(apologies for cross-posting; please forward to anyone you think
interested)
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The annual open DH Awards 2013 are now accepting nominations! Please
nominate any Digital Humanities resource you feel deserves to win in any of
this year's categories. The open DH Awards 2013 are openly nominated by the
community and openly voted for by the public as a DH awareness activity.
There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won and an icon
for your website.
Nominations will be open until 31 December 2013 (midnight GMT), voting will
take place in January 2014.
Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that
were launched/finished/created in
2013.
To nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at:
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/
The categories we are accepting nominations for the open Digital Humanities
Awards 2013 are:
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**Best DH tool or suite of tools**
Nominations for this category should be for a tool or suite of
tools created by members of the DH community, used for enabling,
encouraging, and/or accomplishing DH work.
**Best DH contribution not in the English language**
Nominations for this category should be for DH resources or
publications that are not in the English language.
**Best use of DH for fun**
Nominations for this category should be for
projects/resources/sites for DH which are designed to be fun or
inherently playful.
**Best DH blog post, article, or short publication**
Nominations for this category should be for a specific short DH
publication (peer-reviewed or not) whether article, blog post, or
other publication.
**Best DH visualization or infographic**
Nominations for this category should be for a graphic,
infographic, or visualization created for or by the DH community.
**Best DH project for public audiences**
Nominations for this category should be for a DH project designed
to be used by audiences primarily outside of higher education,
including educators, students, enthusiasts, genealogists, engaged
citizens, etc.
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Again, to nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations
page at:
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/
If you have any questions please see
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ or ask at
james(a)dhawards.org or tweet @DHawards
James Cummings
DHawards.org
This week's blog: medieval manuscripts in Nebraska...
http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com
- Lisa
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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
Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting. I just would like to remind everybody that the DIXIT ITN deadline is rapidly approaching: your applications should be sent by the 10th of December to the respective host institution and to the central coordinator institution (University of Cologne).
DIXIT ITN is offering 12 fellowships for Early Stage Researchers. Please notice the following criteria for eligibility which it seems they were somehow not so clearly expressed before:
- Candidates should not have already a PhD: the fellowship is meant to support the successful candidate to obtain one.
- Candidates should not have more than 4 years full time research experience
- Candidates should NOT having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3 years.
Application for one Experienced Researcher is also out which has the following eligibility criteria:
- Candidates should have already a PhD or an equivalent research achievement.
- Candidates should not have more than 5 years full time research experience and not less than 4.
- Candidate should NOT having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3 years.
Please find here the references to all open positions: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html
Two of the Early Career Researchers will be based at King's College London (see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde…): please get in touch with me if you are interested either in documentary editing or social editing.
Many thanks to all that will give it the largest diffusion.
Best
Elena
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Dr Elena Pierazzo
Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Department in Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
Phone: 0207-848-1949
Fax: 0207-848-2980
elena.pierazzo(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk>
www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh
lt is with great pleasure that Global Outlook::Digital Humanities
announces the winners of its first DH essay prize.
http://t.co/7xhUcgfUXG The competition, which was supported by funds
awarded by the University of Lethbridge and an anonymous donor,
attracted 53 entries in 7 languages.
The first prize winners (in alphabetical order) are
* Dacos, Marin (Open Edition, France). La stratégie du Sauna
finlandais: Les frontières de Digital Humanities. Essai de
Géographie politiqued’une communauté scientifique.
* Gawne, Lauren (University of Melbourne, Australia). Language
documentation and division: Bridging the digital divide.
* Pue, A. Sean, Tracy K. Teal, and C. Titus Brown (Michigan State
University, USA). Bioinformatic approaches to the computational
analysis of Urdu poetic meter.
* Raval, Noopur (Jawaharlal Nehru Univesity (JNU), New Delhi, India).
On Wikipedia and Failure: Notes from Queering the Encyclopedia.
Second prize winners (also in alphabetical order) are
* Arauco Dextre, Renzo (Memoragram, Lima, Peru). Memogram, un
Cloud-Service Para la Memoria Colectiva.
* Carlson, Thomas A. (Princeton University, USA). Digital Maps are
still not territory: Challenges raised by Syriaca.org’s Middle
Eastern places over two millenia.
* Tomasini Maciel, Julia (University of Maryland, USA). Humanidades
Digitales y traducción literaria: Latinoamérica entre el portugués y
el español.
* Portales Machado, Yasmín Silvia (Havana, Cuba). Perfil demográfico
de la blogosfera hecha en Cuba en diciembre de 2012.
* Tasovac, Toma and Natalia Ermolaev (Centre for Digital Humanities,
Belgrade, Serbia). Interfacing diachrony: Rethinking lexical
annotation in digital editions.
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):
* Arbuckle, Alyssa (University of Victoria, Canada). The risk of
digital repatriation for indigenous groups.
* Baryshev, Ruslan, Igor Kim, Inna Kizhner, Maxim Rumyantsev (Siberian
Federal University, Russia). Digitial Humanities at Siberian Federal
University.
* Calbay, Francis Raymond (HayPinas.org, Taipei, Taiwan).
User-Generated vitriol: Ethnic stereotypes in online comments on
media reports of a South China Sea shooting incident.
* Farman, Jason (University of Maryland, USA). Mapping virtual
communities: The production of crisis maps and cultural imaginaries
of the Diaspora.
* Finney, Tim (Vose Seminary, Australia). How to discover textual groups.
* Ives, Maura and Amy Earhart (Texas A&M University, USA).
Establishing a digital humanities center: Vision, reality,
sustainability.
* Kaltenbrunner, Wolfgang (Leiden University, The Netherlands).
Transparency strategies in digital scholarship.
* López Villaneuva, José Manuel (Mexico). Reflexiones sobre la RedHD
en México: desarrollo y alcance de la RedHD en la comunidad
académica universitaria.
* Menon, Nirmala (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India).
Multilingual digital publishing: A postcolonial Digital Humanities
imperative.
* O’Sullivan, James (Ireland). The emergence of Digital Humanities in
Ireland.
* Ouellette, Jessica (University of Massachussetts, USA). Blogging
borders: Transnational feminist rhetorics and global voices.
* Perozo Olivares, Karla (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Venazuala).
Una aproximación al desconocimiento de las masas digitales.
* Riedel, Dagmar (Columbia University, USA). The digitization of books
in Arabic script and the digital divide in Muslim societies.
* Sandstedt, Jørgen (University of Iceland, University of Oslo,
Iceland/Norway). Text-dependent automated methods in scribal hand
identification.
* Schmidt, Desmond (University of Queensland, Australia). Towards a
model for the digital scholarly edition.
* Sobczak, Anna (Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Poland). A CO Z
HUMANISTAMI? – CYFROWA HUMANISTYKA JAKO LEKARSTWO NA OBECNY STAN
POSTRZEGANIA HUMANISTYKI W MEDIACH ELEKTRONICZNYCH?
The committee thanks all authors for their submissions and their
patience with the (longer-than-anticipated) adjudication process. The
competition was extremely tight and the remaining submissions included
many excellent papers that the referees singled out for special comment.
Although this exhausts the current funding, it is hoped that we will be
able to repeat this competition in future years. The organisers also
thank the adjudication panel for their hard work and willingness to help
out.
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
+1 403 393-2539
Apologies for cross-posting.
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From: *Chad Nelson*
Date: Friday, November 22, 2013
Subject: [PhillyDigitalHumanities] GLAM Hack Philly - Feb 1-2, 2014
To: phillydh <phillydigitalhumanities(a)googlegroups.com>
GLAM Hack Philly is a free, weekend-long hackathon focused on building
apps with open data from Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. It
will take place the weekend of February 1-2, 2012 at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections.
The event will bring together programmers, curators, librarians, designers,
archivists, and anyone else with a passion for GLAM data, to build fun and
interesting apps with the tremendous amount of GLAM data that is openly and
freely available. On the morning of Saturday, February 1st, participants
can pitch ideas for projects related to a specific data set or for broader
GLAM-related applications. This could be anything from creating Omeka
plug-ins to building a virtual city tour app using local digital
collections. Small groups will form and participants will begin working on
their projects through Sunday, with a goal to present a working prototype
by Sunday afternoon.
Challenges and Data
We are seeking proposals of Data Challenges for teams to work on during the
hackathon. Challenges can be as simple as a dataset and a vague idea of
what could be done with that data, or could be an already identified
problem with your data that you are seeking help to solve.
The only requirements for proposing a challenge are:
-
Someone from your organization commits to participating in the event.
They will help steward teams who take up that challenge by giving context
to your data.
-
If you r challange includes a dataset, that data should be made
available for use and reuse. Providing your data openly means that anyone
can build applications with your data before, during, and after the
hackathon.
Submit a Challenge Now <http://bit.ly/1bp5xpV>
If you’re not sure how your organization's data could be used or want some
help brainstorming a challenge, just get in touch with
glamhackphilly(a)gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'glamhackphilly(a)gmail.com');>, we're happy to help.
You can also submit your dataset without proposing a
challenge<http://bit.ly/1cg6bEr>.
We'll highlight your dataset on our website for attendees consideration.
But I'm not a programmer -- can I participate?
The input of content specialists like museum curators, librarians,
archivists, catalogers,GLA researchers and others who know the data
produced by GLAM organizations, is crucial to creating successful projects.
We don't just want your participation, we need it!
You can find more information on http://glamhack.com
Thanks,
Philly GLAM Hack organizers
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*Apologies for cross-posting*
The database "Regesta Pontificum Romanorum" has been launched at the
beginning of this week. In the near future there will be a regest for every
papal contact prior to the year 1198. Please visit www.papsturkunden.de.
As of now just 282 regesta of the Bohemia-Moravia have been released, but
there will be coming more soon.
Best regards
Thorsten Schlauwitz
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Thorsten Schlauwitz M.A.
wiss. Mitarbeiter an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
BMBF-Projekt "Schrift und Zeichen. Computergestützte Analyse von
hochmittelalterlichen Papsturkunden. Ein Schlüssel zur Kulturgeschichte
Europas"
This week, the Manuscript Road Trip finds an old friend in Iowa:
http://wp.me/p3RUQ3-de
- Lisa
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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
[Apologies for cross-posting]
The DIXIT ITN is offering 12 fellowships for Early Stage Researchers (not
yet doctors, having obtained a Master degree in the past 4 years, and NOT
having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3
years).
One of those 3-year fellowships is based at the EHESS Lyon (ESR 5), under
my general supervision*. See here for more information:
http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/esr.html#c18481
The research project is designed to be carried out as a PhD thesis and
includes the following tasks:
- Preparation of a digital edition of a medieval work (preferably a
collection of biblical *distinctiones*).
- Assessment & evaluation of methods and tools for digital scholarly
editing.
- Assessment of, and proposition for the ergonomy and usability of digital
scholarly editions.
If you are interested, please follow the procedure described in the link
above, and do not hesitate to get in touch with me for more information.
Warning: the deadline for application is Dec. 10th 2013!!
Best regards,
Marjorie Burghart
CIHAM UMR 5648 - EHESS Lyon (France)
* please note that, while I am supervising the EHESS part of the DIXIT
project, the actual supervision of the fellow's PhD will be done by the
person best suited to the topic chosen.
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar:
They're reading our minds: humanities research and digital thinking with CENDARI
Kate Macdonald (Ghent University) and Alessandro Salvador (University of Trento), Visiting Researchers at the Centre for e-Research, King's College London
Date: Tuesday, 26th November, 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/e/cerch-seminar-theyre-reading-our-minds-humanit…
All the best,
Valentina Asciutti
Abstract:
The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) provides and facilitates access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history (specifically the First World War period) through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. As part of this project, the Centre for e-Research is currently hosting two visiting researchers: Kate Macdonald and Alessandro Salvador, who are investigating how CENDARI can assist their own research work. At tonight's seminar Kate Macdonald and Alessandro Salvador will discuss their ongoing research, within the context of CENDARI.
Kate Macdonald’s presentation will outline a methodology and early findings from reading British popular fiction magazines published for the entirety of the First World War, looking for depictions of the war-wounded ex-soldier, and the civilian who had been impaired by disease, congenital causes, or industrial injury. This stream of cultural production at this time has never been investigated before, yet it presents important evidence for how the ordinary reader regarded, or was expected to regard, physical impairment at a time when the demographics of the physically impaired were changing dramatically, and new technologies were changing treatments, rehabilitation, and living with impairment. This is part of a wider project investigating such depictions during and after WW1 and up to 1939, exploring the hypothesis that some kinds of disability were more deserving than others. She will discuss her role in the CENDARI project as a case study and guinea-pig for exploring humanities research processes.
Alessandro Salvador: My contribution will focus on the main topic of my research and the reasons and goals of my current work within the CENDARI project. I am currently in the final stage of a research about demobilization and reinstatement into civilian life of the Italian-speaking soldiers enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. In particular, I researched the activities of the Italian government in managing a group of Italian-nationals belonging to an enemy State within a complex series of events that started in 1915 and finished in 1921. This topic represented a challenge for archival research, as the sources are spread throughout archives in Italy, Russia, Austria and UK. This brought to the idea of creating an online research guide in which archival information can be gathered and made public for researchers needing to access sources on this topic. Thus, my current work mostly deals, as pilot project, with Italian sources. My contribution will give a brief introduction to the topic and the problematic issues in order to explain the kind of data I am collecting, the way of organizing them and what advantages I expect that this project will offer to researchers.
Bios:
Kate Macdonald teaches British literary history and poetry at Ghent University, and is the author of several books, chapters and articles on British publishing culture from 1880 to 1950.
Alessandro Salvador studied contemporary history in Trieste and Trento, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2010. After a period as exchange scholar (DAAD Program) at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, he obtained a post-doc position at the University of Trento. Currently he is part of a research group on WWI involving the University and the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento.
**With apologies for cross-posting**
6th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the
Digital Age
November 21-23, 2013
Thinking Outside the Codex
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of
Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Lawrence J.
Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's
symposium will encourage participants to "think outside the codex" and turn
the tables on traditional approaches to manuscript study. We will explore
such topics as how format shapes and limits interpretation, use, and
production of manuscripts and how technologies have changed and challenged
traditional methods of scholarship. We are especially considering instances
of and responses to failure in the history of manuscript production and
scholarship. In doing so, we hope to provoke new questions and forge new
approaches to the study of the pre-modern book.
To kick off the event, a reception and the keynote address will be held
Thursday evening, November 21, at the Free Library of Philadelphia. This
year's keynote speaker will be Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C.
Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English and of
Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Director of the History of
the Material Text Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania. The symposium
begins Friday morning at the newly renovated Special Collections Center of
the University Pennsylvania Libraries. Speakers include:
* Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University
* Benjamin Fleming, University of Pennsylvania
* Martin Foys, King's College, London
* Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan
* David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania
* Kathryn Rudy, University of St. Andrews
* Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
* Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University
* Marie Turner, University of Pennsylvania
* Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
In addition, four workshops will be held throughout the symposium to offer
hands-on exploration of problems and issues related to the study of
manuscripts in the digital age.
The Handwritten and the Printed: The limits of format and medium in
Japanese premodern books
Leaders: Julie Davis and Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
Demo Workshop for T-Pen: Transcription for paleographical and editorial
notation
Leader: James Ginther, Saint Louis University
Scholarship Outside the Codex: Citation-based digital workflows for
integrating objects, images and text without making a mess
Leader: Christopher Blackwell, Furman University
Of Apples and Apple Pie: Exploring the relationship between raw data and
digital scholarship
Leaders: Dot Porter and Doug Emery, University of Pennsylvania
For more information and to register go to:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium6.html
******************
Lynn Ransom, Ph.D.
Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
215.898.7851
http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg