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First CFP for El’Manuscript-2020 (Freiburg, Germany * 13–17 September 2020)
by Alexey Lavrentev 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. Textual Heritage and Information Technologies El’Manuscript-2020 Freiburg, Germany 13-17 September 2020 http://elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de/ First Call for Papers We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2020 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, description, processing, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern handwritten and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or application of these resources — including researchers; instructors; staff of libraries, museums, and archives; programmers, and undergraduate and graduate students — is welcome to participate. El’Manuscript-2020 is the eighth in a series of biennial international conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” that brings together linguists, specialists in historical source criticism, IT specialists, and others involved in publishing and studying our textual heritage. Along with the lectures, a summer school will be part of the conference, which will allow practitioners to become familiar with various technologies, approaches and methods for working with manuscripts. The working language of the 2020 conference is English. In the philological sections, talks in Russian are welcome, but should be accompanied by slides in English. Papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the textualheritage.org website. The working language of the 2020 conference is English. In the philological sections, talks in Russian are welcome, but should be accompanied by slides in English. Papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the textualheritage.org website. *Conference topics* 1. The physical document – Material and technology ● Codicology ● Instrumental analysis ● Visual observation of documents ● Recognition of relevant features of historic book binding techniques ● Water mark data base ● DNA analysis ● … 2. The script – Recognition and analysis ● Palaeography ● Photographing ● Visualization ● Digitisation 3. Handwritten Text Recognition, Optical Character Recognition 4. ● … 5. The text – its processing and presentation ● Textology and textual criticism ● Digital editions ● Digital publishing ● Text markup formats ● Lemmatization and morphological markup ● … 6. Beyond document, script, and text – analytics and interpretation ● Digital libraries and databases ● Corpora ● Storage formats and long term storage ● Lexicography ● Data mining and statistics ● Written cultural heritage and Artificial Intelligence ● Navigation and access ● Web technologies ● Open science ● … *General Information* *Conference dates*: 13-17 September 2020 *Venue*: University of Freiburg *Postal Address*: Slavisches Seminar, Werthmannstr. 14, 79098 Freiburg, Germany *Organization Committee Chair*: Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus, Prof. Dr. Viktor A. Baranov, Prof. Dr. Heinz Miklas, Prof. Dr. Aleksandr M. Moldovan *Contact person*: Dr. Christine Grillborzer *E-mail* (Organization Committee): elmanuscript2020(a)slavistik.uni-freiburg.de *Conference Website*: www.elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de *Abstract submission* Abstracts are limited to 200 words and should include the following information: ● Paper title; ● 5-7 keywords; ● Author’s (authors’) first and last names; ● Affiliation (institution); ● Educational status or degree obtained (student, postgraduate student, PhD, professor, etc.) Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2020** *Reviewing*: The abstracts submitted to the conference will be peer-reviewed. The reviewers’ comments will be transmitted to the authors. Notifications of acceptance by the Program Committee will be sent by email by the end of April. The accepted abstracts will be published before the conference. *Registration* opens May 1 and ends June 30 2020. *Registration fee*: The organisation committee is making every effort to keep the registration fee for the conference to a minimum. The precise fee will be announced by January 2020. *Scholarships*: A limited number of (partial) scholarships for participants from non-Western countries will be available. We will circulate information on how to apply for these scholarships in due course.<http://www.elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de/wordpress/2019/07/11/hallo-welt/>

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New Otto Ege reconstruction
by Lisa Fagin Davis 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Greetings, all, I'm very pleased to report that my students at the Simmons School of Library of Information Science have published another digital reconstruction of a Book of Hours dismembered and scattered by Otto F. Ege. These leaves are no. 28 in his "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios - those of you with that particular portfolio in your collection, take note! There is enough evidence in the thirty recovered leaves to ascribe this manuscript to the Use of Metz. See the reconstruction here: https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-qt74/2935/33026 You'll find more information about other reconstructions (those undertaken by myself, my students, and other scholars) in this blogpost: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/manuscript-road-trip-fr… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 6 Beacon St., Suite 500 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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EVT 1.3 released
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Dear all, after a long wait, EVT version 1.3 is finally available! The full announcement for this release is available on the EVT blog: https://visualizationtechnology.wordpress.com/2019/12/20/evt-1-version-1-3-…. You can quickly download the archive here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/evt-project/files/evt-v1.3.zip/download (and the manual here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/evt-project/files/EVT%20Manual_v1.3.pdf/do…), but you can also browse the sample editions directly on the project home page. Besides new features and bug fixes, we moved the repository to GitHub (https://github.com/evt-project/evt-builder) to make it more accessible: this is going to be the last version of the 1.* series, from now on, all development efforts will focus on EVT 2 to reach feature parity with EVT 1 (with regard to diplomatic editions) and to improve / develop new features, starting from support for critical editions. In any case, EVT 1.3 is a mature, featureful product which can be used "as is" for diplomatic / single witness editions, or can be further customized by anyone who has good knowledge of XSLT 2 and HTML/CSS. So enjoy the goodies, but also have a look at EVT 2 (https://github.com/evt-project/evt-viewer) because that's where all future development is going to have place! R -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dip. di Studi Umanistici roberto.rossellidelturco at fileli.unipi.it Universita' di Torino VBD: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta2/ EVT: http://bit.ly/24D9kdE VC: http://www.visionarycross.org/ Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) <shamelessPlug>Holidays in Tuscany http://www.imoricci.it/</shamelessPlug>

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Umanistica Digitale 7 published
by Fabio Ciotti 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Apologies for cross posting ***** Dear Colleagues, *Umanistica Digitale* (ISSN 2532-8816), the journal of the AIUCD (Italian Association of Digital Humanities and Cultures), is pleased to announce the publication of the 7th issue, available at https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it. This issue of the journal presents a selection of the papers presented at the AIUCD 2018 conference (Bari, 31 January - 2 February 2018), whose main topic was "Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age. Memory, Humanities and Technologies." We warmly invite you to visit our web site anche check for articles of your interest. Regards and season's greetings, Fabio Ciotti -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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Call for Applications: NEH Institute "Advanced digital editing: modeling the text and making the edition"
by Elli Bleeker 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, Please consider the call for applications below. Best wishes, Elli Bleeker *Call for applications : "Advanced digital editing: modeling the text and making the edition"* A summer 2020 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Application deadline: Applications are due Friday, February 28, 2020. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by Monday, March 23, 2020 Institute dates: Monday, July 6 through Friday, July 17, 2020 *Synopsis* The University of Pittsburgh is pleased to invite applications to an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities for summer 2020 entitled "Advanced digital editing: modeling the text and making the edition". The target audience for this two-week workshop is textual scholars who are already comfortable editing their digital 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; learning nothing more than tagging may leave scholars staring at their angle brackets and wondering what to do next. Understanding how to turn a set of tagged texts into a customized, goal-oriented research edition is crucial for scholars who wish to ask original questions of their documents and produce innovative editions. Digital humanists cannot build editions that break methodological ground solely on the basis of solutions prepared largely by others. For that reason, 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, 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, technology-informed thinking about editions into implementations of those editions, rather than on “tooling up” in the context of currently popular frameworks. In this respect, the Institute recognizes thinking digitally in ways driven by project-specific research goals as the most important feature of sustainable Digital Humanities training and education. *Program * The Institute will introduce textual and manuscript scholars to a powerful and broad-reaching set of digital methods and technologies, grounded in a context that prioritizes a research-driven theory of edition. Participants will engage with the entire editorial process, from document analysis to editing to publication, leading to the production and publication of a collaborative edition. Throughout the Institute, participants will discuss how the theoretical and practical skills they are acquiring will be applied in their own work, culminating in the final day’s presentations and review of the collaborative process. The Institute will meet at the main (Oakland) campus of the University of Pittsburgh from Monday, July 6, 2020 through Friday, July 17, 2020 and will draw on an international faculty of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and teachers of digital philology from several collaborating institutions. *Instructors * - Birnbaum, David J. (University of Pittsburgh; Institute Director) - Bleeker, Elli (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) - Cayless, Hugh (Duke University) - Haentjens Dekker, Ronald (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) - Keane, Gabi (University of Pittsburgh) - Kulsdom, Astrid (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) - Olsson, Leif-Jöran (University of Gothenburg) - Wicentowski, Joseph (US Department of State) *Guest instructors * - Beshero-Bondar, Elisa (University of Pittsburgh, social network analysis) - Juola, Patrick (Duquesne University; stylometry and authorship attribution) - Langmead, Alison (University of Pittsburgh, sustainability) - Higgins, Shea (University of Pittsburgh, architecture, UX, UI, and visualization) - Witt, Jeffrey (Loyola University Maryland; IIIF) *The instructors will be assisted by* - Schwarz, Emma (Senior Institute Assistant, University of Pittsburgh) - Watkins, Samantha (Sam) (Institute Assistant, University of Pittsburgh) *Details * Applicants should already be familiar 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. 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 with private bath, and a complimentary meal plan in the University Dining Services in lieu of per diem. Participants must bring their own laptops, which must run one of the following operating systems: Mac OS X (10.11 [El Capitan] or later), Windows 10 (version 1909 or later), or GNU/Linux (any distribution); mobile and cloud-based operating systems, such as iOS and Chrome OS, are not supported. We welcome scholars at all career levels from graduate students through senior faculty. Applications to the Institute should include the following: - A one- to two-page statement about how participation in the Institute will enhance the scholarly and professional goals of the applicant. This statement should describe the digital edition project that the applicant plans to pursue or undertake, with special attention to the research questions motivating the creation of that edition. Preference will be shown to applications that articulate a clear understanding of the textual research potential of digital scholarly editions. - A one-page description of the applicant’s experience with textual editing. Prior experience in programming for text processing is neither required nor expected, but those who have such experience should describe it here. If participants have prior experience with X-technologies for transformation and publication (XSLT, XQuery) they should list it here as well.Brief CV (maximum of two pages), concentrating on textual editing and Digital Humanities experience. - Participants are required to participate full-time in the Institute for the two weeks that they are in residence and must confirm that they will not undertake other significant commitments during the Institute period. Participants should plan to arrive on Sunday, July 5, 2020 and depart on Saturday, July 18, 2020. All application materials should be submitted by email as a single PDF file to djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu. The deadline for applications is Friday, February 28, 2020, and applicants will be notified about acceptance by Monday, March 23, 2020. Questions may be directed to djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu. David J. Birnbaum, Institute Director Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures Faculty Fellow, University Honors College Faculty Affiliate, Digital Studies and Methods University of Pittsburgh Email: djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu *Distribution * This announcement has been posted to Humanist (<http://dhhumanist.org/>), Digital Classicist (<http://www.digitalclassicist.org/>), Digital Medievalist (<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>), TEI-L (< https://tei-c.org/support/#tei-l >), Scholarly Editing (SEDIT-L, http://www2004.lsoft.se/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=sedit-l&H=listserv.umd.edu), and WWP-Encoding (<https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=wwp-encoding >). DiXiT fellows, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP-L, sharp-l(a)list.indiana.edu), members of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS, https://textualscholarship.eu/). Please circulate.

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Call for Papers: Variants, the journal for the European Society for Textual Scholarship
by Elli Bleeker 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, As the editors of Variants, the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, we would like to invite you to submit an essay for the fifteenth edition of our journal. Variants ( https://journals.openedition.org/variants/275) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal, published with Open Edition publishers. The fifteenth issue of the journal will carry the title of our most recent ESTS conference in Málaga: "Textual Scholarship in the 21st Century", and we especially welcome extended versions of papers that were presented at the conference. But essays outside of the conference are welcome too, on any aspect of textual scholarship such as the theories and practices of (digital) scholarly editing, tool development, genetic criticism, codicology and palaeography, philology, manuscript studies, etc. If you are interested in submitting an essay, please send an expression of interest by *Friday January 10th* that includes a brief description of the essay's topic (approximately 50 to 100 words) to variants(a)textualscholarship.eu. Full papers are due by Friday March 13, 2020. We accept submissions in .docx and its open source equivalents. For authors who are comfortable writing in LaTeX, we have prepared a template that is available on GitHub (https://github.com/WoutDLN/variantx-for-authors) and as an Overleaf template ( https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/submission-template-to- variants-for-authors/znsqffgrvshv). Please share this call with anyone who may be interested. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to forward them to us! We look forward to receiving your submissions, The Editorial board of Variants, General Editor, Wout Dillen Associate Editor, Elli Bleeker Guest Editor, Laura Esteban Segura Review Editor, Stefano Rosignoli

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[LREC 2020] CfP: 1st Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA)
by Franzini Greta 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

** With apologies for cross-posting** Call for Papers: 1st Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA) ● Website: <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcircse.gi…> https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcircse.gi…> ● Date: May 12, 2020 ● Place: co-located with <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flrec2020.…> LREC 2020<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flrec2020.…>, May 11-16, Marseille, France Description LT4HALA is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: ● handling spelling variation; ● detection and correction of OCR errors; ● creation and annotation of digital resources; ● deciphering; ● morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data; ● adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts; ● teaching ancient languages with NLP tools; ● NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics; ● evaluation of NLP tools. Shared Tasks Just because of the limited amount of data preserved for historical and ancient languages, an important role is played by evaluation practices, to understand the level of accuracy of the NLP tools used to build and analyze resources. Given the prominence of Latin, by virtue of its wide diachronic and diatopic span covering two millennia all over Europe, the workshop will host the first edition of <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcircse.gi…> EvaLatin<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcircse.gi…>, an evaluation campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin. The first edition of EvaLatin will focus on two tasks (i.e. Lemmatization and PoS tagging), each featuring three sub-tasks (i.e. Classical, Cross-Genre, Cross-Time). These sub-tasks are designed to measure the impact of genre and diachrony on NLP tools performances, a relevant aspect to keep in mind when dealing with the diachronic and diatopic diversity of Latin. Participants will be provided with shared data in the CoNLL-U format and the evaluation script. Submissions For the workshop, we invite papers of different types such as experimental papers, reproduction papers, resource papers, position papers, survey papers. Both long and short papers describing original and unpublished work are welcome. Long papers should deal with substantial completed research and/or report on the development of new methodologies. They may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus 2 pages of references. Short papers are instead appropriate for reporting on works in progress or for describing a singular tool or project. They may consist of up to 4 pages of content plus 2 pages of references. We encourage the authors of papers reporting experimental results to make their results reproducible and the entire process of analysis replicable, by making the data and the tools they used available. The form of the presentation may be oral or poster, whereas in the proceedings there is no difference between the accepted papers. The submission is NOT anonymous. The <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flrec2020.…> LREC official format<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flrec2020.…> is requested. Each paper will be reviewed but three independent reviewers. As for <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcircse.gi…> EvaLatin<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcircse.gi…>, participants will be required to submit a technical report for each task (with all the related sub-tasks) they took part in. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flrec2020.…> LREC official format<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flrec2020.…>. Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). All participants will have the possibility to present their results at the workshop: we will allocate an oral session and a poster session fully devoted to the shared tasks. Important Dates Workshop ● 17 February 2020: submissions due ● 10 March 2020: notifications to authors ● 27 March 2020: camera-ready due ● 12 May 2020: workshop EvaLatin ● 10 December 2019: training data available ● Evaluation Window I - Task: Lemmatization ○ 17 February 2020: test data available ○ 21 February 2020 system results due to organizers ● Evaluation Window II - Task: PoS tagging ○ 24 February 2020: test data available ○ 28 February 2020: system results due to organizers ● 6 March 2020: assessment returned to participants ● 27 March 2020: reports due to organizers ● 10 April 2020: camera ready version of reports due to organizers ● 12 May 2020: workshop Share your LRs! Describing your LRs in the <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flremap.elr…> LRE Map<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flremap.elr…> is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. ISLRN number As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcircse.gi…>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. Organizers ● Marco Passarotti<https://docenti.unicatt.it/ppd2/en/#/en/docenti/14144/marco-carlo-passarott…>, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,Milan, Italy; ● Rachele Sprugnoli<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.resea…>, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,Milan, Italy. Programme Committee ● Marcel Bollmann, University of Copenhagen; Denmark; ● Gerlof Bouma, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; ● Patrick Burns, University of Texas at Austin, USA; ● Oksana Dereza, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland; ● Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; ● Hanne Eckoff, Oxford University, UK; ● Maud Ehrmann, EPFL, Switzerland; ● Hannes A. Fellner, Universität Wien, Austria; ● Heidi Jauhiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland; ● Julia Krasselt, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; ● John Lee, City University of Hong Kong; ● Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan; ● Barbara McGillivray, University of Cambridge, UK; ● Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden; ● So Miyagawa, University of Göttingen; Germany; ● Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden; ● Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University, Sweden; ● Michael Piotrowski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; ● Sophie Prévost, Laboratoire Lattice, France; ● Halim Sayoud, USTHB University; ● Olga Scrivner, Indiana University, USA; ● Neel Smith, College of the Holy Cross, USA; ● Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy; ● Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, USA; ● Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Czech Republic. Contact rachele.sprugnoli[AT]unicatt.it<http://unicatt.it/> Please, write “LT4HALA” or “EvaLatin” in the subject of your email. Follow <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> @ERC_LiLa<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> and the hashtag <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> #LT4HALA<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> on Twitter for updates. —— Greta H. Franzini, Ph.D Postdoctoral Researcher LiLa: Linking Latin [ERC n. 769994]: https://lila-erc.eu +39 02 72342954 | greta.franzini(a)unicatt.it<mailto:greta.franzini@unicatt.it> | http://gretafranzini.com/ Institutional page: http://docenti.unicatt.it/eng/greta_franzini/ ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1159-5575 CIRCSE Research Centre: https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere Franciscanum Building, 2nd Floor, room 209 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy Digital Medievalist Journal: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ Umanistica Digitale Journal: https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD): http://www.aiucd.it/ —— Greta H. Franzini, Ph.D Postdoctoral Researcher LiLa: Linking Latin [ERC n. 769994]: https://lila-erc.eu +39 02 72342954 | greta.franzini(a)unicatt.it<mailto:greta.franzini@unicatt.it> | http://gretafranzini.com/ Institutional page: http://docenti.unicatt.it/eng/greta_franzini/ ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1159-5575 CIRCSE Research Centre: https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere Franciscanum Building, 2nd Floor, room 209 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy Digital Medievalist Journal: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ Umanistica Digitale Journal: https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD): http://www.aiucd.it/

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Digitizing & Encodingancient Seals, Workshop, 20-21 Jan 2020, Venice
by Franz FISCHER 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Dear digital medievalists, We invite applications for a two-day workshop in digitizing and encoding ancient seals, hosted by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) at the Department for the Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, January 20-21, 2020. The aim of the workshop is to present and discuss solutions, currently under development, concerning an XML-based and TEI-compliant data model for the description of Byzantine seals - and, with minor adjustments, of other coin-like objects, such as bread stamps, Hellenistic or Western Medieval seals and sealings. For this purpose, participants will be introduced to a new encoding standard: SigiDoc, the first attempt to adapt and extend the digital approach - already applied to inscriptions, coins and papyri - to seals. SigiDoc builds on the experience of the EpiDoc encoding standard and its customisable publication platform EFES (EpiDoc Front End Services). The introduction into the methodology and functionalities of both SigiDoc and EFES will take place during the first half of the workshop, followed by hands-on training sessions on the second day. The final session of the workshop will be dedicated to discussing challenges and solutions to open issues within the development of SigiDoc, as well as the questions and suggestions arising from the participants. The workshop will also feature an introduction and a practical demonstration of Reflective Transformation Imaging (RTI), a cutting edge imaging technology especially well-suited for the digitization of seals. With RTI, an object is photographed multiple times with lightning from different angles. These images are then computationally processed and presented in a way that allows the viewer to virtually move the light source on-screen, thus making visible and discernible finest and most subtle structure of the object's surface. Legibility and analysis of visual features can be significantly improved. Participants in the RTI session will be introduced into the use of RTI technology, techniques and equipment, and their applications in sigillography. During the RTI session, seals and other objects (brought by the participants) will be digitised using a custom built RTI dome. Lessons and hands-on training will be offered by Alessio Sopracasa (Sorbonne University, Paris), Simona Stoyanova (University of Nottingham), Martina Filosa (University of Cologne), and Marcel Schaeben (CCeH, University of Cologne). To apply for a place on this workshop, please send an application tovedph(a)unive.it by December 27 including a brief description of your interest in the workshop as well as your scholarly background. Basic knowledge of TEI-XML as well as of Ancient/Byzantine Greek are desirable. Programme: Monday, 20 Jan 2020 13.00 Welcome 13.15 Introducing SigiDoc - A digital standard for describing seals 14.15 Digitizing seals - A practical introduction to RTI 15.30 Coffee Break 16.00 Encoding seals - Introduction to EFES (Metadata encoding, inscription tagging) 19.00 End Tuesday, 21 Jan 2020 09.00 Indexing and authority files 10.00 Coffee Break 10.30 Faceted search and other features 12.00 Lunch Break 13.00 Hands-on training SigiDoc/EFES 14.30 Evaluation of the RTI test results 15.00 Coffee Break 15.30 Hands-on training SigiDoc/EFES 17.00 Closure Venue: Sala Piccola, Palazzo Malcanton MarcorÃ , Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia Application deadline: *27 December 2019* Contact: vedph(a)unive.it More information at: https://www.unive.it/vedph All the best, Franz -- Franz Fischer Direttore, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH) Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università Ca' Foscari Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia Tel.: +39 041 234 6266 (ufficio), +39 041 234 9863 (segreteria del centro) https://www.unive.it/vedph https://www.i-d-e.de/ https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/

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Medieval Magic and Medicines.
by Gerard Cheshire 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

Apologies for any cross-posting. Dear Digital Medievalists, Ever since the publication of journal article The Language and Writing System of Manuscript MS408 Explained, we have been busy translating the plant pages in order to construct the lexicon for the manuscript. They all relate to matters of female reproduction and the complications that can arise, so the many plant species are used for various medicines. In the latest paper the plant is used as a form of magic 'æa' for the purpose of rectifying the damage done by the extreme physical manipulation 'æora' described in the previous paper. So, the manuscript does contain some magic after all. :0) Here is the link to Plant Series, No. 5: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004917 Please spread the word far and wide. Kindest regards, Gerard. Dr. Gerard Cheshire. Research Associate. University of Bristol. https://bristol.academia.edu/GerardCheshire

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Digitizing and Encoding Seals: SigiDoc and RTI-Dome in action
by Simona Stoyanova 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

*apologies for cross-posting* Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, January 20-21, 2020 We invite applications for a two-day workshop in digitizing and encoding ancient seals, hosted by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) at the Department for the Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, January 20-21, 2020. The aim of the workshop is to present and discuss solutions, currently under development, concerning an XML-based and TEI-compliant data model for the description of Byzantine seals – and, with minor adjustments, of other coin-like objects, such as bread stamps, Hellenistic or Western Medieval seals and sealings. For this purpose, participants will be introduced to a new encoding standard: SigiDoc, the first attempt to adapt and extend the digital approach – already applied to inscriptions, coins and papyri – to seals. SigiDoc builds on the experience of the EpiDoc encoding standard and its customisable publication platform EFES (EpiDoc Front End Services). The introduction into the methodology and functionalities of both SigiDoc and EFES will take place during the first half of the workshop, followed by hands-on training sessions on the second day. The final session of the workshop will be dedicated to discussing challenges and solutions to open issues within the development of SigiDoc, as well as the questions and suggestions arising from the participants. The workshop will also feature an introduction and a practical demonstration of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a cutting edge imaging technology especially well-suited for the digitization of seals. With RTI, an object is photographed multiple times with lightning from different angles. These images are then computationally processed and presented in a way that allows the viewer to virtually move the light source on-screen, thus making visible and discernible finest and most subtle structure of the object’s surface. Legibility and analysis of visual features can be significantly improved. Participants in the RTI session will be introduced into the use of RTI technology, techniques and equipment, and their applications in sigillography. During the RTI session, seals and other objects (brought by the participants) will be digitised using a custom built RTI dome. Lessons and hands-on training will be offered by Alessio Sopracasa (Sorbonne University, Paris), Simona Stoyanova (University of Nottingham), Martina Filosa (University of Cologne), and Marcel Schaeben (CCeH, University of Cologne). To apply for a place on this workshop, please send an application to vedph(a)unive.it by December 27 including a brief description of your interest in the workshop as well as your scholarly background. Basic knowledge of TEI-XML as well as of Ancient/Byzantine Greek are desirable. Programme: Monday Jan 20th 13.00 Welcome 13.15 Introducing SigiDoc - A digital standard for describing seals 14.15 Digitizing seals - A practical introduction to RTI 15.30 Coffee Break 16.00 Encoding seals - Introduction to EFES 19.00 End first day Tuesday Jan 21st 9.00 Indexing and authority files 10.00 Coffee Break 10.30 Faceted search and other features 12.00 Lunch Break 13.00 Hands-on training SigiDoc/EFES 14.30 Evaluation of the RTI test results 15.00 Coffee Break 15.30 Hands-on training SigiDoc/EFES 17.00 THE END *Venue:* Sala Piccola, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia Application deadline: *27 December 2019* Contact: vedph(a)unive.it More information (soon) at: https://www.unive.it/vedph -- Simona Stoyanova Research Associate ERC project LatinNOW University of Nottingham www.latinnow.eu Research Fellow Institute of Classical Studies University of London Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU <simona.stoyanova(a)sas.ac.uk> Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8724 <+44+(0)20+7862+8724>

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