Juliana Bastos Marques (Rio de Janeiro)
Methodologies for teaching Ancient History with Wikipedia
Friday June 28, 2019 at 16:30 in room G34
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
This activity will present and discuss some methodologies in different scenarios for teaching about the Ancient World through the use of Wikipedia, where the students learn content, writing and critical reading through editing articles. Several classroom models are possible, from a 2-hour lecture, a full-day workshop to an entire semester. We will approach the encyclopaedia’s “Five Pillars” (notability, impartiality, free content, civility in cooperation, and proactivity) and how they can help students to develop informational literacy through the study of Classics. We will also discuss Wikimedia Commons for working with media related to the written content.
Please bring along your laptops if you'd like to participate in live editing!
Seminar will be streamed and archived at: https://youtu.be/9ELFC90I2jI
Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2019.html
ALL WELCOME
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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/
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are excited to release a new version of the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE, hosted at Ghent University), freely accessible at https://www.dbbe.ugent.be.
Thanks to the generous support of the Special Research Fund of Ghent University, DBBE has been completely redesigned over the past two years, in close collaboration with the Database, Document and Content Management<https://ddcm.ugent.be/> research group of the Faculty of Engineering of Ghent University and with the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities<https://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/>.
The corpus of Byzantine metrical paratexts collected in our Database has been consistently enlarged, through the systematic consultation of manuscripts and relevant secondary literature, and it now counts some 10700 single epigrams, over 7000 of which are the result of first-hand inspection of (reproductions of) manuscripts. In comparison with the previous version of DBBE, our users are offered the possibility to navigate more easily through the different records, which are much better linked to each other. The search function of Greek text has been refined and provides users with more accurate results.
While the distinction between Occurrences<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/search> (unique epigrams as to be found in manuscripts) and Types<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/search> (normalised texts of similar occurrences) has been retained, a new way to group epigrams has been introduced: the Verse Variants records. These pages display a clear overview of the parallels and deviations of single verse lines. The Verse Variants are accessible by clicking on single epigram verse lines.
The main scope of DBBE is collecting Byzantine book epigrams and offering their texts to the scholarly community. However, we are aiming to make available contextual data as well, and have paid major attention to the improvement of information on Manuscript<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/manuscripts/search> and Persons<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/persons/search>. The Bibliography section has been adjusted and it now includes a search path.
We gladly refer to our Help page<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/help> and Search Tricks and Tips<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/search-tips-tricks> page for more information.
We encourage users to explore the new features of DBBE and are eager to welcome their comments and feedback at dbbe(a)ugent.be<mailto:dbbe@ugent.be>.
For the whole DBBE team<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/team>,
Floris Bernard
Julián Bértola
Julie Boeten
Cristina Cocola
Sien De Groot
Kristoffel Demoen
Pieterjan De Potter
Ilse De Vos
Rachele Ricceri
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
November 21-23, 2019
Hooking Up
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, Hooking Up.
The concept of linked open data is the holy grail of the digital humanities. Yet the problem of how to link information across platforms has existed since civilization began. As knowledge and learning expanded in pre-modern society, the problems associated with collecting, combining, and disseminating information inspired new approaches to and technologies for the material text. In the internet age, we continue to grapple with the same problems and issues. While technologies have changed, the questions remain the same.
This year's symposium explores the connections between historic and current approaches to data linkage in regard to manuscripts and manuscript research. Hooking Up addresses the topic from a variety of angles and considers how the manuscript book operates as a vehicle for information retrieval and dissemination from the technology of the page and the textual apparatus of a book, to the library, and finally, the internet. We will also consider such questions as how medieval practices of memory shaped information retrieval and gathering, how did the technology of the manuscripts book-in all its many forms-facilitate or hinder information processing, how can medieval solutions inform modern technologies, and how do modern technologies illuminate medieval practices? The program will also feature sessions highlighting projects that are advancing linked data technologies for manuscript researchers, including the T-AP Digging Into Data Challenge project Mapping Manuscript Migrations<http://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/>.
For more information, go to http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium12. Registration opens in September 2019.
Dear friends and colleagues,
DM elections are now open! We are excited to present an impressive slate of 6 candidates for 4 open positions (a previous message misstated that there were five open positions). Here is the list of candidates (for more info, please see the bios at the end of the message and here https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/elections-2019/):
* Roman Bleier, University of Graz
* Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America
* Rose Faunce, Australian National University
* Els de Paermentier, Ghent University
* Grant Simpson, University of Göttingen
* Sean Winslow, University of Graz
To vote, you will receive today an invitation by email from the Helios Voting System, which will supply you with a link to the ballot as well as a login and password. Please choose four candidates. Remember that you can vote as many times as you want, but only your last vote will be counted. Voting will be open from today, 17 June, to Monday, July 2.
The DM Executive Board oversees the strategic direction of the DM community, runs the open access journal Digital Medievalist, and coordinates outreach among community members via the listserv and at conferences held around the world. We are grateful to these candidates for stepping up to ensure that DM continues to have strong leadership to serve the community!
PLEASE VOTE!! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the Election Committee:
* Lynn Ransom, lransom[AT]upenn.edu
* James Harr, jbharr[AT]ncsu.edu
* Greta Franzini, greta.franzini[AT]unicatt.it
BIOS:
ROMAN BLEIER
Roman Bleier studied History and Religious studies at the University of Graz and completed a Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) at Trinity College, Dublin, with a research focus on digital documentary editing of St Patrick's epistles. He worked on the Saint Patrick's Confessio HyperText Stack project at the Royal Irish Academy, was CENDARI Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and worked as researcher on various projects at Maynooth University. In spring 2016 Roman became DiXiT Marie Curie postdoc fellow at the Center for Information Modelling - Austrian Center for Digital Humanities (ZIM-ACDH) at the University of Graz. His research in Graz focused on canonical reference, sustainability and persistent identifiers in digital editions. Currently Roman works as postdoc with the KONDE (Competency Network Digital Edition) project at the ZIM-ACDH, he is member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) and technical editor of the Versioning Machine (VM).
LISA FAGIN DAVIS
Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Studies PhD, Yale University, 1993) has been Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America since 2013. Previously, she spent twenty years cataloguing pre-1600 manuscript collections across the US and has been involved in the development of metadata standards for manuscript cataloguing. She serves on the Advisory Committees for Digital Scriptorium, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies, and Fragmentarium, and is deeply engaged in using and promoting both Mirador and IIIF. Publications include: the Beinecke Library Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Vol. IV; The Gottschalk Antiphonary; the Directory of Pre-1600 Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (with Melissa Conway); numerous articles in the fields of manuscript studies and codicology; La Chronique Anonyme Universelle: Reading and Writing History in fifteenth-century France (a critical edition that includes a digital resource developed in collaboration with the Digital Mappaemundi project); and the Manuscript Road Trip blog (http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com ). She regularly teaches an introduction to manuscript studies at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
ROSE FAUNCE
Rose Faunce (Ph.D. University of Melbourne, 2017) is the Research Services Coordinator at the Australian National University. She has a background in the study of the history of the illustrated book, working for several years in the rare book and antiquarian print trade, specialising in natural history illustration. An encounter with the 14th century fragmentary Cocharelli Codex, dispersed in collections in London, Florence and Cleveland, led to a PhD under the supervision of Emeritus Professor Margaret Manion, to reconstruct transcribe and translate its text for the first time, and analyse the rich profusion of illustration gracing every page. An intrepid 'fragmentologist', she seeks to locate and virtually piece together the fragments of medieval manuscripts that are dispersed around the world. Working with Fragmentarium, the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, she oversees a project to improve access to manuscript fragments in Australian and New Zealand collections for pedagogical and research purposes.
ELS DE PAERMENTIER
Els De Paermentier is Assistant Professor in Medieval Diplomatics and Palaeography at Ghent University (Belgium). In 2010 she completed her PhD on the organisation of the comital chancery in the counties of Flanders and Hainaut (1191-1244). For her research she elaborated a computer-aided methodology to determine the editorial origin of charter texts. In 2012 she received a COST Action grant for a short term scientific mission at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT) in Paris, where she examined the interoperability possibilities between the Belgian and French Latin source databases Diplomata Belgica and TELMA-databases (Traitement Électronique des Manuscrits et des Archives). Shortly afterwards she became a member of the COST Action Program IS1005: Medieval Europe - Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources, and joined the working group for the design of a virtual centre for medieval studies (VCMS) (2012-2015). Currently, she is a member of the advisory board of the online charter database Diplomata Belgica: The Diplomatic Sources from the Medieval Southern Low Countries (http://www.diplomata-belgica.be) and of the steering committee of the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH).
GRANT SIMPSON
Grant Simpson is the specialist in digital humanities for the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) project at the University of Göttingen. A long time Digital Medievalist member, he has presented widely on digital humanities and digital medievalism. His work has appeared in Textual Cultures and jTEI. His dissertation, Computing the English Middle Ages, studied Old and Middle English DH projects from the 1960s to the present and the objects they produce.
SEAN WINSLOW
Sean Winslow studied History at the University of California at Santa Cruz before going on to receive an MA and PhD in Medieval Studies, Book History, and Print Culture from the University of Toronto. His work focuses on the scribal cultures of the Christian world, specifically Ethiopia and the Oriental Churches. He currently works as an FWF Post-Doc at the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for the Digital Humanities of the University of Graz, where he works on the modelling of manuscript data and metadata in the TEI. Recent work includes the conversion of Charters Encoding Initiative data to the TEI for the Illuminierte Urkunden project and as part of the modernization of the Monasterium digital charters portal. His other projects include his forthcoming book on Ethiopian scribal practices, the digital cataloguing of Ethiopian binding decoration via IIIF, and the digital component of a catalogue of Syriac manuscript treasures.
Institute of Classical Studies
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Friday June 14, 2019 at 16:30 in room G34
Martina Astrid Rodda & Barbara McGillivray (Alan Turing Institute)
Exploring the Productivity of Homeric Formulae through Distributional Semantics
The language of archaic Greek epic is overwhelmingly composed of formulae, i.e. repeated, rigid linguistic structures. Formulae do show some limited variation in their form; however, describing the boundaries and the mechanisms driving formulaic variation is notably difficult. Computational methods on large-scale digital collections can shed new light onto this problem. We present the first computational model which uses Distributional Semantics to assess how meaning variation drives formulaic productivity in ancient Greek epic. By comparing the distribution of meanings in archaic vs. later poetry, we can detect trends of development in formulaic usage through time and investigate their causes.
This seminar will be livestreamed to https://youtu.be/NTVa05fOIz4
Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2019.html
ALL WELCOME
==
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/
Dear friends and colleagues,
This is a final reminder to submit nominations to the DM 2019-2020 Board. The deadline is this Saturday, June 8.
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/
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.
Sincerely,
Lynn Ransom & Greta Franzini, Elections Committee
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