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New resource: Enigma - Unpuzzling difficult Latin readings in medieval manuscripts
by Burghart Marjorie 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Dear list members, Since I assume most of us work with Latin manuscripts at least sometimes, I would like to share here the news of the release of my latest development, called "Enigma" (Latin word for "puzzle"): http://ciham-digital.huma-num.fr/enigma/ "Enigma helps scholars to decipher Latin words which are difficult to read in medieval manuscripts. It is sometimes impossible to decipher all the letters in a word, for various reasons (difficult palaeography, unclear writing, damage to the document, etc.) If you type the letters you can read and add wildcards, Enigma will list the possible Latin forms, drawing from its database of more than 400 000 forms." I hpe you will find this useful :) Best regards, Marjorie Burghart

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Re: [dm-l] New resource: Enigma - Unpuzzling difficult Latin readings in medieval manuscripts
by Christopher Crockett 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

> http://ciham-digital.huma-num.fr/enigma/ what a useful tool! especially for those of us who are more-than-somewhat Latiniacally Challenged. thanks, Marjorie. christopher ------ Original Message ------ Received: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:05:34 PM EDT From: Burghart Marjorie <marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr> To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Subject: [dm-l] New resource: Enigma - Unpuzzling difficult Latin readings in medieval manuscripts > Dear list members, > > Since I assume most of us work with Latin manuscripts at least sometimes, I would like to share here the news of the release of my latest development, called "Enigma" (Latin word for "puzzle"): > http://ciham-digital.huma-num.fr/enigma/ > "Enigma helps scholars to decipher Latin words which are difficult to read in medieval manuscripts. It is sometimes impossible to decipher all the letters in a word, for various reasons (difficult palaeography, unclear writing, damage to the document, etc.) If you type the letters you can read and add wildcards, Enigma will list the possible Latin forms, drawing from its database of more than 400 000 forms." > > I hpe you will find this useful :) > Best regards, > Marjorie Burghart > > Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ > Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org > News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ > Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 > Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Fwd: CFP: 3D in the Age of the Oculus Rift (Vienna, 3-5 Nov 14)
by Christopher Crockett 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

------ Original Message ------ Received: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:41:05 PM EDT From: "H-ArtHist (Lisa Roemer)" <roemer(a)ARTHIST.NET> To: H-ARTHIST(a)H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: CFP: 3D in the Age of the Oculus Rift (Vienna, 3-5 Nov 14) From: Bernard Frischer <bernard.d.frischer(a)gmail.com> Date: Jun 10, 2014 Subject: CFP: 3D in the Age of the Oculus Rift (Vienna, 3-5 Nov 14) Vienna, Austria, November 3 - 05, 2014 Deadline: Jul 11, 2014 SPECIAL CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION: “The State of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage in the Age of Augmented Reality, Xbox Kinect, UAVs, and the Oculus Rift” at the Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT: http://www.chnt.at/), Vienna, Nov. 3-5, 2014 The purpose of this session is to take stock of the current state of the art of 3D modeling of cultural heritage objects of all scales (from a vase or statue, to a building or an entire landscape). It seems particularly opportune to do so in light of the dramatically lower costs of devices for 3D data capture and display. Papers fitting one or more of the following three descriptions would be especially welcome: (1) cultural heritage projects exploiting Augmented Reality and/or immersive, 3D display devices such as the Oculus Rift (2) projects collecting 3D data using low-cost devices and methods such as SfM, Kinect or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (3) 3D modeling projects (especially those involving reconstructions) that have as their goal not simply illustrating previously existing knowledge of the past but serving as tools to see or understand features of the past that can only emerge after we have made the 3D model. Papers should concentrate less on the “how” of 3D modeling (fairly well understood by now) than on the “why” (i.e., what is the scientific gain in knowledge that results from applying the new technology?). Topics falling into category (1) should, whenever possible, provide the results of summative assessment: we are interested not simply in bright ideas and clever demonstrations but in proof of concept or full-scale deployment. For example, if a claim is made that AR can help promote better public understanding of cultural heritage, did the pilot AR project actually produce measurably positive results? Topics falling into category (2) should ideally include a comparison of the results of using low-cost and high-end data gathering devices. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the low-cost approach? Is a low-cost device good for certain cultural heritage applications but not others? For example, we welcome a paper comparing the resolution and accuracy of 3D meshes of a statue resulting from a SfM approach vs. one resulting from traditional scanning. Papers of two lengths are invited: short (fifteen minutes, or less); and long (twenty minutes). Applicants should indicate the length of time they would need for their presentation. Each paper, no matter its length, will be followed by five minutes of discussion and debate. To facilitate a lively discussion of the papers in Vienna, all participants are required to circulate a written draft of their talks to the other participants no later than October 1, 2014. The papers accepted will be published as a special issue in Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, a new online, peer-reviewed journal started in 2012 by the organizers. For details, see: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/digital-applications-in-archaeology-and-cu… Abstracts of a minimum of 200 words to a maximum of 300 words must be submitted by noon CET on Friday, July 11, 2014. Abstracts should be filed online at: http://www.chnt.at/call-for-paper/ Inquiries should be directed to the session organizers: Bernard Frischer (Bernard.d.frischer(a)gmail.com) and Gabriele Guidi (g.guidi(a)ieee.org). Reference / Quellennachweis: CFP: 3D in the Age of the Oculus Rift (Vienna, 3-5 Nov 14). In: H-ArtHist, Jun 10, 2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/7974>. ____________________________________________________________________ H-ARTHIST Humanities-Net Discussion List for Art History E-Mail-Liste für Kunstgeschichte im H-Net Editorial Board Contact Address / Fragen an die Redaktion: hah-redaktion(a)h-net.msu.edu Submit contributions to / Beiträge bitte an: http://arthist.net/mailing-list/mode=contribute Homepage: http://arthist.net

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Neo-Latin poetry in English manuscripts (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday June 13 at 16:30 in room 103 (Holden Room), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Charlotte Tupman and Victoria Moul (King's College London) Neo-Latin poetry in English manuscripts, 1550-1700 ALL WELCOME This paper discusses a proposed project to examine the role and significance of the large quantities of neo-Latin poetry composed and circulated within the thriving manuscript culture of early modern England (c. 1550-1700). It will produce a searchable digital edition of representative examples of early modern Latin poetry in English manuscripts, and a body of print publications analysing this almost unstudied wealth of material. We address the typical genres and forms of neo-Latin poetry in manuscript and how they are used; the relationship between original Latin and English poetry in manuscript sources; and the political significance of such poetry. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony(a)ucl.ac.uk or Charlotte.Tupman(a)kcl.ac.uk, or 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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this week's blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

This week, a Louisiana love story... http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/manuscript-road-trip-the… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Acting 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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Seminar: On Cognition and the Digital in the Study of Ancient Textual Artefacts
by Gabriel Bodard 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday June 6 at 16:30 in room 103 (Holden Room), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Ségolène Tarte (Oxford) On Cognition and the Digital in the Study of Ancient Textual Artefacts ALL WELCOME Scholars studying Ancient Textual Artefacts endeavour to create knowledge through the decipherment, transcription, transliteration, edition, commentary, and contextualization of textual artefacts, thereby transforming data and information into knowledge and meaning. Their task is hence intrinsically interpretative, and relies heavily on the mobilization of both perceptual and conceptual cognitive processes. This talk will present a number of conceptual and perceptual processes that were identified through ethnographic studies of scholars at work and linked to the cognitive sciences literature. Some show embodied cognition at work, others show the role of unconscious knowledge in the act of interpretation of Ancient Textual Artefacts. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. See the full programme for this summer's seminars 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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Byelaws Vote
by Stokes, Peter 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Dear all, Following my earlier e-mail, the DM Board now invites all members of the Community to vote on the proposed changes to the Byelaws. As you probably remember, these changes will simply remove 'wiki' from the wording. *Please note that this is not a vote on whether or not the wiki should be continued*, but rather on whether we should be formally locked into the wiki or if we should be free to use whatever technology we think is best. A vote in favour will allow the possibility of changing, whether now or in future; a vote against means that we are required to use a wiki indefinitely. In order to vote, please visit <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/dm-byelaws-vote/> and use the embedded form. Full details of the proposed changes are also available on that web page. You will be asked for your e-mail address, but this is only to verify that you are a member of DM and therefore have the right to vote. (If you are subscribed to the DM-L mailing list then you are automatically a member and so you may vote.) Voting will close at midnight GMT on 11 June 2014. The proposed changes will pass if they receive a two-thirds majority in favour (as per §9.4 of the current byelaws). If there are any problems or questions then please don't hesitate to get in touch. I will also report separately on the broader discussions regarding infrastructure in due course. Thanks, and best wishes, Peter (on behalf of the DM Board) -- Dr Peter Stokes Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 218, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk

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This week's blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 01 Jun '14

01 Jun '14

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip visits Graceland and Ole Miss: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/manuscript-road-trip-gra… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Acting 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 Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2014: Registration Closes 23 June
by James Cummings 30 May '14

30 May '14

(apologies for cross-posting, please forward on!) A reminder that registration for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) will be closing in less than a month. DHOxSS is an annual event for anyone interested in Digital Humanities. This year's DHOxSS will be held on 14-18 July 2014. Register now at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2014/ Promotional video at: http://youtu.be/lBO7kT3D94A DHOxSS is for researchers, project managers, research assistants, students, and anyone interested in Digital Humanities. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our five-day workshops and supplements this with morning parallel lectures. There will also be a (peer-reviewed) poster session giving delegates a chance to present posters on their Digital Humanities work to those at the DHOxSS. This year's five-day workshops are: 1. Introduction to Digital Humanities 2. Taking Control: Practical Scripting for Digital Humanities Projects 3. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities 4. A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web 5. Using the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Scholarly Editions Morning additional parallel lectures include contributions from: James Brusuelas, Lou Burnard, Julia Craig-McFeely, Eugene Giddens, Emma Goodwin, Howard Hotson, William Kilbride,Eleanor Lowe, Christine Madsen, Carole Palmer, Allen H. Renear, Kerri Russell, Judith Siefring, Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Kenji Takeda, Zixi You, David Zeitlyn, and more. Opening and closing keynote lectures: Ray Siemens and Melissa Terras Evening events: Monday - a peer-reviewed poster session and reception at Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Tuesday - a guided tour around Oxford city centre; Wednesday - an elegant drinks reception and three course dinner at historic Wadham College; Thursday - The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Lecture by Martin Roth (Director of the V&A); Friday - Trip to the pub. 10% discount on registration fees if you block book 10 or more places from a single institution. DHOxSS is a collaboration between the University of Oxford's IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre, the Bodleian Libraries, the Oxford Internet Institute, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. We are very pleased this year to partner with the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to provide the Data Curation and Access workshop. Thanks to all our other external partners listed here: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/about.html. If you have questions, then email us at events(a)it.ox.ac.uk for answers. More details at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2014/ James Cummings Director of DHOxSS

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Proposed Changes to DM
by Stokes, Peter 27 May '14

27 May '14

Dear all, I apologise for the length of this e-mail, but I write regarding a series of fairly fundamental changes to the DM infrastructure that we have been planning for some time now. Given the scale of these changes, we on the DM Board think it is important to explain these in some detail and request feedback from the Community before we go ahead with them. They will also require a change of the Byelaws, and so again we need input from the Community for this. Unfortunately the existing infrastructure has proven unmanageable. The wiki and mailing-list have both been subject to large-scale spam attacks, such that the wiki now contains many many thousands of articles, only 70 or so of which are genuine. The wiki has also had almost no activity beyond that of the Board, and so it has not been doing the job that we had hoped. Furthermore the website itself, which we have been hosting and coding ourselves (with substantial help from James Cummings and Dan O’Donnell) is also proving increasingly difficult to manage: it depends on the generosity of James and Dan to host and administer, even adding new pages is not trivial, and it has needed a dramatic overhaul for some time but to do this requires much more time and effort than we have been able to manage. For all of these reasons, we propose the following: 1. Moving the static website from the existing infrastructure (Cocoon + TEI + custom XSLT) to a standard CMS (currently Wordpress). 2. Closing down the wiki entirely and replacing it with a blog. 3. For the moment we are leaving the Journal in place, but we are very likely to move it to a dedicated open journal hosting of some sort. We have been discussing this in some detail with Revues.org but are not yet committed to this. As most of you have realised, we have already set up a Wordpress version of the site at <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>, and this is already proving to overcome the problems listed above. The proposal is therefore to make this the DM site and close down the old one, except perhaps for the Journal. However, the current Byelaws require that DM maintains a wiki (see <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#wiki>). The Board is therefore not free to close the existing wiki without first changing the Byelaws. Even if we chose to keep the wiki, however, the Board feels that the Byelaws should not lock us into using any single technology, and so they should be changed even if we keep the existing infrastructure. The details of the proposed changes to the Byelaws will be posted shortly as a separate e-mail and on the new website, but in essence we propose simply to replace the term 'wiki' with 'information resources' and to adapt the containing sentences accordingly. We would be grateful for any feedback about any aspect of this, preferably by e-mail to the list for general discussion, or alternatively to board(a)digitalmedievalist.org or any members of the Board directly. The next Board meeting is 4pm GMT+1 on Monday 2 June, at which point any comments will be discussed, and any changes in the Byelaws will be presented to the membership for vote shortly after that (as specified in §9 of the Byelaws: <http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/#amendments>). Thank you, and we look forward to receiving your comments. Peter Stokes (on behalf of the Executive Board) -- Dr Peter Stokes Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 218, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk

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