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Inquiry - how to join discussion
by LIU G. 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Dear Sir I am a student working on medieval manorial accounts. For the purpose of my research I am making my own PHP-mySQL based website and database to store and to key in the material that I come across in archive work. The database currently contains over 500 pieces of exerpts from that source and is growing. Recently I have read the interesting discussion of use of wiki and am wondering if I can contribute with the knowledge I have from my IT background. Yours faithfully ============================ Gerald Liu PhD student in medieval history, Durham Working on late medieval manorial management and farm workers.

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Revealing the Invisible Heritage of Panjab
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

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Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage
by Digital Medievalist: robertordt 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

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Kzoo 2010: CFP Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing
by Peter Robinson 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10, 2009. See below for session names and descriptions. Please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson(a)bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Proposals must be submitted by September 15, 2009. Paper session: The state of the art in handwriting recognition and analysis for medieval documents Much work has been done towards automated analysis of handwritten documents, with a focus on handwriting recognition, in the last years, and some of the developments seen in OCR and layout recognition systems may be applicable to medieval studies. Further, the increasing interest in sophisticated linkages of text and image might be enhanced by developments in handwriting recognition and analysis. We welcome papers which report on work done or ongoing in these areas, or which seek to establish methodologies. Paper session: Collaborative tools and environments for medieval scholarship Many groups around the world are working to develop a new generation of collaborative tools and research environments, with potential wide applicability to medieval studies. This leads to questions about the nature of collaboration itself, and about useful models of collaboration. Reports form the coal face on collaborations which have, or have not, worked are welcome, as are demonstrations of tools and ruminations on the many faces of collaboration. Again, please send inquiries and abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Peter Robinson at p.m.robinson(a)bham.ac.uk. Abstracts must be attached to a Participant Information Form, available in both MS Word and PDF formats from the Congress website: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF. Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson(a)bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk

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Re: [dm-l] Use of wikis for transcription
by Buckner 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

>> There's a project that does exactly this at Nijmegen based Radboud University (The Netherlands). Info (didn't check if there's an English translation) and links at http://www.ru.nl/wetenschapsagenda/editie_19_-_17_juni/vm/jaargang_3/beeld_… Thank you! I don't see any transcriptions here, however. Or was the original manuscript in Dutch?

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2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
by Dot Porter 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

I attended this last year and it was fabulous! Dot ************* 2nd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age October 30-31, 2009 Lex scripta: The Manuscript as Witness to the History of Law In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Biddle Law Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 2nd annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's symposium is dedicated to the history of handwritten law and legal documents in Western Europe and the Middle East up to the early modern period in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of Henry Charles Lea, whose library containing a significant collection of works on ecclesiastical legal history was conveyed to the University in 1926. Nine speakers will present papers on various topics relating to the history of handwritten law and legal documents. The symposium will conclude with a panel of digital humanities scholars who will discuss specific projects and issues related to the digitization of legal manuscripts and documents. Participants include: * Jonathan E. Brockopp, Penn State University * Hugh Cayless, New York University * Simon Corcoran, Projet Volterra, University College London * Gero Dolezalek, University of Aberdeen * Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky * Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania * Kathleen E. Kennedy, Penn State University-Brandywine * Susan L'Engle, Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University * Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University * Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania * Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University * Georg Vogeler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich * Anders Winroth, Yale University The symposium will be held at the University of Pennsylvania and the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. For locations, schedule, and program details: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium2_program.html Registration is $35 (Free to students with valid student ID). To register: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium.html -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Launch of TILE project blog
by Dot Porter 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

[apologies for cross-posting, please forward] TILE: Text-Image Linking Environment is pleased to announce the launch of its public blog and informational site: http://tileproject.org Our first blog posting includes a description of anticipated TILE functionality. http://mith.info/tile/2009/07/20/welcome/ Upcoming posts will include an invitation to participate in user testing, as well as announcements of software as it becomes available. Visit often, or subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest news on TILE. http://mith.info/tile/feed/ TILE is a collaborative project between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), and Indiana University Bloomington, funded through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources program (research and development focus). Over two years TILE will develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. The project is unusual in digital humanities tools development in that it is being designed from the start to support a wide variety of use cases. Several projects from the University of Indiana Bloomington, The University of Oregon and Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies are initial testbeds. In the second year of the project, TILE will turn to the user community for testing. If you are interested in participating, or in learning more about the project, please contact us at TILEPROJECT(a)listserv.heanet.ie. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Fwd: [MEDTEXTL] beyond besic codicology
by Dot Porter 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Bob Peckham posted this to MedTextL, but I'm forwarding it here because I expect folks on this list might have some suggestions for scientific developments. I'm not sure if Bob is on DM so I'm cc:ing him on this, in reply please make sure that you "reply all" so he receives suggestions too. My own suggestion is the Archimedes Palimpsest project website (http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/). The palimpsest is from a ninth-century manuscript and many different techniques were used to bring out the text. There's also interesting work happening in digital approaches to palaeography and codicology (both in classics and in medieval studies). A recent conference, Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter — Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age, organized by the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München had as its output (or input, more properly) a collection of essays on the topic, but I'm not sure if the collection is available online (Malte, can you say a bit more?). The Digital Medievalist journal has published a few articles on digital approaches to palaeography, and also illustrations on how technologies can be used for research. See: Peter A. Stokes, "Palaeography and Image-Processing: Some Solutions and Problems" DM 3 (2007-2008) http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/3/stokes/ Arianna Ciula, "Digital palaeography: using the digital representation of medieval script to support palaeographic analysis" DM 1.1 (Spring 2005) http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/ciula/ Kevin Kiernan, "The source of the Napier fragment of Alfred's Boethius" DM 1.1 (Spring 2005) http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/kiernan/ For catalogues and cataloguing projects, see the ENRICH project (enrich.manuscriptorium.eu), a project to create a European-wide manuscripts catalogue (using the TEI manuscript description schema). Others on this list can say more about it than I can. I'll copy this onto the MedTextL as well. Dot ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Peckham <bobp(a)utm.edu> Date: Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM Subject: [MEDTEXTL] beyond besic codicology To: MEDTEXTL(a)listserv.illinois.edu I am working on the section of the Any Holt Library which will be similar to what I have done with incunabula. This will be for medieval manuscripts. The first page will feature how scholars deal with manuscripts: paleography and codicology, pecia and other procedures in medieval scriptoria. I am interested in recent scientific developments: techniques for identifying and examining a palimpsest, what DNA analysis id doing for manuscript study. Where do I go to find online material for these? I will include a page on catalogs and cataloging projects, and I will include the work I have already done with CONSULTING MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS http://webpages.charter.net/tbob/medmss.html TBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D Professor of French Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238 Email: bobp(a)utm.edu -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Unnegotiated editing (was Wiki cum crowdsourcing)
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi all, Ondrej Tichy just point this editor out to me as a potential for crowd sourcing structural work: http://cvsdemo.bitfluxeditor.org/examples/uni/index.html Looks quite interesting. You change modes by clicking on the little arrows in the left hand corner. In tag mode, you get a list of possible tags at each insertion point by right clicking. When you try to save XML that doesn't work with schema or is malformed, you get an error. I'm not sure this is ready for naive users, but it is pretty good. It might be useful for teams with collaborating experienced XMLers. Though, maybe not over a svn+local editing system (sorry Ondrej ;) ). -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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September workshops in: XML publishing, metadata, collaborative editing
by Peter Robinson 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Dear Digital medievalist list: in view of the current discussion of collaborative transcriptions: the following workshops are likely to be of interest... The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editions, Birmingham, is hosting three workshops from September 22 to September 25 this year. Two are these are one day workshops: 1. Tuesday 22 September: ‘SDPublisher: a new and different XML publishing system’ This workshop will present a hands-on introduction to SDPublisher, the new XML publishing system developed by people associated with ITSEE and Scholarly Digital Editions: see www.sd-editions.com/SDPublisher . 2. Wednesday 23 September: ‘The Virtual Manuscript Room: linking resources and scholarship on the web’. This workshop will introduce the concepts behind the Virtual Manuscript Room project, and their implementation in the project, with particular emphasis on the use of metadata in the project to link together manuscript images, transcripts and resources related to them. More details of both workshops can be found at http://itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/ITSEEworkshops.htm . The third is a two day workshop, on the subject of "Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web", on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September. The first day, "Actions: the State of the Art" on Thursday 24 September, will be open to all: in this, representatives of projects around the world will give presentations on what they have done, are doing, or plan to do, to develop tools for collaborative scholarly editing over the Web. The second day, 'Problems and Futures' on Friday 25 September, will be a series of discussions on, firstly, three key emerging problem areas (intellectual property/scholarly authority; sustainability and interoperability), and, secondly, on the possible shapes of scholarly editing in the world to come. Attendance at this second day will be by invitation only, with numbers restricted. More details of this workshop can be found at http://itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/toolscfp.htm. Attendance at all workshops is open to all (with the restriction to invitees for the Friday 25 September). We have funding from the JISC (the Virtual Manuscript Room) and from the European Science Foundation (through the InterEdition project) and so are able to offer the workshops without charge. We are interested in hearing from anyone who would like to present work they are doing in relation to collaborative editing tools on Thursday 24th, and from anyone who believes that they have something to contribute to the discussions on Friday 25th. Limited cheap accommodation is available close to the workshop venues (in the Orchard Learning Resource Centre, Selly Oak) for those who act quickly. We may be able to offer assistance with travel and accommodation, particularly to people giving presentations on Thursday 24th and taking part in the discussions on Friday 25th. To register, or learn more, please contact either Peter Robinson p.m.robinson(a)bham.ac.uk (the workshops leader) or Richard Goode r.goode(a)bham.ac.uk (the workshops organizer). Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson(a)bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk

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