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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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e-sequence - a multimedia edition
by Torsten Schassan 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Dear colleagues, at www.e-sequence.eu has been published a very exciting multimedia edition with facsimile, transcription, translation (into German) of up to 9 mss of Notker chants and additional audio files of the chants sung by Ordo virtutum. "Audiovisuelle digitale Repräsentation von Sequenzen Notkers des Stammlers († 912) aufgrund ausgewählter Handschriften" From these mss: Cod. Sang. 381 Cod. Sang. 484 Cod. Sang. 382 Cod. Sang. 376 Cod. Sang. 378 Cod. Sang. 380 Cod. Sang. 546 Cod. Einsiedeln, StiftsB 121 Best, Torsten -- Torsten Schassan Digitale Editionen Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130 (Fax -165), schassan {at} hab.de Handschriftendatenbank: http://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss

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Digital Classicist London 2013: Call for Papers
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

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Digital Philology 1.2 (Fall 2012)
by Albert Lloret 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Dear Colleagues, The first themed issue of Digital Philology (vol. 1, n. 2, Fall 2012) came out earlier this month. Guest-edited by Tracy Adams, this exciting new number is devoted to explore the links between "Devotion and Emotions in the Middle Ages," or rather, in the editor's own words "the work to which our medieval forebears put what we today think of as emotions: how they used emotions for making sense of human nature, keeping the peace, educating communities, marking social distinctions." The current issue of Digital Philology also includes a manuscript study and three reviews of digital resources. You may access DPh 1.2 on-line through Project Muse at: <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/toc/dph.1.2.html> We are accepting submissions for the 2014 and 2015 open issues. You may find our call for papers, as well as some authorial guidelines, at: <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/guidelines.html> Sincerely, Albert Lloret Albert Lloret, PhD Assistant Professor Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Spanish and Portuguese University of Massachusetts 433 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 Managing Editor Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html>

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