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
There is still some time to nominate yourself or someone else for DM Board
2015–17
We are seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual
elections. 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 generally to the field of digital medieval studies.
For further information about the Executive 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/
If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to
recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers,
Alberto Campagnolo (alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com) and Georg Vogeler
(georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at), who will treat your nomination or
enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on
Sunday 7th June. Elections will be held by electronic ballot from Monday
15th June 2015, closing at 23:59 UTC on Saturday 30th June 2015.
Best wishes,
Alberto Campagnolo and Georg Vogeler
Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015
*Friday June 5 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU
Jen Hicks (UCL)
‘From lost archives to digital databases’
*
Of the leather documents used by the administration and individuals of
the Seleukid empire (ca 312- 63 BC), all that remains are the small
pieces of clay that were used to seal them; these however survive in
their tens of thousands in Mesopotamia and the Levant. In this paper I
will consider the potential and limitations of using these lumps of mud,
through the construction of digital databases and statistical analysis,
to reconstruct these lost archives, and to understand the imperial
structures of the Seleukid power.
Full abstract is available at
<http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-01jh.html>
<http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-01jh.html>
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
ALL WELCOME
The full 2014 programme is at
<http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html>
<http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html>
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Digital Philology: A
Journal of Medieval Cultures
Call for Submissions, 2016 and 2017 Open Issues
_Digital
Philology_ is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of
medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia
R. Altschul, _Digital Philology_ aims to foster scholarship that crosses disciplines
upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries and
periodizations. _Digital
Philology_ also encourages both applied and theoretical research
that engages with the digital humanities and shows why and how digital
resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield radical
results. The Johns Hopkins University Press publishes two journal issues per
year. One is open to all submissions, while the other is guest-edited, and revolves
around a thematic axis.
Articles must be written in English, follow the latest edition of the MLA style
manual, and be about 8,000 words in length, including abstract, footnotes, and
list of works cited. Quotations in the main text in languages other than
English should appear along with their English translation.
_Digital
Philology_ is welcoming submissions for its 2016 and 2017 open
issues. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be
sent to dph(a)jhu.edu, addressed to the Managing Editor (Albert
Lloret). Digital Philology also
publishes manuscript studies and reviews of books and digital projects.
Correspondence regarding manuscript studies may be addressed to Jeanette
Patterson at jpatterson09(a)gmail.com.
Correspondence regarding digital projects and publications for review may be
addressed to Timothy Stinson at tlstinson(a)gmail.com.
[http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html]
_Editorial Staff_
Albert Lloret, Managing Editor
University of
Massachusetts Amherst
Jeanette Patterson, Manuscript Studies Editor
Binghamton University,
SUNY
Timothy Stinson, Review Editor
North Carolina State
University
Nadia R. Altschul, Executive Editor
Johns Hopkins University
Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, Founding Editors
Johns
Hopkins University
_Editorial Board_
Tracy Adams, University of Auckland
Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University
Nadia R. Altschul, Johns Hopkins University
R. Howard Bloch, Yale University
Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto
Lucie Doležalová, Charles Univerzita Karlova v Prague
Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto
Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University
Jennifer Kingsley, Johns Hopkins University
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joachim Küpper, Freie Universität Berlin
Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia
Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo
Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University
Johan Oosterman, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University
Lori Walters, Florida State University
3rd International Workshop on
(Document) Changes: Modeling, Detection, Storage and Visualization
http://diff.cs.unibo.it/dchanges2015/
Part of 15th ACM SIGWEB International Symposium on Document Engineering
Lausanne, Switzerland, September 8th, 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS
===============
DChanges 2015 is the third edition of the International Workshop on
(Document) Changes: Modeling, Detection, Storage and Visualization in
conjunction with the 15th ACM SIGWEB International Symposium on Document
Engineering. This year, the workshop will be held in Lausanne
(Switzerland) in September 2015.
The focus of the workshop is the study of changes in all its aspects and
applications: algorithms to detect changes, models to describe
differences, techniques to track changes, versioning of human-readable
as well as computer-oriented files, tools to detect meaningful changes
among a myriad of modifications.
We want to look at these topics from different perspectives, and take on
different approaches. The workshop brings together researchers and
practitioners from industry and academia. It is a unique occasion to
discuss these issues in an informal setting and to foster collaboration.
The previous editions emphasised a strong need for novel algorithms and
interfaces to better understand and exploit detected changes. Several
issues were pointed out as still unsolved: interfaces do not scale when
dealing with many changes, changes at different levels of abstraction
are often not sufficiently taken into account, detection and
visualization are often inter-mixed, logs are often detailed but
underexploited, and versioning techniques are not very well suited for
non-technical people.
Besides contributions on these topics, we also seek contributions on,
but not necessarily limited to:
* Diffing and change tracking algorithms
* Change modeling and representation
* High-level differences
* Detecting changes on complex data structures
* Detecting changes on trees, graphs, diagrams and any kind of document
* Novel approaches to tree-based diff
* Edit-distance measures
* Quality of deltas and patches
* Editing patterns
* Semantic diff
* Merging
* Management of update conflicts
* N-way merge algorithms
* Propagation of changes
* Versioning systems
* Versioning
* Collaborative editing
* Real-time collaborative editing
* Distributed collaboration
* Use in digital humanities
* Collation
* Text genetics
* Stemmatology
* Plagiarism detection
* Applications of diff techniques from and to other domains
* Software engineering, law, medicine etc.
* Document and schema refactoring
Contributions from related areas are also well accepted.
Program
--------
The workshop will run a full day, divided in two parts to emphasize both
theoretical/algorithmic aspects and practical applications. Ample space
will be given to peer discussions and brainstorming about the results of
the presentations and the ideas brought forth by participants.
A detailed schedule will be announced in August.
Proceedings
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We plan to publish our proceedings via ACM ICPS, as we did last year.
Further details on the publication venue for the proceedings will be
available soon.
Important Dates
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* Abstracts are due: June 28th, 2015
* Papers and notes are due: July 3rd, 2015
* Acceptance notice: July 31st, 2015
* Camera ready: August 24th, 2015
Paper submission
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Two types of submissions are possible:
* Application/demo notes: 2-4 pages long, showcasing systems or tools
* Research papers: 4-8 pages long, describing original and unpublished
research
All papers must conform to the ACM SIG Proceedings format:
<https://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.htm…>.
Papers must be submitted to the EasyChair site
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dchanges2015>. All submissions
will undergo a rigorous single blind review process.
Organizers
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* Gioele Barabucci, Universität zu Köln
* Uwe M. Borghoff, Universität der Bundeswehr München
* Angelo Di Iorio, Università di Bologna
* Sonja Maier, Universität der Bundeswehr München
* Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
For any question, please contact <dchanges(a)lists.cs.unibo.it>.
Program committee (tbc)
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* Serge Autexier, DFKI Bremen
* Boris Konev, University of Liverpool
* John Lumley
* Pascal Molli, Université de Nantes - LINA
* Sebastian Rönnau
* Wolfgang Stürzlinger, York University
* Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete and FORTH-ICS
* Fabio Vitali, Università di Bologna
* Jean-Yves Vion-Dury, Xerox Research Centre Europe
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Research Scientist, HP Laboratories
Publicity Chair, ACM DocEng 2015
Textual Communities Workshop, KU Leuven 11 and 12 June 2015
Museumzaal (MSI 02.08, Erasmusplein 2, 3000 Leuven)
This workshop will serve three overlapping purposes.
First, it will introduce the Textual Communities system for creating scholarly editions in digital form. Textual Communities allows scholars and scholarly groups to make highest-quality editions in digital form, with minimal specialist computing knowledge and support. It is particularly suited to the making of editions which do not fit the pattern of “digital documentary editions”: that is, editions of works in many manuscripts or versions, or editions of non-authorial manuscripts. Accordingly, Textual Communities includes tools for handling images, page-by-page transcription, collation of multiple versions, project management, and more. See the draft article describing Textual Communities athttps://www.academia.edu/12297061/Some_principles_for_the_making_of_colla….
Second, it will offer training to transcribers joining the Canterbury Tales project, and to scholars leading transcription teams within the project. The project is undertaking the transcription of all 30,000 pages of the 88 pre-1500 witnesses of the Tales (18000 pages already transcribed but requiring checking; 12000 needing new transcription). Participants will be given accounts within the Textual Communities implementation of the Canterbury Tales project, introduced to the transcription system, and undertake their first transcriptions of pages from the Tales. See http://www.textualcommunities.usask.ca/web/canterbury-tales/wiki/-/wiki/Mai….
Third, it will offer an introduction to the principles of manuscript transcription for digital editions to any scholars or students considering undertaking a digital edition project based on a manuscript. The materials of the Canterbury Tales project will be used as a starting point for discussion of transcription, supplemented by reference to other textual traditions on which the workshop leaders have worked (including Dante, medieval Spanish and New Testament Greek).
This workshop will be useful to scholars undertaking a wide range of digital edition projects, especially of works existing in multiple witnesses. Because both the architect of Textual Communities (Robinson) and its chief programmer (Xiaohan Zhang) will be present, it will be useful also for technical consultants who plan to work with the Textual Communities API. And, of course, it will be useful for transcribers joining the Canterbury Tales project.
There is no charge for this workshop, but places will be limited. Please contact Barbara Bordalejo barbara.bordalejo(a)kuleuven.be<mailto:barbara.bordalejo@kuleuven.be> or Peter Robinson peter.robinson(a)usask.ca<mailto:peter.robinson@usask.ca> to confirm attendance. For accommodation, see http://www.leuven.be/en/tourism/staying/index.jsp.
This page is also at http://www.textualcommunities.usask.ca/web/textual-community/blog/-/blogs/f… and at www.arts.kuleuven.be/digitalhumanities/activiteiten<http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/digitalhumanities/activiteiten>.
Dear all,
[English below]
Dans le cadre du colloque Humanités numériques et Antiquité/ Digital Humanities and Antiquity DHANT (http://dhant.sciencesconf.org<http://dhant.sciencesconf.org/>), qui se tiendra à Grenoble du 2 au 4 septembre 2015, nous proposons un appel complémentaire pour quelques posters. 18 posters ont déjà été retenus mais, étant donné l’intérêt soulevé par ce colloque, nous pouvons accepter 5 ou 6 posters supplémentaires, qui ne passeront pas par la procédure de Peer-Review (Sur ces posters, figurera la precision “Late Call”).
Merci d’envoyer vos propositions avant le 10 juin à isabelle.cogitore(a)msh-alpes.fr<mailto:isabelle.cogitore@msh-alpes.fr> et elena.pierazzo(a)u-grenoble3.fr<mailto:elena.pierazzo@u-grenoble3.fr>
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Given the large interest caused by our conference, we are now delighted to offer the possibility for submitting late proposals for posters only. The conference Humanités numériques et Antiquité/ Digital Humanities and Antiquity DHANT (http://dhant.sciencesconf.org<http://dhant.sciencesconf.org/>) will take place in Grenoble from the 2nd to the 4th September. We already have 18 posters but we will be happy to include 5 to 6 more. Late proposal posters will not go through the normal peer-review process and will carry the label Late Call.
Please send your proposal before the 10 of June to the following addresses isabelle.cogitore(a)msh-alpes.fr<mailto:isabelle.cogitore@msh-alpes.fr> and elena.pierazzo(a)u-grenoble3.fr<mailto:elena.pierazzo@u-grenoble3.fr>
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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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Elena Pierazzo
Professeure d’italien et humanités numériques
Bureau F307
Université Grenoble Alpes - GERCI
BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9
Tel. +33 4 76828032
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
King's College London
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL
Dear researcher,
We are pleased to inform you that we have now extended the deadline for
short papers and application notes by one week - you now have until May
28 (11:59pm AoE) to get your submissions in. So, if you have unpublished
research work related to document engineering, now is a good time to
consider submitting to DocEng 2015.
This year's DocEng will take place from September 8-11, 2015 at the
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
We will also have a doctoral consortium for PhD students, ProDoc@DocEng,
to present their research in progress and obtain constructive feedback
from more senior members of the audience. Submissions are also due on
May 28. More information will follow shortly.
You can find the Call for Papers here:
=== http://www.doceng2015.org/call-papers ===
The ProDoc web page is at:
=== http://www.doceng2015.org/prodoc ===
All students presenting their work at DocEng 2015, including the
Doctoral Consortium will be eligible to apply for an ACM SIGWEB Student
Travel Award.
For more information, please visit the conference website at:
=== http://www.doceng2015.org ===
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Research Scientist, HP Laboratories
Publicity Chair, ACM DocEng 2015
Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2015 for
four positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year
terms and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms 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 would be expected that you
are willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist
undertake some of its activities: the Board is currently organised with a
Director, a Deputy Director, a Journal Editor-in-Chief, Journal Associate
Editors, Conference Representatives, Website and News Feed Admins DM-L
Admins, Facebook Admin, Infrastructure/Technical Support, Returning
Officers for Elections
For further information about the Executive 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/
We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual
elections. 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 generally 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 the returning officers,
Alberto Campagnolo (alberto.campagnolo [at] gmail.com) and Georg Vogeler
(georg.vogeler [at] uni-graz.at), who will treat your nomination or
enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on
Sunday 7th June. Elections will be held by electronic ballot from Monday
15th June 2015, closing at 23:59 UTC on Saturday 30th June 2015.
Best wishes,
Alberto Campagnolo and Georg Vogeler