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Help Evaluation a New Digital Tool for Manuscript Studies: Server Back up
by James Ginther 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Dear Colleagues: The server that provides the streaming images for the QC application is now back up. I apologize for the inconvenience. You may continue to evaluate the line parsing application. Thanks again for your assistance in this part of the software testing and development. Jim -- ---------- James R. Ginther, PhD Assoc. Professor of Medieval Theology & Co-Director, Center for Digital Theology Saint Louis University ------------------------- ginthej(a)slu.edu http://theology.slu.edu " Blessed are the Geeks for they shall encode the Earth" "...debet esse oratio devota, ne mens sit in foro dum os psallit in choro." - Robert Grosseteste "Being bored is the only time you are creative." -Freeman Dyson

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Help evaluate a new digital tool for manuscript studies: Server down
by James Ginther 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Dear All: Our server that is streaming the images for this QC check has gone down. I'm hoping to have it up and running as soon as possible. I will send another email when the application is back up and running. I apologize for the inconvenience. Jim -- ---------- James R. Ginther, PhD Assoc. Professor of Medieval Theology & Co-Director, Center for Digital Theology Saint Louis University ------------------------- ginthej(a)slu.edu http://theology.slu.edu " Blessed are the Geeks for they shall encode the Earth" "...debet esse oratio devota, ne mens sit in foro dum os psallit in choro." - Robert Grosseteste "Being bored is the only time you are creative." -Freeman Dyson

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Help evaluate a new digital tool for manuscript studies
by James Ginther 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Dear fellow medievalists: I am writing to ask for your help. Over the last year, the Center for Digital Theology at Saint Louis University has been prototyping a transcription tool for digitized manuscripts. Part of that process includes an application that identifies the location of the lines on a given manuscript page. We have been testing this on a variety of limited datasets, but for the last two months we have focused our testing on the complete collection of digitized manuscripts that comprise the Parker on the Web <http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/> collection. Part of the development has included spot checking the results, where a user will display individual images and check the attempted line parsing. There are some 196,000 images in the Parker Collection and so it has not been possible to check every one. While this is a substantial number, there are only 500 manuscripts in the collection. To ensure we have evaluated a number of pages from each manuscript, we have gone through four iterations during this grant period already and our small team has been able to check as many as 2,000 images in one iteration. We would now like to open this up to the larger public for a limited period of time. We are asking you to go to http://manuscripts.no-ip.org/Paleography_Web/. There you can create a user name and password and check as many manuscript images as you like (and you can return to your session later using that same username/password). Those images are from the Parker collection, but have had colored lines superimposed on them to indicate where our application thinks it is has found lines. You would be asked to judge the quality of the line parsing (good, close, bad, disaster, etc), based on some basic guidelines provided. Taking a cue from projects like *Galaxy Zoo*, there will be a leader board indicating how many images each user has evaluated. No prizes for being first, though, other than the admiration of the digital humanist community--and our thanks! This "crowd sourcing QA" will open up to the general public on August 26, 2010 and will be closed on August 30, 2010. We do not require any personal information. Usernames will be retained to identify which user evaluated which image. We believe that this could be a very useful tool, and the more feedback we can get at this early stage, the better the tool will be in the end. Please contact me if you have any questions. This project is being funded an award from the President’s Research Fund, Saint Louis University. The prototype line parser was first developed during a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Center thanks both funding bodies for their support of this kind of research. All images displayed are owned by the Matthew Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. © 2009 Masters of Corpus Christi College. Images used with permission. No one may duplicate any image (in digital or printed format; or store on an electronic device) without the express permission of the Masters of Corpus Christi College. James Ginther Project Director -- ---------- James R. Ginther, PhD Assoc. Professor of Medieval Theology & Co-Director, Center for Digital Theology Saint Louis University ------------------------- ginthej(a)slu.edu http://theology.slu.edu " Blessed are the Geeks for they shall encode the Earth" "...debet esse oratio devota, ne mens sit in foro dum os psallit in choro." - Robert Grosseteste "Being bored is the only time you are creative." -Freeman Dyson

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Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Textual Methodologies and Exemplars
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

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2010 Schoenberg Symposium Announcement
by Lynn Ransom 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

3rd ANNUAL LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE November 19-20, 2010 Cantus Scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Department of Music, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 3rd annual <http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium.html> Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium will be on the theme of music in medieval and early modern manuscripts. We will explore a range of issues relating to music's materiality in the late medieval period, especially as it pertains to the manuscript source. We will bring together scholars and performers who will examine the ways the written text of music, especially in the unit of the codex, can be expressive as well as prescriptive; the multiple functions of music's most important technology - its notation; and finally, the role that modern digital technology can facilitate the study of manuscripts today. The symposium begins Friday evening at the Free Library of Philadelphia with a lecture and performance by the award-winning early music duo <http://asteriamusica.com/premier.html> Asteria. On Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania, seven speakers will present papers on various topics relating to the history of music manuscripts and notation. The symposium will conclude with a roundtable to discuss issues related to the digitization of music manuscripts and related documents and the role of the digital humanities in medieval musicology. Special exhibitions of music manuscripts will be on view at both institutions. Participants include: Jane Alden, Wesleyan University Julia Craig-McFeeley, <http://www.diamm.ac.uk/> Digital Image Archive of Music Manuscripts Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Emma Dillon, University of Pennsylvania Lauren Jennings, University of Pennsylvania Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge Anne Stone, City University of New York Emily Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania For program and registration details, go to: <http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html> http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium3.html ****************** 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

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Heroic Age 13
by Larry Swain 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

On behalf of the staff and editorial board of The Heroic Age, it is with very great pleasure that I announce the release of Issue 13: http://www.heroicage.org/issues/13/toc.php. Also please take note of updated links pages, Calls for Papers, and other items at the main site: http://www.heroicage.org. I would like to give special thanks to Deanna Forsman without whom this whole endeavor would fall apart, Bill Schipper for his archivist activities, Bill Hamilton and Heather Flowers for editorial help, and others who read, edited, and were patient through the too long process. Sincerely, Larry J. Swain Editor in Chief The Heroic Age http://www.heroicage.org haediting(a)yahoo.com lswain(a)bemidjistate.edu theswain(a)operamail.com -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com

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CitationsOnline (SAWS)
by Charlotte Roueche 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Dear Medievalists I and my colleagues in Sweden and Austria are starting a project to analyse and publish gnomologia, collections of sayings. We are looking specifically at Greek and Arabic collections. We are interested in developing criteria for linking citations within collections, between collections, with translations, with >source< texts, and with texts which use them. For further details of our project, Sharing Ancient Wisdoms, Exploring the tradition of Greek and Arabic wisdom literatures (SAWS) see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/research-section/saw/ I am writing now because I could very much like to establish contact with other projects working in similar areas. There are a lot of conceptual problems which is would be very helpful to share: so I would be very glad to hear from anyone who would like to talk to us With thanks Charlotte Roueche ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics King's College London WC2R 2LS direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html

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Question about preservation of digital content
by Daniel Mondekar 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Dear Digital Medievalists and TEI members, I have a question about preservation of digital content especially medieval manuscripts. I am writing a small article on the topic and I have consulted a lot sources (papers, handbooks) but most of them do not say anything about the "life span" of the data in specific formats. To clarify this - a .doc file crated in 1995. Will be most likely unreadable in 2010. What about other formats? Has anyone done some research on "life span" of a specific version of digital formats and when it becomes clear that the new version and the old one are not compatible anymore? And here I am talking about pdf, rtf, doc (and all office files), djvu, tiff, jpg , mpg etc. (texts and images especially) In my work I am also making a small remark on XML as a data container since it is, in my opinion, the best way to go and the standard will surely be around for years. But what kind of steps do you make to ensure the preservation of documents that have been encoded in xml I would also like to hear if there are opposing views on xml. I also have the same question about the media. I found some research about the longevity of CDs and DVDs but I am also interested in other media like older hard disks, zip drives and magnetic media. I am sorry to bother you with this, but I can use any help I can get Thank you in advance Daniel Mondekar

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Re: [dm-l] Question about preservation of digital content
by Ana Krahmer 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Hi Daniel, I have been haunting this listserv for six years now, and this is one question that I can help answer! I am the digital initiatives coordinator at a special collections library, and the field and theory of digital preservation is changing rapidly. Terms you'll want to define and liberally use in your article include, but are not limited to: Bitstream copying: this is what you do when you back up your files onto an external hard drive; bitstream copying is the most basic level of digital preservation, and although it is necessary, it misses a lot about information itself. -Digital sustainability: incorporates a number of actions intended to preserve digital artifacts to be accessible to an nth year. The best rule of thumb I've heard someone use is 10 years: "If I create this JPEG now, will its format be sustainable and readable ten years from now?" -Digital encapsulation: this refers to two things, the digital artifact itself and its descriptive information. For instance, what good is a JPEG image of a cuneiform tablet if there is no descriptive information--metadata--attached to it? Encapsulation is the idea that information must always accompany the item. (In addition encapsulation includes preservation metadata, which tracks file integrity information (like checksums). -Migration: implies copying information from one technology to another; this copying includes both the digital artifact itself and any metadata attached to it. -Emulation: If you have that doc file, and you need a system that reads it, you eventually will find an emulator to be useful. Emulation provides a simulacrum of a digital object's original software environment, which not only allows access to the file, but it also preserves the original digital experience. Emulation and migration are often discussed as oppositional ideas, but they both play an important role in digital preservation. -Standards and normalization, consistency: Standards are key to good digital preservation strategy. Normalization is the dedicated adherence to those standards. Consistency is always key to digital repositories and their preservation. This will get you started. I'd recommend taking a listen to the new(ish) Library of Congress digital preservation podcast series: http://www.loc.gov/podcasts/digitalpreservation/index.html Best of luck. Best, Ana Krahmer Dear Digital Medievalists and TEI members, >> >> >> I have a question about preservation of digital content >> especially medieval manuscripts. I am writing a small article on >> the topic and I have consulted a lot sources (papers, handbooks) >> but most of them do not say anything about the “life span” of the >> data in specific formats. To clarify this – a .doc file crated in >> 1995. Will be most likely unreadable in 2010. What about other >> formats? Has anyone done some research on “life span” of a >> specific version of digital formats and when it becomes clear >> that the new version and the old one are not compatible anymore? >> And here I am talking about pdf, rtf, doc (and all office files), >> djvu, tiff, jpg , mpg etc. (texts and images especially) >> >> In my work I am also making a small remark on XML as a data >> container since it is, in my opinion, the best way to go and the >> standard will surely be around for years. But what kind of steps >> do you make to ensure the preservation of documents that have >> been encoded in xml >> >> I would also like to hear if there are opposing views on xml. >> >> I also have the same question about the media. I found some >> research about the longevity of CDs and DVDs but I am also >> interested in other media like older hard disks, zip drives and >> magnetic media. >> >> I am sorry to bother you with this, but I can use any help I can get >> >> Thank you in advance >> >> Daniel Mondekar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Is this really the time for Donkey Kong?" ~~Buffy, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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TEI 2010 Conference, Meeting, and Workshops: Registration opens
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

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