dm-l January 2019

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DH Awards 2019 - Call For Nominations
by James Cummings 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

DH Awards 2018 – Call For Nominations There are translations of this call are available in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish (from the website). The annual open DH Awards 2018 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 2018 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 *2019-02-03*. Voting will take place shortly after. Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that were launched/finished/update/created in 2018. The categories for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2018 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 http://dhawards.org/dhawards2018/nominations/ Many thanks, James

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Lectures on 'The medieval manuscript and its digital image'
by Suzanne Paul 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Dear all, You may be interested to know that the 2018-19 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library will be given this year by Dr Will Noel, Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and MSS and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, on the topic of 'The medieval manuscript and its digital image'. The series of three lectures will take place on 11, 12 and 13 March in Cambridge and everyone is welcome. More details here: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/about-library/prizes-and-fellowships/sandars-reade… Best wishes, Suzanne Dr Suzanne Paul Keeper of Rare Books and Early Manuscripts Cambridge University Library West Road Cambridge CB3 9DR Tel: 01223 333149

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Senior Researcher Position on Digital Prosopography
by Georg Vogeler 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Dear Digital Medievalists, the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH-OeAW), a research department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria’s leading non-university research facility), is offering a Senior Researcher Position (F/M/O) (full time, 40h/week) in *Digital Prosopography*, temporary until 31.12.2020. This position will be at the centre of a new research focus that we are currently establishing at the ACDH-OeAW, on digital prosopography. The role includes use of prosopographical resources built at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and contributions to an infrastructure for prosopographical research. Digital prosopography ranges from classical ancient history to modern collective biography, from information extraction in modern news texts to visualisations of complex prosopographical data sets. A particular focus of the work in digital prosopography at ACDH-OeAW lies in contributing to the reusable tool set. The successful candidate will be expected to initiate independent research projects and apply for external funding where feasible; to advise colleagues both within and outside the ACDH-OeAW about available prosopographical tools and resources, and to present his or her work internationally at conferences and in scientific journals. Requirements for the position include: - at least four years experience in digital humanities research - good knowledge of one or more programming languages - good knowledge of one or more research domains within the humanities - ability to conceive and execute projects independently - good communication skills German and/or English (fluent in spoken and written) A doctoral degree, either in computer science / informatics or in a relevant field of the humanities is an advantage. We offer full time employment (40 hours per week) for an annual gross salary of €42.551,60 (= grade IV/2 according to the collective agreement of the Austrian Academy of Sciences). The employment runs until December 31, 2020 in the first instance with the possibility of an extension. Applicants are invited to send their application documents including - a letter of motivation - an academic CV and list of publications - as well as a two-page proposal for a research project to be carried out at the ACDH-OeAW via e-mail to Georg Vogeler at acdh(a)oeaw.ac.at no later than January 31, 2019 -- Georg Vogeler Chair for Digital Humanities Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, University of Graz https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu_online/wbForschungsportal.cbShowPortal?pPers… Academic director of ACDH Austrian Academy of Sciences https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/team/current-team/georg-vogeler/

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Ad fontes: Teaching paleography, archival research, and analysis of historical sources
by Tobias Hodel 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Relaunch of the Ad fontes e-learning project The University of Zurich has relaunched its digital Ad fontes project with a new website and new tools designed to teach students how to navigate archives and work with historical documents. The project provides a set of tutorials that provide information about how archives are organized, how to find documents and other sources in an archive, and also how to read and analyze documents, including fundamental auxiliary skills like paleography and diplomatics. The core of the redeveloped site is a set of interactive exercises that allow users to practice the skills they’ve learned, like recognizing scripts, calculating dates for different dating systems, describing the parts of a charter, recognizing standard orthographical variations, or analyzing historical photographs. Another key part of the new Ad fontes is a large and growing number of transcription exercises that cover scripts from the 7th century to the 20th. The transcription exercises, many of which are user generated, are based on images of original sources from repositories across Europe and North America, with most coming from Switzerland and France. The exercises and resources are available in German, French, and often English. Students who are working with documents in archives for the first time and researchers who want to refresh their skills before a trip should benefit from the material. Ad fontes is free to use, and you can (you don’t have to) create a free login to save and track your progress at any time. Preparing and publishing your own exercises, tutorial, and resources The new version of Ad fontes also allows teachers and researchers to create their own learning resources. The editorial environment is easy to use, and both static pages and interactive exercises (especially transcription exercises) can be created. Contact the Ad fontes team for more information about making your own pages. Visit www.adfontes.uzh.ch to get a sense of what’s new. Or, send us an e-mail, we’re always happy to talk about the project: adfontes(a)hist.uzh.ch.

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Free Registration Open for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium! (Mar 21-22) - Closes March 15
by Kristen Mapes 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that registration for the Global DH Symposium is now open! Please consider joining us for all or part of this symposium, and do spread the word to students and colleagues. While on a wide range of topics, there will be several presentations of interest to medievalists during the symposium. Thanks, Kristen *Global Digital Humanities Symposium* March 21-22, 2019 Main Library, Green Room Michigan State University (USA) East Lansing, Michigan msuglobaldh.org #msuglobaldh Keynote presentations: - Maira E. Álvarez and Sylvia Fernández – “Responding to the “Border Crisis”: Digital Interventions and Transnational Partnerships” - Victor Temprano and Samantha Martin-Ferris – “Voices from Native Land, and the Challenges of Incorporating Land and Ecological Knowledge Into Digital Media” *Registration is now open!* Please register by: Friday, March 15 *Free* and open to the public. Register (for in person and/or virtual attendance) at http://msuglobaldh.org/registration/ Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its fourth year. We are delighted to feature speakers from around the world, as well as expertise and work from faculty and students at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. The full program will be announced in early February. Kristen Mapes Assistant Director of Digital Humanities College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Graduate Fellowship in Digital Art History
by Hannah Jacobs 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

***Please share. Apologies for cross-posting!*** The Art, Art History & Visual Studies Department at Duke University is pleased to announce the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Digital Art History. The fellowship for $30,000 will help to offset the cost for an entering student in our Masters (MA) program in Digital Art History and Computational Media. The fellowship is specifically meant for populations of students often underrepresented in digital art history including people of color, first generation college students, and women. Duke is an ideal institution to receive this specialized intellectual training to prepare the student for success in rigorous PhD programs in art history and visual studies. For full details on the program see https://aahvs.duke.edu/graduate/MA-historical-cultural-visualization. Through this fellowship we intend to help diversify our field and to develop sophisticated, and rigorous computational work. Our MA is specifically targeted to address art historical questions in conjunction with area computational and cultural specialists at Duke. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has made extraordinary contributions in the last decade to the support of new digital art history initiatives. This Kress Graduate Fellowship fosters and strengthens the connection between art historical research and the broader field of Digital Humanities. It builds off of the tested curriculum of the MA in Digital Art History & Computational Media while guiding the student to future success in an art history and visual studies PhD. Our goals are: 1) To increase the opportunities of underrepresented populations for participation in Digital Humanities 2) To improve the chances of MA art historians to enter a high-level art history and visual studies PhD program or succeed in digital areas once they are in such a program, especially to prepare them for university careers 3) To strengthen the diversity of art history as a discipline 4) To expand digital art history as a subfield Candidates who would like to be considered for this opportunity should apply to the MA in Digital Art History & Computational Media and express their explicit interest in their application for pursuing advanced work in an art history and visual studies PhD program. For questions, contact paul.jaskot(a)duke.edu<mailto:paul.jaskot@duke.edu?subject=Kress%20Fellowship%20in%20DAH>. View this announcement online<http://www.dukewired.org/2019-dah-grad-fellowship/>. --- Hannah L. Jacobs Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab | she/her/hers Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University hannah.jacobs(a)duke.edu 919-660-6563 dukewired.org @dukewired fb.com/wiredduke

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Digital and Practical Epigraphy/EpiDoc training (London)
by Gabriel Bodard 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

We invite applications for a six-day training workshop in digital and practical epigraphy at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 29 April – 4 May 2019. The workshop will be organised by Gabriel Bodard (ICS) and Katherine McDonald (Exeter), with additional training provided by Charlotte Tupman (Exeter), Charles Crowther (Oxford), Valeria Vitale (ICS) and Caroline Barron (Birkbeck). There will be no charge for the workshop. There will be a limited number of bursaries available to assist students and other unfunded scholars with the costs of travel and accommodation, provided by the AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellowship ‘Connectivity and Competition’ (PI Katherine McDonald). The focus of the workshop will be on skills for Greek and Latin epigraphy, including squeeze-making, photogrammetry, reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), and EpiDoc. EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a community of practice, recommendations and tools for the digital editing and publication of ancient texts based on TEI XML. No expert computing skills are required, but a working knowledge of Greek/Latin or other ancient language, epigraphy, and the Leiden Conventions will be assumed. The workshop is open to participants of all levels, from graduate students to professors and professionals. Although the focus is on Greek and Latin epigraphy, we welcome applications from those in other adjacent fields. To apply for a place on this workshop please email k.l.mcdonald(a)exeter.ac.uk by *Friday 15 February 2019,* including the following information: a brief description of your reason for interest your relevant background and experience if you would like to request a bursary, an estimate how much you would need. If you have any questions before applying, please don’t hesitate to contact Katherine (k.l.mcdonald(a)exeter.ac.uk) or Gabby (gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk). == Dr Gabriel BODARD Reader in Digital Classics Institute of Classical Studies University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU E: Gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk T: +44 (0)20 78628752 http://digitalclassicist.org/

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Manuscript Studies_ Announcements and CFP
by Ransom, Lynn 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

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 Fall 2018 is out! Abstracts are available here: https://mss.pennpress.org/current-issue-abstracts/ * We are seeking peer-reviewed article submissions for the Spring 2020 issue and beyond. Articles for possible publication in the Spring 2020 should be submitted no later than June 1, 2019. * Non-peer reviewed Annotations can be submitted up to February 1, 2019 for the Spring 2019 issue. Annotations submitted after that date are eligible for publication in Fall 2019 and beyond. * Thanks to a generous agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press, all Articles and Annotations in Manuscript Studies are made available for open access after one year from the date of publication. Articles and Annotations from Vol. 2:2 are now available for downloading 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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Hacking the Past: An Archives Game Jam
by Seaward, Louise 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

***With apologies for cross-posting*** Hacking the Past: An Archives Game Jam 23-24 February 2019 UCL Hatchery, Base KX, London, NC1 4PF The National Archives (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/) in collaboration with the Bentham Project, University College London (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/) are coming together to create a FREE game jam, focusing on games with a purpose (GWAPs). These organisations have experience of crowdsourcing the transcription of historical documents with the assistance of interested volunteers. They have also been experimenting with the use of Handwritten Text Recognition software to automate the transcription of documents. However, the transcription of historical material can still be a time-consuming and complex task. The challenge for this Hackathon is to create imaginative and engaging digital games that encourage and help people to transcribe documents efficiently. These transcriptions will open up access to historical material and make them discoverable for anyone interested in historical research. As a team, participants will be invited to create exciting games based on digital images from a diverse range of historical collections at both The National Archives and University College London. The event will include: * Interesting talks about the documents from archivists and historians * Briefing on the tasks ahead * A chance to learn and develop exciting new digital skills * A showcase of all the work produced over the weekend * A lot of hacking time * And of course, pizza! Find out more and register to attend at the Eventbrite page: https://archives-gamejam.eventbrite.co.uk -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Louise Seaward Research Associate Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H 0EG Email: louise.seaward(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:louise.seaward@ucl.ac.uk> Tel: 020 3108 8397 Web: Transcribe Bentham<http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/>; Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ)<http://read.transkribus.eu/> Twitter: @TranscriBentham<https://twitter.com/transcribentham>; @Transkribus<https://twitter.com/Transkribus>

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Rencontres lyonnaises des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique
by Ariane Pinche 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

[Apologies for cross posting] Chères et chers collègues, Veuillez noter que la date limite de soumission pour les Rencontres lyonnaises des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique est repoussée au 20/01. ____ Description de l’événement : L’association Diachronies contemporaines <https://diachro.hypotheses.org/>, vouée à la promotion du travail des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique, organise cette année les Rencontres lyonnaises des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique. Ce colloque se tiendra le 06/06/2019 à l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. Des actes numériques et éventuellement papier seront édités. Vous trouverez l’appel à communication en pièce jointe ainsi que sur la page de l’événement <https://diachro.hypotheses..org/rencontres_2019>. Nous encourageons, évidemment, à la plus large diffusion de cette information ! Cordialement, Au nom de l’association Diachronies contemporaines <https://diachro.hypotheses.org/>, A. Pinche, P. Plocharz, T. Premat, V. Surrel et F. Zuk.

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