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Digital Classicist seminar: Digital comparison of 19th century plaster casts and original classical sculptures
by Tupman, Charlotte 18 Jun '15

18 Jun '15

Emma Payne (UCL), Digital comparison of 19th century plaster casts and original classical sculptures Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies seminar 2015 Friday June 19th at 16:30 Room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-03ep.html Historical casts of original classical sculptures can now function as important archaeological records: we know that they may contain valuable archaeological information subsequently lost from original sculptures. However, it was not unknown for the 19th century plaster craftsmen (formatori) to doctor the casts, crafting their moulds such that when cast, a damaged sculpture would appear more complete. In this sense, plaster casts may be considered artefacts in their own right-rather than straightforward copies-representing 19th century craft techniques and approaches to classical reception. In order to investigate these potential historical and archaeological significances, 3D scans are being produced of both casts and original objects for comparison. Scanning of casts is taking place at the British Museum, which houses an early collection of casts of classical sculptures. Case studies have been selected by identifying those sculptures for which there are early casts of originals that remained in an outdoor context for many years after they were moulded; these casts are most likely to contain small surface details lost/changed from the originals by processes such as weathering. Sections of casts of the Parthenon sculptures are to be scanned at the British Museum, and the corresponding sections of the originals at the Acropolis Museum, Athens. The 3D images will record fine topographical details to facilitate study of the current surface appearance and condition of the casts and originals. The two sets of images will then be visually compared and mapped onto each other to indicate any differences. The comparative 3D scans will be used to facilitate interpretation of the complex nature of the plaster surfaces by attempting to distinguish between differences caused by reductive processes on the originals (such as weathering) and additive processes on the casts (made up by the formatori). Results are to be analysed in conjunction with detailed digital photographs and/or reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), together with consideration of the historical context of both casts and originals, craft techniques used to produce the casts, and limitations of the scanning process when dealing with objects of two different materials (marble and plaster). The results should enhance our understanding both of the original sculptures and of the significances of the casts. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. -- Dr. Charlotte Tupman Research Associate Study Abroad Tutor & Publicity Coordinator Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7145

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VOTE NOW - DM Elections
by Alberto Campagnolo 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Voting for the DM board 2015-2017 OPENS NOW until TUE 30th JUNE, GMT midnight. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l at uleth.ca <http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l>> (Follow <https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/mailing-list/> to join). To vote, use the link and the voting token that have been sent to the email address that you have used to register to DM. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. 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 candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: - 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/ ================== If you have not received your voting link and token or for any other problem, please, email the returning officers directly at alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com or georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at. ================== 2015-2017 CANDIDATES (in alphabetical order by surname): - Emiliano Degl’Innocenti - Els De Paermentier - Andrew Dunning - Greta Franzini - Gregory Heyworth - Nicolas Perreaux - Dominique Stutzmann ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (in alphabetical order by surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of up to 4 votes. ***************************** EMILIANO DEGL'INNOCENTI Degree in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at the University of Florence. Currently Head of the Computing in the Humanities Dept. at Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino and Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Florence. Adjunct Professor of Computing in the Humanities at the University of Florence and teacher for the Master in Digital Humanities at the University of Siena. Involved in national and international D/H projects: Digital Plutei of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture), Digitization of the Colonial Archives in Cameroon (promoted by the British Library), CENDARI (funded by EU under the 7th FP) and PARTHENOS (funded under the H2020 programme). Director of digitization projects (teca.bmlonline.it), scholarly databases (www.mirabileweb.it) and research tools (TRAME meta-search engine for medieval manuscripts (www.trame.fefonlus.it); invited expert of COST Action IS1005. Member of the Scientific Committee at Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Associate Editor at Frontiers in Digital Humanities, Communication Officer for DARIAH.IT <http://dariah.it/>, co-leader of the Medievalist's Sources DARIAH-EU working group. ***************************** ELS DE PAERMENTIER Els De Paermentier is Assistant Professor in Medieval Diplomatics and Palaeography at Ghent University (Belgium). In 2010 she completed her PhD on the organisation of the comital chancery in the counties of Flanders and Hainaut (1191-1244). For her research she elaborated a new computer-aided methodology to determine the editorial origin of charter texts. In 2012 she received a COST Action grant for a short term scientific mission (one month) at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT) in Paris, where she examined the interoperability between the Belgian and French Latin source databases Diplomata Belgica and TELMA-databases (Traitement Électronique des Manuscrits et des Archives). Shortly afterwards she became a member of the COST Action Programm IS1005: Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources and joined the working group for the design of a virtual center for medieval studies (VCMS) (2012-2015). In September 2013 she co-organised, among other scholarly meetings, the three-days seminar Historical Documents, Digital Approaches. Mark-up, Analysis and Representation of Medieval Texts. Theory and Practice. She is currently a member of the academic board of the project Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC). A Multiple Database System for the Launch of Diplomata Belgica and for a Completely Updated Version of Narrative Sources (dir. Jeroen Deploige, Ghent University) and of the steering committee of the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH). ***************************** ANDREW DUNNING Andrew Dunning is finishing his doctorate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, and will be an RBC-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Book, University of Oxford in 2016. He is currently producing TEI-encoded collections of the unpublished works of Alexander Neckam (1157–1217) and Samuel Presbiter (fl. 1200), and is a contributor to forthcoming digital catalogues of the scribal additions to the books of Matthew Parker (1504–1574) and John Stow (1524/5–1605). His edition of Samuel Presbiter’s Collecta ex diuersis auditis in scola magistri Willelmi de Monte (Notes from the School of William de Montibus) will be published by PIMS in 2015 through the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series. ***************************** GRETA FRANZINI Greta Franzini is a Classicist by training. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh), University of London. There, she conducts interdisciplinary research in Latin philology, codicology, literary criticism and text visualisation. Greta's specific interests lie within (ancient) languages, codicology and digital editions. Part of her doctoral studies has resulted in the creation of a Catalogue of Digital Editions ( https://sites.google.com/site/digitaleds/home) and the final output of her PhD will consist of a digital documentary edition of an early Latin manuscript (https://sites.google.com/site/gretafranzini/home). In order to fund her doctoral studies, Greta works as a fulltime early career researcher (http://etrap.gcdh.de) at the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) (http://www.gcdh.de/en/), University of Göttingen. There, she's involved in research pertaining to historical text reuse and jointly coordinates the Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities ( http://www.gcdh.de/en/events/gottingendialogdigitalhumanities/), a seminar series inspired by the Digital Classicist but with a broader scope. Prior to Göttingen, Greta worked on the Open Greek and Latin Project ( http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/projects/opengreekandlatinproject/) at the University of Leipzig, where she coordinated three major digitisation projects (imaging, OCR and TEI XML encoding) aimed at producing open digital versions of a large number of Ancient Greek and Latin printed editions. ***************************** GREGORY HEYWORTH After taking a BA in English from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Princeton in Comparative Literature, Gregory Heyworth began his career at the University of Mississippi as a medievalist with a specialty in textual studies and classical influence. His first book, Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form (Notre Dame, 2009), won the 2010 Choice Oustanding Academic Title award. His interest in textual science and digital humanities began with his edition of the badly damaged Old French poem Les Eschez d'Amours (Brill, 2013) which he recovered using a transportable multispectral imaging system he developed with a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. In 2010, Heyworth founded and now directs the Lazarus Project, a non-profit initiative to recover damaged cultural heritage objects using various imaging technologies. Since its inception, the Lazarus Project has digitally restored scores of damaged works and objects in libraries and collections around the world, including the Vercelli Book and the Martellus Map; it has supported the research of numerous scholars by offering its technology and expertise, and has launched major multispectral digitization projects in Chartres, Tblisi, and Vercelli. Behind the Lazarus Project is a curriculum in textual science that Heyworth developed to train students in a combination of the history of the book, codicology, and spectral imaging, imaging science, and digital display. He is currently working on an edition of the oldest translation of the Gospels into Latin, a book entitled Textual Science and the Future of the Past Roger Easton, and a promising neural net approach to manuscript OCR with his student Eleanor Anthony. ***************************** NICOLAS PERREAUX Doctor in Medieval History, currently postdoctoral researcher at Paris XII (ANR Pocram), I have been interested since childhood in technology and programming. After graduating in Science, I headed for the Humanities and Social Sciences. My Master, directed by Eliana Magnani, led me to apply the methods of data mining to diplomatics corpora. Through a doctoral contract, I realized a thesis (directed by Daniel Russo and Eliana Magnani, supported in 2014), based on the manipulation of several major archaeological and textual corpora. This research allowed me to acquire skills in data / text mining, digital humanities, exploratory statistics, geographic information systems, programming (Perl) and historical semantics. During the period 2009-2015, I have worked with several collaborative research projects, including four ANR, all of them about Digital History. Since February 2015, I am postdoc at Paris XII. ***************************** DOMINIQUE STUTZMANN After degrees in Classics, History and German studies at the Sorbonne, Dominique Stutzmann studied at the École nationale des Chartes <http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/> (2002), received a MLIS and worked at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Bibliothèque nationale de France <http://www.bnf.fr/>. He completed a PhD on scribal practices of Cistercian communities in medieval Burgundy (statistical analysis of scribal profiles based on TEI encoding). In 2007-2012 and 2015 onwards, he is lecturer for medieval paleography and digital scholarly edition at the École Pratique des Hautes Études <http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr/> and, since 2010, senior researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes <http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/> (CNRS). He currently leads as Principal Investigator several research projects in the field of digital humanities ( FAMA <http://fama.irht.cnrs.fr/> on Latin bestsellers, ANR Oriflamms <http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/en/anr-funded-project/?tx_lwmsuivi…>, ECMEN <https://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/1365> on computer automated image analysis applied to palaeography, Saint-Bertin <http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/fr/saint-bertin-centre-culturel-viie-xvi…> for virtually reconstructing of a former library) and organizes conferences, sessions, summer school (Leeds, Dagstuhl <http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=4793>, Saint-Omer <http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/en/news/summer-course-saint-omer-reconst…>). I am on the Board since 2011 and love the work we are doing for the journal and the community. It is a great community and I am proud to work for it!

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Latest blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 14 Jun '15

14 Jun '15

My latest blog, on the Houghton Library: http://wp.me/p3RUQ3-WU - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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Digital Classicist London Seminar CORRECTION
by Gabriel Bodard 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday June 12th at 16:30 in *Room G34* Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Leif Isaksen, Pau de Soto (Southampton), Elton Barker (Open University) and Rainer Simon (Vienna): _Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world_ This session will also be live-cast to the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIamtu1Z62wL5XRk2mE8HKw Abstract: One of the primary obstacles to conducting geospatial analysis of relevant documents (both maps and texts) is identifying the places to which they refer. Recogito is a user-friendly Web-based tool developed to enable: first the “geotagging” of place names either on maps or in digital texts; then the “georesolving” of those places to an appropriate gazetteer. Not only does this step provide geographical coordinates; by mapping to an authority file (a gazetteer), the documents are also connected to the Pelagios linked data network. All metadata are free and downloadable to the public as CSV files or maps. Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html *ALL WELCOME* The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 E: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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Balisage Symposium: Call for Short Talks
by Hugh Cayless 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Dear All, As part of the Balisage Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup, we want to have an "inverted" paper session where the talks are short and there is lots of time for discussion and debate after each talk. I think this is going to be perhaps the most interesting session of the day, so please join in! Full text and submission details at http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/Short-Talks-call.html Cultural Heritage data tend to be complex and heterogeneous; they resist generic solutions and often push tools and standards to the edges of their capabilities. Complex problems would seem to demand complex solutions, but as Gall's Law points out: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." The Balisage Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup invites proposals for short presentations that aim to provoke discussion of how to design for and cope with the complexity of Cultural Heritage materials. Do you have a markup problem with no solution? Data too messy for your tools to handle? An ingenious solution to a hard problem involving Cultural Heritage materials? A heretical point of view about existing standards and practices? We want to hear from you! Presentations will be 10 minutes (or less) in length, followed by open discussion, brainstorming, support, sympathy, and advice from our audience of markup experts. To propose a short presentation for the Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup send email to info(a)balisage.net. Proposals must be received by June 19, 2015. Selection decisions will be announced by June 23, 2015. /** * Hugh A. Cayless, Ph.D * Chair, TEI Technical Council * Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3) * hugh.cayless(a)duke.edu * http://blogs.library.duke.edu/dcthree/ **/

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Seminar: Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world
by Simon Mahony 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 *Friday June 12th at 16:30 in room 348, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU** ** **Leif Isaksen, Pau de Soto (Southampton), Elton Barker (Open University) and Rainer Simon (Vienna)** **'Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world'* One of the primary obstacles to conducting geospatial analysis of relevant documents (both maps and texts) is identifying the places to which they refer. Recogito is a user-friendly Web-based tool developed to enable: first the “geotagging” of place names either on maps or in digital texts; then the “georesolving” of those places to an appropriate gazetteer. Not only does this step provide geographical coordinates; by mapping to an authority file (a gazetteer), the documents are also connected to the Pelagios linked data network. All metadata are free and downloadable to the public as CSV files or maps. Full abstract is available at <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-02li.html> *ALL WELCOME* The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. The full 2015 programme is at <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html> -- ------------------------------------------- Student Support Manager Department of War Studies War Studies Online Room K7.05, 7th Floor, King's Building King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/study/wsonline

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Postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities/scholarly editing
by Robinson, Peter 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

The Textual Communities/Canterbury Tales Project/Digital Humanities group within the University of Saskatchewan is interested in sponsoring an application for a Banting Postdoctoral fellowship, tenable at the University commencing 2016. Banting fellowships are available to citizens from ANY country who graduated with a PhD degree or equivalent after September 2012 (with some extensions), who is not currently holding a tenurable university post. The terms are generous: see http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/app-dem/elig-adm-eng.html. If you are interested in being sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan for a Banting fellowship, within the broad areas of digital scholarly editing/medieval and renaissance texts/eLiterature, etc., please email Peter Robinson (peter.robinson(a)usask.ca<mailto:peter.robinson@usask.ca>). We have an internal deadline of 15 June, so we need to hear from you very soon. Best wishes Peter Robinson

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Funded PhD scholarship in Grenoble
by Pierazzo, Elena 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

Apologies for cross-posting Dear All, It is my pleasure to announce that the University Grenoble Alpes offers a fully funded PhD scholarship for a study and development of a responsive interface for the Fonte Gaia digital library. The aim is to promote public engagement thought the development of an interface that suits the public needs and expectations. The bursary starts in October 2015 and application are du by 20th of July. More details: http://fontegaia.hypotheses.org/1050 Please share it widely. Best wishes Elena __ Elena Pierazzo Visiting Senior Research Fellow King's College London Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities Bureau F307 Université Grenoble Alpes - GERCI BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 Tel. +33 4 76828032

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Balisage Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup Program
by Hugh Cayless 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

I am very pleased to announce that the program for the Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup is now available: http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/symposiumProgram.html <http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/symposiumProgram.html>(the symposium will be followed by Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015 http://balisage.net/ <http://balisage.net/>) All of the talks in some way address and grapple with the complexity of Cultural Heritage materials and the difficulties involved in applying standard markup solutions to them. A further call for short presentations meant to kick off long discussions will be forthcoming, so please be on the lookout! Topics include: - dealing with document fragments and fragmentary annotations - aligning text to images and the character level - interoperable cross-references using TEI - converting metadata from legacy formats to web formats - representing and storing metadata for long-term use Symposium Logistics: - When: 10 August 2015 - Where: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center (Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC) - More Info: http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/index.html <http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/index.html> - Program: http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/symposiumProgram.html <http://balisage.net/CulturalHeritage/symposiumProgram.html> - Registration: http://balisage.net/registration.html <http://balisage.net/registration.html> - Questions: info(a)balisage.net <mailto:info@balisage.net> ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015 mailto:info@balisage.net <mailto:info@balisage.net> August 11-14, 2015 http://www.balisage.net <http://www.balisage.net/> Preconference Symposium: August 10, 2015 +1 301 315 9631 ====================================================================== /** * Hugh A. Cayless, Ph.D * Chair, TEI Technical Council * Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3) * hugh.cayless(a)duke.edu * http://blogs.library.duke.edu/dcthree/ **/

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Bodleian Library event, 15 June: Introducing the International Image Interoperability Framework
by Judith Siefring 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Introducing the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, University of Oxford Date: Monday 15 June, 2-4.30pm Description: Cultural heritage materials from research libraries, museums, and archives are increasingly becoming available online. Users have moved from wanting to simply access materials online to wanting to use, develop and re-purpose them in ways that push the boundaries of research and open new avenues in teaching. TheInternational Image Interoperability Framework (http://iiif.io) is a community-driven, collaborative initiative committed to making these digital materials easily accessible and usable for scholars worldwide. This lecture will explore the use of IIIF in an international context, and will also describe the implementation of IIIF standards at the Bodleian Library. Our main speaker will be Tom Cramer, who will give a lecture “IIIF: The International Image Interoperability Framework Putting Images IN (Not Just ON) the Web for a New World of Possibilities”. Matthew McGrattan will then talk about IIIF at the Bodleian Libraries, and Judith Siefring will present the work of the Digital Manuscripts Toolkit project. The event is free and open to all, but registration is required: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/upcoming-events/2015/jun/intr…. Speakers: Tom Cramer is the Chief Technology Strategist and Associate Director of Digital Library Systems and Services for the Stanford University Libraries Matthew McGrattan is the Collections Delivery Architect for Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Judith Siefring is project manager for the Bodleian’s Digital Manuscripts Toolkit project, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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