dm-l February 2020

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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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Launch of "Mapping Manuscript Migrations" portal
by Toby Burrows 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, The Mapping Manuscript Migrations portal was publicly launched on 30 January 2020 at the Digging into Data Conference at the National Science Foundation in Washington DC: https://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/ The MMM portal enables users to track more than 216,000 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts by origin, owner, author, and title. Users can also visualize their journeys over the centuries from production to last known location. MMM uses Linked Open Data principles and technology to combine data from three important manuscript databases: • Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/) • Bibale (http://bibale.irht.cnrs.fr/) • Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/) The portal is the product of two and a half years’ work by the MMM project team, working across four partner institutions: the University of Oxford (Oxford e-Research Centre and Bodleian Libraries), the University of Pennsylvania (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies), the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS), and Aalto University (Semantic Computing Research Group). The MMM project has been funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform under Round 4 of its Digging into Data Challenge (2017-2020). The national funding agencies contributing to the project are the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (US), the Agence nationale de la recherche (France), and the Academy of Finland. Dr Toby Burrows Oxford e-Research Centre University of Oxford

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Digital Classicist London seminar call for papers
by Gabriel Bodard 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Digital Classicist London invites proposals for the summer 2020 seminar, which will run on Friday afternoons through June and July at the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House. To submit a paper, please email an abstract of up to 300 words as an attachment to gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk by Sunday, March 29, 2020. (Include the words “Digital Classicist seminar” in the subject line to be sure of not being missed!) Proposals from researchers of all levels, including students, practitioners and academics, are equally welcome. We would like to see papers that address digital, innovative and collaborative research, teaching and practice in all areas of antiquity (including cultures beyond the Mediterranean), from classics, ancient history, cultural heritage, reception, or other perspectives. As with previous years, presentations will be live-cast and archived on Youtube. There is a small budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but partial reimbursement for longer trips may be possible). Organizers: Gabriel Bodard (Institute of Classical Studies) Paula Granados García (Open University) Eleanor Robson (University College London) Simona Stoyanova (University of Nottingham) Valeria Vitale (Institute of Classical Studies) == 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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LiLa-Linking Latin: Lemma Bank available
by Franzini Greta 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

We are glad to announce that the LEMMA BANK QUERY INTERFACE of the "LiLa: Linking Latin" ERC project is now online at: https://lila-erc.eu/query/ Users can query the LiLa collection of Latin lemmas, used to interconnect linguistic resources and tools with Linked Data technology, through a simple graphical interface. The Lemma Bank comprises 134,228 Lemma objects and 58,278 Hypolemma objects, as well as 4,224 lexical bases, 109 suffixes and 41 prefixes. Query results can be saved as a CSV file, visualized in the LOD View or LOD Live interfaces, and the underlying SPARQL code can be copied with a simple click. Users familiar with the SPARQL query language can also access the LiLa triplestore, which currently provides three end-points: Lemma Bank, Corpora ("Summa contra Gentiles" of the "Index Thomisticus Treebank") and lexicalResources (the "Brill Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages"). Please note that both Corpora and lexical resources are work in progress. For details, please check the list of publications about LiLa available at https://lila-erc.eu/output/ For future updates, please follow LiLa's official website and social media accounts! Website: https://lila-erc.eu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ERC_LiLa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lilaERC/ —— 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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Final call for applications: NEH Summer Institute for advanced digital editing
by Elli Bleeker 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, ** With the usual apologies for cross-posting ** The call for applications for the NEH Institute "Advanced Digital Editing" is almost closing: applications are due Februari 28th, 2020. 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. For the full call, see <https://pittsburgh-neh-institute.github.io/Institute-Materials-2020/call/> Feel free to circulate this message widely. Best wishes, Elli

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Call for Applications BH & DH Summer Institute University of Wisconsin - Madison
by Heather Wacha 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

[cid:ec65c43c-3bc3-4003-b54d-4f8cac383c08] May 18-22, 2020 “Making Books” Call for Applications Description: The Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture (CHPDC) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison is delighted to announce its first Book History and Digital Humanities Summer Institute. This year’s theme draws upon acts of “making” as conduits for exploring intersections of Book History and Digital Humanities. Participants will engage in a variety of practices of making books across analog and digital forms, including bookbinding, digital collating, papermaking, creating and editing digital editions, digitizing and editing difficult formats, incorporating data science in textual studies, working with innovative book structures, and more. All participants will share and receive feedback on an ongoing project they wish to present in addition to participating in collective workshops and discussion. Organizers: Jonathan Senchyne is an Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. Heather Wacha is the Associate Coordinator for the CHPDC and also teaches in the iSchool. Keynote Speaker: Dot Porter is Curator of Digital Research Services at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As a digital humanist, a medievalist, and a librarian, she participates in a wide-ranging digital humanities research and development team within the context of a special collections department. For more about Dot and her work, check out her blog<http://www.dotporterdigital.org/>. Guest Speakers and Topics: Jonathan Senchyne CHPDC Director, Professor, Literary Book History, Paper, Digital Substrates, and Letterpress Printing Martin Foys Professor of English, Digital Editions, Linked and Annotated Data (e.g. Digital Mappa, IIIF, Mirador, Recogito) Mary Hark Professor in Design Studies and Art, Papermaking, Substrates Robin Rider Curator of Special Collections, Book History and the History of Science Lyn Korenic Director of Kohler Art Library, Book Arts and Book Structures Heather Wacha CHPDC Coordinator, Instructor, Medieval Manuscripts, Bookbinding, Spectral Imaging and Heritage Science Jesse Henderson Digital Services Librarian Production Manager, Digital Collections, Digitization Processes Justine Walden Solmsen Fellow, UW-Madison, Mapping and GIS in BH & DH Sarah Stevens Data Science Hub, BH & DH in Data Science Cameron Cook UW-Madison Research Data Services, Digital Curation Clare Michaud UW-Madison Data Science Hub, BH & DH in Data Science Max Gray PhD Candidate, English, MLIS Candidate, iSchool, UW-Madison, Experimental Forms in DH method and practice Provisional Schedule: During small group seminars in the morning, participants will have the chance to present work in progress (articles, dissertation chapters, conference drafts, syllabi, program proposals) and receive feedback from faculty and co-participants. After the seminar session and before lunch, guest speakers will talk about innovative digital approaches they use to enhance their book history work. Early afternoons will consist of hands-on experience making book structures, making paper, making digital editions, and making visual representations of collations. Late afternoons will be reserved for workshop visits to Special Collections, the Kohler Art Library, and Jonathan Senchyne’s letterpress printing studio. Details: The workshop will begin at 11:30-12:30 May 18th and will finish early afternoon on May 22nd. All group sessions and lectures will take place on the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus. The keynote lecture, open to the public, is scheduled for May 21, 2020 4:00-5:30 pm. The cost of tuition is $350 for the week. If you need to request a tuition reduction please contact Jonathan Senchyne and Heather Wacha. The fee includes all instruction, visits, materials, and light refreshments. We will provide a list of participants and a list of accommodation options in Madison, including a block of subsidized below-market campus hotel rooms. We can also assist participants in coordinating with others to share an airbnb or other short-term rentals. Applications due March 30, 2020 To apply: There are two parts to the application. 1) Please fill in this google form<https://forms.gle/TjbvgXKDgbFznkk76> (https://forms.gle/TjbvgXKDgbFznkk76) 2) Please submit a two-page CV and up to a one-page (single-spaced) statement of intent (including a basic description of what you might like to present in the small seminar session.) These documents should be addressed to Dr. Heather Wacha and sent to chpdc(a)ischool.wisc.edu<mailto:chpdc@ischool.wisc.edu>. 3) For further information or if you have any questions, please contact Heather Wacha at chpdc(a)ischool.wisc.edu.

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REMINDER: Graph Technologies in the Humanities 2020
by Tara L Andrews 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you that the "Graph Technologies in the Humanities" conference will take place on 21.-22. February at the University of Vienna. We have an exciting lineup of papers, and a keynote by Prof. Charlotte Roueché, who will be reflecting on standards and tools for academic transparency. The full programme is available here: https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/4521/files/2020/01/Graph-Tech… <https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/4521/files/2020/01/Graph-Tech…> Attendance is free, but if you are planning to attend, we ask you to PLEASE REGISTER at the following link by Monday 17 February: http://www.adwmainz.de/graphentechnologien20.html <http://www.adwmainz.de/graphentechnologien20.html> Best wishes, on behalf of the programme committee, Tara Andrews

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Call for Papers: Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts (22-23 October, Amsterdam)
by Evina Steinova 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, Please find attached a call for papers for a conference that may be of interest to some of you. *Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts* Call for a two-day international conference organised by the ‘Innovating Knowledge’ Project 22-23 October 2020 Huygens ING, Amsterdam In the last decade, methods of network analysis developed by social scientists have been increasingly applied to historical disciplines. As a result, we have seen the emergence of new bodies of researchers working with network analytical methods, such as Social Network Analysis Research in the Middle Ages (SNARMA), and new journals, such as the Journal of Historical Network Research (JHNR). Researchers studying premodern manuscript cultures have been actively engaged with this new methodological trend. Completed and ongoing projects make it clear that the methods of network analysis can be applied to the study of premodern manuscripts and manuscript texts and yield relevant and exciting results. However, it is also clear that scholars of premodern written cultures face unique challenges when engaging with network analysis stemming from the nature of the material they are working with. Not all methods devised by social scientists are applicable to manuscripts and texts, while in other cases, established methods need to be adapted to and reinvented for new needs. Working with large corpora of manuscripts and texts, and approaching premodern written cultures from a quantitative perspective bring their unique challenges to fields that have a long tradition of looking at their subjects in small quantities and with a qualitative lens. As any young methodological subfield, the study of premodern manuscripts and manuscript texts using network analysis is still in an exploratory stage, with theoretical frameworks being forged and methods tested. This conference aims to bring together researchers applying network analysis to premodern manuscripts and manuscript texts. We would like to invite researchers working in all fields of premodern manuscript studies and researchers working with manuscript texts who engage with the methods and concepts stemming from network analysis. Key topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Theoretical reflections on the challenges and advantages of applying network analysis, including social network analysis, to premodern written cultures; - Application of network analysis to corpora of premodern manuscripts and texts; - Network analysis as a means of understanding the circulation of texts and transmission of knowledge in the premodern period; - Quantitative study of networks of medieval book exchange and letter exchange; - Network analysis as a tool of textual criticism and text editing; - Network graphs as stemmata of texts and genres with complex textual history; - Networks of co-citation of premodern authors and authoritative texts; - Networks of co-occurrence and compilation of texts in medieval manuscripts; - Network analysis as a tool for the study of annotation practices and commentary traditions in premodern manuscript cultures; - Network analysis as a tool for the study of citation and reception in premodern manuscript cultures. We welcome proposals in two categories: a) 30-minute full papers suitable for presenting completed or ongoing research; and b) 20-minute exploratory papers suitable for presenting newly started research or research proposals that are still being developed. The second category is particularly intended for early career researchers who are new to the field of network analysis and wish to have their ideas tested in front of an expert audience. A keynote by *Matteo Valleriani* (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin/Technische Universität Berlin/University of Tel Aviv) is included on the first day of the conference. Proposals of between 300 and 500 words should be sent to Dr Evina Steinová at evina.steinova(a)huygens.knaw.nl *by the end of April 2020*. Authors of successful submissions will be informed by the end of June 2020 and encouraged to submit full papers in the following months so that they can be circulated in advance to stimulate a fruitful discussion. The language of the conference will be English. We offer to cover the accommodation costs for two nights and provide lunches. We also intend to provide a small number of bursaries to speakers who may need travel assistance. For further information, contact Dr Evina Steinová at evina.steinova(a)huygens.knaw.nl. Evina Steinova https://evinasteinova.academia.edu/ Postdoctoral Researcher NWO VENI project Innovating Knowledge Huygens ING, Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam My new book is finally out <http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503581705-1>!

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Introduction to automatic collation (Lausanne, March 26-27, 2020)
by Helena Bermúdez Sabel 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

*(With apologies for cross-posting)* Dear colleagues, Please find below an announcement about a two-day course on *the* *theory and the practice of automatic collation*. https://www.unil.ch/doc-digitalstudies/home/menuinst/activites-du-programme… https://agenda.unil.ch/display/1580129618143 The course will take place at the *University of Lausanne*, on *March 26-27, 2020*. PhD students of the universities of Berne, Fribourg, Genève, Neuchâtel and Lausanne (UNIL et EPFL) have priority, but researchers from Swiss universities and abroad are welcome. Participation is free, but registration is required (please write to Alexandre Camus: Alexandre.Camus(a)unil.ch). A social dinner is planned at the end of the first day. Instructors for this course will be Helena Bermúdez Sabel (UNIL), Elena Spadini (UNIL) and Elisa Nury (UniGe). We are delighted to have a guest presentation by Rudolf Mahrer (UNIL) and a keynote by Elli Bleeker (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) as part of the program. Please don’t hesitate to forward to interested colleagues and do contact us should you have any questions. Best wishes, Elena, Elisa, Helena Helena Bermúdez Sabel Chercheuse FNS senior Section des Sciences du Langage et de l’Information Université de Lausanne Quartier UNIL-Chamberonne Bâtiment Anthropole, bureau 5144 CH-1015 Lausanne Tel. 021 692 47 02

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An edition in an app: the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales
by Robinson, Peter 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

The General Prologue in an app: with a full performance, manuscript images, translation, new text, commentary and notes, and new scholarship. 3rd February marks the release of the first ever app, specifically designed for mobile phone and tablet, to present significant new scholarly work in an edition of a major literary work: the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Go to PlayStore (Android) or the App Store (Apple/IoS) and look for “Chaucer General Prologue” (Scholarly Digital Editions). Or, go to http://www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/GP/. Press the play icon. This app includes a new biography of Chaucer by Richard North (UCL), a new text edited by Barbara Bordalejo (USask), Terry Jones’s translation of the General Prologue, additional materials about the Tales by Peter Robinson (who created the app), images of the Hengwrt manuscript form the National Library of Wales, and a full performance of the text by University of Saskatchewan and University of Calgary student Colin Gibbings. Among much else: the full commentary and notes by Richard North suggest a new dating for the reference to the seige of Algezir, which makes the Knight significantly younger at the time of the composition of the General Prologue. The app is designed to appeal to people interested in Chaucer at every level, from beginning students to advanced scholars. We plan future apps in this series. The app also celebrates Terry Jones, who was both a distinguished medieval scholar and a Python. As well as contribute his translation of the General Prologue, he was much involved in the early planning of the app, hosting the team to a memorable lunch at a pub in North London. We are happy that we were able to show him the full app in the last weeks of his life. We attach the University of Saskatchewan press release about the app. Readers might also be interested in the Canterbury Tales project, atwww.textualcommunities.org<http://www.textualcommunities.org> (click on the link to the Canterbury Tales project). This offers images of all 30,000 manuscript pages of the Tales, with transcripts of some 24,000 pages. The work of this project underlies the app. Peter Robinson and Barbara Bordalejo (University of Saskatchewan), Richard North (University College London). With Terry Jones (Python)

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