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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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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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