With the usual apologies for cross-posting:
Many of you know that in addition to my day job, I have a weird hobby of making fonts for medievalists. This one is a little bit later than the Middle Ages, but may still be of interest.
I have just released a font called "Joscelyn," which I call "an uncompromising secretary hand font" because, unlike any other secretary hand font I have seen, it makes no concessions to modernity. It is based on the main hand of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 488, John Joscelyn's Historiola Collegii Corporis Christi. The hand (not Joscelyn's own) is rather formal, and so less difficult than many secretary hands, but it is as near as I've been able to come so far to an authentic reproduction of the hand.
When I teach paleography, the most difficult bit for my students is always the last--secretary hand. The idea behind this font is that a decent way to learn this difficult hand might be to (1) install the font, (2) start a Microsoft Word file by double-clicking an included template, (3) apply the "Joscelyn" character style, (4) type whatever you like, and (5) just observe. The authenticity of the font depends on seveal OpenType features being enabled, but the template turns them on for you.
At the risk of sounding immodest, I have to say that it's fun to type in this font and see the OpenType features applied in real time--s changed into long s, initial and final forms applied, and much more. And in addition, you can pass as much time as you like playing with the font without running the smallest risk of contracting COVID-19!
The font is free (licensed under the Open Font License). You can get it here:
https://github.com/psb1558/Joscelyn-font/releases
Stay well, everyone.
Peter Baker
Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions
Department of English
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400121
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4121
Dear colleagues,
with the usual apologies for cross-posting, we announce the complete
programme of the Spring (online) events of the series "Seminars in
Digital and Public Humanities", organized by the Venice Centre for
Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca'
Foscari University of Venice. The programme is in
https://static.unive.it/server/eventi/38554/DPH%20sem%20Aprile2020.pdf
All seminars will be held online at 17:00 GMT+1 (Italian time). Please
email vedph(a)unive.it to register.
1 April 2020 - Rodolfo Delmonte, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia:
"Semantics, Expressivity and Synthetic Speech: SPARSAR recites poetry"
8 April 2020 - Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento: "
Building tools and datasets to detect online hate speech: current
studies on cyberbullying and islamophobia"
15 April 2020 - Marie Redmond, VeDPH: " Creating Interactive Narratives
in Cultural Contexts"
22 April 2020 - Elisa Corrò, VeDPH: "Water Matters. Digital solutions
for a better understanding of past extreme events"
29 April 2020 - Barbara Tramelli, VeDPH: "Le chemin de l’image in
Renaissance Lyon: digital tools for the study of early modern
illustrations"
13 May 2020 - Leonardo Campus, VeDPH: "Le leggi razziali in tv: tra
audiovisivo, storia e pubblico"
All best,
Paolo Monella
Visiting scholar, VeDPH
Thanks for this remarkable font, Peter.
best
Grover
Grover Zinn
William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, emeritus
former Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH 44074
grover.zinn (at) oberlin.edu
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:26 PM Wheeler, Bonnie <bwheeler(a)mail.smu.edu>
wrote:
> What a remarkable gift to us in Covid-19 time, Peter. So many thanks!
> Bonnie Wheeler
>
> On Mar 28, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Baker, Peter S (psb6m) <psb6m(a)virginia.edu>
> wrote:
>
>
> With the usual apologies for cross-posting:
>
> Many of you know that in addition to my day job, I have a weird hobby of
> making fonts for medievalists. This one is *a little bit* later than the
> Middle Ages, but may still be of interest.
>
> I have just released a font called "Joscelyn," which I call "an
> uncompromising secretary hand font" because, unlike any other secretary
> hand font I have seen, it makes no concessions to modernity. It is based on
> the main hand of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 488, John Joscelyn's *Historiola
> Collegii Corporis Christi*. The hand (not Joscelyn's own) is rather
> formal, and so less difficult than many secretary hands, but it is as near
> as I've been able to come so far to an authentic reproduction of the hand.
>
> When I teach paleography, the most difficult bit for my students is always
> the last--secretary hand. The idea behind this font is that a decent way to
> learn this difficult hand might be to (1) install the font, (2) start a
> Microsoft Word file by double-clicking an included template, (3) apply the
> "Joscelyn" character style, (4) type whatever you like, and (5) just
> observe. The authenticity of the font depends on seveal OpenType features
> being enabled, but the template turns them on for you.
>
> At the risk of sounding immodest, I have to say that it's fun to type in
> this font and see the OpenType features applied in real time--s changed
> into long s, initial and final forms applied, and much more. And in
> addition, you can pass as much time as you like playing with the font
> without running the smallest risk of contracting COVID-19!
>
> The font is free (licensed under the Open Font License). You can get it
> here:
>
> https://github.com/psb1558/Joscelyn-font/releases
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_psb1558_Jos…>
>
> Stay well, everyone.
>
> Peter Baker
>
> Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions
> Department of English
> University of Virginia
> P.O. Box 400121
> Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4121
>
>
Dear digital medievalists,
We are glad to announce the launch of "Magazén | International Journal for
Digital and Public Humanities", the interdisciplinary journal of the Venice
Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) based at the Department of
Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, undergoing double blind
peer review and published twice per year in print, digital copy and web
version in open access by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.
Magazén is looking for contributors to its 2020 inaugural volume entitled
"Fusions", which shall devote two semestral issues of the journal to the
intertwining landscape emerging from the recent development of digital and
public humanities.
Deadlines:
Abstract Submission – April 15, 2020 (issue 1) or August 15, 2020 (issue 2)
Abstract acceptance – April 30, 2020 (issue 1) or August 30, 2020 (issue 2)
Articles Submission – July 15, 2020 (issue 1) or December 15, 2020 (issue 2)
Prospective publication – December 2020 (issue 1) and June 2021 (issue 2)
The VeDPH is founded upon an initiative of excellence that aims at
stimulating an interdisciplinary methodological discourse to serve as basis
for the collaborative development of durable, reusable, shared resources
for research and learning in the field of digital and public humanities.
Its disciplinary domains include Digital Textual Scholarship, Digital and
Public Art History, Digital and Public History, Digital Cultural Heritage
and Digital and Public Archaeology.
The call for papers, with further information on the new journal, is
available
in Italian:
https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/info
and in English:
https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/info
Best wishes,
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/vedphhttps://www.i-d-e.de/https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/
Dear digital medievalist community,
Digital Medievalist is an indexed (see below), open access and
internationally peer-reviewed scholarly journal, devoted to topics likely
to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they
need not be exclusively medieval in focus. It publishes work of original
research and scholarship, theoretical articles on digital topics, notes on
technological topics, commentary pieces discussing developments in the
field, bibliographic and review articles, tutorials, and project reports. The
journal also encourages reviews of books and major electronic sites and
projects. All contributions are reviewed before publication by authorities
in humanities computing.
The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout
the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure
that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publicly available.
Special collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part
of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.
The journal’s publisher, Open Library of Humanities, focuses on making
content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is
also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability. Ubiquity
Press journals are indexed by the following services: Nordic list, Google
Scholar, Chronos, ExLibris, EBSCO Knowledge Base, JISC KB+, SHERPA
RoMEO, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCOHost, OpenAire and
ScienceOpen.
Prospective authors should consult the Author Guidelines at:
https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/about/submissions/
More information can be found at the journal’s homepage:
https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Digital Medievalist Editorial Board
--
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/vedphhttps://www.i-d-e.de/https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/
Dear friends,
In the wake of the cancellation of the 2020 Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, the scaled-down conference has been moved online and will take place on 27-29 March. The conference is free and open access. Click here for details and join us!
https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/MAA2020VirtualMeeting
Stay safe -
- 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
Dear colleagues,
In this difficult time, we would like to inform you about our activities
and upcoming events.
The seminar by Daniele Fusi, "Presenting Cadmus: a general-purpose and
modular content editing alternative for complex models" (see abstract
below) will be held online Wednesday 25 of March at 17:00 on Google
Meet. If you are interested in participating, please send and email to
vedph(a)unive.it.
The VeDPH seminars will continue in April and May. The next seminars
will be:
1 April 2020 at 17:00, Rodolfo Del Monte, "Poetry and computer speech -
Analysing and Reading Elizabethan and modern poets with SPARSAR";
8 April 2020 at 17:00, Sara Tonelli, "Building tools and datasets to
detect online hate speech: current studies on cyberbullying and
islamophobia".
In the meantime you can see videos of past VeDPH seminars on our youtube
channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpVTd9npww6UwFQti5yu4NQ.
Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to
write to us.
Yours sincerely,
Paolo Monella
VeDPH - Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities
---
ABSTRACT
Daniele Fusi, "Presenting Cadmus: a general-purpose and modular content
editing alternative for complex models"
In the traditional content creation process of Scholarly Digital
Editions, a "text-centric" perspective is often responsible of the
persistence of a "book paradigm" in its digital reincarnation. At least
when producing content, we essentially deal with a text which flows from
paper to a digital document with annotations (XML), to be then published
to HTML via XSLT. Here, the tree structure laid on the text bears the
whole data universe. This is consistent with the typical usages of TEI,
essentially oriented to the "reconstruction of documents".
Yet, in some cases, especially with the outgrow of data provided by new
types of analysis (e.g. morphological, syntactical or metrical tagging),
and/or when handling very complex documents (e.g. inscriptions or
complex literary traditions), this may not be the most efficient
paradigm for creating content.
In such scenarios, a paradigm shift might be beneficial. Here, TEI might
be the final outcome of a more articulated production flow, rather than
its starting point. Thinking textual, meta-textual or non-textual
content beyond the technological and mental markup constraints allows
freeing scholars from a number of practical issues (e.g. apparatus and
workarounds like stand-off), letting them focus on their logical rather
than physical models. Also, when creating content we should emphasize
the typical requirements of any modern content editing infrastructure
(e.g. centralization, robustness, real-time validation and search,
web-based concurrent editing, etc.), which are very difficult to be met
when dealing with text files. For these scenarios, I'm proposing a
simple, modular and open editing solution, codenamed Cadmus.
Dear digital-medievalists,
your are interested in persons? The ACDH-CH at Austrian Academy of
Science invites you to participate in a Summer School on Digital
Prosopography. It will take place in Vienna, 06-10. July 2020 and
include courses on data creation, modelling with CIDOC-CRM, network
analysis, linked open data, text encoding in the work with historical
persons. Interested people should sent a CV (max. 1 page) and a brief
description of their prosopographical project (max. 500 words) to
digital.prosopography(a)oeaw.ac.at, which will help us to decide on
eligibility. Places on the summer school will be allocated on a
first-come-first-serve basis. The participation at the summer school is
free of charge. Please find details on the event at
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/detail/event/summer-school-people-in-the-digita…
Looking forward to your application!
Georg
--
Prof. Dr. Georg Vogeler, M.A.
Director
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | Austrian Academy of Sciences
Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Wien, Österreich | Vienna, Austria
T: +43 1 51581-2200
georg.vogeler(a)oeaw.ac.at
Chair for Digital Humanities at Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung,
University of Graz
Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik <http://www.i-d-e.de>
ICARus <https://icar-us.eu/en/>
Digital Medivalist <https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>
Data for History <https://dataforhistory.org/>
+++Apologies for Cross Posting+++
Dear List Members,
I would like to cordially draw your attention to the call for workshop papers below. Maybe you have been involved in a exciting project that you would like to discuss with us during the workshop? We are looking forward to your submission!
Kind regards,
Ulrike Wuttke
Dr Ulrike Wuttke
Tel.: 0331-5801527
E-Mail: wuttke(a)fh-potsdam.de
Twitter: UWuttke
Skype: ulrike.wuttke
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8217-4025
FH Potsdam / University of Applied Sciences Potsdam / RDMO
Kiepenheuerallee 5
14469 Potsdam
http://www.fh-potsdam.de/https://rdmorganiser.github.io
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
Workshop: "Twin Talks 3: Understanding and Facilitating Collaboration in DH", at the Digital Humanities Conference DH 2020, Ottawa (Canada), 20-25 July, 2020.
Conference website: https://dh2020.adho.org
Workshop website: https://www.clarin.eu/event/2020/twintalksdh2020
Submission deadline: Thursday May 7 2020
Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twintalksdh2020
More information: clarin(a)clarin.eu
Special feature of this workshop: a mix of "Twin Talks" and "Teach Talks"
This workshop is special in that part of the submitted talks at this workshop are submitted and presented by, a humanities researcher and a digital expert (the Twin Talks). They report on the research carried out together, both from their individual perspective (either humanities research or technical), as well as on their collaboration experience. Another part of the talks (the Teach Talks) are talks by people with experience or interesting ideas about how cross-discipline collaboration is or can be addressed in curricula or other training activities.
+ Why two types of talks?
The main objective of the workshop is to get a better understanding of the dynamics on the Digital Humanities work floor where humanities scholars and digital experts meet and work in tandem to solve humanities research questions. The best way to do this seems to be to give both parties the opportunity to present their achievements and to share their collaboration experiences with the audience. The insights gained should help those involved in the education of humanities scholars, professionals and technical experts alike to develop better training programmes.
As the problem of cross-discipline collaboration is not new we also invite those who have relevant experience or interesting ideas about how to address this in university or other curricula to share their ideas with the audience.
+ Who should submit?
For the Twin Talks: Pairs of a humanities and a digital expert who have done joint research and who want to report on their work and on their collaboration experience.
For the Teach Talks: People (not necessarily in pairs) with relevant experience in or ideas about how to address cross-discipline collaboration in university or other curricula.
+ Why should you submit and/or attend?
Humanities research can only benefit maximally from new developments in technology if content and digital experts team up, very similar to the hard sciences where research is done in teams working on a specific problem, where everybody brings in his/her specific content and technical expertise and skills.
Co-design, co-development and co-creation are the rule rather than the exception, but very little is known about how this collaboration works in practice and how better training and education of both humanities scholars and digital experts could facilitate the way they collaborate. This is what this workshop wants to address, based on real life collaboration examples. We especially invite researchers, professionals, educators, and RIoperators with a special interest in creating the conditions where humanities scholars and technical experts can fruitfully collaborate in answering humanities research questions.
+ Format of the workshop
The half-day workshop will start with an invited talk, followed by 15-minute Twin Talks or Teach Talks, each followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. The Twin Talks should contain the following three components: presentation of the humanities problem and its solution, presentation of the technical aspects of the research done, and a report on the collaboration experience itself, including obstacles encountered and recommendations how better training and education could help to make collaboration more efficient and effective. After the talks there will be a round table discussion with all participants to formulate the lessons learned from the presentations, and to identify further steps that could be taken.
+ Research and teaching topics
All humanities research topics in a very broad sense are welcome, where we explicitly include social sciences and cultural heritage studies. Research or teaching activities may be completed or ongoing, as long as the presentation explicitly addresses the way the humanities researcher and the digital expert have collaborated or still collaborate.
What we expect from the submissions for the Twin Talks track
- They are authored and presented by one or more humanities scholars and one or more digital experts
- They start from a humanities research question (i.e. not a technical question, a presentation of a tool, a platform or a data collection)
- They describe the research carried out jointly and its results
- They describe the technical aspects of the methods used and the results obtained
- They analyse the way the scholar and the technician collaborated, addressing issues such as (but not limited to):
- - What was easy and what was difficult and why?
- - How did the researcher and technician change each other's way of looking at things?
- - Did they, for instance, make each other aware of blind spots they had?
- - Did the combination of thinking from a DH research question and thinking from a technical solution lead to new insights?
- - How could better training or education of scholars and digital experts make collaboration easier, more effective and more efficient?
+ Submissions for the Teach Talks track
One single author and presenter is sufficient, but multi-author papers are of course equally welcome.
+ Submission instructions
- Format: PDF. For format instructions, see: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
- Size: Extended abstracts, size ca 2000-4000 words, covering research questions and answers, technical aspects and collaboration experience for Twin Talks, or relevant education experience for Teach Talks
- Publication: The workshop proceedings will be included in the proceedings of the main DHN2020 conference
- Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twintalksdh2020
+ Important dates
- Thursday, May 7 2020: Submission deadline
- Thursday, May 28: Notification of acceptance/rejection
- Thursday, June 25: Submission of final version, taking into account reviewers' comments
+ Programme committee and organisers
This workshop is a joint initiative of CLARIN ERIC (www.clarin.eu) and DARIAH ERIC (www.dariah.eu), and is supported by the SSHOC project (https://sshopencloud.eu/)
Chairs and main organisers:
- Steven Krauwer (CLARIN ERIC / Utrecht University; steven(a)clarin.eu)
- Darja Fišer (CLARIN ERIC / SSHOC / University of Ljubljana; darja.fiser(a)ff.uni-lj.si)
Members:
- Bente Maegaard (CLARIN ERIC / University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Eleni Gouli (Academy of Athens, Greece)
- Franciska de Jong (CLARIN ERIC / SSHOC / Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Frank Fischer (DARIAH ERIC / SSHOC / Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
- Frank Uiterwaal (EHRI / NIOD – KNAW, Netherlands)
- Jennifer Edmond (DARIAH ERIC / SSHOC / Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
- Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway / CLARINO)
- Krister Lindén (University of Helsinki, Finland / FIN-CLARIN)
- Maciej Maryl (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
- Maria Gavrilidou (SSHOC / ILSP – Athena RC, Athens, Greece)
- Radim Hladik (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
- Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany / RDMO)
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/>