Dear all,
As part of the Biblissima project, we are carrying out a survey on the user requirements for XML editors, especially for people doing TEI and/or EAD encoding. We would like to find out more about your habits and wishes, in order to develop tools that are best-suited to your needs. If you are involved with this kind of work, we would be pleased if you could answer our survey :
English version : http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/limesurvey/index.php/229321/lang-en
French version : http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/limesurvey/index.php/229321/lang-fr
German version : http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/limesurvey/index.php/229321/lang-de
We invite you to transmit it as widely as possible to your colleagues, students or friends who use XML editor whether regularly or occasionally in the digital humanities.
With our grateful thanks,
The biblissima team.
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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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Dear all,
I am happy to announce that I have 16 interactive 3D images of Lichfield Cathedral's St Chad Gospels available online, with plans to have the complete manuscript up by summer's end: http://lichfield.as.uky.edu . This is a beta version but very stable. Chrome offers the best 3D support for browsers, but Safari works well as does Opera. Foxfire and Internet Explorer should have the necessary support in their next releases.
Features include the ability to measure any aspect of a page, offering seven different measurements (by color) and each measurement able to comprise multiple points (for a point, line or polygon); allowing viewers to generate a URL for an exact view that they have manipulated a 3D rendering into for later return or to send to a colleague or friend (or for citation); annotate any feature on a page and save it to the server, loading it and its view later (I have an annotation for page 5, the Chi-Rho); and my favorite viewing feature—by holding down the alt key, left clicking the mouse and dragging it, the cursor location becomes the point around which the page rotates (potentially making any point on a page its own epicenter).
There is a key at the top of the viewer for the 3D images giving the various functions and movements, including full-screen mode, panning the camera, zooming in and out, and dragging the image (by clicking and holding down the mousewheel—we'll have a keystroke for this movement soon so that all of the functionality will work on the touchpad of a laptop.
If anyone has any comments or suggestions, please contact me: bill.endres(a)uky.edu .
Best,
Bill
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Bill Endres
University of Kentucky
Division of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Media
Lexington, KY 40506
859-257-8337
This summer sees the completion of the first round of research projects in the humanities funded by HERA, Humanities in the European Research Area.
http://www.heranet.info
The event is being marked by a Conference, and a Festival of the Humanities, The Time and the Place, in London, on 31 May and 1 June:
http://www.heranet.info/final-conference-and-humanities-festival
As might have been expected, several of the projects focussed on the digital world, and all of them engaged with digital humanities to a greater or lesser extent. We are therefore organising an event presenting and analysing issues that have emerged during the research period: this will take the form of a series of presentations, followed by a panel discussion.
For a programme of the event, on Friday 31 May, 13.00-15.30, at King's College London, see
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/eventrecords/2012-13/timeandplace.a…
Admission is free and open to all, but those attending are asked to register online.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Andrew Prescott and Charlotte Roueché
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Professor Charlotte Roueché
Centre for Hellenic Studies
King's College
London WC2R 2LS
fax + 44 20.7848 2545
charlotte.roueche(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk>
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/chs
*Digital History Seminar*Matthew HammondThe People of Medieval Scotland
Database: A Prosopographical Survey5:15pm (BST) on 14 May
2013<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Digital+History+Se…>
Room 243 (Senate House) and live on the Web at History
SPOT<https://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts>
‘The People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1314’ is a prosopographical
database that has
been in production since 2007, and has been freely available online since
the summer of 2010. Since the relaunch of the database last year, the site
has had over 40,000 unique visitors from across the globe. Now nearing
completion, the database contains records on over 20,000 individuals, drawn
from over 8500 medieval, mostly Latin documents. The paper will examine
some of the PoMS project’s technical innovations as well as the new
directions we hope to take in the coming years.
The seminar will take you behind the scenes of the public website to see
how this database evolved from the factoid prosopography model created for
the ‘Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’ (PASE) by John Bradley of the
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, now Department of Digital
Humanities, at Kings College London. PoMS has developed what might be
called a ‘transactional model’ of factoid prosopography, due to the fact
that it is comprised almost entirely of transactional documents like
charters. Rather than simply recording events, the transactional model is
explicitly interested in relations between individuals as recorded in the
documents. We will examine the new structures PoMS incorporates to allow
end users the ability to research the terms of the transaction, and thus
the nature of the interaction between people, as well as multiple
transactions happening at different times within the same document. We will
look at the work of Michele Pasin, formerly of DDH, in developing new ways
for users to both search and visualise these transactions. The seminar will
finish with a consideration of the capabilities of the database for
studying the social networks, and visualising the relationships between
large numbers of people.
*Matthew Hammond* is a Research Associate in the School of Humanities at
the University of Glasgow and former Lecturer in Scottish History at the
University of Edinburgh. Since 2007, he has been a team member of the
AHRC-funded projects that created the ‘People of Medieval Scotland,
1093-1286’ database (www.poms.ac.uk) and is now working on a
Leverhulme-funded project to expand the capabilities of that database,
especially in the area of Social Network Analysis.
Dear colleagues,
Thanks to a Project Support Grant awarded by the ALLC this year, we have
the opportunity to connect two related web services for stemmatological
analysis of texts: Stemweb (https://github.com/Stemweb/Stemweb) provided by
researchers at the University of Helsinki, and Stemmaweb (
http://byzantini.st/stemmaweb/) provided by the Tree of Texts project at KU
Leuven in collaboration with the Huygens Institute.
After a meeting in Helsinki we have produced a white paper on our plans for
interoperability, and we warmly invite comments or suggestions from any
interested scholar, researcher, and/or developer. We intend to begin work
in June, so comments received by the end of May would be particularly
helpful.
The white paper is available here: http://treeoftexts.arts.kuleuven.be/?p=58
Comments may be mailed directly to the authors, or preferably added
directly to the blog post for open discussion.
Best wishes,
Tara Andrews (tara.andrews(a)arts.kuleuven.be)
Teemu Roos (teemu.roos(a)cs.helsinki.fi)
Joris van Zundert (joris.van.zundert(a)huygens.knaw.nl)
Dear list,
In addition to the recently advertised PostDoc, I am searching for two
PhD students to join the Digital Humanities team at Passau as research
and teaching fellows.
Find more details in the job description:
http://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote/…
International candidates are welcome to apply in English, and German is
not a requirement for your research and teaching.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with
me. The deadline for applications is May 27th.
Best regards,
Malte
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Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein
Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities
Universität Passau
Gottfried-Schäffer-Straße 20 / 204
D-94032 Passau
fon: +49.851.509.3450
email: malte.rehbein(a)uni-passau.de
web: http://www.uni-passau.de/rehbein
**** Please Cross Post ****
Hi all,
Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities, The University of Lethbridge, and
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations is pleased to announce
the first Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition.
http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digi…
This is an open competition for research papers on the national,
regional, or international practice of the Digital Humanities--a broad
topic that has been designed to give authors the greatest possible
scope. Authors may write on individual projects or problems or broader
philosophical, geographical, sociological, political, or other aspects
of the practice of Digital Humanities in a global context. Papers
discussing the practice of DH by or with marginalised communities or in
areas that are currently less well represented by ADHO are particularly
welcome.
The competition is open to any interested party including students,
graduate students, junior faculty, and researchers unaffiliated with a
university or research institution. We would like to especially
encourage submissions from students, junior and unaffiliated
researchers, and authors belonging to marginalised communities or
communities currently less well represented by ADHO.
The competition is offering a minimum of 4 prizes of $500 (CAD) each.
Initial selection (for a prize of $200) is by abstract/proposal. A
further $300 will be awarded to the authors of the winning abstracts
upon satisfactory completion of a full-length paper based on their
original proposal. All submissions will be eligible for review and
publication in the ADHO journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique
(http://digitalstudies.org/).
For further information about the competition, please see the
competition web page:
http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digi….
The competition organisers can also be contacted by email at
prizes(a)globaloutlookdh.org
The initial deadline (abstracts/proposals) is June 30, 2013.
-Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
+1 403 393-2539
Dear all,
With great delight, the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities (King's College London)
announce the launch of the new DigiPal website at http://digipal.eu
For those of you who haven't been following our progress, DigiPal is a web-based resource for the
delivery of palaeographical content. Although our test case is eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon vernacular
script, the underlying DigiPal framework has been designed to work with multiple periods and languages,
and we already have Scandinavian and Hebrew projects using our tools, with the intention to extend the
framework to further materials, including cuneiform.
At present, there are c. 300 high quality images available on our site and we've annotated over 12,000
individual letters.
Oh, and thanks to funding from the ERC (EU FP7), everything is available for free ;-)
To get you started, here are a couple of serving suggestions:
A) For f. 29v of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 173, visit: http://www.digipal.eu/digipal/page/110/
Things you might like to try:
1) Turn annotations On/Off
2) Click on a highlighted letter to see our description
3) Click on "Filter annotations" to highlight a particular letter, or series of letters, that we have annotated
4) Click on the "Annotations by allograph" tab. If you click on an allograph, it will take you back to the ms
context, with that letter highlighted
5) Click on the "This record has 19 images" to see other folios from this ms.
NB: The metadata is very basic at the moment. Eventually, there will be all sorts of information, including
Ker, Scragg, Gneuss, Sawyer, etc. numbers. A summary of the content of the manuscript. Information
aggregated from other projects who have generously shared their data, e.g.
"English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220": http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.CCCC.173.htm
B) To see all the manuscripts from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College currently in the DigiPal database, visit:
http://www.digipal.eu/digipal/page/?town_or_city=&repository=Corpus+Christi…
NB: Click on the "Images" button on the right to see thumbnail images.
With a big thank you to everyone who has helped us to get this far! There's c. 18 months of the project left
and *much* more to come still. So, please get in touch with feedback and encouragement ;-)
Have fun, Stewart
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Dr Stewart J Brookes
Research Associate
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
Dear list,
I am searching for a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow to join the newly established Digital Humanities team in the beautiful city of Passau (Bavaria, Germany). I am offering a three-years full-time contract (with possible renewal, six years max.) and the possibility to conduct your own research on fundamental methodology of DH. German is not a requirement for international candidates. You are welcome to apply and also to teach in English and contribute to Passau University's growing international programme.
Have at look at the job posting for more details (http://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote/…) and get in touch with me if you have any questions. Deadline for applications: 20 May.
Best regards,
Malte
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Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein
Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities
Universität Passau
Gottfried-Schäffer-Straße 20 / 204
D-94032 Passau
fon: +49.851.509.3450
email: malte.rehbein(a)uni-passau.de
web: http://www.uni-passau.de/rehbein
[apologies for cross-posting]
The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) is sponsoring a workshop,
led by Dot Porter and Tim Stinson, at the International Congress on
Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. The workshop is scheduled for Friday,
May 10, 10am, Waldo Library Classroom A. This room is a computer lab. No
registration is required, just come if you are interested in learning more
about MESA.
Wat is MESA? Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MESA is a federated
international community of scholars, projects, institutions, and
organizations engaged in digital scholarship within the field of medieval
studies. MESA seeks both to provide a community for those engaged in
digital medieval studies and to meet emerging needs of this community,
including making recommendations on technological and scholarly standards
for electronic scholarship, the aggregation of data, and the ability to
discover and repurpose this data. MESA is also a website, providing a
federated search across digital medieval projects and collections. This
workshop will focus on the use of the website (which is set to launch
publicly in early Summer).
In this workshop, we’ll do three things:
First, we’ll demonstrate MESA’s functionality and use. This will answer the
most basic question: What is MESA, and what can it be used for? This part
of the workshop will be useful both for a generally interested audience of
scholars, and for individuals and groups who may be interested in having
their projects in MESA.
Next, we’ll practice using MESA for research purposes. This will be the
most hands-on part of the workshop, and we encourage participants to come
ready to search, comment, and perhaps even to start to build scholarship in
the workshop.
Finally, we’ll present background on how federating projects into MESA
actually works. This part of the workshop is aimed particularly at
individuals and groups who may be interested in having their projects in
MESA, although others may be interested to learn about the process. This
will involve some technical discussion and in-workshop coding examples.
Workshop attendees representing projects are invited to bring project
metadata with them, and we will work on extracting the RDF metadata
required by MESA during the workshop. If you are interested in having your
project used as an in-workshop example, please email
dot.porter(a)gmail.comto express interest.
To read more about MESA, please visit our blog:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/
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Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)
Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com
Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org
MESA blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/
MESA on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance
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