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Training school in codicology
by Matthew James Driscoll 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Training school in codicology Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 29 April – 3 May 2013 A five-day intensive training school in codicology organised under the auspices of COST Action IS 1005, ‘Medioevo Europeo: Medieval Studies and Technological Resources’. Codicology, the study of manuscript books as material objects, is an important discipline within manuscript studies. Topics covered will include writing materials, formats and layout, with particular focus on presenting a typology of medieval manuscripts, illustrated by Bibles, manuscripts of the Latin classics and literary and legal manuscripts in the vernacular. A significant component of the school will be instruction in the use of TEI-conformant XML to record and analyse codicological data. There will also be a presentation of Manuscripta mediaevalia, a joint online venture of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München and the Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, which gives access to the manuscript collections of hundreds of libraries in Europe and the United States. The language of instruction will be English. Instructors: M. J. Driscoll, Curator, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen (XML) Robert Giel, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Manuscripta Mediaevalia) J. P. Gumbert, Prof. em., Universiteit Leiden (Manuscript miscellanies) Silvia Hufnagel, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen (XML) Eef Overgaauw, Leiter, Handschriftenabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Bibles and Latin classics) Elena Pierazzo, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London (XML) Lena Rohrbach, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Medieval and post-medieval Scandinavian legal manuscripts) The school is open to doctoral- and post-doctoral-level students with a background in medieval studies and at least some experience of working with manuscripts; previous experience with XML, while an advantage, is not required. Places are limited to a maximum of twenty students. There is no fee for the course itself, but participants will be expected to arrange their own accommodation and travel. Ten bursaries of € 800 each will be available to cover the costs of travel and accommodation. Only students registered at institutions in countries participating in this COST Action are eligible for bursaries (for a list of participating countries see http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1005?parties). Please send applications, including a full CV, to the school’s organisers, Eef Overgaauw (Everardus.Overgaauw(a)sbb.spk-berlin.de<mailto:Everardus.Overgaauw@sbb.spk-berlin.de>) and M. J. Driscoll (mjd(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:mjd@hum.ku.dk>), at the latest by the end of February. M J Driscoll Afdelingsleder Den Arnamagnæanske Samling Nordisk Forskningsinstitut Københavns Universitet Njalsgade 136, Bygn. 27, 2300 København S. DIR 35328471 mjd(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:mjd@hum.ku.dk>

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R: Fwd: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line
by centrostudicomparati＠libero.it 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

I am afraid this is the same procedure as for British Library, Bodleian Library, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien, Paris BNF and many others, even if these are public institutions and not private, as BAV is. According to my experience, one has to pay for getting and reproducing images of the mss such libraries preserve. The law for Italian (not Vatican) State libraries, for example, allows to give free permission just for non commercial publications under a given print run. Best wishes F. Stella ----Messaggio originale---- Da: cormierrj(a)longwood.edu Data: 03/02/2013 22.50 A: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca"<dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Ogg: Fwd: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line .EmailQuote { margin-left: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; border-left: #800000 2px solid; } -> .EmailQuote { margin-left: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; border-left: #800000 2px solid; } ->--> Back in late 2009, I tried to obtain permission from the BAV to use one image of a folio from a Virgil manuscript as a cover or at least as a frontispiece for my forthcoming monograph, "The Methods of Medieval Translators (2011). Permission denied. -Raymond Cormier Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab -------- Original message -------- Subject:Re: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line From:Neven Jovanović <neven.jovanovic(a)ffzg.hr> To:dm-l@uleth.ca Cc: Hi, regarding Vatican's copyright statement, I think that there are some things that can be built, or prototyped -- e. g. a text linking to a page of a MS like they did in <monumenta.ch> -- that do not infringe Vatican Library's copyright. Such projects, surely, risk that the link will vanish overnight -- but the site does offer us (in German, I guess) "Persistente URL" for its images. And I guess that it would depend what we ask the authorisation for. A scholarly undertaking, such as publishing an on-line edition which uses BAV's images, should be acceptable, and they should actually be glad that somebody wants to do this. Otherwise, why spend so much money for digitisation? Best, Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia > On 2 February 2013 02:58, Dot Porter <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> "Neither the text nor the images may be reproduced, in any form, without >> the authorisation of the Vatican Library, 00120, Vatican City. " >> > > Is this from the BAV website? I haven't noticed that... If it means the > BAV > think they hold a copyright on the *TEXT* in the manuscript, that's totaly > unheard of - and absurd! :s > Or does "text" refer to the manuscript descriptions? In this case, fair > enough. > > Marjorie, a bit puzzled :) > 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 > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l 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?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting!
by James Cummings 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

It is my pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2012 is open for voting! Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities that they benefit. There is no financial prize associated with these community awards. There were many nominations and the international nominations committee took quite awhile to review and debate each nomination. We're sorry if your nomination was not included. Please see http://dhawards.org/faqs/ for this and other frequently asked questions. Anyone is allowed to vote, yes anyone, but please only vote once. Please cast vote at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2012/voting/ before midnight (GMT) on Sunday 17 February 2013 when voting will be closed. Good luck! James Cummings, Craig Bellamy, Sheila Brennan, Marjorie Burghart, and Kiyonori Nagasaki james(a)dhawards.org

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Fwd: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line
by Cormier, Raymond 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

Back in late 2009, I tried to obtain permission from the BAV to use one image of a folio from a Virgil manuscript as a cover or at least as a frontispiece for my forthcoming monograph, "The Methods of Medieval Translators (2011). Permission denied. -Raymond Cormier Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab -------- Original message -------- Subject:Re: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line From:Neven Jovanović <neven.jovanovic(a)ffzg.hr> To:dm-l@uleth.ca Cc: Hi, regarding Vatican's copyright statement, I think that there are some things that can be built, or prototyped -- e. g. a text linking to a page of a MS like they did in <monumenta.ch> -- that do not infringe Vatican Library's copyright. Such projects, surely, risk that the link will vanish overnight -- but the site does offer us (in German, I guess) "Persistente URL" for its images. And I guess that it would depend what we ask the authorisation for. A scholarly undertaking, such as publishing an on-line edition which uses BAV's images, should be acceptable, and they should actually be glad that somebody wants to do this. Otherwise, why spend so much money for digitisation? Best, Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia > On 2 February 2013 02:58, Dot Porter <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> "Neither the text nor the images may be reproduced, in any form, without >> the authorisation of the Vatican Library, 00120, Vatican City. " >> > > Is this from the BAV website? I haven't noticed that... If it means the > BAV > think they hold a copyright on the *TEXT* in the manuscript, that's totaly > unheard of - and absurd! :s > Or does "text" refer to the manuscript descriptions? In this case, fair > enough. > > Marjorie, a bit puzzled :) > 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 > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l 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?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Re: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line
by Peter Robinson 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

Am I the only person who is bothered by this very common arrangement -- we can link to the images on the BAV site but we *cannot* incorporate the images (unless we get all the permissions to do this, and that is no easy task) into our own sites? That is: we have to use their viewer; so we cannot do anything else with the images we might want (e.g., enhance them in various ways; or link them dynamically to transcripts a la T-Pen so we can see text overlaid on the image, etc. I think there are really strong arguments in favour of libraries etc NOT trying to maintain this hold over the images. It will make scholarship based on the images increasingly difficult. Peter Peter Robinson Honorary Research Fellow, ITSEE, University of Birmingham, UK Bateman Professor of English 9 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon SK S7N 5A5, Canada

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BAV and Copyfraud
by Klaus Graf 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

In the US and Europe is claiming copyright in manuscript reproductions Copyfraud. These image are in the Public Domain. There is no valid contract between the user and the BAV restricting its ability to do with them what he wants. Please note that these reproductions are made by the University Library Heidelberg and you can use them there: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/de/bpd/virtuelle_bibliothek/codpallat/inde… To use software tools for getting the largest resolution is absolutely legal regarding Public Domain images, see e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Zoomable_images http://jk.g6.cz/dezoomify.html Klaus Graf http://archivalia.tumblr.com/

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Re: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line
by Peter Robinson 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

actually, you can't. As is usual with these viewers, the image is delivered in tiles. To get the whole image at full resolution on one screen you would need a monitor approximately 60 inches by 40 (or 1.8 metres by 1). I know of people who spend their time happily writing bits of software to put together the whole image out of the tiles, but this is of doubtful legality even if it gets to work. Besides -- I'm aware that some (all?) tiling software has algorithms built into it which involve either scaling the image up or down, to match the magnification steps, so what comes out is likely to be different from what went in. Do we get a vote here? or a voice? or anything at all? p On 2 Feb 2013, at 16:34, Ralph Mathisen wrote: > One can always take a high-res screen shot :) > Cheers, > Ralph > Ralph Mathisen > > From: P.M.Robinson(a)bham.ac.uk > Subject: Re: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:55:52 -0600 > To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > > Am I the only person who is bothered by this very common arrangement -- we can link to the images on the BAV site but we *cannot* incorporate the images (unless we get all the permissions to do this, and that is no easy task) into our own sites? That is: we have to use their viewer; so we cannot do anything else with the images we might want (e.g., enhance them in various ways; or link them dynamically to transcripts a la T-Pen so we can see text overlaid on the image, etc. > I think there are really strong arguments in favour of libraries etc NOT trying to maintain this hold over the images. It will make scholarship based on the images increasingly difficult. > Peter > > Peter Robinson > > Honorary Research Fellow, ITSEE, University of Birmingham, UK > > Bateman Professor of English > 9 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan > Saskatoon SK S7N 5A5, Canada > > > > > > > > > > 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 Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Peter Robinson Honorary Research Fellow, ITSEE, University of Birmingham, UK Bateman Professor of English 9 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon SK S7N 5A5, Canada

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Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line
by "Neven Jovanović" 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Dear list, a treasure has recently appeared on-line: <http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=mss_digitalizzati> Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Manoscritti digitalizzati elenco aggiornato al 23 gennaio 2013 There is also some bibliographic infrastructure: <http://www.mss.vatlib.it/guii/console?service=simple> The question is: what can we build with this? Best, Neven Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia

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CFP MLA14 Geospatial Literary Studies
by David Wrisley 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

CFP Modern Language Association, 2014 Chicago Investigating the geospatial in digital literary studies: GIS, gazetteers, spatial narratives, literary cartographies, spatio-temporal visualization of literary datasets. 250- word abstract (plus visuals) and bio by 15 March 2013 to dw04(a)aub.edu.lb I would be particularly interested in any medieval literary projects. http://www.mla.org/cfp_detail_5587 David Joseph Wrisley Associate Professor CVSP/English Chairperson, Department of English American University of Beirut Twitter: @DJWrisley http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/english/<http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/english/Pages/wrisley.aspx> http://aub.academia.edu/DavidJosephWrisley

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CFP: 18-19 April 2013 Workshop "Easy Tools for Difficult Texts?"
by Joris van Zundert 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Call for papers, ISCH COST Action IS1005 Medieval Europe - Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources, Working Group 2, Manuscripts and textual tradition, to be hosted at Huygens ING, Den Haag, Netherlands, on 18-19 April 2013. "Easy Tools for Difficult Texts?" Medieval manuscripts and codices are notoriously difficult to convince to become well behaved inhabitants of the digital scholarly ecosystem. Meanwhile over the last decades many digital local computerized services, web based tools, and stand alone applications have been developed to create, publish, and analyze digital representations of manuscript and printed text. Although such tools have been trying to accommodate for medieval manuscripts –and sometimes were even solely developed for that purpose– a true convenient and intuitive means of re-representing medieval text in the digital medium seems elusive. The nature of medieval texts –ambiguous, uncertain, instable, often of unknown origin and descent, of puzzling function and context, damaged, fragmented, still unconventional in their multiplicity of form, format, language, orthography, typography, and script– poses an ultimate challenge to creators and users of digital tools wishing to produce useful and reliable digital counterparts to these medieval sources of knowledge and testimonies of intellectual creativity. The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and the COST Action IS1005 "Medieval Europe" are organizing a two-day workshop that seeks to gather a number of experts in methodologies and tool creation around the complex issue of transferring medieval manuscripts to a digital medium. The workshop, to be held at the Huygens Institute in The Hague on 18 and 19 April 2013, will create an overview of the state of the art of tool development, and of the difficulties and extreme requirements medieval manuscript poses to digital methods and techniques. The first day will consist of introductions and demonstrations, as well as thorough methodological reflection on a number of tools highly visible in the field of digital textual scholarship. The second day will consist of theoretical and methodological focused papers and the creation of an inventory of common difficulties and unsupported features essential to digital philology of medieval manuscripts. We invite all interested experts to submit an abstract for a proposed paper of no more than 500 words. We urge authors of proposals to include relevant literature references (not counted as word count), to assist the audience in its orientation in this more technical part of the field. Send your abstract to congres(a)huygens.knaw.nl <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'congres(a)huygens.knaw.nl');>, before 15 February 2013. Please mention “COST Workshop” in the subject field. Presenters will be reimbursed (according to the rules of the COST organisation) for their travel and accommodation expenses. Since the budget is restricted, however, we can only accommodate a limited number of people. If you are under the happy circumstance that you would not have to rely on funding by COST, please let us know, so that we can fit in more presenters. The proceedings of the workshop will be published. For further information, you can write to congres(a)huygens.knaw.nl <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'congres(a)huygens.knaw.nl');>. Again, please mention “COST Workshop” in the subject field. Workshop Organizers: Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens ING) Joris van Zundert (Huygens ING) Caroline Macé (Catholic University Leuven) -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert *Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities * Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands *Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences * www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ ------- *Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines. *

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