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D+MECH, the DEEDS Project new charter dating program
by Rodolfo Fiallos 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

*DOCUMENTS OF EARLY **ENGLAND** DATA SET* *(DEEDS PROJECT)* *Directed by* *Michael Gervers, PhD* *University** of **Toronto*** * * * * For several decades, the DEEDS Project has had as its major research objective the development of a computer program to provide chronological context for undated English private charters issued after the Norman Conquest in 1066 and before the reign of Edward II in 1307. During this period, approximately 95% of these documents were promulgated without dates. Only after the start of the 14^th century was internal dating regularly applied to conveyances. The program which has been developed, and is now available on line, produces a date based on the comparison of word-strings in the test document with similar word-strings in a database of 10,000 dated charters. We would like to invite you to test this program using Latin texts from the period. You will find the site at: http://scriptor.deeds.utoronto.ca:7777/d_mech Once at the home page, click on "Go" at the bottom centre. Paste your document to be dated in the empty rectangle and click on "next". If you wish, edit your text. This entails exchanging personal or place name with the letter "P" (& note also what appears under "DOCUM" on the home page). Continue to click "next" and finally "Date it". The result will appear in Roman numerals in the upper left of your screen, and in Arabic numerals at the lower right. Generally speaking, these machine-generated dates provide accuracy within ± 10 years about 65% of the time. To bring the remaining 35% in line, we will need to develop additional algorithms. The statistical background for the program was developed by Professor Andrey Feuerverger of the Department of Statistics, and his PhD student, Gelila Tilahun. The dating program, and the website, were created by Rodolfo Fiallos of the DEEDS Project. Based on tests using the dated documents in the DEEDS corpus, the program can provide reasonable accuracy from about 1160; before that time there are very few dated documents available to serve as comparative material. We are always looking for documents to add to the database, especially for the period 1066 to 1200, and would welcome examples from sources other than those we have already searched (about 190 printed sources up to this point). In fact, our efforts would benefit greatly from the collaboration of interested colleagues, both in providing us with the texts of transcribed documents on the one hand, and in testing the dating program with them on the other. We also have a search engine which provides access to the content of the 10,000 documents in the manner of a concordance. By this means, the database is fully searchable, and each column can be arranged in alphabetical or numeric order by clicking at the top of the column: http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research/ Click on Medieval Latin Charters > Search Place a word or word-string into the "Query" box. Click on the bullet "Context". Enter the no. of words you would like to find at either end of your chosen string. Click on "Execute". This is a beta program. We have worked long and hard to develop it, while at the same time knowing that there is always room for greater accuracy and improvement. We hope you will find it useful and that you will send us your reactions. Michael Gervers m.gervers(a)utoronto.ca <mailto:m.gervers@utoronto.ca> Rodolfo Fiallos r.fiallos(a)utoronto.ca <mailto:r.fiallos@utoronto.ca> Toronto, 8 June 2008 -- Rodolfo Fiallos Research Network/Database Administrator The DEEDS Project, University of Toronto www.utoronto.ca/deeds Tel./Fax: 416-978-4882

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Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services (seminar London)
by simon mahony 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

This is to announce the first seminar in this summer's Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress series. Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford) 'The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services' Time: Friday 6th June at 16:30 Place: room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Brief abstract: The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names was established 35 years ago to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names. Thorough maintenance of the IT infrastructure has enabled us to start making new uses of the data and enable inter-project exchange. We will describe the Lexicon data model, its relationship to semantic markup using TEI XML, web services which we can offer, and some of the novel investigations which can now be (we have a poster available which we can forward if you contact us) *All are welcome.* The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments after which everyone is also welcome to join us in entreating the speakers at a local venue. best regards Simon ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate 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

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Changes in the Board
by Daniel O'Donnell 20 May '08

20 May '08

First of all, I'd like to thank all those who ran and voted for the board positions. It is exciting to see the completion of the transition of DM from an investigator-driven project to a fully membership-run organisation. It is also exciting to see the addition of new people to the board. And yet sad to see an old hand moving on. Outgoing board member Murray McGillivray of the U of C was one of the three founding members of the list serve (bestpractice) that ultimately led to the formation of Digital Medievalist and an original member of the grant. With one exception, everybody on the DM board joined the project after its initial inception (though several were on the first grant and set up most of the aspects of the current organisation). Other original members who have since moved on include Elizabeth Solopova (another member of the original best-practice mailing list), Peter Baker, and Martin Foys. Once again thanks to all who have helped bring DM to its current strength! -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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[Fwd: Oxford Summer Schools on TEI, XML and more]
by James Cummings 20 May '08

20 May '08

FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Oxford Summer Schools on TEI, XML and more Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 08:35:23 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz(a)OUCS.OX.AC.UK> Reply-To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz(a)OUCS.OX.AC.UK> To: TEI-L(a)listserv.brown.edu Join us at OUCS this summer for two workshops organized by the Research Technologies Service. During the week July 21st to 25th, the TEI team at Oxford is once again offering special training in text encoding principles and techniques. This year we have two workshops: * XML, TEI, and beyond: July 21st-23rd 2008 This three-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with hands-on practical exercises in their application. If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of large amounts of digital text, this course is for you. * XML processing using XSLT: July 24th-25th 2008 This is a two-day technical course is a practical guide to the use of XSLT to do more than simply render your XML documents. Aimed at project research assistants, encoders, and programmers, it provides in-depth coverage of the principles and practice of the W3C's extensible Stylesheet language, focussing on its use as a general purpose text manipulation and processing language. Interested? Please register as soon as possible, as places are limited. The two workshops are independent of each other, but we're pleased to announce a 20% discount is available if you register for both. For further information and booking, please visit http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/ -- Sebastian Rahtz Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431

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DM Election results
by Torsten Schassan 19 May '08

19 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear All, I am very pleased to welcome the following colleagues to the Digital Medievalist Executive Board: *Burghart, Marjorie (Lyon) *Cummings, James (Oxford) *Porter, Dorothy Carr (Lexington, KY) *Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto (Torino) There were 35 total votes, or 9% of the DM listserv membership. The slate was strong and the election was quite close. Thanks very much to all the candidates and to these individuals for being willing to serve. The board has to thank especially Murray McGillivray who has been member of the Executive Board and dedicated his time to the project. - -- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIMVA6q4nZEP2KS4QRAkJ8AJ0bNBg39eeCIl86Lu2d21hM+UP3lwCePTqe ZAGdK+pplZqK/IZElYuIdqI= =F3IK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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DM Election last day
by Torsten Schassan 16 May '08

16 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear DigitalMedievalists, today is the last day to vote for the next board, so this is the ultimate reminder to cast your vote for the second elected Digital Medievalist Executive Board. For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. You may cast your vote until Friday, 16th of May, 12pm, GMT, We have four open slots and eight names on the slate. You may vote for one, two, three or four names. If you submit more than four names all of your votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are acceptable but count as one of your four votes. You may vote for (up to four) of these candidates (short bios below): Burghart, Marjorie Cummings, James McGillivray, Murray Porter, Dorothy Carr Rehbein, Malte Rosselli del Turco, Roberto Twycross, Meg Vogeler, Georg Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with the most votes will come to the Executive Board. Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to election(a)digitalmedievalist.org ************************************* Burghart, Marjorie. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France. Burgart holds a M.A. in Medieval Studies and a M.Sc. in computer sciences. She prepares a PhD Thesis in Medieval studies: study and edition of the /Sermones ad status/ collection by the 13th century friar Gilbert of Tournai, OFM. Since 2000, she has worked as a computer scientist particularly focusing on digital humanities. In her current position at the /Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France, she coordinates the computing aspects of several projects involving the electronic edition of medieval documents in TEI format (from latin sermons to accounts corpora, not to mention the /Glossa ordinaria/ of the Bible), as long as databases and, to a certain extent, GIS. She has led or been involved in the development of various tools (/ScolastiX/, a collaborative XML annotation platform ; /BibliOpera/, a multi-user online bibliographical database manager ; /COL/, a latin spellchecker for MS Word and OpenOffice ; a meta-search engine for a libraries portal without Z3950 ; ...). She is currently working at a companion guide for scholars wanting to produce an electronic edition. She also occasionally acts as a consultant for other academic institutions, on computing aspects of History and Archaeology related projects. Her sensibility to scholarly edition has been developed by her role as a member, since 2002, of the editorial committee of the /Médiéviste et l'Ordinateur <http://lemo.irht.cnrs.fr>/ journal. ========== Cummings, James. Research Officer, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford. Cummings is the Senior RTS Project Officer of the Oxford University Computing Services. His PhD was in medieval studies, and he works on a number of projects such as the Text Encoding Initiative, and ENRICH (and EU-funded project standardising medieval manuscript metadata across Europe). His work for Digital Medievalist (DM) has mainly been on the technical side. He was responsible for redesigning the technical infrastructure of DM's new website (using TEI XML inside Apache's Cocoon with custom XSLT, and fed automatically by the DM subversion server). He has also moved the wiki and improved the DM mail handling systems. James is running again for the DM Board so that he can continue such work. ========== McGillivray, Murray. Professor (formerly Head) of English, University of Calgary. McGillivray has been a digital medievalist (practitioner, theorist, enthusiast) for over twenty years and has been involved with DM since the beginning. His primary scholarly interest is the use of computer methods in the development and distribution of scholarly editions. His current digital projects include an electronic edition of the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript (BL Cotton Nero A.x.) and the Online Corpus of Old English Poetry. ========== Porter, Dorothy Carr. Program Coordinator, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky. Porter is Program Coordinator of the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH; http://www.rch.uky.edu/) and lead in the Computational Humanities group at the Center for Visualization (http://www.vis.uky.edu/), both at the University of Kentucky. She has served on the Digital Medievalist board since 2006 and has also served on the journal editorial board. Porter is the chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources (http://www.medievalacademy.org/) (2006-2009) and has served on the technical council of the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) (2006 and 2007). She has worked on many digital projects in medieval studies and classics including the Electronic Boethius (http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm) and the Homer Multitext project (http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/homer_multitext). Her particular research interests are the relationship between text and image in encoding and digital publication, and interdisciplinary collaboration. ========== Rehbein, Malte. Marie Curie Research Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway and member of the Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing (TEXTE) programme. Rehbein is a graduate in history and mathematics from University of Göttingen and gained his first experience in the Digital Humanities as an associate in the Duderstadt digitization project at Max-Planck-Insitute for History in Göttingen (1996-99). His main research interest is on methodology for creating digital scholarly edtions of historical texts. Among other projects, he is currently working on an edition of multi-layered late medieval town statutes. He also has work experience as a software developer and business consultant. ========== Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto. Associate professor, University of Torino. Rosselli Del Turco is an associate professor at the University of Torino and also teaches a Text Encoding course at the University of Pisa. He is the director of the Digital Vercelli Book project, a project aiming at producing a diplomatic edition of the Vercelli Book manuscript by means of a TEI transcription of all the texts it holds; he is also a member of the TEI Manuscript Transcription SIG, to improve the effectiveness of TEI tools and guidelines for transcription of primary sources. He is a founder of the Digital Medievalist Project and has served on the Board during the last term. His interests lie in text encoding with TEI, text- and image-based digital editions, usability and design of digital edition software. ========== Twycross, Meg. Professor Emeritus, MA, BLitt, CertEd (Oxon), FRSA. Twycross is Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies at Lancaster University, a leading expert in medieval and early Renaissance theatre and pageantry, and Executive Editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre. She is currently using 'virtual restoration' techniques on high-resolution digital images of the York Ordo paginarum, a severely damaged document listing the pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play, to recover the original 1415 readings from underneath later erasures and rewriting. ========== Vogeler, Georg. University of Lecce. Vogeler has studied Historical Auxiliary Sciences at Freiburg and Munich. He wrote his PhD thesis about tax administration in the late medieval German territorial states. Scince 1996 he worked as lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the chair for Historical Auxiliary Sciences in Munich. At the moment he is travelling through Italy with a scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation studying the use of the documents of Frederich II. His interest in the use of the computer for historical research dates back to several seminars held by Manfred Thaller he attended in the 1990s. He is editor of the Virtual Library Historical Auxiliary Sciences (http://www.vl-ghw.lmu.de), published several articles on the use of the computer for diplomatic research, put forward the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de) and recently organized an international conference on "Digital Diplomatics" (February 2007). He is member of the "Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik" (Institute for documentology and editorial science, http://www.i-d-e.de) and of the board of the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net). - -- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFILTSLq4nZEP2KS4QRAv59AJ99jKWSqEPPTxcZgs38n4d2ISH9ggCdEmfp YqPSki62bsW7k3LoLWaZtyQ= =CcoJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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DM Election - only 2 more days
by Torsten Schassan 14 May '08

14 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear DigitalMedievalists, as there are only two more days to vote for the next board this is a reminder to cast your vote for the second elected Digital Medievalist Executive Board. For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. You may cast your vote until Friday, 16th of May, 12pm, GMT, We have four open slots and eight names on the slate. You may vote for one, two, three or four names. If you submit more than four names all of your votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are acceptable but count as one of your four votes. You may vote for (up to four) of these candidates (short bios below): Burghart, Marjorie Cummings, James McGillivray, Murray Porter, Dorothy Carr Rehbein, Malte Rosselli del Turco, Roberto Twycross, Meg Vogeler, Georg Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with the most votes will come to the Executive Board. Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to election(a)digitalmedievalist.org ************************************* Burghart, Marjorie. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France. Burgart holds a M.A. in Medieval Studies and a M.Sc. in computer sciences. She prepares a PhD Thesis in Medieval studies: study and edition of the /Sermones ad status/ collection by the 13th century friar Gilbert of Tournai, OFM. Since 2000, she has worked as a computer scientist particularly focusing on digital humanities. In her current position at the /Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France, she coordinates the computing aspects of several projects involving the electronic edition of medieval documents in TEI format (from latin sermons to accounts corpora, not to mention the /Glossa ordinaria/ of the Bible), as long as databases and, to a certain extent, GIS. She has led or been involved in the development of various tools (/ScolastiX/, a collaborative XML annotation platform ; /BibliOpera/, a multi-user online bibliographical database manager ; /COL/, a latin spellchecker for MS Word and OpenOffice ; a meta-search engine for a libraries portal without Z3950 ; ...). She is currently working at a companion guide for scholars wanting to produce an electronic edition. She also occasionally acts as a consultant for other academic institutions, on computing aspects of History and Archaeology related projects. Her sensibility to scholarly edition has been developed by her role as a member, since 2002, of the editorial committee of the /Médiéviste et l'Ordinateur <http://lemo.irht.cnrs.fr>/ journal. ========== Cummings, James. Research Officer, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford. Cummings is the Senior RTS Project Officer of the Oxford University Computing Services. His PhD was in medieval studies, and he works on a number of projects such as the Text Encoding Initiative, and ENRICH (and EU-funded project standardising medieval manuscript metadata across Europe). His work for Digital Medievalist (DM) has mainly been on the technical side. He was responsible for redesigning the technical infrastructure of DM's new website (using TEI XML inside Apache's Cocoon with custom XSLT, and fed automatically by the DM subversion server). He has also moved the wiki and improved the DM mail handling systems. James is running again for the DM Board so that he can continue such work. ========== McGillivray, Murray. Professor (formerly Head) of English, University of Calgary. McGillivray has been a digital medievalist (practitioner, theorist, enthusiast) for over twenty years and has been involved with DM since the beginning. His primary scholarly interest is the use of computer methods in the development and distribution of scholarly editions. His current digital projects include an electronic edition of the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript (BL Cotton Nero A.x.) and the Online Corpus of Old English Poetry. ========== Porter, Dorothy Carr. Program Coordinator, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky. Porter is Program Coordinator of the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH; http://www.rch.uky.edu/) and lead in the Computational Humanities group at the Center for Visualization (http://www.vis.uky.edu/), both at the University of Kentucky. She has served on the Digital Medievalist board since 2006 and has also served on the journal editorial board. Porter is the chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources (http://www.medievalacademy.org/) (2006-2009) and has served on the technical council of the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) (2006 and 2007). She has worked on many digital projects in medieval studies and classics including the Electronic Boethius (http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm) and the Homer Multitext project (http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/homer_multitext). Her particular research interests are the relationship between text and image in encoding and digital publication, and interdisciplinary collaboration. ========== Rehbein, Malte. Marie Curie Research Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway and member of the Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing (TEXTE) programme. Rehbein is a graduate in history and mathematics from University of Göttingen and gained his first experience in the Digital Humanities as an associate in the Duderstadt digitization project at Max-Planck-Insitute for History in Göttingen (1996-99). His main research interest is on methodology for creating digital scholarly edtions of historical texts. Among other projects, he is currently working on an edition of multi-layered late medieval town statutes. He also has work experience as a software developer and business consultant. ========== Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto. Associate professor, University of Torino. Rosselli Del Turco is an associate professor at the University of Torino and also teaches a Text Encoding course at the University of Pisa. He is the director of the Digital Vercelli Book project, a project aiming at producing a diplomatic edition of the Vercelli Book manuscript by means of a TEI transcription of all the texts it holds; he is also a member of the TEI Manuscript Transcription SIG, to improve the effectiveness of TEI tools and guidelines for transcription of primary sources. He is a founder of the Digital Medievalist Project and has served on the Board during the last term. His interests lie in text encoding with TEI, text- and image-based digital editions, usability and design of digital edition software. ========== Twycross, Meg. Professor Emeritus, MA, BLitt, CertEd (Oxon), FRSA. Twycross is Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies at Lancaster University, a leading expert in medieval and early Renaissance theatre and pageantry, and Executive Editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre. She is currently using 'virtual restoration' techniques on high-resolution digital images of the York Ordo paginarum, a severely damaged document listing the pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play, to recover the original 1415 readings from underneath later erasures and rewriting. ========== Vogeler, Georg. University of Lecce. Vogeler has studied Historical Auxiliary Sciences at Freiburg and Munich. He wrote his PhD thesis about tax administration in the late medieval German territorial states. Scince 1996 he worked as lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the chair for Historical Auxiliary Sciences in Munich. At the moment he is travelling through Italy with a scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation studying the use of the documents of Frederich II. His interest in the use of the computer for historical research dates back to several seminars held by Manfred Thaller he attended in the 1990s. He is editor of the Virtual Library Historical Auxiliary Sciences (http://www.vl-ghw.lmu.de), published several articles on the use of the computer for diplomatic research, put forward the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de) and recently organized an international conference on "Digital Diplomatics" (February 2007). He is member of the "Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik" (Institute for documentology and editorial science, http://www.i-d-e.de) and of the board of the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net). - -- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKw8jq4nZEP2KS4QRAr2AAJ9rvO2091au3Hi5HYoUxcZzSt1EYQCfbxvO wFX9VC9BiCWvKR1JknYYs5Q= =2unx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New TEXTE position
by Rehbein, Malte 14 May '08

14 May '08

The EU-funded TEXTE project at the National University of Ireland Galway is seeking applicants for a six-month Marie Curie Senior Research Fellowship. The Fellow will have a research record of international standing, and substantial experience in the theory and practice of scholarly editing and in the application of new technologies to the creation of editions and/or hypermedia resources. He or she will deliver seminars and workshops in his or her area of expertise, and will be available to support the research of other TEXTE project staff and researchers. The Fellow's own research will be facilitated while in residence. Details are available on the CORDIS website <http://cordis.europa.eu/mc-opportunities/>, or the website of the Moore Institute <http://www.mooreinstitute.ie>, or by emailing Dr Sean Ryder at: sean.ryder(a)nuigalway.ie. --- Malte Rehbein M.A. Marie Curie Research Fellow Moore Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Mob.: +353 85 8144 685 Fax.: +353 91 49 5507 Email: malte.rehbein(a)nuigalway.ie

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jobs in the Cambridge Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online
by Dot Porter 14 May '08

14 May '08

Via humanist: --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:03:31 +0100 From: Christopher Burlinson <cmb29(a)cam.ac.uk> Subject: jobs in the Cambridge Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online Senior Research Associate and Research Associate Vacancy Reference No: GG03380 Salary: GBP 34,793 - GBP 44,074 or GBP 25,888 GBP 33,780 Limit of tenure applies. Final year of research project. Cambridge University, in association with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, wishes to appoint one Senior Research Associate and one Research Associate, both for a period of one year, with effect from 1 October 2008, to its project entitled Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online, based in the Faculty of English <http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk>. Candidates will need high-level bibliographical, codicological, and palaeographical skills relevant to English manuscript study in the period 1450 - 1720, and should be familiar with (or ready to develop expertise in) HTML and XML, as well as javascript and database-driven projects, and the processing and handling of digital images. The SRA and RA will be responsible for organizing colloquia and handling project communications, and for co-ordinating manuscript-based research, developing both electronic and print outputs, and producing written research at the highest level; candidates therefore must have a doctorate in a relevant period and discipine (or comparable research excellence), experience in handling medieval and/or early modern manuscripts, and excellent oral and written communication skills. Those with a proven research record, and with experience with one or more of the manuscript subject areas (e.g. English and/or Latin poetry, heraldry, law, medicine, theology), will be preferred. Faculty-based mentoring will be available. Further details and an application form for both posts can be downloaded from the English Faculty website or obtained from the Secretary to the Appointments Committee, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP (tel: 01223 335074, email: va215(a)cam.ac.uk). Candidates should indicate in their application whether they wish to be considered for one or both posts. Referees should be asked to write directly to the Secretary to reach the Faculty by the closing date of 6 June 2008. Interviews will be held on 27 June 2008. See also <http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/jobs/index.htm> -- Dr Christopher Burlinson Emmanuel College Cambridge Senior Research Associate Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk Faculty of English 9 West Road Cambridge Tel.: 01223 331970 (college) / 767310 (faculty) e-mail: cmb29(a)cam.ac.uk

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DM Election Day 4
by Torsten Schassan 13 May '08

13 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear DigitalMedievalists, as half of the time to vote for the next board is over this is a reminder to cast your vote for the second elected Digital Medievalist Executive Board. For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. You may cast your vote until Friday, 16th of May, 12pm, GMT, We have four open slots and eight names on the slate. You may vote for one, two, three or four names. If you submit more than four names all of your votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are acceptable but count as one of your four votes. You may vote for (up to four) of these candidates (short bios below): Burghart, Marjorie Cummings, James McGillivray, Murray Porter, Dorothy Carr Rehbein, Malte Rosselli del Turco, Roberto Twycross, Meg Vogeler, James Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with the most votes will come to the Executive Board. Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to election(a)digitalmedievalist.org ************************************* Burghart, Marjorie. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France. Burgart holds a M.A. in Medieval Studies and a M.Sc. in computer sciences. She prepares a PhD Thesis in Medieval studies: study and edition of the /Sermones ad status/ collection by the 13th century friar Gilbert of Tournai, OFM. Since 2000, she has worked as a computer scientist particularly focusing on digital humanities. In her current position at the /Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ (EHESS - UMR 5648), Lyon, France, she coordinates the computing aspects of several projects involving the electronic edition of medieval documents in TEI format (from latin sermons to accounts corpora, not to mention the /Glossa ordinaria/ of the Bible), as long as databases and, to a certain extent, GIS. She has led or been involved in the development of various tools (/ScolastiX/, a collaborative XML annotation platform ; /BibliOpera/, a multi-user online bibliographical database manager ; /COL/, a latin spellchecker for MS Word and OpenOffice ; a meta-search engine for a libraries portal without Z3950 ; ...). She is currently working at a companion guide for scholars wanting to produce an electronic edition. She also occasionally acts as a consultant for other academic institutions, on computing aspects of History and Archaeology related projects. Her sensibility to scholarly edition has been developed by her role as a member, since 2002, of the editorial committee of the /Médiéviste et l'Ordinateur <http://lemo.irht.cnrs.fr>/ journal. ========== Cummings, James. Research Officer, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford. Cummings is the Senior RTS Project Officer of the Oxford University Computing Services. His PhD was in medieval studies, and he works on a number of projects such as the Text Encoding Initiative, and ENRICH (and EU-funded project standardising medieval manuscript metadata across Europe). His work for Digital Medievalist (DM) has mainly been on the technical side. He was responsible for redesigning the technical infrastructure of DM's new website (using TEI XML inside Apache's Cocoon with custom XSLT, and fed automatically by the DM subversion server). He has also moved the wiki and improved the DM mail handling systems. James is running again for the DM Board so that he can continue such work. ========== McGillivray, Murray. Professor (formerly Head) of English, University of Calgary. McGillivray has been a digital medievalist (practitioner, theorist, enthusiast) for over twenty years and has been involved with DM since the beginning. His primary scholarly interest is the use of computer methods in the development and distribution of scholarly editions. His current digital projects include an electronic edition of the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript (BL Cotton Nero A.x.) and the Online Corpus of Old English Poetry. ========== Porter, Dorothy Carr. Program Coordinator, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky. Porter is Program Coordinator of the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH; http://www.rch.uky.edu/) and lead in the Computational Humanities group at the Center for Visualization (http://www.vis.uky.edu/), both at the University of Kentucky. She has served on the Digital Medievalist board since 2006 and has also served on the journal editorial board. Porter is the chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources (http://www.medievalacademy.org/) (2006-2009) and has served on the technical council of the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) (2006 and 2007). She has worked on many digital projects in medieval studies and classics including the Electronic Boethius (http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm) and the Homer Multitext project (http://chs.harvard.edu/chs/homer_multitext). Her particular research interests are the relationship between text and image in encoding and digital publication, and interdisciplinary collaboration. ========== Rehbein, Malte. Marie Curie Research Fellow at National University of Ireland, Galway and member of the Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing (TEXTE) programme. Rehbein is a graduate in history and mathematics from University of Göttingen and gained his first experience in the Digital Humanities as an associate in the Duderstadt digitization project at Max-Planck-Insitute for History in Göttingen (1996-99). His main research interest is on methodology for creating digital scholarly edtions of historical texts. Among other projects, he is currently working on an edition of multi-layered late medieval town statutes. He also has work experience as a software developer and business consultant. ========== Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto. Associate professor, University of Torino. Rosselli Del Turco is an associate professor at the University of Torino and also teaches a Text Encoding course at the University of Pisa. He is the director of the Digital Vercelli Book project, a project aiming at producing a diplomatic edition of the Vercelli Book manuscript by means of a TEI transcription of all the texts it holds; he is also a member of the TEI Manuscript Transcription SIG, to improve the effectiveness of TEI tools and guidelines for transcription of primary sources. He is a founder of the Digital Medievalist Project and has served on the Board during the last term. His interests lie in text encoding with TEI, text- and image-based digital editions, usability and design of digital edition software. ========== Twycross, Meg. Professor Emeritus, MA, BLitt, CertEd (Oxon), FRSA. Twycross is Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies at Lancaster University, a leading expert in medieval and early Renaissance theatre and pageantry, and Executive Editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre. She is currently using 'virtual restoration' techniques on high-resolution digital images of the York Ordo paginarum, a severely damaged document listing the pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play, to recover the original 1415 readings from underneath later erasures and rewriting. ========== Vogeler, Georg. University of Lecce. Vogeler has studied Historical Auxiliary Sciences at Freiburg and Munich. He wrote his PhD thesis about tax administration in the late medieval German territorial states. Scince 1996 he worked as lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the chair for Historical Auxiliary Sciences in Munich. At the moment he is travelling through Italy with a scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation studying the use of the documents of Frederich II. His interest in the use of the computer for historical research dates back to several seminars held by Manfred Thaller he attended in the 1990s. He is editor of the Virtual Library Historical Auxiliary Sciences (http://www.vl-ghw.lmu.de), published several articles on the use of the computer for diplomatic research, put forward the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de) and recently organized an international conference on "Digital Diplomatics" (February 2007). He is member of the "Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik" (Institute for documentology and editorial science, http://www.i-d-e.de) and of the board of the monasterium-project (http://www.monasterium.net). - --- Torsten Schassan Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130, schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de; http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKcCHq4nZEP2KS4QRAigeAJ49SwXwiypBRXeOEIujj5usOGI3WgCfarZj 8zc+/LNDQoZtdKU/zZxC0ac= =pgHL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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