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Schoenberg Symposium Announcement
by Lynn Ransom 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

*****With apologies for cross-posting***** 5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age November 16-17, 2012 Taxonomies of Knowledge In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are pleased to announce the 5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium considers the role of the manuscript in organizing and classifying knowledge. Like today's electronic databases, the medieval manuscript helped readers access, process, and analyze the information contained within the covers of a book. The papers presented at this symposium will examine this aspect of the manuscript book through a variety of topics, including the place of the medieval library in manuscript culture, the rise and fall of the 12th-century commentary tradition, diagrams, devotional practice, poetics, and the organization and use of encyclopedias and lexicons. Participants include: * Katharine Breen, Northwestern University * Mary Franklin-Brown, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities * Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford * Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of London * William Noel, University of Pennsylvania * Eric Ramirez-Weaver, University of Virginia * Lesley Smith, University of Oxford * Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania * Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania * Sergei Tourkin, McGill University * Joanna Weinburg, University of Oxford For more information and registration, go to: <http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium5.html> http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium5.html. ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851 http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg

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TEI Conference 2012: Late-breaking call
by Elena Pierazzo 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

With usual apologies for cross-posting ======================== As in the previous years, the Programme Committee for the TEI Members Meeting in College Station (Texas) has reserved some limited slots on the program for late breaking submissions. Please notice that these submissions, although evaluated by the programme committee, do not undergo the normal peer review process and therefore will only be considered for inclusion in the conference proceedings after further peer review. Otherwise the requirements and proposal formats are very similar; details of the call for paper can be found at the conference web page http://idhmc.tamu.edu/teiconference/ We hope that the announcement of this possibility will come as a relief to those who missed the deadline of the first round of submissions, but still would like to have a chance to contribute to the program of the meeting. The deadline for late breaking submissions is the 1st of October 2012. You can submit your proposal via conftool: http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ There will also be an exciting slate of pre-conference workshops to be announced really soon now, so please watch this space, or the conference website for further information. For the programme committee, Elena Pierazzo -- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Chair of the Teaching Committee Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo(a)kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh

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Humanities Hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the Reinvention of the Edition in a Digital Space
by Monica Berti 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

Hi All, Apologies for cross-postings. I am very pleased to send you the RFP of "The Banquet of the Digital Scholars", a humanities hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the reinvention of the edition in a digital space, which will be held at the University of Leipzig on October 10-12, 2012. For further details, please visit http://www.e-humanities.net/events/athenaeus-hackathon.html All the best, Monica Berti ____________________________ The Banquet of the Digital Scholars. Humanities Hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the Reinvention of the Edition in a Digital Space October 10-12, 2012 Universität Leipzig (ULEI) & Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) Berlin Co-directors: Monica Berti - Marco Büchler - Gregory Crane - Bridget Almas The University of Leipzig will host a hackathon that addresses two basic tasks. On the one hand, we will focus upon the challenges of creating a digital edition for the Greek author Athenaeus, whose work cites more than a thousand earlier sources and is one of the major sources for lost works of Greek poetry and prose. At the same time, we use the case Athenaeus to develop our understanding of to organize a truly born-digital edition, one that not only includes machine actionable citations and variant readings but also collations of multiple print editions, metrical analyses, named entity identification, linguistic features such as morphology, syntax, word sense, and co-reference analysis, and alignment between the Greek original and one or more later translations. Request for Proposal Program 2 days: hands-on hackathon 1 day: eTRACES techniques (Usage of the Text re-use Webdebugger and the annotation framework for text re-use) Registration Deadline September 30, 2012 Requirements / Who should apply TEI XML competence is prerequisite. Participants can establish this by going through http://balmas.github.com/tei-digital-age/ Language skills in ancient Greek maximum 25 students How to apply Please visit www.e-humanities.net Contact address hackathon(a)e-humanities.net Overview The Deipnosophists (Δειπνοσοφισταί, or “Banquet of the Sophists”) by Athenaeus of Naucratis is a 3rd century AD fictitious account of several banquet conversations on food, literature, and arts held in Rome by twenty-two learned men. This complex and fascinating work is not only an erudite and literary encyclopedia of a myriad of curiosities about classical antiquity, but also an invaluable collection of quotations and text re-uses of ancient authors, ranging from Homer to tragic and comic poets and lost historians. Since the large majority of the works cited by Athenaeus is nowadays lost, this compilation is a sort of reference tool for every scholar of Greek theater, poetry, historiography, botany, zoology, and many other topics. Athenaeus’ work is a mine of thousands of quotations, but we still lack a comprehensive survey of its sources. The aim of this “humanities hackathon” is to provide a case study for drawing a spectrum of quoting habits of classical authors and their attitude to text reuse. Athenaeus, in fact, shapes a library of forgotten authors, which goes beyond the limits of a physical building and becomes an intellectual space of human knowledge. By doing so, he is both a witness of the Hellenistic bibliographical methods and a forerunner of the modern concept of hypertext, where sequential reading is substituted by hierarchical and logical connections among words and fragments of texts. Quantity, variety, and precision of Athenaeus’ citations make the Deipnosophists an excellent training ground for the development of a digital system of reference linking for primary sources. Athenaeus’ standard citation includes (a) the name of the author with additional information like ethnic origin and literary category, (b) the title of the work, and (c) the book number (e.g., Deipn. 2.71b). He often remembers the amount of papyrus scrolls of huge works (e.g., 6.229d-e; 6.249a), while distinguishing various editions of the same comedy (e.g., 1.29a; 4.171c; 6.247c; 7.299b; 9.367f) and different titles of the same work (e.g., 1.4e). He also adds biographical information to identify homonymous authors and classify them according to literary genres, intellectual disciplines and schools (e.g., 1.13b; 6.234f; 9.387b). He provides chronological and historical indications to date authors (e.g., 10.453c; 13.599c), and he often copies the first lines of a work following a method that probably goes back to the Pinakes of Callimachus (e.g., 1.4e; 3.85f; 8.342d; 5.209f; 13.573f-574a). Last but not least, the study of Athenaeus’ “citation system” is also a great methodological contribution to the domain of “fragmentary literature”, since one of the main concerns of this field is the relation between the fragment (quotation) and its context of transmission. Having this goal in mind, the textual analysis of the Deipnosophists will make possible to enumerate a series of recurring patterns, which include a wide typology of textual reproductions and linguistic features helpful to identify and classify hidden quotations of lost authors. Goals This humanities hackathon is meant as a mini-course for training participants in editing Athenaeus’ work and his quotations, focusing on these topics: marking up quotations and text re-uses in Athenaeus annotating syntax and aligning translation of Athenaeus’ text using Athenaeus as a way to demonstrate the new Perseus SoSOL (http://sosol.perseus.tufts.edu/sosol/) Greek OCR on Athenaeus’ editions identifying and investigating quotations and text re-uses of Homer and Plato by Athenaeus comparing the ways in which Athenaeus and Plutarch quotes Homer and Plato; the goal is to use the computer to investigate how stable is an author’s re-use style in different sources results of this Hackathon will be made publicly available under CC licence Applications should be sent to hackathon(a)e-humanities.net

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St. Augustine´s Confessiones: Online Reading Group starts on 8. September
by Emilia Żochowska 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Dear All, Let me invite you to join a new teaching project, which can become a refreshing alternative to your everyday Serious Academic Activities. On 8. September starts the reading group focusing on St. Augustine´s Confessiones. It is hosted by Collegium Volatile, a free study community. We work online, the course is hosted by Course Sites (Blacboard). St. Augustine´s Confessiones is said to be the model autobiography, a source of inspiration for memoir authors through the ages: but it is also a travel log - a diary of Augustine´s journey into his own mind and memory, a journey he made in time and space. It has always been a bestseller. Everyone has read it. Have you? Do you think it´s still relevant today, after 1600 years? Would it be a model or a provocation? In this reading group we focus on studying the text in its historical and philosophical context. Confessiones is our main source. We spend 3 weeks reading the book and studying its historical background. During the next 5 weeks we focus on particular themes discussed in the book: Confessiones as an Autobiography, Augustine and his Rome (or rather "Romanitas"), Love and Friendship, "Kingdom of Dissimilitude", Conversion. The group is guided by Dr Emilia Zochowska, PhD in medieval history (SDU, Odense, 2010), M.A. and Licence in medieval theology (UKSW, Warsaw, 2005 and 2008). Join us! And if you have any students, friends or colleagues interested in St. Augustine, please let them know about the course. This course uses CourseSites. Please visit the course webpage to enroll: https://www.coursesites.com/s/_AugConf. You can find more details about Collegium and this course at: http://collegiumvolatile.com With very best regards, Emilia Zochowska PS. Collegium Volatile is a free study community. We teach those who want to learn.We share knowledge and teaching experience. We do not offer diplomas. Follow us: http://Facebook.com/collegiumvolatile, http://twitter.com/CollegiumVolati

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Interdisciplinary Workshop "Scholarly Editions in the Digital Age: Text and Music"
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

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Geospatial/Geodetic mapping of MSS
by Dan Mosser 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

Thanks to all who have replied (off list, I think) to my query about linguistic mapping of Middle English MSS. Dan O'Donnell asked for a sample of the markup. The DIMEV is an xml-based project. I haven't added mapping information as yet, but here is a straightforward example of the MS file with the <lang> entry: <item xml:id="PhilUPEng8"> <loc>Philadelphia</loc> <repos>University of Pennsylvania</repos> <desc>MS Codex 218 [formerly Eng. 8; <i>olim</i> Stonor Park]</desc> <lang><biblio key="LALME">LALME</biblio> LP 559 (<place country="England" county="Isle of Ely">Ely</place>: Hand A, ff. 1-146v); LP 551 (<place country="England" county="Lincolnshire">Lincs</place>: Hand B, ff. 147-195v)</lang> </item> The LALME and LAEME keys are linked to full entries in the bibliography. I'm waiting for my coder to fit some time in for the style-sheet updates for this information. Since I haven't, as yet, constructed a tagging structure for the mapping coordinates, I'm happy to have suggestions. Dan mentioned KML and Google maps, and that might be an easy way to proceed. ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ Dan Mosser dmosser(a)vt.edu Office: Shanks 229 Snailmail: Director of Graduate Studies English Department 0112 Shanks Hall 180 Turner Street NW Blacksburg, VA 24061 VOICE: (540) 231-7753 FAX: (540) 231-5692 http://www.dimev.net http://www.gravell.org http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/Mosser/wiz/dwmcv/mossercv.html

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Geospatial mapping of Middle English MSS
by Dan Mosser 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

I don't even know if I'm deploying the correct terminology, but here goes. I have been adding linguistic information to the Digital Index of Middle English Verse (www.dimev.net) from the Linguistic Atlases of Late and Early Medieval English. Their references are to a grid, which doesn't seem to be useful in the long term (if I'm wrong about this, please say so). What we would like to do, or collaborate with somebody to do, is add geospatial coordinates for the anchor and localized texts with the aim of linking them to a mapping program (Google or something else). Is anyone already doing this in the digital-medieval world, or does this wheel need inventing by someone. Naively, Dan ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ Dan Mosser dmosser(a)vt.edu Office: Shanks 229 Snailmail: Director of Graduate Studies English Department 0112 Shanks Hall 180 Turner Street NW Blacksburg, VA 24061 VOICE: (540) 231-7753 FAX: (540) 231-5692

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Call for Papers: Cultural, Textual, and Material Heritage in the Digital Age: Projects and Practices
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

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Call for Participants: New Digital Paradigms in Anglo-Saxon Studies
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

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CFP: K'zoo 2013
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

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