Registration is open for the 4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on
Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Writing the East: History and New
Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions, to be held October
21-22, 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania and the Free Library of
Philadelphia. This year, our focus is on medieval and early modern Asian
manuscript traditions. Together with Justin McDaniel, University of
Pennsylvania professor of Religious Studies, Penn Libraries are pleased to
present a distinguished panel of speakers who will explore a range of issues
relating to Asian reading and writing cultures, especially as they pertain
to manuscripts from the Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian
traditions.
An addition to the program this year is the Friday afternoon workshop:
Bringing Out the Best from Your Collections: Ask the Experts!, to be held
Friday, October 21, 2-5 pm, at the Free Library of Philadelphia (Parkway
Central Library, 1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, Room 108). This workshop
is geared especially toward librarians and curators who oversee collections
of Asian manuscript material but is open to anyone who wishes to learn more
about caring for and interpreting these fascinating and often little
understood objects.
For more information on the symposium and workshop and for registration, go
to http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium4.html .
You may also contact me at anytime for further information or with
questions.
Best,
Lynn
******************
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
Dear Digital Medievalists,
We have started publishing content for issue 7 of the Digital
Medievalist Journal.
The first piece is "Burghart, Marjorie, ed. 2011. Album interactif de
paléographie médiévale/Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography.
Lyon: UMR 5648 CIHAM <http://ciham.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/paleographie/>",
reviewed by Dot Porter.
See http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ and stay tuned for much
more content to come in the course of the next months. Enjoy reading!
On behalf of the editorial team,
Malte Rehbein, Editor-In-Chief
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Dr. Malte Rehbein
Universität Würzburg
Zentrum für digitale Edition
Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
fon +49.(0)931.31.88773
email malte.rehbein(a)uni-wuerzburg.de
web http://www.denkstaette.de
IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de
Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org
Please find below the Call for Proposals for pre-conferences, workshops and tutorials for the Digital Humanities 2012 conference, in Hamburg Germany. Note that the deadline for this call (Midnight GMT on 1 November - please check equivalent time in your time zone) is the same as the deadline for posters, papers and panel sessions announced a few weeks ago. Deadlines will be firm.
All submissions can be made through the ConfTool website at https://secure.digitalhumanities.org (see instructions below) and do check the DH2012 conference website for news in the coming weeks: http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/
Paul Spence
Chair of International Programme Committee for 2012
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Call for proposals: Pre-conference Workshops and Tutorials Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2012 Hosted by University of Hamburg
16-22 July 2012
http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/
Proposal deadline: November 1, 2011 (Midnight GMT)
I. General Information
The International Program Committee invites submissions of proposals of no more than 1500 words for pre-conferences or specialized Tutorials and Workshops on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. Tutorials are typically a half day to a full day; workshops and pre-conferences may be one day or more. We particularly welcome submissions relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2012 conference, 'Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods' <http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/>.
Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities:
- computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship;
- the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and related areas;
- research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium.
- digital humanities and diversity
- libraries, archives, and the creation, delivery, management, and preservation of humanities digital resources
- text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages
- the role of digital humanities in academic curricula
The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press.
Participants in Workshops or Tutorials will be expected to register for the full conference as well, paying the regular registration fee. There will be additional fees of roughly 40-50 Euros per half-day for participants in tutorials and workshops, with a minimum attendance of approximately 10 participants each, in order to ensure that these events cover their own costs.
The deadline for submitting proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2011. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 15, 2011. See below for full details on submitting proposals.
Proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizers (please email katrin.schoenert(a)uni-hamburg.de) as soon as possible.
For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site, <http://dh2011.stanford.edu/>.
II. Pre-Conference Tutorials
Proposals for Tutorials should provide the following information:
1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the DH community (not more than 1500 words).
2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in a half-day tutorial (approximately 3 hours, plus breaks). In exceptional cases, full-day tutorials may be supported as well.
3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise.
4. A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size. (DH Tutorials are expected to be self-financing.)
5. Special requirements for technical support.
Proposals will be submitted via the DH2012 conference registration application, ConfTool, at the address https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ no later than November 1, 2011.
TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES
Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by December 15, 2011, and must then provide final draft abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by February 1, 2011. The description should be in two formats: an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference web site, and a Word or ODT (not PDF) version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions to follow).
III. Pre-Conference Workshops
Proposals for workshops should provide the following information:
1. A title and brief description (of not more than 1500 words) of the workshop topic and its motivation (i.e., its relevance to DH).
2. A description of target audience and expected number of participants.
3. The intended length and format of the workshop (minimum half-day; maximum one and a half days).
4. A budget proposal (DH Workshops are expected to be self-financing.)
5. Dates for submission deadline (if there is to be a CfP) and notification of acceptances.
6. A list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop program committee if the workshop proposal is accepted.
7. Full postal address, phone number, e-mail and fax of the workshop contact person.
8. Special requirements (e.g. computer infrastructure or audio equipment).
Proposals will be submitted via the DH2012 conference registration application, ConfTool, at the address https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ no later than November 1, 2011. You will be notified about the decision to accept or reject the proposal by December 15, 2011.
IV. Format of the Proposals
All proposals must be submitted electronically using the online submission form in the ConfTool system no later than November 1, 2011. Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. Information for new users is available at the ConfTool site. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact <paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk>.
V. Information about the conference venue
Hamburg on the river Elbe has about 1.8 million inhabitants within the city limits, making the old Hanseatic merchant city Germany's second largest metropolis. Hamburg is characterized by its port, its international orientation and a cosmopolitan flair.
The University of Hamburg was founded in 1919. Today the Faculty of the Humanities is home to over 10,000 students. Since its inception Hamburg University has maintained a strong focus on foreign languages and cultures. To foster and to explore such diversity is a key task of the Humanities - and to provide theories, methods and tools to this end poses a particularly interesting challenge to the Digital Humanities. We hope you will join in the discussion on "Digital Diversity" at the DH2012 and look forward to seeing you in Hamburg!
VI. International Program Committee
Susan Brown (SDH-SEMI - Vice Chair)
Arianna Ciula (ALLC)
Tanya Clement (ACH)
Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI)
Dot Porter (ACH)
Jan Rybicki (ALLC)
Jon Saklofske (SDH-SEMI)
Paul Spence (ALLC - Chair)
Tomoji Tabata (ALLC)
Katherine Walter (ACH)
Jan Christoph Meister (ex officio, Local Host)
Registration is open for the 4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on
Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Writing the East: History and New
Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions, to be held October
21-22, 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania and the Free Library of
Philadelphia. This year, our focus is on medieval and early modern Asian
manuscript traditions. Together with Justin McDaniel, University of
Pennsylvania professor of Religious Studies, Penn Libraries are pleased to
present a distinguished panel of speakers who will explore a range of issues
relating to Asian reading and writing cultures, especially as they pertain
to manuscripts from the Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian
traditions.
An addition to the program this year is the Friday afternoon workshop:
Bringing Out the Best from Your Collections: Ask the Experts!, to be held
Friday, October 21, 2-5 pm, at the Free Library of Philadelphia (Parkway
Central Library, 1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, Room 108). This workshop
is geared especially toward librarians and curators who oversee collections
of Asian manuscript material but is open to anyone who wishes to learn more
about caring for and interpreting these fascinating and often little
understood objects.
For more information on the symposium and workshop and for registration, go
to http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium4.html .
You may also contact me at anytime for further information or with
questions.
Best,
Lynn
******************
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
For any graduate students on the list...
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Call for Papers
*Vagantes 2012*
March 29-31
Indiana University, Bloomington
Vagantes is the largest conference in North America for graduate students
studying the Middle Ages, and aims to provide an open dialogue among junior
scholars from all fields of medieval studies. This year’s conference will
feature keynote speakers Shannon Gayk (Associate Professor of English,
Indiana University) and Professor Jordan L. Zweck (Assistant Professor of
English, University of Wisconsin-Madison). They will be joined by at least
twenty-four student presenters and an audience of approximately 100 people.
Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters
from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology,
Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy,
Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies come together to
exchange ideas. In this manner, Vagantes fosters a sense of community for
junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference
does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the
margins of a graduate student budget.
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are welcome from graduate students on
all topics considering the Middle Ages. In keeping with the mission of
Vagantes to advance interdisciplinary studies, we invite submissions in
areas including but not limited to history, literature, art
history, philosophy, religious studies, and musicology.
Vagantes is sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America.
Please email a brief vitae and abstract of no more than 300 words by October
25, 2011 to:
Diane Fruchtman
dsfrucht(a)indiana.edu
For more information, find us on the web at
www.vagantesconference.org.
Download our flyer at: www.vagantesconference.org/VagantesCFP.pdf
Find us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Vagantes2012
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Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)
Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com
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With apologies for cross-postings.
Digital Humanities Centers and the New Humanities
Wednesday 5 October 2011, 18:00
Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London
(for directions see http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location)
Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland
In association with arts-humanities.net
What is the function of the digital humanities center within a rapidly
changing humanities landscape? Although they have a great capacity for
focusing, maximizing, and networking local knowledge, local resources,
and local communities of practice, digital humanities centers are also
at risk of being silos, overly focused on their home institutions,
rarely collaborating with other centers, and unable to address by
themselves the larger problems of the field. They also siphon off grant
funding from schools unable to afford a digital humanities center of
their own and can make it harder for scholars at such places to
participate in the larger projects that help to shape the possibilities
and future of the field. Are digital humanties centers crucial to the
future of the field, or deleterious to it? Or to point the question more
finely: in what ways and under what circumstances might digital
humanities centers be seen as more crucial to the field than
deleterious? I'll be discussing these issues especially in terms of the
centerNet initiative, which seeks to create a truly global network of
local digital humanities centers.
About the speaker
Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director of the Maryland
Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of
Maryland. He is a founder and general editor of the Romantic Circles
Website, the Co-Chair of centerNet (an international network of digital
humanities centers), and he has published widely on the subjects of
Romanticism, Textual Studies, and Digital Humanities in various articles
and in the eight books he has authored or edited. Fraistat has engaged
in projects involving the preservation of virtual worlds and born
digital creative works; the development of the Open Annotation
Collaboration framework for sharing annotations of digital content
across the World Wide Web; and the building of international
cyberinfrastructure. He currently serves on the advisory boards of
Project Bamboo, CLARIN, D-SPIN, NINES, INKE, Project MUSE, and CHAIN, a
coalition of humanities and arts infrastructures and networks that
includes DARIAH, Project Bamboo, CLARIN, ADHO, and centerNet. Fraistat
has been awarded the Society for Textual Scholarship's biennial Fredson
Bowers Memorial Prize, the Keats-Shelley Association Prize, honorable
mention for the Modern Language Association's biennial Distinguished
Scholarly Edition Prize, and the Keats-Shelly Association's
Distinguished Scholar Award.
For more information,
see:http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/fraistat.aspx
<https://kclmail.kcl.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=0d59056454a54d4f952a5affce1d6d5b…>
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Dr Stuart Dunn
Research Fellow
Centre for e-Research
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
Centre for e-Research
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
UK
Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1
Dear list members,
This event may be of interest to some of you: we will have the pleasure
to hear a presentation of the TextGrid project in Lyon, on Tuesday 27
September. Details below (attendance is free, but if you plan to attend,
please send an email to claire.giguet(a)ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
<mailto:claire.giguet@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr> )
Best wishes,
Marjorie
Afin d'ouvrir un espace de débat et de réflexion dans le domaine des
*humanités numériques*,Mutecorganise un cycle de conférences assorties
de démonstrations d'outils présentés par leurs utilisateurs. Ce cycle
s'adresse aux *chercheurs*, *enseignants-chercheurs*, *ingénieurs,
techniciens* concernés par les évolutions engendrées par la
généralisation des usages du numérique dans la recherche en sciences
humaines et sociales.
*Les "Conférences-démos" de MutEC*
*Débats et réflexions sur l'impact du numérique*
*dans la recherche **en sciences humaines et sociales*
****
*
*Mardi 27 septembre 2011*
*17h-19h, amphi Descartes, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
*
*Oliver Schmid (Centre of Digital Humanities at the University of Trier
<http://www.uni-trier.de/>)*
sur le thème
*TextGrid, a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists,
musicologists and art historians /*
*"TextGrid, un environnement de travail virtuel pour les philologues,
linguistes, musicologues et historiens de l'art"
*
*
*
*Abstract* : The joint project TextGrid
<http://www.textgrid.de/en/startseite.html> aims to support access to
and exchange of data in the arts and humanities by means of modern
information technology (the grid). In 2006 development began on a
web-based platform, one which will provide services and tools for
researchers for analysis of text data in various digital archives -
independently of data format, location and software.
TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists,
linguists, musicologists and art historians. As a single point of entry
to the virtual research environment, TextGridLab provides integrated
access to specialized tools, services and content. TextGridRep is a
long-term archive for research data in the humanities embedded in a grid
infrastructure, which will ensure availability and access to its
research data as well as interoperability. The joint research project
TextGrid is part of the D-Grid initiative, and is funded by the German
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the period
starting June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012.
*Résumé* : Le projet TextGrid vise à faciliter l'accès et l'échange de
données pour les lettres, les sciences humaines et les sciences sociales
en s'appuyant sur les moyens offerts par les technologies de
l'information (grille). En 2006 a débuté le développement d'une
plateforme web qui propose aux chercheurs des services et des outils
pour l'analyse de données textuelle provenant de différentes archives
numériques, indépendamment de leur format et de leur localisation.
TextGrid est conçu comme un environnement de travail virtuel pour les
philologues, linguistes, musicologues et historiens de l'art. Le point
d'entrée unique dans cet environnement virtuel de recherche,
TextGridLab, propose un accès unifié à des outils, services et contenus
spécialisés. TexGridRep est un service d'archivage pérenne pour les
données de la recherche en lettres, sciences humaines et sciences
sociales, basé sur une infrastructure de grille qui assurera acces et
interoperabilité aux données de la recherche. Le projet TextGrid fait
partie de l'initiative D-Grid, financé par le Ministère Fédéral Allemand
de l'Education et de la Recherche, pour la période allant du 1er juin
2009 au 31 mai 2012.
***
Conférence ouverte à tous et suivie d'un temps d'échange convivial
autour d'un verre.
*Inscription souhaitée - contact : *claire.giguet(a)ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
<mailto:claire.giguet@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr>
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Marjorie BURGHART
EHESS (pôle de Lyon) / UMR 5648
Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux
18 quai Claude Bernard
69007 Lyon - FRANCE
Dear Digital Medievalist community,
At the last Digital Medievalist elections it was suggested by myself
and others that we limit the number of terms any community member
might be elected to the Digital Medievalist Board in a row. We
already had a limit of 6 years that someone could be elected director
in a row, and it seemed fitting to extend this to all Board members.
i.e. after 3 two-year terms on the Board, someone would have to take a
break for at least a year. The point of this is to encourage fresh
blood and new ideas on the Digital Medievalist Board and promote a
mature organisation. (In case anyone is wondering, I'm proposing this
even though it would mean that I will not be allowed to stand in the
2012 elections.)
However, we are a community-based organisation -- if you are receiving
this email you are a member of that community whether you view
yourself as a digital medievalist or not -- and so we thought it best
that any changes to the bylaws be approved by the community itself.
But we also noticed that we had not documented the process by which we
should be allowed to make amendments to our bylaws.
We have come up with a suggested process consisting of four major
steps which can be summarised as:
- The DM Board composes changes to the bylaws, and a simple majority
(5 out of 8) vote means they can be presented to the membership
- The DM Board will publish these on the mailing list/website with a
minimum 10 days request for comments
- The DM Board will discuss any suggested changes, with a simple
majority agreeing any changes
- After these changes, the bylaws will be presented for voting for at
least a week and will pass with a two-thirds majority of votes
recorded in the voting period.
This is the process we are following for the current proposed changes
to the bylaws. A majority of the DM Board has already approved them.
The old bylaws are at:
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html
The proposed bylaws with substantial additions and deletions marked are at:
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws-new.html
We would appreciate any comments on the changes be sent to the DM
Board by email at: board _at-sign_ digitalmedievalist.org by noon GMT
on the 19th September 2011. Of course, you are free to discuss this
openly here on the the dm-l mailing list as well.
In more detail the proposed changes to the current bylaws include:
- adding a statement "To undertake other activities relating to its
purposes and objectives or the promotion of DM as a community." to the
list of our objectives and activities
- adding a statement that "Any ties in voting shall be decided by the
existing DM Board members excluding any who are standing for
re-election." (While this has not yet happened, we thought it best to
include some mechanism.)
- adding a statement that "No member may be elected to the DM Board
for more than three consecutive terms (six years). After three terms,
the member must wait one year before becoming qualified for
re-election to the DM Board."
- replacing a statement saying that "no person may serve continuously
as Director for more than 6 years in a row" with one that says "no
member may be elected as Director for more than six consecutive terms
(six years). After six terms, the member must wait one year before
becoming qualified for re-election as Director." So that it uses the
same agreed language as with Board members
- And the new section on amendments which says:
1. Amendments to these bylaws can be composed by the DM Board and
become proposed amendments with a simple majority of the total DM
Board membership.
2. Proposed amendments will be published on the DM mailing list (dm-l)
and the DM website with a minimum 10 day period requesting comments by
the DM membership.
3. The DM Board will discuss comments on the proposed amendments
received from the DM membership incorporating changes agreed by a
simple majority of the DM Board.
4. The agreed version of the amended bylaws will be presented as a
whole to the DM membership for voting over a minimum 7 day period. The
amended version of the bylaws will pass with a two-thirds majority of
votes recorded during the voting period.
I look forward to any and all comments on the proposed changes before
noon on the 19th September and in the meantime the DM Board is happy
to answer questions concerning them.
Many thanks,
James Cummings
Director, Digital Medievalist
[apologies for any cross posting. please feel free to share this message]
Dear Digital Medievalists,
In 2002 as part of my MSLS degree work I undertook a research project
entitled "Medievalists' Use of Electronic Resources," which surveyed a
selected group of medievalists on faculty at universities across the US on
their use of and attitudes towards electronic resources (
http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2807.pdf). The survey asked faculty how they
preferred to access various different types of resources (journals,
translations, facsimiles, etc.) and attempted to gauge preferences for using
digital resources across the community (junior faculty vs. chaired faculty,
preferences in different fields, etc.).
Much has changed in the nine years since 2002. Google Books was first
introduced in 2004. ACLS released its final report on Cyberinfrastructure,
"Our Cultural Commonwealth" in 2006. The NEH, which had long supported
digital projects, awarded the first Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants in
2007, and founded the Office of Digital Humanities in 2008. In medieval
studies, more and more digital resources are released every year, there is
an established community of "Digital Medievalists", and the International
Congress on Medieval Studies has had a steady growth in the number and
profile of presentations and events on issues relating to digitization.
Digital resources in the medieval studies are ubiquitous. Are they being
used?
Now is the perfect time to return to this project, to undertake the survey
again, and to see just how (or if) attitudes and use have changed over the
past nine years. Looking forward, this research can help resource developers
design projects to best serve their audiences.
This message serves as an open invitation to participate in this research
project. Any medievalist at any level is welcome to participate.
Participation involves filling in an online survey, located at the link
below. It should take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MUDR_open
This study is completely confidential and I will report only aggregated
results in any published articles. If you have any questions, please do not
hesitate to contact me at dot.porter(a)gmail.com.
Thank you for taking the time to help me with this research project.
Sincerely,
Dot Porter, MA, MSLS
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Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)
Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com
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