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FW: The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released
by Lynn Ransom 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Dear colleagues, I post the below announcement on behalf of Will Noel. Best, Lynn Ransom ************************ Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to conserve, image, and study the manuscript. After ten years of work, involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of people working around the world, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has released its data. It is a historic dataset, revealing new texts from the ancient world. It is an integrated product, weaving registered images in many wavebands of light with XML transcriptions of the Archimedes and Hyperides texts that are spatially mapped to those images. It has pushed boundaries for the imaging of documents, and relied almost exclusively on current international standards. We hope that this dataset will be a persistent digital resource for the decades to come. We also hope it will be helpful as an example for others who are conducting similar work. It published under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution license, to ensure ease of access and the potential for widespread use. A complete facsimile of the revealed palimpsested texts is available on Googlebooks as ³The Archimedes Palimpsest². It is hoped that this is the first of many uses to which the data will be put. For information on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, please visit: www.archimedespalimpsest.org <http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org> For the dataset, please visit: www.archimedespalimpsest.net <http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net> We have set up a discussion forum on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project. Any member can invite anybody else to join. If you want to become a member, please email: wnoel(a)thewalters.org I would be grateful if you would circulate this to your friends and colleagues. Thank you very much Will Noel The Walters Art Museum October 29th, 2008.

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Call for Papers: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age
by Rehbein, Malte 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

Call for Papers: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age The reproduction of the European cultural heritage into digital resources is on its way. Among the various activities undertaken in this field, online catalogues of manuscrips have become an important research tool: Manuscripta Medievalia, for example, is a well established central catalogue in Germany. Important European libraries like the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the British Library or the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana have published their catalogues online. Directories with regional focus like the manuscript catalogue of Tuscany (CODEX) are seen alongside the European integrative project ENRICH. At the same time, the digitisation of the manuscripts themselves has gained momentum. What impact has this new situation on palaeographic and codicologic research? Successful projects have shown that data that emerges from such cataloguing and digitising activities can be processed and enriched by digital technologies: there are algorithms to compare character patterns and enable palaeographic analyses. Comprehensive codicological data is available via electronic catalogues to allow statistical research on the archaeology of manuscripts. Digital editions embed images of their underlying manuscripts. Online resources enable web-based teaching of palaeography in a way far beyond the traditional facsimile collections. The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) calls for contributions to an anthology on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age" to be published in Summer 2009. The purpose of this volume is threefold. Firstly, it aims at recording forward-looking digital work with manuscripts. This involves state-of-the-art technology as well as realistic ideas for future implementations. Secondly, it examines the field from the users perspective: how can codicological and palaeographic work benefit from digital resources and technologies? Are there new results that had not been possible before? Or is there at least a significant increase in efficiency compared to traditional methodology? We are therefore particularly encouraging contributions that describe research based on such digital resources. Finally, an outlook on the future development of the digital research on manuscripts will be given. Possible topics for contributions can include but are not restricted to: * reports on research based on digital resources * Integration of and statistical research on data from manuscript catalogues * palaeographic databases (scripts, scribes, characters) * codicological databases (e.g. watermarks, book covers) * (semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes * digital tools for transcriptions * visions and prototypes of other digital tools * teaching palaeography The editors are open to proposals beyond these suggestions that fit into the outlined purpose of the volume. Contributions can be made either in German, Italian, English or French. The launch of the volume will be accompanied by an international symposium to which the IDE wants to invite the authors of the four best contributions to present their work. Proposals of not more than 500 words shall be send by 30 November 2008 to: Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing c/o Malte Rehbein Moore Insitute National University of Ireland, Galway malte.rehbein(a)nuigalway.ie --- The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) is a network of researchers working on the application of digital methods on historical documents. Its members participate in important international research activities. The IDE, established in 2006, sees itself as a nucleus for IT technologies in the field of scholarly editing and documentology, understanding a historical document as a carrier for text as well as a physical object. To achieve this, IDE members take an active part in ongoing discussions, contribute reviews and research articles, organise conferences and workshops, counsel trend-setting projects and teach academic junior scientists. Website: http://www.i-d-e.de

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What are the new digital genres
by Daniel O'Donnell 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hi all, I have a question. I'm just finishing off an article and I am about to refer to the extent to which humanists now need to know something about the "new digital genres". By that I mean the things that if you have been traditionally trained and were bookish rather than videogamish or technologically oriented as a teenager, you might not know much about: blogs wikis MOOs and MUDs and other text-based games (an older genre, I know) SIMs and other immersive game-like environments (ranging from second life through doom) Others? Corrections? I'm trying to think how to get something with GPS in there. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
by Peter Stokes 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Apologies for cross-posting, but please see below for details of a new training programme for graduate students in the UK. All the best, Peter Stokes Dr Peter Stokes Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic The University of Cambridge 9 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP Tel: +44 1223 767314 Fax: +44 1223 335092 -- Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 16–21 February 2009 The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce a new AHRC-funded course in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King's College London. The course involves six days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts in the digital age to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats. The first three days involve morning classes and then visits to libraries in Cambridge and London in the afternoons. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning's themes to concrete examples. The final three days focus on cataloguing and describing manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These three days will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers. The course is free of charge and open to all arts and humanities doctoral students registered at UK institutions. It is principally aimed at those writing dissertations which relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art and history. Priority will be given to PhD students funded by the AHRC. Class sizes are limited to twenty and places are 'first-come-first-served' so early registration is strongly recommended. For further details see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/study/mmsda/ or contact the course organisers at mmsda(a)sas.ac.uk.

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Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: One-day Conference
by Andrew Hawke 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

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facebook group
by James Cummings 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

For those who are interested in such things, Digital Medievalist has created a facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 ... the main intention of which is, of course, to publicise the website, journal, this mailing list, etc. Just thought I'd mention it, -James

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CFP: a panel on Digitizing the Senses at the ACMRS conference, Tempe, AZ
by Brent Nelson 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Call for Papers: *Digitizing the Senses* a panel for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference in Tempe, AZ, 12-14 February 2009 While digital media have enabled new and innovative access to medieval and Renaissance texts, these same media hold perhaps even more potential for investigating and representing the material cultures of these periods. This panel of papers will build on recent scholarship on materiality by bringing together innovative research on the theory and praxis of digitizing medieval and Renaissance material culture. especially as it relates to the senses. Topics may address theory and/or practice in the application of digital technology to the study of material culture, including but not limited to art, architecture, cartography, the anatomical and cultural body, collections, antiquarianism and early archeology, dramaturgy, arts and crafts, printed and manuscript materials. Accepted papers may also be considered for a collection of essays on "Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture" to be edited by Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan) and Melissa Terras (University College London) for the New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies series edited by Ray Siemens and Bill Bowen. Please submit title, brief abstract, and statement of affiliation to brent.nelson_at_usask.ca by October 14, 2008. Conference website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/conferences/conferences.html -- Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ======================= my office ph.: (306) 966-1820 main office ph.: (306) 966-5486 fax.: (306) 966-5951 e-mail: nelson(a)arts.usask.ca =======================

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Fwd: [Centernet] TEI MM09: Registration Open
by Dot Porter 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

>From Centernet - as always, apologies for cross-posting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Schreibman <susan.schreibman(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:09 AM Subject: [Centernet] TEI MM09: Registration Open To: centernet(a)lists.digitalhumanities.org Colleagues, I should like to draw your attention to the TEI Members Meeting site at Kings?s College London http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/ The outline of the meeting programme, from 6-8 November, is now available. There are also recommendations for hotels and advice about transport. Most importantly, registration is now open. Early registration is advised as places are limited. Please visit the site and register for the conference. We look forward to seeing you in November. With all best wishes Susan Schreibman Meeting Chair -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Director Digital Humanities Observatory 28-32 Pembroke Street Upper Dublin 2 -- A project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 Mobile: +353 86 049 1966 Fax: +353 1 234 2588 Email:` s.schreibman(a)ria.ie http://dho.ie http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org http://v-machine.org _______________________________________________ Centernet mailing list Centernet(a)lists.digitalhumanities.org http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/centernet

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CaSTA 2008
by Yin Liu 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

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Space still available on digital medievalist sessions at Kalamazoo
by Peter Robinson 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Dear everyone There is still space available in the digital medievalist sessions at Kalamazoo..if you are interested in contributing to any of these, please let me know! The Digital Medievalist is once more sponsoring sessions at Kalamazoo. We have had proposals for one panel and two paper sessions accepted, thus: Panel: What every digital medievalist should know This session will take up the theme of Jim Marchand's famous 'WEMSK' series, focussing on how the omnipresence of digital technology has changed what every medievalist -- teacher, scholar, reader, anyone -- should know. We used only to have books; then we had films, television, and now we can everything in a small box, or in a browser on our screen -- even, in a mobile phone. How does this change what we should do, how we should do it, what we should know? Papers: Exemplary instances of research using digital methods and materials Several decades into the digital revolution, we may fairly ask: what has changed? For all the digital technology about us, are we still doing research in the same way? We invite contributions from scholars who have found research possibilities for any aspect of medieval studies which could not have been available in the pre-digital world. This may be because the materials were not available, or it may be because the methods were not available, or any combination of the two. Papers: Using digital materials in the classroom We invite papers narrating how teachers have used digital materials relating to any aspect of medieval studies in the undergraduate (or graduate) classroom. What are the benefits, difficulties, virtues and dangers in their use? What can be achieved in the classroom with digital materials which could not be achieved through traditional print matter? We have space in all these sessions. If you are interested in taking part in any of these sessions, please send, by 8 September: For the panel: your name and brief resume, a few sentences on what you would say as a panel member, and a completed participant identifier form (PID!) For the paper sessions: as usually required for Kalamazoo -- a 300 word abstract and completed PID You can download the PID form from http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions.html#PIF In the past, these have been excellent and stimulating sessions. And I will personally buy a beer or other beverage of choice to any participant. I recommend Bells Oberon (taste of summer, etc) Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson(a)bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk

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