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Digitisation projects
by James Robinson 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

I'm not sure if you will have heard about the work we have been undertaking primarily at the John Rylands Library (University of Manchester, UK) Special Collections in digitising some of our English Manuscripts. We have almost completed full cataloguing of over 50 full manuscripts, which are freely available online here. The LUNA collections provide a fantastic open source teaching and research archive of thousands of images. As well as the collections, we have a number of projects running, involving digitisation of medieval material. You can find links to blog about these projects on our main blog here. We are currently in the middle of a pilot project to set up a Centre of Digital Excellence, specialising in digitisation of heritage material. The blog above will tell you everything about the project. I apologise if this is old news to you! If you would like any further information please don't hesitate in contacting me. All the best, James James Robinson - Senior Photographer The John Rylands Library 150 Deansgate Manchester M3 3EH 0161 30 66537 (Deansgate)

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Call For Nominees
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 31 May '10

31 May '10

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Fwd: EuroMed2010: International Conference: Dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage / Multilingua Digital Libraries - Last Call for Papers
by Torsten Schassan 27 May '10

27 May '10

FYI, best, Torsten -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: EuroMed2010: International Conference: Dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage / Multilingua Digital Libraries - Last Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 27 May 2010 01:22:12 +0300 Von: Marinos IOANNIDES <gammat(a)CYTANET.COM.CY> Antwort an: DCMI Libraries Community <DC-LIBRARIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> An: DC-LIBRARIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK ************************************************************************ * APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING *PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO YOUR COLLEAGUES, * EXPERTS/PROFESSIONALS, STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS, INSTITUTIONS * Thank you very much for your help & support, * Regards, * Marinos Ioannides * www.euromed2010.org *********************************************************************** EuroMed2010 - Call for Papers - New Deadlines and Best Paper Awards Dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries November 8 - 13th, 2010 Limassol, Cyprus http://www.euromed2010.eu Invitation: You are kindly invited to submit a paper to the EUROMED2010 joint conference which will provide an opportunity to exchange research results, opinions, experiences and proposals on the best practice and hi-tech tools from Information and Communications Technology to document, archive, preserve, manage and communicate Cultural Heritage (CH). The main goal of the event is not only to illustrate the programs underway but also excellent work wherever it is located and however it is supported, in order to promote a common approach to the tasks of e- documentation of World Cultural Heritage. Furthermore, regional capacities in the area of Cultural Heritage and IT will be facilitated in advancing their know-how through the exchange of information and generation of new ideas and cooperation's, where the world meets the finger prints of several ancient civilizations on earth. To reach this ambitious goal the topics covered will include experiences in the use of innovative recording technologies & methods and how to take best advantage to integrate the results obtained to build up new tools and/or experiences as well as improved methodologies for documenting, managing and communicating CH. The EuroMed2010 joint event will focus on interdisciplinary and multi- disciplinary research concerning both cutting edge Cultural Heritage Informatics and use of technology for the representation, documentation, preservation, archiving and communication of CH knowledge. The scope includes standards, metadata and every phase of CH information technology: initial data capture/digitization, information/data processing, reconstruction, visualization and documentation as well as dissemination of results to the scientific and cultural heritage communities and to the general public (Multilingua, Multimedia Digital Library). We are also interested in aspects of the wider legal, IPR and ethical responsibilities of Cultural Heritage Informatics. Research subjects parallel the interests of CIPA, ISPRS and EuroMed including culturally significant monuments, artefacts and sites as well as the activities of museums, libraries, archives, and organizations involved with their care. Topics: Those researchers who wish to participate in this event are invited to submit papers on original and unpublished work addressing the following subjects: -Digital Data Acquisition Technologies in CH -2D and 3D Data Capture Methodologies and Data Processing in CH -On-site and remotely sensed data collection -2D and 3D GIS in Cultural Heritage -Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management & Monitoring -CAD and FEM based Digital Reconstructions and 3D Modeling -Reproduction Techniques and Rapid Prototyping in CH -Visualisation Techniques (desktop, Virtual and Augmented Reality) -Virtual Reality in Archaeology and Historical Research -Multimedia, Multilingua, Data Management and Archiving -Construction and indexing of large scale Multimedia/Multilingual -Encyclopedias in Cultural Heritage -Computer Animation for CH Applications and Virtual Heritage -Game Technologies in Cultural Heritage -Non-Photorealistic Rendering of CH Data -Virtual Museum Applications (e-Museums and e-Exhibitions) -Digital/Virtual Documentation of Archaeological Excavations -Novel Internet-based Cultural Heritage Applications -Portals and Digital Libraries of Culture -Usability, Effectiveness and Interface Design for CH Applications -Innovative Graphics Applications and Techniques -Interactive Environments and Applications -Digital Libraries and e-Archives in Cultural Heritage -National Digital Libraries and Aggregators as cross-domain systems -Long term availability of content and its long term accessibility -Effective IC-Technologies for the creation, management and reuse of content and knowledge -Storytelling and authoring tools - e-Learning in Cultural Heritage -Tools for Education, Documentation and Training in CH -Archaeological Analysis and Interpretive Design -Standards, Metadata, Ontologies and Semantic Processing in Cultural Heritage -Authentication, Accreditation and Digital Rights Management -Legal issues: Water-Marking, Orphan Works, Copyrights and IPR -Professional and Ethical Guidelines -The Economics of Cultural Informatics and Tourism -Natural and Man initiated deconstruction of Cultural Heritage and prevention techniques. -ICT assistance in monitoring and restoration Submission of Papers: Submissions for the joint event are completely electronic, and both the paper and all supplementary material must be submitted through the on-line submission website. The conference accepts only original, unpublished work written in English. The 10 best papers will be published in the Elsevier journal: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620738/descrip… We are soliciting three types of contributions: - FULL research papers presenting new innovative results. These papers will have a full-length oral presentation and will be published in a high-quality proceedings volume. Each submitted paper must not exceed 8 pages in total. http://fullpapers.euromed2010.eu/openconf.php - PROJECT papers focusing on the description of project organization, use of technology, and lesson learned. These papers will have a short oral presentation and will be included in a "Projects Papers" proceedings volume. Each submitted paper must not exceed 8 pages in total. http://projectpapers.euromed2010.eu/openconf.php - SHORT papers presenting preliminary ideas and works-in-progress. These papers will have a short oral presentation and will be available as posters in conference breaks. They will be published in the "Short Papers" proceedings volume. Each submitted paper must not exceed 6 pages in total. http://shortpapers.euromed2010.eu/openconf.php For information concerning style and format of all submissions, please refer to: http://www.euromed2010.eu/paper-submission/ Important Dates: . Paper submission FULL papers: June 14th, 2010 (24:00 UK Time) . Paper submission PROJECT/SHORT papers: June 14th, 2010 (24:00 UK Time) . Notification of Refereeing results: July 15th, 2010 . Camera ready FULL papers to printer: August 9th, 2010 . Camera ready PROJECT/SHORT papers to printer: August 23rd, 2010 . Proposals for showcases/ demo's: June 28th, 2010 For more information about the joint conference please visit the webpage: http://www.euromed2010.eu or directly contact the chair of the event at: chairman(a)euromed2010.eu. The event is in cooperation with a number of European Commission Projects in the area of Digital Libraries / e-preservation in CH and the EU Member States' Expert Group on Digitization and Digital Preservation. Regards, Marinos Ioannides (CY), Dieter Fellner (DE) Diofantos Hadjimitsis (CY) and Andreas Georgopoulos (GR) www.euromed2010.eu Email: chairman(a)euromed2010.eu

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Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 27 May '10

27 May '10

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Balisage 2010 Program Announced
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 27 May '10

27 May '10

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TEI@Oxford Summer School 2010
by Digital Medievalist » News: James-C 25 May '10

25 May '10

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TEI@Oxford Summer School 2010
by James Cummings 25 May '10

25 May '10

(Sorry for cross-posting; feel free to forward!) TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010 http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/ The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication. Each day will also include a number of afternoon 2.5 hour parallel workshops on related technologies and topics. These will include TEI Publishing; TEI for Language Resources; Transforming TEI with XSLT; TEI in Libraries; Creating a TEI-based Website with the eXist XML Database; and Genetic Editing: transcribing documents, transcribing the process. There will also be optional surgery sessions for those who wish to consult with TEI@Oxford about their particular projects or encoding issues. There will also be guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts familiar with the TEI talking about their own projects. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text, this course is for you. The course runs from Monday 12 July - Wednesday 14 July, 2010. The course runs from 09:30 - 17:30 each day in our fully-equipped computer training rooms. Lunch and refreshments are included in the course fee. Questions about booking on the workshop: courses(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk Dr James Cummings Research Technologies Service University of Oxford

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JSTOR and PDF Sizes (TAN)
by O'Donnell, Dan 24 May '10

24 May '10

Hi have a question somebody here may know the answer to. A colleague of mine is scanning back issues of journal she edits for online publication. She is using PDF with OCR to provide full-text searchability a la JSTOR. The issue is that the file sizes are really quite different. A 30pp article from a 1920s issue of Speculum, for example, seems to come in about 1.5-2.0 MB; 5-6 page article in my colleagues journals are coming in about the same size, and other files are well over 4 MB. I haven't seen the settings used for the scanning or OCR yet, but the JSTOR and her files appear to be about the same resolution (eyeballing the page size when things are set to 100%). They look like they are being scanned in B&W, but I haven't checked (perhaps a colour channel is adding to the bulk?). Any other suggestions for things that might be causing the files to be abnormally large? -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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Fwd: European Summer School "Culture & Technology", 26.-31.07.2010, University of Leipzig - 2nd call
by Dot Porter 23 May '10

23 May '10

[with the usual apologies for cross-posting] I expect the attachment will not make it through to the list; the school website is located here: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ Dot ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elisabeth Burr <elisabeth.burr(a)uni-leipzig.de> Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:28 PM Subject: European Summer School "Culture & Technology", 26.-31.07.2010, University of Leipzig - 2nd call Dear All, attached you find information about the European Summer School "Culture & Technology" which will take place from the 26th to the 30th of July 2010 at the University of Leipzig. You are kindly asked to distribute this 2nd call as widely as possible. Although fees are still quite high, interested people should open an account with ConfTool now https://www.conftool.net/esu2010/ as there are altogether only 50 places. There is a chance that more funding will be available soon, that fees can be reduced and bursaries can be made available. Thanking you all for your help I send you my best regards. Elisabeth Burr ------------------------------ Univ.-Prof'in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut für Romanistik Philologische Fakultät Universität Leipzig Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307 Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/ http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010 http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/ <http://www.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eburr/JISU/>elisabeth.burr(a)uni-leipzig.de -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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France: week-long course/workshop on Digital Editing and corpora
by Marjorie Burghart 21 May '10

21 May '10

Dear list, Here is an information about an upcoming training session in France (next October). It is still time to register! See here for more information: http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/sourcesnumeriques2010 All the best, Marjorie /////////////////////////////////////////////// A l'heure où se multiplient les projets d'édition électronique des sources de la recherche, où de plus en plus de chercheurs voudraient diffuser les matériaux de leurs recherches, et où des bibliothèques et centres de documentation souhaitent valoriser leur patrimoine scientifique, l'ampleur de l'entreprise peut désemparer : comment se lancer dans un tel projet, à qui s'adresser, quelles compétences rassembler, quels financements trouver, comment assurer le succès de ce projet, comment garantir la pérennité d'une diffusion en ligne, etc. C'est pour donner aux personnes impliquées dans un tel projet des éléments de réponse à toutes ces questions que le Service éditorial et publication électronique de l'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (SEPE, IRHT-CNRS), rejoint par des acteurs du domaine des humanités numériques, propose une action nationale à gestion déconcentrée (ANGD) soutenue par la formation permanente du CNRS et le TGE Adonis, sur la production, l'édition, la gestion et la diffusion des sources numériques de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales. L'objectif de cette formation, d'une durée d'une semaine, est ambitieux mais précis. A travers un cas d'école permettant la mise en situation des stagiaires, par des exercices pratiques et de nombreuses prises de parole, des ateliers aborderont successivement les différentes étapes du processus. L'identification des acteurs, la répartition des tâches, la définition d'un calendrier rigoureux, la coordination de la communication tant au sein de l'équipe qu'en direction des tiers (financeurs, public), l'anticipation des problèmes qui peuvent survenir, l'articulation entre la structuration des données et l'usage qui en sera fait, apparaîtront comme les clés de la réussite d'un tel projet. La formation ne donnera pas une marche à suivre impérative, mais cherchera à exposer les manières de procéder, leurs enjeux et leurs limites, pour élaborer une méthode souple qui allie bonnes pratiques et créativité, afin que les stagiaires ajustent avec pertinence leurs acquis aux objectifs scientifiques, éditoriaux et patrimoniaux des projets qu'ils conduiront. Seront abordées des thématiques comme l'établissement du cahier des charges, la définition et la production de métadonnées normalisées, le choix des méthodologies ou des outils de construction, les procédures de travail et leur documentation, les outils collaboratifs (wiki, blogs), l'indexation, l'interopérabilité des données, etc. L'intervention de spécialistes de supports différents (texte, image et son) permettra aux participants de se familiariser avec les notions techniques qui leur seront nécessaires pour opérer ensuite des choix éclairés. En particulier, tout au long de la formation, l'accent sera mis sur les conditions et techniques de pérennisation des données numériques et leurs enjeux méthodologiques. Par ailleurs, cette semaine favorisera la rencontre avec des membres de la communauté des humanités numériques. Les stagiaires tireront de nombreux bénéfices de ces échanges et de l'expérience des projets passés. Les formateurs auront à coeur de leur montrer que la réussite d'un projet de numérisation est un travail d'équipe et repose à la fois sur le dialogue entre les partenaires impliqués (chercheurs, ingénieurs, gestionnaires, experts, financeurs), et sur la collaboration avec des réseaux plus larges (régionaux, nationaux, voire internationaux). Formation du 11 au 15 octobre 2010 Centre Paul Langevin du CAES-CNRS, Aussois (Alpes). Renseignements et inscriptions : irht.sepe(a)cnrs-orleans.fr <mailto:irht.sepe@cnrs-orleans.fr> Pour en savoir plus : http://www.digitalhumanities.cnrs.fr/wikis/sourcesnumeriques2010 -- 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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