dm-l May 2022

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Improving HTR output from Greek papyri and Byzantine manuscripts - HTREC challenge 2022
by Franz FISCHER 04 May '22

04 May '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. Dear digital medievalists, dear AI crowd, Training material has been released for preparation of the HTREC 2022 challenge, 1-8 June 2022, to improve Artificial Intelligence driven text recognition from Greek papyri and Byzantine manuscripts! - An AI crowd challenge organised by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Ca' Foscari University of Venice. See: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/htrec-2022 Handwritten text recognition (HTR) concerns the conversion of scanned images of handwritten text into machine-encoded text. This is a challenging task that can lead to transcribed text with multiple errors or even to no transcription at all when training data (e.g., on a specific script) are not available. This challenge aims to post-correct automatically any HTR transcription errors, attempting to build on recent NLP advances, such as on Grammatical Error Correction. Why Is This Challenge Important? New, unpublished data will be released with this challenge and the state of the art in the field will be drawn. A workshop, that will take place in Venice in November 2022, will discuss the results. What is the dataset like? The training instances consist of images of handwritten texts that have been transcribed by human experts (the ground truth) and by a state of the art HTR model (the input). The texts comprise Greek papyri and byzantine manuscripts. First, more than 1,800 lines of transcribed text will be released in order to serve as training and validation data. The use of other resources for training is allowed and suggested. Next, an evaluation set will be released, for which we will only share the input. A very small part of the evaluation set is used to keep an up to date leaderboard. What Are The Key Tasks? The task involves the correction of any errors present in the HTR-ed text, provided the system transcription of the manuscript in question. The ground truth of the evaluation set is used to score participating systems in terms of character error *reduction* rate (CERR). A starter kit notebook is provided here to assist with system development and evaluation. Prizes! The Participant with the best performing system will be invited to attend a workshop in Venice, upon the completion of the challenge, and present the respective system description paper with all expenses covered. Timeline Training data release date: May 1st, 2022 Evaluation data release date: June 1st, 2022 Predictions submission deadline: 11:59, June 8th, 2022 Rankings release date: July 1st, 2022 System description paper submission deadline: 11:59 September 1st, 2022 Best system description paper announced: October 1st, 2022 Workshop: November 7th & 8th, 2022, Venice, Italy All deadlines are in UTC -12h timezone (anywhere on planet earth). Best of luck! 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/vedph https://www.i-d-e.de/ https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/

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AAHD-International Conference
by gimena del rio riande 03 May '22

03 May '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. Dear Colleagues, The Argentine Association of Digital Humanities/Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD) invites you to participate in its Fifth International Conference: Digital Humanities. Perspectives from the South, to be held at Universidad Nacional del Comahue (National University of Comahue)-Facultad de Lenguas (Faculty of Languages ), General Roca city (Füskü Menuko, in Mapuche language), Argentina, 17-10 November, 2022. The deadline for sending abstracts for short 15 minute paper presentations and workshops is May 31st, 2022. The languages for the conference are Spanish, English, and Portuguese. There will be additional workshops, networking events, keynotes and the possibility to engage in leisure activities to get to know the Patagonian region. The CFP can be found on our site at https://www.aacademica.org/aahd2022 (CfP in English attached in landing page). Best, Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales https://aahd.net.ar/ ### [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zDBtcicWgxO7irgAxkQAIJuPVO…] Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8997-5415 Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar<http://aahd.net.ar/> Coordinadora HD Lab (CAICYT): http://hdlab.space/ Twitter: @gimenadelr<https://twitter.com/gimenadelr> Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158

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[registration] conference "Ancient Documents and Automatic Handwriting Recognition", 22-23 June 2022, Paris
by Ariane Pinche 02 May '22

02 May '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. [All apologies for the cross mailings]. Dear all , We are pleased to announce the opening of registrations ( https://dahtr.sciencesconf.org/registration ) for the conference "Ancient Documents and Automatic Handwriting Recognition" which will take place on June 23 and 24, 2022 at the École nationale des chartes in Paris. Thus, the École nationale des chartes, in partnership with the LabEx Hastec and the LAMOP, organize on 23 and 24 June 2022 two days of conferences combining philological and technical questions on the use of HTR for ancient documents. We will take this opportunity to review HTR through its tools, results and new practices induced by its use in publishing and exploitation projects. We hope that this event will also be an opportunity to bring together a growing international community of researchers to discuss the use of HTR in their scientific projects. You will find the programme of these days at the following link: https://dahtr.sciencesconf.org. For any information request, you can contact us at the following address: dahtr(a)sciencesconf.org<mailto:dahtr@sciencesconf.org>. Please feel free to share this information, Yours sincerely, Ariane Pinche for the organizing committee Ariane Pinche Docteure en langue et littérature médiévales Postdoctorante • Projet CREMMALAB École nationale des chartes • INRIA Centre Jean Mabillon • CIHAM (UMR 5648 ) ariane.pinche(a)chartes.psl.eu<mailto:ariane.pinche@chartes.psl.eu>

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[registration] conference "Ancient Documents and Automatic Handwriting Recognition", 22-23 June 2022, Paris
by Ariane Pinche 02 May '22

02 May '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. [All apologies for the cross mailings]. Dear all , We are pleased to announce the opening of registrations ( https://dahtr.sciencesconf.org/registration ) for the conference "Ancient Documents and Automatic Handwriting Recognition" which will take place on June 23 and 24, 2022 at the École nationale des chartes in Paris. Thus, the École nationale des chartes, in partnership with the LabEx Hastec and the LAMOP, organize on 23 and 24 June 2022 two days of conferences combining philological and technical questions on the use of HTR for ancient documents. We will take this opportunity to review HTR through its tools, results and new practices induced by its use in publishing and exploitation projects. We hope that this event will also be an opportunity to bring together a growing international community of researchers to discuss the use of HTR in their scientific projects. You will find the programme of these days at the following link: https://dahtr.sciencesconf.org. For any information request, you can contact us at the following address: dahtr(a)sciencesconf.org<mailto:dahtr@sciencesconf.org>. Please feel free to share this information, Yours sincerely, Ariane Pinche for the organizing committee Ariane Pinche Docteure en langue et littérature médiévales Postdoctorante • Projet CREMMALAB École nationale des chartes • INRIA Centre Jean Mabillon • CIHAM (UMR 5648 ) ariane.pinche(a)chartes.psl.eu<mailto:ariane.pinche@chartes.psl.eu>

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Amendments to the Digital Medievalist Bylaws Approved
by N. Kivilcim Yavuz 02 May '22

02 May '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. Dear members of Digital Medievalist, We are happy to announce that the amendments to the Bylaws proposed by the Digital Medievalist Executive Board on March 5, 2022 have been approved by the members of Digital Medievalist and accepted at the last meeting of the Board on April 21, 2022. We extend our thanks to those members who provided feedback during the comment period and those who cast a vote during the voting period. Current bylaws may be found on the DM website: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ All best wishes, Digital Medievalist Elections Committee: Claudia Sojer and N. Kıvılcım Yavuz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz Kenneth Spencer Research Library University of Kansas 1450 Poplar Lane Lawrence, KS 66045 nkyavuz.com<http://nkyavuz.com> | transtextual.net<http://transtextual.net> @manuscriptsetc on Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/manuscriptsetc/> and Twitter<https://twitter.com/manuscriptsetc>

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Call for participation: University of Lausanne - Summer School on Digital Critical Editing (in-person, July 4-8, 2022)
by Violeta Seretan 02 May '22

02 May '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. - Please circulate widely - Dear All, Please find below an announcement that may be of interest to the French-speaking members of this list. Best regards, Violeta Seretan, PhD University of Lausanne --- Par ce message, j’ai le plaisir de vous informer qu’une école d’été intitulée « Éditions critiques numériques de textes apocryphes chrétiens anciens et médiévaux » aura lieu à l’Université de Lausanne du 4 au 8 juillet 2022 et que les inscriptions sont ouvertes jusqu’au 16 mai prochain (https://wp.unil.ch/summerschools/courses/textes-apocryphes/) Cette école d’été se propose d'initier à deux nouveaux outils numériques élaborés selon les principes FAIR dans le cadre d'un projet du Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique portant sur l’édition et l’étude de textes apocryphes chrétiens : le premier est une chaîne de traitement informatique innovante facilitant l'établissement d'éditions critiques numériques d’œuvres anciennes à tradition manuscrite multiple et fluide. Le second est un outil numérique de synopse capable de prendre en charges plusieurs langues anciennes (grec, latin, syriaque, éthiopien, etc.) et de gérer tous les types de parallèles au niveau des phrases et des mots (déplacements, inversions, entrecroisements, etc.) avec des annotations et des lexiques. En prenant pour cas d’étude des écrits apocryphes chrétiens en grec et en latin, la suite logicielle fournit des outils intégrés et souples couvrant toutes les étapes de l'ecdotique, de la transcription des manuscrits avec des balises TEI à l'établissement du texte et de l'apparat critique, en passant par la collation des témoins, l'analyse des variantes en format « graphe » et la stemmatologie. En vous remerciant d'avance de diffuser cette annonce autour de vous, je vous adresse mes salutations très cordiales. Frédéric Amsler ---

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Call for Nominations to DM Board 2022–2026
by Claudia Sojer 02 May '22

02 May '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. <Call for Nominations to DM Board 2022–2026> Digital Medievalist (DM) is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media to support scholars in meeting the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects. Digital Medievalist publishes an open access journal, sponsors conference sessions, runs an email discussion list and encourages best practice in digital medieval resource creation. Digital Medievalist is overseen by an eight-member Executive Board of medievalists with considerable experience in the use of digital media in the study of medieval topics. Digital Medievalist is now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) to fill 5 positions on its Executive Board for terms beginning August 2022. Elections will be holding at the end of June 2022. Board positions are for 4-year terms, and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of 2 terms [8 years] 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 those elected will be 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, developing programming to support DM’s mission including online events or conference sessions, and contributing to its social media presence and activity, among others). 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 Claudia Sojer (claudia.sojer(a)uni-erfurt.de) or N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (nky(a)ku.edu) who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Monday 23rd May 2022 and elections will be held by electronic ballot from Monday, 27th June 2022, closing at 23:59 UTC on Monday, 11th July 2022. Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/; https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ Symposia: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/the-past-present-and-future-of-dig… Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Medievalist Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: https://de-de.facebook.com/groups/49320313760/ Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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