Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
Call for Submissions, 2014 and 2015 Open Issues
Digital Philology is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of
medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and
Nadia R. Altschul, the journal aims to foster scholarship that crosses
disciplines upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries and
periodizations. Digital Philology also encourages both applied and
theoretical research that engages with the digital humanities and shows why
and how digital resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield
radical results. The Johns Hopkins University Press publishes two issues of
Digital Philology per year. One is open to all submissions, while the other
one is guest-edited, and revolves around a thematic axis.
Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study
of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the
3rd edition (2008) of the MLA style manual, and be between 5,000 and 7,000
words in length, including footnotes and list of works cited. Quotations in
the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their
English translation.
Digital Philology is welcoming submissions for its 2014 and 2015 open
issues. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be
sent to dph(a)jhu.edu, addressed to the Managing Editor (Albert Lloret).
Digital Philology also publishes manuscript studies and reviews of books and
digital projects. Correspondence regarding manuscript studies may be
addressed to Jeanette Patterson at jlp4(a)princeton.edu. Correspondence
regarding digital projects and publications for review may be addressed to
Timothy Stinson at tlstinson(a)gmail.com.
[http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html]
Editors and Editorial Board
Albert Lloret, Managing Editor
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jeanette Patterson, Manuscript Studies Editor
Princeton University
Timothy Stinson, Review Editor
North Carolina State University
Nadia R. Altschul, Executive Editor
Johns Hopkins University
Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, Founding Editors
Johns Hopkins University
Editorial Board
Tracy Adams, University of Auckland
Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University
Nadia R. Altschul, Johns Hopkins University
R. Howard Bloch, Yale University
Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto
Lucie Doležalová, Charles Univerzita Karlova v Prague
Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto
Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University
Jennifer Kingsley, Johns Hopkins University
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joachim Küpper, Freie Universität Berlin
Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia
Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo
Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University
Johan Oosterman, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University
Lori Walters, Florida State University
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>
The editorial staff of The Heroic Age is pleased to announce the release
of
Issue 15. Issue 15 contains articles on Late Antiquity, Arthuriana, and
Folklore, as well as an edition of the Annales Cambriae from the time of
St.
Patrick through 682. The issue can be found at
http://www.heroicage.org/issues/15/toc.php. The editorial staff would
like
to thank all our contributors, staff, and volunteer copy-editors. We
would
also like to thank Memorial University of Newfoundland for continuing to
host The Heroic Age.
--
Larry Swain
theswain(a)operamail.com
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http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web
Hello DM list
This is a bit of a late notice, but tomorrow at noon (EST) I'm going
to be presenting a Digital Library Brown Bag locally (at Indiana
University Bloomington): "Medievalists' Use of Digital Resources and
the Development of the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA)".
The talk will be webcast, so if this looks interesting but you can't
make it to Bloomington (and many can't) please feel free to join the
webcast. The talk will also be recorded, and posted online soon after
the event. I'll post the recording once it's live.
I'm pasting the official announcement below, the instructions for
joining the webcast are towards the bottom, just below the abstract.
Thanks,
Dot
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Greetings! Please join us Wednesday, October 3rd for a digital library
brown bag presentation by Dot Porter. The presentation will be held at
the Herman B Wells Library, room E174, from 12:00-1:00
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Medievalists' Use of Digital Resources and the Development of MESA Dot
Porter, Associate Director for Digital Library Content and Services
Digital Library Program Wells Library, Room E174
The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) is a federated
international community of scholars, project, institutions, and
organizations engaged in digital scholarship within the field of
medieval studies. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MESA
seeks both to provide a community for those engaged in digital
medieval studies and to meet emerging needs of this community,
including making recommendations on technological and scholarly
standards for electronic scholarship, the aggregation of data, and the
ability to discover and repurpose this data.
This presentation will focus on the discovery aspect of MESA, and how
it might serve the non-digital medievalist who may nevertheless be
interested in finding and using digital resources. Starting with a
history of medievalists and their interactions with digital technology
as told through three data sets (the International Congress on
Medieval Studies (first held in 1962), arts-humanities.net (a digital
project database in the UK, sponsored by JISC and the Arts &
Humanities Research Council), and two surveys, from 2002 and 2011,
that looked specifically at medievalists' use of digital resources), I
will draw out some potential issues that this history has for the
current developers of digital resources for medievalists, and
investigate how MESA might serve to address these issues.
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Presentation slides and audio will be available via the Connect
Meeting Service (formerly known as "Breeze"). Go to
<http://breeze.iu.edu/diglib> to view and listen to the presentation.
If you are not a registered user for Connect Meeting/Breeze, select
the "Enter as a Guest" option.
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The Digital Library Brown Bag series is held most Wednesdays this Fall
2012 semester. All presentations are in the Herman B Wells Library,
room E174, from 12:00-1:00 pm unless otherwise noted. The complete
schedule, including abstracts, is available on the Digital Library
Program web site: <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/>.
To receive a reminder and an abstract of each presentation, send an
emailtolistserv(a)indiana.edu with the message body:
sub dl-brownbag-l Your Full Name
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| Michelle Dalmau, Digital Projects & Usability Librarian Indiana
| University Digital Library Program Herman B Wells Library
| 1320 East 10th Street, W501
| Bloomington, Indiana 47405
| (812) 855-1261, mdalmau(a)indiana.edu
| <http://mypage.iu.edu/~mdalmau/>
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Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)
Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com
Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org
MESA blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/
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Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)
Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com
Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org
MESA blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/
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Workshop “Historical Documents in the Digital Age”, 25th-26th October 2012
– University of Rouen <http://www.docexplore.eu/?p=328>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / APPEL A PARTICIPATION
Historical Documents in the Digital Age
25th-26th october 2012 – University of Rouen
http://hdda2012.sciencesconf.org/
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(French version below / Version française ci-dessous)
**Purpose
The aim of the Workshop is to bring together those whose professional work
involves the study of historical documents or who have a responsibility for
increasing their accessibility, with technologists developing techniques to
support the analysis and management of digital documents. The Workshop will
encourage a greater understanding of how these two communities can work
productively together and how crossing the traditional disciplinary
boundaries can create opportunities for supporting better historical
research while also increasing the general public ‘s awareness of their
rich cultural heritage.
This workshop should be interesting for:
* Historians and others interested in sharing their experiences of document
analysis with scientists developing computer-based tools to support such
activities.
* Those who have a responsibility for preserving and managing historical
documents and making them available both to specialists using them for
research and detailed study, and the general public seeking to benefit from
the rich cultural legacy embodied by such documents.
* Scientists and engineers developing advanced technologies in areas such
as image processing, pattern recognition and digital media engineering
relevant to document analysis.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for a diverse range of researchers
and other professionals, including end users, to share experiences and
explore ideas at the crossroads of traditional disciplinary boundaries,
otherwise barriers to rapid progress in improving the accessibility of
documents which can contribute so fundamentally to an understanding of our
cultural heritage.
For each session of the workshop, we invited European specialists of the
field to share their experience of the domain, as an opening for an open
debate with all attendants. The workshop is opened to all, we only require
those wishing to attend to freely register on the website before October
17th in order to manage the logistical constraints of the venue. The
languages of the workshop will be French and English, with simultaneous
translation provided.
**Program
Session 1 : La gestion des collections à l'ère du numérique / Libraries and
archives in the Digital Age
* Matthieu Bonicel, BNF, Paris
* Jean-François Moufflet, Archives de France, Paris
* Alixe Bovey, CMEMS, University of Kent or Cressida Williams, CCA
Session 2 : Des outils informatiques pour transcrire et indexer / Digital
tools for annotating and indexing
* Alison Wiggins, CELL, Glasgow
* Marçal Rusinol, CVC, Barcelona
* Frank Lebourgeois, LIRIS, Lyon
* Stéphane Nicolas, LITIS, Rouen
Session 3 : Paléographie numérique / Digital paleography
* Marc Smith, Ecole des Chartes
* Véronique Eglin, LIRIS, Lyon
* Elisabeth Lalou, GRHIS, Rouen
* Richard Guest, EDA, University of Kent
Session 4 : Les nouvelles modalités pour la valorisation du patrimoine /
ICT in Cultural Heritage
* Clive Izard, British Library, London
* Oliver Hitchcock, VirtuaSense, Rouen
* Alexandre Chautemps, labo BnF, Paris
* Clotilde Vaissaire-Agard, CF2ID
Session 5: Les humanités numériques: réalité ou fiction ? / Digital
Humanities: present and future
* Dominique Stutzmann, IRHT, Paris
* Melissa Terras, UCL, London
* Alison Wiggins, CELL, Glasgow
* discussion ouverte / round table
**Registration
The workshop is opened to all, we only require those wishing to attend to
freely register on the website before October 17th in order to manage the
logistical constraints of the venue. The languages of the workshop will be
French and English, with simultaneous translation provided.
**Organizing committee
The workshop is organized by the InterReg IVa DocExplore project (
www.docexplore.eu <http://www.docexplore.eu/www.docexplore.eu>), a
collaboration between computer scientists, historians and archivists, on
both sides of the Channel, to build a software suite. This suite is aimed
at both historians and librarians, providing transcription and multimedia
annotation functionalities, from which interactive books can be produced to
reach a broader audience.
Contact : hdda2012(a)sciencesconf.org<http://www.docexplore.eu/hdda2012@sciencesconf.org>
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APPEL À PARTICIPATION
Historical Documents in the Digital Age
Documents historiques à l’ère numérique
25-26 octobre 2012 – Université de Rouen
http://hdda2012.sciencesconf.org/
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**Propos
Comment plonger les documents historiques dans l’ère numérique ?
Les photographier est une première étape non triviale mais clairement
insuffisante. Comment à partir des masses d’images ainsi produites obtenir
des documents numériques ? Comment les annoter, les transcrire, analyser
leur structure ? Comment gérer leur nombre, comment améliorer leur
accessibilité ?
Le but du séminaire *Historical Documents in the Digital Age* est de faire
un point entre historiens, conservateurs, bibliothécaires, et
informaticiens sur ces questions complexes. Pour ce faire, nous avons
invité différents spécialistes européens de ces problèmes à faire le bilan
de leurs expériences, d’une manière accessible à tous. Ces exposés seront
un prélude à des discussions thématiques que nous souhaitons fructueuses,
confrontant les différentes perceptions des participants sur ces problèmes
communs.
**Programme
Session 1 : La gestion des collections à l'ère du numérique / Libraries and
archives in the Digital Age
* Matthieu Bonicel, BNF, Paris
* Jean-François Moufflet, Archives de France, Paris
* Alixe Bovey, CMEMS, University of Kent or Cressida Williams, CCA
Session 2 : Des outils informatiques pour transcrire et indexer / Digital
tools for annotating and indexing
* Alison Wiggins, CELL, Glasgow
* Marçal Rusinol, CVC, Barcelona
* Frank Lebourgeois, LIRIS, Lyon
* Stéphane Nicolas, LITIS, Rouen
Session 3 : Paléographie numérique / Digital paleography
* Marc Smith, Ecole des Chartes
* Véronique Eglin, LIRIS, Lyon
* Elisabeth Lalou, GRHIS, Rouen
* Richard Guest, EDA, University of Kent
Session 4 : Les nouvelles modalités pour la valorisation du patrimoine /
ICT in Cultural Heritage
* Clive Izard, British Library, London
* Oliver Hitchcock, VirtuaSense, Rouen
* Alexandre Chautemps, labo BnF, Paris
* Clotilde Vaissaire-Agard, CF2ID
Session 5: Les humanités numériques: réalité ou fiction ? / Digital
Humanities: present and future
* Dominique Stutzmann, IRHT, Paris
* Melissa Terras, UCL, London
* Alison Wiggins, CELL, Glasgow
* discussion ouverte / round table
**Inscription
Pour assister à cette conférence, vous devez vous inscrire gratuitement sur
le site web de la conférence avant le *17 octobre*. Repas et pauses cafés
vous sont offertes, mais nous avons besoin d'un nombre ferme et définitif
suffisamment longtemps à l'avance pour pouvoir passer commande.
Si vous ne vous êtes pas inscrits avant le 17 octobre, vous ne pourrez pas
participer aux repas. Le campus fournit néanmoins de nombreuses
possibilités de restauration par vos propres moyens.
**Comité d'organisation
Ce séminaire est organisé par le projet Interreg IVa DocExplore (
www.docexplore.eu), auquel participent des historiens, des bibliothécaires
et des informaticiens, français et anglais, qui vise à la construction
d’une suite logicielle. Cette suite est destinée aux historiens comme aux
bibliothécaires, elle facilite annotations multimédia et transcriptions,
mais permet également à partir de celles-ci la création de feuilleteurs à
destination par exemple d'un plus grand public.
Contact : hdda2012(a)sciencesconf.org
M. Dominique Stutzmann
Chargé de recherche à l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes
(CNRS, UPR 841)
http://www.irht.cnrs.fr
Chargé de conférences à l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
http://www.ephe.sorbonne.fr
Membre du bureau exécutif de Digital Medievalist
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
Passing this one along:
"The North Dakota State University Department of English seeks and
Assistant Professor tenure track in Medieval literature beginning August
2013 to teach Medieval literature / Chaucer / Early British Survey and
other general education courses, produce published scholarship, and
contribute to the English department’s undergraduate and MA/PhD programs.
Duties: 2/2 course load, conducting research, serving on appropriate
committees, supervising graduate research, and curricular development. "
One of the desired specialities is digital humanities. Here's the posting:
http://www.ndsu.edu/english/medieval_specialist_search/
Mike
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Michael Widner
Ph.D. candidate, Department of English
The University of Texas at Austin
PAR 108, Mailcode B5000
Austin, TX 78712
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting.
Two post-doctoral Research Fellow positions are available at De
Montfort University, Leicester, to work on the AHRC funded FuzzyPhoto
project that is developing and testing computer-based “finding aids”
for recommending potential matches between historical photographic
exhibition catalogue records and images of photographs that appear in
online collections. One will have a knowledge of the Semantic Web,
metadata schemas and Web site development, the other will be
responsible for investigating and trialling modern database engines
and management systems. For further details see
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFD578/research-fellow-semantic-web/ and
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFD581/research-fellow-data-warehousing/
Closing Date: 30 September 2012
Interview Date: 9 October 2012
Thanks and best wishes,
Tak
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Dr Takako Kato
TakakoKato123(a)gmail.com
TKato(a)dmu.ac.uk
School of Humanities
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
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Registration Opens for "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image"
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DigiPal One-Day Symposium
Date: 22nd November 2012,
Venue: University of Westminster,
115 New Cavendish Street, W1W 6UW (Room CLG.09)
Time: 9.30am-5.30pm
The DigiPal team (http://digipal.eu/) at King's College London are delighted to announce that registration is
now open for their second symposium. If you haven't pre-reserved a place, you can register by emailing
digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk<http://kcl.ac.uk/>
This year's theme is the implications of the increasing reliance of the scholarly community upon digital images
and technologies. Bringing together art historians, palaeographers, medievalists and the Digital Humanities, the
symposium will share theoretical approaches and methodologies and, crucially, test prevalent assumptions.
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Invited speakers include
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Marc Michael Epstein (Vassar College)
Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds)
Melissa Terras (University College London)
Elaine Treharne (Stanford University)
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Proposing a paper
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It is still not too late to propose a paper. For details, see
http://www.digipal.eu/blogs/news/digipal-cfp/
The deadline for the receipt of submissions is 10.23pm on Friday 14th September 2012
We look forward to hearing from you,
Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes
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DigiPal, taking each day one folio at a time: http://digipal.eu/
Dr Stewart J Brookes
Research Associate
Digital Resource for Palaeography
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting. I am pleased to announce that Digital
Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures has released its inaugural issue.
This new venue for medieval studies published by the Johns Hopkins
University Press is accessible through Project Muse.
You may reach Digital Philology's webpage, which includes the most current
Call for Submissions at:
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/index.html .
You may access the first issue of the journal through your library's
subscription to Project Muse at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/toc/dph.1.1.html .
The HTML version of the Founding Editors' editorial statement is available
open access at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/v001/1.1.nichols.html .
All Best,
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>