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Call for course proposals; Force11 Scholarly Communications Institute. Proposal Deadline Jan 8; Summer School July 30-August 3, 2018.
by O'Donnell, Dan 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Call for Course Proposals - Deadline January 8, 2018 FSCI 2018 (FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute) July 30 - August 3, 2018, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA · Do you have research, experience, or skills in Scholarly Communication that you can share with others? · Could you help improve Scholarly Communications by proposing and leading a FSCI summer course? · Do you want to teach and learn in a premiere community-led Scholarly Communications Summer School? Course Submission Form: https://goo.gl/yRQKeu [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/FRHSh8UKt9KCEALr8ZE_98kFPksYbH92qWqrSpPub…]<https://goo.gl/yRQKeu> FSCI 2018 Call for Course Proposals<https://goo.gl/yRQKeu> goo.gl This form is for proposals to run a course at FSCI 2018 at UCSD in La Jolla, California from July 30 to August 3, 2018. Please see the FSCI website www.force11.org/fsci for more detail on how courses are structured and the expectations of instructors. We will work with shortlisted applications in January to finalize the selection of courses. The final program will be announced in February. Submission deadline: January 8, 2017 New and returning instructors are welcome! About FSCI2018 FSCI 2018 (FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute) is the premiere Community-led and organised summer school on current trends in Scholarly Communication. Instructors are community members who are passionate about passing on their knowledge and experience to others in Scholarly Communication. They range from up-and-coming researchers and practitioners to world-leading experts. The students they teach come from a wide variety of backgrounds: research, funding, administration, publishing, libraries, and information users. They range from absolute beginners to discipline leaders. They are eager to learn and represent an excellent source of potential collaborations! If you have ideas for a course that could help other members of the community navigate this new world, then we want to hear from you! Course Description FSCI has two types of course. • Morning courses (13-14 hours each), run Monday - Friday approximately 09:00 - 12:30 with a coffee break each day. Morning courses tend to contain more fundamental material or focus on broader areas of study. Examples from 2017 include “Reproducibility in Theory and Practice” and “Inside Scholarly Communications Today”. • Afternoon courses (6 hours each) run for three hours after lunch on Monday/Tuesday and on Wednesday/Thursday. (In response to feedback from FSCI 2017, afternoon course instructors will run their classes twice to maximise availability). Afternoon courses tend to be a bit more specialised and sometimes more technical. These are excellent places for advanced topics. In all cases, we encourage instructors to design their material around a hands-on, workshop format. Student evaluations suggest that attendees want to try things out for themselves and are less patient with a lecture-centered approach. You can see some of the titles we had last year below. How to Propose a Course You can propose a course using our Course Proposal Form. This form asks you for a title, instructor(s), and some background on you and your proposed topic. A programming committee will review course proposals with the goal of choosing the best combination of topics, skill-levels, and disciplinary focus. What Support Can I Expect? FSCI will provide basic technical support for instructors. If you have specialised needs, we will do our best to arrange additional support. In addition, FSCI will provide complimentary tuition fees, housing, and meals for 1 instructor per course. We are currently unable to provide reimbursement for travel costs to and from San Diego, though we are seeking funding. We hope to be able to secure some funding with a focus on providing support to instructors from Low and Mid Income Economies. Additional information about travel support will be posted as it becomes available. If you do require travel funding to participate in FSCI, please indicate this on the submission form. Sample Courses from Previous Year • Altmetrics: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Headed Next? • Applying Design Thinking and User Research to the Scholarly Communication Problem Space • AuthorCarpentry: A Hands-on Approach to Open Authorship and Publishing • Building Public Participation in Research • Communication and Advocacy for Research Transparency • Data Citation Implementation for Data Repositories • Data in the Scholarly Communications Life Cycle • How Universities Can Create an Open Access Culture • Identifying How Scientific Papers Are Shared and Who Is Sharing Them on Twitter • Inside Scholarly Communications Today • Open Annotation Tools and Techniques • Open Humanities 101 • Opening the Sandbox: Supporting Student Research as a Gateway to Open Practice • Opening Up Research and Data • Perspectives on Peer Review • Research Reproducibillity in Theory and Practice • Scholarship in the 21th Century Building an Open and Information-rich Research Institute • Software Citation: Principles, Usage, Benefits, and Challenges • Starting Out: Skills and Tools for Early Career Knowledge Workers • Technology and Tools for Academic Library Teams • The Sci-AI Platform: Enabling Literature-Based Discovery • Tips, Tools, and Tactics for Managing Digital Projects in Research and in the Classroom • Using New Metrics: A Practical Guide to Increasing the Impact of Research • Using the Open Science Framework To Increase Openness and Reproducibility in Research • Using Wikidata in Research and Curation • Walking the Line Between Advocacy and Activism in Scholarly Communication • When 'Global' is Local: Scholarly Communications in the Global South Bookmark the website and watch for further information. Bookmark the website: www.force11.org/fsci/2018<http://www.force11.org/fsci/2018> Further Information: fsci-info(a)force11.org<mailto:fsci-info@force11.org> [U of Lethbridge Logo] Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English and Associate Member of the University Library Academic Staff Editor, Digital Studies/Le champ num<http://digitalstudies.org/>érique <http://digitalstudies.org/> Vice President, Force 11<http://force11.org> Department of English and University Library University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive West Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell @danielPaulOD

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DHd2018 "Critique of digital reason" - registration, programme & bursaries!
by Franz Fischer 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Dear digital medievalists, Registration for DHd2018 "Kritik der digitalen Vernunft / Critique of digital reason", Cologne, 26 February - 1 March 2018, is open: http://dhd2018.uni-koeln.de/registrierung/ The programme is online: http://dhd2018.uni-koeln.de/programm/ Many travel bursaries are available: http://dhd2018.uni-koeln.de/stipendien/ On behalf of the organizers, Franz Fischer

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies
by Haraldur Bernharðsson 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

The University of Iceland offers two international graduate programs in medieval studies: (1) Medieval Icelandic Studies, a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters' (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester's worth (30 ECTS) master's thesis. The summer semester is the thesis semester, which means that the program can be completed in 13 months. See http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat… <http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat…> (2) Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, a four-semester (120 ECTS) graduate program run in cooperation with the University of Oslo in Norway, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University in Denmark. The first year--60 ECTS' worth of course work--take place in Iceland, but the third semester is spent either in Oslo, Aarhus, or Copenhagen, completing 30 ECTS of courses. The fourth semester is devoted to writing the master's thesis, and can be spent in Iceland or Oslo. See http://oldnorse.is/ <http://oldnorse.is/> Both programs are designed specifically for international students. The language of instruction is English. Application deadline: February 1st, 2018 --------------------- Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medieval Studies University of Iceland -- The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies Árnagarði við Suðurgötu IS-101 Reykjavík I C E L A N D + 354 525-4023 / +354 891-7511 - haraldr(a)hi.is <mailto:haraldr@hi.is> - https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/ <https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/> - Skype: haraldur_bernhardsson ---------------------

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CFP for "Digital Matters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies" at Duke University
by Jessica Ward 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Dear all, Duke University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Duke Information Science + Studies and the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge invite proposals for “Digital Matters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies” a Digital Humanities symposium to be held at Duke University April 6 – 7, 2018. We are delighted to have Dr. Cheryl Ball (Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies and Director of the Digital Publishing Institute at West Virginia University) and Dr. Vaughn Stewart (Director of Digital ACT Studio at UNC Greensboro) as our plenary speakers. Please see the attached CFP and visit our website <https://sites.duke.edu/digitalmatter2018> for more information. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Jessica Hines at jessica.hines(a)duke.edu <mailto:jessica.hines@duke.edu>. We hope you will consider submitting an abstract! Best regards, Jessica D. Ward Ph.D. Candidate Department of English University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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DH Awards 2017: Nominations Open!
by James Cummings 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

The annual open DH Awards 2017 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 2017 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. There are translations of this call for nominations available from http://dhawards.org/dhawards2017/nominations/ Nominations will be open until 2018-01-28. Voting will take place shortly after. Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that were launched/finished/update/created in 2017. The categories for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2017 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 2017 use the form at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2017/nominations/ Best wishes, James -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)newcastle.ac.uk School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University

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Final Reminder: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2018, Call for Proposals (Deadline: FRIDAY)
by Kristen Mapes 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

*Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University* *March 22-23, 2018* *We are committed to bringing a wide-ranging and diverse group of participants and presenters for our conference. To further this end, there will be funds available to assist or offset the costs of travel. There is an option to request consideration for travel funds in the proposal form. If you have any questions, please email dh(a)msu.edu <dh(a)msu.edu>.* *Call for Proposals* Deadline to submit a proposal: Friday, December 15, 11:59pm EST msuglobaldh.org Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its symposium series on Global DH into its third year. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship, that which MSU champions <http://cplong.org/2016/10/critical-diversity-in-a-digital-age/>, values digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to reflect a broad range of literary, historical, new media, and cultural positions, and diverse ways of valuing cultural production and knowledge work. Particularly valuable are strategies in which the digital form manifests a critical perspective on the digital content and the position of the researcher to their material. With the growth of the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including, among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation, digital rights, endangered data <http://endangereddataweek.org/>, and the digital divide. We view the 2018 symposium as an opportunity to broaden the conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is especially welcome. Michigan State University has been intentionally global <http://www.isp.msu.edu/about/about-isp/> for more than 60 years, with over 1,400 faculty involved in international research, teaching, and service. For the past 20 years, MSU has developed a strong research area in culturally engaged, global digital humanities. Matrix <http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/>, a digital humanities and social science center at MSU, has done dozens of digital projects in West and Southern Africa <http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio_categories/africa-related-projects/> that have focused on ethical and reciprocal relationships and capacity building. WIDE <http://wide.msu.edu> has set best practices for doing community engaged, international, archival work with the Samaritan Collections, Archive 2.0 <http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio-item/samaritan-archive-2-0/>. Today many scholars in the humanities at MSU are engaged in digital projects relating to global, indigenous, and/or underrepresented groups and topics. This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and particularly on the following themes and topics by *Friday, December 15, 11:59pm EST:* - Critical cultural studies and analytics - Cultural heritage in a range of contexts - DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement - Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance, especially in a postcolonial context - DH responses to crisis - How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital humanities work - Global research dialogues and collaborations - Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital - Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism - Global digital pedagogies - Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital - Digital and global languages and literatures - The state of global digital humanities community - Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change - Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages, and economies - Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context *Presentation Formats:* - 3-5-minute lightning talk - 15-minute presentation - 90-minute workshop - 90-minute panel *Proposal form*: http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit-a-proposal/ 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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News about Otto Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves" portfolio, leaf no. 30
by Lisa Fagin Davis 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Greetings, all, I'm writing to report that my Simmons School of Library and Information Science students have just reconstructed part of Otto Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves" portfolio, leaf no. 30 by uploading, cataloguing, and sequencing 27 leaves from 27 collections in the Fragmentarium interface. Here's the direct link to the reconstruction: http://www.fragmentarium.unifr.ch/view/page/F-djs6 Fragmentarium is a new interface that allows for cataloguing of individual leaves (for example, http://www.fragmentarium.unifr.ch/overview/F-qux7) and creating an online reconstruction. In particular, it allows users to create flexible and editable IIIF-compliant reconstructions in a shared-canvas viewer. It is truly extraordinary, and the possibilities are endless. The data for each leaf and for the reconstructed object can (and will) be updated and refined at any time, and additional leaves can be easily added. The records for individual leaves, can be found by searching from the Fragmentarium homepage, http://www.fragmentarium.unifr.ch/ As their final assignment, I assigned each student one example of "Fifty Original Leaves" no. 30 (a lovely early fifteenth-century Book of Hours) to catalogue in Fragmentarium. In addition to identifying the text on each leaf, part of the cataloguing process includes creating a shared- canvas sequence in which the two images are presented in the correct order. Then we worked together to establish the original sequence of leaves, assembling the individual canvases in Fragmentarium to create the reconstruction, which has its own record. Once we had built the reconstruction, one group of students looked at the totality of the preserved liturgy to investigate Use (it's Paris). A different group of students scoured the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and discovered that this manuscript was likely C. L. Ricketts, Census no. 116. That entry led us to two Quaritch catalogues (1905 and 1910), and the Conway/Davis Directory pointed us to a 1939 Parke-Bernet sale. Once we found the Quaritch and PB catalogues, the identification was confirmed. The Quaritch, Ricketts, and PB descriptions can be clearly identified with the reconstructed manuscript, not only by codicological features but by the contents, which include enough unusual features to make the identification certain. This identification would not be possible based on the data provided by a single leaf. Only by reassembling the extant leaves can we conduct research on the liturgy and provenance of the original codex. I'll be giving a paper on the project at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University next May. The whole process was a very effective pedagogical tool with real results, and I look forward to putting my class to work on a different reconstruction every year. I am so grateful to Fragmentarium directors William Duba and Christoph Flüeler for facilitating the project, and to the holding institutions for making their images available. - 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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