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NEH Institute reminder: application deadline approaching!
by Birnbaum, David J 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Reminder: application deadline approaching! __ 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 ³tooling up² 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 20041, Andrews 20122, Siemens 20123, Robinson 20134, Haentjens et al. 20155) 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) - Kaylen Sanders (Junior 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 710, 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 applicant¹s 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 ³boot camp² 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. ³Marking texts of many dimensions.² In Susan Schreibman, Raymond Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. _A companion to Digital Humanities_. Oxford: Blackwell. 2. Andrews, Tara L., 2012. ³The third way: philology and critical edition in the digital age.² _Variants_ 10, pp. 6176. 3. Siemens, Raymond et al., 2012. ³Toward modeling the social edition: An approach to understanding the electronic scholarly edition in the context of new and emerging social media.² _Literary and linguistic computing_, 27(4), pp. 44561. 4. Robinson, Peter, 2012. ³Towards a theory of digital editions.² _Variants_ 10, pp.10531. 5. Haentjens Dekker, Ronald, Dirk van Hulle, Gregor Middell, Vincent Neyt, Joris van Zundert, 2015. ³Computer-supported collation of modern manuscripts: CollateX and the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project², _Digital scholarship in the humanities_, 30(3), pp. 45270. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Announcing First Annual Force 11 Scholarly Communication Institute @ University of California San Diego (FSCI@UCSD) July 30-August 4
by O'Donnell, Dan 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

A new annual initiative that may be of interest to many on this list. Please feel free to pass this on to other lists and also consider either attending or proposing workshops. Although there is an injunction delaying the enforcement of recent U.executive order regarding immigration to the U.S., the organisers of FSCI recognise that many potential attendees and instructors may have concerns about access and safety in this and future years. The Force 11 executive has issued two<https://www.force11.org/article/force11-statement-restrictions-immigration> statements<https://www.force11.org/blog/force11-executive-board-statement-restrictions…> on the recent immigration ban and is working actively to improve its ability to respond to and support the needs of people affected by these and other restrictions. Force 11 also has a long and successful track record of funding student attendees and attendees from mid and low income economies to its events. It has several grant applications under consideration to support future attendance and hopes to be able to continue this support in this and future years. 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FSCI@UCSD<http://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d&…> is a week-long program that offers participants training, networking and skills development in new modes of research communication. The UC San Diego Library is hosting the event that will take place at the Institute of the Americas on the UC San Diego Campus. “The research community lacks a forum for coordinated access to training, skills development, and expert knowledge on new modes of research communication,” says Cameron Neylon, President of Force 11, “even as funders are mandating change and the wider world has embraced new forms of communication.” Based on proven models in other disciplines, FSCI@UCSD will bring world-leading experts in different aspects of scholarly communication to San Diego to design and deliver courses that will help participants to navigate this new world. Courses will be established for all levels, from absolute beginners to experts. They will also be aimed at different audiences, including students, researchers, administrators, funders, and information professionals, including librarians and publishers. Typical topics to be covered at the annual event will include: Introductory Level * Open Access, Open Source, Open Data, What Does this All Mean? * Building a Digital Presence: Social Media, Repositories, and the Researcher * Research Communications 101: Tools for Improving Scholarly Communication * Data and Other Forms of Non-narrative Publication * Understanding Research Metrics * Open Peer Review: How to give and Receive Criticism Advanced * Copyright, Open Access and Open Data * New Metrics and How to Use Them to Build a Research Portfolio * Introduction to Open Data Management * Implications of OA on Research Publications * Making it Work: Knowledge Mobilization, Knowledge Translation, and Popularization Specialised/Topic Focussed * Implementing Successful Open Access, and Open Data Mandates * Supporting the Research Lifecycle for Researchers and Administrators * Evaluating New Forms of Research Publication * Implications of OA on Publication and Collection Building * Data Ownership and Copyright Issues * Data-informed Strategy for Institutional Leaders * Maximizing Impact Across Disciplines * Increasing Transparency and Reproducibility in Research Communications “Scholarly Communication is in a disruptive phase at the moment. 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Save the date: Summer school Digital Editing/Digital Humanities (Grenoble, 26-30 June 2017)
by Pierazzo, Elena 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Apologies for Cross-posting — French and Italian versions below ======= Dear all, The University of Grenoble-Alpes together with the Maison de Sciences de l’Homme-Alpes et with the sponsorship of ITN DIXIT organises a summer school in Digital Editing and Digital Humanities. Details will be published shortly, but I can already announce that the summer school is aimed at PhD students, early career researchers and beyond that want to understand what is Digital editing and Digital Humanities by doing it. For this first edition there are no prerequisite, as the the teaching will not assume any previous knowledge. Courses will be offered in the field of: - HTML and CSS - XML - TEI and EPIDOC - RDF - XSLT - NLP, tree-banking and lemmatisation - GIS Participants will attend common classes for the first 2 days and then they will be able to choose between one of the 3 workshops offered every day The languages of teaching are : French and Italian. Many scholarship will be sponsored by DiXiT, particularly for PhD students. All the best wishes ======= Bonjour, L’université Grenoble-Alpes en collaboration avec la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme -Alpes et avec la sponsorisation de l’ITN DiXiT organise une école d’été en Philologie Numérique / Humanités Numériques. Les détails seront publiés dans le délais le plus court, mais je peux déjà annoncer que l’école d’été est visée pour un public de doctorant.e.s, jeunes chercheurs/ses et touts ces qui veulent comprendre ce que ce sont les Humanités Numériques en les faisant. Pour cette première éditions, il n’y a pas des pré-requis et les cours ne présument pas des connaissances préalables. Les cours incluront: - HTML et CSS - XML - TEI et EPIDOC - RDF - XSLT - TAL, tree-banking et lemmatisation - SIG Les participants prendront des cours en troc common pendant les deux premier jours, et après il seront capables de choisir parmi trois ateliers qui seront offerts chance jour. Les langues des enseignements seront: français et italien Plusieurs bourses pour des doctorants seront offert par DIXIT. Bien cordialement ======== L’università Grenoble-Alpes in collaborazione con la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme -Alpes et la sponsorizzazione dell’ITN DiXiT organizza una scuola estiva in Filologia Digitale e le Digital Humanities. Maggiori dettagli saranno resi pubblici al più presto, ma posso già anticipare che la scuola estiva si rivolge a dottorandi, ricercatori e a tutti colori che intendono imparare che cosa sono le Digital Humanities facendole. Non ci sono prerequisiti e l’insegnamento non presuppone alcuna conoscenza pregressa. I corsi offerti includono: - HTML e CSS - XML - TEI e EPIDOC - RDF - XSLT - NLP, tree-banking e lemmatizzazione - GIS I participanti prenderanno dei corsi comuni per i primi due giorni e poi potranno scegliere i tre corsi diversi offerti giornalmente. Le lingue di insegnamento saranno il francese e l’italiano. Diverse borse saranno messe a disposizioni dei dottorandi, grazie alla sponsorizzazione di Dixit. Cordialmente __ [cid:0269A09D-3BBF-48C8-9A99-5522DB4D3126@grenet.fr]

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CFP : SW4SH 2017 3rd Int. Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage SW4SH 2017
by Isabelle Draelants 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, Please find in attachment a Call for Papers for the 3rd Int. Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage (SW4SH 2017). Best regards Isabelle, Catherine, Alexandre and Arnaud *3rd Int. Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage SW4SH 2017, in conjunction with ESWC 2017* http://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/zoomathia/sw4sh/ Important dates: - March 3, 2017: Paper submission deadline - March 31, 2017: Notification of paper acceptance - April 13, 2017: Camera ready version - May 29, 2017: Workshop date The 3rd Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage will be held in conjunction with the 14th ESWC 2017 Conference which takes place from May 28th to June 1st in Portoroz, Slovenia. It is a continuation of the SW4SH workshop series initiated at ESWC 2015 which aims to provide a leading international and interdisciplinary forum for disseminating the latest research in the field of Semantic Web for the preservation and exploitation of our scientific heritage, the study of the history of ideas and their transmission. Classicists and historians are interested in developing textual databases, in order to gather and explore large amounts of primary source materials. For a long time, they mainly focused on text digitization and markup. They only recently decided to try to explore the possibility of transferring some analytical processes they previously thought incompatible with automation to knowledge engineering systems, thus taking advantage of the growing set of tools and techniques based on the languages and standards of the semantic Web, such as linked data, ontologies, and automated reasoning. The iconographic data, which are also relevant in history of science and arise similar problematic could be addressed as well and offer suggestive insights for a global methodology for diverse media. On the other hand, Semantic Web researchers are willing to take up more ambitious challenges than those arising in the native context of the Web in terms of anthropological complexity, addressing meta-semantic problems of flexible, pluralist or evolutionary ontologies, sources heterogeneity, hermeneutic and rhetoric dimensions. Thus the opportunity for a fruitful encounter of knowledge engineers with computer-savvy historians and classicists has come. This encounter may be inscribed within the more general context of digital humanities, a research area at the intersection of computing and the humanities disciplines which is gaining an ever-increasing momentum and where the Linked Open Data is playing an increasingly prominent role. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion about the methodological approaches to the specificity of annotating “scientific” texts (in the wide sense of the term, including disciplines such as history, architecture, or rhetoric), and to support a collaborative reflection, on possible guidelines or specific models for building historical ontologies. The iconographic data, which are also relevant in history of science and arise similar problematic could be addressed as well and offer suggestive insights for a global methodology for diverse media. A key goal of the workshop, focusing on research issues related to pre-modern scientific texts, is to emphasize, through precise projects and up-to-date investigation in digital humanities, the benefit of a multidisciplinary research to create and operate on relevantly structured data. One of the main interests of the very topic of pre-modern historical data management lies in historical semantics, and the opportunity to jointly consider how to identify and express lexical, theoretical and material evolutions. Dealing with historical texts, a major problem is indeed to handle the discrepancy of the historical terminology compared to the modern one, and, in the case of massive, diachronic data, to take into account the contextual and theoretical meaning of terms and segments of texts and their semantics. Topics covered by the workshop include the following: • Ontologies and vocabularies in Ancient Science • Semantic annotation of ancient and medieval scientific texts • Information/knowledge extraction from archaeological objects and texts • Semantic integration of heterogeneous and contradicting knowledge • Representation of the historical dimension of Scientific Knowledge • Impact of Semantic Web technologies on Digital Humanities • Knowledge Engineering for ancient zoological science and literature • Social Web, collaborative systems, tagging, and user feedback Paper Submission: We invite short position papers (4-6 pages) and regular research papers (8-12 pages) describing innovative ideas covering the topics of the workshop. Submissions must be written in English and follow the LNCS guidelines. For details see the Springer LNCS Author Instructions page. Papers must be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/ conferences/?conf=sw4sh2017. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings series. Schedule • Due date for full workshop papers submission: March 3, 2017 • Notification of paper acceptance to authors: March 31, 2017 • Camera-ready of accepted papers: April 13, 2017 • Workshop: May 29, 2017 Workshop organizers: Isabelle Draelants, CNRS, IRHT Catherine Faron Zucker, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis Alexandre Monnin, Inria Arnaud Zucker, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis Contact: For any question, please contact the organisers via email: sw4sh2017(a)easychair.org

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Digital Text Collections - Call for reviews RIDE
by Neuber, Frederike (frederike.neuber＠uni-graz.at) 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Dear Digital Medievalists, The Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) is calling for reviews for a special issue of the journal RIDE, dedicated to Digital Text Collections in the Humanities. For this RIDE issue, we are inviting reviews of digital text collections from all humanities disciplines: literature, linguistics, philosophy, religious studies, historical sciences and others. To guide reviewers through the review process and to create a framework for the evaluation of digital text collections, we provide Criteria for Reviewing Digital Text Collections that are supposed to be applicable to various types of humanities text collections. The guidelines (Version 1.0) can be found here: http://www.i-d-e.de/criteria-text-collections-version-1-0<http://www.i-d-e.de/publikationen/weitereschriften/criteria-text-collection…> Reviews are accepted in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. The length of the review can vary depending on how much the resource offers that is worthy of discussion (approximately 1000-3000 words). For this special issue, reviews will be accepted until April 10th, 2017. We kindly ask you to email us beforehand at ride-tc(a)i-d-e.de<mailto:ride-tc@i-d-e.de> with a suggestion which resource you would like to review and with a short explanation of your affiliation and area of expertise. More information about RIDE, the special issue on digital text collections and suggestions for collections to review can be found at http://ride.i-d-e.de/special-issue-text-collections/ Best wishes, Ulrike Henny and Frederike Neuber for the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing Frederike Neuber Researcher | Centre for Information Modelling - Graz University Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow | DiXiT ITN? Web: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/ | https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at

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3 Associate/Full Professor Positions: Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Cluster, Michigan State University
by Kristen Mapes 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

The College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Science at Michigan State University invite applications for positions in the following areas at the Associate or Full Professor level: - Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities - Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities/Rhetorics - Digital History Find the full description and posting details at http://www.cal.msu.edu/ criticaldiversity The College of Arts & Letters and the College of Social Science at Michigan State University seek a group of culturally engaged digital arts and humanities scholars to join a transformative initiative to explore, interrogate, and cultivate Critical Diversity in a Digital Age. We are looking for creative, collaborative leaders in digital humanities and digital arts who think synthetically about scholarship, teaching, and creative endeavors. These new colleagues will join a group of faculty and students at Michigan State University with an energetic focus on humanities questions of race, inclusion, cultural preservation, global interconnectedness, and engaged scholarship. They will be part of the Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR), which serves as an interdisciplinary catalyst for MSU scholars, artists, and teachers who work at the intersections of self/society, digital/material, technology/culture to advance leading-edge scholarship and creative activity that integrates diversity in a digital age. Our aim is to lead a movement in humanities scholarship that engages the contemporary digital world with a discerning sense of critique rooted in ethical imagination and oriented toward creating more just communities. Three broad mission areas shape our initiative for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age: (1) To expose the limits of existing practices and structures of reality in order to interrogate the conditions under which they operate and thus to uncover what they enable and prevent; (2) To discern what is possible in the wake of this exposure so that we might imagine more just possibilities of engagement; (3) To enact practices of justice and freedom rooted in and animated by discerning critique. As an anchoring intellectual disposition, critical diversity signals a perspective on “diversity” that goes beyond that term’s common yoking with “inclusion” to reflect on access to resources, to define problems and establish alliances, and to address actual systems of domination and oppression. The digital humanities can offer powerful tools for analysis, including various forms of digital reading, digital archives, data visualization, and electronic literature. Our initiative understands that these tools are not neutral, but must be interrogated, analyzed, and engaged through an abiding commitment to critical diversity. In this first of a two-phase cluster hire, we seek applications from creative, energetic, and empathetic scholars at the Associate or Full Professor level with a demonstrated record of leadership, achievement, and mentoring who will help further frame, develop, and support our Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative. 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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RIDE 5 out!
by Torsten Schassan 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Dear Digital Medievalists, issue 5 of RIDE, the review journal for digital editions and resources, has just been published. As in the previous three issues, it contains 5 reviews (all in English) that critically assess scholarly digital editions. For your convenience, this is the table of contents: • Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts, by Michelle Levy • Literary drafts, genetic criticism and computational technology. The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, by Anna-Maria Sichani • Lope de Vega's La Dama Boba. Critical edition and digital archivek, by Antonia Rojas Castro • The 1641 Depositions, by Walter Scholger • The William Blake Archive, by Kendal Crawford and Michelle Levy All reviews can be accessed for free via our webpage: http://ride.i-d-e.de Enjoy the ride! Torsten -- Torsten Schassan - Digitale Editionen, Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel, Tel.: +49-5331-808-130 (Fax -165) Handschriftendatenbank* http://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss

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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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CFS Digital Classicist London 2017
by Simona Stoyanova 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

The Digital Classicist London <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/> seminar invites proposals with a focus on the needs of users/readers, for the summer 2017 season, which will run on Friday afternoons in June and July in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London. We welcome proposals in any area of classics, including ancient history, archaeology and reception, that employ digital or other innovative and collaborative approaches to the study of the ancient world (including cultures beyond the Mediterranean). Researchers of all levels, including students and professional practitioners, are welcome, and we expect a diverse audience of philologists and historians, information scientists and digital humanists, graduate students and interested members of the public. There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend). To submit a paper, please email an abstract of up to 500 words as an attachment to gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk by March 19th, 2017. -- 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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