With apologies for cross-posting, the following is for students who
are registered for PhDs in the United Kingdom.
Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 17-22 May 2010
The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce the
second year of this AHRC-funded course in collaboration with the
University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King's College
London.
The course is open to arts and humanities doctoral students registered
at UK institutions. It involves six days of intensive training on the
analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts in the
digital age to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants
will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in
cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats.
The first half of the course involves morning classes and then visits
to libraries in Cambridge and London in the afternoons. Participants
will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in
applying the morning's themes to concrete examples. In the second half
we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a
digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical
principles and practical experience and include supervised work on
computers.
The course is aimed principally at those writing dissertations which
relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art
and history. There are no fees, but priority will be given to PhD
students funded by the AHRC. Class sizes are limited to twenty and
places are 'first-come-first-served' so early registration is strongly
recommended.
For further details see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/study/mmsda/ or contact
Dr Peter Stokes at mmsda(a)sas.ac.uk.
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Dr Peter Stokes
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
The University of Cambridge
9 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
Tel: +44 1223 767314
Fax: +44 1223 335092
I agree with Dot. I see facebook's relationship to DM much like a favorite bar to a department: a place where people who wish hang out sometimes but no real work is done.
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Daniel O'Donnell
University of Lethbridge
(From my mobile telephone)
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From: "Dot Porter" <dot.porter(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-l] 500 members
Date: November 7, 2009
Time: 3:38:24
I don't think anyone is suggesting shutting down the DM listserv and
website and wiki and moving us to Facebook. In fact that's a pretty
terrible idea. The suggestion was to have a DM page on FB, it would
just be another place to post news and announcements. There is,
however, already a DM page on FB that doesn't get much use (I use FB a
lot myself and have only visited the page a couple of times). In
addition, there is the pretty major hurdle that any page on FB can
only be used if you have an account on FB, and many people have many
good reasons for not having one. If we were to push FB too much I
would be concerned that DM discussions (especially) would start to
happen on FB and not on the list - which is where they belong.
My own feeling is that the FB page is more likely to pull people onto
the list from FB, rather than the other way around. I have no doubt
that there are academics around the world, particularly at smaller
institutions, who have never heard of DM but may noodle their way to
the FB page. If we make a clear link from there to here (where the
action is) we're doing a lot more good than if we place a link to FB
from the DM web page. Everybody already knows about FB, right?
Just my $.02 of course.
Dot
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Peter Baker <psb6m(a)virginia.edu> wrote:
> Christian Frey wrote:
>>
>> RSS can help :-)
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>> I really like the idea of using facebook. We have made good experiences
>> with that in our institute.
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>>
> Groan . . . I've so far been holding out against Facebook, but I can see my
> days of freedom and happiness are numbered.
>
> Peter
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Dear (500) dm list members,
thank you in advance for considering the CfP below.
Call for Papers
Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II -
It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly
Editing (IDE) undertook an initiative entitled "Codicology and
Palaeography in the Digital Age". Yet its first results have already
been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology "Codicology
and Palaeography in the Digital Age" was launched at an international
symposium in Munich. Here, experts from all over the world met as a
community to share their knowledge, interests and concerns regarding
digital issues in the various fields of manuscript research.
The feedback on both the anthology and the conference has been
remarkably positive, not least from experts who are less acquainted with
digital methods. For the first time, widely dispersed, cutting-edge
research in the field of computer-aided codicology and palaeography can
be surveyed and assessed as a whole phenomenon.
Yet, despite the fact that the anthology gives a broad insight into
theory and practice, some relevant subjects and questions have not been
covered. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a second volume of
"Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age". The following
questions in particular should now be addressed:
* To what extent can quantitative approaches and the analysis of
codicological databases be complemented by a systematic analysis of
digital manuscript facsimiles?
* How can manuscript-related research in the history of arts or in
musicology be supported by digital tools and methodology?
* How successfully can methods from the sciences be applied to the
analysis of manuscripts (e.g. DNA analysis of parchment)?
* How can electronic manuscript-catalogues and virtual libraries be
brought together by means of comprehensive portals and hybrid research
environments in order, for example, to facilitate exhaustive semantic
studies?
* How can existing digital tools for palaeographic transcription be
promoted and improved? How can the range of applications be expanded?
How can philological analysis and further use in literary studies be
enhanced?
* How can questions about the history of script be addressed by
digital methods?
* How can digital resources best supplement the originals, in the
context of restoration and preservation? How can archives, libraries and
museums take advantage of the opportunities, for public benefit?
* To what extent are software-generated answers to codicological
and palaeographic questions sustainable, verifiable and reliable?
Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous
CfP) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German or
Italian. Again, the launch of the volume will be accompanied by an
international symposium. Proposals of not more than 500 words should be
sent by 30 November 2009 to kpdz-ii(a)ide.de or any of the editors listed
below.
Organisation:
* Franz Fischer (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), f.fischer(a)ria.ie
* Christiane Fritze (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities), fritze(a)bbaw.de
* Georg Vogeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich),
g.vogeler(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de
* Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, Cologne Center for
eHumanities), sahle(a)uni-koeln.de
* Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel), schassan(a)hab.de
* Malte Rehbein (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg),
malte.rehbein(a)uni-wuerzburg.de
* Bernhard Assmann (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne), as(a)ba.tuxomania.net
Dates:
30. November 2009: Abstract Submission Deadline
30. April 2010: Paper Submission Deadline
Kind regards,
Christiane
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Christiane Fritze
The German Text Archive
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Jaegerstr. 22/23
10117 Berlin
phone: +49 (0)30 20370 523
email: fritze (at) bbaw (dot) de
http://www.deutsches-textarchiv.de
IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de