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'Digital Resources for Palaeography' Symposium
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Monday 5th September 2011, 9.30am-5.30pm
King's College London, Council Room, Strand WC2R 2LS
The 'Digital Resource for Palaeography' (http://digipal.eu<http://digipal.eu/>) at the
Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, is delighted
to announce that registration is now open for our one-day symposium
on digital resources for palaeography.
Attendance is free and open to all, but places are limited and so
registration is essential.
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Registering
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To register, email your details as you would like them to appear
on your name badge to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk<http://kcl.ac.uk/> by Monday 22nd August 2011.
Refreshments and a sandwich-style lunch will be provided, so do let
us know if you are vegetarian.
A flyer is available from http://digipal.eu/blogs/news/registration
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Speakers
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Elaine Treharne (Florida State University), 'A Site for Sore Eyes: Digital,
Visual and Haptic Manuscript Studies'
Peter Stokes (King's College London), 'DigiPal in Theory'
Stewart Brookes (King's College London), 'DigiPal in Practice'
Wim Van-Mierlo (University of London), 'How to Work with Modern
Manuscripts in a Digital Environment — Some Desiderata'
Franck Le Bourgeois (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon),
'Overview of Image Analysis Technologies'
Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University), 'The Digital Eye of the Paleographer:
Using Databases to Identify Scribes and Date their Handwriting'
John McEwan and Elizabeth New (Aberystwyth University), 'The Seals in
Medieval Wales Project: Towards a New Standard in Digital Sigillography'
Els De Paermentier (Ghent University), 'Diplomata Belgica: Towards a More
Creative and Comparative Palaeographical Research on Medieval Charters'
James Brusuelas (University of Oxford) and John Wallin (Middle Tennessee
State University), 'The Papyrologist in the Shell'
Ben Outhwaite and Huw Jones (Cambridge University Library), 'Navigating
Cambridge's Digital Library: the Cairo Genizah and Beyond'
Closing discussion with Michelle Brown (University of London), Donald Scragg
(University of Manchester) and Marc Smith (École Nationale des Chartes)
Hope to see you there,
Stewart
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Dr Stewart J Brookes
Research Associate
Digital Resource for Palaeography
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
Blog: http://digipal.eu/
Hi all,
I have a pretty basic HTML question, I think.
I want to embed a couple of MP4 videos in an HTML file. Using something
like the following code, I can do this relatively easily:
> <div class="figure" id="d0e690">
> <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
> codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="480"
> width="640">
> <param name="src" value="Pictures/Movie1.m4v"/>
> <param name="autoplay" value="true"/>
> <embed src="Pictures/Movie1.m4v" type="image/x-macpaint"
> pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download" autoplay="true"
> height="480" width="640">
> </object>
> </div>
The trouble is that Movie1 is 30 odd megabytes and there are other
movies in the file. So I'd rather use a place holder. Googling around I
discovered that the recommended way of doing this is to make a 1 frame
movie saying something like "click on me" which you put on the src
attribute, and then you add an href attribute with the name of the
"real" movie. If you add target="_self" it is supposed to replace the
place holder with the longer movie. This would be the code:
> <div class="figure" id="d0e690">
> <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
> codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="480"
> width="640" href="Pictures/Movie1.m4v" target="_self">
> <param name="src" value="Pictures/Movie1poster.m4v"/>
> <param name="autoplay" value="true"/>
> <embed src="Pictures/Movie1poster.m4v" type="image/x-macpaint"
> pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download" autoplay="true"
> height="480" width="640" href="Pictures/Movie1.m4v" target="_self"/>
> </object>
> </div>
The problem is that Firefox at any rate seems to understand the src
attribute as a base URL. If I click on the player and copy the URL that
is produced or look at it in a full screen, Firefox is looking for the
href video at
Pictures/Movie1poster.m4v/Pictures/Movie1.m4v
instead of
Pictures/Movie1.m4v
I've tried everything I can think of to get around this: moved the files
into the root directory of the page, added ../ to the href to try and
get it to back up a directory. Nothing seems to work. Since this is a
very common thing on the internet, I must be doing something stupid.
Does anybody know how to do it?
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*Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Professor of English, University of Lethbridge <http://www.uleth.ca/>
Co-President, Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des
médias interactifs <http://www.sdh-semi.org/>
Co-Editor, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique
<http://www.digitalstudies.org/>/
Founding Editor, /Digital Medievalist
<http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal>/ *
With apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who might be
interested.
*Third call for papers – Extended deadline to August 1!*
*SDH 2011 Supporting Digital Humanities: Answering the unaskable*
17-18 November, Copenhagen
Following up on the success of the first SDH conference, held in Vienna
in 2010, the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives have decided to jointly
organise the second SDH conference, to be held in November 2011 at the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH.
Digital technologies have the potential to transform the types of
research questions that we ask in the Humanities, allowing us both to
address traditional questions in new and exciting ways but also to
answer questions that we were not even aware we could ask – hence the
title of this conference. How can digital humanities help us not just to
find the answers to our research questions more quickly and more easily,
but also to formulate research questions we would never have been able
to ask without access to large quantities of digital data and
sophisticated tools for their analysis? Supporting Digital Humanities
will be a forum for the discussion of these innovations, and of the ways
in which these new forms of research can be facilitated and supported.
CLARIN and DARIAH are creating European research infrastructures for the
humanities and related disciplines. SDH2011 aims to bring together
infrastructure providers and users from the communities involved in
these two infrastructure initiatives. The conference will consist of a
number of topical sessions where providers and users will present and
discuss results, obstacles and opportunities for digitally-supported
humanities research. Participants are encouraged to engage with honest
assessments of the intellectual problems and practical barriers in an
open and constructive atmosphere.
The first SDH conference in 2010 gave a broad and multi-facetted
presentation of the domains of interest to CLARIN and DARIAH. This time
we have chosen a somewhat more focussed approach, concentrating on two
major themes, but not excluding other themes of interest for the
humanities. The two themes are:
• Sound and movement – music, spoken word, dance and theatre
• Texts and things – texts, and the relationship between texts and
material artefacts, such as manuscripts, stone or other carriers of texts
Submissions are invited for individual papers and posters, as well as
panels. Focus should be on tools and methods for the analysis of digital
data rather than on digitisation processes themselves, both from the
provider and from the user perspective. We want to pay special attention
to inspiring showcases that demonstrate the innovative power of digital
methods in the humanities.
*Some important dates*
July 15, 2011: Submission of suggestion for panels
August 1, 2011: Submission of abstracts (1,000-1,500 words)
August 15, 2011: Notification on panel proposals
September 15, 2011: Author notification
October 15, 2011: Final version of papers for publication (8 pages).
November 17-18: Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark
*Submission of abstracts*
SDH2011 uses the EasyChair conference system, accessible at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdh2011
You will need to log in in order to make a submission. If you already
have an EasyChair account, you have to use that one. Otherwise you will
need to create an account by signing up. To do so, simply follow the
instructions on the EasyChair website.
*Guidelines for authors*
Guidelines for authors are available at the conference website
http://cst.ku.dk/sdh2011/
*Programme committee*
Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Helen Bailey, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Tim Crawford, Goldsmith’s University of London, UK
Matthew James Driscoll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, United States
Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany
Fotis Jannidis, Würzburg University, Germany
Helen Katsiadakis, Academy of Athens, Greece
Krister Lindén, Helsinki University, Finland
Heike Neuroth, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
Laurent Romary, INRIA, France
Nina Vodopivec, Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter Wittenburg, MPI, Netherlands/Germany
Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK
*Conference website*
http://cst.ku.dk/sdh2011/
*Contact*
bmaegaard(a)hum.ku.dk
Best regards,
Christiane Fritze on behalf of the DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
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Christiane Fritze
Joint Secretary General
DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen
Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities
Papendiek 14
37073 Goettingen
Germany
phone: +49 551 39 9061
fax: +49 551 39 3856
mail: cfritze(a)gcdh.de
web: http://www.gcdh.de/
(Apologies for any cross-posting)
http://mith.info/tile/
The TILE team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0. The
Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and
editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities
texts. This version of TILE includes:
- Import/export of TEI P5, and the ability to easily create custom data
importers
- Improved workflow and accuracy using the Auto Line Recognizer (ALR)
- An improved API for plugin developers
- Enhancements and bug fixes to TILE’s interface
- Detailed release notes for more information
A MITH-hosted sandbox version of TILE allows you to test the tool online
without installing it on your machine. We encourage users to download a copy
to install on their own servers to customize the tool. Users can import
their own data into the software, or get started by playing with pre-loaded
data of Algernon Swinburne’s poem Anactoria, provided by John Walsh at
Indiana University.
The development of TILE has been supported by an NEH Preservation and Access
Grant, and it is a collaboration between the Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities (Dave Lester, Grant Dickie, Jim Smith, Doug
Reside) and Indiana University (Dot Porter, John Walsh, Jeffrey Mudge, Tim
Bowman). We’d love to hear how you are using TILE, and what questions or
suggestions you have, either in blog comments or on the TILE forums.
--
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Dot Porter (MA, MSLS)
Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com
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Dear colleagues:
I send this on behalf of David McKnight, Director Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Lynn Ransom
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Search for Inaugural Curator of the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies
In April 2011, The University of Pennsylvania Libraries was the recipient of an extraordinary gift – The Lawrence J Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts. Mr. Schoenberg’s collection is widely known in manuscript circles and he has generously provided physical and digital access to scholars around the world for over a decade. The Schoenberg Collection documents through its many fine exemplars the transformation of knowledge through the lens of pre-early modern, hand-copied books in a variety of languages and scripts which document the evolution of the study of science, medicine and mathematics, among other subjects. Please visit http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljscollection/index.cfm to learn more about the Schoenberg initiatives at UPenn.
In recognition of the Schoenberg gift, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the creation of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS). The new institute will form one of the cornerstones of the new Special Collection Center now being constructed. The two year renovation project will transform the former Rare Book and Manuscript Library into a 21st Century scholarly hub for the study of material and digital texts.
To provide leadership for the Schoenberg Institute, the UPenn Libraries is seeking an experienced and qualified manuscript studies scholar to serve as the Institute’s inaugural curator. For a complete job description and access to the online application, please follow the link to the University of Pennsylvania’s job site: http://www.library.upenn.edu/hr/professional/curator.html
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience from the mid 60s and up. Includes a generous benefits package – additional information available at http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/benefits.asp .
Submitted by
David N McKnight, Director
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
dmcknigh(a)upenn.edu
Dear Digital Medievalists,
The July 2011 issue of the IEEE Computer Society's periodical, Computer, is a special issue on computational archaeology. This may be of interest to list members.
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/mags/co/2011/07/toc.htm
Best,
Grant
Could anybody please explain what the relation between the CURSUS database and the CANTUS-Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant (http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/) is? If there is one, but they seem to cover the same sort of material. But I have to admit that I have never used CURSUS.
Kind regards,
Bettina Wagner
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Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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Germany
email: bettina.wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de
Tel. +89 / 28638-2982
Fax. +89 / 28638-12982 oder 2266
postbox: D-80328 Muenchen
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