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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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Re: Contents of dm-l digest
by Miloš Milojević 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

1. Fwd: Digital Humanities 2009: Call for papers (Dot Porter) 2. DM Website back up! (James Cummings) 3. [Fwd: 22.201 postdoc at Victoria] (Dan O'Donnell) 4. Re: DM Website back up! (Dot Porter) 5. Re: DM Website back up! (Dan O'Donnell) 6. Re: DM Website back up! (James Cummings)

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DM Website back up!
by James Cummings 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

As announced earlier the DM website, www.digitalmedievalist.org, was taken down today for some essential maintenance. Only minor complications were encountered in what was a long overdue set of upgrades through 4 operating system versions, and I believe these have been resolved. It is hoped that this upgrade will solve a driver mismatch problem that was causing occasional downtime when the virtual machine would fail to restart properly whenever the VM servers at University of Lethbridge had a problem which necessitated their own restart. Simultaneous to the multiple upgrades, some other underlying changes (hopefully invisible) were made which will allow further development of our journal production workflow. If you notice any problems with the site feel free to email either myself or tech(a)digitalmedievalist.org. Apologies for any inconvenience, James Cummings

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[Fwd: 22.201 postdoc at Victoria]
by Dan O'Donnell 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)MCCARTY.ORG.UK> Reply-To: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)MCCARTY.ORG.UK> To: humanist(a)Princeton.EDU Subject: 22.201 postdoc at Victoria Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:58:20 +0100 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 22, No. 201. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist(a)princeton.edu Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:56:58 +0100 From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty(a)mccarty.org.uk> Subject: Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (2009-11) Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (2009-11) The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL) [URL: < http://etcl.uvic.ca/ >] at the University of Victoria has an exciting two-year postdoctoral opportunity for a candidate with a background in early modern literary and textual studies, expertise in computing, and an interest in the digital humanities field. The postdoctoral fellow will be key in the development of a professional reading environment designed to respond to the needs of those working with early modern books and manuscripts. Source material for this work will be derived from our work on the /Devonshire Manuscript/ (BL Add MS 17,492) and our ongoing work with professional reading environments in number of related projects. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in early modern research, textual studies, and scholarly editing in a digital humanities context, including training or demonstrated experience working with TEI XML and digital editions. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Examples of technologies employed in related ETCL projects are as follows: TEI P5; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; Ruby on Rails; PHP; CSS; and web-based SQL database projects using PostgresSQL and mySQL. Experience in some or all of these areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement, though aptitude with digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computation engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. Salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices; combined with a local supplement, the annual salary for this position is expected to be $52,000, inclusive of benefits and travel allowances. Applications, comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees, may be sent electronically to <etcl.apply(a)gmail.com <mailto:etcl.apply@gmail.com>>. Applications will be received and reviewed until the position is filled; the position can begin as early as January 2009. -- 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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Fwd: Digital Humanities 2009: Call for papers
by Dot Porter 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

[First announcement I've seen - expect it will be making the rounds, apologies for cross-posting] Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2009 Call for Papers Hosted by the Maryland institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland, College Park, USA 22-25 June, 2009 http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/ Abstract Deadline: October 31, 2008 (Midnight GMT) Presentations can include: • Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words) • Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) • Posters (abstract max of 1500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital humanities, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning * libraries, archives and the creation, delivery, management and preservation of humanities digital resources * computer-based research and computing applications in all areas of literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship * use of computation in such areas as the arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and other areas reflecting our cultural heritage * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media; software studies; Human-Computer interaction * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula * digital humanities and diversity The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is October 31, 2008. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2009. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 1st, 2008. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The poster sessions will build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in digital humanities. As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. 3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. October 31st, 2008. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available at the conference web site http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/ from October 1st, 2008. Anyone who has previously used the conftool system to submit proposals or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact dh2009(a)digitalhumanities.org. IV. Information about the conference venue: MITH University of Maryland Celebrating its 10th anniversary as a working digital humanities center, MITH is the University of Maryland's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, electronic literature, and cyberculture, as well as the headquarters of the Electronic Literature Organization. Having fostered numerous early adopter projects in the field, MITH continues to innovate with new work on tools, text analysis, electronic editing, virtual worlds, digital preservation, and cyberinfrastructure. V. Bursaries for Young Scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations. (AHDO) If you wish to apply for a bursary please submit a proposal and indicate your interest in the scheme by emailing dh2009(a)digitalhumanities.org. More information for applicants will be available from the ADHO website (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/) after November 1st 2008. International Programme Committee Brett Barney (ACH) Willard McCarty (ACH) Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI) John Nerbonne (ALLC: Vice Chair) Jan Rybicki (ALLC) Paul Spence (ALLC) Allen Renear (ACH) Stéfan Sinclair (SDH-SEMI) Claire Warwick (ACH: Chair) -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) Senior Lecturer and Programme Director Electronic Communication and Publishing School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT phone: 020 7679 2548, email: c.warwick(a)ucl.ac.uk website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/claire-warwick/ _______________________________________________ Centernet mailing list Centernet(a)lists.digitalhumanities.org http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/centernet

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Image-text aligning using TEI P5 and IMT
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hi all, lately I've been using (read: experimenting mostly) the excellent Image Markup Tool by M. Holmes (http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/index.php) together with the TEI P5 <facsimile> element to markup areas of the Vercelli Book manuscript images to the corresponding transcription in XML format. From the beginning, I thought about two distinct ways to link text and image: 1. hot-spot functionality: define specific areas of the folio (decorated initials, marginalia, erasures and corrections, etc.) to be linked to explanatory text (such as paleographical and editorial notes); 2. direct image-transcription linking: define every line in the manuscript as an area linked to the corresponding text of the transcription; the idea being that clicking on a line in the ms image would take you to the corresponding text line, and viceversa. While I have little concerns about 1 and will surely proceed as intended, I'm having second thoughts about 2, especially after giving a paper at a conference in Pavia (Medieval Texts-Contemporary Media: The Art and Science of Editing in the Digital Age http://lettere.unipv.it/?pagina=p&titolo=MedievalTexts) on this very subject and discussing it a little with other participants afterwards. I wonder which approach is best on usability grounds: 1. linking line to line as originally planned: the disadvantage being that, moving forward while browsing the images or the transcription text, the connection between the two would be lost, (status disruption, a possibly cause of uncertainty for the user); 2. synchronising text and image in a permanent way: navigating the images would have the transcription text scrolling accordingly, and viceversa; the alignment would be guaranteed, but could be a little heavy on resources perhaps (alignment might be disabled an re-enabled though); 3. giving up on a line to line alignment for a simpler page to page linking: surely less flexible, would require less encoding and less resources. Which solution is best, in your opinion? Are you working on similar text-image linking projects? What have you decided to do? Thanks in advance, Roberto -- 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) -- 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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