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TEI MM 2010 Conference program published
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

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RE: [dm-l] TAN: How does one reference a location in an electronic book on Kindle or iPad?
by Birnbaum, David J 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear Digital Medievalist, This is part of a larger and older problem. For example, my Film Studies colleagues tell me that there is no standard way to point to a particular location in a film for reference purposes. Film scholars may use approximate timing references, and at some point in the production process film has very fine-grained timing information attached to it, but there is no standard pointing and reference system in wide use in scholarship, comparable to page references with paginated print materials. The reference system for music is better developed, since we can count measures, although I have no idea how one points to a moment inside an improvisational cadenza. Closer to our electronic home, unless there is internal section numbering in the text or internal anchors in the html, there is no standard way to point to a particular location in a static web page comparable to a page in a book (even though the web page may be length of many, many book pages). We may be more aware of these limitations with Kindles and their ilk than we are with other media because we naturally think of them as a funny kind of book and we subconsciously expect to find the familiar book-like interface, complete with pagination, but fine-grained, reproducible location referencing may be more exceptional in the world of texts than we think. Sincerely, David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt(a)pitt.edu) -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Gardella [mailto:pgardella@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 4:41 PM To: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca; dm-l(a)uleth.ca Subject: Re: [dm-l] TAN: How does one reference a location in an electronic book on Kindle or iPad? At this point, there is no way to reference one specific location. Locations provide a way for Kindles, but the Locations will vary depending on the font size in use. So it will provide the individual with a way to reference something for themselves, but not for anyone else (arbitrary bookmarks that might come close to canonical). This is one of the largest problems with ebooks and ereaders for scholarly work. Some body will need to define the standards for footnoting, and doing cross-references. To date, I have no heard of any such standards in the works. Perhaps others have. Patrick Gardella Annapolis, MD

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TAN: How does one reference a location in an electronic book on Kindle or iPad?
by O'Donnell, Dan 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hi all, Good question from a student: if she is referencing a specific passage in a book on a Kindle that (apparently) has no pages or paragraph numbers, what does she do? She says Kindle has something called "locations" but it isn't clear to me if these are canonical or more like arbitrary bookmarks from how she is describing them (I don't have any ereaders, and so don't know). Anybody know what you are supposed to do? I guess she could count paragraphs if it was that important, or, as with a very long webpage, just skip providing a location more precise than the entire work on the theory that you could full-text-search for it. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidential) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Special Call For Papers for 2010 Issue on Exile in the Middle Ages
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

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DH Position-Ryerson University, Toronto
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

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Call for papers: Securing the Past, Rescuing the Present
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

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Digital editing workshop
by Jenny Benham 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Digital editing workshop Thursday 18 November 2010, Institute of Historical Research, University of London The workshop, organised with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Early English Laws project, will discuss the digital editing of a range of texts, from the early middle ages to the 19th century. It will examine some of the approaches and tools that are available to editors of digital texts and the possibilities for collaborative editing online. It will suggest practical solutions to some of the challenges faced by editors in the digital age, and explore how 'editions' might evolve in the age of crowd-sourcing and deep linking of data. 1.00 Lunch 2.00 Panel session Eleonora Litta Modignani and Paul Spence (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College London) Digital editing of the Early English Laws Stuart Dunn (Centre for e-Research, Kings College London) Connecting Historical Authorities with Links, Contexts and Entities (CHALICE) Bruce Tate (British History Online, Institute of Historical Research) ReScript a platform for the collaborative online editing of historical texts 3.30 Tea and coffee 3.50 Discussion 4.30 Close If you would like to attend the workshop, email Jenny Benham (Jenny.Benham(a)sas.ac.uk). Places are limited, so you are advised to book early. Kind regards, 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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eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) Website Launched
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

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Reminder - Manuscript TEI SIG Survey: Call for Participation in an online survey
by Marjorie Burghart 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi, and apologies for crossposting! Just a reminder: you still have a possibility to contribute to this survey. We already have more than 40 answers, but we need *yours* to improve the picture of the community :) [please ignore this message if you are not involved in digital work with manuscripts] Dear colleagues, The Special Interest Group for Manuscript Encoding of the TEI wants to draw a picture of the current status, requisites and future demands related to the SIG's agenda. For this purpose, we would like you to participate in the study "Trends, Concerns and Dreams among the Users of the TEI for Manuscript Material". The first part of this study is an online survey. Its results will be presented at the TEI Members Meeting in Zadar, Croatia, November 2010 and discussed at the next SIG meeting in order to steer future developments of the work of the SIG. To participate, you simply need to fill in this anonymous online survey, which should take you less than 10 minutes: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/361896/TEI-MS We really appreciate your help here, for we need the most feedback possible to draw a faithful picture of the community of users of the TEI for manuscript material (inside and beyond the TEI-MS SIG). Thank you very much in advance for your participation, and please feel free to circulate this announcement among your colleagues. Malte Rehbein and Marjorie Burghart -- Marjorie BURGHART EHESS (pôle de Lyon) / UMR 5648 Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux 18 quai Claude Bernard 69007 Lyon - FRANCE

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New online bibliography for early english law
by Jenny Benham 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Early English Laws publishes online bibliography Early English Laws (EEL), a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research and King's College London, is pleased to announce the publication of its online bibliography. The bibliography is compiled and continuously updated to include items relating to any aspect of English legal history in the period between c. 600 and 1215. It is also searchable by category, author and date of publication. To access the bibliography, simply follow the link: http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/db/bibliography Can I also remind everyone that we are still offering bursaries worth £2,000 each, designed to support scholars in the preparation of editions of early English legal texts for publication as part of the AHRC-funded EEL project. Eligible expenses include travel, accommodation, and reproduction and permission fees. Guidelines for proposals, together with a list of possible texts, are available on the Early English Laws website <http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk/edit/guidelines.html> . If you have any enquiries, please contact the Project Officer: jenny.benham(a)sas.ac.uk Kind regards, Jenny 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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