Just to let you know that we are now accepting submissions of short
papers, application notes and demos for the 13th ACM Symposium on
Document Engineering.
* Short papers should report on smaller complete works of research or
novel challenges or visions;
* application notes should describe systems or tools of interest to the
DocEng community;
* posters should report on research in progress.
Submissions should be of up to 4 pages in length (2 pages for posters).
The following deadlines apply:
* May 19: Abstracts due
* May 22: Manuscripts due
The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering provides an annual
international forum for presentations and discussions on principles,
tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and
maintain documents. You can find the Call for Papers here:
https://sites.google.com/site/doceng2013/call-for-papers
All papers should be submitted on the EasyChair site. You can find the
submission instructions here:
https://sites.google.com/site/doceng2013/call-for-papers/submission-procedu…
Looking forward to seeing you at DocEng 2013.
Best regards,
Tamir Hassan
University of Konstanz, Germany
Publicity Chair, DocEng 2013
Connecting Textual Corpora and Dictionaries
25-26 April 2013, Kraków (Poland)
One of the numerous objectives of COST Action 1005 "Medioevo Europeo" is the development of the Virtual Centre of Medieval Studies (VCMS) which shall integrate hitherto dissipate databases, textual collections, and dictionaries into a mature tool for carrying out research on Middle Ages. This goal, however, can only be achieved with reflection on the existing tools, practices, and users' needs. These are the crucial questions which we want to address with our workshop which focuses on the corpus-dictionary interface. The meeting will start with a short presentation of the digital projects that are being carried out in the Institute of Polish Language in Kraków (Polish Academy of Sciences) which hosts the workshop. The first working session (State of Art: Good (and Bad) Practices, Formats, APIs, Interfaces) will comprise brief "state of art" reports dealing with the existing tools of the lexicographical and textual research. It will provide us with a deepened insight into the technical issues of the prospective tools' integration and will contribute to the description of good and bad practices of dictionary and corpora linking. Each participant will try to describe the databases according to the strict protocol which includes their chronological and geographical scope, search and browsing capabilities, interface type, file formats, encoding standards, licensing model, and web APIs.
The second working session (Corpora Use in Lexicographic Practice) provides real-world scenarios of the use of corpora-dictionary interface. Practising lexicographers will demonstrate how corpora facilitate everyday dictionary writing processes and how text collections can be exploited in order to enrich the lexicon. The contributions gathered in this section shall help to precise what are the features of the prospective VCMS that would satisfy the lexicographers' community, and what are the interlinking models that would match its needs.
The last two sections (Mature Projects: Goals, Tools, Challenges and Emerging Projects: Perspectives and Challenges) of the workshop will group demonstrations, mock-ups, and practical learning sessions. Creators of mature projects and research infrastructures will share their experience in what concerns the syntactic and semantic interoperability of their services. They will also offer other participants a short training. Those, in turn, whose projects are only in the construction or planning phase, will demonstrate their scientific goals, and the problems they encounter in assuring high data linking profile.
Local Organizer
Institute of Polish Language
Polish Academy of Sciences
al. Mickiewicza 31
31-120 Kraków
http://scriptores.pl/workshophttp://scriptores.pl/workshop/schedule/
Job Posting: Research Developer (City Witness and Schenker Documents Online)
[Please feel free to pass this message on to any suitable candidates]
The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is looking for a technically imaginative and creative research developer to work on two exciting projects: City Witness (which will create an interactive digital atlas of Swansea and 3D visualisations based on eleven witness testimonies describing the hanging of the Welshman William 'Cragh' in the late 13th century) and the well-established Schenker Documents Online project, which is publishing the writings of the twentieth century's leading theorist of tonal music (see http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org).
Technical curiosity and interest in any or all of linked data, web-based visualisation, or web mapping would be a real advantage. Every research project within the department is characterised by innovation, and the successful candidate will be expected to develop technically imaginative, creative, and elegant solutions whilst at the same time sustaining an awareness of best practices and standards compliance.
Full details at:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde…
The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 May 2013
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Paul Spence
Senior Lecturer
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL
paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx
Twitter: @dhpaulspence (English)/@hdpaulspence (castellano)
Dear Digital Medievalists,
I would like to share with you this message I just sent to the TEI list.
This projects needs collaboration from a wide range of scholars, even those
who are not familiar with the TEI but would like to help listing the
various individual tasks and phenomena involved in scholarly works like
critical editions.
Best regards,
Marjorie
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marjorie Burghart <marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr>
Date: 8 April 2013 22:34
Subject: Collaboration needed: Creating "cheatsheets" to define best
practice for frequent tasks
To: TEI-L(a)listserv.brown.edu
Dear TEI users,
I would like to invite you to participate in a project that is very dear to
my heart.
Two years ago, I created a Critical Apparatus
Cheatsheet<http://marjorie.burghart.online.fr/?q=en/content/tei-critical-apparatus-che…>
giving
in a nutshell the "translation" (if I may say so) in TEI of phenomena
familiar to scholars making critical editions.
Today, I would like to develop the "cheatsheets" as an alternative way of
learning TEI, specially targetting people who are familiar with the
Humanities concepts behind the encoding, but not the encoding itself.
I believe that the advantages of such best practice guides would be
twofold:
- provide a low-threshold way of learning to encode in TEI for some
categories of people at least
- provide tool developpers with a clear list of tasks for several
operations (i.e. encoding a critical edition, for instance) and the
recommended way(s) to encode them, which would greatly facilitate interface
building.
I have summarized my thought on this TEI Wiki page:
http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI_Cheatsheets
and suggested some Cheatsheets we could start creating collaboratively on
the Wiki.
Please give it some thought, and suggest some tasks, phenomena, and their
best encoding(s) in TEI!
Best regards,
FYI. This looks like a very exciting conference.
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Subject: CFP: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing Conference, Saskatoon
July 11-13
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:21:47 -0600
From: Peter Robinson <P.M.Robinson(a)BHAM.AC.UK>
Reply-To: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and
the Society for Textual Scholarship <TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
To: <TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Proposals are invited for the Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing
conference, to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, from 11-13
July 2013. This conference comes at a critical inflection point in the
transformation of scholarly editing caused by the two massive shifts of
the digital revolution: the movement of all data into digital form and
the creation of new modes of collaboration. For the first: the creation
of massive amounts of data in digital form has already transformed the
basic materials of scholarly editing, while digital tools offer new
methods for exploration and publication. For the second: where scholarly
editing in the past has been typically the work of a single dedicated
scholar, the development of social media opens up the possibilities of
collaborative work across whole communities. These changes affect every
aspect of scholarly editing. This conference will explore the
theoretical, practical, and social implications of these changes.
Proposers accepted from this open call will join some thirty invited
conference participants, drawn from scholarly editing, digital
humanities, and the 'citizen scholar' movement. Confirmed participants
are Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown, Ben Brumfield, Gabriel Egan, Paul
Eggert, Paul Flemons, Alex Gil, James Ginther, Tuomas Heikkilä, Fotis
Jannidis, Laura Mandell, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Catherine
Nygren, Dan O'Donnell, Roger Osbourne, Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez, Elena
Pierazzo, Ken Price, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter
Shillingsburg, Ray Siemens, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Joshua Sosin,
Melissa Terras, Edward Vanhoutte, and Joris van Zundert (to be
confirmed: Hans Gabler and Jerome McGann). The conference will be
preceded by a one-day workshop on collaborative editing systems.
Proposals should focus on some aspect of contemporary digital scholarly
editing. We welcome descriptions of current projects, theoretical or
speculative discussions, bibliographic work, or any aspect of scholarly
digital editing. Papers considering scholarly editing in a communal,
collaborative context are particularly encouraged. Proposals will be
accepted under two strands: one for students of graduate and doctoral
programs, one for all others. We particularly welcome proposals from
the GO::DH <http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/> (Global Outlook::Digital
Humanities) community, addressing digital scholarly editing in a global
context. We will able to offer financial support for accepted
proposals, if needed, in the form of bursaries and/or funding for all
travel and other costs, and will give preference in allocating funding
to proposers from circumstances where support is rarely or never
available. As well as a 500 word abstract, proposers should submit a
cover letter explaining their interest in the conference theme, why they
want to attend and indicate what level of support (if any) they might
need to come to the conference.
Proposal submission will close on 26 April; successful proposers will be
notified by 10 May 2013. The call is
athttps://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13/schedConf/cfp.; the
conference website is at https://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13.
On behalf of the conference organizing committee: Barbara Bordalejo,
Susan Brown, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson,
Dan O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Ray Siemens
On a Friday afternoon here's something that, I hope, might amuse some
Latinists. Out of the flotsam of an old research project that will never
get finished, I've set up a twitter feed that will give you a daily versus
differentialis of the sort associated with Serlo de Wilton, distinguishing
homonyms with short or long penultimate vowels, like this:
Est uitrum saphĭrum, pro gemma dico saphīrum.
The feed can be followed at https://twitter.com/versdiff , and the verses
also get posted to a Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/VersusDifferentiales and to a Wordpress blog at
http://versdiff.wallandbinkley.com/ where there's some background
information and a bit of scholarly apparatus.
Peter
Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
Information Technology Services
peter.binkley(a)ualberta.ca
2-10K Cameron Library
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J8
phone 780-492-3743
fax 780-492-9243
Hi Folks,
I'm looking for some good articles on issues of copyright pertaining to
pre-modern collections for an upcoming class.
If anyone has a few references, I'd be most grateful.
All best,
Alison Walker
Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/
The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) is an annual training
event taking place this year on 8 - 12 July 2013 at the University of
Oxford for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students
of Digital Humanities. DHOXSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics
including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or
publication of digital data for the humanities. Each delegate follows one
of our 5-day workshops and supplements this with guest lectures by experts
in their fields.
This year's main workshops include:
1. Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in
the Humanities
2. How to do Digital Humanities: Discovery, Analysis and Collaboration
3. A Humanities Web of Data: publishing, linking and querying on the
semantic web.
4. An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative
5. An Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists
There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed poster
session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their work to the other
delegates and speakers. The Thursday evening sees an elegant drinks
reception and three-course banquet at the historic Queen's College Oxford.
DHOXSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between the
University of Oxford's IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC),
the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.
Questions: email courses(a)it.ox.ac.uk for answers.
James Cummings
Director of DHOXSS