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Introduction: Robert D. Peckham
by Bob Peckham 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

This is my first list message. I am Robert D. Peckham (common net handle = TennesseeBob). I am not an expert in the production of facsimiles or "surrogates". As a French teacher at the University of Tennessee at Martin, I manage the Muriel Thomlinson Language Resource Center. For about a year, we ran MkLinux.org until it moved out to California. As a scholar, my area is medieval French, and I am founder/webmaster of Société François Villon, which has a yearly online bibliography. I have taken on a medieval manuscript project for the Andy Holt Virtual Library. In the larger project Web for Medieval Source-based Textual Scholarship http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/codicol.shtml I simply wanted to link lessons and discussions about codecology and paleography, along with digitized manuscript facsimiles. I had hoped to be able to find some that the UCLA team had not, with Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/mdmss.shtml In July at the AATF convention in Chicago, I will be presenting the only part of this that I am really qualified to do: Manuscripts of Medieval France with Vernacular Texts http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/frmedmss.shtml This is a work in progress, and I have been taking advice from colleagues on MEDTEXTL, researchers in a European Research Council Project, editors with Libraria, Pecia and Archivalia, basically anyone with the tolerance to answer questions. TennesseeBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D. Professor of French Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques University of Tennessee at Martin Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-gate Intercultural Web Project

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DDH London Meeting 27 June
by Richard Lewis 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

With apologies for cross posting. Decoding Digital Humanities (DDH) London will be meeting again on * Wednesday 27 June 18:00 * at The Jeremy Bentham, 31 University St., WC1E 6JL (Please note the change of venue; in fact, back to where it all started!) This month we will be reading: Steve Anderson. "Past Indiscretions: Digital Archives and Recombinant History". In Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson (eds.) Interactive Frictions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (forthcoming). <http://www.technohistory.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Anderson_Past_Indis…> Please feel free to disseminate this announcement. We look forward to seeing you there. Best wishes, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London t: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 j: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li @: lewisrichard s: richardjlewis http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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best practice: photographc facsimile?
by Birnbaum, David J 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

Dear Digital Medievalist, For a couple of new Internet editions of medieval manuscripts I've procured high-resolution tiff images, which I'm publishing with a "magnifying glass" overlay. This is in a "responsive" context, so the components of the page, including the images, resize to fit the window dimensions. There's a sample at: http://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/pages/supr001r.html The current images were prepared quickly for a demo, and are not of consistent size or resolution. I would now like to go back to get this part of the site up to production quality, and I would be grateful for advice about how to manage the images, an area where I don't have much (= any) knowledge of best practice. I'd like small image files that load quickly, and I think I don't mind slightly lossy compression if that would reduce the file size substantially--but if that's a mistake, I'd be grateful for a warning. I think there are two questions: 1. What's an appropriate file format and resolution (size, dpi, color depth, etc.) for the base image, the one that is displayed in full to the right of the transcription, and that resizes as the user resizes the window? Currently the image files are in jpg format and vary in size from about 2M down to 250k. I can regenerate them all at a common size, resolution, color depth, etc. from the original tiffs, but I don't know whether there is any sense of best practice concerning what that size should be. If I go the lossy route, what's a reasonable value? 2. What's an appropriate degree of magnification for the magnifying-glass inset view? Currently the magnifying glass inset always shows the image at 200% of the actual file size (not the size of the page as displayed without magnification in the browser window!). You can see the difference by comparing, say, folio 30v (about 2MB) to 284r (about 270k), where the magnification is much greater in the former than the latter. I can set the level of magnification anywhere I'd like, but is there any agreement about best practice here? By way of orientation in the question: the purpose of the full image is to allow the user to see the image conveniently alongside the transcription, verifying any moments where our editorial judgment might appear surprising or questionable. The point of the magnified inset is to let the user examine details that may not be visible at lesser magnification, such as erasures, corrections, etc. My casual impression is that 30v looks pretty good and loads reasonably quickly (although quicker would be better), but I don't place great confidence in my own casual impressions. Thanks, David djbpitt(a)pitt.edu

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Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation
by Dot Porter 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

(Apologies for cross-posting) We are very pleased to announce that, following a one-year planning grant, the Mellon Foundation has awarded the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) a three-year implementation grant. MESA serves two related purposes: to develop a federation of digital medieval resources, and to provide peer review for scholarly digital projects in all areas of medieval studies. MESA is a federation both in the sense of a community - of scholars, librarians, and students developing and using digital resources - and as a website that federates disparate collections and projects. The website will provide a search across various types of resources spanning the disciplines, geographical areas, and temporal spans that make up the Middle Ages, in the broadest sense. MESA joins with Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online (www.nines.org), 18thConnect (www.18thconnect.org), and the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) project as a node of the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC). ARC is a developing organization, centered at Texas A&M University and directed by Laura Mandell, which serves to provide support for the constituent nodes. This support includes coordination, sustainability, and scalability by providing shared infrastructure - including development of the COLLEX platform and maintenance of a shared catalog including metadata from objects represented in all the nodes. During the second half of 2012, we will be loading the first group of 12 resources into the MESA website. The site will launch with those resources in late 2012. At the same time we will be developing our procedures and policies for including other resources in the site. We have already started compiling a list of projects and collections that we would like to include in MESA in the second phase of the project (after the initial launch). If you have a project that you would like to see included in MESA, please contact us. MESA Co-Directors Dot Porter, Indiana University Bloomington Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University MESA federation blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ Press Release from NCSU: http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/technology/wms-medieval-online/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Monastic Manuscript Project
by Albrecht Diem 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Dear digital medieval colleagues: I am new to this list and would like to introduce the project I am currently working on: I try to document the manuscript transmission of late antique and early medieval monastic texts. I especially focus on monastic rules and on understudied texts with a wide dissemination. As a side product I collected links to all catalogues of medieval manuscripts that are online or available on archive org - which turned out to be a rather useful tool. I am also collecting links to ongoing digital manuscript projects. Especially for these pages I would be very happy to get some input from you. Here are the links: http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/index.html http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/Catalogues-of-Latin-Manuscripts.html http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/listoflinks.html#Digital Have a great summer! Albrecht Albrecht Diem Dept. of History Syracuse University

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Seminar: Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

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Call for nominees, DM Board
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

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FW: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Early-Bird Registration
by Da Rold, Orietta (Dr.) 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Apologies for cross-posting -----Original Message----- From: Michael Pidd [mailto:m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk] Sent: 11 June 2012 12:44 To: Da Rold, Orietta (Dr.) Subject: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Early-Bird Registration Dear Orietta, I'm pleased to announce that discounted registration is now available until 30th June for the Digital Humanities Congress which will take place in Sheffield during September 2012: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 I would be grateful if you could circulate this link to other interested colleagues. With best wishes Mike -- Michael Pidd HRI Digital Manager Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield 34 Gell Street Sheffield S3 7QY Tel: 0114 222 6113 Fax: 0114 222 9894 Email: m.pidd(a)sheffield.ac.uk Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri Times Higher Education University of the Year

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Seminar: A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

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Call For Nominees, Digital Medievalist Board
by James Cummings 09 Jun '12

09 Jun '12

Call For Nominees Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June for four positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it would be expected that you are willing and able to commit a little bit of time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as helping to run its its journal, conference sessions, etc.). For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the DM website, particularly: - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about.html - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l at uleth.ca) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or to the field of digital medieval studies. If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, James Cummings and Dominique Stutzmann: election at digitalmedievalist.org who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 0000 UTC on Tuesday June 19 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the whole of the week starting 25 June, 2012.

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