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

06 Oct '14

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

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Reminder, CFP - 50th ICMS: Textual and Manuscript Studies in Online Environments
by Albert Lloret 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

[With apologies for cross-posting] CFP - TEXTUAL AND MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University; May 14-17, 2015 Sponsored by _Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures_ Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jeanette Patterson (University of Virginia) Digital environments enable our studying and representing texts and manuscripts in radically enhanced ways. As a result, not only have traditional practices been perfected, also new concepts and forms-such as those of a "digital edition," a "digital library," and a "digital archive"-are now giving stimulus to new theories and critical approaches. In this session, we seek to promote discussion around how digital environments are changing our examination and representation of texts and the codices that contain them. We invite submissions that reflect on the achievements, challenges, and prospects of manuscript and textual studies in the digital medium, including, but not limited to: * manuscript representation technologies * theories of digital edition or the making of digital editions * corpora studies and computational approaches to manuscript studies * the goals of textual studies in a digital environment * examples of manuscript and textual studies carried out in online environments Please send a 100-word abstract and Participant Information Form to Albert Lloret at lloret(a)umass.edu by September 15. Albert Lloret, PhD Managing Editor, Digital Philology <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/> Assistant Professor of Spanish and Catalan University of Massachusetts Amherst http://umass.academia.edu/AlbertLloret

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Digital Catalogue of the pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales
by Dan Mosser 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

I'm pleased to be able to provide a revised, updated, and corrected edition of my Digital Catalogue of the pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales: http://www.mossercatalogue.net This edition omits the hundreds of images published on the Scholarly Digital Editions’ 2010 publication on CD-ROM, making it possible to provide the Catalogue free of charge on the Web. Verse items are hyperlinked to records in the Digital Index of Middle English Verse and, where images are available for watermarks to the Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive. _____________________________ Dan Mosser dmosser(a)vt.edu _____________________________ Digital index of Middle English Verse (www.dimev.net) Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive (www.gravell.org) A Digital Catalogue of the Pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales (http://www.mossercatalogue.net) CV (http://mosser.vtcath.org)

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Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

This week's Manuscript Road Trip visits Tennessee and Kentucky: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/manuscript-road-trip-kno… - 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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Vacancy: Research Fellow at ITSEE
by Hugh Houghton 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

With apologies for cross-posting and short notice. Dear all, There is a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow to work on the COMPAUL project at the University of Birmingham, investigating the earliest commentaries on Paul as sources for the biblical text. We seek a scholar with expertise in classical or biblical Greek, an interest in the New Testament and experience of working with electronic and online corpora. The principal duties will be the analysis of early Greek commentaries on Paul and the creation of a database of biblical quotations. The research fellow will join an established team working in the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. The appointment will start from 1st October 2014, or as soon as possible thereafter. The post is initially for 12 months, with the possibility of extension. I apologise for the very short notice, but the deadline for applications is: 7th September 2014. Informal enquiries may be addressed to H.A.G.Houghton(a)bham.ac.uk Applications must be made online through the portal at https://static.wcn.co.uk/company/birminghamuniversity/internet.html A job description may be downloaded from http://www.download.bham.ac.uk/vacancies/jd/44515.pdf Please circulate this to your networks of those who may be interested. Many thanks, Hugh Houghton == Dr Hugh Houghton www.birmingham.ac.uk/HAGHoughton www.birmingham.ac.uk/itsee

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this week's Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 16 Aug '14

16 Aug '14

This week, the Carolinas: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/manuscript-road-trip-car… - 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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DM-Board Election Results
by Dominique Stutzmann 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Dear Digital Medievalist community, We have the pleasure of announcing the results from the DM elections 2014. In alphabetical order the elected members of the community to the Board are: - Alberto Campagnolo - Franz Fischer - Alexei Lavrentev - Georg Vogeler We would like to thank the other candidates for standing and providing us with an outstandingly rich choice. Thank you for your participation! Best wishes to the new DM board, and the DM community as a whole, Ben and Dominique

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Seminar: short digital classicist presentations
by Gabriel Bodard 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies seminar 2014 Friday August 15th at 16:30, in Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 1. Wilma Stefani (MA dissertation, King's College London) Online narratives and public engagement: opportunities and challenges for Public Archaeology. 2. Aikaterini Plati (MA dissertation, King's College London) The Acropolis Museum and its digital engagement. 3. Stavrini Ioannidou (MA dissertation, University College London) Lessons to be learned from the Classicists: Instilling a Digital-Humanities mentality among the members of the Modern Greek Studies community. 4. Elisa Nury (MPhil/PhD chapter, King's College London) Automated collation - is it for Classicists? (Please note these are all work-in-progress, not completed research, so presentations and results may be provisional.) ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. -- 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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CFP 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies - Schoenberg Database Project Sponsored Session @WMU, Kalamazoo (May 14-17.15)
by Alex Devine 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

** With apologies for cross-posting ** ** * Call for Papers* Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Sponsored Session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 14-17, 2015 We seek proposals for the following session: *Networks of Transmission: Histories and Practices of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts and Documents* This session will focus on the mapping of those networks of sale and purchase through which medieval manuscripts have been pursued and on the collectors and collecting that have catalyzed this transmission across the centuries. This session – like The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts itself – is rooted in the belief that studying manuscripts’ provenance can have dynamic and profound effects not only on our understanding of these medieval materials as objects to be bought and sold but also on their texts through mapping their circulation and reception. We particularly welcome proposals that explore diverse topics from the role of digital technologies such as the SDBM in conducting provenance research, the relationship between institutional and private ownership of manuscripts, specific case studies of collecting practices, the transatlantic travels of medieval materials, collectors’ roles in the dispersal of libraries and the fragmentation of manuscripts, collectors and manuscript preservation, and how a manuscript’s provenance history can affect its value and collectability on the rare books market, to how collectors and the act of collecting can shape and influence interpretations of manuscript evidence. Please send proposals with a one-page abstract and Participant Information Form <http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html> to Lynn Ransom (lransom(a)upenn.edu) or Alex Devine (aldevine(a)sas.upenn.edu) by *September 1, 2015*. ****************** Alexander Devine *Ph.D. * *Candidate*, Dep artment of English <http://www.english.upenn.edu/People/AlexanderDevine> &* Project Researcher*, The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts <http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/index.html> University of Pennsylvania // Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 3340 Walnut Street / Philadelphia, PA 19104 -6273 aldevine(a)sas.upenn.edu ~ @aldevine <https://twitter.com/aldevine>

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Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

This week, medieval manuscripts in Alabama and Georgia: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/manuscript-road-trip-swe… - 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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