Dear Colleagues,
Registration is now open for the 'Digital Editing Now’ conference, details below. Please circulate with colleagues and students.
Best wishes,
Orietta
7-9 January, 2016
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
University of Cambridge
For programme and booking, see: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26264
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 gathers together leading figures in the field to
exchange ideas about the state of digital editing, its future potential, challenges
and limits. 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?
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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
North Carolina State University is pleased to announce that it will be
participating in the Council on Library and Information Resource's
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Medieval Studies program,
under which we will be hiring a fellow for the 2016-18 academic years. For
details on the position, please see
*http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/north-carolina-state-university
<http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/north-carolina-state-uni…>.*
The deadline for applications is December 30th; for more information,
please see http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants.
Please address any questions to Timothy Stinson at tlstinso(a)ncsu.edu.
--
Timothy L. Stinson
Associate Professor
Department of English
North Carolina State University
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/tlstinso
Reconstructing the Beauvais Missal: Gratulation for this inspiring project.
I mentioned the problem of broking up manuscripts in my Blog Archivalia in
2013. Archivalia has a new adress:
http://archivalia.hypotheses.org/6145
Klaus Graf
2015-12-04 2:04 GMT+01:00 <dm-l-request(a)uleth.ca>:
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> 4. Graduate Studies opportunities on the Canterbury Tales and
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> Those of you whose collections include a leaf or two of the Beauvais
> Missal may be interested in my ongoing online project devoted to
> reconstructing and studying the manuscript:
>
> http://brokenbooks2.omeka.net
>
> On the site, you will find images and metadata for 94 known leaves of
> the manuscript as well as initial findings about the Missal and a link
> to a digital surrogate (a test case for the University of St. Louis
> Center for Digital Humanities' Broken Books [1]project).
>
> Please contact me you have any questions about the project or your
> leaf's metadata, or if you know of any leaves of the Missal that I
> haven't included. In addition, if your leaf has an OPAC record, please
> feel free to send me the PURL so I can include it.
>
> Many thanks -
>
> 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
>
>
> Links:
>
> 1. http://165.134.241.141/brokenBooks/home.html?demo=1
>
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/
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
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Matija Ogrin, dr.
Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts (NRSS)
<http://ezb.ijs.si/nrss/>
Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
[UPDATED INFORMATION. apologies for cross-posting]
Workshop. "Digital Scholarly Editions: From Analogue Material to Digital
Publication"
Organized by the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED / Laboratorio de
Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (LINHD-UNED) and the Research &
Development Department of the Göttingen State and University Library
Date
December 14th–16th, 2015
Venue
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid, Spain)
Sala Sáenz Torrecilla de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
de la UNED
c/ Obispo Trejo, 2
28040 Madrid
*Schedule, how to register and information:*
http://linhd.uned.es/p/workshop-la-edicion-digital-academica-de-lo-analogic…
This workshop will deal with theoretical problems regarding the
digitization process, text encoding (TEI), digital storage and publication
of digital texts, and it will discuss topics of interest with regard to
current developments in the Digital Humanities, such as the ones related to
infrastructure and long-term preservation. It will offer the opportunity to
work on two hands-on sessions with the new version of the TextGrid Editor
and its tools applied to the digital edition of the Cancionero Musical de
Palacio and other Castilian medieval texts.
Participants are invited to bring their own materials to discuss mark-up
and edition problems.
The languages of the workshop will be English (mainly) and Spanish, and it
may be followed at UNED, online or deferred.
Best regards
Gimena del Rio Riande (CONICET-LINHD) and Elena González Blanco (LINHD-UNED)
Gimena del Rio
Investigadora. Seminario de Edición y Crítica Textual (SECRIT-IIBICRIT
CONICET)
http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/
Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina
(54)-11-4129-1158
http://aahd.com.ar/
Those of you whose collections include a leaf or two of the Beauvais Missal may be interested in my ongoing online project devoted to reconstructing and studying the manuscript:
http://brokenbooks2.omeka.net
On the site, you will find images and metadata for 94 known leaves of
the manuscript as well as initial findings about the Missal and a link
to a digital surrogate (a test case for the University of St. Louis
Center for Digital Humanities' Broken Books [1]project).
Please contact me you have any questions about the project or your
leaf's metadata, or if you know of any leaves of the Missal that I
haven't included. In addition, if your leaf has an OPAC record, please
feel free to send me the PURL so I can include it.
Many thanks -
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
Links:
1. http://165.134.241.141/brokenBooks/home.html?demo=1
Hello list,
CLIR is in the process of announcing the next bunch of postdocs in the
"Data Curation for Medieval Studies" program, and it includes one at the
University of Pennsylvania, working in the Schoenberg Institute for
Manuscript Studies, focused specifically on Digital Manuscript Studies.
I've copied the complete description below, and it's also available on the
CLIR website:
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/university-of-pennsylvan….
The Deadline for application for all the postdocs is December 30th;
application specifics are here:
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants
I'm happy to answer any questions about the Penn post. The other postdocs
in the program are listed here:
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/dc-medieval
Thanks,
Dot
*********
University of Pennsylvania
*Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Manuscript Studies*
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek an innovative and energetic
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Manuscript Studies to play an integral
role in the working life of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
(SIMS) in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and
Manuscripts at Penn’s Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.
*About the Position:*
The Fellow will work on the SIMS team on several overlapping initiatives
that explore both the materiality of medieval manuscripts as within a
digital context and the possibilities of analyzing texts that the codices
contain. These initiatives include:
- Collation Visualization, a developing set of tools that enable
scholars to virtually model and visualize the physical construction of
manuscripts, relating the models to digital images and content
https://github.com/leoba/VisCollandhttp://dorpdev.library.upenn.edu/collation/
- Digital Editions, a project to create image-based editions of medieval
manuscripts from our own and other collections and publish them online.
(Complete: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljs225/,
<http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljs225/>under development:
http://schoenberginstitute.org/pembroke25)
- Manuscript Ebooks, an ongoing project to create ebooks (in the epub
format) from manuscripts in OPenn and from other open source repositories.
http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks
<http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/>/
<http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/>
- Kalendarium, a project to build a crowd-sourced digital tool for
collecting and identifying all the world’s medieval liturgical calendars.
Begun at Penn, participants now include Stanford University and the Morgan
Library as well as universities in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Scotland.
http://schoenberginstitute.org/kalendarium/
- Video Facsimiles, an experimental project to create high-quality
videos of complete manuscripts and annotate them on textual content, visual
content, and issues of materiality.
http://scalar.usc.edu/works/video-facsimiles/index
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, currently in year two of a
three-year, $300,000 grant from the NEH, which collects information about
both the current and historic locations of the world's pre-1600 manuscript
books, creating a metacatalogue for finding and indexing the world's
manuscripts. http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/
- Video Orientations, short (1-2 minute) videos that briefly introduce
our manuscripts to a general audience, which are stored in our scholarly
repository, shared on social media, and linked to manuscript records in our
OPAC.http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/
The centerpiece of the Fellow’s work will be developing a new initiative in
conjunction with SIMS staff and using Penn’s physical and digital
resources. This initiative may be a single extended project, or several
short-term projects. This would be a two-year position, funded by the
Mellon Foundation (via CLIR) and the Penn Libraries.
*Required Qualifications:*
- PhD in an area of medieval studies, with a concentration in the
history of the book
- Working knowledge of at least two non-English languages
*Preferred Qualifications:*
- Experience with prior digital projects and some knowledge of
programming
*Fellow Responsibilities:*
- Contribute to the work of SIMS by supporting existing work as relevant
to his or her interests, and develop his or her own initiative to work on
during the course of the fellowship, as described above.
- Participate in the ongoing digitization of medieval manuscripts
through cataloging new manuscripts and generating metadata for existing
manuscripts.
- Assist the library in the adoption of new technologies for access to
medieval material, including the International Image Interoperability
Framework http://iiif.io/
- Participate in the curation of special collections library data,
including:
- Curation of data in OPenn (our open access collection of digitized
medieval manuscript data:http://openn.library.upenn.edu/
- Development of a data repository in the library for data already
available through Penn;
- Curation of originally developed video content.
- Participate in the acquisition of manuscript-related digital
resources by Penn Libraries.
- Make regular contributions to the Penn Libraries Manuscripts Tumblr
(http://upennmanuscripts.tumblr.com/
At Penn the Fellow will receive mentoring and guidance from experts in the
field. These include Dot Porter (Curator of Digital Research Services),
Will Noel (Director – SIMS and Kislak Center), Doug Emery (Digital Content
Programmer), Robert Ousterhout (Professor of History of Art, Director of
the Center for Ancient Studies), as well as the wider Philadelphia history
of the book community. The Fellow will be hosted by SIMS and have a joint
appointment in the department of the History of Art at Penn. He or she will
also participate in the programs of the Kislak Center and the department of
the History of Art. These include organizing seminars on best digital
practices, delivering lectures, and curating exhibitions. The Fellow will
help plan, solicit contributions, and speak at the ninth annual Schoenberg
Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age in 2017. This will
provide the Fellow with a platform for presenting new developments in the
field of medieval data curation, including those to which he or she has
contributed.
*About the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Kislak
Center*
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is a teaching and research
center devoted to the study of manuscripts in their material and digital
forms. Housed in the Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center for Special Collections,
Rare Books and Manuscripts, SIMS emphasizes hands-on work with unique
witnesses to the past through the practical study of paleography,
codicology, illumination, book arts, book history and the history of
science and medicine, among many other fields. These primary source
materials offer the Penn community and scholars everywhere unprecedented
opportunities for collaboration in multidisciplinary research and
scholarship. SIMS engages with regional and international institutions to
foster study and use of the collection through lectures, symposia,
publications, and digitization programs, and holds a firm commitment to
develop and promote digital technologies that instruct and inspire scholars
and students around the world through forward-thinking open-access policies.
The Kislak Center is the product of a $17 million renovation project and
houses an extraordinary collection of rare books and manuscripts. Its
mission is to bring collections, modern technology, and a wide base of
patrons together to facilitate access to our common cultural heritage. The
fellow will benefit from the combined skills and knowledge of the Kislak
Center’s staff as well as faculty of the humanities departments, and the
wider resources, of the University. Through its faculty and library
resources, the University of Pennsylvania has long been at the forefront of
book history and material text research, especially in the medieval and
early modern period. The fellow will play a key role in developing this
field through his or her research as an integral part of the Schoenberg
Institute for Manuscript Studies team.
--
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Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)
Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com
Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org
Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org
MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/
MESA on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance
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The University of Iceland offers two international graduate programs in medieval studies:
(1) Medieval Icelandic Studies, a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters' (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester's worth (30 ECTS) master's thesis. The summer semester is the thesis semester, which means that the program can be completed in 13 months.
See http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat…
(2) Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, a four-semester (120 ECTS) graduate program run in cooperation with the University of Oslo in Norway, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University in Denmark. The first year--60 ECTS' worth of course work--take place in Iceland, but the third semester is spent either in Oslo, Aarhus, or Copenhagen, completing 30 ECTS of courses. The fourth semester is devoted to writing the master's thesis, and can be spent in Iceland or Oslo.
See http://oldnorse.is/
Both programs are designed specifically for international students. The language of instruction is English.
Application deadline: February 1st, 2016
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Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medieval Studies
University of Iceland -- The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Árnagarði við Suðurgötu
IS-101 Reykjavík
I C E L A N D
+ 354 525-4023 / +354 891-7511
- haraldr(a)hi.is
- https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/
- Skype: haraldur_bernhardsson
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