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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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New digital project at IHR
by Jenny Benham 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Dear Colleague, [Please redistribute to relevant parties] A major new project entitled 'Early English Laws' has started at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London. The project aims to edit or re-edit, translate, introduce and comment on all 142 early legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215, and to make these materials available online. For more information, please visit http://www.history.ac.uk/ Thanks, Dr Jenny Benham Project Officer EARLY ENGLISH LAWS Institute of Historical Research, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Direct line: 020 7862 8787

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Workshops at Kalamazoo: Metadata for Medievalists
by Dot Porter 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

[apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely] The Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two workshops to be held at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2009. Both workshops will be on Thursday, May 7 (sessions 54 and 166; see http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for complete conference schedule). Workshop registration online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d 1) Metadata for Medievalists I: Introduction to Metadata Formats Session 54, Thursday 7 May, 10am This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, led by Sheila Bair, Western Michigan University's Metadata Librarian. Instruction includes an introduction to the concept of metadata, an overview of metadata types of interest to medievalists working in a variety of textual and image formats, and an overview of methods for metadata implementations (database, encoded data, printed copy, etc.). Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. 2) Metadata for Medievalists II: Introduction to the Text-Encoding Initiative Session 166, Thursday 7 May, 3:30pm This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, Dot Porter, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, and a brief consideration of XML Editors. Assignments will be completed during the following clinic. Sheila Bair is the Metadata Librarian at Western Michigan University and holds an MS in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dot Porter is the Metadata Manager at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University and an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and extensive experience in text encoding in the medieval studies and classics. Both workshops are limited to 35 participants, and registration is required. The pre-registration fee per workshop for students is $40/$55 (Medieval Academy members/nonmembers), for non-students is $50/$65. To register, complete the online form at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r0MHrirO9JMJU_2f_2fB69d8Wg_3d_3d Questions about registration should be directed to James W. Brodman at jimb(a)uca.edu Questions about the workshops should be directed to Dot Porter at dot.porter(a)gmail.com -- Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Pembroke 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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How useful are digital resources? Last chance to share your thoughts!
by Kathryn Eccles 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Dear all, The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford, and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) are currently involved in a study of the impact of digital resources in the Humanities. We are collecting feedback on how these resources are being used. Many thanks to those of you who have already contributed to our survey. The survey will be running until Friday March 6th. If you haven't completed the survey, but would like to, please follow this link: http://survey.oii.ox.ac.uk/Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=Use_of_Digital_Resourc es This survey takes most participants under 20 minutes to complete. Your feedback will only reach us if you reach the end of the survey and click 'submit'. The statistical results will be publicly reported, but all information provided by individuals will be anonymized and not tied to any individual. If you would like the results of the survey e-mailed to you, there will be an opportunity at the end of the survey to provide an e-mail address for this purpose. For more on this project: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51 Many thanks! Kathryn Dr Kathryn Eccles Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS e-mail: kathryn.eccles(a)oii.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=138 Telephone (+44 (0) 1865 287202 Fax (+44 (0) 1865 287 211 www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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