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DDH London Meeting 28 March
by Richard Lewis 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

With apologies for cross posting. Decoding Digital Humanities (DDH) London will be meeting again on * Wednesday 28 March 18:00 * at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LH <http://g.co/maps/vftpw> This month we will be reading: Carlson, S., and Anderson, B. (2007). What are data? The many kinds of data and their implications for data re-use. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 15. <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/carlson.html> Please feel free to disseminate this announcement, which is encapsulated in the following page: <http://tinyurl.com/6oukjsj>. You will be very welcome to join us for a drink and to discuss what data have to do with the humanities. Best wishes, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Junicode 0.7.3
by Peter Baker 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Yet another release of Junicode, the font for medievalists, at http://junicode.sourceforge.net. These are the major changes: * By request, improved handling of Turkish and some Eastern European languages. * Small caps in the bold face. * Capital Eszett at U+1E9E in all four faces now; also a small cap version accessible via OpenType feature c2sc. * Obsolete MUFI characters (for some three years now rendered unusable by a superimposed x) have been removed. * Various characters added by user request. * The usual bug fixes (minor) and outline cleanups. Thanks to all those who have left recommendations and reviews. As always, bug reports and feature requests are welcome. Peter Baker

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CeRch seminar: Digitization and Collaboration in the Study of Religious History: Rethinking the Dissenting Academies in Britain, 1660-1860
by Stuart Dunn 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Digitization and Collaboration in the Study of Religious History: Rethinking the Dissenting Academies in Britain, 1660-1860 Simon Dixon and Rosemary Dixon, Queen Mary, University of London Tuesday 13 March, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum (directions: http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location) Followed by drinks Register to attend at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2658496635 Do you tweet? Please use hashtag #cerchseminars The writing of religious history has generally been the preserve of individual scholars, conducting their research alone in libraries and archives, using traditional research methods. Humanities computing, however, not only facilitates but also demands collaborative work. Bringing together humanists and scientists based at different institutions to work on collaborative research projects allows more ambitious schemes to be undertaken, new methodologies to be developed, and new histories to be written. The creation of online databases as a means of studying the history of religion aids collaboration not just on an individual project, but between discrete research projects addressing related subject matter. This chapter discusses the planning and implementation of two closely related projects, both of which are making significant advances in understanding the historical significance of religious dissent in the British Isles: A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860; and Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860. At the heart of the projects is a pressing need to develop a greater understanding of the significance of dissenting academies in the history of British Protestant dissent. The academies, first established in the 1660s, were intended to provide Protestant students dissenting from the Church of England with a higher education similar to that available in the English universities (Oxford and Cambridge). The first of the two projects, which ran from 2008-2011, involved the collection of reliable empirical evidence about the academies and the creation of an online relational database containing information about the institutions, their tutors and students, and surviving archival material. This work underpins the research for a new multi-authored study: A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860. The libraries of the academies were central to the teaching they offered, and the Dissenting Academies Libraries project (2009-2011) involved the digital reconstruction of their holdings and loans through the creation of a Virtual Library System. As well as providing valuable data for contributors to the Dissenting Academies project, the project will change our understanding of the role of books within dissenting culture and education. In describing their work on these two projects, Rosemary Dixon and Simon Dixon will reflect on the potential of digital humanities methodologies to fundamentally alter the way in which historians of religion approach their work. About the Speakers Rosemary Dixon is a lecturer in early modern English literature at King’s College London. Rose’s research is concerned with the literary and religious culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the history of the book. Her PhD thesis on John Tillotson (1630-94) concentrated on printed sermons, which were among the most successful and popular books published during this period. This research will form the basis of her first book: a study of the commercial, theological, and cultural life of the printed sermon in Restoration and eighteenth-century England. Rose is particularly interested in the histories of libraries, and what they can reveal about the ways that the readers of the past perceived, organised, and used their books. Before joining King’s, she was postdoctoral research fellow for the AHRC-funded ‘Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers’ project, a collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London and Dr Williams’s Library. A major outcome of the project is the Virtual Library System, an innovative online reconstruction of the holdings and loan records of dissenting academy libraries. Simon Dixon is a research assistant in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford, working on ‘The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland’. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Dissenting Academies Project from June 2008 until May 2011. With Inga Jones he created Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia and is a contributor to the multi-authored volume, A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860. His work at Oxford involves the construction of a prosopographical database of nineteenth-century professionals and will lead to a series of articles and the development of a major research project. His doctoral thesis on ‘Quaker Communities in London, 1667- c1714’ was completed at Royal Holloway in 2005 and is currently being revised for publication as The Quakers in London, 1667-1714. His research makes extensive use of digital technologies, in particular the construction of databases to manage and analyse large and complex sets of historical data and the creation of high impact research resources such as Dissenting Academies Online. and is a contributor to the multi-authored volume, . His work at Oxford involves the construction of a prosopographical database of nineteenth-century professionals and will lead to a series of articles and the development of a major research project. His doctoral thesis on ‘Quaker Communities in London, 1667- c1714’ was completed at Royal Holloway in 2005 and is currently being revised for publication as . His research makes extensive use of digital technologies, in particular the construction of databases to manage and analyse large and complex sets of historical data and the creation of high impact research resources. -- Dr Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1

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(no subject)
by Tara Andrews 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Dear colleagues, Registration is now open for the workshop "Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts", to be held at the KU Leuven and the Royal Flemish Academy in Brussels on 2-3 April 2012. Please see the programme in attachment. To register, please send an email before 26 March to tara.andrews(a)arts.kuleuven.be with your name and institutional affiliation, the day(s) you expect to attend, and whether you will join us for lunch. Best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Dr. Tara Andrews Post-doctoral Researcher, OE Griekse Studies Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Blijde-Inkomststraat 5 / bus 3316, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

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Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2012
by James Cummings 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

(Apologies for cross-posting, but feel free to forward!) Save the date! The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) 2012 is scheduled for the first week of July! >From the 2nd - 6th of July 2012 DHOXSS delegates visiting the University of Oxford, UK, will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Delegates will follow one of our 5 day workshops on: * An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative * Working with TEI Texts (Advanced) * An Introduction to Digital Humanities Tools and Approaches * A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking, Querying and Visualisation on the Semantic Web Each day will also contain plenary guest lectures by experts in their fields, plus a number of sessions on a wide variety of Digital Humanities topics. There will be morning surgery sessions to discuss projects and possibilities with tutors. The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), with the assistance of the Humanities Division, the Bodleian Library, the Oxford Internet Institute, and e-Research South. The Summer School will be located at Merton College, OUCS, and the OeRC, all of which situated in the centre of the city of Oxford, UK. Booking for this event will open in April 2012 and more information can be found at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/ including a general outline of the schedule, workshop descriptions, and registration fees. Further information will be published there as it becomes available. courses(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk @dhoxss on twitter

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Launch of Early English Laws
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

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Call for Participants: Roots & Routes 2012 Summer Institute at the University of Toronto
by E. Natalie Rothman 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

**Please circulate//and excuse multiple postings** *Roots & Routes II: Translation, Mediation, and Circulation in the Premodern Mediterranean* *A Summer Institute at the University of Toronto Scarborough, April 30-May 11, 2012* *Application deadline: March 1, 2012* Dear colleagues and students, We are delighted to announce the second of three annual summer institutes at the University of Toronto on knowledge production in the premodern Mediterranean and in the Digital Age. This year's theme is translation, mediation, and circulation. We hope you can join us! Please keep reading for details on the institute, its format, and how to apply, or go directly to the application website: http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/. *Format: *The Roots & Routes Summer Institute aims to facilitate a more coherent and explicitly transdisciplinary analytical framework for Mediterranean studies using digital tools and methodologies. The institute, hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough, features a combination of individual presentations, seminar-style discussions of shared materials, hands-on workshops on a variety of digital tools, and small-group project development sessions. Participants will explore new formats for conducting research and presenting their findings. By teaming up with information technology specialists and digital scholarship experts working outside the Mediterranean, participants will have a chance to develop long-term collaborative projects to enhance their ongoing individual research agendas.In order to maximize the potential for future collaboration and broad, thematic conversations, groups will be composed of participants from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and at different stages of their scholarly careers, from senior scholars to advanced undergraduates. Participants are encouraged to engage each other's materials, bring insights from their own field of expertise to a broader methodological and conceptual discussion, and begin to draw out connections between what are often seen as disparate fields of knowledge. *Annual theme*: This second annual summer institute will focus on Translation, Mediation, and Circulation. Specifically, it seeks to address processes of cultural mediation in the Mediterranean by attending to the ways in which language served as a central site for the elaboration and contestation of sociocultural boundaries from the eighth century to the Scientific Revolution. Participants, drawn from Toronto area-based faculty and graduate students as well as internationally, will consider the various practices involved in the transmission, adaptation, and contestation of scholarly knowledge across boundaries, and experiment with different forms of "translation" within and between different media and genres. In this context, special attention will be paid to digital technologies and the potential synergies between textual and multimedia digital humanities projects. *Application process*: Your application should include a current CV and a brief proposal (up to 500 words), which discusses your current research and a specific object you would like to present and further develop digitally. This object may be a text, an artifact, a database, or a combination of any of the above. Once accepted, you will be asked to compile a bibliography of relevant readings to share with others in advance, as well as to install and become familiar with a few digital tools (e.g. Zotero), to allow us to explore more advanced features and digital skills at the institute itself. *Participants are not expected to have prior programming knowledge or other advanced digital skills*, but should be genuinely interested in the potential of digital tools to challenge and transform current research practices. Proposals may address (but are not limited to) one or more of the following five clusters of questions: 1. What role did institutions such as chancelleries, academies, universities, and schools, play in developing, defining, and standardizing "official" vernacular languages and in distinguishing them from other language varieties? What role did such institutions play in processes of language instruction and socialization across metropolitan and peripheral settings? How were these institutions themselves shaped by the range of (often multilingual) milieus in which they operated? 2. To what extent, in the contexts of colonial expansion, imperial consolidation and inter-imperial rivalry, did specialized cadres---including diplomatic interpreters, commercial brokers, missionaries, court scribes, notaries, lexicographers, and philologists---develop to regulate linguistic and cultural difference? 3. What language ideologies and practices emerged in the inherently bilingual contexts of imperial borderlands, such as medieval Iberia and North Africa, Venetian Dalmatia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Ottoman Bosnia? 4. How were linguistic and cultural differences objectified and mapped onto one another through a range of genres, from court records and commercial manuals to travelogues and polyglot comedies? 5. How do the histories of premodern translation, mediation, and circulation speak to current debates about knowledge production in the digital age and the role of scholarly networks in the acquisition and dissemination of texts and technologies? The deadline for applications is*March 1, 2012*. Applications must be submitted online at http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/. Selection announcements will be made by March 15. For more information about the Institute, check out the Q&A section at http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/RRSI2/about/editorialPolicies… <http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/> and the institute's websitehttp://humrp.utsc.utoronto.ca/ePorte/summer-institutes(which will be updated periodically between now and May to reflect the evolving program and roster of workshops). Please contact the organizers by email (rrsi(a)utsc.utoronto.ca <mailto:rrsi@utsc.utoronto.ca>) for further information or to get involved in the organizing process. ***Travel bursaries and full room and board are available for out-of-town graduate student participants.***** *The /Roots & Routes /summer institute is generously supported by the Connaught Fund at the University of Toronto* We look forward to hearing from you! Natalie Rothman On behalf of the /Roots & Routes/ Summer Institute organizers ___________ E. Natalie Rothman Assistant Professor of History University of Toronto rothman(a)utsc.utoronto.ca http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~rothman

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[Interedition] Symposium Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure - Registration Open
by Joris van Zundert 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

= Announcement: Interedition Symposium - Registration Open = = Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure = = The Huygens ING, The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-20 March 2012 = Huygens ING is pleased to host a symposium to mark the achievements of Interedition, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IS0704. This event will also serve as a springboard for further work based on the principles of interoperability promoted by Interedition within the domain of digital scholarly editing and research. Programme and practical information are available at http://www.interedition.eu Registration for the symposium is now open at http://www.interedition.eu/?page_id=203 It's our pleasure to invite everybody interested in digital infrastructure for interoperable digital editions to join us in The Hague for a two day high quality academic event. The symposium offers a good and comprehensive overview of current trends in practices of building digital editions, related digital tools and infrastructures, digital text analysis and annotation, and community aspects. About Interedition: http://www.interedition.eu About the Huygens ING: http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/over-ons/ About COST and Interedition: http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS0704 -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities Chair COST Action IS0704 'Interedition'

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Correction
by Malte Rehbein 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Dear Digital Medievalists, The MARGOT Special Cluster in Digital Medivalist 7 has of course been jointly guest-edited by Christine McWebb and Helen Swift. My appreciation to both for this wonderful work: http://digitalmedievalist.org/journal/7/. Kind regards, Malte -- Dr. Malte Rehbein Universität Würzburg Zentrum für digitale Edition Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14 Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg fon +49.(0)931.31.88773 fax +49.(0)931.31.88427 email malte.rehbein(a)uni-wuerzburg.de web http://go.uni-wuerzburg.de/rehbein web http://www.denkstaette.de IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org

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Digital Medievalist 7
by Malte Rehbein 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Dear community, It is with great pleasure to announce issue 7 of the journal of the Digital Medievalist, which is now available online from the DM-website: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal. This issue features the proceedings of the 2010 MARGOT conference as a special cluster guest-edited by Christine McWebb: twelve articles illustrating the wide range of aspects of our field at the intersection of digital scholarship and medieval studies. This is our first special cluster and is published along side the normal type of articles and reviews published by DM. I would like to express my appreciation to the contributors of this issue, to guest-editor Christine McWebb, the referees, and to all volunteers who supported the publication. And as always: Digital Medievalist is a peer-reviewed online journal in open access (CC BY NC). Please consider your contribution to the community and contact us at editors(a)digitalmedievalist.org. We have already started working on the next issue! Enjoy reading! On behalf of the editorial team (Peter Stokes, Dan O'Donnell, and Rebecca Welzenbach) Malte Rehbein Editor-In-Chief -- Dr. Malte Rehbein Universität Würzburg Zentrum für digitale Edition Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14 Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg fon +49.(0)931.31.88773 fax +49.(0)931.31.88427 email malte.rehbein(a)uni-wuerzburg.de web http://go.uni-wuerzburg.de/rehbein web http://www.denkstaette.de IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org

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