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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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
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Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca
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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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http://www.rch.uky.edu
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
http://www.vis.uky.edu
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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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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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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
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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
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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/
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
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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
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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
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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/dcrhttp://irith.orghttp://macgreevy.org
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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.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: OKELL E.R. <e.r.okell(a)DURHAM.AC.UK>
Reply-To: The Digital Classicist List <DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
To: DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Second call for papers for a special issue
of the ALT Journal
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:02:36 -0000
Dear all,
I'm forwarding this in case it is of interest...
ALT is seeking paper submissions for a Special issue of our ALT Journal
(ALT-J). Details are as follows:
LEARNING AND TEACHING IN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL WORLDS A special issue of
ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology
Immersive virtual worlds (IVWs), such as Second Life, Active Worlds,
Croquet and Forterra and massive multi-player games (MMPGs), such as
EverQuest and World of Warcraft represent a paradigm shift in learning
technology, and an important challenge to the world of education. The
aim of this special issue of ALT-J is to develop and publish a timely
collection of papers representing current research, developments and
ideas in educational applications of IVWs and MMPGs. Of particular
interest are papers that go beyond descriptions of objects and
activities to build links between practice and pedagogy, and offer
conceptual, methodological and analytical rigour.
Full details of how to submit can be found at:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/callforpapers_altj_ivw.html.
For queries and guidance relating to the call please contact:
Robert Ward r.d.ward(a)hud.ac.uk
or
Maggi Savin-Baden m.savinbaden(a)coventry.ac.uk
Important dates:
- Until 22 February 2008: Submission of abstracts and formal/informal
response from Special Issue Editors.
- Submission of full papers: 31st March 2008.
Original Email from:
Nana Asante, Projects Administrator
Association for Learning Technology
Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 484405
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 484165
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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/
I'm not sure that this was forwarded to this list: it looks like a very
interesting project.
-dan
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From: R D Boyle <roger(a)COMP.LEEDS.AC.UK>
Reply-To: The Digital Classicist List <DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
To: DIGITALCLASSICIST(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] New resource
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:17:37 +0000
We have created a resource at
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabictexts/PB/
This is a digitisation and backlit digitisation of an C18th set of
prayers in Arabic held in the Leeds library.
This is a prototype site. I'd be interest in feedback on oversights and/or
its utility.
Please feel free to publicise this resource widely.
Roger
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/>
Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>
Associate Professor and Chair of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Vox: +1 403 329 2378
Fax: +1 403 382-7191
Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/