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Changes in DM officers
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce changes in the officers of Digital Medievalist. * James Cummings will be replacing me as Director. * Malte Rehbein will be succeeding Arianna Ciula and Dot Porter as Editor in Chief of the journal. * Peter Stokes and I will be acting as associate editors of the journal. * Rebecca Welzenbach will be continuing as Reviews Editor. * Dot Porter will be taking over primary responsibility for the Wiki. The other members of the Board will be involved in various roles in all these activities. The current membership of the board (term end in parenthesis) is: * Marjorie Burghart (-2010) * James Cummings (-2010) * Daniel Paul O'Donnell (-2011) * Dorothy Carr Porter (-2010) * Malte Rehbein (-2011) * Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (-2010) * Torsten Schassen (-2010) * Peter Stokes (-2011) I think these changes are an important part of Digital Medievalist's transition from a grant-funded project to a true community-based community of practice. It is exciting to see new hands at the reins, and I think we can expect great things from the coming year. Thanks very much to all previous board members and officers (see http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about/). And good luck to the new Honchos! -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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DM News Server Kudos
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

James is really to be congratulated for fixing up the DM newserver, replacing the buggy, handrolled one I did as an exercise in learning PHP. As James mentions in the email, this new server allows posters to a) push their messages to the list; b) have a record that will be indexed by the search engines, and c) allow distribution to people who subscribe to the server, even if they are not members of the list--all this using a single form. Although the server is powered by wordpress, you can access it from the digitalmedievalist.org site, by clicking on the news tab. Every posting to dm-l also contains a link to the server in the information found at the bottom of the page. Thanks again, James! -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America 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 Medievalist News Server!
by Digital Medievalist: digitalmedievalistnews 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

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Medieval Science and Medicine Databases
by Digital Medievalist: digitalmedievalistnews 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

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Digital Classicist seminar: Linking and Querying Ancient Texts
by Simon Mahony 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

with usual apologies ------------------ ------------------ Digital Classicist/ICS seminar Friday June 19th at 16:30 STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Mark Hedges and Tobias Blanke (King’s College London)* *Linking and Querying Ancient Texts: A multi-database case study with epigraphic corpora* ALL WELCOME LaQuAT (a JISC-Engage projct conducted in collaboration with OGSA-DAI at the Edinburgh Parallel Processing Centre) investigates technologies for providing integrated views across heterogeneous ancient documentary text collections, including relational databases with different schemas and an XML corpus. These structurally diverse datasets overlap geographically, chronologically, and prosopographically, and so a mechanism for querying an integrated set of them is of considerable potential value to the researcher. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces(a)bl.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where audio and presentation slides will be uploaded a few days after the seminar. All seminars will also be discussed in the Digital Classicist forum at http://www.arts-humanities.net/digital_classicist -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Digital Classicist Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/

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Last-minute spot available at session in Leeds on digital medieval studies
by Dot Porter 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Dear DM List, There has been a withdrawal from a session on digital medieval studies at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds. The session title is "New Work in Digital Medieval Studies: Visualization and Interpretation" and it is sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources. If you will be attending Leeds and you have a paper prepared that would suit this session, please send me a title and short abstract ASAP. We'll also be advertising for papers on the IMC's official "last minute CFP" page. Many thanks, Dot (session organizer) -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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2nd try (attached and pasted in text)
by Linda Voigts 14 Jun '09

14 Jun '09

Science and Medicine Databases The following searchable databases are now available via the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/ eTK - a digital resource based on Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy, 1963) and supplements. eVK2 - an expanded and revised version of Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference. CD (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000). See the link "Science and Medicine Databases at UMKC" listed as "new" on the homepage (as well as on the "Links" page). The homepage also contains a slide show of images from Brunschwig's De arte distillandi. The citation under the slide show images is a hot link to the Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology, and the images themselves are links to larger versions. Electronic Thorndike-Kibre (eTK) and Electronic Voigts-Kurtz (eVK2) An expanded and updated digital version of Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (TK), rev. ed. 1963 with two supplements, has been produced with the permission of the copyright holder, Medieval Academy of America. While TK consolidates all manuscript information for a text into a single entry, eTK divides entries from the book into 33,000 records, each for a manuscript witness to a text. Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English, by Linda Voigts and Patricia Kurtz, 2nd ed. (eVK2), an updated and expanded version of the CD published by the University of Michigan Press (2000), provides more than 10,000 records for the earliest technical and learned writings in English. The digital records in both eTK and eVK2 are organized in multiple searchable fields and allow searching of incipit words and word strings and searching by manuscript, library, author, title, subject, translator, date, and bibliography. Both electronic references allow scholars to retrieve new information and to make connections previously unthinkable in the study of medieval science and medicine. Both tools are now freely available via a link from the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/

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possible posting for your list serve
by Linda Voigts 14 Jun '09

14 Jun '09

It occurs to me that this information (in 2 sections) might be appropriate for your list-serve. I'm a steady reader to it, but haven't been a contributor so far. all best, Linda V. (prefer my hotmail address for this list) Linda Ehrsam Voigts Curators' Professor of English University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MO 64110 USA kcvoigts(a)hotmail.com voigtsl(a)umkc.edu Science and Medicine Databases The following searchable databases are now available via the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/ eTK - a digital resource based on Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy, 1963) and supplements. eVK2 - an expanded and revised version of Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference. CD (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000). See the link "Science and Medicine Databases at UMKC" listed as "new" on the homepage (as well as on the "Links" page). The homepage also contains a slide show of images from Brunschwig's De arte distillandi. The citation under the slide show images is a hot link to the Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology, and the images themselves are links to larger versions. Electronic Thorndike-Kibre (eTK) and Electronic Voigts-Kurtz (eVK2) An expanded and updated digital version of Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (TK), rev. ed. 1963 with two supplements, has been produced with the permission of the copyright holder, Medieval Academy of America. While TK consolidates all manuscript information for a text into a single entry, eTK divides entries from the book into 33,000 records, each for a manuscript witness to a text. Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English, by Linda Voigts and Patricia Kurtz, 2nd ed. (eVK2), an updated and expanded version of the CD published by the University of Michigan Press (2000), provides more than 10,000 records for the earliest technical and learned writings in English. The digital records in both eTK and eVK2 are organized in multiple searchable fields and allow searching of incipit words and word strings and searching by manuscript, library, author, title, subject, translator, date, and bibliography. Both electronic references allow scholars to retrieve new information and to make connections previously unthinkable in the study of medieval science and medicine. Both tools are now freely available via a link from the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/

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Heroic Age 12 available
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi all, A note from Larry Swain. The new issue has a contribution from your humble correspondent that is based in part on a discussion we had on this list some time ago about the essential skills we need as humanists in the digital age. The Editorial Board of <i>The Heroic Age</i> is very pleased to announce the publication of our twelfth issue. Point your browsers to http://www.heroicage.org <http://www.heroicage.org> and click on "Current Issue." Information elsewhere on the site has also been updated including the staff, links pages, and the Call for Papers. Please take a look; comments are always welcome. I have taken the liberty of pasting below the Letter from the Editor which has some items of interest in it. §1. Sumer is icumen in! Or so said the poet, in agreement with the weather prognosticators for once. It is both a frustration and an embarrassment that the Winter issue is seeing the light of day as summer is fast approaching, but regrettably that is too often the state of affairs in academic publishing. But it isn't for lack of trying. §2. So, I'd like to begin by mentioning the important people who volunteer their time to make The Heroic Age happen each issue. First, and foremost, there are three people who work very hard to make each issue come together, edited, polished, and coded. Deanna Forsman, our webster, formats and codes each page on our website, including each issue, taking time from her own academic duties and courses, family, and leisure to do so. Without her efforts, there would be no The Heroic Age. Eileen Joy has done an enormous amount of work for the journal. Not only is she now editing a column for us, but she has been a reader, an editor, and copy editor. It is not as if she is not busy elsewhere: in addition to her work for us, she has been editing volumes of essays (http://www.siue.edu/babel/ProspectusFragmentsVolume.htm <http://www.siue.edu/babel/ProspectusFragmentsVolume.htm>), putting together a new journal (www.palgrave- journals.com/pmed/), blogging at In the Middle (www.inthemedievalmiddle.com), and other activities. I am very grateful for all her efforts with The Heroic Age. Last but certainly not least, Bill Schipper is our archivist and is another of those wonderful people whose helping hand is everywhere. In addition to his work with us, Bill is planning and hosting the next meeting of The International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, hosts and manages several well-known email lists in early Medieval Studies, and of course has his own work to undertake. My very grateful thanks to each of these three for their very hard work on my behalf. §3. In addition to those three, others have had a hand in producing this issue who should be mentioned: Rolf Bremer, Tim Clarkson, Michael Treschow, Linda Malcor, Rolf Bremmer, Dan O'Donnell, and Michel Aaij have all undertaken editing at several levels. Finally, I will mention our readers, who will remain nameless for obvious reasons, but they know who they are. The only reward I can offer all these people is my sincere gratitude. If you have a moment whether via email or at a conference, please say "thanks" to these folk who have made this issue possible. §4. Before turning to the issue itself, there are some exciting developments in connection with the links pages hosted at the journal's site. For this issue, the Anglo-Saxon links have been culled, weeded, and expanded. Ten years ago, in winter 1999, when I first split the Anglo-Saxon links off into their own subpage, I had grand plans to do the same for other subfields within the journal's purview. While it won't make it for Issue 12, there is at least one subsection and possibly two in development that will make debut appearances in Issue 13. §5. More importantly, and in my view far more exciting, is a new development for some older but useful tools. As many know, the Richard Rawlinson Center at the Medieval Institute (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval <http://www.wmich.edu/medieval>) of Western Michigan University once hosted several online bibliographies and other projects that covered a range of subjects in Early Medieval Studies. A few years ago, some decisions were made that caused the removal of these tools from the Richard Rawlinson Center website, at that time intended to be a temporary situation. Several years later, however, the bibliographies remain inaccessible to the medieval researcher. These bibliographies are now in the process of being migrated to The Heroic Age site and will be linked off the HA links pages. There are many to thank for these developments. First, and foremost, Paul E. Szarmach, now Director of the Medieval Academy of America (http://www.medievalacademy.org <http://www.medievalacademy.org>), James M. Murray and Elizabeth Teviotdale of the Medieval Institute, and Bill Schipper and the good folks at Memorial University of Newfoundland (http://www.mun.ca <http://www.mun.ca>) are all owed a deep debt of gratitude for allowing this to happen and making the migration possible. As of this writing, the first such bibliography, Robert Fulk and Kari Ellen Gade's online edition of A Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters, is almost ready to go to its new home and may be included in Issue 12's update links release. §6. Turning to our regular features for this issue, I would like to draw your attention to a new column: Philological Inquiry written by Michael Drout and Scott Kleinman. The plan is for this to be a recurring column on philological approaches to the field. This first foray examines the word "Merovingian" in Beowulf in order to "illuminate culture, history and politics and shed new light on an old problem." Please join me in welcoming Mike and Scott and this new contribution to our columns. §7. Eileen Joy has edited a second offering in our still new "babelisms" column. The column is devoted to publishing essays that explore convergences between early medieval and modern texts and ideas. In this issue's column, Helen T. Bennett offers a meditation on halls in Beowulf: "The Postmodern Hall in Beowulf: Endings Embedded in Beginnings." §8. In Michel Aaij's Continental Business column, Michel reviews and discusses recent scholarly works on Rabanus Maurus, and Dan O'Donnell returns as columnist of Electronic Medievalia with "Byte me: Technological Education and the Humanities." This rounds out our recurring columns. §9. Elsewhere in this issue's Forum, Jonathan Jarrett, well-known to many as the blogger behind A Corner of Tenth Century Europe (http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com <http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com>) and author of the forthcoming Pathways of Power in late-Carolingian Catalonia: Charters and Connections on a medieval frontier from the Royal Historical Society, contributes to our ongoing series about current developments in subfields of medieval studies. He offers us "Digitizing Numismatics: getting the Fitzwilliam Museum's coins to the world-wide web." As this issue's installment of our series introducing projects in the field, Margaret Cormack introduces us to her site and asks for readers' aid in a column titled "Saints and Sacred Space: An Interactive Database—A Call for Collaborators." Howard Wiseman offers a review essay on a fiction novel, Albion. Finally, Cullen Chandler offers a review essay discussing several recent books on things Carolingian in his contribution titled "Regna et Regnum: Studies of Regions within the Carolingian Empire." §10. We have three excellent articles in this issue. Karmen Lenz examines the liturgy for St. Cuthbert in her Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert. This is followed by Douglas Simms who contributes an article focused on linguistics titled Heavy Hypermetrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems. Rounding out the General Article section is a team-sponsored article titled King Alfred's Scholarly Writings and the Authorship of the First Fifty Prose Psalms by Michael Treschow, Paramjit Gill, and Tim B. Swartz that examines the attribution of these psalms to Alfred. These three very solid and interesting articles complete the issue. §11. Looking ahead, Issue 13 is already well under way. Originally imagined as an issue to focus on medieval manuscripts, as it turns out, the issue will instead focus on translations from early medieval texts! Nonetheless, the issue will also include articles on Old Norse, Hincmar, and Arthur plus our usual columns. §12. Issue 14 is in development as well. Its a twin-themed issue guest-edited by Andrew Rabin and Eileen Joy. Andrew is collecting and editing a group of essays on Early Medieval Law. Eileen has gathered and is editing a number of essays on the topic of theory and early medeival literature. I myself enjoy the juxtaposition of a traditional topic with a more cutting-edge, perhaps even edgeless topic and placing these in conversation. If all goes well, this issue should be published in early 2010. §13. The Heroic Age will celebrate its first decade in 2010. We formed the board in late 1999 and published our inaugural issue in Spring 2000, imagined then as appearing quarterly. That first issue was all about Arthur. Our fifteenth issue is scheduled to be published in mid-2010 and is seeking papers on "Arthur-related" topics, revisiting the edges of that first issue. The three sections currently planned for that issue will cover the world of Late Antique Britain and Gaul, connections with the rest of the continent in Late Antiquity, and new views of the Adventus Saxonum. The second section will examine Arthur and Arthurian literature. The third section will include studies of Late Antique and Early Medieval authors. §14. Even further ahead, Issue 16 is already gathering papers. A special section on Alcuin is being guest-edited by James LePree. Issues 17 and 18 are in the planning stages as well. One will be guest-edited by Jonathan Jarrett, mentioned above, on "Carolingian Border-lands" and Issue 18 will focus on Old French/Provencal/Occitan studies. That takes the editorial planning up through the beginning of 2012. §15. As always, feedback is appreciated. I now turn you over to the issue itself, lest this note become as long as what it introduces! On behalf of the editorial board, our readers, and editors, I hope you the reader enjoy the issue. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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cfp THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE, THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES:, TEACHING AND RESEARCH
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES: TEACHING AND RESEARCH JUNE 16-17, 2010 BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, USA Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches ? Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. SCHOLARLY FOCUS During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to: - digital paleography - translation and dictionary projects - digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material culture, image annotation tools, paratextual information, etc.) - text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.) - encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI and extensions of these protocols) - management and preservation of digital resources - information design and modeling - the cultural impact of the new media - software studies - the role of digital humanities in academic curricula - funding and sustainability of long-term projects PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL: We welcome three types of submissions: 1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or teaching 2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations 3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/four presenters) Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion. We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal: 1. Paper or Session title 2. Session type ? Regular or Project Demonstration 3. 250 word abstract 4. Contact information and bio paragraph The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility with the sessions that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions. The language of the Colloquium will be English. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, October 2, 2009. For information about the conference, including proposal submissions, registration, and accommodation, please go to www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010. The website will be updated periodically. For inquiries, please contact Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew(a)barnard.edu. We look forward to your participation. The Conference Committee: Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo) Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University) Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo) Helen Swift (St. Hilda?s College, Oxford University) -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Founding Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Chair, Electronic Editions Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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