dm-l January 2017

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EpiDoc training workshop, London, April 2017
by Simona Stoyanova 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

*with apologies for cross-posting* Dear all, We invite applications to participate in a training workshop on digital editing of papyrological and epigraphic texts, at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, April 3–7, 2017. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard and Lucia Vannini (ICS) and Simona Stoyanova (KCL). There will be no charge for the workshop, but participants should arrange their own travel and accommodation. EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a community of practice and guidance for using TEI XML for the encoding of inscriptions, papyri and other ancient texts. It has been used to publish digital projects including Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Tripolitania, Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri, and EAGLE Europeana Project. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object descriptions, identifying and linking to external person and place authorities, and use of the online Papyrological Editor tool. The workshop will assume knowledge of papyrology or epigraphy; Greek, Latin or another ancient language; and the Leiden Conventions. No technical skills are required, and scholars of all levels, from students to professors, are welcome. To apply, please email gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk with a brief description of your background and reason for application, by February 28, 2017. All the best, Simona -- Simona Stoyanova Research Assistant in Classics and Digital Humanities Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane Strand Campus London WC2B 5RL

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium (3/16-17), Program Announced & Registration Open
by Kristen Mapes 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

*Global Digital Humanities Symposium* *March 16-17, 2017* Union Building, Lake Huron Room Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan http://msuglobaldh.org/ *Please register by: Friday, March 3, 11:59pm EST* Free and open to the public. Register at http://msu globaldh.org/registration/ Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its second year. We are delighted to feature speakers from outside of the area as well as expertise and work from faculty at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. *Schedule* Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 12:00-12:30 - Opening Remarks - 12:30-2:30 - Lightning Talk Session - 2:45-3:45 - Cultural Memory, Identities, and Social Justice - Shifting Representations of Zulu Identities, from Analog to Digital, Liz Timbs, MSU - Humanizing Data –or- DH against archival violences, Anelise Hanson Shrout, Cal State Fullerton - Witnessing Hate: Case Studies in Data, Documentation, and Social Justice, Andrea Ledesma, Brown - 4:00-5:00 - De-coding and re-coding literary canons - Forgetting the Famines: the Kiplings and their Indian Interlocutors, Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University - Retelling the Story of Okonkwo: A Digital exploration of the Clash of Cultures in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Tunde Opeibi, University of Lagos, Nigeria - Towards a Platform for Studying and Analyzing Chinese Poetry, Chao-Lin Liu, Harvard - 5:15-6:45 - ARC Panel: Access, Data, and Collaboration in the Global Digital Humanities <http://www.msuglobaldh.org/uncategorized/announcing-advanced-research-conso…> Friday, March 17, 2017 - 9:00-10:00 - Keynote: Elizabeth LaPensee, MSU - 10:15-11:15 - Reconfiguring Narrative: Connectivities in Literary and Game Studies - Contending with Hegemonies, Exploring Linkages and Possibilities of Assertions in the Global South: A Study through Role Playing Computer Games, Siddhartha Chakraborti, Aligarh Muslim University - Hacking "el sistema": Digital Hyper-Punk Fiction in Latin America, Eduardo Ledesma, UIUC - Annotation, Bibliography, and Networks: Systems of Textual Classification for Premodern Chinese Texts, Evan Nicoll-Johnson, UCLA - 11:30-12:30 - Mapping and 3D Environments - Boundary-work: mapping borders, edges, and margins in “Fortress Europe, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Western Michigan - The $500 Challenge: 3D Modeling of Heritage Structures in Endangered or Developing Areas, William Spates, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, KK Birla Goa Campus - 12:30-2:30 - Lunch (provided) - 2:30-4:00 - Workshop - 4:15-5:15 - Imagining the Past, Present, and Future of Digital Humanities(or Defining Digital Humanities: The Political and Ethical Stakes) - Archival Emanations and Contrapuntal Transformations: Digital Cultural Productions in Post-1965 Indonesia, Viola Lasmana, University of Southern California - Gaps and Silences: A Case Study in Web Archiving Diverse Content, Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Catherine Morse, Jo Angela Oehrli, Juli McLoone, Meredith Kahn, Michigan - Afrolatin@ Digital Humanities: Complex Global Interconections in Search of Social Justice, Eduard Arriaga, University of Indianapolis - 5:30-6:30 - Closing remarks and Keynote: Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology - Reception Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Coordinator College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Seminar at Wellcome Library, 17 January
by Elma Brenner 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

I wanted to notify list members of a seminar taking place at the Wellcome Library, London, tomorrow Tuesday 17 January at 6.15pm. Dr Michael Stanley-Baker (Max Planck Institute, Berlin) will speak on 'New digital and critical tools for the history of medicine and religion'. All are welcome to attend. http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2017/01/new-digital-and-critical-tools-for-… Best wishes, Elma Brenner Dr Elma Brenner Specialist, Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Wellcome Library 183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T 020 7611 8890 E E.Brenner(a)wellcome.ac.uk<mailto:E.Brenner@wellcome.ac.uk> www.wellcome.ac.uk<http://www.wellcome.ac.uk> @elmabrenner http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/section/early-medicine/ http://w3.unicaen.fr/crahm/spip.php?article541&lang=fr The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health. We support bright minds in science, the humanities and the social sciences, as well as education, public engagement and the application of research to medicine. Our investment portfolio gives us the independence to support such transformative work as the sequencing and understanding of the human genome, research that established front-line drugs for malaria, and Wellcome Collection, our free venue for the incurably curious that explores medicine, life and art. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). Wellcome exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. We're a global charitable foundation, both politically and financially independent. We support scientists and researchers, take on big problems, fuel imaginations and spark debate. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK) This message has been scanned for viruses by Websense Hosted Email Security - www.websense.com

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Call for applications: NEH Institute in digital textual scholarship
by Birnbaum, David J 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

MAKE _YOUR_ EDITION: MODELS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP Call for applications: Summer 2017 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities DEADLINES: Applications are due Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 2017. INSTITUTE DATES: July 10-29, 2017 Synopsis The University of Pittsburgh is pleased to invite applications to an NEH Advanced Institute in the Digital Humanities for summer 2017 entitled _Make YOUR edition: models and methods of digital textual scholarship_. The target audience for this workshop is digital textual scholars who are already comfortable editing their texts (in TEI XML or comparable alternatives); the goal of the Institute is to assist them in moving beyond textual editing to imagining, creating, and publishing research-driven, theoretically and methodologically innovative digital editions. Rationale Digital humanists already have access to workshops and tutorials to help them learn to transcribe, edit, and tag a text in preparation for publishing a digital edition. These training resources play a vital role in empowering editors to formalize and instantiate their interpretations as markup, so as to make them available for subsequent analysis. Nonetheless, sophisticated markup expertise alone is not enough to make an edition, and learning nothing more than tagging may leave scholars staring at their angle brackets and wondering what to do next. For some a solution like TEI Tapas provides an adequate next step, but for those who wish to ask new types of questions of their documents, and to produce new types of editions that enable new types of research, an understanding of how to turn a set of tagged texts into a customized edition that meets individualized research goals is crucial. Digital humanists cannot build editions that break new methodological ground solely on the basis of solutions prepared largely by others, and the focus of this Institute is on the creation of digital editions motivated by project-specific research questions and implemented from a perspective driven first by theory of edition, second by editorial methodology, and necessarily but less importantly by specific toolkits. In this respect we foreground not learning a particular programming language or technology or framework, but learning to think and act digitally about the process of creating a digital edition. Because tools and technologies come and go, the Institute emphasizes learning to translate original digital thinking about editions into implementations of those editions, rather than on “tooling up” in the context of currently popular frameworks. In this respect, the Institute recognizes thinking digitally in ways driven by project-specific research goals as the most important feature of _sustainable Digital Humanities training and education_. Program The Institute will introduce textual and manuscript scholars to a powerful and broad-reaching skill set of digital methods and technologies, grounded in a context that prioritizes a research-driven theory of edition. The course moves in a three-week succession from novice to experienced level, and from base textual data to full digital publication of scholarly editions. The Institute assumes that participants will have meaningful prior experience in digital editing (in TEI XML or a comparable framework), but it makes no other assumptions about prior knowledge or skills. - An optional first-week _boot camp_ establishes basic infrastructure skills (operating comfortably at the command line, handling files, navigating file systems, sharing resources and code responsibly, running Python programs from the command line, etc.). - The second week allows participants to practice and advance their basic skills when they start combining digital textual scholarship theory (e.g., McGann 2004[1], Andrews 2012[2], Siemens 2012[3], Robinson 2013[4], Haentjens et al. 2015[5]) with standard (e.g., XML, Python, Jupyter Notebooks) and advanced digital technologies (e.g., StemmaWeb, CollateX, Neo4j, Tinkerpop, eXist-db). - By the end of the third week, participants will be able to conceptualize from theory a perspective on digital textual scholarship and digital scholarly editions. They will also know how to go about planning and implementing such an edition by engaging programmatically and algorithmically with digital data, handling it computationally, and querying, analyzing, and transforming it into visualizations that transcend the digital translation of a text as a codex. The Institute will meet at the main (Oakland) campus of the University of Pittsburgh from Monday, July 10, 2017 through Friday, July 28, 2017 and will draw on an international faculty of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and teachers of digital philology from several collaborating institutions. On Saturday, July 29, 2017 there will be an optional pedagogical review of the Institute, designed to assist participants in organizing and conducting their own workshops at their home institutions. Instructors - Tara Andrews (Institute of History, University of Vienna) - David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh) - Hugh Cayless (Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing [DC3], Duke University) - Ronald Haentjens Dekker (Huygens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) - Na-Rae Han (Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh) - Mike Kestemont (Department of Literature, University of Antwerp) - Leif-Jöran Olsson (Department of Swedish Language, University of Gothenburg) The instructors will be assisted by Gabrielle (Gabi) Keane (Senior Undergraduate Institute Assistant, University of Pittsburgh). Details Applications are invited for the full three-week Institute or, in the case of those who are already comfortable with the types of first-week topics described above, for just the second and third weeks. Applicants should already be proficient with digital textual editing in TEI XML or similar technologies, and should be seeking guidance and training in how to move their texts into innovative digital editions that will enable them to explore project-specific research questions. Evidence of meaningful prior hands-on digital textual editing experience is required, but prior experience in programming for textual exploration and publication is not. Applicants who do not have prior experience with the Python programming language must agree to complete a recommended free online introductory Python course before the beginning of the Institute, for which the Institute will maintain its own support and discussion board. For budgetary reasons, preference will be given to applications from within North America. Participants accepted to the Institute will receive a travel allowance, complimentary accommodation in single-occupancy dormitory rooms, and a complimentary meal plan in the University Dining Services in lieu of per diem. Access to the University libraries, computer labs, and networked digital resources will also be provided. Participants must bring their own laptops (Windows 7–10, Mac OS, or Ubuntu/Debian Linux). We welcome scholars at all career levels from advanced graduate students through senior faculty. Applications to the Institute should include the following: - A one- to two-page statement about how participation in the Institute will enhance the scholarly and professional goals of the applicant. This statement should describe the digital edition project that the applicant plans to pursue or undertake, with special attention to the research questions motivating the creation of that edition. Preference will be shown to applications that articulate a clear understanding of the textual research potential of digital scholarly editions. - A one-page description of the applicant’s experience with textual editing. Prior experience in programming for text processing is neither required nor expected, but those who have such experience should describe it here. - Brief CV (maximum of two pages), concentrating on textual editing and Digital Humanities experience. - Indicate whether you are applying for the full three weeks or only for the second and third, and in the latter case please describe your background in the areas related to those described above as part of the “boot camp” week. - Indicate whether you wish to participate in the optional one-day pedagogical review of the course on Saturday, July 29. - Participants are required to participate full-time in the Institute for the two or three weeks that they are in residence, and must confirm that they will not undertake other significant commitments during the Institute period. All application materials should be submitted by email as a single PDF file to djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, February 28, 2017, and applicants will be notified by March 15, 2017. Questions may be directed to djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu. David J. Birnbaum, Institute Director Professor and Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures Faculty Fellow, University Honors College Email: djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu _____ References 1. McGann, Jerome, 2004. “Marking texts of many dimensions.” In Susan Schreibman, Raymond Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. _A companion to Digital Humanities_. Oxford: Blackwell. 2. Andrews, Tara L., 2012. “The third way: philology and critical edition in the digital age.” _Variants_ 10, pp. 61–76. 3. Siemens, Raymond et al., 2012. “Toward modeling the social edition: An approach to understanding the electronic scholarly edition in the context of new and emerging social media.” _Literary and linguistic computing_, 27(4), pp. 445–61. 4. Robinson, Peter, 2012. “Towards a theory of digital editions.” _Variants_ 10, pp.105–31. 5. Haentjens Dekker, Ronald, Dirk van Hulle, Gregor Middell, Vincent Neyt, Joris van Zundert, 2015. “Computer-supported collation of modern manuscripts: CollateX and the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project”, _Digital scholarship in the humanities_, 30(3), pp. 452–70. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This announcement has been posted to Humanist (http://dhhumanist.org/), Digital Classicist (http://www.digitalclassicist.org/), Digital Medievalist (https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/), TEI-L (http://www.tei-c.org/Support/index.xml#tei-l), WWP-Encoding (http://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=wwp-encoding), and DHUF Digital Humanities Flanders (dh_flanders(a)googlegroups.com). Please circulate.

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(no subject)
by James Cummings 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

DH Awards 2016 – Call For Nominations There are translations of this call for nominations available in French, Japanese, and Spanish on the website. http://dhawards.org/dhawards2016/nominations/ The annual open DH Awards 2016 is now accepting nominations! Please nominate any Digital Humanities resource in any language that you feel deserves to win in any of this year’s categories. The open DH Awards 2016 are openly nominated by the community and openly voted for by the public as a DH awareness activity. Although the working language of DH Awards is English, nominations may be for any resource in any language. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities. There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won and an icon for your website. Nominations will be open until 2017-01-27. Voting will take place shortly after. Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that were launched/finished/update/created in 2016. The categories for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2016 are: - Best Use of DH for Fun - Best DH Data Visualization - Best Exploration of DH Failure - Best DH Blog Post or Series of Posts - Best Use DH Public Engagement - Best DH tool or Suite of Tools To nominate something for the DH Awards 2016 use the form at: http://tinyurl.com/dhawards2016-nominations

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AIUCD 2017 Conference & 3rd EADH Day (24-28 January 2017)
by Fabio Ciotti 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- 6th AIUCD Conference 2017 The Reverse Telescope: Big Data and Distant Reading in the Humanities Roma, 23-28 January 2017 3rd EADH Day: 25 January 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ The Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e le Culture Digitali (AIUCD, Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Cultures) is pleased to announce the sixth edition of its annual conference. The AIUCD 2017 Conference will take place from January 23th to 28th in Rome, Italy, and it is organized by DigiLab (Sapienza University), in collaboration with the DiXiT Marie Curie network (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training). The main topic of AIUCD 2017 is the use of big data methods, cultural analytics and distant reading in the Humanities. Keynote speakers: Teresa Numerico (Università di Roma 3) and Tito Orlandi (Accademia dei Lincei). AIUCD 2017 will host the third edition of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) Day, on 25th January, introduced by a keynote of Barbara Bordalejo (Leuven University). The main Conference will be preceded by two events: * The DiXiT Workshop “The educational and social impact of Digital Scholarly Editions” (24 Jan 2017) * The TRACER tutorial co-organized by Digilab, DiXiT and the eTRAP project (23-24 Jan 2017) The full program of AIUCD 2017 and correlated events is available at: https://goo.gl/I6bFEk Registration to the conference is open through Conftool at https://www.conftool.net/aiucd2017. For more details on registration fees, organization and local infos, please visit the Conference website http://aiucd2017.aiucd.it/ or send an email to aiucd2017(a)gmail.com -- Fabio Ciotti Dept. Studi letterari, Filosofici e Storia dell’arte University of Roma Tor Vergata President "Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale" (AIUCD)

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Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Prize
by Lisa Fagin Davis 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

I am very pleased to announce that the Medieval Academy of America's inaugural Digital Humanities Prize is being awarded to DigiPal (http://www.digipal.eu), in recognition of the project's scholarly value, adherence to digital best-practices, and long-term viability. The Prize will be awarded during the Academy's upcoming Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto (April 6-8). More information about the Medieval Academy of America Digital Humanities Prize is available here: https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/page/DHPrize 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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