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Suggestions for pre-web digital medieval studies
by Dot Porter 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Dear List, In 2009, the Digital Medievalist Journal will be publishing a special issue on the lessons learned from pre-web digital medieval projects. The editors have compiled a list of scholars we will be inviting to submit articles for this issue, however we feel the list as it stands is rather Anglo-centric. We are turning to the list to suggest potential authors - either scholars who themselves developed pre-web projects, or who have studied such projects with an historical view. We would especially like the names of non-US, non-Canadian, and non-English scholars. Please send suggestions to the DM list, or directly to the DM Editorial Board (editors(a)digitalmedievalist.org). Many thanks, Dot -- 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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Moderator needed for session @ Leeds
by Dot Porter 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Dear DM List, I've organized a session (sponsored by the MAA's Committee on Electronic Resources) at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, but unfortunately I am unable to attend as moderator. It's session 129, "New Work in Digital Medieval Studies: Visualization and Interpretation", with papers by Malte Rehbein, Franz Fischer, and Nadia Altschul. http://imc.leeds.ac.uk/imcapp/SessionDetails.jsp?SessionId=2817&year=2009 If there is anyone on the list who will be attending Leeds, doesn't have anywhere else to be on July 13, 2009 11.15-12.45, and finds the topic of this session particularly interesting and would like to moderate it, please contact me off-list. Many thanks, Dot -- 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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Leeds Programme online
by Dot Porter 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Dear List, The Programme for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds has been posted online. There are many great looking papers and sessions on "Computing in Medieval Studies": http://imc.leeds.ac.uk/imcapp/IndexTermPapers.jsp?IndexTermNumber=19&Term=C… Dot -- 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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Stanford Libraries Job Posting
by Cathy Aster 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

*Digital Manuscript Specialist* *Stanford** University** Libraries & Academic Information Resources* The Digital Manuscript Specialist will serve as a key team member on a collaborative project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project supports the development and conduct of a workshop that will examine specific instances of research and teaching based on selected medieval manuscript collections with a view to defining certain parameters of future work. Instances of such research and teaching involve several humanistic disciplines and auxiliary sciences like paleography and codicology, and focus special attention to approaches that rely heavily or essentially on the availability and use of data in digital form. The project is especially interested in the development or exercise of tools and architectures that (1) facilitate access to materials in multiple digital collections, (2) link sites and collections via common or cross-walked metadata schema, (3) link text and image at the feature or information content level, (4) link primary materials and secondary scholarship, and (5) help establish specifications for new and future projects. The Digital Manuscript Specialist will work as a part of a small team charged to analyze the overlapping and intersecting requirements of the use-cases in the context of digitized manuscript collections generally. Required Knowledge · A postgraduate degree in a relevant subfield of medieval or early modern studies, with significant experience and background (formal or informal) in descriptive metadata encoding of digital manuscripts. · Core technical skills: experience with XML, and specifically descriptive metadata schemas such as TEI, EAD, METS, and MODS. · The ability to blend domain expertise in medieval manuscript studies with technical expertise in prevailing standards and best practices in the development of digital manuscript tools and repositories. · Excellent organizational and communication skills, and proven ability to meet deadlines. · Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and successfully in a team-based environment. · Minimum related experience required: 1 year; 2-3 years desired Distribution of Effort: · Consult with the six PI’s allied with the project to develop and execute use-cases that demonstrate the potential of digital manuscript projects and that suggest future directions for interoperability that support teaching and research. (20%) · Consult with the six PI’s and Stanford Libraries’ technical staff on various projects to develop XML schema for describing digitized medieval artifacts and related secondary works in ways that support teaching and research goals, and comply with community best practices and standards. (30%) · Analyze tools, metadata approaches and technical architectures for selected digital manuscript projects and repositories. (30%) · Produce an integrated report on the outcomes of the use cases and the framework for interoperability they suggest. (20%) This is a grant-funded position with a maximum length of 12 months. The position is available beginning April 1, 2009, but the exact start date is negotiable. No matter the start date, however, the job ends on March 31, 2010. Please apply by searching for “33546” in the Keyword Search field (with nothing else highlighted) at: http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html, and clicking on the Apply button. Applications submitted as soon as possible will be in the best position to receive full consideration. -- Cathy Aster Digital Collections Project Manager Digital Library Systems & Services Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources Stanford, CA 94305-6004 office 650.725.4042 mobile 650.619.3930 http://library.stanford.edu/depts/dlss/

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The Fifth Islamic Manuscript Conference, Cambridge 24-26 July 2009
by Jenny Wright 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Please could you post this call for papers on the mailing list? Thank you, Jenny Wright -------------- The Fifth Islamic Manuscript Conference, Cambridge 24-26 July 2009: ACCESS AND RIGHTS Dear Colleagues, The Islamic Manuscript Association is pleased to announce that the Fifth Islamic Manuscript Conference will be held at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, UK from 24-26 July 2009. It will be hosted by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge. The Association invites submissions of papers for its annual conference on topics related to the care, management, and study of Islamic manuscripts. In 2009, the Conference will specifically address the issue of access to manuscripts. Improving access to manuscripts through digitisation and electronic ordering and delivery systems whilst ensuring their proper long-term preservation is fundamental to the successful future study of the Islamic heritage. Presently, technologies are available that have the potential to transform the way manuscripts are studied; however, the access these technologies can allow is counterbalanced by collection holders' concerns regarding their legal rights and the financial sustainability of their organisations. During the Fifth Islamic Manuscript Conference these vital issues will be discussed by our invited speakers and selected paper presenters. As in previous years, the Conference will be organised around the Association's four main interest groups: cataloguing, conservation, digitisation, and publishing and research. Papers on access naturally falling into these broad categories will be included in the relevant panels, so please make clear to which interest group your submission relates. We will also accept submissions related to topics that do not fall directly under the purviews of the interest groups. These may be papers about specific manuscript projects, library collections, research on a particular manuscript, etc. Please note that the total number of papers accepted will not exceed 25 and preference will be given to speakers who have not presented papers at the Association's previous conferences. This invitation is open to members and non-members of the Association. The Conference will be bilingual in Arabic and English and submissions will be accepted in both languages. The title of your paper must be included in your submission. The deadline for submissions is 13 February 2009. Late proposals will not be considered. The duration of each conference paper is 30 minutes inclusive of ten minutes of questions and answers. Please send your abstract (maximum 500 words) along with a brief CV mentioning at least one relevant publication and a cover sheet to the Executive Committee by email (tima(a)islamicmanuscript.org), by fax to +44 (0)1223 302218 or by post to the address below: The Islamic Manuscript Association 33 Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1QY, United Kingdom We look forward to welcoming you to Cambridge this coming summer. Yours sincerely, Davidson MacLaren Executive Director النشر والحقوق تقديم أوراق البحث زملائى الأعزاء: يُسعد هيئة المخطوطات الإسلامية أن تعلن عن مؤتمر المخطوطات الإسلامية الخامس والمزمع عقده فى معهد كرايست بجامعة كمبردج، المملكة المتحدة، وذلك فى الفترة بين 24 إلى 26 يوليو، تموز 2009. وسيستضيف المؤتمرَ جمعيةُ المكنز الإسلامى (ثيسورس إسلاميكوس) ومركز الدراسات الشرق أوسطية والإسلامية بجامعة كمبردج. وتدعو الهيئة إلى تقديم أوراق البحث التى تتعلق بمجال العناية بالمخطوطات الإسلامية وإدارة بياناتها ودراستها. وسيناقش المؤتمر هذا العام قضية نشر المخطوطات، حيث إن تطوير إمكانية الوصول للمخطوطات من خلال رقمنتها ونشرها للباحثين عن طريق توفير إمكانية طلبها إلكترونيا، والذى يضمن الحفاظ عليها لفترات طويلة الأجل؛ يعد أمرًا أساسيا لدراسة التراث الإسلامى فى المستقبل. وتوجد الآن تكنولوجيات تَعِدُ بتغيير طريقة دراسة المخطوطات، ولكن مازالت مسألة إتاحة المخطوطات للدارسين قد تُشكل بعض القلق لدى أصحاب المراكز و الهيئات المالكة لها من حيث الحقوق القانونية والمستقبل الاقتصادى. وستُناقَش هذه القضايا الحيوية فى المؤتمر الإسلامى الخامس من قبل المحاضرين المدعوين ومقدمى أوراق البحث. وكما تعهدنا فى الأعوام الماضية؛ فإن المؤتمر سوف يُنظَّم حول المجموعات الأربع المهتمة باالفهرسة، والحفظ، والرقمنة، والطبع والبحث. وسوف تُصنف أوراق البحث بناًء على الوظائف سالفة الذكر، كما نرجو منكم توضيح المجموعة التى تتعلق بها أوراق البحث لديكم. بالإضافة إلى أنه يمكن قبول أوراق البحث المتعلقة بموضوعات لا تنتمى مباشرة لمجالات المجموعات المطروحة سلفا. فقد تكون هذه الأوراق عن مشروعات تتعلق بمخطوطات بعينها أو مجموعات مكتبات أو أبحاث... إلخ. يرجى ملاحظة أن إجمالى الأوراق المقبولة لن يتجاوز 25 بحثا، وستعطى الأولوية إلى المحاضرين الذين لم تتح لهم الفرصة فى المؤتمرات السابقة. هذه الدعوة مفتوحة لأعضاء الهيئة وغير الأعضاء. وسيجرى المؤتمر باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية، وستُقبل أوراق البحث بأى من اللغتين، مع ضرورة التأكد من كتابة عنوان البحث قبل تقديم الأوراق. وقد تم تحديد 13 فبراير، شباط 2009 موعدًا نهائيًّا لقبول أوراق البحث، ولن تقبل أية أوراق بعد هذا الموعد. ومدة كل ورقة ثلاثون دقيقة متضمنة عشر دقائق للأسئلة والأجوبة. يرجى إرسال ملخص لبحثكم (على ألا يزيد على 500 كلمة) ومعه سيرة ذاتية مختصرة يُذكر بها مرجع منشور واحد على الأقل ذو صلة بموضوع البحث، بالإضافة إلى الخطاب التعريفى للباحث، إلى اللجنة التنفيذية عبر البريد الإلكترونى ( tima(a)islamicmanuscript.org) أو الفاكس رقم: (+44 (0) 1223 302218) أو بالبريد على العنوان الآتى: The Islamic Manuscript Association 33 Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1QY, United Kingdom نتطلع إلى الترحيب بكم فى كمبردج هذا الصيف. وتفضلوا بقبول فائق الاحترام ديفدسون ماكلارن المدير التنفيذى --------------------- Miss Jenny Wright Office Administrator The Islamic Manuscript Association A company limited by guarantee Incorporated in the Isle of Man c/o 33 Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1QY United Kingdom Telephone: 01223 303177 Mobile: 07826 355828 Fax: 01223 302218 Website: http://www.islamicmanuscript.org</exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.islamicmanuscript.org>

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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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