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this week's blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 14 Dec '13

14 Dec '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip takes the long way to Wyoming: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/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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CLIR post-doc in early modern data curation at Penn
by Dot Porter 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Thrilled to share this announcement, and apologies for cross-posting. Please share widely. Deadline is December 27. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Full description and application details: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/pennsylvania-ems2014 Dot ******* University of Pennsylvania *P**e**n**n Provenance Project Fellow* The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek an innovative and energetic CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies to play an integral role in the working life of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Penn’s Van Pelt Library, including overseeing the transition of the Penn Provenance Project (PPP) and its data to a new platform. *P**e**n**n Provenance Project (PPP)* Through its faculty and library resources, the University of Pennsylvania has long been at the forefront of book history and material text research, especially in the early modern era. Building on this strength, the Kislak Center is actively becoming a node for provenance history research. This research is essential for understanding how texts moved through the early modern world, what kinds of books collectors and libraries of the period valued, and the nature of print and manuscript cultural production. The fellow will play a key role in developing this field through his or her research and involvement in working with book historical data at the Kislak Center through the Penn Provenance Project. Born out of a CLIR hidden collections grant, the PPP was created by the Kislak Center’s cataloging team which has captured more than 12,000 images of provenance markings, bookstamps, and bindings. Dating largely from the early modern period, these invaluable witnesses to the history of book culture and circulation are available to the world through Flickr for viewing, comment, and identification ( http://www.flickr.com/people/58558794@N07/). The Penn Provenance Project differs from many other provenance initiatives in that it places digital images of markings, stamps, and inscriptions alongside bibliographic information. This visual data allows researchers and the public to compare physical objects all around the world and will eventually enable scholars to survey the landscape of early modern book culture with ease and precision. There have been over one million page views of content from the site and the project has proved useful in identifying a number of previously unknown book owners. The global community for the site includes people from many backgrounds, including experts in paleography from Germany as well as non-academics like Pedro Joaristi who identified one of his father’s books based on our photographs. The Kislak Center is now poised to develop the Penn Provenance Project well beyond the boundaries of our own collections in order to help identify and curate marks of ownership from book and manuscript holdings worldwide. Currently a wealth of information about early modern book owners and libraries exists within the PPP’s Flickr site but this data is largely unstructured and is not in easy machine-readable conversation with other resources. The CLIR fellow will be an integral part of the Penn Provenance Project team as it plans and executes the transition from Flickr and will have the responsibility of curating the data generated by the expanded project. In order to bring as many data sources to bear on the project as possible, the fellow will work closely with several partner institutions. For example, the curators of rare books and manuscripts at the Folger Library have agreed to participate in growing the PPP by contributing provenance information from their rich early modern holdings. The fellow will ensure that all data gathered and generated by the PPP and partners is available openly and linked with larger early modern data repositories like the Consortium of European Research Libraries’ (CERL) online provenance database. *P**e**n**n Provenance Project Fellow responsibilities:* - Project management: ensuring the project stays on time and others' tasks are done in a timely manner - Data mapping and transformation: working with colleagues to implement a data model and managing the movement of data from Flickr to a new repository - Bringing in new data: working with colleagues to ingest images and provenance descriptions from both Penn and partner institutions into the PPP. - Expanding the range of partner participants: offering guidance and instruction to the faculty, students, and library staff that will be generating new data for the project. - Linking data: working with colleagues and partners to ensure that PPP data is linked with other data sources in the field, such as the VIAF and CERL authority files. - Promoting use of the PPP: through teaching, independent research, papers, online or live presentations, workshops and/or symposia that help scholars, students, librarians, and the general public understand the significance of provenance data to Early Modern Studies. - Strategic development of the PPP: planning and experimenting with innovative ways of displaying and analyzing the project’s data. At Penn the fellow will report to Will Noel (Director – Kislak Center) and receive mentoring and guidance from experts in the field. These include, Dot Porter (Curator of Digital Research Services), Doug Emery (Digital Content Programmer), Zack Lesser (Associate Professor, Department of English), Peter Stallybrass (Professor, Department of English) as well as the wider Philadelphia history of the book community. The fellow will also be a member of the English Department at Penn and will have access to the resources and faculty of that body. He or she will also have the opportunity to participate in the programs of the Kislak Center and the English Department including organizing seminars on best digital practices, delivering lectures, and curating exhibitions. The fellow will help plan, solicit contributions, and speak at the seventh annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age in 2015. This will provide the fellow with a platform for presenting new developments in the field of early modern data curation, including those to which he or she has contributed. *Qualifications* The candidate will hold a PhD in an area of early modern studies, with a concentration in the history of the book. Working knowledge of at least one non-English language is preferred. Experience with prior digital projects and some knowledge of programming preferred. Prior work experience in special collections is desirable. *About the Kislak Center* The Kislak Center is the product of a $17 million renovation project and houses an extraordinary collection of rare books and manuscripts. Its mission is to bring its collections together with modern technology and a wide base of patrons in order to provide access to and understanding of our common cultural and intellectual heritage. The fellow will benefit from the combined skills and knowledge of the Kislak Center’s curators, researchers, and technology professionals as well as the faculty of various humanities departments and the wider resources of the University. The Kislak Center has a deep commitment to provenance research and book history and the fellow will be able to draw upon the resources and expertise already extant here. For instance, the Center already supports the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SBDM). The SBDM is the largest repository of manuscript provenance data in the world, currently containing over 200,000 records, with more being added each day, representing the movements of approximately 90,000 manuscripts. The records in the SBDM represent not only a wealth of data on manuscripts produced in the early modern period but also records of countless book transactions and sales from that era. In addition, the Kislak Center hosts digital facsimiles of more than 3,000 manuscript books from the early modern period in its collections, which might fruitfully be used in the Penn Provenance Project. The Center also has extensive expertise in working with data. The Curator for Digital Research Services, for example, is a co-Director of the Mellon-funded Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) project to aggregate data on digitized medieval collections of manuscripts and other objects. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Digital Humanities Opportunity: XQuery Summer Institute
by Michelson, David Allen 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Dear DM-L subscribers, With apologies for cross-posting, please consider joining us for this event: Vanderbilt University invites you to participate in a summer seminar for humanities scholars working with XML documents (such as TEI, EAD, or MODS). The XQuery Summer Institute is designed for scholars with basic experience marking up texts who would like to acquire advanced skills in how to query and computationally analyze XML documents. We welcome applications from archivists, faculty members, librarians, alt-ac professionals, and advanced graduate students. Over the course of two weeks, we will teach you how to program in XQuery, a language designed for querying and manipulating XML documents. You will leave the Institute knowing how to maximize the value of your XML encoding. The Institute will take place from Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 20 in 2014 on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. It will be led by six instructors with experience in the digital humanities (see http://xqueryinstitute.org/instructors), including Jonathan Robie, Lead Editor of the XQuery and XPath specifications at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There are no registration costs to the Institute thanks to generous support from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities (see the announcement of Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant- ... -july-2013<http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant-news/announcing-3-institutes-advance…>). We will also provide subventions for participants’ travel, lodging, and meals. Participation is limited to twelve. Applications are due by February 14, 2014. Please join us! Take your XML skills to the next level in Nashville this summer. For information about the Institute and the application process, see http://xqueryinstitute.org/. Questions? Please email Clifford Anderson, Director for Scholarly Communications, at Vanderbilt University: clifford.anderson(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:clifford.anderson@vanderbilt.edu>. Best, David David A. Michelson Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School Affiliate Assistant Professor of Classics, College of Arts & Sciences Vanderbilt University www.syriaca.org

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Post doctoral position, Aliento project.
by Daniel O'Donnell 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Dear colleagues, For the project ALIENTO (ANR 2014-2017) we need to recruit a post-doctoral researcher for 6 months in order to tag proverb-books or sapiential texts (from Spain) in medieval hebrew. Informations about ALIENTO can be found in our website www.aliento.eu Could you please put the announcement on line in the relevant websites or diffusion-lists you may know? We thank you in advance. With our best regards Prof. Marie-Christine Bornes Varol Dpt. Etudes Hébraïques & Juives INALCO Paris<mailto:varol@noos.fr> varol(a)noos.fr 33 (0)6 33 67 60 15 & Prof. Marie-Sol Ortola Dpt. Etudes hispaniques & ibéroaméricaines Université de Lorraine<mailto:Marie-Sol.Ortola@univ-lorraine.fr> Marie-Sol.Ortola(a)univ-lorraine.fr

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This week's blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 07 Dec '13

07 Dec '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip braves the Badlands of South Dakota: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/manuscript-road-trip-bra… - 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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Fwd: New volume on Digital Humanities
by Hugh Houghton 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Posted on behalf of Claire Clivaz: Dear colleagues, Here is a newly-published collection of essays that may interest you. Kind greetings, Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne (CH) Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies, Leiden: Brill, 2013. Edited by Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne, Andrew Gregory, University of Oxford and David Hamidovic, University of Lausanne, in collaboration with Sara Schulthess, University of Lausanne Ancient texts, once written by hand on parchment and papyrus, are now increasingly discoverable online in newly digitized editions, and their readers now work online as well as in traditional libraries. So what does this mean for how scholars may now engage with these texts, and for how the disciplines of biblical, Jewish and Christian studies might develop? These are the questions that contributors to this volume address. Subjects discussed include textual criticism, palaeography, philology, the nature of ancient monotheism, and how new tools and resources such as blogs, wikis, databases and digital publications may transform the ways in which contemporary scholars engage with historical sources. Contributors attest to the emergence of a conscious recognition of something new in the way that we may now study ancient writings, and the possibilities that this new awareness raises. http://www.brill.com/products/book/digital-humanities-biblical-early-jewish…

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CeRch Seminar: Détournement of applications as a creative tool (lecture/performance)
by kcl - cerch 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar, the last of 2013: Détournement of applications as a creative tool (lecture/performance) - Brian Reffin Smith, Collège de 'Pataphysique, Paris Date: Tuesday, 10th December, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand campus) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348553749 The seminar will be followed by wine and festive nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: The French word "Détournement", loosely translatable as hijacking, leading astray or appropriation, describes the sideways or "alt" use of computer applications outside their original fields: for example the use of medical imaging software to make movies, of spelling checkers to scramble text, or of fluid behaviour modelling software to make drawings. It is a two-way process and win-win situation, because "unauthorised" or simply crazy uses of apps can feed back ideas into their mainstream application as well as leading to creative splurges in other disciplines. Examples, some interactive, will be shown of hijacking computer software and iPad apps into areas of art, sound, text, cognitive psychology and because of the venue, anatomy (it is recommended not to eat before this seminar). Bio: Brian Reffin Smith is a writer, artist, theoretician, zombie and musician. He has spent about 40 years teaching ideas of "détournement", using them for art and writing about them, and is a pioneer of computer based conceptual art. He won the very first Golden Nike (the 'Oscars' of computer art) at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria and his art and text works are shown internationally. His fields of activity are computer-based art and general creativity, performance art, Zombie studies and 'Pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions. He is a book reviewer for Leonardo. He was for 25 years a French civil servant, as Professeur, Art et Informatique, in the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Bourges, France. He holds the Chair of Catachemistry and Speculative Metallurgy in the Paris-based Collège de 'Pataphysique, and lives in Berlin, Germany.

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Digital Philology 2.2
by Albert Lloret 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. I am pleased to announce the publication of Digital Philology 2.2. This is a special issue edited by Deborah McGrady and devoted to Rethinking the Boundaries of Patronage. It includes essays by Jeanette Patterson on the Bible historiale, Andrea Tarnowski on de Mézières Epistre lamentable, Amy N. Vines on Hoccleves Series, and Helen Swift on defenses of women. Additionally, the Fall 2013 issue of DPh features an article on Auerbachs counterphilology, by James I. Porter, and an essay reviewing the terminology used to describe manuscripts, by Tjamke Snijders. Five reviews of digital projects close the volume. Here is the link to the Table of Contents: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/toc/dph.2.2.html . I hope you enjoy it! Best, Albert Lloret 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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Call for talk proposals: Spring 2014, Centre for e-Research Seminar Series, King's College London
by Centre for e-Research 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

Hello all, apologies for cross-posting, We now invite proposals for presentations in the Spring Term 2014 Centre for e-Research (CeRch) seminar series at King's College London. The CeRch seminars provide a venue for discussion and engagment of a range of projects, applications, methods and theories spanning the Centre's academic interests in computing, library and archives research, digital culture, information science and digital scholarship. Talks can cover any topic within CeRch's areas of interest and expertise, including applied and theoretical papers and discussion of early results. More details about the CeRch Seminar Series are at the bottom of this email. The call is open to all, including people at any stage in their academic career and those working outside academia, with the possibility to facilitate remote speakers. Seminars will be streamed live and published as online video after the event, unless the speaker requests otherwise. Reasonable limited travel expenses can be met, along with one night's accommodation in London if necessary. Please submit an abstract of up to 400 words to Anna Jordanous, via email to cerch(a)kcl.ac.uk by *Thursday 12th December 2013*. Please also contact Anna if you have any questions. Seminars will take place on Tuesday 6.15pm-7.30pm, provisionally on 21st Jan, 4th Feb, 18th Feb, 4th March, 18th March 2014. Please indicate your availability for these dates or alternative Tuesdays (January-March 2014) in your submission email. We look forward to hearing from you, Regards, Anna Jordanous Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. * **--- Centre for e-Research Seminar Series* The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King's College London runs an interdisciplinary seminar programme on alternate Tuesday evenings during term time. With viewpoints from many disciplines including the sciences, social sciences and humanities, the series' primary focus is to stimulate discussion and provide new and innovative insight into design, development and use of digitally-based methods and technologies, and the theoretical issues that they raise (especially where they interact with a range of other fields). Previous topics have included visualisation, webometrics, digital research infrastructures, computational creativity, motion data, computational linguistics, cultural value and social network analysis, among many others. Details of recent seminars in this series can be seen at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/ . The series invites contributions for talks engaging with innovative questions or applications, using technology-enhanced methods. The series provides excellent networking opportunities, and will be of interest to anyone interested in debates around theories and practice in computing and digital technologies. Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Museum Space, at King's College London, Strand Campus (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx). Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. Twitter: @KingsCeRch hashtag: #cerchseminars --- Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL

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