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Digital Philology Conference in Verona, 15-6th January 2009
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

[Apologies for cross-posting] Università degli Studi di Verona Dipartimento di Germanistica e Slavistica Sezione di Filologia Germanica ------------------------------ INCONTRI DI FILOLOGIA DIGITALE ------------------------------ Verona, 15-16 gennaio 2009 ======================= Programma ======================= 15 Gennaio 2009, ore 14.30 Sala Banco Popolare, Via San Cosimo 10 Presentazione del Convegno: Licinia Ricottilli (Scuola di Dottorato in Studi Umanistici, Verona) Giovanna Massariello (Verona) Presiede Giuseppe Brunetti (Padova) James Cummings (Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford) ENRICHing Electronic Manuscripts with TEI P5 XML Daniel Paul O’Donnell (Text Encoding Initiative/Digital Medievalist, University of Lethbridge) Mind the Gap: Representing the Relationships among Constituents in a Multi-Object Digital Edition Pausa Roberto Rosselli del Turco (Digital Medievalist Project - Pisa - Torino) Marcatura e visualizzazione di edizioni digitali: il progetto EVT (Edition Visualization Technology) Fabio Ciotti (Roma Tor Vergata) Biblioteche digitali e web semantico Arianna Ciula (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London) Pubblicazioni ibride: quando stampa e digitale convivono. L'esperienza del progetto Henry III Fine Rolls. Discussione -------- 16 Gennaio 2009, ore 9.00 Sala Farinati, Biblioteca Civica, Vicolo San Sebastiano 3 Presiede Agostino Contò (Biblioteca Civica di Verona) Emiliano Degl’Innocenti (SISMEL - Firenze) Studi umanistici 2.0: strumenti digitali per lo studio e la ricerca nell'era di Internet Alfredo Trovato - Mariachiara Pellegrini (Verona) Storia della lingua e storia della scrittura: l'epigrafia alla luce dei supporti informatici Discussione Pausa Presiede Jens Høyrup (Roskilde) Federico Giusfredi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München), Alfredo Rizza (Pavia) Filologia computazionale e lingue anatoliche Adele Cipolla - (Verona) - Federica Goria (Torino) - Roberto Rosselli del Turco (Digital Medievalist Project - Pisa - Torino) Mare magnum nella rete: A Bibliography of Snorri Sturluson’s Edda sul web -------- 16 Gennaio 2009, ore 15.30 Aula Informatica S1, Università di Verona, Polo Zanotto, Viale dell’Università Roberto Rosselli del Turco - Federica Goria - Mosè Nicoli Laboratorio di codifica testuale ------------------------------------------------- Comitato scientifico Prof. Adele Cipolla - adele.cipolla(a)univr.it Prof. Roberto Rosselli del Turco - rosselli(a)ling.unipi.it Organizzazione Dott. Mosè Nicoli - mose.nicoli(a)gmail.com Segreteria del Dipartimento di Germanistica e Slavistica Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 41 Tel. 0458028011 gabriella.vinco(a)univr.it ------------------------------------------------- -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)

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[tan?] Digital Plagiarism
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Hi all, This may or may not be tangential to our main interests on this list, but I'm interested in asking it here because I can assume a certain level of familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of digital tools and algorithms. Last semester I started using turnitin (http://www.turnitin.com/). Initially this was as a pure essay management and on-line marking system (for which it is very good, BTW). But the software was designed to test originality against a database of web and submitted sources, of course, and I found myself checking the originality reports on students' essays whenever something sounded fishy (you can read an initial discussion of my experience here: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/Blog/digital-plagiarism). What I found was that a small percentage of essays (6 in about 200 submissions) contained sections of material that had close parallels elsewhere and no acknowledgement of sources--in other words, likely were plagiarised to a certain extent. In a few cases, mostly the two senior papers that showed this problem, the question was fairly cut-and-dried: the students involved had clearly copied and pasted large chunks of text from on-line sources, leaving behind tell-tale clues like the use of an asterisk to mark a cross-reference in an encyclopedia entry. The more disturbing examples were found in my first year classes and involved a very different kind of parallelism. Here the students in question seemed to confine their unacknowledged debts to two main types: the use of quite small sections (a couple of sentences at most) at key points of their argument (e.g. theses, key transitions) and/or the wholesale use of examples from a single source (i.e. all the quotations used were found in the same source, in one case a site that students could use to find "useful quotations" from a given work. I interviewed some students (both those tagged by turnitin and others) and discovered that they were working in a way that is quite similar to how I would build a blog entry and which almost seems to invite this problem in essays (this is the point of the blog entry I wrote on the question, mentioned above). My question for the digital literati among medievalists, however, is whether this second kind of "plagiarism" actually is plagiarism, and, if it is, whether it should be treated in the same fashion as the relatively certainly deliberate use of large passages from unacknowledged sources that I'm more used to catching? On the one hand, I need to stress that this is minority behaviour--by far the largest number of essays I looked at last semester correctly documented their debts (including in several cases among my first years, debts to essays found at sites that sell essays to students!). Also, the examples I found have an extremely distinctive thumbprint in the software--they fade in and out of verbatim quotation in a way that stands out clearly through length and general pattern of endebtedness from examples of passages where people just happen to have said something quite similar to each other. On the other, I'm really not sure that the plagiarism is not the result of ignorance or relatively minor carelessness--a lost quotation mark during the editing phase, etc. Given the way these students seem to work, moreover, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often: both the students who turnitin flagged and the others I spoke to worked in a way that is almost designed to encourage unrecognised borrowing: they copy large verbatim quotations from internet sources into their wordprocessor, and then reorganise and edit the quotations until they have a 'narrative' of sorts; then they add their own introduction and bits of text between the quoted material. My question then is whether I should treat it the same way I do blatant, old-fashioned, copy-big-chunks-from-a-journal-article plagiarism: with a 0 on the course. Any ideas? Any ideas or suggestions?

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Job announcement: three Technical Project Officer posts at CCH, King's College London
by Spence, Paul 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

[Apologies for cross-posting] The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) is seeking to appoint three creative, enthusiastic professionals to develop web-based applications bringing together materials from existing database-and XML-based resources. You would be working closely with colleagues in CCH and in humanities and social science departments. CCH is an academic department in the School of Humanities. It is responsible for undergraduate and MA programmes and runs a PhD. As part of its very active research programme, the Centre is involved in a large number of externally funded collaborative research projects. These posts are intended to support the technical development of a number of these projects. Details about the posts are provided below: ----------------------------------------- [Post 1] TECHNICAL PROJECT OFFICER (Web Application Development). G6/AAV/019/08 Experience in design and in building environments based on database technologies is essential. The department uses primarily Java and J2EE technologies to publish database materials on the web, and knowledge of these technologies is also critical. Web interfaces are developed with the use of well established JavaScript/AJAX frameworks and in accordance with good XHTML and CSS practices, and experience with these are highly desirable. Familiarity with XML and XSLT is desirable. Proven experience in creating integrated research applications using a range of technologies would be a significant advantage. In addition, a good understanding - and preferably experience - of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences will be valuable. For more information about this post, see below: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde… This is a one-year post Closing Date: 12 January 2009 ----------------------------------------- [Post 2] TECHNICAL PROJECT OFFICER (Web Application Development). G6/AAV/020/08 Experience in design and in building environments based on database technologies is essential. The department uses primarily Java and J2EE technologies to publish database materials on the web, and knowledge of these technologies is also critical. Web interfaces are developed with the use of well established JavaScript/AJAX frameworks and in accordance with good XHTML and CSS practices, and experience with these are highly desirable. Familiarity with XML and XSLT is desirable. Proven experience in creating integrated research applications using a range of technologies would be a significant advantage. In addition, a good understanding - and preferably experience - of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences will be valuable. For more information about this post, see below: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde… This is a two-year post Closing Date: 12 January 2009 ----------------------------------------- [Post 3] TECHNICAL PROJECT OFFICER (Web Application Development) G6/AAV/021/08 Experience in design and in building environments based on database technologies and/or XML is essential. Experience with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and related technologies such as Apache AXIS is also necessary. The department uses primarily Java and J2EE technologies to publish database materials on the web, and knowledge of these technologies is also critical. Web interfaces are developed with the use of well established JavaScript/AJAX frameworks and in accordance with good XHTML and CSS practices, and experience with these are highly desirable. Proven experience in creating integrated research applications using a range of technologies would be a significant advantage. In addition, a good understanding - and preferably experience - of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences will be valuable. For more information about this post, see below: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobinde… This is a one year post Closing Date: 12 January 2009 -----------------------------------------

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(Medieval) archeology mailing lists?
by Neven Jovanović 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Dear all, for three years now I teach a "Digital Medievalist" course on a PhD Medieval Studies programme here in Zagreb, Croatia. I deal mainly with texts, but this year I have a student who is more interested in archeology (medieval, of course). Could you suggest some good archeology mailing lists / Google groups vel sim. --- medieval, or, I guess, "general practice" --- where this person could learn, and follow, how and what is discussed? Yours, Neven Jovanovic University of Zagreb Hrvatska / Croatia

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Announcing the UCLA CMRS Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
by Matthew Fisher 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

It is with great pleasure that we would like to draw your attention to the Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. Hosted by UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Catalogue seeks to provide a technological solution to a simple and rather delightful "problem": the breathtaking increase in the number of medieval manuscripts available on the web in their entirety, but in a bewildering range of venues and formats. Currently, almost one thousand manuscripts, digitized and available in their entirety on the web, have been entered into the Catalogue. Users can search the Catalogue on basic information about manuscripts, such as the location, language, or date of a codex, or browse through the complete Catalogue. We welcome feedback on your experience using the website, and particularly welcome suggestions for sites not currently represented in the Catalogue. The Catalogue can be accessed at: http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu More information about the project: http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/about.php , or by contacting Matthew Fisher at fisher[at]humnet[dot]ucla[dot]edu Regards, Matthew Fisher Assistant Professor Department of English University of California, Los Angeles

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[Fwd: Job opening: Research assistant at the University of Paderborn, Germany]
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

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Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture
by Simon Mahony 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Forwarded from the Digital Classicist mailing list with usual apologies if you're on that list too (but this way you dont miss anything important)! Simon ------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Editors Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) invite submissions for a collection of essays on “Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture” to be published in the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series edited by Ray Siemens and William Bowen. This collection of essays will build on the accomplishments of recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing material cultures from roughly 500 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Scholars of the medieval and early modern periods have begun to pay more attention to the material world not only as a means of cultural experience, but also as a shaping influence upon culture and society, looking at the world of material objects as both an area of study and a rich source of evidence for interpreting the past. Digital media enable new ways of evoking, representing, recovering, and simulating these materials in non-traditional, non-textual (or para-textual) ways and present new possibilities for recuperating and accumulating material from across vast distances and time, enabling both preservation and comparative analysis that is otherwise impossible or impractical. Digital mediation also poses practical and theoretical challenges, both logistical (such as gaining access to materials) and intellectual (for example, the relationship between text and object). This volume of essays will promote the deployment of digital technologies to the study of material culture by bringing together expertise garnered from complete and current digital projects, while looking forward to new possibilities for digital applications; it will both take stock of the current state of theory and practice and advance new developments in digitization of material culture. The editors welcome submissions from all disciplines on any research that addresses the use of digital means for representing and investigating material culture as expressed in such diverse areas as: • travelers’ accounts, navigational charts and cartography • collections and inventories • numismatics, antiquarianism and early archaeology • theatre and staging (props, costumes, stages, theatres) • the visual arts of drawing, painting, sculpture, print making, and architecture • model making • paper making and book printing, production, and binding • manuscripts, emblems, and illustrations • palimpsests and three-dimensional writing • instruments (magic, alchemical, and scientific) • arts and crafts • the anatomical and cultural body We welcome approaches that are practical and/or theoretical, general in application or particular and project-based. Submissions should present fresh advances in methodologies and applications of digital technologies, including but not limited to: • XML and databases and computational interpretation • three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds • virtual research environments • mapping technology • image capture, processing, and interpretation • 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis • artificial intelligence, process modeling, and knowledge representation Papers might address such topics and issues as: • the value of inter-disciplinarity (as between technical and humanist experts) • relationships between image and object; object and text; text and image • the metadata of material culture • curatorial and archival practice • mediating the material object and its textual representations • imaging and data gathering (databases and textbases) • the relationship between the abstract and the material text • haptic, visual, and auditory simulation • tools and techniques for paleographic analysis Enquiries and proposals should be sent to brent.nelson[at]usask.ca by 10 January 2009. Complete essays of 5,000-6,000 words in length will be due on 1 May 2009. ----------------------------------------------------- -- 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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Les historiens et l’informatique : un métier à réinventer - final ATHIS symposium in Rome, Italy, 4-6 December
by Marjorie Burghart 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi! Here's the program of a symposium soon to be held in Rome, at the Ecole française de Rome. It is organized jointly by French and Italian medievalists (from the Ecole française de Rome, LAMOP, and Reti Medievali), yet it is not restricted to the Middle Ages. Papers will be given in French and Italian. If you want to attend, please contact Marilyn Nicoud or Grazia Parrino, secrma(a)efrome.it Best wishes, Marjorie *Les historiens et l’informatique : un métier à réinventer * *Jeudi 4 décembre – 14 h 30 *Marilyn Nicoud (École française de Rome) /Accueil des participants /Jean-Philippe Genet (Université de Paris I) /Peut-on prévoir l’impact des transformations de l’informatique sur le travail scientifique de l’historien ? / *L’historien et ses sources : archives et bibliothèques - 15 h 00 *Anna Maria Tammaro (Università di Parma) /La biblioteca digitale verso la realizzazione dell'infrastruttura globale per gli studi umanistici /Roberto Delle Donne (Università di Napoli Federico II) /Storia e Open Archive /Christophe Dessaux (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication) /De la numérisation des collections à Europeana : des contenus culturels pour la recherche /Gino Roncaglia (Università della Tuscia) /Libri elettronici : un panorama in evoluzione /Stefano Vitali (Archivio di Stato di Firenze) /I mutamenti nel mondo degli archivi / 17 h 45-18 h 45 : Discussion *Vendredi 5 décembre – 9 h 00 **Éditer *Michele Ansani (Università di Pavia) et Antonella Ghignoli (Università di Firenze) /Testi digitali : nuovi media e documenti medievali /Pierre Bauduin (Université de Caen) et Catherine Jacquemard (Université de Caen) /La pratique de l’édition en ligne : expériences et questionnements /Paul Bertrand (IRHT, CNRS) /Autour de l’édition électronique et des digital humanities : nouvelle érudition, nouvelle critique ? / 10 h 30-11 h 00 : Discussion *Enseigner *Rolando Minuti (Università di Firenze) /Insegnare storia al tempo del web 2.0 : considerazioni su esperienze e problemi aperti /Giulio Romero (Atelhis) /Métier d’historiens, métiers d’historien : les impératifs d’une formation ouverte / 12 h 45-13 h 15 : Discussion *Communiquer* - 15 h 00 Pietro Corrao (Università di Palermo) /L’esperienza di Reti Medievali /Christine Ducourtieux (Université de Paris I) et Marc Smith (École nationale des Chartes), /L’expérience de Ménestrel / 16 h 00 - 16 h. 30 Discussion *Les nouveaux horizons du métier d’historien *Aude Mairey (CESCM, CNRS-Université de Poitiers) /Quelles perspectives pour la textométrie ? /Julien Alerini (Université de Paris I) et Stéphane Lamassé (Université de Paris I) /Données et statistiques : l’avenir du travail en ligne pour l’historien / 17 h 45-18 h 15 : Discussion *Samedi 6 décembre – 9 h 00 *François Giligny (Université de Paris I) /L’informatique en archéologie : une révolution tranquille ? /Jean-Luc Arnaud (Telemme, CNRS-Université de Provence) /Nouvelles méthodes, nouveaux usages de la cartographie et de l’analyse spatiale en histoire /Margherita Azzari (Università di Firenze) /Geographic Information Systems and Science. Stato dell’arte, sfide future / 10 h-30-11 h 00 : Discussion *L’historien et l’outil informatique *Serge Noiret (European University Institute) /Fare storia a più mani con il web 2.0 : cosa cambia nelle pratiche degli storici ? /Philippe Rygiel (Université de Paris I) /De quoi le web est-il l’archive ? Lectures historiennes de l’activité réseau /Jean-Michel Dalle (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI) /Peut-on penser le futur d’une communauté scientifique sans tenir compte de l’économie de l’innovation et de la créativité ? / 12 h 45-13 h 30 : Discussion *Conclusions d’Andrea Zorzi (Università di Firenze)*

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Manuscript Descriptions
by James Cummings 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi all, As some of you know I'm doing some work for the ENRICH project[1] which has created a subset of the TEI for medieval manuscript description[2]. At an upcoming meeting, one of the things we'd like to demonstrate is that potentially many more formats than we're planning to convert to this format could adequately be expressed in it should need arise. That is, that we've got a vocabulary for a manuscript description which most manuscripts could be described in, if desired. Or at least, we'd like to see where what we have *doesn't* allow for other types of (e.g. modern) manuscripts so at least we are aware of the limitations. If you happen to have any manuscript descriptions, in any format[3], of any time period[4] would you be willing to let me have a representative sample of them? I promise to abide by any restrictions of use you impose, will openly share my results with anyone who wants, and such. I'm not promising to write automatic conversions of them, but might want to choose a couple and do manual conversions to demonstrate that there is no loss of intellectual content. Thanks, -James [1] http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com/ [2] http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ENRICH/ [3] We have some MASTER and TEI P5 ones, and while more of those are always welcome, other bizarre formats are even more appreciated. [4] While the project is medieval in nature for this purpose we aren't limited to medieval manuscripts.

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CFP: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture
by Brent Nelson 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Call for Papers: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Editors Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) invite submissions for a collection of essays on “Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture” to be published in the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies Series edited by Ray Siemens and William Bowen. This collection of essays will build on the accomplishments of recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing material cultures from roughly 500 A.D. to 1700 A.D. Scholars of the medieval and early modern periods have begun to pay more attention to the material world not only as a means of cultural experience, but also as a shaping influence upon culture and society, looking at the world of material objects as both an area of study and a rich source of evidence for interpreting the past. Digital media enable new ways of evoking, representing, recovering, and simulating these materials in non-traditional, non-textual (or para-textual) ways and present new possibilities for recuperating and accumulating material from across vast distances and time, enabling both preservation and comparative analysis that is otherwise impossible or impractical. Digital mediation also poses practical and theoretical challenges, both logistical (such as gaining access to materials) and intellectual (for example, the relationship between text and object). This volume of essays will promote the deployment of digital technologies to the study of material culture by bringing together expertise garnered from complete and current digital projects, while looking forward to new possibilities for digital applications; it will both take stock of the current state of theory and practice and advance new developments in digitization of material culture. The editors welcome submissions from all disciplines on any research that addresses the use of digital means for representing and investigating material culture as expressed in such diverse areas as: • travelers’ accounts, navigational charts and cartography • collections and inventories • numismatics, antiquarianism and early archaeology • theatre and staging (props, costumes, stages, theatres) • the visual arts of drawing, painting, sculpture, print making, and architecture • model making • paper making and book printing, production, and binding • manuscripts, emblems, and illustrations • palimpsests and three-dimensional writing • instruments (magic, alchemical, and scientific) • arts and crafts • the anatomical and cultural body We welcome approaches that are practical and/or theoretical, general in application or particular and project-based. Submissions should present fresh advances in methodologies and applications of digital technologies, including but not limited to: • XML and databases and computational interpretation • three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds • virtual research environments • mapping technology • image capture, processing, and interpretation • 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis • artificial intelligence, process modeling, and knowledge representation Papers might address such topics and issues as: • the value of inter-disciplinarity (as between technical and humanist experts) • relationships between image and object; object and text; text and image • the metadata of material culture • curatorial and archival practice • mediating the material object and its textual representations • imaging and data gathering (databases and textbases) • the relationship between the abstract and the material text • haptic, visual, and auditory simulation • tools and techniques for paleographic analysis Enquiries and proposals should be sent to brent.nelson[at]usask.ca by 10 January 2009. Complete essays of 5,000-6,000 words in length will be due on 1 May 2009.

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