dm-l May 2018

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Latest blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 22 May '18

22 May '18

My latest blopost, about the digital reconstruction of the Gottschalk Antiphonal using Fragmentarium: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/manuscript-road-trip-re… - 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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Rochester Cultural Heritage Imaging Conference
by Helen Davies 18 May '18

18 May '18

Image: Spectral Imaging reveals the hidden text on the medieval palimpsests. Copyright St Catherine’s monastery of the Sinai Please see below information about the R-CHIVE (Rochester Cultural Heritage Imaging, Visualization and Education) conference held June 7 & 8, 2018 atRIT and UR. Please join us to learn more about applying different imaging modalities to uncover faded, damaged or erased text from manuscripts, globes, maps etc. Speakers from all over (UK, Canada, Germany, Ethiopia, Austria, US) will be presenting their work ranging from: 1) Raman Spectroscopy 2) Spectral Imaging 3) RTI 4) Material analysis through X-ray & particle based Molecular spectroscopy, etc. This two day conference will include workshops such as “how to make a palimpsest”, “Timeline of materials and Inks used in old documents” (breakfast and lunch will also be included). Please see below information re the conference and registration. Register here: www.r-chive.com/2018-2/ <http://www.r-chive.com/2018-2/> Hope to see you there.

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5th DH@Madrid Summer School: “Applications of Natural Language Processing for Humanities Reserarch”
by gimena del rio riande 16 May '18

16 May '18

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that from July 9th to 11th, 2018, LINHD UNED will host the 5th DH@Madrid Summer School: “Applications of Natural Language Processing for Humanities Reserarch”. This DH Summer School is sponsored by LINHD, ERC POSTDATA project and UNED Foundation . The course will bring together a varied group of leading international experts in Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing and language technologies. Our Summer School will be of special interest for humanists focused in digital research methods applied to the humanities. It can be followed online or delayed, and in face-to-face classroom mode. More information and registration: http://linhd.es/p/dh-verano-2018/ Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Twitter: @gimenadelr Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: http://www.caicyt-conicet.gov.ar/micrositios/hd/ <http://www.caicyt-conicet.gov.ar/micrositios/hd/> Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 ‌ [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Remitente notificado con Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…>

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CFP History and Text analysis (International conference in Paris, 17-19 Jan. 2019)
by Octave Julien 16 May '18

16 May '18

Dear members of the list, The PIREH (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) is organizing an international conference on History and Text analysis, at the Sorbonne in Paris on January 17-19 2019. We are looking for papers, in English or in French, showing how historians can use different methods of text analysis (computational linguistics, text mining, distant reading…) with a quantitative or qualitative approach (see the call for papers below and https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/ <https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/>). The deadline for the CFP is June the 22nd 2018 (see below). Stéphane Lamassé, Léo Dumont, Octave Julien @PirehP1 http://pireh.univ-paris1.fr SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Benjamin Deruelle (Université du Québec à Montréal) Octave Julien (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Stéphane Lamassé (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Virgine Lethier (Université de Franche-Comté) Aude Mairey (Université Paris 1 - CNRS) Damon Mayaffre (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) Ian Milligan (Université de Waterloo) Bénédicte Pincemin (CNRS - Université de Lyon) André Salem (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté) CALL FOR PAPERS (French version) <https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-contro…> Computational methods of text analysis (lexicometry, computational linguistics, text mining, distant reading...) are undergoing important developments in many scientific fields and in society as a whole. Such methods can help and interest many different sectors (private companies, public governance, intelligence, data-journalism, etc.). They are also assuming growing importance in the humanities, especially among researchers of the digital humanities. This has led to a number of conferences and regular scientific events, such as the French JADT (Journées d’Analyse des Données textuelles), and to several recent synthesis books (Léon & Loiseau 2016, Jenset & McGillivray 2017). In this movement, the position of historians appears to be paradoxical. Their work is largely based on texts used as sources and, following the evolutions of modern historiography, they showed a growing interest in the discourses and representations of societies and individuals of the past. In this regard, the methodologies of text analysis in history enjoyed a fair success and prominence in France as soon as the 1970s, especially at the Centre de lexicologie politique of the ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud. However, despite the influence of the linguistic turn and the development of more powerful and more accessible software, the use of text analysis in history have been less frequent lately, even though such methods continue to prove useful (Genet, 2011). The limited presence of historians at the JADT is symptomatic of that. Nowadays, text analysis is regaining momentum thanks to text mining, which can help with sorting the massive amounts of textual data produced by the digitalization of sources (such as the project Corpus of the Bibliothèque nationale de France – Moiraghi 2018). The aim of this conference is to understand the current uses of computational and statistical text analysis in history, at a time where the intellectual, social and technical context is changing. Several questions can be raised to better assess their use and their contribution to history. 1. The historiography of text analysis For a long time, historians have thought about the way they can associate history, linguistics and statistics (Robin 1973 ; Guilhaumou, Maldidier, Robin 1994 ; Genet 2011 ; Léon 2015 ; Léon & Loiseau 2016), and this historiographical current is not closed. One can go back to the fruitful moments of this collaboration, such as the works of the center of political lexicology of the ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, or those of the laboratory of statistical linguistics of the University of Nice. But it is worth asking why some scientific and intellectual enterprises that appeared promising at first did not eventually reach the same success, for example the works by Michel Pêcheux and Denise Maldidier. One can also consider the intellectual career of historians like Jacques Guilhaumou and Régine Robin, who began their research using lexical statistics before they turned their attention to methodologies closer to a more traditional conceptual history. 2. New methods for new corpora 2.1. The new sources and objects of text analysis In France, text analysis was originally used to analyze political and trade unions texts. While this field of study is still active (Mayaffre 2010) and can even reach a general audience (Alduy 2017 ; Souchard, Wanich & Cuminal 1998), it is worth considering which other types of sources can be analyzed in this way. Some languages have strong idiosyncrasies: the writing of charters, diplomatic cables, or legal texts, for example. Others are characterized by their specific context of production (orality, private or intimate writings, literary texts, etc.). Which questions and approaches are relevant for this kind of material? A language can also be treated as an historical object by itself, especially when it is a tool of empowerment or domination. This is what Serge Lusignan highlighted with a qualitative approach in his essays of sociolinguistic history (Lusignan 2004 and 2012). Similarly, the linguistic aspects of domination are central in gender history or in postcolonial studies. In this respect, what can text analysis offer ? How can such methods assist in grasping those discursive phenomenons? At the same time, a number of fields in history were deeply influenced by the archival turn (Clanchy 1979, and Chastang 2008 for example for the medieval history, or Guyotjeannin 1995). In this approach, sources are considered as an object per se, and a greater attention is given to their mode of production and their conditions of conservation, in order to better understand what they say. Then, is text analysis less relevant, or can it help us shed a new light on the document itself, its formal or material aspects, its genesis and its evolutions? 2.2. Text analysis, big data, and the historian With the statistical approach of textual analysis, a representative and fairly large corpus is needed in order to produce significant results. The ideal size of such a corpus is an open question, but one can wonder how it is possible to study textual materials with different levels of magnification and complementary methods (data mining on big corpora vs. focused analysis of a specific lexicon, for example). Historians must reflect on this shift, now that the corpora of digitalized and born-digital sources (such as websites) are rapidly growing. How can they make those new materials their own, and what can they say, armed with their critical knowledge of sources, about their constitution and their use? Recent publications show this transformation can benefit historians of all periods (Perreaux 2014 in medieval history, for example) and that it redefines the geography of historical research (Putnam 2016). 3. The development of the statistical toolkit of text analysis 3.1. Temporality Corpora with a diachronic structure raise specific issues. The problem of anachronism has long been tackled by historians working on such material (Prost 1988), while more recent works have focused on the visualization of temporality (Ratinaud & Marchand 2014). In textual analysis, words can speak for themselves and reveal a useful periodization for the historian’s work. Some statistical methods (Factorial analysis, topic modeling) can show the evolution of a lexicon, by highlighting words coming in and out of a corpus, but the changes in their meaning itself still are difficult to grasp. What are the means to perceive those semantic transformations? Also, how can we make use of discontinuous series of texts on a large timeframe? Such questions are important to the historian, who works on temporality by definition, but they are also especially relevant when one considers digital writings, in so far as they are frequently organized chronologically (such as Facebook or Twitter posts). 3.2. Innovative algorithms for text analysis Since the seminal book by Lebart and Salem (Lebart & Salem 1994), a common set of statistical concepts and tools has been used by researchers and implemented in free softwares, but new methodologies offer innovative ways to analyze a corpus. In addition to topic models (Barron et alii, 2018), a tool like Linkage (http://linkage.fr <http://linkage.fr/>) uses written exchanges to build a classification of a social network, while some deep learning algorithms relying on word vectors (Embedding Layer, Word2Vec, GloVe) can provide a summary and a comparison of documents very quickly (Levy & Goldberg, 2014). How can those new methods be used by historians? 3.2. Qualitative and quantitative approaches The computer tools available to social scientists for linguistic investigations are not necessarily based on statistics. Softwares like Nooj make a precise formalization of natural languages possible, thus enriching the comprehension of a language in a given state and through time. On a broader level, one must also acknowledge the role of qualitative approaches. Their association with quantitative methods is a fruitful one (Paveau 2012) and they must be taken into account to fully address the possible relationships between languages and history. Contributions illustrating and discussing the benefits of those different methods in history will be most welcome. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Participants can submit an abstract for two types of presentation, in French or in English, : a 20 mn presentation (5000 characters abstract) an A1-sized poster (2500 characters abstract) To submit a proposal for a presentation, please upload an abstract on https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/ <https://histlangtexto.sciencesconf.org/> by June 22, 2018. Accepted papers will be notified on July 13. A detailed draft will be asked to speakers by October 15, 2018. The papers will be considered for publication in a volume of essays. Fundings for transportation may be available depending on the number of applications.

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Reconstruction of the Gottschalk Antiphonal
by Lisa Fagin Davis 15 May '18

15 May '18

Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to debut my Fragmentarium reconstruction of the Gottschalk Antiphonal, the manuscript that was the subject of my dissertation and first book: http://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-75ud/ The Gottschalk Antiphonal was written and illustrated in the late twelfth century by the scribe/artist/monk Gottschalk of Lambach and was used at the Lambach abbey for several centuries. Along with many other early manuscripts, It was broken for binding scrap in the late fifteenth century, and its leaves were used as flyleaves, pastedowns, and spine- liners for books found at the Abbey bindery. During World War II, many of the leaves were removed from the bindings and sold as a way to raise money for a new wood lathe for the abbey. The leaves are now scattered and have been identified at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, the St. Louis Public Library, a hotel in Badgastein (Austria), the abbey of St. Paul im Lavanttal, and in Lambach itself (although the leaves that were bound into incunables there as late as 1998 have now vanished and are represented in my reconstruction by my old black-and-white photographs). As recently as 2016, an offset of a leaf of the Antiphonal was found in an incunable belonging to the Beinecke Library (ironically, it was there while I was working on my thesis at Yale, but it was only during a recent survey of the bindings by Elizabeth Hebbard (Indiana Univ.) that the offset was photographed and identified). The missing leaf was consecutive with one of the leaves at Harvard, and I have added a manipulated image of the offset to my Fragmentarium reconstruction. For those of you who care about such things, it is worth noting that images of the two leaves at Harvard have been imported directly into Fragmentarium using a persistent IIIF url. The other images were uploaded as individual JPGs. When I first studied the manuscript in the early 1990s, I did it with scissors and paste and black-and-white photocopies on the floor of my living room. It is truly thrilling to see it in glorious IIIF-compliant interoperable color in Fragmentarium! I hope that it will complement the liturgical, art historical, and musicological study in my book: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/music/nineteenth-century-musi… Blogpost coming soon... 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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Congreso Internacional de la AAHD- La Cultura de los Datos / International Conference - AAHD: Digital Humanities. The Culture of Data
by gimena del rio riande 15 May '18

15 May '18

The *Argentine Association of Digital Humanities / Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD)* and the *School of Humanities from the University of Rosario (UNR)* invites researchers, professors and students to participate in its *International Conference: Digital Humanities. The Culture of Data*, to be held at the *Espacio Cultural Universitario (ECU)* and the *School of Humanities / Facultad de Humanidades (UNR)* in Rosario, Province of Santa Fe, *7-9 November, 2018.* The languages of the Conference are Spanish, English and Portuguese. For more information about dates, requirements and abstract submission see: <https://www.aacademica.org/congreso.aahd2018> https://www.aacademica.org/congreso.aahd2018 Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Twitter: @gimenadelr Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: http://www.caicyt-conicet.gov.ar/micrositios/hd/ <http://www.caicyt-conicet.gov.ar/micrositios/hd/> Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 ‌ [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Remitente notificado con Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…>

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Postdoc project on Latin biblical glosses
by Yiannis Doukas 08 May '18

08 May '18

The Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission (IrCaBriTT) project is funded by the Laureate Scheme of the Irish Research Council and led by Dr Jacopo Bisagni. The IrCaBriTT project will explore the intellectual exchanges between Ireland, Brittany and Francia during the Carolingian age (c. AD 750–1000). More specifically, the project will assess the impact of the literary and scholarly heritage of early Christian Ireland on the shaping of textual and cultural identity among the intellectual élite of medieval Brittany, a country situated on the frontier between the Insular world and the European mainland. Position for postdoctoral researcher: The central task associated with this Research Post will consist in the transcription, critical editing and thorough study of the substantial (and hitherto completely neglected) collection of Latin biblical glosses found in Orléans, Bibliothèque Municipale, 182, an early 10th-century manuscript copied in a Frankish scriptorium (probably Fleury-sur-Loire) from a lost Breton exemplar. To find out more about the position, including how to apply, go to the university's Research Jobs page, and see job reference NUIG 094-18. http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs/researchjobs/

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Manuscript Studies_ Announcements and CFP
by Ransom, Lynn 07 May '18

07 May '18

The editors of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania are pleased to make the following announcements: * The Spring 2018 Special Issue on the Syriac Galen Palimpsest Project is out! Abstracts are available here: https://mss.pennpress.org/current-issue-abstracts/ * We are seeking submissions for the Fall 2019 issue and beyond. Peer-reviewed articles for possible publication in the Fall 2019 should be submitted no later than November 1. Non-peer reviewed Annotations can be submitted up to February 1, 2019. * Thanks to a generous agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press, all Articles and Annotations in Manuscript Studies are made available on an open access basis after one year from the date of publication. Articles and Annotations from Vol. 2:1 (Thai Manuscript Collections Special Issue) are now available for downloading and sharing on Penn's Scholarly Commons repository. To access the pdfs, go to: http://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims/ Manuscript Studies brings together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. This peer-reviewed journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We publish 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. For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. For direct inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact the editors at sims-mss(a)pobox.upenn.edu<mailto:sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu> .

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4th Cycle of Medieval Studies, Official Programme 2018
by Roberto Del Monte 04 May '18

04 May '18

Dear all, with apologies for cross-posting, we invite you all to attend to our annual conference in Florence, June 4th-5th 2018. Here the official programme: https://www.nuovomedioevo.it/2018/04/16/iv-ciclo-di-studi-medievali-program… IV CICLO DI STUDI MEDIEVALI, PROGRAMMA | NUME<https://www.nuovomedioevo.it/2018/04/16/iv-ciclo-di-studi-medievali-program…> www.nuovomedioevo.it È online il Programma del IV Ciclo di Studi Medievali, Firenze 4-5 Giugno 2018.. Il Convegno si terrà a Firenze, nelle sale dell’ex Convento Il Fuligno, via Faenza 48n, See you in our worderful Florence Best regards NUME Research Group on Latin Middle Ages via de' Barucci, 12 50127 Florence www.nuovomedioevo.it<http://www.nuovomedioevo.it> info(a)nuovomedioevo.it

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Corpus hagiographique bourguignon (Ve-XVe siècles) - Atelier 2. Débats et recherches - 19 juin 2018
by Eliana Magnani 04 May '18

04 May '18

*Corpus hagiographique bourguignon (V^e -XV^e siècles)* ** *Atelier 2. Débats et recherches* ** *19 juin 2018 * *10h-18h * *Sorbonne - Salle Perroy * /*G*/*alerie Jean-Baptiste Dumas, escalier R, 2^e étage* *1, rue Victor Cousin - 75005 Paris* ** Dans le cadre du programme des CBMA (/Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi/ - cbma-project.eu <http://www.cbma-project.eu/>), et du projet de réalisation d'un corpus structuré et hétérogène de textes latins médiévaux, un premier sous-corpus de textes hagiographiques bourguignons (V^e -XV^e siècles) est en cours de réalisation. Venant en contraste avec les 29 000 actes diplomatiques déjà numérisés et enregistrés,le propos principal de ce projet est d’assembler des textes typologiquement hétérogènes, mais géographiquement circonscrits, de les documenter et les diffuser dans un format adapté aux formalisations et aux recherches assistées par l’informatique, notamment les fouilles de texte et les SIG. Ainsi constitué, ce corpus pourra être utilisé pour lui-même mais aussi servir de point de comparaison avec d’autres corpus, ouvrant ainsi à des approches à différentes échelles : locales, régionales, européennes. Ce deuxième atelier vise à présenter et à débattre collectivement des premières réalisations : l’inventaire des textes hagiographiques et l’état des connaissances qu’il permet de dresser, ainsi que les problèmes rencontrés dans l’acquisition des métadonnées et les solutions à envisager. Il sera aussi l’occasion d’échanger autour des recherches récentes, en aval et en amont du corpus lui-même : les manuscrits, la transmission-transformation textuelle ainsi que les expériences des traitements statistiques. Ouverte à tous les intéressés, cette opération est portée par le Lamop (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris - UMR 8589), soutenue par le Labex HaStec en partenariat avec l’IRHT (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes – CNRS UPR 841), le Centre Jean Mabillon (EnC - EA 3624) et le LEM/CERCOR (Laboratoire d’Études sur les Monothéismes – UMR 8584 / Centre européen de recherche sur les congrégations et les ordres religieux). Pour des raisons d’organisation matérielle, les collègues souhaitant assister à cet atelier sont priés de nous informer de leur présence avant le 11 juin 2018 : cbma.project(a)gmail.com <mailto:cbma.project@gmail.com> Eliana Magnani CNRS - LAMOP UMR 8589 eliana.magnani(a)univ-paris1.fr <mailto:eliana.magnani@univ-paris1.fr> ** * * <Programme> * * *Programme :* *http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/fileadmin/lamop/seminaires_2017_2018/Atelier2_CBMA.pdf* ** *Le corpus en débats * 10h -/Introduction. Le corpus hagiographique bourguignon : premiers bilans/ Eliana Magnani (CNRS, Lamop) 10h30/- L’inventaire et les métadonnées / Coraline Rey (Université de Bourgogne) 11h/- Table-ronde et discussions/ 12h30 - Buffet *Le corpus en recherches* 14h -/Le cycle bourguignon et l’hagiographie d’Auxerre dans le contexte du VI^e siècle : réflexions autour des textes du manuscrit de Farfa / Gordon Blennemann (Université de Montréal) 14h30-/Prolégomènes à l'étude de la tradition hagiographique de saint Germain d'Auxerre/ Hélène Caillaud (Université de Limoges) 15h /- Remarques sur la transmission manuscrite de quelques dossiers hagiographiques du sud de la province de Vienne/ Fernand Peloux (Université de Namur) 15h30 - Discussions 16h - Pause 16h30 - /Attribution d’auteurité. Jonas de Bobbio, Cluny et la vie de Jean de Réome/ Nicolas Perreaux (Université de Francfort) 17h -/Le manuscrit 1 de Semur-en-Auxois et le dossier hagiographique de Jean de Réome/ Eliana Magnani (CNRS, Lamop) 17h30 - Discussions et tour de table conclusif -- Eliana Magnani Chargée de recherche au CNRS LAMOP UMR 8589 eliana.magnani(a)gmail.com eliana.magnani(a)univ-paris1.fr https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/eliana-magnani

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