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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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Position: Programmer and Digital Humanist (University of Munich)
by Stefan Baums 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Dear friends and colleagues, the University of Munich is looking for an experienced Programmer and Digital Humanist to work on the Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra project in the Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies. The initial term of appointment is until 31 December 2015, with the possibility of renewal. The application deadline is 31 August 2012, with a start date as soon as possible thereafter. For further details and the application procedure, please refer to the announcement on the University of Munich website: http://www.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/stellenangebote/technik/20120720074055… http://gandhari.org/tmp/programmer_and_digital_humanist.txt (English version) Best regards, Stefan Baums -- Dr. Stefan Baums Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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DigiPal CfP: "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image"
by Brookes, Stewart 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Dear all, Please find below our call for papers for our November symposium. Please note that even if you are unable to attend, we are still looking for submissions for a collection of essays as the follow-up to our in-the-works volume, "Digital Palaeography" (Ashgate). Thanks and all best, Stewart CfP: "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" DigiPal One-Day Symposium 22nd November 2012, King’s College London The DigiPal team (http://digipal.eu/) are delighted to invite submissions for their second symposium at King's College London. 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. -------------------------------- How to propose a paper -------------------------------- Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital approaches to the representation of script and manuscript art. We would like to facilitate a wide-ranging debate and so welcome submissions from scholars whose primary experience is not with digitising images, or necessarily the medieval period. Possible topics could include: * the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital images * the relevance of art historical theories to the digital representation of medieval manuscripts * the problems and potentials presented by digital imaging technologies * palaeographical method for ‘Digital’ and ‘Analogue’ palaeography * reassessing the terminology used in manuscript studies and palaeography * reports from projects that make use of digitised images To propose a paper, please email a brief abstract (250 words max.) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk<http://kcl.ac.uk/>. The deadline for the receipt of submissions is 10.23pm on Friday 14th September 2012 Please note that it is our intention to collect selected papers from the symposium as part of a forthcoming publication and so you may wish to submit an abstract even if you can't attend. Several papers from last year's symposium are being edited as part of our forthcoming volume, "Digital Palaeography" (Ashgate). ---------------- Registration ---------------- Registration will officially open from Thursday 20th September, but if you'd like to pre-reserve a place, then please let us know at your earliest convenience by emailing digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk<http://kcl.ac.uk/>. We look forward to hearing from you, Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Blog: http://digipal.eu/

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