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by Torsten Reimer 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

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Re: Medievalists using digital/electronic resources (Dot Porter)
by Yin Liu 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Here are the resources I use most: 1. The online OED. Almost every day: for research, teaching, and sheer pleasure. Definitely more convenient than the hardcopy form, and, of course, more up to date. 2. Google Books. It has been a great way to get things like old EETS editions that I'm too lazy to take out of the library, or to chase down obscure footnotes in obscure publications that I don't want to trouble the interlibrary loans people about. 3. The Auchinleck MS online. Mostly for teaching; a lovely resource. The availability of good-quality MS facsimiles online has made a huge difference to my teaching, especially when I am located in the Canadian West, where medieval MSS are sparse. Hats off to the NLS for its generosity in sharing this important MS with the rest of us, and to Alison Wiggins and the late David Burnley for a beautiful edition. Yin Liu > So, out of scholarly curiosity, what is your favorite > digital/electronic/online resource (or type of resource), and why? > > Dot > -- Yin Liu Department of English University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 Canada +1 (306) 966-1835 yin.liu(a)usask.ca

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TAN: Scheduling software?
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi all, A tangential question the relevance of which is that an answer will assist my research by giving me more time to do it. I've been tapped to do the course scheduling for next year. For some reason that isn't 100% clear to me yet, everybody that does this says it is awful and time consuming. So I was wondering if there might be free and easy software for this. Does anybody know of good scheduling software that could be used in such circumstances? -dan

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Medievalists using digital/electronic resources
by Dot Porter 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hello list, Discussion on the DM list tends to focus on creating digital resources, but I'm also interested in how scholars use these resources, both for research and in the classroom. My MSLS thesis was based on a survey of "medievalists' use of electronic resources," but that's been almost nine years ago. It's probably time for a more formal revisiting of the topic but until then I think I'll see if I can satisfy my curiosity here. My own day-to-day work focuses on the creation of resources, but of course creation without use is useless (arguably?). So, out of scholarly curiosity, what is your favorite digital/electronic/online resource (or type of resource), and why? Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Cocoon authentication--anybody with experience?
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Hi all, Here's a question I'm hoping somebody knows an answer to. I've experimenting with cocoon, which of course is excellent at doing things like remapping xml files so that users think they are reading a file in html, and the like. The Digital Medievalist site is in fact produced using cocoon which transforms the underlying xml. What I need to be able to do is use passwords to protect this site. I've read up on cocoon's authentication model, including the sample code. But they don't give examples with kind of authentication backend I'm most familiar with .htpasswd (or any at all, really). Does anybody have experience with cocoon's authentication, particularly using an easy-to-set-up authentication backend (and even better .htpasswd)? I appreciate any suggestions, especially since, as this project is in pre-funding mode, I'll have to learn any system proposed rather than having the money to hire somebody who knows what they are doing. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate 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-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Seeking presenter for a DRHA paper
by Dot Porter 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Apologies for a rather off-topic request, but I'm looking for someone who will be attending the Digital Resources in Humanities and Arts conference in Belfast, who would be willing and able to present the work of someone else who will be unable to attend a session I've organized. The session description is here: http://dho.ie/drha2009/programme/abstracts#paper-cto. To be clear, you wouldn't be presenting your own work but the (rather technical, computer-science-y) work of someone who is unable to attend. Interested parties please contact me off-line: dot.porter(a)gmail.com Thanks, Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Early Digital Editions
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

I'm sure this has come up before, but as part of something I'm working on, I've come across a whole trove of early (i.e. mid-1990s) on-line editions. In this case often designed as class projects and entirely non-medieval. This makes me wonder if there is a "hidden corpus" of medieval digital editions out there--either still available on some murky corner of the web or lost due to restructuring of URLs at host institutions. I wonder if it would be interesting to collect as big a bibliography of these as we could. If it turned out that there were hundreds, I'm sure I could whip together a web-form to allow bibliographic entry. But to start, what do people know of? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate 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-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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New digital font for medievalists
by Peter Baker 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

I've been fascinated for a long time with the problem of reproducing medieval scribal hands in digital fonts. My latest effort is a font called "Eadui," based on the hand of Eadui Basan, the head scribe at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the early eleventh century. It exploits OpenType features so as to avoid, so far as possible, the machined look of most "medieval" fonts. The better an application's support for advanced typography, the better this font will look. (Best: XeTeX or InDesign; good: iWork or Mellel; poor: OpenOffice.) The current version of Eadui is a beta. I will give a free copy of the final font, when it's ready, to anyone who downloads this and sends bug reports, feature requests or impressions. Get it here: http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/junicode/eadui.html Best wishes to all, Peter Baker

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Fwd: [dm-l] Early Digital Editions
by Dot Porter 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

(note from Larry Swain intended for the list) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Swain <theswain(a)operamail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [dm-l] Early Digital Editions To: Dot Porter <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> Dot, et al, I'm in the slow process of going over the old MI materials and rewriting some of the code to be hosted on The Heroic Age site at MUN and linked off our links pages. Larry Swain > > There's also the digitized manuscripts section of the Andy Holt > Virtual Library - but like the UCLA catalogue it's aimed at digital > facsimiles, not editions. As far as I know there's not an existing > bibliography (I haven't looked at Edward's list). > > As far as editions floating around, I know that the Medieval Institute > at Western Michigan University had several small projects (many of > them created when I was a student there, although ironically I had no > hand in any of them), but they were taken offline when the webpage was > updated (and, I assume, the servers moved) a couple of years ago. It > would be nice to see them back online again. I'm sure the MI isn't the > only institution that has/has had small projects like this online. I'm > not sure how one might go about surveying them, though. > > Dot > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Daniel Paul > O'Donnell<daniel.odonnell(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm sure this has come up before, but as part of something I'm working on, > > I've come across a whole trove of early (i.e. mid-1990s) on-line editions. > > In this case often designed as class projects and entirely non-medieval. > > > > This makes me wonder if there is a "hidden corpus" of medieval digital > > editions out there--either still available on some murky corner of the web > > or lost due to restructuring of URLs at host institutions. > > > > I wonder if it would be interesting to collect as big a bibliography of > > these as we could. If it turned out that there were hundreds, I'm sure I > > could whip together a web-form to allow bibliographic entry. But to start, > > what do people know of? > > > > -dan > > > > -- > > Daniel Paul O'Donnell > > Associate 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-confidental) > > Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ > > > > > > > > Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > > Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ > > Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org > > News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ > > Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ > > Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > > > > > -- > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager > Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper > Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland > -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- > Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 > http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > > Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ > Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org > News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ > Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ > Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

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