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CFP: ICMS session on the future of manuscript studies (blended, paper session)
by Tina-Marie Ranalli 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '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. Hello, all, I wanted to let you know about an ICMS session on the future of manuscript studies (blended, paper session). Possible topics include: the digital humanities, new theoretical approaches, and interdisciplinary initiatives. The International Christine de Pizan Society—North American Branch will sponsor *two* sessions at Kalamazoo ICMS 2023 (11-13 May), including: Session 1: The Future of Manuscript Studies: Honoring the Legacy of Angus J. Kennedy and Liliane Dulac (paper session, blended format) Sponsored by: The International Christine de Pizan Society—North American Branch This look toward the future of manuscript studies will emphasize the enduring impact of two of the most prolific, pioneering, and respected scholars in the field of Christine studies, both of whom were lost during a period of just under six months in 2021–2022. Areas of potential interest for this session include, among others, the digital humanities, new theoretical approaches, and interdisciplinary initiatives. We seek to explore new horizons in manuscript studies that will honor, in any number of ways, the pioneering work of Angus J. Kennedy and Liliane Dulac. Please consider submitting a proposal! Our paper session and roundtable this past spring were robust and a true pleasure to attend—let’s keep up the tradition! Questions: contact tinamarieranalli [at] gmail [dot] com Best, tina ___ Tina-Marie Ranalli, PhD Secretary, International Christine de Pizan Society, NA Branch<https://christinedepizan.org/> ranalli.weebly.com<https://ranalli.weebly.com> | @medievalscholar<https://twitter.com/medievalscholar>

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SIMS Online Lecture_Dot Porter and Lisa Fagin Davis
by Ransom, Lynn 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '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 friends and colleagues, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is excited to announce the first lecture in this fall's SIMS Online Lecture Series. We kick off with the dynamic rock star duo, Dot Porter and Lisa Fagin Davis. See details below. Friday, September 16, 2022, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT Medieval Rolls in a Digital Environment Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Penn Libraries, and Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America Medieval rolls are notoriously difficult to display and publish. Digital publishing tends to focus on codex books, and to function at the level of the turning page. The physical format of rolls - membranes of parchment stitched together to form a long and narrow strip, which could be dozens of feet long - defies these expectations; other options are needed to effectively edit and publish medieval rolls in a way that respects their physical format and doesn't force them into a framework designed for books. Digital Mappa (DM) is one of these options. Originally designed for the editing of medieval maps of the world, DM centers the image and enables the annotation and linking of both images and text. DM is particularly useful for the editing of rolls, as the two examples in this lecture will illustrate. In this lecture, Dr Lisa Fagin Davis, professor of practice in manuscript studies at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science and executive director of the Medieval Academy of America, will present on the Digital Chronique 2.0, a DM edition of the Chronique Anonyme Universelle, a lavishly illustrated scroll history of the world from Creation to the fifteenth century. Dot Porter, SIMS founding member and Curator of Digital Research Services, will present on Ms. Roll 1066: Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England to Edward IV, circa 1461, originally published online in 2012 and republished in DM earlier this year. To register for the zoom link, click here<https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/kislak/MedievalRolls>. To receive regular updates on SIMS Project and Programs, sign up for our newsletter<https://schoenberginstitute.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1e6274e4f4149fc…>.

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****SPAM**** Call for Projects - Transcription Challenge Framework (TCF)
by Laura Morreale 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '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. Transcription Challenge Framework (TCF) CALL FOR PROJECTS<https://tcf.lauramorreale.com/call-for-projects/> Research Cycle 2023-2024 Do you have a relatively brief but problematic medieval source or text that exists in multiple copies, but has never received the kind of scholarly attention it warrants? Are you interested in examining and discussing your chosen source with a team of highly motivated researchers, who will work for a short but intense period to render versions of your source in machine-readable format? Would you like to learn how to use and apply collaborative digital methodologies in our increasingly virtual scholarly environment? The newly-established Transcription Challenge Framework (TCF), a scholar-run initiative supported by FromThePage<https://fromthepage.com/> and Stanford University Libraries<http://library.stanford.edu/>, is accepting proposals to host individual Transcription Challenges for its 2023-2024 TCF research-cycle season. The most appropriate texts for a Transcription Challenge are relatively short, totalling between 1200 and 2000 lines. Thus, a short book, or a book section from a longer treatise, are ideal candidates to submit to the Transcription Challenge. For every Challenge, multiple 10-person transcriber teams, led by two captains each, will devote their time and expertise over a two-week period to transcribe one copy of a text or source, in competition with other teams participating in the Challenge at the same moment. At the end of the Challenge session, several versions of the same source, rendered in machine-readable format, will be produced to very high editorial standards, ready for future scholarly use, and will be sent to a panel of subject-area specialist who will judge all the submissions according to the speed, accuracy, and collaborative nature of the transcription effort. Judges will announce a winning submission from among the participating teams. Two challenges are anticipated, scheduled between January and October 2023. Scholars whose proposals are accepted will benefit from the experience gained in past transcription events, have access to digital space to support the Challenge while it is ongoing, and a platform to house and publicize the scholarly output created before, during and after the two-week Challenge period. Past transcription events have proved wildly popular and productive for former participants, and have provided training and real outcomes within the new research environment. For more information on the Transcription Challenge Framework, its history, goals, and outcomes, please see the TCF Website<https://tcf.lauramorreale.com/history-basics-rationale>. To apply, please submit the following by October 1, 2022. 1. A 200-word abstract of the project that includes the chosen source and an explanation of why scholars would benefit from a transcription of its multiple copies; 2. A list of digitized copies of the manuscript, preferably in IIIF format (feel free to inquire if this format is unfamiliar to you); 3. A statement of who will act as Challenge Coordinator with contact information (email address, phone number, institutional affiliation if applicable), and a provisional list of who might serve as team captains; 4. All projects that are based on a campus or institution should include, when possible, the name of an affiliated Digital Humanities specialist (usually located in a library or Digital Humanities or Digital Scholarship center) who should be informed of the project as it progresses; 5. A preliminary bibliography of the source in question (5-10 items). Submissions should be sent by 12 midnight EST on October 1, 2022 to the TCF Advisory Board TCFramework(a)gmail.com<mailto:TCFramework@gmail.com> -- Laura K. Morreale, PhD Georgetown University: Visiting Researcher, <https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000015aLa2AAE/laura-morr…> Global Medieval Studies Program Harvard University: Associate in the Department of History Fordham University<https://www.fordham.edu/info/23060/medieval_studies_faculty>: Affiliated Scholar, Center for Medieval Studies,<https://www.fordham.edu/info/23060/medieval_studies_faculty> Medieval Academy of America: Councillor, 2020-2023<https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Governance> Forthcoming in 2022 from ARC Humanities Press: Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation (ed. Morreale and Gilsdorf).

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****SPAM**** A digital survey of early medieval manuscripts transmitting the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville
by Evina Steinova 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '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 DM community, We at the Innovating Knowledge project<https://innovatingknowledge.nl/> (Huygens Institute, Amsterdam) have just released an updated version (v2.3.1) of our database of early medieval manuscripts transmitting the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville. In April last year, we presented a beta version containing 461 manuscripts - now we can update this number to 492 manuscripts (and counting!). We hope that we will be able to beat the magic boundary of 500 codices soon. The database is accessible at: https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/. You can read more about the criteria for the inclusions of manuscripts, database's sources, functionality and plans at: https://innovatingknowledge.nl/?page_id=33. We are particularly glad that most of the included manuscripts (375 to be more precise) have been digitized. The database has an integrated Mirador viewer that allows you to access, compare and work with approximately 300 manuscripts with IIIF manifests directly via its interface (just click on the IIIF logo under the manuscript image). We hope that we will be able to add more digitized manuscripts and manuscripts with IIIF manifests in the future to make this database a digital manuscript library as well. For those who may be interested in reusing the data collected by the project, we are also releasing the complete datasheet underlying the database at our project's outputs page: https://innovatingknowledge.nl/?page_id=40. We hope you will find this resource useful for your research and an inspiration for your own digital projects. We are still in a short grace period, so if you note particularly nasty bugs (some of which we are aware of and currently fixing, like incorrect display of & in manuscript shelfmarks), errors, typos, or you think information could be added (such as to recent publications of yours on one or more of the featured manuscripts), we will be glad to hear from you. Best wishes, Evina -- Evina Steinova https://homomodernus.net/ https://evinasteinova.academia.edu/ Postdoctoral Researcher NWO VENI project Innovating Knowledge<http://innovatingknowledge.nl/> Huygens Institute, Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

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