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Digital humanities and cultural heritage: what relationship? Fourth AIUCD annual conference
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

[Apologies for cross-posting] [Link to announcement on the AIUCD web site: http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/digital-humanities-e-beni-culturali-quale-…] Digital humanities and cultural heritage: what relationship? Fourth AIUCD annual conference 17-19 December 2015 Campus Einaudi - Lungo Dora Siena 100 - 10153 Torino The AIUCD 2015 conference is dedicated to investigate the relationship between the Digital Humanities and the broad field of Cultural Heritage, a line of research that is open since the inception of the former. On the one hand, the Cultural Heritage domain has been using digital tools, processes and methodologies for quite a long time, but their use does not imply a recognition of their role as scientifically qualifying. On the other hand, galleries, libraries, archives and museums preserve and provide access to a wealth of content that is the object of much research carried out as part of the Digital Humanities. It is therefore interesting to see if Digital Humanities tools and methods have led and will lead to a redefinition of theoretical, methodological and technical processes, up to an actual re-conceptualization of knowledge in the Cultural Heritage field. At least two issues indicate the existence of a connection: the theoretical reflection on the management of information and data that texts hold, which has been carried out as part of the management of libraries, has important consequences for the whole wide area of the Digital Humanities; in the context of research funding, the increasing demand to describe what will be the public impact of planned research identifies in a “relationship with society” topic a significant element wide spread in the Cultural Heritage area. Furthermore, if on the one hand the world of Cultural Heritage has started their own reflection that also touches the Digital Humanities, on the other hand the Digital Humanities are urged to communicate beyond the inner, often self-referential, circle of Academia, and to do this they are inspired by the methods of communication and dissemination of knowledge that belong to the Cultural Heritage world. In conclusion, a meeting of Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage is already under way, it is necessary to act and facilitate a cooperation that results in being as effective as possible for both fields. As a sign of openness and willingness to cooperate with the Cultural Heritage world, conference organization is entrusted to the Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per la digitalizzazione e la realizzazione di Biblioteche Digitali Umanistiche - MEDIHUM Memoria Digitalis Humanistica (Università di Torino). We are therefore soliciting papers in particular on – but not limited to - the following topics: - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage: integration, separation, independence? - what relationship among Museums, Libraries, Archives and Digital Humanities? - how do Digital Humanities fit in Museums, Archives and Galleries? visualization, imaging, graphic representations, immersive environments in the Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage areas; - which impact on society for research projects’ output in the Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage areas? - Public History: Museums, Libraries and Archives today are privileged mediators between the public and its past, DH methodologies however require new figures, aware of the issues and opportunities offered by the digital world; - which forms may the collaboration between cultural institutions and digital humanists take in digitization projects, text encoding, critical edition, digital curation? - experiences of projects using principles and methods of the semantic web, and Linked Open Data research. The contributions, to be submitted as a 500 words maximum abstract in PDF format, must be loaded through the EasyChair platform at the URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiucd2015. The deadline for submission of abstracts to the Programme Committee is scheduled for midnight of August 31st, 2015. All abstracts will be subject to evaluation by the AIUCD conference Programme Committee. Information with regard to the acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to the authors by 30th September 2015. Further information on the conference, on the composition of the Programme Committee and on how to register will be made available on the conference web site at the URL: http://www.aiucd2015.unito.it/ (the web site may not be online yet at the moment of publishing this announcement). R -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Studi rosselli at ling.unipi.it Umanistici Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)

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DM Elections CLOSING TOMORROW
by Alberto Campagnolo 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

Dear Colleagues, Voting for the DM board 2015-2017 CLOSES TOMORROW TUE 30th JUNE, GMT midnight. Should you not have received the automated email with the link and the voting token, contact the returning officers directly at alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com or georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at. To vote, read the candidate statements on page 1, cast your vote (select up to 4 candidates) on page 2, and confirm your vote in the following page. ================== For any problem, email the returning officers directly at alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com or georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at. ================== 2015-2017 CANDIDATES (in alphabetical order by surname): Emiliano Degl’Innocenti Els De Paermentier Andrew Dunning Greta Franzini Gregory Heyworth Nicolas Perreaux Dominique Stutzmann

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DM Elections CLOSING NEXT WEEK
by Alberto Campagnolo 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

Dear Colleagues, Voting for the DM board 2015-2017 CLOSES NEXT WEEK (TUE 30th JUNE, GMT midnight). To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l at uleth.ca> (Follow <https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/mailing-list/> to join). Should you not have received the automated email with the link and the voting token, contact the returning officers directly at alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com or georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at. To vote, read the candidate statements on page 1, and cast your vote (select up to 4 candidates) on page 2. 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: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ ================== For any problem, email the returning officers directly at alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com or georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at. ================== 2015-2017 CANDIDATES (in alphabetical order by surname): Emiliano Degl’Innocenti Els De Paermentier Andrew Dunning Greta Franzini Gregory Heyworth Nicolas Perreaux Dominique Stutzmann ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (in 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. ***************************** EMILIANO DEGL'INNOCENTI Degree in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at the University of Florence. Currently Head of the Computing in the Humanities Dept. at Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino and Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Florence. Adjunct Professor of Computing in the Humanities at the University of Florence and teacher for the Master in Digital Humanities at the University of Siena. Involved in national and international D/H projects: Digital Plutei of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture), Digitization of the Colonial Archives in Cameroon (promoted by the British Library), CENDARI (funded by EU under the 7th FP) and PARTHENOS (funded under the H2020 programme). Director of digitization projects (teca.bmlonline.it), scholarly databases (www.mirabileweb.it) and research tools (TRAME meta-search engine for medieval manuscripts (www.trame.fefonlus.it); invited expert of COST Action IS1005. Member of the Scientific Committee at Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Associate Editor at Frontiers in Digital Humanities, Communication Officer for DARIAH.IT <http://dariah.it/>, co-leader of the Medievalist's Sources DARIAH-EU working group. ***************************** ELS DE PAERMENTIER Els De Paermentier is Assistant Professor in Medieval Diplomatics and Palaeography at Ghent University (Belgium). In 2010 she completed her PhD on the organisation of the comital chancery in the counties of Flanders and Hainaut (1191-1244). For her research she elaborated a new computer-aided methodology to determine the editorial origin of charter texts. In 2012 she received a COST Action grant for a short term scientific mission (one month) at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT) in Paris, where she examined the interoperability between the Belgian and French Latin source databases Diplomata Belgica and TELMA-databases (Traitement Électronique des Manuscrits et des Archives). Shortly afterwards she became a member of the COST Action Programm IS1005: Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources and joined the working group for the design of a virtual center for medieval studies (VCMS) (2012-2015). In September 2013 she co-organised, among other scholarly meetings, the three-days seminar Historical Documents, Digital Approaches. Mark-up, Analysis and Representation of Medieval Texts. Theory and Practice. She is currently a member of the academic board of the project Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC). A Multiple Database System for the Launch of Diplomata Belgica and for a Completely Updated Version of Narrative Sources (dir. Jeroen Deploige, Ghent University) and of the steering committee of the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH). ***************************** ANDREW DUNNING Andrew Dunning is finishing his doctorate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, and will be an RBC-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Book, University of Oxford in 2016. He is currently producing TEI-encoded collections of the unpublished works of Alexander Neckam (1157–1217) and Samuel Presbiter (fl. 1200), and is a contributor to forthcoming digital catalogues of the scribal additions to the books of Matthew Parker (1504–1574) and John Stow (1524/5–1605). His edition of Samuel Presbiter’s Collecta ex diuersis auditis in scola magistri Willelmi de Monte (Notes from the School of William de Montibus) will be published by PIMS in 2015 through the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series. ***************************** GRETA FRANZINI Greta Franzini is a Classicist by training. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh), University of London. There, she conducts interdisciplinary research in Latin philology, codicology, literary criticism and text visualisation. Greta's specific interests lie within (ancient) languages, codicology and digital editions. Part of her doctoral studies has resulted in the creation of a Catalogue of Digital Editions ( https://sites.google.com/site/digitaleds/home) and the final output of her PhD will consist of a digital documentary edition of an early Latin manuscript (https://sites.google.com/site/gretafranzini/home). In order to fund her doctoral studies, Greta works as a fulltime early career researcher (http://etrap.gcdh.de) at the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) (http://www.gcdh.de/en/), University of Göttingen. There, she's involved in research pertaining to historical text reuse and jointly coordinates the Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities ( http://www.gcdh.de/en/events/gottingendialogdigitalhumanities/), a seminar series inspired by the Digital Classicist but with a broader scope. Prior to Göttingen, Greta worked on the Open Greek and Latin Project ( http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/projects/opengreekandlatinproject/) at the University of Leipzig, where she coordinated three major digitisation projects (imaging, OCR and TEI XML encoding) aimed at producing open digital versions of a large number of Ancient Greek and Latin printed editions. ***************************** GREGORY HEYWORTH After taking a BA in English from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Princeton in Comparative Literature, Gregory Heyworth began his career at the University of Mississippi as a medievalist with a specialty in textual studies and classical influence. His first book, Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form (Notre Dame, 2009), won the 2010 Choice Oustanding Academic Title award. His interest in textual science and digital humanities began with his edition of the badly damaged Old French poem Les Eschez d'Amours (Brill, 2013) which he recovered using a transportable multispectral imaging system he developed with a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. In 2010, Heyworth founded and now directs the Lazarus Project, a non-profit initiative to recover damaged cultural heritage objects using various imaging technologies. Since its inception, the Lazarus Project has digitally restored scores of damaged works and objects in libraries and collections around the world, including the Vercelli Book and the Martellus Map; it has supported the research of numerous scholars by offering its technology and expertise, and has launched major multispectral digitization projects in Chartres, Tblisi, and Vercelli. Behind the Lazarus Project is a curriculum in textual science that Heyworth developed to train students in a combination of the history of the book, codicology, and spectral imaging, imaging science, and digital display. He is currently working on an edition of the oldest translation of the Gospels into Latin, a book entitled Textual Science and the Future of the Past Roger Easton, and a promising neural net approach to manuscript OCR with his student Eleanor Anthony. ***************************** NICOLAS PERREAUX Doctor in Medieval History, currently postdoctoral researcher at Paris XII (ANR Pocram), I have been interested since childhood in technology and programming. After graduating in Science, I headed for the Humanities and Social Sciences. My Master, directed by Eliana Magnani, led me to apply the methods of data mining to diplomatics corpora. Through a doctoral contract, I realized a thesis (directed by Daniel Russo and Eliana Magnani, supported in 2014), based on the manipulation of several major archaeological and textual corpora. This research allowed me to acquire skills in data / text mining, digital humanities, exploratory statistics, geographic information systems, programming (Perl) and historical semantics. During the period 2009-2015, I have worked with several collaborative research projects, including four ANR, all of them about Digital History. Since February 2015, I am postdoc at Paris XII. ***************************** DOMINIQUE STUTZMANN After degrees in Classics, History and German studies at the Sorbonne, Dominique Stutzmann studied at the École nationale des Chartes <http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/> (2002), received a MLIS and worked at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Bibliothèque nationale de France <http://www.bnf.fr/>. He completed a PhD on scribal practices of Cistercian communities in medieval Burgundy (statistical analysis of scribal profiles based on TEI encoding). In 2007-2012 and 2015 onwards, he is lecturer for medieval paleography and digital scholarly edition at the École Pratique des Hautes Études <http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/> and, since 2010, senior researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes <http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/> (CNRS). He currently leads as Principal Investigator several research projects in the field of digital humanities ( FAMA <http://fama.irht.cnrs.fr/> on Latin bestsellers, ANR Oriflamms <http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/en/anr-funded-project/?tx_lwmsuivi…>, ECMEN <https://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/1365> on computer automated image analysis applied to palaeography, Saint-Bertin <http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/fr/saint-bertin-centre-culturel-viie-xvi…> for virtually reconstructing of a former library) and organizes conferences, sessions, summer school (Leeds, Dagstuhl <http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=4793>, Saint-Omer <http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/en/news/summer-course-saint-omer-reconst…>). I am on the Board since 2011 and love the work we are doing for the journal and the community. It is a great community and I am proud to work for it!

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CollateX collation workshop at DH2015
by Birnbaum, David J 21 Jun '15

21 Jun '15

CollateX collation workshop at DH2015 There are still openings for additional participants in the CollateX collation workshop to be held on Monday, 29 June 2015 from 9:30 through 4:30 as part of the ADHO DH2015: Global Digital Humanities conference at the University of Western Sydney. The workshop will teach participants how to use the open-source CollateX collation tool to compare witnesses of a text automatically, in a way that can be used to produce critical textual editions and other types of comparative documents. Participants will learn how to prepare source materials in any written script for collation, how to perform automated collation using CollateX, and how to inspect and modify the results. To register for the workshop please follow the link at http://dh2015.org/workshops/. The workshop web site (still under development) is accessible at http://collatex.obdurodon.org, and includes instructions for downloading and installing CollateX prior to the workshop.

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Last chance to book! Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015
by James Cummings 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

[Note especially the "Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies" workshop] Please Forward! ==== It is your last chance to book for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015! http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/ Booking closes on 29 June, and some workshops will be sold out before then! Can't make it to the DHOxSS 2015? Sign up to our announcement mailing list for 2016 at http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2016/ ==== Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 20 - 24 July 2015 Scholarship -- Application -- Community http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/ml/ Do you work in the Humanities or support people who do? Are you interested in how the digital can help your research? Come and learn from experts with participants from around the world, from every field and career stage, to develop your knowledge and acquire new skills Immerse yourself for a week in one of our 8 workshop strands, and widen your horizons through the keynote and additional sessions Workshops: - An Introduction to Digital Humanities - Crowdsourcing for Academic, Library and Museum Environments - Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies - Digital Musicology - From Text to Tech - Humanities Data: Curation, Analysis, Access, and Reuse - Leveraging the Text Encoding Initiative - Linked Data for the Humanities Keynote Speakers: - Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research, University of London - James Loxley, University of Edinburgh Additional Lectures: Supplement your chosen workshop with a choice from 9 additional morning sessions covering a variety of Digital Humanities topics. Evening Events: Join us for events every evening, include a research poster and drinks reception, guided walking tour of Oxford, the annual TORCH Digital Humanities lecture, and a dinner at Exeter College. For more information see: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/ml/ Directors of DHOxSS, James Cummings Pip Willcox -- Dr James Cummings,James.Cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford

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Job opening: DH Specialist in Berlin
by Alexander Czmiel 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Dear List, the TELOTA initiative of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin is looking for a Digital Humanities Specialist with experience in XML, TEI, MySQL, PHP and/or JavaScript. Please find more details in the job description (in German): http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibungen-2015/TELOTA_Regenbogen_w… Best regards, Alexander Czmiel -- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities "TELOTA - The electronic life of the Academy" Jaegerstrasse 22/23 Tel: +49-(0)30-20370-276 10117 Berlin - http://www.bbaw.de - http://www.telota.de

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Digital Classicist seminar: Digital comparison of 19th century plaster casts and original classical sculptures
by Tupman, Charlotte 18 Jun '15

18 Jun '15

Emma Payne (UCL), Digital comparison of 19th century plaster casts and original classical sculptures Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies seminar 2015 Friday June 19th at 16:30 Room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-03ep.html Historical casts of original classical sculptures can now function as important archaeological records: we know that they may contain valuable archaeological information subsequently lost from original sculptures. However, it was not unknown for the 19th century plaster craftsmen (formatori) to doctor the casts, crafting their moulds such that when cast, a damaged sculpture would appear more complete. In this sense, plaster casts may be considered artefacts in their own right-rather than straightforward copies-representing 19th century craft techniques and approaches to classical reception. In order to investigate these potential historical and archaeological significances, 3D scans are being produced of both casts and original objects for comparison. Scanning of casts is taking place at the British Museum, which houses an early collection of casts of classical sculptures. Case studies have been selected by identifying those sculptures for which there are early casts of originals that remained in an outdoor context for many years after they were moulded; these casts are most likely to contain small surface details lost/changed from the originals by processes such as weathering. Sections of casts of the Parthenon sculptures are to be scanned at the British Museum, and the corresponding sections of the originals at the Acropolis Museum, Athens. The 3D images will record fine topographical details to facilitate study of the current surface appearance and condition of the casts and originals. The two sets of images will then be visually compared and mapped onto each other to indicate any differences. The comparative 3D scans will be used to facilitate interpretation of the complex nature of the plaster surfaces by attempting to distinguish between differences caused by reductive processes on the originals (such as weathering) and additive processes on the casts (made up by the formatori). Results are to be analysed in conjunction with detailed digital photographs and/or reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), together with consideration of the historical context of both casts and originals, craft techniques used to produce the casts, and limitations of the scanning process when dealing with objects of two different materials (marble and plaster). The results should enhance our understanding both of the original sculptures and of the significances of the casts. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. -- Dr. Charlotte Tupman Research Associate Study Abroad Tutor & Publicity Coordinator 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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VOTE NOW - DM Elections
by Alberto Campagnolo 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Voting for the DM board 2015-2017 OPENS NOW until TUE 30th JUNE, GMT midnight. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l at uleth.ca <http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l>> (Follow <https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/mailing-list/> to join). To vote, use the link and the voting token that have been sent to the email address that you have used to register to DM. 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: - https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ - https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ - https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ - https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ ================== If you have not received your voting link and token or for any other problem, please, email the returning officers directly at alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com or georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at. ================== 2015-2017 CANDIDATES (in alphabetical order by surname): - Emiliano Degl’Innocenti - Els De Paermentier - Andrew Dunning - Greta Franzini - Gregory Heyworth - Nicolas Perreaux - Dominique Stutzmann ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (in 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. ***************************** EMILIANO DEGL'INNOCENTI Degree in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at the University of Florence. Currently Head of the Computing in the Humanities Dept. at Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino and Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Florence. Adjunct Professor of Computing in the Humanities at the University of Florence and teacher for the Master in Digital Humanities at the University of Siena. Involved in national and international D/H projects: Digital Plutei of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture), Digitization of the Colonial Archives in Cameroon (promoted by the British Library), CENDARI (funded by EU under the 7th FP) and PARTHENOS (funded under the H2020 programme). Director of digitization projects (teca.bmlonline.it), scholarly databases (www.mirabileweb.it) and research tools (TRAME meta-search engine for medieval manuscripts (www.trame.fefonlus.it); invited expert of COST Action IS1005. Member of the Scientific Committee at Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Associate Editor at Frontiers in Digital Humanities, Communication Officer for DARIAH.IT <http://dariah.it/>, co-leader of the Medievalist's Sources DARIAH-EU working group. ***************************** ELS DE PAERMENTIER Els De Paermentier is Assistant Professor in Medieval Diplomatics and Palaeography at Ghent University (Belgium). In 2010 she completed her PhD on the organisation of the comital chancery in the counties of Flanders and Hainaut (1191-1244). For her research she elaborated a new computer-aided methodology to determine the editorial origin of charter texts. In 2012 she received a COST Action grant for a short term scientific mission (one month) at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT) in Paris, where she examined the interoperability between the Belgian and French Latin source databases Diplomata Belgica and TELMA-databases (Traitement Électronique des Manuscrits et des Archives). Shortly afterwards she became a member of the COST Action Programm IS1005: Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources and joined the working group for the design of a virtual center for medieval studies (VCMS) (2012-2015). In September 2013 she co-organised, among other scholarly meetings, the three-days seminar Historical Documents, Digital Approaches. Mark-up, Analysis and Representation of Medieval Texts. Theory and Practice. She is currently a member of the academic board of the project Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC). A Multiple Database System for the Launch of Diplomata Belgica and for a Completely Updated Version of Narrative Sources (dir. Jeroen Deploige, Ghent University) and of the steering committee of the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH). ***************************** ANDREW DUNNING Andrew Dunning is finishing his doctorate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, and will be an RBC-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Book, University of Oxford in 2016. He is currently producing TEI-encoded collections of the unpublished works of Alexander Neckam (1157–1217) and Samuel Presbiter (fl. 1200), and is a contributor to forthcoming digital catalogues of the scribal additions to the books of Matthew Parker (1504–1574) and John Stow (1524/5–1605). His edition of Samuel Presbiter’s Collecta ex diuersis auditis in scola magistri Willelmi de Monte (Notes from the School of William de Montibus) will be published by PIMS in 2015 through the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series. ***************************** GRETA FRANZINI Greta Franzini is a Classicist by training. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh), University of London. There, she conducts interdisciplinary research in Latin philology, codicology, literary criticism and text visualisation. Greta's specific interests lie within (ancient) languages, codicology and digital editions. Part of her doctoral studies has resulted in the creation of a Catalogue of Digital Editions ( https://sites.google.com/site/digitaleds/home) and the final output of her PhD will consist of a digital documentary edition of an early Latin manuscript (https://sites.google.com/site/gretafranzini/home). In order to fund her doctoral studies, Greta works as a fulltime early career researcher (http://etrap.gcdh.de) at the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) (http://www.gcdh.de/en/), University of Göttingen. There, she's involved in research pertaining to historical text reuse and jointly coordinates the Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities ( http://www.gcdh.de/en/events/gottingendialogdigitalhumanities/), a seminar series inspired by the Digital Classicist but with a broader scope. Prior to Göttingen, Greta worked on the Open Greek and Latin Project ( http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/projects/opengreekandlatinproject/) at the University of Leipzig, where she coordinated three major digitisation projects (imaging, OCR and TEI XML encoding) aimed at producing open digital versions of a large number of Ancient Greek and Latin printed editions. ***************************** GREGORY HEYWORTH After taking a BA in English from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Princeton in Comparative Literature, Gregory Heyworth began his career at the University of Mississippi as a medievalist with a specialty in textual studies and classical influence. His first book, Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form (Notre Dame, 2009), won the 2010 Choice Oustanding Academic Title award. His interest in textual science and digital humanities began with his edition of the badly damaged Old French poem Les Eschez d'Amours (Brill, 2013) which he recovered using a transportable multispectral imaging system he developed with a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. In 2010, Heyworth founded and now directs the Lazarus Project, a non-profit initiative to recover damaged cultural heritage objects using various imaging technologies. Since its inception, the Lazarus Project has digitally restored scores of damaged works and objects in libraries and collections around the world, including the Vercelli Book and the Martellus Map; it has supported the research of numerous scholars by offering its technology and expertise, and has launched major multispectral digitization projects in Chartres, Tblisi, and Vercelli. Behind the Lazarus Project is a curriculum in textual science that Heyworth developed to train students in a combination of the history of the book, codicology, and spectral imaging, imaging science, and digital display. He is currently working on an edition of the oldest translation of the Gospels into Latin, a book entitled Textual Science and the Future of the Past Roger Easton, and a promising neural net approach to manuscript OCR with his student Eleanor Anthony. ***************************** NICOLAS PERREAUX Doctor in Medieval History, currently postdoctoral researcher at Paris XII (ANR Pocram), I have been interested since childhood in technology and programming. After graduating in Science, I headed for the Humanities and Social Sciences. My Master, directed by Eliana Magnani, led me to apply the methods of data mining to diplomatics corpora. Through a doctoral contract, I realized a thesis (directed by Daniel Russo and Eliana Magnani, supported in 2014), based on the manipulation of several major archaeological and textual corpora. This research allowed me to acquire skills in data / text mining, digital humanities, exploratory statistics, geographic information systems, programming (Perl) and historical semantics. During the period 2009-2015, I have worked with several collaborative research projects, including four ANR, all of them about Digital History. Since February 2015, I am postdoc at Paris XII. ***************************** DOMINIQUE STUTZMANN After degrees in Classics, History and German studies at the Sorbonne, Dominique Stutzmann studied at the École nationale des Chartes <http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/> (2002), received a MLIS and worked at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Bibliothèque nationale de France <http://www.bnf.fr/>. He completed a PhD on scribal practices of Cistercian communities in medieval Burgundy (statistical analysis of scribal profiles based on TEI encoding). In 2007-2012 and 2015 onwards, he is lecturer for medieval paleography and digital scholarly edition at the École Pratique des Hautes Études <http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/> and, since 2010, senior researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes <http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/> (CNRS). He currently leads as Principal Investigator several research projects in the field of digital humanities ( FAMA <http://fama.irht.cnrs.fr/> on Latin bestsellers, ANR Oriflamms <http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/en/anr-funded-project/?tx_lwmsuivi…>, ECMEN <https://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/1365> on computer automated image analysis applied to palaeography, Saint-Bertin <http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/fr/saint-bertin-centre-culturel-viie-xvi…> for virtually reconstructing of a former library) and organizes conferences, sessions, summer school (Leeds, Dagstuhl <http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=4793>, Saint-Omer <http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/en/news/summer-course-saint-omer-reconst…>). I am on the Board since 2011 and love the work we are doing for the journal and the community. It is a great community and I am proud to work for it!

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Latest blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 14 Jun '15

14 Jun '15

My latest blog, on the Houghton Library: http://wp.me/p3RUQ3-WU - 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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Digital Classicist London Seminar CORRECTION
by Gabriel Bodard 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday June 12th at 16:30 in *Room G34* Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Leif Isaksen, Pau de Soto (Southampton), Elton Barker (Open University) and Rainer Simon (Vienna): _Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world_ This session will also be live-cast to the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIamtu1Z62wL5XRk2mE8HKw Abstract: One of the primary obstacles to conducting geospatial analysis of relevant documents (both maps and texts) is identifying the places to which they refer. Recogito is a user-friendly Web-based tool developed to enable: first the “geotagging” of place names either on maps or in digital texts; then the “georesolving” of those places to an appropriate gazetteer. Not only does this step provide geographical coordinates; by mapping to an authority file (a gazetteer), the documents are also connected to the Pelagios linked data network. All metadata are free and downloadable to the public as CSV files or maps. Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html *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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