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Update on “Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan”
by Kropf, Evyn 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

*Please excuse cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, The University of Michigan Library is in the final year of a three-year, grant-funded project to fully catalogue its Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Supported by a “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” grant administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project, “Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan” has sought to engage established and emerging scholars by involving them in the cataloguing process – examination, description and generation of searchable metadata – for the collection of roughly 1,100 manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish dating from the 8th to the 20th century CE. The manuscripts are being digitized and made freely accessible through the HathiTrust Digital Library in order to facilitate the cataloguing work, which leverages a web-based “crowdsourcing” approach to generate rich and detailed descriptions addressing both material and textual characteristics. The efforts of project staff at the University of Michigan, led by project cataloguer Evyn Kropf, are thus supplemented by contributions from the wider scholarly community as colleagues interact with brief inventory descriptions and the digitized manuscripts via the project website ( http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic ) As of now, 686 of the roughly 870 previously uncatalogued manuscripts have been fully or near fully catalogued. 134 of these are manuscripts for which digitization is not possible at this time. We greatly appreciate your support for the project thus far, and would be especially grateful for any further contributions you could make to the cataloguing of the remaining manuscripts, including review of existing descriptive data where available. Of the manuscripts remaining to be fully catalogued, most are from the following collections Heyworth-Dunne http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/heyworth-dunne F. E. Nuttall http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/nuttall Sulaiman Purchase http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/sulaiman-purchase-collec… Stephen Spaulding http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/stephen-spaulding-mss McGregor http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/mcgregor Cataloguing is also still underway for a number of fascinating manuscripts from the Abdul Hamid Collection http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/category/abdulhamid including: several calligraphy albums http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/?s=calligraphic+abdulhamid a possible collection of declarations issued by certain grand viziers during the reign of Mehmet II http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/4269 several majmūʻāt, not all previously identified as such, among them http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/4247 and this “biographical work,” likely a collection of Ottoman chancery documents http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/archives/3833 Your expertise is an invaluable complement to our local cataloguing efforts. Treasures from the collection are being unearthed, and we appreciate your continued participation in the cataloguing endeavors. We look forward to seeing your comments posted to the project site and thank you in advance for your valuable contribution to this project. Please feel free to forward any questions, comments and/or suggestions to project staff at islamic.manuscripts(a)umich.edu All best, Evyn Kropf ________________________________________________________________ Evyn Kropf | Islamic Manuscripts Project Cataloguer University Library Area Programs | M117B Hatcher Library North The University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 (734) 764-1220 | ekropf(a)umich.edu

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Re: [dm-l] FW: [Humanist] 25.232 Roberto Busa, SJ, 1913-2011
by Kevin Roddy 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

I met Father Busa at one of the early Computers and the Humanities conferences, and in 1985 invited him to present at UC Davis. The night before, at dinner, we were telling jokes, and I told the one about the cannibal who had eaten both Protestant and Catholic missionaries, and had an ecumenical movement. Since the Italians at the table didn't quite understand, the always understanding Father Busa translated, if somewhat grimly. The next night, at a banquet, we took turns regaling each other with computer horror stories. Father Busa admitted that a while before, two sets of the *Index,* on tape, were to be transported to a new location, and two trucks were hired. Someone, however, mixed up the sets, and sure enough, one truck crashed and burned. That might have been the end of decades of work, but Father Busa and probably Thomas Aquinas got it all back together. He was not only a great and towering man, he was a very human man, Kevin Roddy University of California, Davis

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FW: [Humanist] 25.232 Roberto Busa, SJ, 1913-2011
by Simpson, Grant Leyton 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

On 8/10/11 8:23 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" <willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 232. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist(a)lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:22:09 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk> > Subject: Roberto Busa 1913-2011 > >My sad duty this morning is to announce the death of Roberto Busa, SJ, >on 8 August at the age of 98. See http://tinyurl.com/3ne2aj6 (in >English) and http://tinyurl.com/3qhu6bg (in Italian) for more. > >My thanks to Sarah Schmidt for letting me know. Reflections on the man >and his great contributions to all that we do will be welcome but will >have to wait until Humanist reawakens later this month. > >Yours, >WM >-- >Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's >College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western >Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); >Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); >www.mccarty.org.uk/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >List posts to: humanist(a)lists.digitalhumanities.org >List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist >Listmember interface at: >http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php >Subscribe at: >http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php

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Job: Research Associate - Digital Humanities at Oxford - Network Support (12 month contract)
by James Cummings 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Some of you may know someone interested in a 12 month Research Associate position at Digital.Humanities@Oxford: === Research Associate - Digital Humanities at Oxford - Network Support (12 month contract) Grade: 7 Salary: £29,099 - £35,788 pa Closing date: Monday 29th August '11, 12.00pm For further details, see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/jobs/research-associate-digital-humanities-at-oxfo… === -James -- Dr James Cummings, InfoDev, Computing Services, University of Oxford

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(seminar) Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

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Digital Sermon Collections
by eyal poleg 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Dear DMs, Trying to assess the appearance of biblical personal/place names in late medieval sermons (post 1200), I was hoping to make use of full-text digital sermon editions. However, apart from the Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons (http://www.hull.ac.uk/middle_english_sermons/ , partial but hopefully will receive additional fundings) and the sermons of Voragine ( http://www.sermones.net/) I have failed to find anything of use, either in Latin or the vernacular. A newcomer to the field, I might be missing the obvious, and would be grateful for any suggestions. Eyal Poleg

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Call for Proposals: Marco Manuscript Workshop, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

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Early Medieval Law in Context - conference
by Jenny Benham 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

-------------------------------------------------------------- Early Medieval Law in Context -------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 15th - Friday 16th September 2011 Carlsberg Academy, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, Copenhagen, Denmark The Early English Laws project is delighted to announce that registration is now open for our conference exploring laws, law-making and legal interpretation in Western Europe in the early middle ages. Presentations from three projects currently creating digital resources (Early English Laws, Relmin, and Nordic Medieval Laws) will be among the papers. For the full programme, see http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/events/workshops/ ------------------------- Registering ------------------------- If you'd like to register for the conference this can be done via the Institute of Historical Research's Google checkout secure online payment system (http://www.history.ac.uk/events/2594/register). Here, you will be presented with two options; one, entitled 'Speaker/Student/Unwaged' totalling 15.00 GBP, and another entitled 'Full delegate fee' totalling 20.00 GBP. These are subsided rates and include your registration fee, lunches, the Thursday evening conference meal and reception. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer accommodation as this is not available at the Carlsberg Academy. However, at http://www.hotels.com you will be able to find good accommodation at a reasonable price and distance to the academy. All the details of the conference can be found on our website, http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk, but please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Hope to see you there, Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer, Early English Laws <http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/> Institute of Historical Research University of London Senate House Malet Street LONDON WC1E 7HU t: +44 (0)20 7862 8787 f: +44 (0)20 7862 8754 e: jenny.benham(a)sas.ac.uk Web: www.history.ac.uk <http://www.history.ac.uk/>

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Faculty positions available at Indiana University Bloomington
by Dot Porter 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hello Digital Medievalists, There are three faculty positions available at Indiana University Bloomington (http://www.iub.edu/) which may be of interest to members of this list. None of these positions are tagged "digital" but medievalists with PhDs and an active research portfolio should consider applying! 1. Jacobs School of Music Assistant / Associate / Full Professor. Tenure-track, focus on music before 1400 (or late 19th century). Review of applications begins August 15. 2. Department of History Assistant Professor. Tenure-track, focus on China prior to the nineteenth century. Apply by October 15. 3. Department of History Assistant Professor. Tenure-track, Middle East History, any region or period. Apply by October 15. If any of these sound interesting you can read more information in the IUB Bulletin for Academic Appointments dated August 2, 2011 available online at http://indiana.edu/~vpfaa/baalist.shtml Although I'm at IUB I'm not affiliated with any of these departments or posts, so questions should be directed to contacts listed in the Bulletin and not to me. Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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SSRQ online: Collection of Swiss law sources
by Torsten Schassan 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Dear colleagues, the following might be of interest for some: Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen online Collection des sources du droit suisse online Collana Fonti del diritto svizzero online http://www.ssrq-sds-fds.ch/online/ Since 1898 the Swiss Lawyers Society edits a collection of law sources which had been created on Swiss territory up to 1798, the Collection of Swiss Law Sources. The Collection contains material from the early middle ages until early modern times (1798). Over 100 volumes, or more than 60,000 pages of source material and comments from all language regions of Switzerland have been published so far. In a project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Friedrich-Emil-Welti Foundation, the Law Sources Foundation has digitized all volumes published so far and makes them available online here. There are the following ways to access the Collection: * Via the catalog organized by cantons * Via the search in the tables of contents For more extensive information please see the detailed description. Full-text search Only in the years to come the collection will be transformed into a digital edition. In addition to the images available online right now, the fulltext will be produced and encoded according to the TEI guidelines. Best, Torsten -- Torsten Schassan Digitale Editionen Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130 (Fax -165), schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/europeana-regia.htm http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm

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