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LAST DAYS: VOTE NOW for DM Board Elections 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Vote NOW for the Digital Medievalist Board Elections 2014! Only until Sunday 27th! Cheers, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dominique Stutzmann <dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr> > Date: 2014-07-14 0:36 GMT+02:00 > Subject: VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2014 > To: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> > > > Voting will be OPEN until SUN 27th JULY, GMT midnight. > > To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the > Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow > <http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to > vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only > seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. > > 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: > > * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> > * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> > > ================== > To VOTE fill out the survey here: > > <https://fr.surveymonkey.com/s/TXHM3Y8> > > ================== > > CANDIDATE STATEMENTS > > The following biographical candidate statements (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. After voting please remember to click DONE! > > ***************************** > > ALBERTO CAMPAGNOLO > > Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course > for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, Italy and has > worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National > Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library > London, London Metropolitan Archives, and is currently working at the > Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials > at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital > Culture and Technology at King’s College London. He is now pursuing a PhD > on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the > Ligatus Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London. He is > interested in building a dialogue between the world of Conservation in > libraries, archives and museums and that of Digital Humanities, and in the > digital representation of physical aspect of books, and medieval books and > bookbindings in particular. > > ***************************** > > ELEONORA DURBAN > > After graduating in Milan in Historical Linguistics, I have obtained an MA > degree in Medieval Studies from University College London and a PhD in Late > Latin Philology at King's College London. I have subsequently worked at the > Department of Digital Humanities at KCL for seven years, where I have > worked on a series of Medieval History related projects. My main interests > and expertise relate to XML encoding, manuscript studies, digital critical > editions, virtual research environments, and the potentials of the > application of computational linguistics tools to the world of digital > philology. > > I have recently relocated to Italy for family reasons and I am looking for > opportunities to develop new projects in or around Milan. > > > ***************************** > > FRANZ FISCHER > > Franz Fischer works as a research associate at the Cologne Center for > eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne [link: < > http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/>]. He studied History, Latin and Italian in > Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin > for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy [link: < > http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de>]. From 2008-2011 he created a digital > edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio [link: <http://www.confessio.ie>] at > the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He is a founding member of the > Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) [link: < > http://www.i-d-e.de/>] teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE > [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften>], a series on digital editions, > palaeography & codicology, and RIDE [link: <http://ride.i-d-e.de/>], a > new review journal on digital editions and resources. Franz Fischer is > currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network > on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT [link: <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/>]. > Other activities include teaching Digital Humanities at NUI Maynooth [link: > < http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/>] and facilitating various DH > projects at the CCeH. > > > ***************************** > > GRETA FRANZINI > > A classicist by training, Greta Franzini is a part-time PhD student at the > UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her doctoral research is producing the > first electronic edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St. > Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Her new palaeographical, codicological and > philological contributions are informing her investigation of digital > technologies that can help to best explore and electronically reproduce the > manuscript. > > Greta is also working as a full-time Research Associate and Executive for > the Open Philology Project at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at > the University of Leipzig. Here, she oversees major data entry and book > digitisation contracts aimed at producing a large volume of > machine-readable open data pertaining to Greek and Latin sources. > > > ***************************** > > ALEXEI LAVRENTIEV > > Alexei Lavrentiev is a research engineer at ICAR Research Laboratory > <http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/> (CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr/> and Lyon > University <http://lyon-university.org/>). His PhD thesis in French > Linguistics (École normale supérieure de Lyon <http://www.ens-lyon.eu/>, > France, 2009) was dedicated to the study of medieval French punctuation and > was based on a corpus of multi-layer TEI-XML transcriptions of manuscripts > and incunabula. He was involved in the Princeton Charrette Project > <http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/> (2002-2006) and in the Saint-Petersburg > Hagiography Corpus <http://project.phil.spbu.ru/scat/> (2004). Since 2004 > he has been working on the BFM Old French Corpus > <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=123> and on various > related research and publication projects. He is responsible for the TEI > encoding of the BFM texts, for their linguistic annotation and for > providing user access to them. He manages the BFM public website > <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/> and the web portal <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/>. > This portal, developed by a team of ICAR researchers and engineers > (Matthieu Decorde, Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev and > Bénédicte Pincemin), provides a great number of services including KWIC > concordances, a text selection interface, presentation of synoptic > editions, statistical analysis, etc. He is a co-editor (with Christiane > Marchello-Nizia) of the *Queste del Saint Graal* > <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL> online > edition <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL>. > > As a member of the DM Board (2012-2014), A. Lavrentiev was one of the wiki > editors and news feed moderator. He represents the DM Board in the program > committee of the El'Manuscript conference > <http://textualheritage.org/content/view/486/209/lang,english/>. > Nominated a deputy director early in 2014, he assisted P. Stokes in > arranging and holding some board meetings. > > ***************************** > > GEORG VOGELER > > I studied "Historical Auxiliary Sciences" at Freiburg and Munich. I wrote > a PhD on late Medieval Tax Adminstration Documents in the German > Territorial States and worked in the field diplomatics (yes, charters not > diplomats!) and cultural history of documentation (in particular in Italy > during the reign of Frederic II) In 2004 got intrigued by the possibilities > of the use of computer for medieval studies: I started the Charters > Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), got involved in the > monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net), became member of the > Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de), created a > e-Learning site on Palaeography (http://www.palaeographie-online.de), > started recently thinking about how to edit medieval accounting documents ( > http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem) – and thus ended up in 2011 at the Centre > for Information Modelling/Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at Graz > University (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at). Supporting the > community of Digital Medievalists seems thus to be natural consequence to > me which I would be happy to realize with a role in the editorial board of > DM. > > > >

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Papyrology and Linguistic Annotation (seminar)
by BODARD Gabriel 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday July 25 at 16:30 in room G35, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Marja Vierros (Helsinki) Papyrology and Linguistic Annotation: How can we make TEI EpiDoc XML corpus and Treebanking work together? Greek documentary papyri provide a rich source for linguists who wish to study Ancient Greek as it was written in everyday texts, preserved directly from antiquity. The corpus is already in digital form, but it does not contain linguistic annotation that would help linguists find interesting structures and forms. This paper presents a preliminary phase of a project focused on annotating the fragmentary and manifold papyrus material using a Dependency Treebank model. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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Reminder: Vote open for DM Board Elections 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Dear All! Here is a reminder: vote for the Digital Medievalist Board Elections 2014. Only until Sunday 27th! Cheers, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dominique Stutzmann <dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr> Date: 2014-07-14 0:36 GMT+02:00 Subject: VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2014 To: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Voting will be OPEN until SUN 27th JULY, GMT midnight. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow <http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. 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: * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> ================== To VOTE fill out the survey here: <https://fr.surveymonkey.com/s/TXHM3Y8> ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (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. After voting please remember to click DONE! ***************************** ALBERTO CAMPAGNOLO Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library London, London Metropolitan Archives, and is currently working at the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology at King’s College London. He is now pursuing a PhD on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London. He is interested in building a dialogue between the world of Conservation in libraries, archives and museums and that of Digital Humanities, and in the digital representation of physical aspect of books, and medieval books and bookbindings in particular. ***************************** ELEONORA DURBAN After graduating in Milan in Historical Linguistics, I have obtained an MA degree in Medieval Studies from University College London and a PhD in Late Latin Philology at King's College London. I have subsequently worked at the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL for seven years, where I have worked on a series of Medieval History related projects. My main interests and expertise relate to XML encoding, manuscript studies, digital critical editions, virtual research environments, and the potentials of the application of computational linguistics tools to the world of digital philology. I have recently relocated to Italy for family reasons and I am looking for opportunities to develop new projects in or around Milan. ***************************** FRANZ FISCHER Franz Fischer works as a research associate at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne [link: < http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/>]. He studied History, Latin and Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy [link: < http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de>]. From 2008-2011 he created a digital edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio [link: <http://www.confessio.ie>] at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He is a founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/>] teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften>], a series on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE [link: <http://ride.i-d-e.de/>], a new review journal on digital editions and resources. Franz Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT [link: <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/>]. Other activities include teaching Digital Humanities at NUI Maynooth [link: < http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/>] and facilitating various DH projects at the CCeH. ***************************** GRETA FRANZINI A classicist by training, Greta Franzini is a part-time PhD student at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her doctoral research is producing the first electronic edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Her new palaeographical, codicological and philological contributions are informing her investigation of digital technologies that can help to best explore and electronically reproduce the manuscript. Greta is also working as a full-time Research Associate and Executive for the Open Philology Project at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. Here, she oversees major data entry and book digitisation contracts aimed at producing a large volume of machine-readable open data pertaining to Greek and Latin sources. ***************************** ALEXEI LAVRENTIEV Alexei Lavrentiev is a research engineer at ICAR Research Laboratory <http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/> (CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr/> and Lyon University <http://lyon-university.org/>). His PhD thesis in French Linguistics (École normale supérieure de Lyon <http://www.ens-lyon.eu/>, France, 2009) was dedicated to the study of medieval French punctuation and was based on a corpus of multi-layer TEI-XML transcriptions of manuscripts and incunabula. He was involved in the Princeton Charrette Project <http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/> (2002-2006) and in the Saint-Petersburg Hagiography Corpus <http://project.phil.spbu.ru/scat/> (2004). Since 2004 he has been working on the BFM Old French Corpus <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=123> and on various related research and publication projects. He is responsible for the TEI encoding of the BFM texts, for their linguistic annotation and for providing user access to them. He manages the BFM public website <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/> and the web portal <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/>. This portal, developed by a team of ICAR researchers and engineers (Matthieu Decorde, Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev and Bénédicte Pincemin), provides a great number of services including KWIC concordances, a text selection interface, presentation of synoptic editions, statistical analysis, etc. He is a co-editor (with Christiane Marchello-Nizia) of the *Queste del Saint Graal* <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL> online edition <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL>. As a member of the DM Board (2012-2014), A. Lavrentiev was one of the wiki editors and news feed moderator. He represents the DM Board in the program committee of the El'Manuscript conference <http://textualheritage.org/content/view/486/209/lang,english/>. Nominated a deputy director early in 2014, he assisted P. Stokes in arranging and holding some board meetings. ***************************** GEORG VOGELER I studied "Historical Auxiliary Sciences" at Freiburg and Munich. I wrote a PhD on late Medieval Tax Adminstration Documents in the German Territorial States and worked in the field diplomatics (yes, charters not diplomats!) and cultural history of documentation (in particular in Italy during the reign of Frederic II) In 2004 got intrigued by the possibilities of the use of computer for medieval studies: I started the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), got involved in the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net), became member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de), created a e-Learning site on Palaeography (http://www.palaeographie-online.de), started recently thinking about how to edit medieval accounting documents ( http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem) – and thus ended up in 2011 at the Centre for Information Modelling/Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at Graz University (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at). Supporting the community of Digital Medievalists seems thus to be natural consequence to me which I would be happy to realize with a role in the editorial board of DM.

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Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

After a prolonged absence, the Manuscript Road Trip explores the Gulf Coast: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/manuscript-road-trip-the… - 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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Network Analysis and Distant Reading on the Perseus Latin Corpus (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday July 18 at 16:30 in room G34, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Thibault Clérice (King’s College London) Clotho: Network Analysis and Distant Reading on the Perseus Latin Corpus How do we handle Latin texts with digital tools? How do we apply to Latin sources technologies and algorithms which have been developed for the linguistic study of modern languages? Clotho is a resource which aims to address these questions in an Open-Source format, providing network analysis, data extraction mechanisms, and document statistics. Using these tools, Lasciva Roma, a project of cultural network analysis around the lexical field of terms related to sexuality, was launched in 2014. This seminar will explore and review this project, focusing on how the community can use these tools, and how to ensure the tools and the data will not be lost. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014.html -- 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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VOTE NOW: DIGITAL MEDIEVALIST BOARD ELECTIONS for 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

Voting will be OPEN until SUN 27th JULY, GMT midnight. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> (Follow <http://digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/> to join). The survey used to vote asks for your email address for this purpose solely, it is only seen by the returning officers and no other use is made of it. 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: * <http://digitalmedievalist.org/about/> * <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/> ================== To VOTE fill out the survey here: <https://fr.surveymonkey.com/s/TXHM3Y8> ================== CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (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. After voting please remember to click DONE! ***************************** ALBERTO CAMPAGNOLO Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European Course for Conservators/Restorers of Book Materials in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National Museum Wales, Palace Green Library at Durham University, Guildhall Library London, London Metropolitan Archives, and is currently working at the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology at King’s College London. He is now pursuing a PhD on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre of the University of the Arts, London. He is interested in building a dialogue between the world of Conservation in libraries, archives and museums and that of Digital Humanities, and in the digital representation of physical aspect of books, and medieval books and bookbindings in particular. ***************************** ELEONORA DURBAN After graduating in Milan in Historical Linguistics, I have obtained an MA degree in Medieval Studies from University College London and a PhD in Late Latin Philology at King's College London. I have subsequently worked at the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL for seven years, where I have worked on a series of Medieval History related projects. My main interests and expertise relate to XML encoding, manuscript studies, digital critical editions, virtual research environments, and the potentials of the application of computational linguistics tools to the world of digital philology. I have recently relocated to Italy for family reasons and I am looking for opportunities to develop new projects in or around Milan. ***************************** FRANZ FISCHER Franz Fischer works as a research associate at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne [link: < http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/>]. He studied History, Latin and Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy [link: < http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de>]. From 2008-2011 he created a digital edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio [link: <http://www.confessio.ie>] at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. He is a founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/>] teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE [link: < http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften>], a series on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE [link: <http://ride.i-d-e.de/>], a new review journal on digital editions and resources. Franz Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT [link: <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/>]. Other activities include teaching Digital Humanities at NUI Maynooth [link: < http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/>] and facilitating various DH projects at the CCeH. ***************************** GRETA FRANZINI A classicist by training, Greta Franzini is a part-time PhD student at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her doctoral research is producing the first electronic edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei. Her new palaeographical, codicological and philological contributions are informing her investigation of digital technologies that can help to best explore and electronically reproduce the manuscript. Greta is also working as a full-time Research Associate and Executive for the Open Philology Project at the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. Here, she oversees major data entry and book digitisation contracts aimed at producing a large volume of machine-readable open data pertaining to Greek and Latin sources. ***************************** ALEXEI LAVRENTIEV Alexei Lavrentiev is a research engineer at ICAR Research Laboratory <http://icar.univ-lyon2.fr/> (CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr/> and Lyon University <http://lyon-university.org/>). His PhD thesis in French Linguistics (École normale supérieure de Lyon <http://www.ens-lyon.eu/>, France, 2009) was dedicated to the study of medieval French punctuation and was based on a corpus of multi-layer TEI-XML transcriptions of manuscripts and incunabula. He was involved in the Princeton Charrette Project <http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/> (2002-2006) and in the Saint-Petersburg Hagiography Corpus <http://project.phil.spbu.ru/scat/> (2004). Since 2004 he has been working on the BFM Old French Corpus <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=123> and on various related research and publication projects. He is responsible for the TEI encoding of the BFM texts, for their linguistic annotation and for providing user access to them. He manages the BFM public website <http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/> and the web portal <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/>. This portal, developed by a team of ICAR researchers and engineers (Matthieu Decorde, Céline Guillot, Serge Heiden, Alexei Lavrentiev and Bénédicte Pincemin), provides a great number of services including KWIC concordances, a text selection interface, presentation of synoptic editions, statistical analysis, etc. He is a co-editor (with Christiane Marchello-Nizia) of the *Queste del Saint Graal* <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL> online edition <http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/GRAAL>. As a member of the DM Board (2012-2014), A. Lavrentiev was one of the wiki editors and news feed moderator. He represents the DM Board in the program committee of the El'Manuscript conference <http://textualheritage.org/content/view/486/209/lang,english/>. Nominated a deputy director early in 2014, he assisted P. Stokes in arranging and holding some board meetings. ***************************** GEORG VOGELER I studied "Historical Auxiliary Sciences" at Freiburg and Munich. I wrote a PhD on late Medieval Tax Adminstration Documents in the German Territorial States and worked in the field diplomatics (yes, charters not diplomats!) and cultural history of documentation (in particular in Italy during the reign of Frederic II) In 2004 got intrigued by the possibilities of the use of computer for medieval studies: I started the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), got involved in the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net), became member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de), created a e-Learning site on Palaeography (http://www.palaeographie-online.de), started recently thinking about how to edit medieval accounting documents ( http://gams.uni-graz.at/rem) – and thus ended up in 2011 at the Centre for Information Modelling/Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at Graz University (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at). Supporting the community of Digital Medievalists seems thus to be natural consequence to me which I would be happy to realize with a role in the editorial board of DM.

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CFP - Kalamazoo 2015: Textual and Manuscript Studies in Online Environments
by Albert Lloret 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

[With apologies for cross-posting] CFP - TEXTUAL AND MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University; May 14-17, 2015 Sponsored by _Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures_ Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jeanette Patterson (University of Virginia) Digital environments enable our studying and representing texts and manuscripts in radically enhanced ways. As a result, not only have traditional practices been perfected, also new concepts and forms-such as those of a "digital edition," a "digital library," and a "digital archive"-are now giving stimulus to new theories and critical approaches. In this session, we seek to promote discussion around how digital environments are changing our examination and representation of texts and the codices that contain them. We invite submissions that reflect on the achievements, challenges, and prospects of manuscript and textual studies in the digital medium, including, but not limited to: * manuscript representation technologies * theories of digital edition or the making of digital editions * corpora studies and computational approaches to manuscript studies * the goals of textual studies in a digital environment * examples of manuscript and textual studies carried out in online environments Please send a 100-word abstract and Participant Information Form to Albert Lloret at lloret(a)umass.edu by September 15. Albert Lloret, PhD Managing Editor, Digital Philology <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/> Assistant Professor of Spanish and Catalan University of Massachusetts Amherst http://umass.academia.edu/AlbertLloret

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Seminar: Retracing Theban Witness Networks in Demotic Contracts
by Stuart Dunn 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday July 11th at 16:30, in Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU *Silke Vanbeselaere (Leuven)* Retracing Theban Witness Networks in Demotic Contracts ALL WELCOME This paper focuses on the presence of witnesses in Demotic contracts during the Ptolemaic reign in Egypt. It will investigate the interpersonal links between the three main actor groups of these contracts: the scribes, the two contracting parties and the witnesses. The first actors, i.e. the scribes, have been studied before and we saw them connected through family ties, revealing the profession of a contract scribe as a hereditary office associated with the Egyptian temples. In the second century BC two operational notaries were attested in Thebes: the notary of Amunrasonther and that of the prophets of Djeme. But what about the period before that? Can we retrace these notaries through network analysis or are we confronted with an organisation entirely different from the one in the following century? The contracting parties have always received a lot of attention from papyrologists as well, as they were often the protagonists of important archives. However, the third group of actors, the witnesses, have more or less been neglected so far. I will try to provide an answer to the crucial question of how these witnesses were chosen. Were they connected to the notarial and scribal offices, or can they be linked to one or both parties as family and/or acquaintances perhaps? Or were they chosen randomly, passers-by simply picked from the streets when needed? The online platform Trismegistos, which includes almost half a million attestations of individuals in Greek and Egyptian texts between 800 BC and AD 800, serves as a starting point for this research. Thanks to the interlock structure of the text and reference databases, a two-mode people-in-texts network can easily be extracted and converted into one-mode people-to-people networks of the contracting parties, the scribes and the witnesses. Firstly, before we can start interpreting these networks, we need to make sure that we have correctly identified the various actors appearing in our network. The visualisation of the data has proven to be a very useful new step in this process. Where before we were looking at the actors' fathers and the characteristics of the relevant texts, we now take the position of an actor in the – albeit preliminary – network into account as an extra factor to obtain a faster and more advanced identification. Secondly, subjecting these networks to social network analysis will contribute to our understanding of the relationships and interactions between witnesses, scribes and contracting parties as well as the functioning of the ancient notaries, not only in Thebes but in the whole of Ptolemaic Egypt. *The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.* For more information please see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014.html -- --------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: stuart.dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2709 Fax. +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Blog: http://stuartdunn.wordpress.com

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HASTAC 2015 Conference CFP Announcement
by Kristen Mapes 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Michigan State University is pleased to host the HASTAC 2015 conference on May 27-30, 2015. The conference theme for 2015 is "Exploring the Art and Science of Digital Humanities." The Call for proposals is now available, and submissions from the Digital Medievalist community are highly encouraged. Call for Proposals: http://www.hastac2015.org/?page_id=20 *HASTAC 2015: Exploring the Art & Science of Digital Humanities* May 27-30, 2015 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Submissions Deadline: October 15, 2014 Join us on the campus of Michigan State University to celebrate and explore the range of Digital Humanities Scholarship, Research, and Performance! We welcome sessions that address, exemplify, and interrogate the interdisciplinary nature of DH work. HASTAC 2015 challenges participants to consider how the interplay of science, technology, social sciences, humanities, and arts are producing new forms of knowledge, disrupting older forms, challenging or reifying power relationships, among other possibilities. HASTAC 2015 will include plenary addresses, panel presentations (variations detailed below), maker sessions, workshops, exhibitions, performances and tech demos. Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Specialist College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University 718-216-5695 kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Digital Medievalist Board Election => 14 to 27 July 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Dear All, Because of DH 2014 Lausanne (http://dh2014.org/) and IMC Leeds ( http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2014.html) being held at the same time as the scheduled DM-Board election, the latter is postponed to July 14th-27th, 2014. We will send a reminder when the vote is open. Best wishes, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dominique Stutzmann <dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr> Date: 2014-06-20 11:34 GMT+01:00 Subject: Call for nominations To: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Dear colleagues, Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 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 Reprensentatives, 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 pleasesee the DM website, particularly: - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about/ - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/ and http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/ 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, Ben Albritton (blalbrit(a)stanford.edu) and Dominique Stutzmann ( dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr), who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 2359 UTC on Mon June 30 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the whole of the week starting 7 July, 2014. Best wishes, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann

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