dm-l February 2016

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“Jedli: A Textual Analysis Toolbox for Digitized Arabic Texts”
by Hannah-Lena Hagemann 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, The team of the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work” based at Hamburg are very pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of the Early Islamic Empire Working Paper Series. “Jedli: A Textual Analysis Toolbox for Digitized Arabic Texts” by José Haro Peralta and Peter Verkinderen is now available for download at https://www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/publications-tools/publication…. The working paper contains a detailed manual of how to use Jedli, a toolbox developed by the two authors to help scholars make use of digitized Arabic texts more quickly and efficiently. Scholars working with Arabic texts are often confronted with an extraordinary number of sources at their disposal. Manually researching these texts can take an inordinate amount of time. Although many of the primary sources in Arabic have been available in digital form for some time now, the potential inherent in this development has not been fully realized yet. Inspired by the advent of digital humanities, the project team have started developing a number of tools for text mining and data analysis that more fully take advantage of the digitization of Arabic sources. Jedli is a toolbox that currently contains three distinct search functions: the indexer, the highlighter, and the context search. The indexer enables you to produce a custom index of any word in a text (or any number of words in any number of texts at the same time), complete with references to the specific volume and page number of each occurrence, and a user-defined amount of context around the search word. The highlighter marks any number of search terms in different colors according to a user-defined color scheme, to help you identify relevant text segments more quickly. The context search allows you to restrict search results to contexts pertinent to your research through the combination of customized (lists of) search terms. The current version of Jedli can now be downloaded for free from our website at https://www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/publications-tools/digital-too…. We also provide a directory containing a collection of digitized Arabic texts that we have already converted into the format required for Jedli to work (.txt). The current version only runs on Windows platforms, but we are working to ensure that it will run on other operating systems in the near future as well. If you encounter any bugs or problems during the execution of the program, or have requests for additional features, please let us know by e-mailing us at joseharoperalta(a)gmail.com and/or peter.verkinderen(a)uni-hamburg.de. With best wishes from Hamburg, Hannah Hagemann Dr. Hannah-Lena Hagemann Research Associate, ERC Project "The Early Islamic Empire at Work - The View From the Regions Toward the Center" Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Rm 16 20146 Hamburg, Germany T: +49 40 42838 3095 E: hannah-lena.hagemann(a)uni-hamburg.de W: https://www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/

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Two DH Faculty positions at Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities
by Dot Porter 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

(Please excuse the cross-posting. Posting on behalf of a friend) The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for 2 fulltime assistant professorships in Digital Humanities. Assistant Professor Digital Humanities with focus on text analysis (1.0 fte) Vacancy number: 16-061 Assistant Professor Digital Humanities with focus on data-analysis and visualization (1.0 fte) Vacancy number: 16-062 *Key responsibilities* The Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) is recruiting two assistant professors to develop innovative research projects that take full advantage of digital sources and methods, to design and implement teaching programmes in Digital Humanities and to collaborate with digital humanities research across the university. The two hires will be in complementary areas of the Digital Humanities (DH). We are looking for candidates with an area of specialisation in one of two broader areas. The first position will focus on text analysis (including text and image mark-up, text-mining, corpus linguistics, named entity recognition, topic modelling, or machine learning). The other will focus on the development of data analysis and visualisation platforms (including database design, visualisation, network analysis, or geographic information systems). Please indicate for which of the two specialisations you wish to apply and explain relevant experience to one or more of the subfields listed. • Coordinating DH activity across the Humanities Faculty and with other faculties and units such as the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science, the University Library, and the Data Science Centre; • Designing courses and training for staff and students at all levels; • Advising on technical design and implementation of humanities research projects; • Generating research funding and assisting in the development of digital humanities research proposals; • Developing collaborative research projects with university, national, and international partners; • Authoring and co-authoring DH research outputs. For more information and how to apply: http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/16-061-… -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Travel bursaries / Registration open until 1 March - DiXiT Convention 2: 'Digital Editions: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society', Cologne, 15-18 March
by Franz Fischer 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear digital medievalists, Registration is closing soon for the 2nd DiXiT Convention in Cologne, 15-18 March 2016: 'Digital Editions: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society'. Four travel bursaries for young researchers of up to 250 € each are still available. For details of the application process please visit: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/news/ Full programme of the conference and further information: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/programme/convention-2/ Registration is open & free of charge until 1st of March: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/convention-2-registration/ We look forward to welcoming you in Cologne! On behalf of the conference committee Franz Fischer -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 Email:franz.fischer@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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Trends in Manuscript Studies. LIBeR Summer School. June 27th to July 1st, 2016
by Erica Orezzi 19 Feb '16

19 Feb '16

The *Laboratorio LIBeR. Libro e ricerca* of the University of Cassino, in cooperation with the Abbey of Montecassino, is pleased to announce its second *Summer School* on *Trends in Manuscript Studies*, for the benefit of master and PhD students, scholars, librarians and other experts or interested persons working with medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The *School* will take place in Cassino (FR, Italy) from June 27th to July 1st, 2016. Each session at the University of Cassino will be followed by a visit to the Archive of Montecassino, where a selection of manuscripts related to the session's topic will be presented. For any information: http://www3.laboratori.unicas.it/Libro-e-ricerca/SummerSchool Email: liberschool(a)unicas.it ___ Erica Orezzi, Ph.D. Laboratorio LIBER (Libro e ricerca) Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale via Zamosch I-03043 Cassino (FR)

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DayofDH 2016 will take place on April 8th, hosted by LINHD
by Elena González-Blanco 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

**apologies for cross posting**---To all digital humanists or people working on digital humanities projects, Please, save the date and join us for the annual Day of Digital Humanities that will take place on April 8th, 2016. A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a project looking at a day in the work life of people involved in digital humanities computing. Every year it draws people from across the world together to document, with text and image, the events and activities of their day. The goal of the project is to weave together the journals of participants into a resource that seeks to answer, “Just what do digital humanists really do?" This year, the event will be hosted on behalf of centerNet at the Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (LINHD) in Madrid. For this reason, want to innovate and make the day more collaborative. We will boost multilingual participation and groupal cooperative activities. We are working on the website now, www.dayofdh2016.uned.es which will be opened for registration soon. If you have any suggestions or ideas in the meantime, please, let us know! Yours, The LINHD team Twitter: @dayofdh and #dayofDH Elena González-Blanco García Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873

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REMINDER: MMSDA Applications open: last days
by Pierazzo, Elena 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Dear Al, This is just a reminder that application for MMSDA will close in a week (22 February). We particularly encourage applications for the Modern manuscripts strands (which includes correspondence and archival documents), but there are still possibilities also for Medievalists. Fro further details see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda/ 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 Université Grenoble-Alpes - LUHCIE Bureau Bâtiment 'Stendhal' F307 BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 Tel. +33 4 76828032

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Registration Open - Global Digital Humanities Symposium, April 8-9, 2016 @ Michigan State University
by Kristen Mapes 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

Registration is now open! *Global Digital Humanities Symposium* *April 8-9, 2016* Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan http://msuglobaldh.org/ Free and open to the public. Register at http://msuglobaldh.org/registration/ Featured speakers include: - Dorothy Kim - Alex Gil - Radhika Gajjala - Hoyt Long Digital humanities has developed in a range of disciplines and locations across the globe. Initially emergent from initiatives in textual encoding, database building, or critiques of design and media cultures, the field is increasingly drawn together. Present scholarship works at the intersections of what had been disparate approaches. Much digital humanities scholarship is driven by an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship values digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to reflect a broad range of histories, as well as present geographical and cultural positions. Projects that seek to bring grant resources from the West are often met with well-developed and challenging critiques emergent around the globe from communities deeply engaged in their own cultural preservation, as well as in building relationships with other similarly engaged scholars. This symposium, which will include an extended workshop and a mixture of presentation types, engages squarely with issues of power, access, and equity as they affect scholarship in the digital humanities. Invited speakers and local presenters at this two-day symposium will address how the interdisciplinary practices of digital humanities can and should speak to the global cultural record and the contemporary situation of our planet. Of particular interest is work relevant to or stemming from challenges in the Global South. The symposium seeks to strengthen networks of exchange among DH scholars nationally and internationally. Themes and topics of this symposium will include: - the practice of digital humanities across linguistic, economic, and technological divides - digital humanities in the light of current geopolitics - the environmental impacts of digital humanities research - the inflection of local accents in the practices and ethics of digital humanities Find out more about the symposium at http://msuglobaldh.org/about/ Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Specialist College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University 718-216-5695 kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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CfP: "Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces" (Graz 23./24.9.2016)
by Georg Vogeler 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Dear Digital Medievalists, the Centre for Information Modelling in Graz is organizing an event in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programm "DiXiT" and our fellow digital medievalis Dot Porter will give of the key notes: Call for papers: *Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces* International symposium, 23.-24.9.2016, Graz (Austria) Scholarly editions intermediate between the texts and their readers, which does not change with their transfer to digital media. Over the past two decades, research on digital scholarly editions (DSE) was deeply engaged with the impacts of the digital medium on the critical representation of texts and the changing conditions for the editor. However, less research has been done on the roles of the readers, or - as they are called in the digital environment - the users. A critical examination of the topic has already been demanded by Jerome McGann in 2001, it was repeated by Hans Walter Gabler in 2010, and was taken up more recently by Patrick Sahle (2013) and Elena Pierazzo (2015). User studies are rare, and systematic considerations of principles of Human Computer Interaction are still marginal in theory and practice of DSE. In addition, the conceptualization of the DSEs as interfaces between machines could be intensified. However, the discourse on DSEs benefits from considering paradigms of interface design, from reflecting on the cultural and historical context of the visual appearance of scholarly editions and their affordances, as well as from examining the interactions between user and resource. The symposium will discuss the relationship between digital scholarly editing and interfaces by bringing together experts of DSEs and Interface Design, editors and users of editions, web designers and developers. It will include the discussion of (graphical/user) interfaces of DSEs as much as conceptualizing the digital edition itself as an interface. In this context, we are interested in contributions to the following questions and beyond: - How can DSEs take full advantage of their digital environment without losing the traditional affordances that makes an edition "scholarly"? What is the role of skeuomorphic tropes and metaphors like footnotes, page turn and index in the design of DSEs and concerning the user interaction? - Do interfaces of DSEs succeed in transferring the complexity of the underlying data models? - Plurality in representation is a core feature of DSE. How do interfaces realize this plurality? Do we need different interfaces for different target audiences (i.e. scholars, digital humanists, students, public)? - How can user interfaces of DSEs succeed in transmitting Human Computer Interaction design principles like âaestheticsâ, âtrustâ, and "satisfaction"? - Citability and reliability are core requirements of scholarly work. Which user interface elements support them? How can we encourage the user to critically engage with the DSE? - What are the users of a DSE actually doing: are they reading the text or searching and analyzing the data? - Can we conceptualize machines as users? How can we include application programming interfaces (APIs) in the discussion on DSEs as interfaces? - Does the development of user interfaces for DSEs keep up with the rising distribution of small handheld devices? Will interfaces on tablets greatly differ from those on computer screens and perhaps encourage a larger readership? Please submit your proposal for a talk at the symposium until April 17, 2016 to dixit(a)uni-graz.at. The proposal should not exceed 700 words. There are funds to reimburse travel and accommodation costs. Please indicate with your submission if you need financial support. For further information see: http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/aktuelles/digital-scholarly-… -- ------------------------------------- Professor Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Universität Graz A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstraße 59/III Tel. +43 316 380 8033 <http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at> - <http://gams.uni-graz.at> Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de> International Center for Archival Research ICARus <http://www.icar-us.eu> Digital Medievalist <http://digitalmedievalist.org>

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CFP_Manuscript Studies: A New Journal from the Schoenberg Institute
by Ransom, Lynn 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

[apologies for cross-posting, and please feel free to distribute] [cid:image003.png@01D15D02.25916B60] The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce its new semi-annual journal Manuscript Studies. This journal aims to bring together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. We are actively seeking submissions for 2017 and beyond. The journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We seek articles that engage in a larger conversation on manuscript culture and its continued relevance in today’s world and highlight the value of manuscript evidence in understanding our shared cultural and intellectual heritage. Studies that incorporate digital methodologies to further understanding of the physical and conceptual structures of the manuscript book are encouraged. A separate section, entitled Annotations, features research in progress and digital project reports. Book, digital project, and exhibition reviews will also be included. For more information, go to http://mss.pennpress.org<http://mss.pennpress.org/>. The following articles will be featured in first issue, to be published April 2016. For subscription information, please visit the website. · Christopher Blackwell, Christine Roughan, and Neel Smith, Citation and Alignment: Scholarship Outside and Inside the Codex · Benjamin J. Fleming, The Materiality of South Asian Manuscripts from the University of Pennsylvania MS. coll. 390 and the Rāmamālā Library in Bangladesh · Evyn Kropf, Will that Surrogate Do?: Reflections on Material Manuscript Literacy in the Digital Environment from Islamic Manuscripts at the University of Michigan Library · Nigel Ramsay, Towards a Universal Catalogue of Early Manuscripts: Seymour de Ricci’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada · Linda H. Chance and Julie Nelson Davis, The Handwritten and the Printed: Issues of Format and Medium in Japanese Premodern Books · Timothy L. Stinson, (In)Completeness in Middle English Literature: The Case of the Cook’s Tale and the Tale of Gamelyn · Y. Tzvi Langermann, Transcription, Translation, and Annotation: Observations on Three Medieval Islamicate Medical Texts in UPenn MS Codex 1649

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Medieval and Modern Manuscripts in the Digital Age (MMSDA) 2016
by Pierazzo, Elena 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Dear all, web re delighted to announce that application for MMSDA are open. Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) 2 – 6 May 2016, Cambridge and London We are very pleased to announce the sixth year of this course, funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), and run by King’s College London with the University of Cambridge and the Warburg Institute. The course will run in two parallel strands: one on medieval and the other on modern manuscripts. The course is open to any doctoral students working with manuscripts. It involves five days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval or modern manuscripts to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats. The first half of the course involves morning classes and then afternoon visits to libraries in Cambridge and London. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning’s themes to concrete examples. In the second half we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers. The course is free of charge but is open only to doctoral students (PhD or equivalent). It is aimed at those writing dissertations relating to medieval or modern manuscripts, especially those working on literature, art or history. Eight bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation. There are thirty vacancies across the medieval and modern strands, and preference will be given to those considered by the selection panel likely to benefit most from the course. Applications close at 5pm GMT on 22 February 2016 but early registration is strongly recommended. For further details see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda/ or contact dixit-mmsda(a)uni-koeln.de<mailto:dixit-mmsda@uni-koeln.de>. 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 Université Grenoble-Alpes - LUHCIE Bureau Bâtiment 'Stendhal' F307 BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 Tel. +33 4 76828032

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