dm-l October 2015

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Early Irish Manuscripts Project at Trinity College Dublin
by Franz Fischer 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

*From:*Catherine Yvard *Sent:* 26 October 2015 11:52 *To:* Catherine Yvard *Subject:* Early Irish Manuscripts Project at Trinity College Dublin Dear all, For the past few months, I have been working on the Early Irish Manuscripts Project at Trinity College Dublin. Supported by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch art conservation fund, the aim of the project is to conserve, digitise and research four early Gospel Books made in Irish monastic foundations: Codex Usserianus Primus (TCD MS 55), the Book of Mulling (TCD MS 60), the Book of Dimma (TCD MS 59), and the Garland of Howth (TCD MS 56). To share with you progress and discoveries, we have just launched a blog which will be our project diary. It will document the conservation, digitisation and research processes through this year and well into the next with text, photographs and videos posted each week. We hope you enjoy it! Please spread the word! http://www.tcd.ie/Library/early-irish-mss/ Best wishes, Catherine PS: if you wish to be removed from this mailing list, just let me know. *The Early Irish Manuscripts blog is now online!*http://www.tcd.ie/Library/early-irish-mss/ Follow us on *Twitter*: @ResearchColls @DrYvard Dr Catherine Yvard Research Fellow – Early Irish Manuscripts Project Department of History of Art Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: + 353 1 896 3178 <tel:%2B%20353%201%20896%203178> Email: cyvard(a)tcd.ie <mailto:cyvard@tcd.ie> www.tcd.ie <http://www.tcd.ie/> Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin is ranked 1st in Ireland and in the top 100 world universities by the QS World University Rankings. _____________ Dr Catherine Yvard Roinn Stair na hEalaíne Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath, Ollscoil Átha Cliath Baile Átha Cliath 2, Éire. Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath – an ollscoil is fearr in Éirinn agus ceann den 100 ollscoil is fearr ar domhan de réir Rangú QS ar Ollscoileanna an Domhain -- Rémy CORDONNIER Docteur en histoire de l'art Responsable du fonds ancien de la Bibliothèque d'agglomération de Saint-Omer Chercheur associé de l'Institut de Recherche Historiques du Septentrion (Lille III - CNRS) Chercheur associé de l'Institut d’Études Médiévales (Université Nouvelle de Lisbonne). Adresse privée : 33 rue saint Bertin 62500 Saint-Omer Tel. : 0033 (0)3 61 51 59 98 GSM : 0033 (0)6 26 16 86 33

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Leeds DigiHum, Conor Kostick on 'Digital Linguistics and Climate Change'
by Victoria Cooper 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Dear all (with apologies for cross-posting) The University of Leeds Digital Humanities Series is immensely excited to present the illustrious Dr Conor Kostick of the University of Nottingham for our next talk on Monday 2nd November. Dr Kostick will be talking about his current research into historical climate change as well as his work on digital linguistics in relation to the Crusades. His current research relates to understanding our environmental history in order to ascertain a more detailed picture of the climate in the late antique and early medieval periods. Recent advances in scientific research on the period has provided greater data. Combined with the increasing ability to collate large numbers of historical European documents this has led to an unprecedented opportunity to explore the effects of historical climate change, and this talk will explore what this evidence can tell us about the period. Dr Kostick will also be sharing some of the digital methods and techniques he has used in his many publications on the Crusades, a subject which remains close to his heart. We hope you're as excited as we are about this talk, which promises to be an insightful seminar from a very distinguished scholar and author, and we really hope lots of you can make it. The seminar will start at about 6:00PM on Monday 2nd Nov in LHRI Seminar Room 1, where there will be tea and biscuits before the talk, and will run until roughly 7:30PM, after which some manner of dinner will likely be on the cards. Please join us for the talk, and if you would like to come for dinner let us know in advance at leedsdigihum(a)leeds.ac.uk. Our full programme (and directions to the venue) is available at: www.leedsdigihum.wordpress.com. Please have a look for our upcoming events! All the best, Victoria, James and Claudia The Leeds Digital Humanities Series is sponsored by The Cultural Institute, University of Leeds.

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El'Manuscript 2015 Research School, Novosibirsk, Russia, 10-28 November 2015
by Lavrentev Alexey 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Dear colleagues, Novosibirsk State University and Textual Heritage scholarly community invite you to participate in the international research school “Textual Heritage and Digital Technologies” (El'Manuscript*–*2015) for young scholars. The current school upholds the tradition of research schools initiated in Izhevsk in 2006 and continued in Kazan, Ufa, Petrozavodsk, Varna (Bulgary) (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 respectively). The school will be held on November 10-28 in Novosibirsk, Russia, and will include lectures, workshops and presentation sessions aiming to familiarise students, postgraduate students and young scholars with the latest achievements of the world's research in the field of studying old, medieval and modern texts using digital technologies, new methodology, software and tools. Courses will be taught by well-known specialists from Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia working on computer and corpus linguistics and corpus textual scholarship, digital strategies of historical factual account, text encoding and markup that aim to provide a possibility of digital data exchange and research on textual heritage of the Old Russian literature and Slavonic literatures. One module is dedicated to the technologies of creating online catalogs and digital collections of manuscripts, old printed books and historical documents. Roundtables are included in the programme to involve young scholars in discussion about the aforementioned and related issues. Working languages: Russian, English. *Website*: http://textualheritage.org/content/view/43/238/lang,english/ *E-mail*:_elmanuscript@gmail.com <mailto:elmanuscript@gmail.com>_ *Practical information: * *Dates*: November 10-28, 2015 *Opening:*November 11. *Closing:*November 27 *Venue:*Novosibirsk State University; A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; The State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. *Registration:*November 10, laboratory building, r. 202 *Address:*Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Pirogova str. 2 /*Programme*/ _*http://goo.gl/Dx5gKV*_ /*How to participate:*/ To apply for a school send an email to *elmanuscript(a)gmail.com**. * Application should contain the following information: - First name, last name; - Affiliation, position / University (for students); - Academic qualification, / education (student / postgraduate student / master (MA), young scholar, PhD, etc.); - application for accommodation (if necessary); - preferred course(s) and lecturers (see the Programme); - arrival and departure dates. /*Submission period (Deadline) :*/ You can apply for a school before October 30, 2015. You can choose module and topics and determine the date(s) of your visit. All participants attending lectures thetotal amount of 18 hours and more will receive a Certificate. /*Registration fee:*/ Free /*Transport and accommodation fees:*/ Should be paid by the participant. Best regards, Organizing Commitee

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Workshop and Aliento 6th International Conference Nancy-Paris, March 15-17, 2016
by Marie-Sol Ortola 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce the 6th Aliento International Conference which will be held at Nancy and Paris on March 15-17, 2016. (http://www.aliento.eu) Please find hereby the call for papers for the Workshop dedicated to Digital Humanities (Nancy, March 16) Hoping you will be able to participate, we send our best regards, Marie-Christine Bornes Varol Professeur des Universités (Inalco) Département d’études hébraïques (CERMOM) Porteur du projet ANR ALIENTO (www.aliento.eu) 00 33 (0) 1 40 05 98 83 varol(a)noos.fr Marie-Sol Ortola Professeur des Universités (Nancy 2) Dépt d’études ibériques et ibéro-américaines Porteur du projet ANR ALIENTO (www.aliento.eu) 00 33 (0) 3 83 73 83 01 marie-sol.ortola(a)univ-lorraine.fr <mailto:marie-sol.ortola@univ-lorraine.fr>

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Ad fontes hacks Cappelli
by Tobias Hodel 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

with apologies for cross-posting The Ad fontes project (www.adfontes.uzh.ch <http://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/>) is going to hack Cappelli! We want to digitally hack the Lexicon abbreviaturarum of Adriano Cappelli into pieces in order to digitize and make each and every abbreviation systematically searchable. The „Cappelli“, printed in 1899, is a benchmark book for abbreviations in Latin and Italian, containing about 15'000 abbreviations. By crowdsourcing Cappelli, the abbreviations are going to be searchable beyond alphabetical traits. Browsing through the pages of Cappelli will be a thing of the past. You will be able to filter the abbreviations by identified letters or the position of abbreviation or contraction signs. The data gathered will be made available to the public for free (using a creative commons license). We aim to digitize all of Cappelli’s abbreviations by the end of 2015. Help us hack Cappelli and be part of this global endeavor (see also the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkorEJPTlc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkorEJPTlc>): http://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/cappelli <http://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/cappelli> For inquiries and questions: adfontes(a)hist.uzh.ch <mailto:adfontes@hist.uzh.ch> Best, Tobias Webinterface to crowdsource Cappelli ------ Tobias Hodel Projekt «Ad fontes» Universität Zürich

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Job posting: Programmer Analyst, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
by Lynn Ransom 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

**Apologies for cross-posting & please distribute freely and widely!** Programmer Analyst for the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries With a growing collection of over 225,000 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 being redeveloped into an online, open-access, collaborative tool for researching the historic and current locations of the world's pre-modern manuscripts. We are seeking to fill a two-year, full-time, NEH-funded Programmer Analyst position to take over the technical development of the New SDBM. Working directly with the project manager and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS <http://schoenberginstitute.org/> ) Digital Content Programmer, the PA will continue the development of the New SDBM, a crowd-sourced application providing web, mobile, and application interfaces for the discovery, access, and entry of manuscript data, using the Ruby on Rails framework, jQuery, Blacklight, and AngularJS. The PA will also work with Library Technology Services (LTS) to integrate the New SDBM with the Library's Digital Library Architecture (DLA). For more information on requirements and salary and to apply, go to: https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/13447 (IT Graded Rank: B; Ref. no: 50-21143)

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Fwd: I: [Corpora-List] Call for abstracts: Diachronic Treebanks (Workshop at SLE-2016)
by Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

> >> Da: corpora-bounces(a)uib.no <corpora-bounces(a)uib.no> per conto di Passarotti Marco Carlo <marco.passarotti(a)unicatt.it> >> Inviato: lunedì 5 ottobre 2015 18.16 >> A: corpora(a)uib.no >> Oggetto: [Corpora-List] Call for abstracts: Diachronic Treebanks (Workshop at SLE-2016) >> >> ***Diachronic Treebanks*** >> >> - Workshop at the 49th SLE meeting, Naples Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2016 - >> >> >> >> Convenors: Hanne Eckhoff (University of Tromsø, Norway), Silvia Luraghi (Università di Pavia, Italy), Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) >> >> >> >> The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in historical linguistics, who combine a solid linguistic background with an interest for the exploitation of electronic resources, and in particular of syntactically parsed corpora, in research on language change. We welcome proposals addressing diachronic issues under any type of approach and methodology, provided that they highlight the contribution of empirical evidence retrieved from treebanks in achieving meaningful results. >> >> >> >> MOTIVATION AND AIMS >> Over the last two decades, treebanks have become an increasingly useful instrument for data-driven study of linguistic structures at various levels. The proliferation of treebanks has led to a very large number of resources available for different languages, which can support comparative research of various issues cross-linguistically. In recent years, a growing number of treebanks has also become available for ancient languages and for different historical stages of the same language: the York-Toronto-Helsinki corpus (http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang22/YcoeHome1.htm) and the Penn Corpora of Historical English (https://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/) for English, Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank (https://nestor.uit.no) and RRuDi (https://www.slawistik.hu-berlin.de/de/member/meyerrol/subjekte/rrudi) for Russian, PROIEL (http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/proiel/) for various ancient Indo-European languages and recently extended to host treebanks for medieval stages of Romance and Germanic languages, Perseus Latin and Ancient Greek Dependency Treebanks (http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/) for Latin and Ancient Greek, the Index Thomisticus Treebank (http://itreebank.marginalia.it) for Latin, and several others. This allows data extraction aimed to assessing the scope and the effects of diachronic developments, managing a large amount of data and retrieving information whose relevance can then be evaluated through statistical methods. Possible issues that can be tackled through diachronic treebanks are potentially numerous and of different nature, and include increasing or decreasing productivity of syntactic or morphological constructions, and, most interesting, interrelationships between different changes that have previously been considered unrelated or whose interrelation is otherwise hard to prove. >> >> >> >> Possible TOPICS include (but are not limited to): >> >> - historical developments of constructions as evidenced by data extracted from diachronic treebanks; >> >> - suitability of different types of treebanks (constituent-based vs. dependency-based) for research on specific diachronic changes; >> >> - correlations between developments in different areas of a language’s grammar; >> >> - similarities and differences between parallel developments of similar changes in different languages; >> >> - how evidence from already known and documented diachronic change can give input for annotation; >> >> - how semantic and/or pragmatic information can be supplied in order to better understand the rationale of changes highlighted by data extracted from treebanks; >> >> - specific issues raised by the development of diachronic treebanks; >> >> - methods and tools to build and access diachronic treebanks; >> >> - issues in data selection for representativeness purposes; >> >> - issues pertaining to scarce and non-standardised data >> >> >> >> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS >> >> We invite you to submit abstracts up to 300 words (references not included) describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Abstracts should be in an editable format (e.g. .doc or .docx; no pdf will be considered), and should be sent to all workshop organizers: >> >> - hanne.m.eckhoff(a)uit.no >> >> - silvia.luraghi(a)unipv.it >> >> - marco.passarotti(a)unicatt.it >> >> >> >> The DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION of the short abstract is NOVEMBER 15, 2015. Abstracts will be evaluated by the convenors, and selected abstracts will accompany the workshop proposal. We will notify you of inclusion in the workshop proposal when we submit it on Nov. 25th. >> Note that if the workshop has been accepted, you will also have to prepare a full abstract and submit it to be reviewed by the SLE scientific committee. The deadline for the submission of full abstracts is January 15, 2016. >> >> For further information, please refer to the SLE meeting webpage at http://sle2016.eu/call-for-papers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora >> Corpora mailing list >> Corpora(a)uib.no >> http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora

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New resource: vHMML
by Kalvesmaki, Joel 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library is very excited to announce the launch of vHMML<http://vhmml.org/>, an online environment for manuscript studies. Creation of vHMML has been supported by a National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, with additional support from Arcadia Fund of London. You can read more about the whole project here<http://vhmml.org/about>. You’ll find instruction in Latin and Syriac scripts in School<http://www.vhmml.org/school>, Latin and Syriac annotated images in Folio<http://folio.as.uky.edu/>, answers to all of your terminological questions (“what does rinceaux mean, anyway?”) in Lexicon<http://vhmml.org/lexicon>, and lots of bibliography in Reference<http://vhmml.org/reference> (exportable to Zotero, and with links to digital versions in archive.org). For now vHMML will take you to our online catalog, OLIVER, but starting in early 2016 it will link to the new vHMML Reading Room where registered users will be able to browse thousands of complete manuscripts for free. vHMML will be continually updated and enriched. Later in 2015 there will be more Syriac lessons, including transcription practice, and in 2016 we’ll add Arabic and Armenian, and possibly other traditions. Please have a look, and let us know your suggestions for improvement or additions: vhmml(a)vhmml.org.

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Digital Editing Now: Call for digital posters
by Orietta Da Rold 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Dear Colleagues, Please, see call for posters below. Feel free to forward to any interested party. Best wishes, Orietta Digital Editing Now: Call for digital posters 7-9 January 2016 Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) University of Cambridge Graduate students and early career scholars with interests in digital edition work are invited to submit proposals for digital posters relating to this field. The selected posters (a main page either in web page format, with the option of links to one or two additional pages, or in pdf) will be projected for five-minute presentations during the course of the conference. Those presenting will receive a bursary towards the costs of attendance. Please send your proposal (maximum 200 words) to Tom Taylor (tmt24(a)cam.ac.uk) by Friday 23 October 2015. In recent years, there has been a significant shift in scholarly culture and funding strategies towards digital formats for edition projects. This is driven by the potential for new forms of production, presentation and access that the digital promises. And it involves a reassessment of the conventions that have determined editorial practice in the age of print. This conference will gather interested parties together to exchange ideas about the state of digital editing and its future potential. It will also provide the opportunity to ask critical questions about the limits of the digital. How should we place ourselves relative to fundamental issues of authority/openness, durability/fluidity? Can we establish a set of ideal types for digital editorial method, or would its optimal strengths rather lie in more hybrid forms, including a productive mode of cohabitation with the print formats that it appears to want to supersede? While the conference will be fully open in historical and disciplinary terms, the exchange that is proposed here will be focused around four key sets of concerns, which cut across differences of material and context: Material texts and digital forms What possibilities does digital editing provide to do justice to the material character of the texts it seeks to present, to their physical bedding and the means of their inscription? Can it find creative and meaningful ways of getting close to the experience of the archive? And how does it respond to the need for the kinds of durability and reliability associated with its physical counterparts? Editorial agents and agencies (providers, in various roles, and users) Digital editions are the collaborative product of a range of types of expertise. They bring different agents together (academics, archivists, information technologists) in what can be a delicate process of negotiation between systems of knowledge. At the same time, users – expert and otherwise – experience, and in some cases reconfigure, digital editions, in various ways. How can the collective agency of these networks be made most fruitful? Chronology and topography (genetic and diplomatic methods) Critical editions always have to deal with the tension between presenting the historical genesis of their material and the spatial lay-out of its iterations. How can digital functions convey the relations between the two in dynamic and enlightening fashion? Digital edition and performance practices Digital editing offers the means to open up and enliven a range of different cultural materials. How might it provide a new basis for performance practices, in both live and digitally mediated forms, and in combinations of the two? And how might this extend beyond material self-evidently for performance (music, drama) to other types of resource? *********************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500 Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP 01223 335089 Fellow of St John´s College Cambridge, CB2 1TP 01223 768181 od245(a)cam.ac.uk

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Search for an English unedited medieval manuscript
by Johanna Feenstra 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Dear readers, At this moment I am a research student at the University of Groningen. For a course I need to make an edition of a manuscript belonging to my field of expertise. In my case this is the English Middle Ages. However, after asking many of my professors I have not yet come across a satisfying manuscript. Perhaps you can help me out! I am looking for a medieval manuscript in the English vernacular (Old/Middle English) which had not yet been edited. I am aware this query is far-fetched, but I am willing to try anyway. With regard to the content of the manuscript, my preference goes out to something related to magic, charms, bestiary (cats are a pro), supernatural, romance ect. However, even if you might happen to know a manuscripts that only includes the content preferences, I am very eager to learn about it still. Of course, the same stands for the first preference: A unedited manuscript with any other content is also very welcome. I hope some of you have suggestions and I am looking forward to your replies. Best regards, J. Feenstra

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