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Update | Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan
by Evyn Kropf 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

*Please excuse cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, Earlier this year, we at the University of Michigan Library concluded a collaborative project to realize the cataloguing of our Islamic Manuscripts Collection. 883 new catalogue records were created in the course of the project representing 1447 titles in 877 volumes, 2 rolls, and 3 single leaves. Another 21 manuscript descriptions were significantly enhanced. While in the end most of the cataloguing was done by the project cataloguer, we are grateful to all who contributed remotely and locally, especially our local project staff who worked on manuscripts not yet digitized (http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/progress). We are pleased to report that the entire collection is thus fully catalogued with detailed, searchable descriptions for each manuscript appearing in the online Library catalogue, Mirlyn (http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/). The catalogue records should also appear soon in OCLC’s WorldCat. Further, descriptions and complete digital surrogates for 912 manuscripts from the collection appear in the online catalogue of the HathiTrust Digital Library (http://hathitrust.org/). To assist with navigating the collection and descriptive data, a research guide has been created with details on the collection history, size, and scope, as well as strategies for locating manuscripts of interest, instructions for viewing manuscripts in the Library, and advice on locating, viewing and downloading digitized manuscripts: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/islamicmss This guide will be enhanced and updated periodically as we continue to develop the collection. In addition, a research guide on Islamic Manuscript Studies has been created with more general advice on identifying and locating manuscripts, an introduction to palaeography and manuscript description, bibliographical resources and reading lists, as well as listings of digitized manuscripts and online catalogues with links and descriptions, a selection of the largest collections of Islamic manuscripts held in North America having some sort of web presence, and links to other relevant research guides and associations, institutes and research initiatives: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/islamicmsstudies This guide will also continue to evolve and we welcome any feedback on it. We also continue to welcome any comments you might have on the manuscripts or their descriptions posted to the collection project site: http://lib.umich.edu/islamic Just keep in mind that not all manuscripts from the collection currently appear there. In order to search all manuscripts from the collection, it is best to search Mirlyn. As always, feel free to be in touch with any questions or requests for assistance with navigating the collection. With all best wishes, Evyn Kropf _______________________________________ Evyn Kropf Librarian for Near Eastern and Religious Studies Curator, Islamic Manuscripts Collection University Library Area Programs M117B Hatcher Graduate Library North The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 (734) 764-1220 | ekropf(a)umich.edu

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Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 19 Oct '13

19 Oct '13

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip rolls into Detroit and finds the Apocalypse. http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/manuscript-road-trip-dra… -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: [Digitalhumanities] Solutions Developer post
by Orietta Da Rold 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

Begin forwarded message: From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" <snd6(a)leicester.ac.uk> Subject: [Digitalhumanities] Solutions Developer post Date: 16 October 2013 10:20:18 BST To: "'digitalhumanities(a)le.ac.uk'" <digitalhumanities(a)leicester.ac.uk> Dear all, The revised advertisement for the Solutions Developer post is now live. See http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHL672/solutions-developer-linux-environment/ for details. We have slightly revised the job spec and changed the job title to emphasise the skills that we are looking for. Please forward to anyone who may be interested. I would also be grateful to know of any appropriate mailing lists that this might be placed on. Kind regards, Simon Simon Dixon Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager David Wilson Library University of Leicester University Road Leicester. LE1 7RH T: +44(0)116 252 2056 E: snd6(a)le.ac.uk W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team Elite Without Being Elitist Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/uniofleicester _______________________________________________ Digitalhumanities mailing list Digitalhumanities(a)lists.le.ac.uk http://lists.le.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/digitalhumanities *********************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500 Faculty of English University of Cambridge 9 West Road Cambridge UK CB3 9DP od245(a)cam.ac.uk

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Multispectral visualizations for the St Chad Gospels
by Endres, William F 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Dear colleagues, I'm happy to announce that I have a collection of multispectral visualizations available for page 141 of the St Chad Gospels. Page 141 appears as if it might have erased text. This is significant because page 141 contains the oldest surviving examples of Old Welsh writing. These multispectral visualizations offer enhanced viewing of this area. Also, my viewer allows any of the multispectral visualizations to be overlaid with either the RGB or ultraviolet image and transparency adjusted to sort out interferences from what might be remnants of text: https://lichfield.as.uky.edu/content/page-141-multispectral . If you have any questions or comments, please contact me: bill.endres(a)uky.edu<mailto:bill.endres@uky.edu> . All best, Bill -- Bill Endres University of Kentucky Division of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Media Lexington, KY 40506 859-257-8337

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This week's blog: Book-breaking in the Buckeye State
by Lisa Fagin Davis 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

This week's installment of The Manuscript Road Trip: Otto Ege and the great state of Ohio! http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/manuscript-road-trip-in-… -- 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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CeRch Seminar - October 15th (Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta)
by kcl - cerch 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta (Kristen Schuster, University of Missouri, Columbia) Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348401293 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the very best, Valentina Asciutti 15th October: Kristen Schuster, University of Missouri, Columbia Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta Abstract: Published by the Society of Antiquarians of London Vetusta Monumenta is a compendium of text and images describing and representing ancient artifacts and buildings from Europe (primarily England). Created over a number of years multiple volumes and editions of the work exist, three of which now reside in Ellis Library, Special Collections, at the University of Missouri Columbia. Although high quality scans have been made, currently only limited descriptive, administrative or technical metadata exists. In an effort to remedy this situation a group of librarians and English Department faculty have begun collaborating to synthesize scholarly and historical commentary with images in order to explore the potential of linked data. Beginning as a 'simple' digital libraries project, it has since evolved into an exploration of the potential for descriptive metadata to enhance the value of digitized materials. In particular, this project has made it necessary to ask: how should images and text interact in a digital library? Over the past decade questions like this have catalyzed a concerted exploration of information seeking behaviors in digital environments. While systems for negotiating text or images exist, each schema, protocol or controlled vocabulary is rather specialized and, thus, depends on users acquiring information or visual literacy skills - as opposed to a synthesis of the two. The collaboration between librarians and scholars has made it possible to re-contextualize the idea of linked data by directly linking scholarship to the materials it references. Using the Visual Resource Associations (VRA) VRA Core schema and Cataloging Cultural Objects content standard it has been possible to exploit the accuracy and extensibility of OCLCs Dublin Core schema through the use of SCALAR, a new digital library interface developed by the University of Southern California. As an ongoing project participants are endeavoring to use the digital surrogates of images to enhance the readability and value of written scholarship by associating text and images in an innovate manner. Bio: Kristen is currently a second year doctoral student in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri Columbia. Her experiences as a librarian have primarily consisted of metadata management in visual resource departments, which has been quite useful in her current work and research in the area of digital humanities. She began collaborating with the English Department last spring to develop a digital edition of three volumes of Vetusta Monumenta, an antiquarian text of prints and essays on ancient British monuments published by the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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Manuscript Road Trip blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

Latest blog post on the Manuscript Road Trip: a 12th-century manuscript fragment in 21st-century Pittsburgh... http://wp.me/p3RUQ3-45 - 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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2013 Schoenberg Symposium__Online Registration Opened
by Lynn Ransom 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

**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 * Christopher Blackwell, Furman 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 go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium6.html

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CeRch Seminar - October 1st
by kcl - cerch 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Network analytic approaches to the production and propagation of literary and artistic value (Daniel Allington) Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: <https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348373209> https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348373209 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: According to Bourdieu, the value of art, literature, etc is a form of belief that is produced within the cultural field and then propagated outwards into wider society through public-facing cultural institutions - as in the case of the 'writer's writer' who is initially read only by his or her peers, but who becomes 'consecrated' (i.e. canonised) thanks to peer esteem and eventually finds a mass readership through school or university syllabi. In this talk, I shall lay out two innovative methodologies for studying these processes through social network analysis. This is potentially controversial because of Bourdieu's much-discussed preference for Multiple Correspondence Analysis. However, I shall argue that, just as the abstract mathematical space of Multiple Correspondence Analysis forms a useful analogue for Bourdieu's conception of field, the no-less abstract structure of a directed graph forms a useful analogue for his understanding of the production of value within a field, and of its subsequent propagation beyond that field. The first of the methodologies I shall present focuses on the production of value. It has already been trialled through a case study of interactive fiction, with results of this investigation to appear in my monograph, Literature in the Digital Economy (forthcoming from Palgrave, 2014), and elsewhere. As I will argue by reference to ongoing research, the same methodology can potentially yield important insights when applied to other cultural forms. The second of these methodologies focuses on the propagation of value, and thus provides a possible approach to the study of the impact of the arts on wider society, as well as a bridge between the two major strands of research in the sociology of culture, i.e. study of cultural producers and study of cultural consumers. It builds on the first methodology but presents arguably greater difficulties with regard to data collection and the interpretation of findings. However, these difficulties are instructive because they raise deep questions about the use of social network analysis in cultural research, both in the humanities and in the social sciences. Speaker's Bio: Daniel Allington is a lecturer in the Open University Centre for Language and Communication. His first book, Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology (co-edited by Barbara Mayor) was published by Routledge in 2012. His first monograph, Literature in the Digital Economy, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. He researches the production, circulation, and recognition of value in a range of cultural practices, from literature and visual art to computer programming, focusing in particular on the construction and maintenance of hierarchies and inequalities, and on the quest for autonomy among cultural producers of all kinds. Daniel's website is at http://<http://www.danielallington.net> www.danielallington.net.

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Biblissima - Overview of the XML editors for TEI / EAD survey
by Questionnaire Biblissima 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Dear all, As part of the Biblissima project, we conducted a survey on user requirements for XML editors, especially for people encoding in TEI and/or EAD. Please find the overview of the results (in French) on the Biblissima documentation site : http://doc.biblissima-condorcet.fr/resultats-du-sondage-sur-les-editeurs-xm… With our grateful thanks, The Biblissima team [apologies for cross-posting] ---------------------------- Pool Biblissima Campus Condorcet 3 rue de la Croix Faron 93210 Saint-Denis La Plaine +33 (0)1 55 93 75 34 ----------------------------

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