dm-l September 2021

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Curso ONLINE de la UNED sobre Humanidades Digitales
by Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Dig itales (LINDH) 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Estimados compañeros, Os hacemos llegar un curso de verano organizado por el Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales de la UNED<https://linhd.uned.es/>. El curso lleva por título Creación de un proyecto en Humanidades Digitales basado en el análisis de textos: modelado y procesamiento<https://extension.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/24581> y se celebrará del 28 al 30 de junio. Puede realizarse presencialmente o en línea (en directo o en diferido), tiene una duración de 20 horas y será eminentemente práctico. La investigación en Humanidades Digitales no ha dejado de crecer en los últimos años y son cada vez más los proyectos de historiadores, filólogos, o antropólogos que utilizan la tecnología para el análisis de corpus literarios en busca de patrones, la construcción de mapas digitales interactivos para una mejor visualización de los resultados de sus investigaciones, o la geolocalización de enclaves a los que se añaden capas de información multimedia, entre otras muchas posibilidades. Los humanistas digitales tienen un futuro prometedor en un área en crecimiento en el que se requieren perfiles profesionales mixtos y flexibles, capaces de organizar y etiquetar objetos digitales; así como gestionar su visualización y preservación en un entorno digital. Sin embargo, para desarrollar la investigación en esta área se ha de disponer de ciertos conocimientos técnicos tales como los que se abordan en el curso que os presentamos. El objetivo del mismo es diseñar un proyecto de humanidades digitales, desde el modelado del dominio hasta la creación de resultados y su diseminación, haciendo uso de lenguajes de programación, técnicas de modelado y visualización provenientes del mundo de la inteligencia artificial. Comenzaremos con una aproximación al mundo de las Humanidades Digitales y las problemáticas que surgen para el análisis de textos. Después, nos acercaremos a las metodologías y técnicas para resolver esos problemas mediante el modelado semántico y la perspectiva de los datos enlazados y lenguajes de marcas. Asimismo, se presentarán nuevos paradigmas computacionales relacionados con la Inteligencia Artificial como el procesamiento de textos, la estilometría, el deep learning, etc., y su aplicación. Para finalizar, se representarán los resultados obtenidos. Podéis obtener más información sobre el mismo y matricularos en este enlace.<https://www.fundacion.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/24581> Un cordial saludo Beatriz Tejada Carrasco Subdirectora de Planificación, Calidad y Comunicación Biblioteca UNED C/ Paseo de la senda del rey, 5 28040 Madrid Teléfono: 91 398 61 67 email: btejada(a)pas.uned.es AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Departamento de Política Jurídica de Seguridad de la Información<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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Announcing VCEditor, a tool for modeling and visualizing physical collation of books ins codex format
by Alberto Campagnolo 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The VisColl team at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania, are pleased to announce the launch of VCEditor. Use VCEditor to model and visualize medieval manuscripts and books in codex format in general. We welcome your feedback! https://vceditor.library.upenn.edu<https://vceditor.library.upenn.edu/> [viscoll-collations-mode-01.png] VCEditor is based on the VisColl specification https://viscoll.org<https://viscoll.org/> and is adapted from the VisCodex application by @oldbooksnewsci (https://github.com/utlib/VisualCollation). For help, see our 'How to page' (https://viscoll.org/help/) and the project Wiki (https://github.com/KislakCenter/VisualCollation/wiki). Please share the news and let us know how we can improve this for your needs! Thank you, Alberto Campagnolo

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VeDPH workshop on iconographic indexations
by Paolo Monella 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. (With apologies for cross-posting) Dear all, the VeDPH announces the one-day online workshop "Digitising, Cataloguing, Searching and Sharing the Medieval and Early-Modern Image: On-Going Projects & Different", organized by Barbara Tramelli and Matilde Malaspina, on methodologies of iconographic indexations. Details: https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/2/52382 Registration: https://bit.ly/3BwQaMY All best, Paolo --- Associate member of the VeDPH research center -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system. -- Fai crescere i nostri giovani ricercatori dona il 5 per mille alla Sapienza *codice fiscale 80209930587*

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CFP Schoenberg Symposium: Video Lightning Talks on digital manuscript projects
by Dot Porter 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Call for proposals for Video Lightning Talks to be posted to the SIMS YouTube Channel as part of the 14th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, November 17-19, 2021 Engaging with pre-modern books and manuscripts necessarily involves reckoning with the paradox of loss. While a historical document from the distant past is the material survivor of a singular attempt to hedge against the disappearance of an idea, image, or text, the extant specimen always has to be considered alongside missing exemplars, damage and erasure, lost comparanda, and the vanished life-worlds that produced the object in the first place. This symposium will interrogate the notions of loss, survival, and recuperation in manuscript studies, so often in the background but rarely acknowledged as defining features of the field. For our 2021 Lightning Talk videos, we are particularly interested in talks that focus on digital aspects of loss in manuscript studies. The videos will be posted to the SIMS YouTube channel. You can see the 2020 Lightning Talks here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8e3GREu0zuD1mR_tXBvn4ovYib9E3qwq Videos must be five minutes long or shorter, and may present any project relating to manuscript studies in the digital age. Submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/6zJqNUgFgwbCxsyq5 Deadline for submitting applications is October 26 Applicants will be notified by November 2 Lightning Talk videos must be five minutes or shorter. Videos must be submitted to SIMS by November 9 The symposium is Free and is open to the public! For more about the symposium, including registration, visit the website here: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs_symposium14 Thanks and we look forward to reading your proposals! Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com<mailto:dot.porter@gmail.com> Penn Manuscripts on Tumblr: http://upennmanuscripts.tumblr.com/ MESA: http://mesa-medieval.org *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Updates from the DM Executive Board
by Ransom, Lynn 27 Sep '21

27 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear members of the Digital Medievalist Community, On behalf of the Executive Board of Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/executive-board/>, I write to update members of the DM community on recent activities of and news from the DM Executive Board as we set forth in the (relatively) new academic year. New 2021-2022 Board Roles · Director: Lynn Ransom · Deputy Director: Claudia Sojer · Conference Representatives: Lisa Fagin Davis, Rose Faunce, Laura Morreale, Kivilcim Yavuz · Social Media Admin: Tobias Hodel · Website Admin: Tobias Hodel and Rose Faunce · DM-L Admin: Gustavo Riva · Early Stage Researchers Subcommittee Liaison: Luise Borek · Journal Associate Editorial Board: Lisa Fagin Davis, Gustavo Riva, and Kivilcim Yavuz, joining Franz Fischer (Editor-in-Chief) Greta Franzini, Mike Kestemont, Daniel O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, and Virgil Granfield (Managing Editor) DM at Kalamazoo 2022 DM will be holding a workshop "Medieval Digital Humanities: How to Get Started" at the virtual International Congress of Medieval Studies taking place online Monday, May 9, through Saturday, May 14, 2022. This workshop will introduce digital humanities strategies to those interested in computer-based methodologies for teaching and research. The session will feature members of the Digital Medievalist organization, and cover data visualization, topic modelling, linked open data, data modelling, and AI techniques. Coding Codices Podcast Since December 2020, the DM Early Stage Researchers Subcommittee<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/postgraduate-subcommittee/> has posted seven podcasts all available here Coding Codices - Podcast (digitalmedievalist.org)<https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/>. They will be starting their next season of podcast in the coming weeks. Please subscribe and follow on Twitter @digitalmedieval<https://twitter.com/digitalmedieval> or subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform. For more info, go to About - Coding Codices (digitalmedievalist.org)<https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/about/>. DM Journal The editors are delighted to announce a special issue forthcoming in 2021. The issue features results from The Canterbury Tales Project<http://canterburytalesproject.com/> and is edited by Barbara Bordalejo with contributions by Nicole Atkins, Kendall Bitner, Barbara Bordalejo, Kyle Dase, Peter Robinson, and Adam Alberto Vázquez. The editors are also currently seeking submissions for future issues. If you are interested in submitting to DM please go to https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ for more info. Digital Medieval Webinar Repository (DMWR) Led by board member Laura Morreale, the DM board created the curated Zenodo community DMWR<https://zenodo.org/communities/dmwr/?page=1&size=20> last year to house recorded presentations on medieval topics, especially those that involve digital work. DMWR follows best practices for digital preservation that encourage storing materials in multiple locales. For more info, including instructions on how to upload your presentations, go to https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/digital-medieval-webinar-repositor…. Be sure to check out new presentations from this summer's DV Virtual Conference that have recently been uploaded, with more to come soon. Feel free to add your own content anytime! If you have any questions or comments on the above, have ideas for other community resources, or want to inquire about how to get more involved with DM, please don't hesitate to contact the board at Dmedievalist(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:Dmedievalist@googlegroups.com>, or start a discussion on this list. Either way, we look forward to hearing from you! Best, Lynn Ransom Director, Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>

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Current Trends in (Digital) Epigraphy - October 1st, 2021 (online)
by Martina Filosa 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. (With apologies for cross-posting) Dear List Members, We have the pleasure of inviting you to attend the online conference and round table Current Trends in (Digital) Epigraphy, organised by Martina Filosa (University of Cologne) and Dimitar Iliev (St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia). The conference will be held on Zoom on October 1st, 2021. If you would like to attend, please register here: digital-epigraphy.eventbrite.de<http://digital-epigraphy.eventbrite.de/>. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at martina.filosa(a)uni-koeln.de<mailto:martina.filosa@uni-koeln.de> or diiliev(a)uni-sofia.bg<mailto:diiliev@uni-sofia.bg>. With all best wishes, Martina Filosa (University of Cologne) Dimitar Iliev (University of Sofia) Current Trends in (Digital) Epigraphy 10:00 Welcome! 10:15 Charlotte Roueché (London): New Approaches to Collaboration in Digital Epigraphy 10:45 Dimitar Iliev (Sofia): Telamon: the Monuments, the Platform, the Collaboration 11:15 Ilenia Gradante (Oxford): Building a Digital Corpus of Roman Signacula in Sicily 11:45 Coffee 12:00 Tsvetan Vassilev (Sofia): The Biblical Quotations in the Bachkovo Refectory: Inscriptions in Greek Language from the 17th century 12:30 Nikolay Sharankov (Sofia): Reshaping Reality: Uses of Damnatio in Inscriptions from Bulgaria 13:00 Lunch 14:30 Arkadiy Avdokhin (Moscow) & Andreas Rhoby (Vienna): Epigraphies of Pious Travel. A Digital Corpus of Greek and Russian Pilgrimage Graffiti 15:00 Maria Parani (Nicosia): A Digital Corpus of Painted Greek Inscriptions from Medieval Cyprus (10th – 13th centuries AD) 15:30 Martina Filosa (Cologne) & Alessio Sopracasa (Paris): SigiDoc 1.0 and the Digital Turn in Byzantine Sigillography 16:00 Coffee 16:30 Round table & discussion with Irene Vagionakis (Bologna) and Gabriel Bodard (London) 18:00 Closing remarks -- Martina Filosa, M.A. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Universität zu Köln Institut für Altertumskunde Abteilung Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-50923 Köln martina.filosa(a)uni-koeln.de<mailto:martina.filosa@uni-koeln.de>

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14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Online)
by Ransom, Lynn 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS<http://schoenberginstitute.org/>) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 14th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Online) Loss November 17-19, 2021 Engaging with pre-modern books and manuscripts necessarily involves reckoning with the paradox of loss. While a historical document from the distant past is the material survivor of a singular attempt to hedge against the disappearance of an idea, image, or text, the extant specimen always has to be considered alongside missing exemplars, damage and erasure, lost comparanda, and the vanished life-worlds that produced the object in the first place. This symposium will interrogate the notions of loss, survival, and recuperation in manuscript studies, so often in the background but rarely acknowledged as defining features of the field. Bringing together scholars, librarians, curators, and conservators, we will investigate losses unknowable and quantifiable, ancient and recent, large and small, physical and digital. How have chance survivals shaped literary and linguistic canons? How might the topography of the field appear differently had certain prized unica not survived? What are the ways in which authors, compilers, scribes, and scholars have dealt with lacunary exemplaria? How do longstanding and emergent methodologies and disciplines-analysis of catalogs of dispersed libraries, reverse engineering of ur-texts and lost prototypes, digital reconstructions of codices dispersi, digital humanities. and cultural heritage preservation, and trauma studies to name a few,-serve to reveal the extent of disappearance? How can ideologically-driven biblioclasm or the destruction wrought by armed conflicts -- sometimes occurring within living memory -- be assessed objectively yet serve as the basis for protection of cultural heritage in the present? In all cases, losses are not solely material: they can be psychological, social, digital, linguistic, spiritual, professional. Is mournful resignation the only response to these gaps, or can such sentiments be harnessed to further knowledge, understanding, and preservation moving forward? The online program will take place in morning and afternoon sessions (EST) from Wednesday, November 17, to Friday, November 19. The symposium will end with a keynote address by Professor Elaine Treharne, Stanford University.. For more information and to register, please visit https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs_symposium14.

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Linked Pasts Symposium (CFP)
by Gabriel Bodard 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear all, I would like to call your attention to two calls: (1) for activities; (2) for posters, for the Linked Pasts Symposium, hosted by Ghent University and CLARIAH Flanders from Dec 13-17 (online) and Dec 20-21 (in person). We are interested in discussions, hackathons, new project planning, and other practical activities, in the area of Linked Open Data and the historical world. (1) Call for Activities: There will be space for suggestion and selection of activities at the conference, but we also welcome proposals for research activities, which may include (but are not restricted to): development of standards, ontologies and research applications; discovery and integration of datasets; enrichment and annotation of textual collections; collaboration, pedagogy and community expansion; other relevant undertakings with a focus on Linked Open Data and the historical world. To propose a stream or working group for the conference programme, please fill in the form at <https://forms.gle/Z3aj3UfixTNENyaB8> with a max. 200-word abstract outlining your suggestion, type of activity and the medium in which it will be run, and some indication of the likely participants (e.g. names, community or expected stakeholders) by the end of Monday October 18, 2021. (2) Call for posters: In the absence of individual presentations and lectures, posters are a great way to share a project, dataset, method or activity related to the LOD and historical or heritage research, and discuss your work in a less formal setting with other interested attendees. We will hold an online digital poster session available throughout the symposium. To propose a poster, please send an abstract of 100–150 words to gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk by the end of Monday October 18, 2021. More information about the Linked Pasts Symposium at <https://linkedpasts.hcommons.org/linked-pasts-vii/>

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Call for participants: Immersive Global Middle Ages NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
by Roger L Martinez 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. [IGMA-Cover-1024x370.png] Dear Dm-L Colleagues: My colleague, Dr. Lynn Ramey (Vanderbilt)<https://my.vanderbilt.edu/lynnramey/> and I<https://history.uccs.edu/roger-martinez>, are announcing a call for participants for our Immersive Global Middle Ages NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D digital environments are witnessing explosive growth in research and teaching, but faculty and staff who could benefit from these techniques do not have equal access to the tools they need. Hardware and software used in the creation of 3D environments is expensive; institutional policies and commitment are highly variable; and some who would benefit lack confidence with the technology. The Immersive Global Middle Ages Institute provides a diverse cohort of medievalists with both theoretical and practical training in the creation and implementation of 3D objects and environments for research and teaching. The Institute will meet online three times each semester and will have two in-person four-day summer workshops over a two-year period (January 2022-November 2023). By the end of the Institute, participants will have considered the research around using 3D environments, developed 3D object assets and worlds, and authored teaching resources to pass on their new skills to students and colleagues. Given that many participants will lack the necessary robust computing hardware and software needed to participate in the workshops, the Institute will award technology stipends to participants for the purchase of an Alienware computer customized for immersive technology, monitor, keyboard/mouse, and a 3-year onsite support/warranty; an Oculus Rift headset; and a two-year license for Trimble SketchUp Pro modeling software. Initial details about the Institute can be found here: https://grants.uccs.edu/igma/ All are welcome to apply. Recognizing the need to address digital divides in higher education, this Institute will prioritize the professional development of participants who are members of underrepresented ethnic, cultural, and religious communities; women; diverse gender identities; and those who work at institutions serving those communities. Expenses to attend the in-person workshops are also covered by the institute. We will begin accepting formal applications for the institute in late September 2021. To receive updates on the application process, please send your name, position, institution, and email address to: igma(a)uccs.edu<mailto:igma@ucca.edu>. Best, Roger --- Roger Louis Martinez-Davila, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of History University of Colorado-Colorado Springs www.rogerlouismartinez.com<http://www.rogerlouismartinez.com/> https://grants.uccs.edu/igma/ https://grants.uccs.edu/deciphering-secrets/ https://history.uccs.edu/

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Help with our high-quality historical OCR app
by Nick White 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear all, We are a small 2-person not-for-profit company called Rescribe working on OCR for historical printed works, such as you would find on Internet Archive and Google Books. So far we have primarily worked with academic research projects and libraries to provide transcriptions of collections of interest to them, but have always been invested in broadening our work to help individuals get high quality OCR results, too. In recent months we have devoted more time to community-oriented open source software, developing a free desktop tool to perform high-quality OCR on modern and historic printed text. At the moment, this tool can only be run from the command line, but we’ve been encouraged by anecdotal feedback and a very positive independent review of our tool <https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/hmcelroy/blog-review-latinocr-and-res…> to make this tool more accessible. We would like to achieve this by creating a simple Graphic User Interface (GUI) for Windows, Mac and Linux, potentially with additional functionality built in. As the focus of this work is on providing useful tools to individuals, rather than catering to a large project, we are interested in trying a crowdfunding campaign in order to finance the development of this GUI and get interested parties directly involved in the actual development process. Before starting the crowdfunding campaign itself, however, we would like to take a chance and gauge interest from potential participants. We’ve composed a 30-second, 3-question survey where potential participants can register interest and have their say on future features of the tool, see here: https://forms.gle/AZcKpsbzQQajSE4j6 Please fill it out if you have a moment, and forward it on to anyone you think might be interested. In the meantime, any questions, comments and suggestions are all very welcome, either as a reply here, or to info(a)rescribe.xyz! All the very best, Nick + Antonia from Rescribe https://rescribe.xyz

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