Dear Colleagues,
I should have sent this announcement out in the fall, but I now have Lichfield Cathedral's St Chad Gospels (8th century) and Wycliffe New Testament (~1410) available online: http://lichfield.as.uky.edu. I used a monochrome camera for the imaging, taking at least twelve different spectral bands for each page. I've designed the website to allow for the overlay of any two images within a page's image set, including RGB. I have a slide bar to allow for the adjustment of the top image's transparency to help sort out hard to discern details.
Best,
Bill
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Bill Endres
University of Kentucky
Division of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies
Lexington, KY 40506
859-257-8337
Dear Colleagues,
We hope this finds you well. As you may recall, Dr. Clement and I are
looking for participants to help us with a project that focuses on
evaluation methods and current standards for digital scholarly projects. A
big THANK YOU to everyone who has filled out our survey and/or been
interviewed. We can't stress enough how valuable your feedback has been,
and we are very grateful. However, we'd still like to hear more voices
from the community. If you haven't had a chance to fill out the survey but
would like to do so, it is located at the following link:
https://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b89IXl4msVon4u9
We'll keep the link open for a few more weeks, so it's not too late to
share your thoughts.
Squeamish of surveys? No problem. Please let Sarah know if you'd prefer
to dialogue about this instead, and she will arrange a short interview with
you via Skype. Other arrangements can be made as necessary, so just let
her know.
Again, thank you for your time, and best wishes for you and yours in the
holiday season,
Regards,
Sarah Pfannenschmidt, MSIS candidate, University of Texas at Austin
School of Information
Dr. Tanya Clement, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
School of Information
A new vacancy has come up for a programmer on the DigiPal team (http:/digipal.eu).
The position is for 18 months and is for a developer with Python (ideally Django) and relational database skills, preferably also
with knowledge of JavaScript/JQuery and AJAX and an interest in interface design, data modelling and medieval manuscripts.
You will be working closely with the existing DigiPal team as the principal developer and will be responsible for most of the development
work in practice.
The appointment is for 100% (full time) and you will be based in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London but dedicated
to the DigiPal project .
Applications close on 1 January 2013, with interviews planned for soon after that. We are looking for an immediate start, though of course we
understand that you may have other commitments. Although the formal contract is 18 months, but an extension to 30 September 2014 is very
likely in practice.
For further details and to apply, see: http://www.digipal.eu/blogs/news/digipal-developer-job-vacancy/
*************Apologies for cross posting*****
Dear Colleagues,
*Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500: Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age*
Registration is now open for 'Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500: Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age', a one day conference to be on 11 January 2013 at the University of Leicester to celebrate the conclusion of the JISC funded project Manuscripts Online < http://manuscriptsonline.wordpress.com/about/>.
We have two internationally acclaimed plenaries: Andrew Prescott (King's College, London) and William Noel (University of Pennsylvania). Papers will explore the significance of our approach to data mining and federated searching to manuscript studies and early written culture. Speakers will also talk about the value and benefit of the project for teaching and researching early written cultures, and discuss how the resource, which is created by the project, is an opportunity to explore different techniques and approaches across disciplines. We are aiming to build in plenty of space for participation/discussion.
Information about the venue and on how to register are available on the Conference website <https://swww2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/manuscriptsonli…>. Registration, lunch and refreshments are free, but please register using the online form by 3 January 2013. Places are limited, book early to avoid disappointment.
We look forward to welcoming you in Leicester, please, circulate this announcement with colleagues and students.
Best wishes,
Orietta
Dr Orietta Da Rold
Co-Director Manuscripts Online
School of English
University of Leicester
University Road
LE1 7RH
Tel. +44 (0)116 252 2778
e-mail: odr1(a)le.ac.uk
web: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/oriettadarold
FYI
Best,
w
Orietta
From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [mailto:ARCHIVES-NRA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)
Sent: 23 November 2012 17:30
To: ARCHIVES-NRA(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Digital Humanities Meeting: Mining Spatial Descriptions in Medieval Charters
You are warmly invited to the next London Digital Humanities Group meeting:
11th December, 2012
5.15pm, Jessel Room, Senate House, London
ChartEx: mining spatial descriptions in medieval charters.
www.chartex.org
The ChartEx consortium is an innovative partnership between historians, archivists, and experts in computer science and artificial intelligence from Canada, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. It is funded by the Digging into Data Challenge, 2012-13.
The ChartEx Project is developing new ways of exploring the full text content of digital historical records. In particular it is exploring the descriptions of parcels of property found in medieval charters and their associations with three key entities (people, places and events).
The new ChartEx tools will use a combination of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Mining to extract information about places, people and events from the charters automatically and find new relationships between them.
The project will then build an interactive "virtual workbench" that will allow historians, archivists and others interested in charters to explore the information extracted and add further information and comments.
The seminar will present progress to date and invite further discussion.
Participants in the Seminar will include historian Sarah Rees Jones (York), computational linguist Roger Evans (Brighton), and Helen Petrie, Professor of Human Computer Interaction (York).
All are welcome. To confirm your attendance, please complete the form at: http://goo.gl/lMOZj
Dr Simon Dixon
Digital Humanities and Special Collections Manager
David Wilson Library
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester. LE1 7RH
T: +44(0)116 252 2056
E: snd6(a)le.ac.uk
W: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/about/staff/academicliaison/simon-dixon
Winner of the 2012 THE Award for Outstanding Library Team
Elite Without Being Elitist
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Dr Orietta Da Rold
Lecturer in Chaucer and Medieval Literature
School of English
University of Leicester
University Road
LE1 7RH
Tel. +44 (0)116 252 2778
e-mail: odr1(a)le.ac.uk
# apologies for cross-postings #
# German version below #
Call for Papers: Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter III
/ Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age III
August 16, 2012
Following up on two previous publications in the series “Codicology and
Palaeography in the Digital Age” (CPDA I, 2009 [1]; CPDA II, 2011 [2]),
the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) wants to
continue to document and compare different approaches to scholarly
problems in the fields of codicology and palaeography. For this reason
the IDE plans to publish a third volume of "Codicology and Palaeography
in the Digital Age" and asks for submissions.
Topics may cover but are not limited to:
- image capturing (multispectral, thermography, etc)
- image processing (segmentation, pattern recognition, layout
extraction, etc.)
- analysis of materials (ink, writing material etc.)
- description, identification, and classification of hand, script, or
type features
- semantic description (application of norm data, RDF, ontologies, etc)
- storage, collection, cumulation, and exchange of, and access to
information (meta catalogs, portals)
- collaborative “Erschließung”, i.e. description / transcription /
edition (user generated description/content)
- quantitative codicology and bibliography
- new ways of presentation (visualisation, mobile apps, integral
presentation of images, description, annotation, transcription, edition)
We would like to stimulate the exchange between disciplines and user
groups by explicitly inviting papers covering non-Western manuscripts,
non-manuscript materials, e.g inscriptions, incunabula, etc.
Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous CfP
[3]) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German,
Italian or Spanish. We plan to continue our policy of open access
publication. Proposals of not more than 500 words should be sent by 22
December 2012 to kpdz-iii(a)i-d-e.de.
Editors of this volume:
- Oliver Duntze (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
- Oliver Hahn (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung)
- Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)
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Als Fortsetzung der beiden bereits erschienenen Bände der Serie
„Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter (KPDZ I, 2009 [1];
KPDZ II, 2011 [2]) möchte das Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik
weiterhin verschiedene Ansätze im Bereich der Kodikologie und
Paläographie zu dokumentieren und vergleichen. Aus diesem Grund plant
das IDE einen dritten Band der Reihe „Kodikologie und Paläographie im
digitalen Zeitalter“ zu publizieren. Wir bitten um Beiträge zu folgenden
Themen:
- Moderne Verfahren der Bilderfassung (Multispektrafotografie, Thermografie)
- Bildverarbeitung (Segmentation, Mustererkennung, Layoutanalyse)
- Analyse von Schreibmaterialien (Tinten, Beschreibstoffe etc.)
- Beschreibung und Klassifikation von Handschriften, Schreiberhänden
oder Drucktypen
- Semantische Beschreibung von Handschriften (Normdaten, RDF, Ontologien
etc.)
- Archivierung, Sammlung, Verknüpfung von Informationen und Katalogdaten
(z.B. Metakataloge und Portale)
- Kollaborative Erschließung, Beschreibung, Transkription oder Edition
- Quantitative Kodikologie und Bibliographie
- Neue Verfahren der Präsentation von Forschungsdaten (Visualisierung,
Apps, Text-Bild-Synopsen, Annotationsmögichkeiten etc.)
Die Publikation soll den interdisziplinären Austausch zwischen
ForscherInnen unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen anregen. Beiträge zu
orientalischen bzw. asiatischen Handschriften oder nicht handschriftlich
verfassten Materialien (Inschriften, frühe Drucke etc.) sind
ausdrücklich willkommen.
Beiträge, die diese oder ähnliche Themen (vgl. vorherigen Call [3])
behandeln können in Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Italienisch oder
Spanisch eingereicht werden. Wir planen, auch diese Publikation als open
access zu veröffentlichen. Wir bitten um abstracts von nicht meht als
500 Worten bis zum 22.12.2012 an die mailadresse kpdz-iii(a)i-d-e.de.
Editoren dieses Bandes:
- Oliver Duntze (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
- Oliver Hahn (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung)
- Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)
[1] http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/2-kpdz1;
http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/volltexte/2009/2939/
[2] http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/3-kpdz2http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4337/
[3]
http://www.i-d-e.de/call-for-papers-kodikologie-und-palaographie-im-digital…
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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
The Center for Digital Theology, at research unit in digitla humanities at
Saint Louis University, is seeking a new web developer with experience in
Java. The details of the post can be found at
http://digital-editor.blogspot.com/2012/11/seeking-new-developer.html.
Please share this with all who might be interested in applying.
Thanks,
Jim
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James R. Ginther, PhD
Professor of Medieval Theology,
Associate Chair, Department of Theology
& Director, Center for Digital Theology
Saint Louis University
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ginthej(a)slu.edu
Faculty Page: Departmental
Page<https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/james-ginther/>
<https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/james-ginther/>Research Blog:
http://digital-editor.blogspot.com
Twitter: DH_editor <http://twitter.com/#!/DH_editor>
T-PEN: www.tpen.org/
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Centre for e-Research Seminar, King's College London
Reading Screens
Orla Murphy , University College Cork
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/read…
13 November 21012, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum Space, Strand Campus
(directions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx)
The cultural act of reading is in flux. The dynamic, contextual
framework that is the text viewed on screen challenges our understanding
of the page. Some technologies seek to emulate the page, to turn off the
back light and enable reading outdoors in sunlight. Other digital
technologies aim to both sustain and augment the reader’s experience of
the text, moving beyond the paper page and into a new conceptualisation
of reading, with layers of texts, with choices of views, with integrated
multi and social media. This presentation explores how we once read and
how we now read often multivalent texts on multiple screens. I query
what has changed in these new modes of knowledge representation, and
what remains constant, and posit challenges for future scholarly discourse.
About the Speaker
Orla Murphy – Coordinator of the MA DAH program at UCC, member of the
national inter-institutional PhD DAH program in Ireland. Lecturer in the
School of English, University College Cork, where she teaches, Old
English language, palaeography, codicology and new histories of the
book; a third year course on textualities, and MA, PhD courses on
digital scholarly editing and textual practice.
The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles.
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Dr. Stuart Dunn
Lecturer
Centre for e-Research
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London, WC2B 5RL
Tel. +44 20 7848 2709
Fax. +44 20 7848 2980
www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com