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Dear All,
Please find below the final programme and link for registration. We hope you'll be able to join us.
Who has Access to Digital Humanities? Diversity and Inclusivity in Digital Humanities in Ireland and the UK
22 October 2021, 09:30-15:30
Please register for a place at the virtual event:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-has-access-to-digital-humanities-tickets…
The convenors of an Arts and Humanities Research Council/Irish Research Council funded project to undertake research and consultation towards the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association for the UK and Ireland (see list of team members at https://dhnetwork.org/) invite submissions from individuals to co-create an event relating to DH and inclusion.
One of the dreams of information and communication technologies is that of equitable and open access to information, to services, and to opportunities. We know, of course, that this is only true on the surface, and that technological systems tend to recreate the inequities of the cultures and societies that build them. As such, the dream of the digital humanities as a ‘big tent’ (that is, capacious, broad and inclusive) is also one that we need to constantly query and challenge if the field is to have a claim to being inclusive and diverse.
This is a particularly pressing issue as we explore the potential for a regional DH network to support the use and promotion of DH methods in the UK and Ireland.
Programme
09:30 Welcome to the event, Jennifer Edmond
09:45 - 11:00 Session 1: Digital Humanities and Access to Cultural Heritage
Moderator: Natalie Harrower
* Tinashe Mushakavanhu, 'African Digital Humanities and archiving gaps' (10-minute presentation)
* Adam Stoneman and Paul Mulholland, 'Making cultural participation and citizen curation accessible' (10-minute demonstration taster session)
* Valeria Carrillo Garza, 'The COVID19 crisis and small museums in the UK' (10-minute presentation)
* Kyle Ramsy, 'Using open access software to make acoustic reconstruction more accessible' (5-minute pre-recorded presentation)
* Kenna Hernly, 'The Museum Challenge' (5-minute provocation)
Discussion (35 minutes)
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE break
11:30 - 12:45 Session 2: Access to Places and Spaces; Networks and Communities
Moderator: Rianna Walcott
* Samya Brata Roy, 'Making networking accessible for Early Career Researchers' (8-minute presentation)
* Nabeel Siddiqui, 'Travelling through DH: what Big Tent?' (8-minute presentation)
* Anna-Maria Sichani and Tiago Garcia Sousa, '"So close, yet so far away": European DH professionals in post- Brexit Britain' (8-minute panel taster session)
* Nicholas Bowskill, 'Post-Autonomy and 'Groups in the Mind'' (8-minute workshop taster session)
* Vicky Garnett, 'Accessibility Lessons from Lockdown' (8-minute presentation)
Discussion (30 minutes)
12:45 - 2:00 LUNCH Break
1:15 - 2:00 Lunchtime Breakout sessions
* Adam Stoneman, 'SPICE curation platform' (Demonstration)
* Anna-Maria Sichani and Tiago Garcia Sousa, '"So close, yet so far away": European DH professionals in post- Brexit Britain' (Panel discussion)
* Nicholas Bowskill, 'SharedThinking and 'Making Groups Visible'' (workshop)
2:00 - 3:15 Session 3: Structuring for Inclusivity
Moderator: Alex Gil
* Kristen Schuster, 'Gender, labour and personal information spaces' (15-minute presentation)
* Chris Houghton, 'Bringing DH to the masses' (15-minute presentation)
* Sharon Webb, 'The Sussex Humanities Lab' (15-minute presentation)
Discussion (30 minutes)
3:15 - 3:30 Closing remarks, Charlotte Tupman
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Discussion paper on Communicating the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities in Teaching, Research and Infrastructure Development
Members of this list might also be interested to know that the draft of the Network's second discussion paper, on communicating the value and impact of DH, is open for comments until 29th October. We would very much welcome your thoughts: https://osf.io/z8v9c/
Best wishes,
Charlotte
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The VisColl team at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania, are pleased to announce the launch of VCEditor. Use VCEditor to model and visualize medieval manuscripts and books in codex format in general. We welcome your feedback! https://vceditor.library.upenn.edu<https://vceditor.library.upenn.edu/>
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VCEditor is based on the VisColl specification https://viscoll.org<https://viscoll.org/> and is adapted from the VisCodex application by @oldbooksnewsci (https://github.com/utlib/VisualCollation).
For help, see our 'How to page' (https://viscoll.org/help/) and the project Wiki (https://github.com/KislakCenter/VisualCollation/wiki).
Please share the news and let us know how we can improve this for your needs!
Thank you,
Alberto Campagnolo
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Observatory of Written Heritage | "Low Countries"
(owhlc.hypotheses.org<http://owhlc.hypotheses.org/>)
Meeting 2021
Brussels, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), 23rd and 24th November 2021
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Over the course of the Middle Ages and the first Renaissance, what was called the 'Low Countries' (BeNeLux, Northern France, Northern-Western Rhine Regions) developed an original written culture. The essential part of what has been preserved of this important heritage has fortunately survived in the libraries and manuscript collections of our regions, sometimes abroad. Over the last few years, important survey and recovery projects have been started. However, not all the heritage collections have been identified or explored, especially in the private and ecclesiastical libraries. Moreover, not all the pre-modern sources useful for the study of this written heritage have yet been identified, surveyed or edited.
To facilitate these scholarly activities, we must call on information technologies and particularly on digital humanities for inventory, research, preservation and enhancement of this heritage. Relevant technologies include managing metadata, digitization, electronic editions, data mining, virtual libraries and virtual digital museology or digitally restoring medieval books. However, all these initiatives have not yet necessarily been surveyed, and they are still not all accessible from a central point of information. Moreover, many manuscripts and the relevant sources that document their history are still poorly known to scholars working in this field.
It therefore seems timely and opportune to make an assessment of the initiatives and to establish a research community around the written heritage of the historical Low Countries and the application of digital humanities to this field. An 'observatory of written heritage', comparable to Biblissima and in close collaboration with this pioneering French portal in the field, would be a good approach to creating a synergy between keepers of the historical collections, expert librarians, academic scholars and teachers and digital humanities researchers.
In order to launch this contact group's activities, a webinar has already been organized in May 2021. Now that the relaxation of the Covid-19 rules allow for in-person meetings, we are able to organize a meeting on 23rd and 24th November. This will not be a conference, but working groups deliberating on the need of such a network, the expectations for it, and the possible activities it could undertake in the next future.
If you are a librarian, an archivist, a written heritage preservation or digitization specialist, a Digital Humanities specialist, a researcher or a teacher involved in the field of written cultures of the area in question, and if you are a representative of your institution, unit, laboratory, etc., you are friendly invited to participate in the working days (there may be several participants for each institution, depending on their skills).
!!! Due to Covid health measures in Brussels-Capital Region, access might be made conditional on presentation of a 'Covid Safe Ticket' !!!
REGISTRATION FORM <https://forms.gle/ksjh97nY9zVBhxpXA>
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PROGRAM
Tuesday, November 23rd
10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:30 Opening Speeches
Lunch Time
13:00 Working Groups (Metadata and Cataloguing, Preservation and Heritage Management, Digitization, Research, Education and Training in Written Heritage and Digital Humanities, Virtual Museology and Enhancement of Written Heritage, etc.).
15:00 Visit of KBR Museum
Wednesday, November 24th
09:30 Presentation of the Working Groups Summaries (1)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Presentation of the Working Groups Summaries (2)
Lunch Time
13:30 General Discussion
15:00 Closing Drink
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Dear DM community,
In April this year, I informed you about the beta launch of the Innovating Knowledge database. This database contains information about all surviving and identified early medieval manuscripts transmitting the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, fully or partially. Today, I am glad to inform you that the final version of the database was released at: db.innovatingknowledge.nl<http://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/>. Introduction to the database and explanatory texts can be found at the Innovating Knowledge website<https://innovatingknowledge.nl/?page_id=33>.
This final version describes 478 manuscripts, giving us for the first time a good overview of how popular and widespread work the Etymologiae was in the early Middle Ages. It is almost certainly not the final count as new witnesses of Isidore's text from the early Middle Ages continue to be identified. The database can be, hopefully, curated for at least a few more years and new manuscripts can be added to it. If more funding can be secured for the database, one day it can be hopefully expanded to contain also post-1000 manuscripts of the most important medieval Latin encyclopaedia.
The final version of the database also contains images of 270 of the manuscripts. As a novel feature, the database has an integrated Mirador viewer, which allows you to open and browse through all manuscripts equipped with a IIIF manifest (there are 264 of them) directly via the database. We also improved our free text search and filters and added two new formats (XML and Excel) to download options.
Together with the database, the project also releases the data behind the database for reuse by other projects. They can be found here<https://zenodo.org/record/5564441>.
I sincerely hope the Innovating Knowledge database will be a welcomed addition to the tools available to the Digital Medievalist community. We at the Innovating Knowledge project also welcome any tips for new manuscripts to include into the growing list of early medieval witnesses of the Etymologiae and also any corrections and additions of the extant entries in the database.
Best wishes,
Evina Steinova
https://homomodernus.net/https://evinasteinova.academia.edu/
Postdoctoral Researcher
NWO VENI project Innovating Knowledge<http://innovatingknowledge.nl>
Huygens ING, Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam
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Dear colleagues,
The Digital Humanities group within the Institute for History at the University of Vienna is seeking a post-doctoral assistant. This is a full-time position, to start in February 2022 and limited to six years; it includes independent teaching responsibilities of up to 4 SWS (~two classes per semester).
Our group has a strong profile in digital methods for historical research, and a particular emphasis on the medieval period in a variety of different regions; current projects within the group include a study of ethical issues around use of linked open data in GLAM institutions, a digital prosopography of medieval Georgia, a new edition of the Peterborough Chronicle, continuing work on the Armenian-language Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, and most recently an ERC-funded project, RELEVEN, that focuses on the eastern and northern parts of the Christian world in the eleventh century and how we can manage the historical data generated from our sources for this period.
We welcome applications from anyone who has completed their doctorate (or will have the diploma in hand before February), and who combines digital methods with the (worldwide) medieval era in their research. For more details about the job and how to apply, please visit https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun….
Best wishes,
Tara Andrews
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews
Digital Humanities
Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien
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There is still time to register for next week's SIMS Online Lecture. We look forward to seeing you there!
* Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, and Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto
Friday, October 15, 2021, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT (via Zoom)
The Book and the Silk Roads approaches the "book" in a capacious way: it is a writing surface, taken from the natural world, hand-crafted to bear textual records. Books can be rolls, leaves, screenfolds, codices, tablets, and even standing stones. To reveal their meanings, to read their diverse texts and scripts alongside their materials, physical structures, and layers of accretions, we need to marshal innovative, interdisciplinary approaches and a collaborative methodology, embedded within a global perspective. Over the past year and a half, we have worked to transform our understanding of the human past and its nonhuman contexts by establishing a wide range of research partnerships, laying the groundwork for a global history of the book. In this talk, we will offer an overview of The Book and the Silk Roads that 1) summarizes the lessons learned during the pandemic, as our project has pivoted in a nimble way to accommodate increased use of online environments and limitations on research travel; 2) outlines some of our research findings, from birchbark Kashmiri manuscripts to palimpsests from Sinai; and 3) describes our increasingly substantial public humanities focus, including our upcoming exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum, Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads. Click here for more information and the link to registration<https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/growing-research-networ…>.
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Dear all,
the VeDPH announces the one-day online workshop "Digitising,
Cataloguing, Searching and Sharing the Medieval and Early-Modern Image:
On-Going Projects & Different", organized by Barbara Tramelli and
Matilde Malaspina, on methodologies of iconographic indexations.
Details: https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/2/52382
Registration: https://bit.ly/3BwQaMY
All best,
Paolo
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Call for proposals for Video Lightning Talks to be posted to the SIMS YouTube Channel as part of the 14th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, November 17-19, 2021
Engaging with pre-modern books and manuscripts necessarily involves reckoning with the paradox of loss. While a historical document from the distant past is the material survivor of a singular attempt to hedge against the disappearance of an idea, image, or text, the extant specimen always has to be considered alongside missing exemplars, damage and erasure, lost comparanda, and the vanished life-worlds that produced the object in the first place. This symposium will interrogate the notions of loss, survival, and recuperation in manuscript studies, so often in the background but rarely acknowledged as defining features of the field.
For our 2021 Lightning Talk videos, we are particularly interested in talks that focus on digital aspects of loss in manuscript studies. The videos will be posted to the SIMS YouTube channel. You can see the 2020 Lightning Talks here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8e3GREu0zuD1mR_tXBvn4ovYib9E3qwq
Videos must be five minutes long or shorter, and may present any project relating to manuscript studies in the digital age.
Submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/6zJqNUgFgwbCxsyq5
Deadline for submitting applications is October 26
Applicants will be notified by November 2
Lightning Talk videos must be five minutes or shorter.
Videos must be submitted to SIMS by November 9
The symposium is Free and is open to the public! For more about the symposium, including registration, visit the website here: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs_symposium14
Thanks and we look forward to reading your proposals!
Dot
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Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com<mailto:dot.porter@gmail.com>
Penn Manuscripts on Tumblr: http://upennmanuscripts.tumblr.com/
MESA: http://mesa-medieval.org
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Dear members of the Digital Medievalist Community,
On behalf of the Executive Board of Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/executive-board/>, I write to update members of the DM community on recent activities of and news from the DM Executive Board as we set forth in the (relatively) new academic year.
New 2021-2022 Board Roles
· Director: Lynn Ransom
· Deputy Director: Claudia Sojer
· Conference Representatives: Lisa Fagin Davis, Rose Faunce, Laura Morreale, Kivilcim Yavuz
· Social Media Admin: Tobias Hodel
· Website Admin: Tobias Hodel and Rose Faunce
· DM-L Admin: Gustavo Riva
· Early Stage Researchers Subcommittee Liaison: Luise Borek
· Journal Associate Editorial Board: Lisa Fagin Davis, Gustavo Riva, and Kivilcim Yavuz, joining Franz Fischer (Editor-in-Chief) Greta Franzini, Mike Kestemont, Daniel O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, and Virgil Granfield (Managing Editor)
DM at Kalamazoo 2022
DM will be holding a workshop "Medieval Digital Humanities: How to Get Started" at the virtual International Congress of Medieval Studies taking place online Monday, May 9, through Saturday, May 14, 2022. This workshop will introduce digital humanities strategies to those interested in computer-based methodologies for teaching and research. The session will feature members of the Digital Medievalist organization, and cover data visualization, topic modelling, linked open data, data modelling, and AI techniques.
Coding Codices Podcast
Since December 2020, the DM Early Stage Researchers Subcommittee<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/postgraduate-subcommittee/> has posted seven podcasts all available here Coding Codices - Podcast (digitalmedievalist.org)<https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/>. They will be starting their next season of podcast in the coming weeks. Please subscribe and follow on Twitter @digitalmedieval<https://twitter.com/digitalmedieval> or subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform. For more info, go to About - Coding Codices (digitalmedievalist.org)<https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/about/>.
DM Journal
The editors are delighted to announce a special issue forthcoming in 2021. The issue features results from The Canterbury Tales Project<http://canterburytalesproject.com/> and is edited by Barbara Bordalejo with contributions by Nicole Atkins, Kendall Bitner, Barbara Bordalejo, Kyle Dase, Peter Robinson, and Adam Alberto Vázquez. The editors are also currently seeking submissions for future issues. If you are interested in submitting to DM please go to https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ for more info.
Digital Medieval Webinar Repository (DMWR)
Led by board member Laura Morreale, the DM board created the curated Zenodo community DMWR<https://zenodo.org/communities/dmwr/?page=1&size=20> last year to house recorded presentations on medieval topics, especially those that involve digital work. DMWR follows best practices for digital preservation that encourage storing materials in multiple locales. For more info, including instructions on how to upload your presentations, go to https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/digital-medieval-webinar-repositor…. Be sure to check out new presentations from this summer's DV Virtual Conference that have recently been uploaded, with more to come soon. Feel free to add your own content anytime!
If you have any questions or comments on the above, have ideas for other community resources, or want to inquire about how to get more involved with DM, please don't hesitate to contact the board at Dmedievalist(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:Dmedievalist@googlegroups.com>, or start a discussion on this list. Either way, we look forward to hearing from you!
Best,
Lynn Ransom
Director, Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>
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Dear List Members,
We have the pleasure of inviting you to attend the online conference and round table Current Trends in (Digital) Epigraphy, organised by Martina Filosa (University of Cologne) and Dimitar Iliev (St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia).
The conference will be held on Zoom on October 1st, 2021. If you would like to attend, please register here: digital-epigraphy.eventbrite.de<http://digital-epigraphy.eventbrite.de/>. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at martina.filosa(a)uni-koeln.de<mailto:martina.filosa@uni-koeln.de> or diiliev(a)uni-sofia.bg<mailto:diiliev@uni-sofia.bg>.
With all best wishes,
Martina Filosa (University of Cologne)
Dimitar Iliev (University of Sofia)
Current Trends in (Digital) Epigraphy
10:00 Welcome!
10:15 Charlotte Roueché (London): New Approaches to Collaboration in Digital Epigraphy
10:45 Dimitar Iliev (Sofia): Telamon: the Monuments, the Platform, the Collaboration
11:15 Ilenia Gradante (Oxford): Building a Digital Corpus of Roman Signacula in Sicily
11:45 Coffee
12:00 Tsvetan Vassilev (Sofia): The Biblical Quotations in the Bachkovo Refectory: Inscriptions in Greek Language from the 17th century
12:30 Nikolay Sharankov (Sofia): Reshaping Reality: Uses of Damnatio in Inscriptions from Bulgaria
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Arkadiy Avdokhin (Moscow) & Andreas Rhoby (Vienna): Epigraphies of Pious Travel. A Digital Corpus of Greek and Russian Pilgrimage Graffiti
15:00 Maria Parani (Nicosia): A Digital Corpus of Painted Greek Inscriptions from Medieval Cyprus (10th – 13th centuries AD)
15:30 Martina Filosa (Cologne) & Alessio Sopracasa (Paris): SigiDoc 1.0 and the Digital Turn in Byzantine Sigillography
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Round table & discussion with Irene Vagionakis (Bologna) and Gabriel Bodard (London)
18:00 Closing remarks
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Martina Filosa, M.A.
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Universität zu Köln
Institut für Altertumskunde
Abteilung Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
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