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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
by rsebastia14＠gmail.com 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure for us to announce at the Open University announced that the registration period is extended until March 13, for the two courses offered by the Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD): the “Experto professional en Humanidades Digitales” http://linhd.uned.es/p/titulo-propio-experto-profesional-en-humanidades-dig… in its second edition (specialization course in Digital Humanities), and the “Experto Profesional en Edición Digital Académica” http://linhd.uned.es/p/titulo-propio-experto-en-edicion-digital-academica/ (specialization course in Digital Scholarly Editing). Registration is open till 1st December and admissions are limited. The courses will start in January 2015 and will end in September. Each of them consists of 30 units, and will be taught completely online and in Spanish. We hope that this initiative will let users a deeper knowledge of digital humanities and digital scholarly editing. Please, feel free to circulate this message among all people that could be interested in following any of these programs. Best regards, Elena González-Blanco García Director of the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)http://linhd.uned.es/ Rosa Sebastià LINHD http://linhd.uned.es/

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small and large collections
by Matija Ogrin 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Dear Colleagues, Can you please give any example of a (small) digital collection of manuscript or printed primary sources which, 1) operates as an independent web-portal AND also 2) their data are in some way included/aggregated into some large collection or digital library? I am particularly interested in what happens as data pass from a "small" into a "large" digital resource? What kind of data are most suitable and frequent object of such aggregation in our area of digital humanities: only meta-data, or also msDesc, digital images, transcriptions? How "visible" is the original small collection after the aggregation? Etc. I hope this is not an off-topic question. Thank you for any advice, Matija -- Matija Ogrin, dr. Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts (NRSS) <http://ezb.ijs.si/nrss/> Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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CfP 2nd MEDEA Workshop on "Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts", Wheaton Mass. April 6-8 2016
by Georg Vogeler 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Second MEDEA Workshop Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, April 6-8, 2016 Account books allow scholars to explore the development of economic behavior on both a macro- and micro-structural level. In our first workshop at the University of Regensburg in October 2015, we heard from scholars who have begun to explore models for digitizing such sources in projects in Europe and the United States. Our second workshop will include reports on testing of models from the first workshop as well as presentations by scholars new to the MEDEA project. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has developed useful models to encode texts and digital scholarly editions, and the Semantic Web offers opportunities to collect and compare data from multiple digital projects. The MEDEA project looks at these methods with the goal of developing broad standards for producing semantically enriched digital editions of accounts. It fosters discussion of benefits and deficiencies in existing standards by bringing together economic historians, scholarly editors, and technical experts to discuss and test emerging methods for semantic markup of account books. For this purpose we call for contributions of scholars with experiences in the scholarly edition of historical financial records and ideas about how to use digital methods within this context. We invite proposals for participation in our second workshop, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts (USA), April 6-8, 2016. Participants will present current research projects using data from historical account books, describe the encoding models of their projects, and share ideas for a common model. The discussions and examples will focus on a set of questions intended to elucidate the features of accounts of greatest interest to scholars. Thus the activities will focus on the following issues: How might we model the economic activities recorded in these documents? In particular: What models of bookkeeping were followed historically and how can they be represented formally? Are data models developed for modern business reporting helpful? How can we model the economic reality behind the texts? Can we establish common resources on metrics and currencies or even the value of money that can be reused in other projects? Is it possible to build common taxonomies of commodities and services to facilitate the comparison of financial information recorded at different places and times? That is, can we develop references on the order of name authorities and standards for geo-referencing? How might we integrate topological information of the transcription with its financial interpretation? Is the “table” an appropriate method? What possibilities are offered by the TEI Manuscripts module and use of the tei:zone element? How can we integrate a topological/documentary approach and the growing linguistic interest in the texts with the interpretations that economic and social historians extract from the documents? Submit proposals (not to exceed 700 words) to medea.workshop(a)ur.de by January 15, 2016. The program committee will notify applicants of results no later than January 31, 2016. We particularly encourage proposals from early-career researchers. A limited budget is available to support costs of travel and accommodation. Please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information. See more details on the project and abstracts/presentations from the first workshop in Regensburg at http://medea.hypotheses.org/.

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**Revised CFP-CAPAL16: BEYOND THE LIBRARY: AGENCY, PRACTICE, AND SOCIETY
by Harriet Sonne de Torrens 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

**Apologies for the Cross-postings. Please see “potential topics * added below. Thank you.** Call for Proposals CAPAL16: BEYOND THE LIBRARY: AGENCY, PRACTICE, AND SOCIETY CAPAL/ACBAP Annual Conference – May 28–June 3, 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) invites participation in its annual conference, to be held as part of Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (http://congress2016.ca/). The conference offers opportunity to share critical research and scholarship, challenge current thinking, and forge new relationships across all disciplines. THEME In keeping with the Congress 2016 theme, Energizing Communities, CAPAL16 seeks to look “Beyond the Library” to rethink how academic librarians engage with their communities within which our institutions are situated or those with whom we share disciplinary concerns or approaches. Such communities may be physical, epistemic, academic, or imagined communities, communities of identity, or those communities around us and to which we contribute. What can the discipline of library and information studies (LIS) learn from other disciplines? What might LIS as an interdisciplinary field look like? Where and how should academic librarianship be situated within and in relation to other communities? RATIONALE Like any institution, academic libraries both reflect and help shape the societies of which they are part. It is therefore critical for academic librarians to consider how they and their work are situated – professionally, ontologically, ethically, epistemologically, and physically. As social agents, we share and occupy socio-economic, political, and technological spaces in our efforts to provide diverse, high quality, informational resources and critical education within a contemporary (i.e., neoliberal) legal and economic framework. In such an environment, effecting change requires seeking out, examining, and engaging with new ideas, approaches, theories, communities, understandings, and ways of knowing, which, themselves, may fall outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline of library and information studies. We need to move our lines of inquiry “beyond the library”–physically and intellectually–into new arenas and new communities. This conference is an invitation to academic librarians and scholars who study libraries and information to discuss how we can reframe academic librarianship: in practice, in policy, in theory, and in society. Potential topic areas include but are not limited to: · Academic librarianship in the context of urgent socio-political priorities, such as climate change, environmental sustainability, and social equity; · The relationship between academic librarianship and democracy; · Academic librarianship and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples; · Indigenizing, decolonizing, diversity, and inclusion in academic librarianship; · The philosophical bases of academic librarianship in social theory; · The history of academic librarianship and the role of academic librarians in the academy; · The potentially biased treatment of controversial issues and scholarly debates in knowledge organization and information retrieval systems; · The sociology of knowledge mobilization; · Academic librarianship and its relationship to the design of user spaces; · Academic librarianship’s response to privacy and security in the “post-Snowden” era; · Community development, “town-gown” relationships, and academic librarianship; · Core values of academic librarianship in mediated spaces; · Critical theory, interdisciplinary approaches and subject expertise in LIS education for academic librarians. SUBMISSION INFORMATION The Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers as well as proposals for panel submissions of three papers. Individual papers are typically 20 minutes in length. For individual papers, please submit an abstract of 300 words and a presentation title, with brief biographical statement and your contact information. For complete panels, please submit a panel abstract of 300 words as well as a list of all participants and brief biographical statements, and a separate abstract of 300 words for each presenter. Please identify and provide participants’ contact information for the panel organizer. International proposals and proposals from non-members and students are welcome. Please feel free to contact the Program Committee to discuss a topic for a paper, panel, or other session format. Proposals should be emailed as an attachment as a doc. or docx. file, using the following filename format: Lastname_Keywordoftopic.docx Proposals and questions should be directed to the Program Chairs: Michael Dudley: m.dudley(a)uwinnipeg.ca<mailto:m.dudley@uwinnipeg.ca> John Wright: jpwright(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:jpwright@ucalgary.ca> Deadline for proposals: January 4th, 2016. ******************************************************************************* Harriet Sonne de Torrens, MISt., Ph.D., L.M.S.| Academic Librarian | HMALC Library and Department of Visual Studies, UTM | 905-569-4610 | https://utoronto.academia.edu/HarrietSonnedeTorrens https://utlibrarians.wordpress.com/ [Standardized Email Signature_96dpi]

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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
by rsebastia14＠gmail.com 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
by rsebastia14＠gmail.com 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

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CFP-CAPAL16: BEYOND THE LIBRARY: AGENCY, PRACTICE, AND SOCIETY
by Harriet Sonne de Torrens 29 Nov '15

29 Nov '15

*Apologies for Cross-Postings* Call for Proposals CAPAL16: BEYOND THE LIBRARY: AGENCY, PRACTICE, AND SOCIETY CAPAL/ACBAP Annual Conference – May 28–June 3, 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) invites participation in its annual conference, to be held as part of Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (http://congress2016.ca/). The conference offers opportunity to share critical research and scholarship, challenge current thinking, and forge new relationships across all disciplines. THEME In keeping with the Congress 2016 theme, Energizing Communities, CAPAL16 seeks to look “Beyond the Library” to rethink how academic librarians engage with their communities within which our institutions are situated or those with whom we share disciplinary concerns or approaches. Such communities may be physical, epistemic, academic, or imagined communities, communities of identity, or those communities around us and to which we contribute. What can the discipline of library and information studies (LIS) learn from other disciplines? What might LIS as an interdisciplinary field look like? Where and how should academic librarianship be situated within and in relation to other communities? RATIONALE Like any institution, academic libraries both reflect and help shape the societies of which they are part. It is therefore critical for academic librarians to consider how they and their work are situated – professionally, ontologically, ethically, epistemologically, and physically. As social agents, we share and occupy socio-economic, political, and technological spaces in our efforts to provide diverse, high quality, informational resources and critical education within a contemporary (i.e., neoliberal) legal and economic framework. In such an environment, effecting change requires seeking out, examining, and engaging with new ideas, approaches, theories, communities, understandings, and ways of knowing, which, themselves, may fall outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline of library and information studies. We need to move our lines of inquiry “beyond the library”–physically and intellectually–into new arenas and new communities. This conference is an invitation to academic librarians and scholars who study libraries and information to discuss how we can reframe academic librarianship: in practice, in policy, in theory, and in society. Potential topic areas include but are not limited to: SUBMISSION INFORMATION The Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers as well as proposals for panel submissions of three papers. Individual papers are typically 20 minutes in length. For individual papers, please submit an abstract of 300 words and a presentation title, with brief biographical statement and your contact information. For complete panels, please submit a panel abstract of 300 words as well as a list of all participants and brief biographical statements, and a separate abstract of 300 words for each presenter. Please identify and provide participants’ contact information for the panel organizer. International proposals and proposals from non-members and students are welcome. Please feel free to contact the Program Committee to discuss a topic for a paper, panel, or other session format. Proposals should be emailed as an attachment as a doc. or docx. file, using the following filename format: Lastname_Keywordoftopic.docx Proposals and questions should be directed to the Program Chairs: Michael Dudley: m.dudley(a)uwinnipeg.ca<mailto:m.dudley@uwinnipeg.ca> John Wright: jpwright(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:jpwright@ucalgary.ca> Deadline for proposals: January 4th, 2016. ******************************************************************************* Harriet Sonne de Torrens, MISt., Ph.D., L.M.S.| Academic Librarian | HMALC Library and Department of Visual Studies, UTM | 905-569-4610 | https://utoronto.academia.edu/HarrietSonnedeTorrens https://utlibrarians.wordpress.com/ [Standardized Email Signature_96dpi]

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R: small and large collections
by Elsa De Luca 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

Dear Matija, Another web resource that you may want to take into account is the Portuguese Early Music Database. It allows free and universal access to a large number of manuscripts with musical notation written before c. 1650 preserved in many different libraries and archives in Portugal and surrounding Spanish locations. Every manuscript is given in full-colour reproduction and entered with a general description. http://pemdatabase.eu/ Kind regards, Elsa De Luca Post-doc research Assistant in Medieval Music Music Department, University of Bristol https://bristol.academia.edu/ElsaDeLuca >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: matija.ogrin(a)zrc-sazu.si >Data: 27/11/2015 15.39 >A: <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> >Ogg: [dm-l] small and large collections > >Dear Colleagues, > >Can you please give any example of a (small) digital collection of >manuscript or printed primary sources which, 1) operates as an >independent web-portal AND also 2) their data are in some way >included/aggregated into some large collection or digital library? > >I am particularly interested in what happens as data pass from a "small" >into a "large" digital resource? What kind of data are most suitable and >frequent object of such aggregation in our area of digital humanities: >only meta-data, or also msDesc, digital images, transcriptions? How >"visible" is the original small collection after the aggregation? Etc. > >I hope this is not an off-topic question. Thank you for any advice, > >Matija > >-- >Matija Ogrin, dr. >Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts (NRSS) ><http://ezb.ijs.si/nrss/> >Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts > >Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ >Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ >Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org >News: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/news/ >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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CfP: WORDS – Medieval Textuality and its Material Display, Paris, June 30th – July 2nd 2016
by Franz Fischer 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

Dear digital medievalists, The following CfP might be of interest for some of you. Best, Franz --- CfP: WORDS – Medieval Textuality and its Material Display Paris, June 30th – July 2nd 2016 Closing date: 30th January 2016 WORDS Medieval Textuality and its Material Display Paris, June 30th – July 2nd 2016 Keynote Speakers: Eric Palazzo (Université de Poitiers) Geoffrey Koziol (University of California, Berkeley) For its 13th Annual Symposium to be held in Paris, the International Medieval Society invites abstracts on the theme of Words in the Middle Ages. The digital humanities, while altering the landscape of Medieval Studies as a whole, have most importantly overhauled the concept, appearance, and analysis of words and texts. Between the increasing use of paperless media forms and the rise in the number of digital collections, medievalists are seeking to adapt to these new means of producing knowledge about the Middle Ages. At the same time, scholars in this field are also trying to outline the methodological and historical issues that affect the study of words, which now simultaneously exist in the form of primary sources, codices, rolls, charters and inscriptions, digitally reproduced images, and the statistical and lexicographical data made possible by storage platforms and analytical tools. In parallel with the digital humanities, the 13th Annual IMS Symposium on WORDS aims to return to words themselves and to probe the intellectual, technical and aesthetic principles that underpin their use and social function in medieval graphical practices. By analysing the material and symbolic properties of a particular medium; the conditions in which texts become signs; and scribal expertise, this symposium will address questions that initially seem simple yet which define the very foundations of medieval written culture. What is a word? What are its components? How does it appear in a given medium? What is the relationship between word and text, word and letter, word and medium, word and reader? In a Middle Ages forever torn between economic and extravagant language, what is the status of the word and what kind of elements – visual or acoustic, linguistic or extralinguistic – does it contain? This IMS Symposium will thus explore (but is not limited to) four broad themes with a particular focus on medieval France, Francia and post-Roman Gaul: 1) Words and wording: medieval discourse on texts and writing; texts that reflect upon the act of writing (the poetic arts, prologues, colophons and signatures); the relationship between the writer (scribe, copyist, notary, stonecutter) and words, between copy and creation. 2) Words in and of themselves: the word between alphabetical symbol/grapheme and other symbols; images and sounds of words (nomina sacra, punctuation, poetic features); musical notation (naming/interpretation of neumes, litterae significativae); variations of meaning e.g. between mots and paroles; hierarchies of writing and of content. 3) Words and matter: the word and its format; the concept of the pagina, its definition, margins and limits, from manuscripts to inscriptions; the material turn and palaeography; writing and object, from book to amulet; the word beyond the text (images, heraldry, emblems, numismatics); impressions and the first printed texts, beyond the act of writing. 4) Beyond words: content-less words (pseudo-writing, pseudo-alphabets, pseudo-texts); word, name and identity; etymologies; word games and wordplay; the middle-ground between word and text (calligrams, anagrams, epigrams); the relationship between words and music (verse, prose etc. as expressed in melodies). Through these broad themes, we aim to encourage the participation of researchers with varying backgrounds and fields of expertise: historians, specialists in the auxiliary sciences (palaeographers, epigraphists, codicologists, numismatists) art historians, musicologists, philologists, literary specialists…By bringing together a wide variety of papers that both survey and explore this field, the IMS Symposium intends to bring a fresh perspective to the word in medieval culture. Proposals of no more than 300 words (in English or French) for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to communications.ims.paris(a)gmail.com <mailto:communications.ims.paris@gmail.com> by 30th January 2016. Each should be accompanied by full contact information, a CV, and a list of the audio-visual equipment that you require. Please be aware that the IMS-Paris submissions review process is highly competitive and is carried out on a strictly anonymous basis. The selection committee will email applicants in February to notify them of its decision. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS-Paris website. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students, free for IMS-Paris members). The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (French/English) organisation that fosters exchanges between French and foreign scholars. For the past ten years, the IMS has served as a centre for medievalists who travel to France to conduct research, work, or study. For more information about the IMS-Paris and past symposia programmes, please visit our website: www.ims-paris.org <http://www.ims-paris.org/>. IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize: The IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best paper proposal by a graduate student. Applications should consist of: 1) a symposium paper abstract/proposal 2) an outline of a current research project (PhD. dissertation research) 3) the names and contact information of two academic referees The prize-winner will be selected by the board and a committee of honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the Symposium. An award of 350 euros to support international travel/accommodation (within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the Symposium.

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New articles on Digital Medievalist 10
by Franz Fischer 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

Dear digital medievalists, We are happy to announce the publication of two new articles in the Journal of Digital Medievalist, issue 10 (2015): "From 'anhelitus' to 'hanellissement': Cross-referencing in the Anglo-Norman dictionary" by Katariina Nara-Zanotti: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/10/nara/ "Alliteration and character focus in the York Plays" by Richard Khoury and Douglas Hayes: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/10/khoury/ Digital Medievalist operates a policy of rolling release, meaning that articles are published as soon as they are available. In the same issue (10) the article by Ludger Zeevaert on "Easy tools to get to grips with linguistic variation in the manuscripts of Njáls saga" has previously been published July 10th, 2015: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/10/zeevaert/ Digital Medievalist welcomes submissions of articles on digital and technological topics in the field of medieval studies: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/ Best wishes, Franz Fischer digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/ facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 twitter.com/digitalmedieval -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 Email: franz.fischer(a)uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de http://www.i-d-e.de http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de http://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de http://confessio.ie

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