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FW: Call for Nominations
by Caedmon, Herdsman 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Please cross post. Hi all, Since it would be really nice to encourage diversity among our candidates (and upcoming executive), let me encourage you to circulate this call for nominations and also to paraphrase it or translate it into other languages if you think that might encourage participation from underrepresented groups. In the period December 2013-January 2014, proposed bylaws were circulated for comment to the community (the bylaws can be found here: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/proposed-bylaws/). These bylaws had been approved by the ad hoc executive we established a year ago to oversee the first year of the organisation. The bylaws establish the procedure by which GO::DH shall be governed in the future. They call for the election of an 8 member executive, from which a chair shall be chosen. The executive will also be responsible for appointing all officers. Normally, the executive will be elected to staggered two year terms, with half the executive up for election each year. For the first year, all positions on the executive are open: half the vacancies will be for a one year (renewable) term, the other half for a two year (renewable) term. Normally, the nominations and elections will occur in January. For a variety of reasons, not least of which was the need to circulate the bylaws for comment, we are one month late this year. I have recently been given funding to hire an administrative assistant, Mia Angelica Alcantara-Santiago, who has agreed to serve as returning officer and chair of the nominations committee for this first election (in future years, these positions will be held by a member of the executive who is not up for reelection). We would like, therefore, to open nominations for candidates for the executive of GO::DH. Any member of our mailing list may stand for election and self-nominations are very welcome. If you would like to nominate somebody for election (including yourself), please email Mia Angelica at caedmon(a)uleth.ca<mailto:caedmon@uleth.ca>. She will need the name and email address of the nominee. Please ensure that your nominee is willing to stand for election. Please also ask the nominee if they would prefer to stand for a one or a two year term (both terms are renewable; in the future, all terms will be two years). In keeping with the goals and mandate of GO::DH, we strongly encourage diversity in our nominees: there are no linguistic, geographic, or other requirements for office and we encourage nominees from all countries and speakers of all languages to apply. Nominations will close February 15. A ballot will then be prepared with the candidates names and members of the mailing list will be asked to select up to eight names for election. The ballot will close, one week after it opens and the first elected GO::DH executive will be announced. Dan -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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New Vacancy: Assistant Professor, French Applied Linguistics or Francophone studies, University of Lethbridge (Deadline March 17, 2014)
by Daniel O'Donnell 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hi all, An entry-level job that might be of interest to members of this list, deadline for applications March 17, 2014. I have spoken to the chair and am told that an interest in DH and/or Medieval Studies would be welcome. The core requirements are skill/experience in teaching second language learners, especially at the junior level, and demonstrable interest in and ability to teach French Phonology/Phonetics. Beyond that the research expertise is open. Canadian residents must be given preference according to the law, though international candidates will be considered. The ad says that "there will be internal candidates for the position," but I have just spoken to the chair and she tells me that that language was inserted by mistake by Human Resources after proofing and will be removed ASAP (the ad just went up at the end of the business day). She assures me that this is very much an open search and that all qualified applicants, including international candidates, will be considered seriously. For my own part, let me add that candidates with a background in DH will find the University of Lethbridge to be very active in the field. We are in the process of approving research centres in the Digital Arts and Humanities and Digital Scholarly Communication and the University of Lethbridge is host to both Digital Medievalist and GlobaloutlookDH.org. I would certainly look forward to working with a successful candidate with Digital Humanities experience. I should stress, however, that I have no influence on the search. -dan ------------------ The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Lethbridge invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in French at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 1 July 2014, subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate will have a PhD in French, Linguistics or relevant field with a specialization in either French linguistics or francophone studies, and a proven ability to teach French phonetics and phonology. A secondary specialization in French as a second language and expertise in educational technology are assets. Responsibilities include teaching intermediate French phonetics/phonology, French language and culture courses at all levels, as well as upper-level courses in the field of expertise. We seek an individual with native or near-native fluency in French and excellent command of English, with an excellent teaching record and evidence of scholarly potential. The Department of Modern Languages is a collegial and dynamic unit comprising French, Japanese, Linguistics and Spanish. Located in southern Alberta, near the Rocky Mountains, Lethbridge offers a sunny, dry climate that is agreeably mild for the prairies, excellent cultural and recreational amenities, and attractive economic conditions. Founded in 1967, the University has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from around the world. Our student body has grown by 50 percent in the last 10 years, phenomenal growth among institutions in Canada. Despite this growth, we have remained true to who we are - student-focused, research-intensive, and grounded in liberal education. For more information about the University please visit our website at http://www.uleth.ca. The successful applicant will have teaching responsibilities mainly at the undergraduate level. The University aspires to hire individuals who have demonstrated considerable potential for excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. New faculty members are eligible to apply for university funding in support of research and scholarly activities. The position is open to all qualified applicants, although preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. There will be internal candidates for this position. The University is an inclusive and equitable campus encouraging applications from qualified women and men including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and Aboriginal persons. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a letter of application including statements of teaching and research interests, and names and contact information for at least three referees. Send this material and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly to Dr. Inge Genee, Chair, Department of Modern Languages, The University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4. Phone: (403) 380-1809, Fax: (403) 329-5187, Email: inge.genee(a)uleth.ca Located in southern Alberta, near the Rocky Mountains, Lethbridge offers a sunny, dry climate that is agreeably mild for the prairies, excellent cultural and recreational amenities, and attractive economic conditions. Founded in 1967, the University has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from around the world. Our student body has grown by 50 percent in the last 10 years, phenomenal growth among institutions in Canada. Despite this growth, we have remained true to who we are - student-focused, research-intensive, and grounded in liberal education. For more information about the University please visit our website at http://www.uleth.ca <http://www.uleth.ca/>. The successful applicant will have teaching responsibilities mainly at the undergraduate level. The University aspires to hire individuals who have demonstrated considerable potential for excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. New faculty members are eligible to apply for university funding in support of research and scholarly activities. *The position is open to all qualified applicants, although preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. There will be internal candidates for this position. The University is an inclusive and equitable campus encouraging applications from qualified women and men including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and Aboriginal persons.* Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a letter of application including statements of teaching and research interests, and names and contact information for at least three referees. Send this material and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly to Dr. Inge Genee, Chair, Department of Modern Languages, The University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4. Phone: (403) 380-1809, Fax: (403) 329-5187, Email: inge.genee(a)uleth.ca <mailto:inge.genee@uleth.ca> - See more at: http://www.uleth.ca/hr/jobs/french#sthash.POeZn7zz.dpuf Located in southern Alberta, near the Rocky Mountains, Lethbridge offers a sunny, dry climate that is agreeably mild for the prairies, excellent cultural and recreational amenities, and attractive economic conditions. Founded in 1967, the University has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from around the world. Our student body has grown by 50 percent in the last 10 years, phenomenal growth among institutions in Canada. Despite this growth, we have remained true to who we are - student-focused, research-intensive, and grounded in liberal education. For more information about the University please visit our website at http://www.uleth.ca <http://www.uleth.ca/>. The successful applicant will have teaching responsibilities mainly at the undergraduate level. The University aspires to hire individuals who have demonstrated considerable potential for excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. New faculty members are eligible to apply for university funding in support of research and scholarly activities. *The position is open to all qualified applicants, although preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. There will be internal candidates for this position. The University is an inclusive and equitable campus encouraging applications from qualified women and men including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and Aboriginal persons.* Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a letter of application including statements of teaching and research interests, and names and contact information for at least three referees. Send this material and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly to Dr. Inge Genee, Chair, Department of Modern Languages, The University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4. Phone: (403) 380-1809, Fax: (403) 329-5187, Email: inge.genee(a)uleth.ca <mailto:inge.genee@uleth.ca> - See more at: http://www.uleth.ca/hr/jobs/french#sthash.POeZn7zz.dpuf -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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this week's blog: Los Angeles
by Lisa Fagin Davis 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip explores L.A.: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/manuscript-road-trip-los… - 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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ACM DocEng 2014 -- Call for Papers
by Tamir Hassan 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies *** CALL FOR PAPERS Join us in Fort Collins, for the 14th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2014), September 16-19 2014, at Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, near Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.doceng2014.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Documents are communication artifacts in any form and in any media; they can be simple or compound, static or time-varying, private or open. Document collections increasingly underpin research, education, commerce, entertainment – the full range of human activity. Document engineering covers both the innovative use of documents and document collections in real-world applications and the study of principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, maintain, share, and productively use these. You are invited to submit original papers to the 14th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2014), to be held at the Hewlett-Packard site in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Attendees at this international forum have interests that span all aspects of document engineering and applications. DocEng is sponsored by ACM by means of the ACM SIGWEB Special Interest Group. Proceedings are available through the ACM Digital Library. Important dates =============== * Mar 30, 2014: Workshop and tutorial proposals due * Mar 30, 2014: Full papers abstracts due * Apr 6, 2014: Full papers due * May 25, 2014: Short papers abstracts due * Jun 1, 2014: Short papers due Topics relevant to the symposium include (but are not limited to) =================================================== Modeling and Representation: * Document representation and standards including interchange standards, markup languages, style sheets, type representation, multimedia (incl. HTML-5, MPEG, SMIL, SVG) * Metadata creation and standards, use of semantic web technologies * Hypertext/hypermedia, distributed documents, blogs, wikis * Linking techniques and standards, integration with other digital artifacts Generation, Manipulation, and Presentation: * Document authoring tools and systems * Document presentation (typography, formatting, layout) algorithms and systems * Automatically generated documents, automated layout and composition, variable data printing * Adaptive, responsive documents, content customization * Mobile platforms and documents * Document transformation and rich-web-client models * Document internationalization, multilingual representations Collections, Systems, and Management: * Collections databases and repositories, storage, indexing, retrieval, versioning, deduplication * Enterprise content management: models and standards (CMIS), scale and performance, platforms and applications * Digital libraries and archives, preservation systems * Document system components: security, APIs (SAX, DOM), versioning, synchronization * Document systems and workflows * Management of collaboratively authored online documents Document Analysis and Semantic Enrichment: * Structure and representation analysis (layout, OCR, visual analysis) and classification * Linguistic and semantic (content) analysis, categorization, classification, clustering * Automatic tagging, named entity disambiguation, semantic linking * Automatic abstract generation and metadata extraction * Multi-lingual and cross-lingual indexing and search User Experience: * Navigation, search * Usability, accessibility, readability and aesthetics * Collaborative authoring and editing, curation and annotation * Workflows, integration and interaction between human and automated processes * Culture-dependent layouts Security: * Secure document workflows, including policy and access * Security printing, including document identification, tagging and meta-data * Cyber-physical document workflows, especially electronic/print options * Embedded systems: access, workflow and security of documents on embedded devices (mobile, printing, etc.) Applications: * Digital humanities, digital preservation and archiving * eBooks and digital publishing ... and all other application areas For more information, please visit the conference website at: === http://www.doceng2014.org === -- Tamir Hassan Publicity Chair ACM DocEng 2014

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Fwd: 2 offers of post-doc
by Roueche, Charlotte 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

Begin forwarded message: From: Sabetay et Marie Christine Varol <varol(a)noos.fr<mailto:varol@noos.fr>> Subject: 2 offers of post-doc Date: 2 February 2014 14:20:43 GMT To: <julia.bray(a)orinst.ox.ac.uk<mailto:julia.bray@orinst.ox.ac.uk>>, <mohsen.zakeri(a)phil.uni-goettingen.de<mailto:mohsen.zakeri@phil.uni-goettingen.de>>, <ute.pietruschka(a)orientphil.uni-halle.de<mailto:ute.pietruschka@orientphil.uni-halle.de>>, <charlotte.roueche(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk>>, <danielbodi(a)gmail.com<mailto:danielbodi@gmail.com>> Dear colleagues, For the project ANR-ALIENTO we need to recruiter two post-docs for 6 months in order to tag proverb-books or sapiential opera (from Spain) in 1) medieval Hebrew, 2) medieval arabic. Here in attachment you can find the requirements and details. Informations about ALIENTO can be found in our website www.aliento.eu<http://www.aliento.eu/> Could you please put the announcement on line in the relevant websites or diffusion-lists you may know, and tell us if you have somebody to recommend. We hope to hear from you soon, With our best regards Prof. Marie-Christine Bornes Varol Dpt. Etudes Hébraïques & Juives INALCO Paris varol(a)noos.fr<mailto:varol@noos.fr> 33 (0)6 33 67 60 15 & Prof. Marie-Sol Ortola Dpt. Etudes hispaniques & ibéroaméricaines Université de Lorraine Marie-Sol.Ortola(a)univ-lorraine.fr<mailto:Marie-Sol.Ortola@univ-lorraine.fr>

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Rare Book School: The Medieval Mauscript in the 21st Century
by Dot Porter 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

[apologies for cross-posting] I'm co-teaching a course at Rare Book School this summer, June 9-13 (RBS is located in Charlottesville, VA, but we are teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia). The course is THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, and we (Will Noel and myself) are hoping to get a good mix of students with primary interest in (medieval) manuscripts, primary interest in developing software for working with (digitized) manuscripts, and some with both. If this sounds like you please consider applying, and please share this message with colleagues who may be interested. You can also contact me off-list if you have any questions. Link to the course description (Application link in the left-hand menu): http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m95/ And I'm pasting the full description below: This course is designed to introduce students of both the digital humanities and manuscript studies to the concepts and realities of working with medieval manuscripts in the twenty-first century. Through the course, students and faculty will examine materials from the collections of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, as well as digitized versions of those materials and others. Students in the course will consider four issues relating to using medieval manuscripts in a digital world. The first issue is theoretical, considering the relationship between medieval manuscripts and their digital counterparts, and questioning the notion of digital surrogacy. What does "digital surrogacy" mean and how might it affect our consideration of the physical objects represented through the surrogate? The second issue is the practical one of imbuing best practices when creating digital assets out of medieval manuscripts. If we are to digitize manuscripts, how can we ensure that those digital versions are the best they can be? And again: what does that mean? The third issue concerns the present landscape for digital medieval manuscripts (and medieval studies more generally), including current publication technologies and the place of Open Data. The fourth issue is that of building resources with and for digitized medieval manuscripts. What tools are available to enable us to create something new? As a final project, students and faculty in the course will work together to build something new--either "hacking" an application to display and sort medieval manuscript data, or creating an exhibition using an existing platform (such as Omeka). The specific direction of the final project will depend upon the skill sets available in the room. Students should plan to bring a laptop with them to class. In their personal statement, applicants should indicate their background, special interests, and expectations from the course. They should clearly state their experience working with manuscripts or manuscript-related courses they have taken, as well as any experience using digital technologies. Although it is expected that some students will have some technological experience, it is not a requirement for the course. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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DH Awards 2013: voting open!
by James Cummings 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

(please forward) It is my pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2013 is open for voting! http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/ Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities that they benefit. There is no financial prize associated with these community awards. There were many nominations and the international nominations committee (http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/committee/) reviewed each nomination. We're sorry if your nomination was not included, all decisions are final once voting opens. Please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ for this and other frequently asked questions. Anyone is allowed to vote, yes anyone, but please only vote once. Please cast vote by looking at the nominations and following the link to voting form at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/ before midnight (GMT) on Friday 14 February 2013 when voting will be closed. Good luck! james(a)dhawards.org -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford

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Centre for e-Research talk: Pieter Francois, 6.15pm Tues 4 Feb, KCL, London
by Centre for e-Research 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Dear all, apologies for cross-posting. Next week, on Tuesday 4th February at 6.15pm, Pieter Francois (Oxford) will be giving a talk in the Centre for e-Research seminar series at King's College London. The talk is on: "Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples." More details are at the bottom of this email. The event is free of charge but please would you register beforehand, at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-exploring-very-large-collections… Our seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm in the Anatomy Museum, on the 6th floor of King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/projects/completed/at… . Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. The full programme for this term can be found at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14.aspx. We hope you can join us. Regards, Anna Jordanous (CeRch) --- *Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples* Pieter Francois (Oxford) Abstract: This presentation introduces the 'Sample Generator', a digital tool which allows users to generate structured unbiased samples of (digital) texts from the nineteenth century British Library holdings. Using the Sample Generator allows researchers to explore quickly a very large dataset (the British Library has approximately 1.8 million nineteenth century holdings) in a methodologically robust way. Furthermore the generated samples are easily citable and shareable. The overall intellectual background of the Sample Generator is that of the 'generative humanities' in which a creative process of going back and forth between data and the conceptual drawing board takes centre stage. In addition to saving valuable research time, the main contribution of the Sample Generator is that it is a hypothesis generating and testing tool. This presentation will address the ideas behind the Sample Generator, offer a hands on showcasing of its main functionalities and will finally demonstrate the value and potential of the Sample Generator by zooming in briefly on one case study, i.e. an analysis of the changes in nineteenth century travel routes in Europe. More details at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14/s8ex… -- Anna Jordanous Centre for e-Research (CeRch) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL www: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/

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Fwd: Conference
by Orietta Da Rold 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

FYI Begin forwarded message: *********************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500 Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP 01223 335089 Fellow of St John´s College Cambridge, CB2 1TP 01223 768181 od245(a)cam.ac.uk

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CFP El'Manuscript: Textual Heritage and Information Technologies (Varna, Bulgaria, 15-20 Sept. 2014)
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

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