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Medieval Texts and Manuscripts in the World of Linked Data
by Center for Comparative Studies 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Program of a Louvain Workshop scheduled on April 4.-6. 2013, concerning the COST Action IS 1005.

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Biblioteca and Archivio Capitolare of Vercelli: Grant for Graduate Foreign Students 2013/2014
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

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Invitation to submit papers on the Digital Humanities to ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Sep 2013
by Tamir Hassan 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

We would like to encourage you and your colleagues to submit a paper to the 13th ACM Document Engineering Symposium (DocEng) which will be held in Florence, Italy Sep 10-13 this year. DocEng provides an annual international forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. It is a nice friendly conference with around 70 attendees preceded by a day of workshops and tutorials. Initially DocEng had a fairly technical focus but in the last few years it has broadened scope to include important application areas including the digital humanities. The idea is not to compete with existing digital humanities publishing venues but rather to provide a quality venue for papers that describe techniques and applications of document processing within the digital humanities. Please think about submitting a paper to DocEng. More information including the CFP is available at http://www.doceng2013.org Best regards Kim Marriott (Program Chair), Simone Marinai (Symposium Chair), Tamir Hassan (Publicity Chair) ===================== Important dates • Workshop and tutorial proposals due: Friday, March 15, 2013 • Full papers: • abstracts due: Sunday, March 31, 2013 • papers due: Sunday, April 7, 2013 • acceptance notice: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 • Short papers: • abstracts due: Sunday, May 19, 2013 • papers due: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 • acceptance notice: Friday, June 14, 2013

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CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Data Curation in Medieval Studies, NCSU
by Timothy Stinson 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

I'm happy to report that North Carolina State University has been awarded a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship for Data Curation in Medieval Studies. The full job description is pasted below and may also be viewed at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/ncsu2013. More information on the program may be viewed at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/dc-medieval. I will be working directly with the fellow and am happy to answer any questions. Tim Stinson --- Desired Skills & Expertise Familiarity with or interest in learning HTML, XML, and WordPress. Strong organizational and communication skills to coordinate with project partners across campus and at other institutions. Ability to make effective use of social media for public outreach. Programming skills and/or familiarity with metadata standards desirable but not required. Fellow's Role The Fellow will serve as a liaison between academic departments, faculty researchers, and the Digital Libraries Initiatives (DLI) Department on NCSU’s campus. The fellow will have the opportunity to work on four NCSU-based projects involving data curation in medieval studies: the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA); the Manuscript DNA project; the Siege of Jerusalem Electronic Archive (SJEA); and the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (PPEA). The fellow will also serve as a liaison between NCSU and partners at other universities engaged in related research projects, including the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC), a meta-federation comprising MESA, the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn), 18thConnect, the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), and Modernist Networks (ModNets). The fellow will have the opportunity to conduct original research on data curation strategies and will be encouraged to participate actively in the larger community of CLIR postdoctoral fellows, including the cohort of fellows in the Data Curation in Medieval Studies Fellowship program. A strong emphasis will be placed not only on the ways that the Fellow can contribute to our institution, but to the professional development of the Fellow in the fields of medieval studies and library science. Duties and Responsibilities Study data curation strategies in use on other campuses and in other fields, including the sciences, and develop a set of recommendations for best practices for the curation of humanities data. This work will be done in consultation with the online DH Curation Guide and will form the basis of contributing new resources and information to that guide. Seek solutions for linking humanities data and datasets to related scholarship in new forms of interactive publications; the Fellow will be encouraged to consult and seek partnerships with relevant initiatives such as Anvil Academic and Open Humanities Press as well as with ARC partners, including JSTOR, ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) and Project MUSE Present original research at professional conferences as appropriate Collaborate with software developers on the creation, modification, and augmentation of tools related to digital projects in the field (e.g., development of the Collex browser for MESA, enhancements to the fuzzy search capabilities built into SJEA and MESA to accommodate non-standardized medieval spelling practices) Conduct user testing of software and web portals using the NCSU Libraries’ Usability Research Lab Use social media for public outreach related to NCSU Libraries, the Data Curation Fellowship program, and medieval studies projects on which the fellow is working Participate in the organization of workshops and symposia, including digital public humanities events and meetings of the Advanced Research Consortium held on NCSU’s campus Local Guidance and Professional Development Support As a member of the Digital Libraries Initiatives (DLI) Department the Fellow would be a member of a 14-person team that works in the areas of data curation, digital repositories, web and mobile applications, digital media, data visualization, and geospatial data. The Fellow would participate in departmental teams and meetings, and would have the opportunity to collaborate with staff that have a variety of technical and domain-specific skill sets. The Fellow would have access to technology support and consultation services from DLI staff members as well as from the Information Technology Department, which maintains the Libraries’ technical infrastructure. The Fellow would work closely with Professor Timothy Stinson in the Department of English on the four interdisciplinary projects listed above, as well as with Professor James Knowles of English, the project manager for PPEA. Cumulatively, these projects include a wide variety of data related to medieval studies, including large genomic datasets from the Manuscript DNA project, XML-encoded transcriptions and descriptions of manuscripts, images of manuscripts from SJEA and PPEA, and tens of thousands of RDF metadata records from MESA. The Fellow would be encouraged to be part of the intellectual life of the English department, including speakers series, symposia, and workshops, and would be offered the option of teaching one or more medieval studies courses in the department during his or her tenure. The Fellow will also be joining a vibrant community of medievalists spanning the closely linked campuses of NCSU, UNC Chapel Hill, and Duke University. Opportunities include participating in the Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar, the UNC Medieval & Early Modern Lecture Series, the Duke Medieval & Renaissance Lecture Series, colloquia at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and special events at the nearby National Humanities Center. -- Timothy L. Stinson Assistant Professor Department of English North Carolina State University http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/tlstinso

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RE: [dm-l] TAN: Publishing screen shots
by O'Donnell, Dan 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Thanks very much. I've been trying to explain the resolution issue to them. I spouse shrinking them to up the effective resolution is an option: they don't all need to be full screen size in the page layout. Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Tony Harris <awh28(a)cam.ac.uk> Date: To: "O'Donnell, Dan" <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca>,"dm-l, MailList" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Subject: RE: [dm-l] TAN: Publishing screen shots Dear Daniel Given that you are taking screen shots, the optimal way to do this on Windows would be using CTRL+ALT+prt sc which will capture the current window in focus to the clipboard and then you can cut and paste this to an imaging program such as Photoshop, the full version of Acrobat which allows you to “create a PDF from the clipboard” or something similar. If you have Google Picasa3 running in background then it will pick up the fact you have captured a screenshot to the clipboard and will allow you to manipulate it. Mac has its own equivalents and utilities for these sequences. See: http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X I would recommend against using a digital camera to photograph a display because you will have an inevitable drop in quality of the final image compared to a screen grab. However, the thing to appreciate is that screen resolution is very low compared to print resolution and depends on both the horizontal and vertical resolution as well as the screen size. For example a typical wide laptop screen with a resolution of 1600x900 would equate to only around 72dpi on a screen grab. You will find this website useful in terms of telling you what your effective dpi is when you do a screen grab on your computer: http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html If your publisher is saying they need 300dpi TIFF for screen shots, then it may just be that they don’t understand what you want to achieve. However, it is certainly possible to achieve this by decreasing the physical size of the image. As one example, a 1600x900 pixel screen grab image off a 22”x12.5” laptop display equates to ~72dpi. Change the image size to 300dpi in Photoshop (use constrain proportions and do not use resampling) and this gives you a 5” x 3” image. This might seem a bit weird at first but probably the best way to think about this is that you are fitting more pixels into a smaller area which would probably suit an A5 (or USA equivalent) size page. Probably the best thing to do initially is just to do a screen grab, convert it to a TIFF or PDF using any one of the many utilities that exist to do this and then email it to the publisher and see what they say. You’ll probably find they also accept JPG. Most publishers do. Hope this helps. Best regards Tony Harris University of Cambridge -----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Daniel O'Donnell Sent: 05 March 2013 18:54 To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Subject: [dm-l] TAN: Publishing screen shots Hi all, I have a tangential topic: what is normal practice regarding screen shots in print and PDF? I have an article coming out and the production manager wants 300 dpi TIFFs for my images. But the images are for the most part screen shots and, since I'm talking /about/ navigation and representation issues in virtual environments, I can't go with the second option they offered me: giving URLs rather than presenting that actual images in the text. I'm sure I've seen screenshots in both print and PDFs before. What is normal practice? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca<mailto:dm-l@uleth.ca> Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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TAN: Publishing screen shots
by Daniel O'Donnell 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi all, I have a tangential topic: what is normal practice regarding screen shots in print and PDF? I have an article coming out and the production manager wants 300 dpi TIFFs for my images. But the images are for the most part screen shots and, since I'm talking /about/ navigation and representation issues in virtual environments, I can't go with the second option they offered me: giving URLs rather than presenting that actual images in the text. I'm sure I've seen screenshots in both print and PDFs before. What is normal practice? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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FW: [Isas] Fwd: Postdoc Position at Stanford: Digital Medieval Manuscript Fellowship
by Da Rold, Orietta (Dr.) 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Dear Colleagues, FYI, Best, Orietta From: isas-bounces(a)english.umass.edu [mailto:isas-bounces@english.umass.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Foys Sent: 05 March 2013 01:13 To: isas(a)english.umass.edu Subject: [Isas] Fwd: Postdoc Position at Stanford: Digital Medieval Manuscript Fellowship ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benjamin L Albritton Date: Monday, March 4, 2013 Subject: Postdoc Position at Stanford: Digital Medieval Manuscript Fellowship Stanford is going to be supporting one of the CLIR medieval data curation fellowships. The fellow, with the position title cited in the subject line, will be cross-appointed between the English dept. (reporting to Elaine Treharne) and the library (reporting to me). Full details are here: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/stanford2013 Benjamin L. Albritton Digital Medieval Projects Manager Digital Library Systems & Services Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone 650.387.8678 -- Martin K. Foys Executive Director of the International Society for Anglo-Saxonists Co-Director: DM Project - http://dm.drew.edu Associate Professor of English Drew University Madison, NJ 07940 ==========

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Summer Language Study
by Larry Swain 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Please pass along to any and all interested parties and forgive duplications: Hello all, I am pleased to off the two courses listed below this summer online. There are both undergraduate and graduate options. If you are not a Bemidji State University student, directions on admission can be found here: http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/distance/admissions/ The ability to use basic software is required, and much will be delivered through D2L, a Blackboard like software that the student will be able to access once enrolled for the class. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you there! ENGL 3930/5930 Intensive Latin Online 2013 Dr. Larry Swain Bemidji State University Course Description: This course is an intensive introduction to Latin, covering in nine weeks a full academic year’s worth of the language. This will require a lot of work and dedication on the part of both instructor and student. By the end, however, the student should be able to read Latin prose with the aid of a grammar and a good dictionary or lexicon. There will be a great deal of memorization. Via our online tools, discussion board, online office hours, recorded lectures, live lectures, exercise sharing and corrections, and Q&A sessions delivered via D2L, power point presentations, and other tools, we will go through the entire text and master basic Latin. The course will require a commitment from the student. A MINIMUM of 2 hours and preferably 4-6 hours a day will need to be spent working on the exercises, in class, interacting with the professor etc. Because delivery is online rather than in a traditional classroom, the need for each individual student to apply him- or herself diligently daily is even more important than in a face-to-face class. We will meet virtually in an online classroom for each lesson to explain the grammar lesson, to do some in class exercises, to correct exercises, and so on, for approximately an hour, more if necessary or if student interest. The rest of your time will be spent working on exercises, translating sample passages of actual Latin, memorizing the forms. Texts: Intensive Latin by Floyd Moreland and Rita Fleischer Other materials as assigned (I will have advice about students’ dictionaries, additional grammar aids in print and online and so on as well throughout the course). Highly Recommended: English Grammar for Students of Latin: The Study Guide for Those Learning Latin by Norma Goldman and Ladislas Szymanski This course is six credits; I think a full year of Latin deserves a full year of credit. The above URL at the top is the Center for Extended Learning Admissions website. This URL is for the tuition calculator: http://www.bemidjistate.edu/offices/business/tuition_fees/tuition_calculato…. English 3390/5390: Intensive Old English Summer 2013 Dr. Larry J. Swain Bemidji State University This seminar is intended to accomplish three related objectives: 1) to learn to read Old English and translate texts in Old English with relative ease 2) to have an overview of Anglo-Saxon Literature and 3) to place the language and literature into the historical, cultural, theological, intellectual, and material contexts. That's a tall order. But like those we read who endure heroically, so shall we: we will be able to by semester's end read Old English literature in Old English, both prose and poetry. The approach is simple. This is an intensive course, a full 15 week course offered over 9 weeks in Summer via the Internet. We will cover approximately two chapters of the textbook each week, and during the last couple of weeks we will be working exclusively in translating Old English texts. Textbooks: Reading Old English: An Introduction by Robert Hasenfratz and Thomas Jambeck A History of Old English Literature by Michael Alexander Recommended: The Anglo-Saxons James Campbell Larry Swain lswain(a)bemidjistate.edu -- Larry Swain theswain(a)operamail.com Bemidji State University -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web

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Future of digital availability
by Bob Peckham 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Any comments on this news from France? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130212/17065121955/dirty-deeds-french-na… TBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D. Professor of French University of Tennessee at Martin Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-gate Intercultural Web Project

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Job at Cambridge University Library
by Hanna Vorholt 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

*Cambridge University Library * *Medieval Manuscripts Specialist, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives (Special Collections Division)* *Grade:* 7 *Salary Range:* £27,854 - £36,298 p.a This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and proactive individual to work at the heart of one of the world’s major research libraries with an outstanding collection of western medieval manuscripts. The successful candidate will lead the development of high quality reader-focussed services to support scholarship on the manuscripts, promoting them to the research community at local, national and international level. He/she with deal with all aspects of the care and administration of medieval manuscripts and will be outward-looking in developing innovative digital services alongside traditional methods to support the University in its teaching, learning and research and to make the medieval manuscripts accessible to the widest possible audience. He/she will have the necessary skills and enthusiasm to exploit the opportunities created by the Cambridge Digital Library (http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk) and to take a leading part in planning and implementing a new online catalogue of medieval manuscripts. Informal enquiries are welcomed by Dr Patrick Zutshi, Keeper of Manuscripts and University Archives (tel: 01223 333149; email: Patrick.Zutshi(a)lib.cam.ac.uk). Further details can be downloaded from http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Vacancies/medieval_manuscripts.pdf or are available from the Librarian’s Office, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR, tel: 01223 747413; email: Charlotte.Ross(a)lib.cam.ac.uk. Applications, in the form of a completed CHRIS/6 form ( http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/chris6/), a covering letter, curriculum vitae and contact details for three professional referees should be sent to the University Librarian either by post to Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR or electronically to Charlotte.Ross(a)lib.cam.ac.uk *(but not both)* by *5pm* on the closing date. *Interviews are expected to take place in mid-April* *Closing Date: Monday 18 March 2013*

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