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FYI. Best, Torsten
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Subject: scriptorium: medieval and early modern manuscripts online
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:09:51 +0100
From: Christopher Burlinson <cmb29(a)CAM.AC.UK>
Reply-To: Online Manuscript Research <MANUSCRIPTS-ONLINE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
To: MANUSCRIPTS-ONLINE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK
With apologies for self-promotion, and for any cross-posting.
I would like to announce the Phase 1 launch of Scriptorium: Medieval and
Early Modern Manuscripts Online, an AHRC-funded project based at the
Faculty of English, Cambridge University.
http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk
Scriptorium will comprise full digital facsimiles of at least twenty late
medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books,
along with descriptions, transcriptions and bibliographical information; a
set of research and teaching resources for students and scholars working on
manuscript studies; and an enhanced version of English Handwriting: An
Online Course, our interactive palaeography tool:
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
All parts of the site will remain freely and publicly available.
Currently, the resource includes images of St Johns College, Cambridge, MS
S.23, an early seventeenth-century poetic miscellany. More images and
information will be added progressively in the coming weeks and months, as
the site is enhanced, expanded and developed.
We hope that the resource will be useful to the wide scholarly community.
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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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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
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Hi there,
I have recreated a much fuller, and hopefully more neutral-toned
Digital Medievalist article on wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Medievalist and would appreciate
it if anyone reading this would go and improve it. (Specifically by
providing more external references, correcting the style to be even
more neutral-toned and wikipedia-like, etc.)
Just thought I'd mention it in case you had a spare moment.
Best,
-James
Digitization of Primary Materials for Medievalists: A Workshop
Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Electronic Resources
Hosted by the Western Michigan University Libraries' Digitization Center
Friday, May 9, 1:30-5:00
The process of digitization project planning is essential for
endeavors large and small. Every project to digitize medieval primary
sources, whether undertaken by major libraries or by individual
scholars, must take into account issues of legality (can I post these
digital images on the web?), equipment (can I use a flatbed scanner,
or should I use a camera?), specifications (300 or 600 dpi? And what's
dpi??) and metadata standards (what's metadata?). Our seminar,
"Elements of Digitization Project Planning" will describe why a
Digitization Project Plan is essential for every project, and will go
over what each element of a project plan entails. We will discuss the
nine elements of successful project planning, and show resources and
references for developing digitization project plans. Experienced
professionals, including librarians and image experts, will share
their expertise and provide examples of previous successful project
plans. We will also cover other important aspects of digitization
technology, including the methodology and technology of digital
preservation.
Registration is $50 for MAA members and $65 for non-members.
To register, contact Dot Porter at dporter(a)uky.edu.
Space is limited to 35.
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http://www.rch.uky.edu
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
http://www.vis.uky.edu
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Please cross-list as appropriate
Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of this month for four positions to its board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the over all direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. With the election of these four positions, Digital Medievalist will complete its transition from an investigator-driven project to a community-governed organisation. Information about the organisation, including its bylaws, is available at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ (see particularly http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about/)
We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for these vacancies. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred by subscription to the organisation's mailing list, dm-l(a)uleth.ca).
If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officer, Daniel Paul O'Donnell, at daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca. The nomination period will close at 0000 UTC Thursday April 24 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the end of the week of April 28th, 2008.
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair,
Department of English,
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
Dear all,
with the usual apologies for any cross-postings, may I bring to your
attention the following workshop an Newcastle University, 9/10 April.
As some of you will know, in Newcastle we are currently working on a
digital edition of the extant manuscripts from the medieval library
of the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen (near Hannover, Germany. For a
first glance of the project see http://research.ncl.ac.uk/medingen/,
though at the moment we can't make the material available online due
to copyright issues).
Andres.
>Sacred Voices<
A Workshop of German@Newcastle
'Sacred Voices' are to be understood as an expression of faith and
devotion, ranging from God's voice to the response of the
congregation and the discourse of individual worship.
This workshop-style symposium aims to make audible those utterances
of belief in two main areas in which the 'Sacred Voices' are featured
in the medieval manuscripts: staged dialogues and musical notation.
The workshop will encompass both close readings of individual texts
and the presentation of leading approaches in recent research.
Organized in cooperation with the Early Modern Studies @ Newcastle
Group and other colleagues from the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, this workshop is the launch event for the Newcastle 'Sacred
Voices'-project, led by Elizabeth Andersen and Henrike Lähnemann.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
15.30 Digital Editing
Paper 1: Introduction and Presentation
of the Medingen Project
(Henrike LÄHNEMANN/Andres LAUBINGER)
Paper 2: Digital Music Edition (DiMusEd) -
challenge and chance. The Tübingen Project
(Stefan MORENT)
Paper 3: Editing the Rostock Songbook
(Anna PINSKE)
Thursday, 10 April 2008
10.00 Meditations& Dialogue
Paper 1: Meditation & Drama.
Scenes of the Nativity in devotional texts
(Elizabeth ANDERSEN)
Paper 2: Body & Soul.
Debates in late medieval German manuscripts
(Emily RICHARDS)
Paper 3: Dialogue in a Carthusian monastery
(Andres LAUBINGER)
Paper 4: Between iubilus and canticum.
The role of music in meditations of the Devotio moderna
(Ulrike HASCHER-BURGER)
15.00 Liturgy
Paper 1: In search of the Corvey Antiphonar.
The liturgy of the Bursfelde Reform
(Hartmut MÖLLER)
Paper 2: Service books from late medieval England
(Magnus WILLIAMSON)
16.45 Final discussion / Perspectives
http://research.ncl.ac.uk/medingen/sacredvoices/
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Andres Laubinger
Research Assistant
Newcastle University
School of Modern Languages
Old Library Building, Room 6.5b
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 5053
Email: andres.laubinger(a)ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/
Please cross post
Digital Medievalist announces the publication of a special Digital
Medievalist/Digital Classicist Issue: "Though much is taken, much
abides": Recovering antiquity through innovative digital methodologies,
Published in honour of Ross Scaife (1960-2008).
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/).
* "Though much is taken, much abides": Recovering antiquity
through innovative digital methodologies: Introduction to the
Special Issue
Gabriel Bodard and Simon Mahony
* We are all together: On publishing a Digital Classicist issue of
the Digital Medievalist Journal Gabriel Bodard and Daniel Paul
O'Donnell
* The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias as Electronic Publication: a
user's perspective and a proposed paradigm Gabriel Bodard
* The Application of Network Analysis to Ancient Transport
Geography: A Case Study of Roman Baetica Leif Isaksen
* Towards a digital model to edit the different paratextuality
levels within a textual tradition Paolo Monella
* VLMA: a tool for creating, annotating and sharing virtual museum
collections Amy Smith, Brian Fuchs, and Leif Isaksen
Volume 4 has been edited by Arianna Ciula, Dot Porter for DM and Gabriel
Bodard and Simon Mahony for DC.
See also the first two articles in our currently open volume 3
(http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/3/):
* Palaeography and Image-Processing: Some Solutions and Problems
Peter A. Stokes
* Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music: The evolution of a
digital resource
Julia Craig-McFeely
Volume 3 is being edited by Murray McGillivray and Dan O'Donnell.
-dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Department Chair and 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/
Dear List,
I've received a query from a medievalist who is interested in applying
OCR to manuscripts. I'm not really aware of recent work in this area
and I'm wondering what, if anything, is being done at this time or in
the recent past. Last time I looked into it good OCR from handwritten
texts was a long way off - for nicely written, straight English text,
to say nothing of heavily abbreviated medieval Latin or Old English
writing. But I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.
Thanks!
Dot
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Dot Porter, University of Kentucky
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Program Coordinator
Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
http://www.rch.uky.edu
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
http://www.vis.uky.edu
dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115
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Dot Porter, University of Kentucky
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Program Coordinator
Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
http://www.rch.uky.edu
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
http://www.vis.uky.edu
dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115
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FYI. In the last couple of years, this has become more of a conference
and less of a members' meeting pur sang. If you are interested in
markup--and even better if you have something to say about it--please
consider this conference.
You don't have to drink TEI coolaid: some of our best talks last year
addressed problems with the TEI and its implementation.
TEI Members' Meeting
Date: 6-8 November 2008
Venue: King's College London, UK
Host: Centre for Computing in the Humanities
Conference Website: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/
The Programme Committee of the TEI Members' Meeting invites individual
proposals for presentations on the theme, broadly conceived, 'TEI:
Supporting Cultural Heritage Research'. Proposals may be for individual
paper presentations, panel sessions or poster sessions (including tool
demonstrations). This year's meeting will feature three days of keynote
lectures, parallel sessions, the annual TEI business meeting, a poster
session/tools demonstration and slam, as well as a full meeting day (8
November) for TEI Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
We are especially pleased to announce keynote talks by Vanda Broughton
(University College London), Dino Buzzetti (University of Bologna), and
Charlotte Roueché (King's College London).
Please join us in participating in this 21st anniversary meeting of the
TEI.
** Submission Topics **
Topics might include but are not restricted to:
- TEI-based projects involving cultural heritage
- Using TEI to create:
* - scholarly editions - hybrid publications (digital and print)
- Tools that use TEI
- TEI used in conjunction with:
* - different technologies - other standards
- TEI as:
* - metadata standard - interchange format: sharing, mapping and
migrating data
- TEI and its contribution to digital scholarship
- TEI and markup theory
In addition, we are seeking P5 micropaper proposals for 5 minute
presentations on the topic "My favourite (or least favourite) P5
feature, chapter, or addition".
** Submission Types **
Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes
for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers.
Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats,
including:
- Three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics;
- Working paper session: 3-6 papers circulated and read by the audience
in advance, so the entire session is dedicated to discussion of and
questions & answers about, the papers rather than presenting the
papers;
- Round table discussion: 3-6 presenters on a single theme. Ample time
should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations.
Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the
poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables
for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless
internet access. Each poster will have the opportunity to participate in
a slam immediately preceding the poster session.
P5 micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.
For submission procedures, please see
<http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/cfp/index.html>
All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by
30 April 2008.
Please send queries to the meeting chair, susan.schreibman(a)gmail.com
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English
Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
Vox: +1 403 329-2378
Fax: +1 403 382-7191
FYI.
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English
Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
Vox: +1 403 329-2378
Fax: +1 403 382-7191
Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through
Cyberinfrastructure
http://www.rch.uky.edu/CenterOfGravity/
University of Kentucky, 5 October 2007
This is the full audio record of "Changing the Center of Gravity:
Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure", a
workshop funded by the National Science Foundation, sponsored by the
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments at the University of
Kentucky, and organized by the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts
University.
1) Introduction (05:13)
- Gregory Crane
2) Technology, Collaboration, & Undergraduate Research (26:23)
- Christopher Blackwell and Thomas Martin, respondent Kenny Morrell
3) Digital Criticism: Editorial Standards for the Homer Multitext (29:02)
- Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott, respondent Anne Mahoney
4) Digital Geography and Classics (20:23)
- Tom Elliot, respondent Bruce Robertson
5) Computational Linguistics and Classical Lexicography (39:16)
- David Bamman and Gregory Crane, respondent David Smith
6) Citation in Classical Studies (38:34)
- Neel Smith, respondent Hugh Cayless
7) Exploring Historical RDF with Heml (24:10)
- Bruce Robertson, respondent Tom Elliot
8) Approaches to Large Scale Digitization of Early Printed Books (24:38)
- Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox, respondent Gregory Crane
9) Tachypaedia Byzantina: The Suda On Line as Collaborative
Encyclopedia (20:45)
- Anne Mahoney, respondent Christopher Blackwell
10) Epigraphy in 2017 (19:00)
- Hugh Cayless, Charlotte Roueché, Tom Elliot, and Gabriel Bodard,
respondent Bruce Robertson
11) Directions for the Future (50:04)
- Ross Scaife et al.
12) Summary (01:34)
- Gregory Crane
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Dot Porter, University of Kentucky
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Program Coordinator
Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
http://www.rch.uky.edu
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
http://www.vis.uky.edu
dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-1257 x.82115
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