > edition <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL>. > > As a member of the DM Board (2012-2014), A. Lavrentiev was one of the wiki > editors and news feed moderator. He represents the DM Board in the program > committee of the El'Manuscript conference > <http://textualheritage.org/content/view/486/209/lang,english/>. > Nominated a deputy director early in 2014, he assisted P. Stokes in > arranging and holding some board meetings. > > ***************************** > > GEORG VOGELER > > I studied "Historical Auxiliary Sciences" at Freiburg and Munich. I wrote > a PhD on late Medieval Tax Adminstration Documents in the German > Territorial States and worked in the field diplomatics (yes, charters not > diplomats!) and cultural history of documentation (in particular in Italy > during the reign of Frederic II) In 2004 got intrigued by the possibilities > of the use of computer for medieval studies: I started the Charters > Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), got involved in the > monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net), became member of the > Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de), created a > e-Learning site on Palaeography (http://www.palaeographie-online.de), > started recently thinking about how to edit medieval accounting documents ( > http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem) – and thus ended up in 2011 at the Centre > for Information Modelling/Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at Graz > University (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at). Supporting the > community of Digital Medievalists seems thus to be natural consequence to > me which I would be happy to realize with a role in the editorial board of > DM. > > > >

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Papyrology and Linguistic Annotation (seminar)
by BODARD Gabriel 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday July 25 at 16:30 in room G35, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Marja Vierros (Helsinki) Papyrology and Linguistic Annotation: How can we make TEI EpiDoc XML corpus and Treebanking work together? Greek documentary papyri provide a rich source for linguists who wish to study Ancient Greek as it was written in everyday texts, preserved directly from antiquity. The corpus is already in digital form, but it does not contain linguistic annotation that would help linguists find interesting structures and forms. This paper presents a preliminary phase of a project focused on annotating the fragmentary and manifold papyrus material using a Dependency Treebank model. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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Reminder: Vote open for DM Board Elections 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Dear All! Here is a reminder: vote for the Digital Medievalist Board Elections 2014. Only until Sunday 27th! Cheers, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dominique Stutzmann <dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr> Date: 2014-07-14 0:36 GMT+02:00 Subject: VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2014 To: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Voting will be OPEN until SUN 27th JULY, GMT midnight. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow <http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> ================== To VOTE fill out the survey here: <https://fr.surveymonkey.com/s/TXHM3Y8> ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (alphabetical order by surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of up to 4 votes. After voting please remember to click DONE! ***************************** ALBERTO CAMPAGNOLO Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library London, London Metropolitan Archives, and is currently working at the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology at King’s College London. He is now pursuing a PhD on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London. He is interested in building a dialogue between the world of Conservation in libraries, archives and museums and that of Digital Humanities, and in the digital representation of physical aspect of books, and medieval books and bookbindings in particular. ***************************** ELEONORA DURBAN After graduating in Milan in Historical Linguistics, I have obtained an MA degree in Medieval Studies from University College London and a PhD in Late Latin Philology at King's College London. I have subsequently worked at the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL for seven years, where I have worked on a series of Medieval History related projects. My main interests and expertise relate to XML encoding, manuscript studies, digital critical editions, virtual research environments, and the potentials of the application of computational linguistics tools to the world of digital philology. I have recently relocated to Italy for family reasons and I am looking for opportunities to develop new projects in or around Milan. ***************************** FRANZ FISCHER Franz Fischer works as a research associate at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne [link: < http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/>]. He studied History, Latin and Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy [link: < http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de>]. From 2008-2011 he created a digital edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio [link: <http://www.confessio.ie>] at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He is a founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/>] teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften>], a series on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE [link: <http://ride.i-d-e.de/>], a new review journal on digital editions and resources. Franz Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT [link: <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/>]. Other activities include teaching Digital Humanities at NUI Maynooth [link: < http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/>] and facilitating various DH projects at the CCeH. ***************************** GRETA FRANZINI A classicist by training, Greta Franzini is a part-time PhD student at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her doctoral research is producing the first electronic edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Her new palaeographical, codicological and philological contributions are informing her investigation of digital technologies that can help to best explore and electronically reproduce the manuscript. Greta is also working as a full-time Research Associate and Executive for the Open Philology Project at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. Here, she oversees major data entry and book digitisation contracts aimed at producing a large volume of machine-readable open data pertaining to Greek and Latin sources. ***************************** ALEXEI LAVRENTIEV Alexei Lavrentiev is a research engineer at ICAR Research Laboratory <http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/> (CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr/> and Lyon University <http://lyon-university.org/>). His PhD thesis in French Linguistics (École normale supérieure de Lyon <http://www.ens-lyon.eu/>, France, 2009) was dedicated to the study of medieval French punctuation and was based on a corpus of multi-layer TEI-XML transcriptions of manuscripts and incunabula. He was involved in the Princeton Charrette Project <http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/> (2002-2006) and in the Saint-Petersburg Hagiography Corpus <http://project.phil.spbu.ru/scat/> (2004). Since 2004 he has been working on the BFM Old French Corpus <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=123> and on various related research and publication projects. He is responsible for the TEI encoding of the BFM texts, for their linguistic annotation and for providing user access to them. He manages the BFM public website <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/> and the web portal <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/>. This portal, developed by a team of ICAR researchers and engineers (Matthieu Decorde, Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev and Bénédicte Pincemin), provides a great number of services including KWIC concordances, a text selection interface, presentation of synoptic editions, statistical analysis, etc. He is a co-editor (with Christiane Marchello-Nizia) of the *Queste del Saint Graal* <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL> online edition <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL>. As a member of the DM Board (2012-2014), A. Lavrentiev was one of the wiki editors and news feed moderator. He represents the DM Board in the program committee of the El'Manuscript conference <http://textualheritage.org/content/view/486/209/lang,english/>. Nominated a deputy director early in 2014, he assisted P. Stokes in arranging and holding some board meetings. ***************************** GEORG VOGELER I studied "Historical Auxiliary Sciences" at Freiburg and Munich. I wrote a PhD on late Medieval Tax Adminstration Documents in the German Territorial States and worked in the field diplomatics (yes, charters not diplomats!) and cultural history of documentation (in particular in Italy during the reign of Frederic II) In 2004 got intrigued by the possibilities of the use of computer for medieval studies: I started the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), got involved in the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net), became member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de), created a e-Learning site on Palaeography (http://www.palaeographie-online.de), started recently thinking about how to edit medieval accounting documents ( http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem) – and thus ended up in 2011 at the Centre for Information Modelling/Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at Graz University (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at). Supporting the community of Digital Medievalists seems thus to be natural consequence to me which I would be happy to realize with a role in the editorial board of DM.

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Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

After a prolonged absence, the Manuscript Road Trip explores the Gulf Coast: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/manuscript-road-trip-the… - 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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Network Analysis and Distant Reading on the Perseus Latin Corpus (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday July 18 at 16:30 in room G34, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Thibault Clérice (King’s College London) Clotho: Network Analysis and Distant Reading on the Perseus Latin Corpus How do we handle Latin texts with digital tools? How do we apply to Latin sources technologies and algorithms which have been developed for the linguistic study of modern languages? Clotho is a resource which aims to address these questions in an Open-Source format, providing network analysis, data extraction mechanisms, and document statistics. Using these tools, Lasciva Roma, a project of cultural network analysis around the lexical field of terms related to sexuality, was launched in 2014. This seminar will explore and review this project, focusing on how the community can use these tools, and how to ensure the tools and the data will not be lost. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014.html -- 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/

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VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

Voting will be OPEN until SUN 27th JULY, GMT midnight. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow <http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> ================== To VOTE fill out the survey here: <https://fr.surveymonkey.com/s/TXHM3Y8> ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (alphabetical order by surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of up to 4 votes. After voting please remember to click DONE! ***************************** ALBERTO CAMPAGNOLO Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library London, London Metropolitan Archives, and is currently working at the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology at King’s College London. He is now pursuing a PhD on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London. He is interested in building a dialogue between the world of Conservation in libraries, archives and museums and that of Digital Humanities, and in the digital representation of physical aspect of books, and medieval books and bookbindings in particular. ***************************** ELEONORA DURBAN After graduating in Milan in Historical Linguistics, I have obtained an MA degree in Medieval Studies from University College London and a PhD in Late Latin Philology at King's College London. I have subsequently worked at the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL for seven years, where I have worked on a series of Medieval History related projects. My main interests and expertise relate to XML encoding, manuscript studies, digital critical editions, virtual research environments, and the potentials of the application of computational linguistics tools to the world of digital philology. I have recently relocated to Italy for family reasons and I am looking for opportunities to develop new projects in or around Milan. ***************************** FRANZ FISCHER Franz Fischer works as a research associate at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne [link: < http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/>]. He studied History, Latin and Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy [link: < http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de>]. From 2008-2011 he created a digital edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio [link: <http://www.confessio.ie>] at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He is a founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/>] teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften>], a series on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE [link: <http://ride.i-d-e.de/>], a new review journal on digital editions and resources. Franz Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT [link: <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/>]. Other activities include teaching Digital Humanities at NUI Maynooth [link: < http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/>] and facilitating various DH projects at the CCeH. ***************************** GRETA FRANZINI A classicist by training, Greta Franzini is a part-time PhD student at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her doctoral research is producing the first electronic edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Her new palaeographical, codicological and philological contributions are informing her investigation of digital technologies that can help to best explore and electronically reproduce the manuscript. Greta is also working as a full-time Research Associate and Executive for the Open Philology Project at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. Here, she oversees major data entry and book digitisation contracts aimed at producing a large volume of machine-readable open data pertaining to Greek and Latin sources. ***************************** ALEXEI LAVRENTIEV Alexei Lavrentiev is a research engineer at ICAR Research Laboratory <http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/> (CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr/> and Lyon University <http://lyon-university.org/>). His PhD thesis in French Linguistics (École normale supérieure de Lyon <http://www.ens-lyon.eu/>, France, 2009) was dedicated to the study of medieval French punctuation and was based on a corpus of multi-layer TEI-XML transcriptions of manuscripts and incunabula. He was involved in the Princeton Charrette Project <http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/> (2002-2006) and in the Saint-Petersburg Hagiography Corpus <http://project.phil.spbu.ru/scat/> (2004). Since 2004 he has been working on the BFM Old French Corpus <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=123> and on various related research and publication projects. He is responsible for the TEI encoding of the BFM texts, for their linguistic annotation and for providing user access to them. He manages the BFM public website <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/> and the web portal <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/>. This portal, developed by a team of ICAR researchers and engineers (Matthieu Decorde, Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev and Bénédicte Pincemin), provides a great number of services including KWIC concordances, a text selection interface, presentation of synoptic editions, statistical analysis, etc. He is a co-editor (with Christiane Marchello-Nizia) of the *Queste del Saint Graal* <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL> online edition <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL>. As a member of the DM Board (2012-2014), A. Lavrentiev was one of the wiki editors and news feed moderator. He represents the DM Board in the program committee of the El'Manuscript conference <http://textualheritage.org/content/view/486/209/lang,english/>. Nominated a deputy director early in 2014, he assisted P. Stokes in arranging and holding some board meetings. ***************************** GEORG VOGELER I studied "Historical Auxiliary Sciences" at Freiburg and Munich. I wrote a PhD on late Medieval Tax Adminstration Documents in the German Territorial States and worked in the field diplomatics (yes, charters not diplomats!) and cultural history of documentation (in particular in Italy during the reign of Frederic II) In 2004 got intrigued by the possibilities of the use of computer for medieval studies: I started the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), got involved in the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net), became member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de), created a e-Learning site on Palaeography (http://www.palaeographie-online.de), started recently thinking about how to edit medieval accounting documents ( http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem) – and thus ended up in 2011 at the Centre for Information Modelling/Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at Graz University (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at). Supporting the community of Digital Medievalists seems thus to be natural consequence to me which I would be happy to realize with a role in the editorial board of DM.

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