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The Future of Digital Editing
by Dot Porter 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Dear List, I posted this message to the AnsaxNet listserv yesterday (as part of a thread about, well, digital editing), but I think it really belongs here. I'm quick to point out there is nothing here that is really new or that no-one has said before, but I like thinking about it it such concrete terms. Thoughts? Dot ********** My own vision of the future of digital editions depends first on all data (text and images) being released under Open Access licenses, allowing for reuse and repurposing of that data (with acknowledgment given to those involved in the development of that data), and second on the continuing innovation in technologies (open-source and non) for working with that data - interfaces, visualizations, search engines, etc. etc. In my ideal future, one day I'll release a little edition of a text from manuscript Y. Because I have limited time, I'll just show the text and pages facing one another. I'm really interested in the paleography of this particular manuscript, so I'll take special care to mark all the special scribal elements in the TEI, give users the option to view those, and I'll include a separate paleographical description as well. Two years from then, another scholar interested in the text from manuscript Y creates an edition of that text, comparing the readings from manuscript Y with those from mss L and Q. He'll use the transcriptions I made for manuscript Y as the basis for his other transcriptions and will include the images from my edition as well. He's not so interested in paleography, so he'll ignore that code and he won't include it for the other manuscripts. His edition only has the images for mss Y and Q, though - he wasn't able to afford those for ms L (yes, in my future libraries still charge a lot for images unfortunately - although they are happy to have them posted online). Since I released my edition a new open-source interface was released that makes it easier to view textual variants, so this scholar presents his edition through that interface. He includes my original license statement and acknowledges the portion of the data he is repurposing. The next year, images for ms L become available and are plugged into this edition. The next year, a new editing tool becomes available (open source) that enables the automated linking of lines of encoded text with lines from manuscript images. Another scholar takes the data from the latest version of the edition and runs everything through this tool. He is also interested in paleography, so adds paleographic encoding to the transcriptions for mss L and Q. When he releases his own edition (using one of the three interfaces available to work specifically with linked image and text), he includes license statements and acknowledgments for all data he's incorporated from the earlier editions. He presents this new edition through an interface provided by the editing tool developers - but the interface is commercial and he has to pay a license fee (they have to make their money somewhere; even so, eight months from now an open-source interface is released that can also present the links, and it's even better than the one provided by the tool developers). Now, four years after I released my little edition, there are three very different editions available dealing with rather different aspects of the text, each building on and adding to the last. I didn't anticipate any of this when I put out my edition - I only did what I wanted to do, and trusted that those who came after me would add what they need. I also trusted that they would respect my license and acknowledge my original work. There are still questions of course - four years later, will my lovely simple and standard code still run on the same browsers, or will someone (probably not me - I've moved on by this point) need to do something to keep it running? One could argue it's a moot point, though, as my project has essentially been incorporated into these other projects. That is, the data from my projects is there; the original interface and methods for working with that data will probably be different. But then, if someone finds the existing interfaces unreasonable for their own use, they are free to take my data and feed them through any available interface or visualization system. In my future, programming experience is not required. Ten years later, computers have changed entirely. The browsers and other interfaces that ran these editions six years ago don't work on today's computers. We'll need to build new browsers and new interfaces - but that's all we need to do, because the edition data is standard and expected. We just need to build them and plug that data in. It's possible this sounds crazy, and it does require that editors be willing to release their editorial data under Open Access licenses. I honestly don't know if this is reasonable, but it would be the ideal. It also requires that all this editorial data be encoded using the same standards. This isn't so much of an issue, as pretty much all serious scholarly editions are currently encoded in some flavour of TEI. And it won't be *easy*, it will take community involvement and, of course, people willing to build those interfaces and visualization tools. But there are already digital humanities scholars and programmers working on that... I think with cooperation it could be done. If I'm not the only person who would want something like this. -- 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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Announcing the 2009 Digital Humanities Observatory Summer School
by Dot Porter 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

[please excuse cross-posting] Announcing the 2009 DHO Summer School In conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect 13 -17 July 2009 http://dho.ie/ss2009 To register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=TIhP7y31Wm_2fvjsIL5B3uSw_3d_3d Following the success of the 2008 DHO Summer School, the 2009 Summer School will be held from 13-17 July 2009 at Academy House in Dublin, Ireland. This year's event will be larger and it is being held in conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect, two prominent virtual communities in digital literary studies. Registration for the Summer School is now open. Early-bird registration is available until May 15, 2009. Early-bird registration for the week-long summer school is € 375. After 15 May standard registration cost of €450 will apply. To register or for more information, go to: http://dho.ie/ss2009 If you are at an HSIS institution please contact your HSIS representative. A list of a list of representatives is available at http://www.dho.ie/committee * Programme Master Classes will be led by two of the leading textual scholars in the world: Jerome McGann, founder of NINES and co-founder of SPECLAB, will be speaking on ' Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the Transmission of Culture.' Hans Walter Gabler, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London University, is presenting: 'From Conception to Design and Vice Versa: Ways to make your mark-up do what you want it to do at the interface.' In addition, Paul Ell, Director of the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen’s University, Belfast will lecture on 'Humanities Digital Deluge: Serendipity, Scholarship, Sustainability.' There are also four week-long workshop strands: • Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative: Theory and Practice led by James Cummings (University of Oxford) and Dot Porter (DHO); • Data Modelling and Databases for Humanities Research led by Aja Teehan (An Foras Feasa, NUI, Maynooth) and Don Gourley (DHO); • Data Visualisation for the Humanities led by Paolo Battino (DHO), Shawn Day (DHO), and Faith Lawrence (DHO); • Text Transformations with XSLT led by Laura Mandell (Miami University) and Kirstyn Leuner (Miami University). For more details, consult the Summer School website at: http://dho.ie/ss2009 Please direct any questions to Shawn Day (s.day(a)dho.ie) regarding the summer school. We look forward to seeing you in Dublin. -- 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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Medieval Studies and New Media: A symposium proposed by the Digital Medievalist community (Lyon, france, 31 March 2009)
by Marjorie Burghart 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Dear Digital Medievalists, I am pleased to announce that the poster and full bilingual program of the "Medieval Studies and New Media" Symposium are now available: - Full English / French program: http://www.mutec-shs.fr/sites/www.mutec-shs.fr/files/program-DM-20090331.pdf - Poster: http://www.mutec-shs.fr/sites/www.mutec-shs.fr/files/posterDM-mars2009.pdf Looking forward to meeting some of you there, Marjorie *Medieval Studies and New Media / **Les médiévistes et les nouveaux media* /A symposium proposed by the Digital Medievalist community/// Lyon (France) -- 31 March 2009/ / ENS-LSH, 15 parvis René Descartes 69007 Lyon (métro B -- Debourg) - salle F106 *Sponsored by:* MutEC (Mutualisation d'outils numériques pour les éditions critiques) - http://www.mutec-shs.fr UMR 5648 - Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux - http://ciham.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr *Organized by:* Marjorie Burghart (contact: marjorie.burghart(a)ehess.fr) *Program* *1 -- Scholarly visit (11h15 - 12h30): /Les ressources de la Bibliothèque Municipale/, par Pierre Guinard (Lyon City Library)* Limited numbers (registration required) *2 -- Session (14h00 - 15h45): /Digital medievalist: community of practice, community and practice/ * * /We are family: Digital Medievalist as Community of Practice/ Dan O'Donnell, Université de Lethbridge (Canada) * /Converting St Paul: TEI P5, stand-off markup, and interoperability/ James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, Université d'Oxford * /Digital Materialism: editing in three dimensions/ Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin 15h45-16h15 : coffee break / pause *3 -- Round-table (16h15-18h00)*:/* Digital medievalism around the world: What structures, solutions and support are needed?*// /With the help of an international panel of Digital Medievalists, this round-table will address the issue of support to Digital Humanities in our field of studies. With: Marjorie Burghart, UMR 5648 - EHESS, pôle de Lyon ; Arianna Ciula, European Science Foundation ; Florence Clavaud, École nationale des chartes ; James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, Université d'Oxford ; Laura Gaffuri, Université de Turin / Reti Medievali ; Dan O'Donnell, Université de Lethbridge (Canada) ; Dot Porter, Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin ; Roberto Rosselli del Turco, Université de Pise ; Richard Walter et Thierry Buquet, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT) -- Marjorie BURGHART EHESS (pôle de Lyon) / UMR 5648 Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux 18 quai Claude Bernard 69007 Lyon - FRANCE

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Digitization of medieval wall paintings?
by Dot Porter 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello list, Does anyone here work on the digitization of medieval wall paintings, or can anyone point me to one or ones who do? Please reply off-list. Many 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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New Book: "Narrative Information"
by Gian Piero ZARRI 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

NEW BOOK: Apologies for multiple postings. Gian Piero ZARRI Representation and Management of Narrative Information, Theoretical Principles and Implementation Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing 2009, X, 302 p. 55 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-077-3 Springer-Verlag London http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-1-84800-077-3 A big amount of important, economically relevant information, is buried within the huge mass of multimedia documents that correspond to some form of 'narrative' description. Due to the ubiquity of these narrative resources, representing in a general, accurate, and effective way their semantic content - i.e., their key 'meaning' - is then both conceptually relevant and economically important. In this book, we present the main properties of NKRL ('Narrative Knowledge Representation Language'), a language expressly designed for representing and managing, in a standardised way, the 'meaning' of complex multimedia narrative documents. NKRL is also a fully implemented environment that exists in two versions: a relational database-supported version and a file-oriented one. It constitutes probably the most complete and realistic effort realised so far to deal with the huge industrial potentialities of the narrative domain. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book not only supplies an exhaustive description of NKRL and of the associated knowledge representation principles, it also constitutes a source of reference for practitioners, researchers and graduates in domains that range over narrative theories, linguistics and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, knowledge bases, information retrieval, and languages for the ontologies and the semantic web. Contents: - Narratology and NKRL. - The notion of 'event' in an NKRL context. - Knowledge representation and NKRL. - Architecture of NKRL, the four 'components'. - Second order structures. - The semantic and ontological contents. - Ontology of 'concepts' and ontology of 'events'. - The query and inference procedures. - Temporal information and indexing. - High-level inference procedures. - Technological enhancements and theoretical enhancements. - Appendix A: NKRL software. - Appendix B: Plural entities in NKRL. Professional address of the author from February 1st, 2009: Gian Piero Zarri University Paris-Est - LISSI Laboratory 120-122, rue Paul Armangot 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine France Phone: 33-1-41807383 Fax: 33-1-41807369 Email: zarri(a)noos.fr, gian-piero.zarri(a)univ-paris12.fr

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Syriac Palimpsest Decipherment
by Will 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Dear Digital Medievalists The imaging team working on the Archimedes Palimpsest (www.archimedespalimpsest.org) is turning its attention to another challenge. This is an extensive eighth or ninth century Syriac palimpsest containing an extensive unidentified text, almost certainly medical in nature. Again the manuscript is privately owned. We are currently undertaking study images, with a view to identifying the text. After that has been done, the owner will determine whether or not to proceed with a full scale conservation imaging and scholarly program. The images are currently being posted on the Image bank on the Archimedes Palimpsest website: http://archimedespalimpsest.org/imagebank_frame1.html I would be most grateful for any comments, and if anyone thinks they can help, they can either email me directly at wnoel(a)thewalters.org, or the can join the digital imaging community site at http://digitalarchimedes.ning.com Thank you so very much. William Noel Curator of manuscripts The Walters Art Museum wnoel(a)thewalters.org

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Position offer: Maitre de conference en Humanites Numeriques (= associate professor of Digital Humanities) in Lyon, France
by Marjorie Burghart 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Dear Digital Medievalists, The happy French speaking among you might be interested in this position offer: http://www.ens-lsh.fr/1236169646847/0/fiche___actualite/&RH=RECRUTEMENT Click on MCF Humanités numériques <http://www.ens-lsh.fr/servlet/com.univ.collaboratif.utils.LectureFichiergw?…> (0192) MCF Humanités numériques (Toutes disciplines MCF 0192) Enseignement : Objectifs pédagogiques : Participation au programme de cours «Technologies, lettres et sciences humaines (méthodes, outils et analyses de données)», en renforçant l'offre de cours existante et en proposant de nouveaux cours (détails sur http://cid.ens-lsh.fr/formations/). Possibilité de faire des cours dans la discipline d'origine du candidat. Filières de formation concernées : Toutes les disciplines enseignées à l'ENS-LSH. Autres responsabilités : Responsabilité du service «Unité numérique» à l'ENS-LSH. Compétences souhaitées : connaissance approfondie des outils informatiques, les plus actuels, d'assistance à l'enseignement et à la recherche en Lettres et Sciences Humaines (analyse de données, numérisation, archivages, outils de recherche collective, mise en ligne de résultats de recherche, plateformes pédagogiques, etc.) ; aptitude à organiser un service, à impulser de nouvelles démarches technologiques, à coordonner des projets avec des laboratoires de recherche ou des équipes pédagogiques, à travailler en collaboration avec des informaticiens de métier. Recherche Laboratoire de recherche : l’une des équipes en rattachement à l’ENS-LSH Lieu(x) d’exercice : ENS-LSH de Lyon Résidence à Lyon obligatoire. Contact administratif : Ressources humaines – Service du Personnel Enseignant Tel : 04.37.37.60.37 - Fax : 04.37.37.60.35 - SRH-enseignants(a)ens-lsh.fr Ressources humaines – Directrice des ressources humaines Tel :04.37.37.60.42 - Fax : 04.37.37.60.35 - SRH-enseignants(a)ens-lsh.fr Contact pédagogique : Arnaud Pelfrene(a)ens-lsh.fr -- Marjorie BURGHART EHESS (pôle de Lyon) / UMR 5648 Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Chrétiens et Musulmans Médiévaux 18 quai Claude Bernard 69007 Lyon - FRANCE

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Ideal informatics training [TAN, maybe]
by Dan O'Donnell 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi all, As many of you know, I've been wondering for quite some time about the basic information studies literacy we should be teaching across programmes at the university (i.e. not just humanities computing, but more broadly what should university graduates know as basic information literacy). We're looking into establishing a campus wide certification in informatics here which we have the luxury of building more or less ex nihilo--i.e. lots of willing people and departments, very few existing institutional silos and/or jealousies that need to be worked in or around. The goal is to build this as a companion programme--something like a big minor, a certification, or an emphasis--that would in theory be open to combination any domain baccalaureate. In the end you could graduate with "English and informatics", or "Biology and informatics," etc. The informatics certification would not be intended to cover all possible informatics angles (so somebody doing bio-informatics or advanced humanities computing would have to do additional work). But the goal would be to produce students with domain competency and a core set of informatics skills and knowledge. I am looking at some existing programmes--e.g. Melbourne, Syracuse, etc. But I'm also asking people helping put the programme together to think on the basis of a blank page: what skills, knowledge, experience should an undergraduate have when they finish such a programme. Here are some of mine. What do others think? * Knowledge of basic internet infrastructure and protocols: what a server is, how pages are served out, what packets are, how domain-names are registered and looked up, all the various transfer protocols * Knowledge of basic languages and standards like xml, html, unicode * Experience in setting up a multipage interactive website at an arbitrary domain name (i.e. buy a domain name, point it at an IP address, set up the server, write the pages * Knowledge of the major genres and applications and an ability to analyse existing sites in terms of their use of these (e.g. know what a wiki is, newserver, version control, other things) * Have some sense of constraints that affect the use of cyberspace: gender, economic, legal issues, etc. * Have a knowledge of various social organisations and processes on the web: communities of practice, crowd sourcing * Be able to analyse information flows and other aspects of a problem and design technological solutions to it * some experience with data design, analysis, and retrieval These seem to me to be too much of a mishmash of different types of scope, categories, and the like. And also too much focussed on the type of thing I do. Any suggestions for the skills, knowledge, and experience a typical undergraduate ought to have if they were to be certified as being basically competent in contemporary web technologies alongside their core domain? -dan

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Ideal informatics training
by stella＠unisi.it 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Dear friends, here http://www.infotext.unisi.it you can find some informations (in Italian) about a Master in "Informatica del testo- Edizione elettronica" that is running just now at the University of Siena in Arezzo (Engineering & Letters Faculties), with some collaborations from CCH and Ecole des Chartes and many connections with archives, libraries, publishers and e-learning firms. It schedules on 10-11 July in Montepulciano an international round-table about the status quaestionis on Digital Editions that could be interesting for many of us. One could think of a joint application for the Erasmus Mundus programme. Other informations about the situations of digital learning in Italy are to be find on the website http://www.griseldaonline.it/informatica/index.htm. Best Francesco Stella

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31 March 2009 - Medieval Studies and New Media: A symposium proposed by the Digital Medievalist community
by Marjorie Burghart 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

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