dm-l June 2015

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Balisage Symposium: Call for Short Talks
by Hugh Cayless 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Dear All, As part of the Balisage Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup, we want to have an "inverted" paper session where the talks are short and there is lots of time for discussion and debate after each talk. I think this is going to be perhaps the most interesting session of the day, so please join in! Full text and submission details at http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/Short-Talks-call.html Cultural Heritage data tend to be complex and heterogeneous; they resist generic solutions and often push tools and standards to the edges of their capabilities. Complex problems would seem to demand complex solutions, but as Gall's Law points out: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." The Balisage Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup invites proposals for short presentations that aim to provoke discussion of how to design for and cope with the complexity of Cultural Heritage materials. Do you have a markup problem with no solution? Data too messy for your tools to handle? An ingenious solution to a hard problem involving Cultural Heritage materials? A heretical point of view about existing standards and practices? We want to hear from you! Presentations will be 10 minutes (or less) in length, followed by open discussion, brainstorming, support, sympathy, and advice from our audience of markup experts. To propose a short presentation for the Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup send email to info(a)balisage.net. Proposals must be received by June 19, 2015. Selection decisions will be announced by June 23, 2015. /** * Hugh A. Cayless, Ph.D * Chair, TEI Technical Council * Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3) * hugh.cayless(a)duke.edu * http://blogs.library.duke.edu/dcthree/ **/

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Seminar: Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world
by Simon Mahony 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 *Friday June 12th at 16:30 in room 348, 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'* 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 abstract is available at <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-02li.html> *ALL WELCOME* The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. The full 2015 programme is at <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html> -- ------------------------------------------- Student Support Manager Department of War Studies War Studies Online Room K7.05, 7th Floor, King's Building King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/study/wsonline

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Postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities/scholarly editing
by Robinson, Peter 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

The Textual Communities/Canterbury Tales Project/Digital Humanities group within the University of Saskatchewan is interested in sponsoring an application for a Banting Postdoctoral fellowship, tenable at the University commencing 2016. Banting fellowships are available to citizens from ANY country who graduated with a PhD degree or equivalent after September 2012 (with some extensions), who is not currently holding a tenurable university post. The terms are generous: see http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/app-dem/elig-adm-eng.html. If you are interested in being sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan for a Banting fellowship, within the broad areas of digital scholarly editing/medieval and renaissance texts/eLiterature, etc., please email Peter Robinson (peter.robinson(a)usask.ca<mailto:peter.robinson@usask.ca>). We have an internal deadline of 15 June, so we need to hear from you very soon. Best wishes Peter Robinson

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Funded PhD scholarship in Grenoble
by Pierazzo, Elena 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

Apologies for cross-posting Dear All, It is my pleasure to announce that the University Grenoble Alpes offers a fully funded PhD scholarship for a study and development of a responsive interface for the Fonte Gaia digital library. The aim is to promote public engagement thought the development of an interface that suits the public needs and expectations. The bursary starts in October 2015 and application are du by 20th of July. More details: http://fontegaia.hypotheses.org/1050 Please share it widely. Best wishes Elena __ Elena Pierazzo Visiting Senior Research Fellow King's College London Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities Bureau F307 Université Grenoble Alpes - GERCI BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 Tel. +33 4 76828032

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Balisage Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup Program
by Hugh Cayless 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I am very pleased to announce that the program for the Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup is now available: http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/symposiumProgram.html <http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/symposiumProgram.html>(the symposium will be followed by Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015 http://balisage.net/ <http://balisage.net/>) All of the talks in some way address and grapple with the complexity of Cultural Heritage materials and the difficulties involved in applying standard markup solutions to them. A further call for short presentations meant to kick off long discussions will be forthcoming, so please be on the lookout! Topics include: - dealing with document fragments and fragmentary annotations - aligning text to images and the character level - interoperable cross-references using TEI - converting metadata from legacy formats to web formats - representing and storing metadata for long-term use Symposium Logistics: - When: 10 August 2015 - Where: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center (Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC) - More Info: http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/index.html <http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/index.html> - Program: http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/symposiumProgram.html <http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/symposiumProgram.html> - Registration: http://balisage.net/registration.html <http://balisage.net/registration.html> - Questions: info(a)balisage.net <mailto:info@balisage.net> ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015 mailto:info@balisage.net <mailto:info@balisage.net> August 11-14, 2015 http://www.balisage.net <http://www.balisage.net/> Preconference Symposium: August 10, 2015 +1 301 315 9631 ====================================================================== /** * Hugh A. Cayless, Ph.D * Chair, TEI Technical Council * Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3) * hugh.cayless(a)duke.edu * http://blogs.library.duke.edu/dcthree/ **/

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Bodleian Library event, 15 June: Introducing the International Image Interoperability Framework
by Judith Siefring 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Introducing the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, University of Oxford Date: Monday 15 June, 2-4.30pm Description: Cultural heritage materials from research libraries, museums, and archives are increasingly becoming available online. Users have moved from wanting to simply access materials online to wanting to use, develop and re-purpose them in ways that push the boundaries of research and open new avenues in teaching. TheInternational Image Interoperability Framework (http://iiif.io) is a community-driven, collaborative initiative committed to making these digital materials easily accessible and usable for scholars worldwide. This lecture will explore the use of IIIF in an international context, and will also describe the implementation of IIIF standards at the Bodleian Library. Our main speaker will be Tom Cramer, who will give a lecture “IIIF: The International Image Interoperability Framework Putting Images IN (Not Just ON) the Web for a New World of Possibilities”. Matthew McGrattan will then talk about IIIF at the Bodleian Libraries, and Judith Siefring will present the work of the Digital Manuscripts Toolkit project. The event is free and open to all, but registration is required: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/upcoming-events/2015/jun/intr…. Speakers: Tom Cramer is the Chief Technology Strategist and Associate Director of Digital Library Systems and Services for the Stanford University Libraries Matthew McGrattan is the Collections Delivery Architect for Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Judith Siefring is project manager for the Bodleian’s Digital Manuscripts Toolkit project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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DM Board Elections 2015-17
by Alberto Campagnolo 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

There is still some time to nominate yourself or someone else for DM Board 2015–17 We are seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or generally to the field of digital medieval studies. For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the DM website, particularly: 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 are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, Alberto Campagnolo (alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com) and Georg Vogeler (georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at), who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Sunday 7th June. Elections will be held by electronic ballot from Monday 15th June 2015, closing at 23:59 UTC on Saturday 30th June 2015. Best wishes, Alberto Campagnolo and Georg Vogeler

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Seminar: From lost archives to digital databases
by Simon Mahony 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 *Friday June 5 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Jen Hicks (UCL) ‘From lost archives to digital databases’ * Of the leather documents used by the administration and individuals of the Seleukid empire (ca 312- 63 BC), all that remains are the small pieces of clay that were used to seal them; these however survive in their tens of thousands in Mesopotamia and the Levant. In this paper I will consider the potential and limitations of using these lumps of mud, through the construction of digital databases and statistical analysis, to reconstruct these lost archives, and to understand the imperial structures of the Seleukid power. Full abstract is available at <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-01jh.html> <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-01jh.html> The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. ALL WELCOME The full 2014 programme is at <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html> <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html> -- ------------------------------------------- Student Support Manager Department of War Studies War Studies Online Room K7.05, 7th Floor, King's Building King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/study/wsonline

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