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[Fwd: Press release: JISC reviews its services in support of the Arts and Humanities]
by James Cummings 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Dear DM-L, This may be of interest to some of you, especially in the UK. -James -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Press release: JISC reviews its services in support of the Arts and Humanities Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:59:25 +0100 From: Philip Pothen <p.pothen(a)JISC.AC.UK> Reply-To: Philip Pothen <p.pothen(a)JISC.AC.UK> To: JISC-ANNOUNCE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK *Press release* * * *Supporting research in the Arts and Humanities: JISC to review its services* 13 June 2007. Following the decision by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) to cease funding the AHDS <http://www.ahds.ac.uk/> (Arts and Humanities Data Service) from March 31^st 2008, JISC has decided that it is unable to fund the service alone and that therefore its own funding of the service will, in its current form, cease on the same date. In its 11 years of existence the AHDS has established itself as a centre of expertise and excellence in the creation, curation and preservation of digital resources and has been responsible for a considerable engagement of the Arts and Humanities community with ICT and a significant increase in that community’s knowledge and use of digital resources. Its contribution to the development of technical standards, its outreach to sectors beyond higher education, such as cultural heritage, arts, museum and archive organisations and its support for the development of a national e-infrastructure and repository system have been among its many significant achievements. In the light of these achievements and the consequent risks to the continued development of the Arts ands Humanities community’s engagement with ICT, JISC is exploring with the AHDS, partner organisations and the wider community alternative approaches to maintaining its strong support for that community beyond March 2008. JISC has a long history of support for Arts and Humanities research, beginning with the founding of the AHDS in 1996 and continuing with its collaboration with the AHRC over the ICT Methods Network <http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/>, the Arts and Humanities e-Science initiative <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humani…> (with the AHRC and EPSRC), its contribution to the wider e-Science Initiative <http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/default.htm>, and in particular the Research Grants and Studentships Scheme <http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/ahrc-epsrc-jisc_arts_humani…> and the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre <http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/> (AHESSC). JISC’s Support of Research committee has also funded the Aria project <http://aria.dmu.ac.uk/whatIs.html> and a related Projects and Methods database <http://ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/pmdb-extension/#details> which have now been merged into an integrated resource, the ICT Guides <http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/>. At its meeting yesterday, the JISC Board reaffirmed its strong commitment to continuing this engagement but in the light of wider developments reluctantly acknowledged that the AHDS as currently constituted would not be part of its service provision beyond next year. Chair of JISC, Professor Sir Ron Cooke, paid tribute to the AHDS, saying: “The AHDS has achieved a great deal in the last 11 years and we would like to thank its staff for their skill, dedication and hard work over these years. One of the AHDS’s many achievements has been establishing capacity and expertise within the Arts and Humanities community. JISC will continue to support that community in its engagement with ICT in order to meet the many challenges of the future.” For further information, please contact Philip Pothen on 020 3006 6049, (m) 07887 564 006 or p.pothen(a)jisc.ac.uk <mailto:p.pothen@jisc.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anything in this message which does not clearly relate to the official work of the sender's organisation shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by that organisation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk

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Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3D
by Dot Porter 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

This article in Wired magazine may be of interest to the list: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan Tooting the University of Kentucky horn, Dot -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter(a)vis.uky.edu ***************************************

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[Fwd: [MEDTEXTL] Digitized Brunetto Latino Bestiary MS]
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

FYI -- 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: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Job and Phd studentship at Oxford]
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

FYI: although it is classics, members of this list may have the requisite skill set. -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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Return of Junicode
by Peter Baker 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

There was a problem overnight with the SourceForge server which I ran afoul of when I tried to upload a fix of a bug (which, to tell the truth, would have affected two or three nordicists and no one else). The bug is fixed now, the corrected file seems to be getting propagated to the mirrors, and Junicode users who wish to upgrade can safely go and get their files at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=158636 This release may be useful for people who have been waiting for additional MUFI characters (the addition of MUFI characters will be complete in the next file release). But there are also goodies here for people who use OpenType-aware applications (e.g. InDesign, XeTeX, Mellel, and to a limited extent MS Word 2003 and later--if you have enabled Windows support for International scripts). Users of Mac OS X "Tiger" or later should read the Mac readme. Source code freaks will find the source code posted later today or tomorrow. Peter

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[Fwd: New update - Digital Manuscripts of the Abbey Library of St. Gall]
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

-- 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: Digital Mss of St. Gall]
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

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Junicode 0.6.14 delayed
by Peter Baker 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

Having a few issues with the SourceForge file release system. Junicode 0.6.14 is delayed till I get it sorted. Peter

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Junicode 0.6.14 released
by Peter Baker 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

This last release in the Junicode 0.6 series contains all MUFI (Medieval Unicode Font Initiative) alphabetic characters (some diacritics, suspensions and other symbols will be added in 0.7). It also adds OpenType features especially to support MUFI: enlarged minuscules, overlines with roman numbers, underdotted (deleted) text, and an alternative shape of yogh can all be produced via Style Sets. Support for diacritics via ccmp, mark and mkmk has been expanded, and support for MUFI ligatures via hlig (Historical Ligatures) has also been expanded. See the documentation for recommendations concerning MUFI characters. Junicode is available at http://junicode.sourceforge.net. Peter Baker

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Digital infrastructure and the Homer Multitext (DC seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

(With apologies for crossposting: I am sure that both the manuscript examples and the protocols/technologies discussed in this paper will be of great interest to DMists who find themselves anywhere near London this week.) Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 Friday 8th June at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross, MA) 'Digital infrastructure and the Homer Multitext' ALL WELCOME The Homer Multitext project is creating digital resources for studying the Iliad as a textual tradition, including full TEI texts of six MSS, texts of associated scholia, and new photography of some MSS. This talk will survey the technological framework for the Multitext project, and will especially emphasize a tiered design using stable reference schemes (CTS URNs for text passages, and identifiers with data namespaces for objects) in conjunction with defined service protocols (Canonical Text Services, or CTS, for text retrieval, and Collection services for structured information about objects such as manuscripts). The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk or clyontupman(a)hotmail.com, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX Email: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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