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Umanistica Digitale issue 5 published
by Fabio Ciotti 27 May '19

27 May '19

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 5th issue, available at https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it. This issue of the journal presents a selection of the papers given at the AIUCD2017 Conference (12-18 January 2017, Sapienza University of Roma), whose theme was “The Reverse Telescope: Big Data and Distant Reading in the Humanities” and an article by Mike Kestemont and Luc Herman. ------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduzione - Fabio Ciotti ARTICLES Can Machines Read (Literature)? - Mike Kestemont, Luc Herman The Index Thomisticus as a Big Data Project - Geoffrey Rockwell, Marco Passarotti An open problem in computational stemmatology - a model for contamination - Armin Hoenen Un’Analisi Multidimensionale della Ricerca Italiana nel Campo delle Digital Humanities e della Linguistica Computazionale - Rachele Sprugnoli, Gabriella Pardelli, Federico Boschetti, Riccardo Del Gratta Visualizing Gender Balance in Conferences - Sytze Van Herck L’impatto culturale e sociale dei dati archeologici nella tutela e valorizzazione del paesaggio storico. Un case study: il XV Municipio di Roma - Margherita Bartoli Ripensare i formati, ripensare i metadati: prove “tecniche” di conservazione digitale - Nicola Barbuti REVIEWS AND REPORTS H. W. Gabler, Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays, OpenBook Publishers (2018) - Carolina Rossi ----------- We invite you to visit our web site and to review articles and items of interest. Fabio Ciotti -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" DH2019 PC Co-Chair 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>

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DH2019 Programme and Keynotes speakers
by Fabio Ciotti 24 May '19

24 May '19

Dear colleagues we are pleased to announce that the Programme of the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 in Utrecht is available at https://bit.ly/2WmBEFY. 123 long papers, 135 short papers, 28 panels and 121 posters make DH2019 the biggest DH event so far! We wish to wholeheartedly thank the Programme Committee members, the reviewers, the authors and presenters, and all the DH global community, for this great success. We are also pleased to announce that DH2019 keynotes speakers will be: Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, South Africa (opening keynote) "ICTs as Juju. African Inspiration for Understanding the Compositeness of Being Human through Digital Technologies" Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles (closing keynote) "Digital Humanities—Complexities of Sustainability" We will finally have the honor to host the Busa Prize Lecture from the winner of the 2019 Roberto Busa Prize: Prof. Tito Orlandi, Emeritus Sapienza University of Rome, Italy "Reflections on the Development of Digital Humanities" On the conference website you can find other information about the program, the venue, accommodation and travel information: https://dh2019.adho.org/. Registration to the DH2019 Conference are open at: https://dh2019.adho.org/registration/. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions you may have. For question regarding the academic program: dh2019(a)adho.org For question regarding the registration and local organization: info@dh2019 .org We look forward to meet you in Utrecht! Kind regards, Elena Pierazzo Fabio Ciotti DH2019 Chairs on behalf of the Program Committee The DH2019 Local Organizers

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IQLA-GIAT International Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data
by Fabio Ciotti 24 May '19

24 May '19

Apologies for cross posting --------------------------------------------------- IQLA-GIAT International Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data 4th edition Call for participation Recent developments in digital methods are not only changing how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences, but also how new research is planned and designed. In order to reach the full potential and benefits of this revolution, most research activities need a new generation of researchers: data scientists for humanities and social sciences. Digital methods are being utilised by a variety of disciplines. The growing availability of large corpora and large databases calls for new methods that are able to deal with new problems, open the door to new questions and develop new knowledge. Presentation "Distant Reading", "Digital Methods", "Computational social sciences" and "Statistical learning from textual data" are general terms that refer to a wide range of methods that have a common aim: retrieving information from texts by means of computer-aided tools. Today, computer-aided text analysis is an umbrella term referring to a number of qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches. It is an object of research in many sectors of linguistics, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics. Furthermore, computer aided text analysis is used as a research tool within a number of disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, sociology, sociolinguistics, education, history, political studies, literary studies, communication and media studies. The recent evolution of information technologies (IT) and computational methods has led to a number of distinct but interrelated sectors (e.g. computational linguistics, information retrieval, natural language processing, text mining, text analytics, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, topic extraction, etc.) with interesting industrial applications, such as electronic dictionaries, artificial intelligence, plagiarism detection and similar. Recent studies have stressed the need for developing, adopting and sharing interdisciplinary approaches. The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is the ideal environment for developing innovative analytical tools by pooling together the research methods from different disciplines. The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is characterized by three main elements: 1. a general part devoted to quantitative methods; 2. a special issue that has changed over time (2019: Data Science and Data scientists in Humanities and Social Sciences); 3. several lab-sessions dedicated to computer-aided analysis of textual data. Objectives Teaching activities at the School will raise questions that can be answered thanks to quantitative methods implemented within a text analysis framework and other procedures that may be used to identify and compare text characteristics. The aim is to discuss the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of quantitative methods for text analysis with postgraduate students, early career researchers and scholars of different disciplines. The Summer School aims at: 1. sharing information on software, corpora, relevant literature and research results; 2. promoting a dialogue among different disciplines on emerging research issues; 3. developing innovative analytical tools and integrated research methods; 4. introducing postgraduate students and early career researchers to new strains of research and applications; 5. sharing state-of-the-art techniques in digital methods for text analysis (topic detection, text classification, data visualization). Does this School fit your needs? Would you like to take into account a large number of relevant novels, articles published by newspapers, transcriptions of open-ended interviews, or comments posted on social media in your research? Are there definitely too many texts for any scholar to read them in a life span? Why not trying to ask a computer to do this task? A software package is not able to "close read" a text. On the contrary, by means of mathematical and statistical tools, it might be smart to "distant read" a text (i.e. collecting data, retrieving relevant information, summarizing features, finding patterns, etc.). Instead of close-reading a limited number of texts, why not working with thousands of texts, upload them into the memory of a computer and ask a software package to produce analyses and results? Credits The IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data is organized by GIAT – Interdisciplinary Text Analysis Group (www.giat.org) in collaboration with the International Quantitative Linguistics Association ( www.iqla.org). The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is a project funded by the University of Padova (www.unipd.it) and coordinated by Professor Arjuna Tuzzi (University of Padova). Application and deadlines The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is open to 20 participants including researchers, scholars and postgraduate students. The selection of 20 participants is due to the capacity of the laboratory room. Applicants should send a file in pdf format including: 1. curriculum vitae; 2. personal mission statement and research interests (max 500 words); Applications should be sent to the following address: qatd.school(a)fisppa.it Deadline June, 27th Tuition fee 250 € Schedule The IQLA-GIAT Summer School will take place from Monday 9th to Friday 13th September 2019. The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is a full-time intensive course held: - On Monday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm - From Tuesday to Thursday from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm - On Friday from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm On Friday, the last two hours will be left for the final assessment. Location University of Padova Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA) Sociology buildings via Cesarotti, 10/12 35123 Padova, ITALY Classes All courses are in English. Teaching activities include lectures and lab sessions, as well as tutorials illustrating software tools. The teaching staff includes researchers and experts from different Universities and Research institutes: - Dominique Brunato (ILC / CNR of Pisa, Italy) - Fabio Ciotti (Univ. of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) - Sascha Diwersy (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier, France) - Maciej Eder (Univ. of Kraków, Poland) - George Mikros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) - Stefano Ondelli (Univ. of Trieste, Italy) - Pierre Ratinaud (Univ. of Toulouse II, France) - Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian Univ. of Kraków, Poland) - Giuseppe Veltri (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Main topics Computational stylistics, stylometry, texts and gender, topic modelling, text classification, opinion mining, Forensic linguistics, author profiling and authorship attribution methods Final Evaluation and self-assessment All participants will be requested to complete an evaluation questionnaire to express their opinions about the main aspects of the IQLA-GIAT Summer School (e.g. organization, teaching, materials, facilities and equipment, expectations, satisfaction rate, suggestions etc. ). It is worth mentioning that the fourth edition of the Summer School is organized also considering the results and suggestions obtained through the evaluation questionnaires done in 2013, 2015 and 2017 editions. All participants will complete a self-assessment questionnaire on technical skills and general knowledge including 30 multiple choice questions (one correct answer out of four). Grades will reflect the sum of all correct answers (one point) according to the following range: A (29-30 points); B (25-28 points); C (21-24 points); D (17-20 points); E (15-16 points). Website and social networks The IQLA-GIAT Summer School will provide a specific website within GIAT's domain (www.giat.org) for the distribution of learning resources, links and bibliographic references before, during and after the Summer School. The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is also active on Facebook and Twitter. Info For any further information and details about terms, deadlines, application forms and payment methods, please contact: qatd.school(a)fisppa.it -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" DH2019 PC Co-Chair 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> -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" DH2019 PC Co-Chair 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>

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Call for Nominations to DM Board 2019–2021
by Ransom, Lynn 16 May '19

16 May '19

Dear friends and colleagues, Want to be more involved in Digital Medievalist or know someone who does? Please consider submitting a nomination for the upcoming Executive Board elections to help shape the future of the organization. Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2019 for five positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it is expected that you are willing and able to commit a little bit of time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as helping to run its journal, conference sessions, etc.). For further information about the Executive Board and Digital Medievalist more generally, please see the DM website, particularly: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ The call for nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections is now open. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or to the field of digital medieval studies. If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact Lynn Ransom (lransom(a)upenn.edu<mailto:lransom@upenn.edu>) or Greta Franzini (greta.franzini(a)unicatt.it<mailto:greta.franzini@unicatt.it> ) who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Saturday, June 8, and elections will be held by electronic ballot from Saturday, 25 June 2019, closing at 23:59 UTC on Friday, 5 July 2019. Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/<http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Middle Eastern History
by Michelson, David Allen 16 May '19

16 May '19

Dear Colleagues, The following postdoctoral opening may be of interest: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58507<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.h-net…> The deadline is tomorrow (though they may take late applications). Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Middle Eastern History Institution Type: College / University<https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_search.php?type=College+%2F+University> Location: Oklahoma<https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_search.php?state_id=37>, United States<https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_search.php?country_id=209> Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow<https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_search.php?position_id=77> The History Department at Oklahoma State University invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in medieval Middle Eastern history, to be held for one year and renewable for a second, beginning August 2019. Prior research focus is open within the period 600-1500 CE and the region of the Middle East. Ph.D. required at time of employment. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop an online reference tool for the medieval Middle East. Specific duties include advanced data collection using the indices of published primary sources in at least two different languages; contributing to editorial review and design decisions; historical research related to the project; testing the tool before publication; presentations at academic conferences; and a public lecture at Oklahoma State University discussing the project and its outcomes. Some travel will be required to fulfill these duties. Inquiries about the project or the position may be directed to Thomas A. Carlson at thomas.a.carlson(a)okstate.edu. Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D. related to medieval Middle Eastern history and reading ability in at least two languages in which medieval Middle Eastern sources are written (such as Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, or Syriac). To apply, please arrange for a cover letter, a CV, two letters of recommendation, and an academic writing sample demonstrating precise use of textual sources to be uploaded to http://apply.interfolio.com/62569 To ensure full consideration, application must be received by May 17, 2019, although the position will remain open until filled. Preference will be given to candidates with digital humanities or computer programming experience, or whose research interests complement those of current Middle Eastern faculty. Position is contingent upon available funding. Oklahoma State University, as an equal opportunity employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding non-discrimination and affirmative action. Oklahoma State University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all individuals and does not discriminate based on race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, or veteran status with regard to employment, educational programs and activities, and/or admissions. For more information, visit https://eeo.okstate.edu<https://eeo.okstate.edu/>. Best, DM David A. Michelson Associate Professor of the History of Christianity Affiliate Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, History, & Islamic Studies Vanderbilt University 411 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37240 Phone: (615) 343-3990 Fax: (615) 343-5449 Research:www.syriaca.org<http://syriaca.org/> Student FAQ: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/michelson/student-faq/ Pronouns: he/him/ܗܘ

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Manuscript Studies_ Announcements and CFP
by Ransom, Lynn 13 May '19

13 May '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 Spring 2019 special issue dedicated to theme "Manuscript Variation in Early-Modern South Asia," guest-edited by Arthur Dudney and Neeraja Poddar, 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 July 1, 2019. * Non-peer reviewed Annotations can be submitted up to February 1, 2020 for the Spring 2020 issue. Annotations submitted after that date are eligible for publication in Fall 2020 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. 3:1 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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2019-2020 Schoenberg Institute Visiting Research Fellowships_Applications due May 15
by Ransom, Lynn 02 May '19

02 May '19

Dear all, A reminder that applications for the 2019-2020 Schoenberg Institute Visiting Research Fellowships are due May 15. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Best, Lynn Curator of Programs, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies lransom(a)upenn.edu<mailto:lransom@upenn.edu> ************** The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is accepting applications for the 2019-2020 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Visiting Research Fellowship program. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of premodern manuscripts from around the world (https://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren), with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/) and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium). The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the premodern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection. Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located near other manuscript-rich research collections (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Science History Institute, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term. Applicants can apply to spend 1 month (minimum of 4 work weeks) at SIMS between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020. To be considered, applications are due May 15, 2019. For more information and to apply, please visit: https://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships-2/

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] What is text, really? TEI and beyond
by gimena del rio riande 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 12th! *What is text, really? TEI and beyond* The Program Committee has extended the call for proposals for the 19th annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI), to *May 12th*. This year’s TEI conference will be held September 18–20, 2019 (Wed-Fri), at the University of Graz, Austria; with workshops September 16–17 (Mon-Tue). This TEI conference wants not only to reach the community interested in digital representation and processing of text, but also to encourage scholars working on the fringes of the TEI and beyond to join us in discussion. Proposals must be submitted online via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.com/tei2019/. More information: https://graz-2019.tei-c.org/call-for-papers/ Gimena del Rio Riande / Georg Vogeler (chairs) Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8997-5415 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: https://hdcaicyt.github.io/ 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…> 01/05/19 0:14:33

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