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Call for Nominations: DM Board
by O'Donnell, Dan 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

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/)

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Announcement: 'Sacred Voices'
by A.Laubinger 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

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/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/

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DM/DC Special Issue: Digital Medievalist 4 (2008). "Though much is taken, much abides": Recovering antiquity through innovative digital methodologies
by Daniel O'Donnell 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

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 -- 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/

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OCR on Manuscripts
by Dot Porter 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

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 -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### 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 *************************************** -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### 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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TEI Meeting
by Dan O'Donnell 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

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 -- 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

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TEI Meeting 2008
by Dan O'Donnell 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

FYI. -- 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

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Changing the Center of Gravity
by Dot Porter 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

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 -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### 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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Large Scale Digitisation
by Daniel O'Donnell 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi all, While this is a bit of a tangent, I have been having a number of discussions with people on this subject lately. The following link is to an interesting report on projects like Google Books: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub141/pub141.pdf -dan -- 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/

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Fwd: [EXLIBRIS-L] 49th Annual RBMS Preconference - Registration now open!
by Dot Porter 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

49th Annual RBMS Preconference Rare and Special Bytes: Special Collections in the Digital Age June 24-27, 2008 | Los Angeles, California Hosted by UCLA and the Getty Research Institute Register and book your hotel room early, the last two RBMS Preconferences have sold out! Registration is now open for the 49th Annual RBMS Preconference. Digitization is a hot topic in all libraries, but has unique implications for special collections repositories. We face increasing pressure to provide digital objects for the classroom and for researchers, yet mass digitization is generally not an option. This preconference will explore a wide range of exciting and vexing issues pertaining to the digitization of special collections, including the selection of materials, improving access, copyright and licensing, and the use of digitized materials. Full-day workshops will be offered on Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) and the Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books). For program, registration, and housing information, please visit: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/RBMS/index.htm Bookmark this page! A limited number of scholarships are available for first-time attendees. Late registration charges apply after May 21. We look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles! Kris Kiesling, 2008 RBMS Preconference Program Chair Elmer L. Andersen Director of Archives and Special Collections Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections Advancement 305 Andersen Library University of Minnesota Libraries -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### 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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Fwd: DH Specialists and Metadata Manager positions for the Digital Humanities Observatory (Dublin)
by Dot Porter 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Forwarded from the TEI-L ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Schreibman <sschreib(a)umd.edu> Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM Subject: DH Specialists and Metadata Manager positions for the Digital Humanities Observatory (Dublin) To: TEI-L(a)listserv.brown.edu *Digital Humanities Observatory* Funded under PRTLI 4, the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and its partners in the Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium (HSIS) will build a joint national platform for the coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level. The key infrastructural element of the consortium will be the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO). The DHO will be an electronic access portal and research resource for the humanities, designed, hosted and operated by the RIA. RIA now invites applications for the following 3-year fixed term contract positions with the DHO: *Digital Humanities Specialists* (3-year fixed term contracts x 2) Reporting to the DHO Director, the Digital Humanities Specialists will bring specific skills to the DHO such as text encoding, database development, imaging or audio and moving image expertise. The Digital Humanities Specialists will be responsible for: • assisting in the development of a technical framework to support a shared repository for HSIS research • advanced consultations to HSIS partners both at the DHO offices and at partner institutions throughout Ireland • developing, coordinating, and teaching seminars, workshops, symposia, and a DHO summer school • adopting standards and disseminating information about their usage via documentation, templates, and training materials • serving as a primary point of contact with the Academy Digital Resource projects • assisting in development efforts such as writing funding applications as well as promoting the work of the DHO via professional activities such as conference presentations, articles and poster sessions. The successful candidates will have an MA or equivalent and a minimum of two years experience in a digital humanities or digital libraries environment. Applications from candidates with a PhD which focused on a digital humanities theme combined with relevant research/teaching experience are also welcome. Candidates should normally have experience in a key role in bringing digital projects to completion, be excellent communicators, and be committed to training and mentoring. Salary Scale: €44,914 - €48, 780 *Metadata Manager *(3-year fixed term contract) Reporting to the DHO Director, the Metadata Manager will be responsible for: • promoting and supporting the use of advanced computing techniques as applied to the humanities • researching, evaluating, and interpreting developments in metadata standards • designing appropriate metadata schema to facilitate the use of HSIS collections • cataloguing materials using a variety of metadata schema • assisting in the development of a technical framework to support a shared repository for HSIS research • assisting in development efforts such as drafting funding applications as well as promoting the work of the DHO via professional activities such as conference presentations, articles and poster sessions. The successful candidate will have an approved postgraduate library qualification, and at least two years experience working in a digital library or digital humanities environment. The successful candidate must demonstrate proficiency in OAI and XML DTDs or Schema (EAD and TEI), with two or more of the following: DC, MARC, MODS and METS. It is expected that the candidate will be self-directed, results orientated, adaptable to change, and a team player. Excellent communication skills are required, as well as a commitment to training and mentoring, and the ability to effectively articulate abstract ideas. Experience in understanding the principles of database structure and design is also highly desirable. Salary Scale: €48,780 - €52,800 Further information and details of the application process are available on www.ria.ie and www.dho.ie. The closing date for applications is Friday 7th March 2008 at 4pm. Applicants will be shortlisted on the basis of the information provided in their application. These positions may remain open until suitable candidates are found. The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib(a)umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### 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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