A reminder to cast your vote for the first elected Digital Medievalist
Executive Board. The election will end on March 25 at 6am, GMT. Eight
hours to go!
For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board,
please refer to the Bylaws:
http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws
Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to
vote.
The election will end on March 25 at 6am, GMT.
We have four open slots and five names on the slate. You may vote for
one, …
[View More]two, three or four names. If you submit five names all of your
votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are
acceptable but count as one of your four votes.
Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with
the most votes will come to the Executive Board.
Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to
dot.porter(a)gmail.com.
Nominee biographies are also posted at
http://james.cummingsfamily.org.uk/DMnom2007.html
*************************************
Abdullah Alger:
My name is Abdullah Alger and I am currently finishing my PhD thesis
at the University of Manchester which examines the verbal parallels
and punctuation of the poems in the Exeter Book. I have been
interested in the use of IT and literary studies since my
undergraduate degree at Washington State University where I graduated
with a B.A. in English focusing on rhetoric and composition. At the
moment, I am particularly interested in the use and abuse of
manuscript digitization projects, as well as future trends in the
field which might include the merging of text, image and concordance
applications. Furthermore, I am also interested in formulaic theory,
which explains my interest in concordances, but concerned with the
extension of the theory's basic tenets to analyze and theorize
hypertexts. Much of my interests lie in the development of
information technology to help explain Anglo-Saxon textual culture,
which I hope to develop further to include the early modern period, or
the English Renaissance.
-------------------------------------
Arianna Ciula:
Dr. Arianna Ciula is Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the
Humanities, King's College London.
She teaches a postgraduate course on Material Culture (Medieval
manuscripts) in the MA of Digital Humanities and, in general, has been
lecturing within undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on
humanities computing and primary sources at the University of
Siena-Arezzo. She is a member of various international digital
communities (e.g. ALLC and ACH associations, Digital Medievalist,
Digital Classicist) and has been an elected member of the TEI
Technical Council for the term 2007-2009.
She has collaborated to the organization of two conferences on issues
related to humanities computing (DIGIMED - Digital Philology and
Medieval Texts; CLiP - Computers, Literature and Philology). She
graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of
Siena, Italy) in 2001 and received an MA in Applied Computing in the
Humanities (King's College London) in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. in
Manuscript and Book Studies at the University of Siena in 2005. Her
research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of
digital resources related to primary sources. More specifically, she
is interested in the integration of medieval palaeography and
humanities computing, image-based research and textual technologies.
-------------------------------------
Dan O'Donnell
Daniel Paul O'Donnell is the current director of the Digital
Medievalist project and was the Principal Investigator on its initial
SSHRC grant. He is currently also Chair of the Text Encoding
Initiative and the Department of English at the University of
Lethbridge. He publishes primarily in Anglo-Saxon studies and Digital
Humanities. His digital-and-print edition of the earliest known
English poem, Cædmon's Hymn, was published by D.S. Brewer in 2005. He
also writes a regular column on Humanities Computing for Heroic Age.
-------------------------------------
Peter Robinson:
Peter Robinson is Co-Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship
and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is
developer of the textual-editing program Collate, used by many textual
editing projects worldwide, and of the Anastasia electronic publishing
system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was
editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's
Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996.) He acts as consultant on
electronic publishing to many scholarly groups, and particularly
Cambridge University Press. He has published and lectured on matters
relating to computing and textual editing, on text encoding,
digitization, and electronic publishing, and on Geoffrey Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales. He is active in the development of standards for
digital resources, as a past board member of the Text Encoding
Initiative and as leader of the EU funded MASTER project. In 2000, he
founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions,
specializing in high-quality electronic publications. He has been
active in Digital Medievalist almost since its inception: attending
various panels, contributing to DM discussions, and writing an article
for the first DM journal, and looks forward to the opportunity to
serve the DM community as a board member.
-------------------------------------
Torsten Schassan:
I am accepting this nomination for the DM board as I want to support
this initiative which I think is very useful and needed to bring
together people and offer a platform for resources.
My main fields of interest are digital editions as well as
digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts. In a more
general view I am interested in markup languages, the theory of
representation of information, in database and GUI design.
Currently I am preparing a digital edition of a medieval palimpsest
manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel. Here,
before that, I have been responsible for the adoption of TEI-P5 for
the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system. I am part of the
project team of the projects CESG and e-codices.ch, responsible for
metadata and server administration.
My educational background includes a M.A. in medieval and modern
History, German literature and language and Philosophy, received at
the University at Cologne, as well as teaching experience at the
Computer Science for the Humanities (professorship) at the University
at Cologne.
--
***************************************
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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FYI
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New Methods Network online community forum: 'Tools and Methods for the
Digital Historian'
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:06:03 +0000
From: AHRC ICT Methods Network <methnet(a)KCL.AC.UK>
Reply-To: AHRC ICT Methods Network <methnet(a)KCL.AC.UK>
To: AHDS-HISTORY(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK
The AHRC ICT Methods Network, a UK initiative for the exchange and
dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT for arts and humanities
research, has just launched …
[View More]an online community forum on digital history:
Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian
(http://www.digital-historian.net) is the first of a set of integrated
online communities related to Methods Network activities and resources and
is a forum for open discussion of all issues relating to digital history. In
particular we invite comments on a working paper by Neil Grindley (Methods
Network) entitled Tools and Methods for Historical Research which we hope
will become the basis of a community resource. We are keen on getting more
input and would very much like to include your feedback in future versions
of the paper.
This paper contains sections on: Tools and Web Resources; Database
Structures; Data Mining; Quantitative Methods; Visualization; and
Geographical Information Systems. It may appeal to different types of
readers in different ways. Some people might find this paper contains useful
introductory material to digital tools and methods and may wish to explore a
number of useful links to relevant websites. Those who already have a
sophisticated understanding of the use of ICT tools for historical research
might wish to use the contents of this paper as a jumping off point for
discussing other areas of research that have not been referred to, or which
have been mentioned and would benefit from additional elucidation.
The paper can be downloaded from our website as a PDF:
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/resources/workingpapers.html
Two topics in the new forum might be of particular interest to readers of
the AHDS-History list and we would be keen on your input:
http://www.digital-historian.net/viewtopic.php?id=4 this thread started as a
discussion about electronic publishing and now features a discussion of the
value of Web 2.0 for research
http://www.digital-historian.net/viewtopic.php?id=12 this thread continues
the discussion about electronic publishing and asks about tools and methods
for electronic publishing platforms for researchers
For all questions regarding 'Digital Historian' and Methods Network
community building in general please contact our Senior Research Project
Coordinator Torsten Reimer (Torsten.Reimer(a)kcl.ac.uk).
--
Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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A reminder to cast your vote for the first elected Digital Medievalist
Executive Board.
For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board,
please refer to the Bylaws:
http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws
Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to
vote.
The election will end on March 25 at 6am, GMT.
We have four open slots and five names on the slate. You may vote for
one, two, three or four names. If you submit five names all of your
…
[View More]votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are
acceptable but count as one of your four votes.
Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with
the most votes will come to the Executive Board.
Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to
dot.porter(a)gmail.com.
Nominee biographies are also posted at
http://james.cummingsfamily.org.uk/DMnom2007.html
*************************************
Abdullah Alger:
My name is Abdullah Alger and I am currently finishing my PhD thesis
at the University of Manchester which examines the verbal parallels
and punctuation of the poems in the Exeter Book. I have been
interested in the use of IT and literary studies since my
undergraduate degree at Washington State University where I graduated
with a B.A. in English focusing on rhetoric and composition. At the
moment, I am particularly interested in the use and abuse of
manuscript digitization projects, as well as future trends in the
field which might include the merging of text, image and concordance
applications. Furthermore, I am also interested in formulaic theory,
which explains my interest in concordances, but concerned with the
extension of the theory's basic tenets to analyze and theorize
hypertexts. Much of my interests lie in the development of
information technology to help explain Anglo-Saxon textual culture,
which I hope to develop further to include the early modern period, or
the English Renaissance.
-------------------------------------
Arianna Ciula:
Dr. Arianna Ciula is Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the
Humanities, King's College London.
She teaches a postgraduate course on Material Culture (Medieval
manuscripts) in the MA of Digital Humanities and, in general, has been
lecturing within undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on
humanities computing and primary sources at the University of
Siena-Arezzo. She is a member of various international digital
communities (e.g. ALLC and ACH associations, Digital Medievalist,
Digital Classicist) and has been an elected member of the TEI
Technical Council for the term 2007-2009.
She has collaborated to the organization of two conferences on issues
related to humanities computing (DIGIMED - Digital Philology and
Medieval Texts; CLiP - Computers, Literature and Philology). She
graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of
Siena, Italy) in 2001 and received an MA in Applied Computing in the
Humanities (King's College London) in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. in
Manuscript and Book Studies at the University of Siena in 2005. Her
research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of
digital resources related to primary sources. More specifically, she
is interested in the integration of medieval palaeography and
humanities computing, image-based research and textual technologies.
-------------------------------------
Dan O'Donnell
Daniel Paul O'Donnell is the current director of the Digital
Medievalist project and was the Principal Investigator on its initial
SSHRC grant. He is currently also Chair of the Text Encoding
Initiative and the Department of English at the University of
Lethbridge. He publishes primarily in Anglo-Saxon studies and Digital
Humanities. His digital-and-print edition of the earliest known
English poem, Cædmon's Hymn, was published by D.S. Brewer in 2005. He
also writes a regular column on Humanities Computing for Heroic Age.
-------------------------------------
Peter Robinson:
Peter Robinson is Co-Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship
and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is
developer of the textual-editing program Collate, used by many textual
editing projects worldwide, and of the Anastasia electronic publishing
system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was
editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's
Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996.) He acts as consultant on
electronic publishing to many scholarly groups, and particularly
Cambridge University Press. He has published and lectured on matters
relating to computing and textual editing, on text encoding,
digitization, and electronic publishing, and on Geoffrey Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales. He is active in the development of standards for
digital resources, as a past board member of the Text Encoding
Initiative and as leader of the EU funded MASTER project. In 2000, he
founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions,
specializing in high-quality electronic publications. He has been
active in Digital Medievalist almost since its inception: attending
various panels, contributing to DM discussions, and writing an article
for the first DM journal, and looks forward to the opportunity to
serve the DM community as a board member.
-------------------------------------
Torsten Schassan:
I am accepting this nomination for the DM board as I want to support
this initiative which I think is very useful and needed to bring
together people and offer a platform for resources.
My main fields of interest are digital editions as well as
digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts. In a more
general view I am interested in markup languages, the theory of
representation of information, in database and GUI design.
Currently I am preparing a digital edition of a medieval palimpsest
manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel. Here,
before that, I have been responsible for the adoption of TEI-P5 for
the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system. I am part of the
project team of the projects CESG and e-codices.ch, responsible for
metadata and server administration.
My educational background includes a M.A. in medieval and modern
History, German literature and language and Philosophy, received at
the University at Cologne, as well as teaching experience at the
Computer Science for the Humanities (professorship) at the University
at Cologne.
--
***************************************
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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(apologies for cross posting)
Call for papers, Markup as theory of text.
TEI Members Meeting, 1-3 November, 2007, University of Maryland.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/index.html
This session will look at digital markup from the point of view of its
underlying theoretical assumptions and implications. Some questions we
are interested in considering:
1) What are the theoretical implications of digital markup for editors,
paleographers, book historians, literary critics, …
[View More]linguists, etc. Are
they different from, similar to, or of a completely different order from
previous print practice?
2) Are markup schemas theories of the structure of a text in the way
that linguistic theories are theories of language or literary theories
are theories about literature? Do they/should they have theoretical
lives of their own?
3) Does electronic markup change the way we look at text?
We are open to other understandings of the topic and papers do
not need to concentrate specifically, exclusively, or at all on the TEI.
They can be broad ranging or concentrate on specific smaller issues.
Please email abstracts to daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca by March 30th.
--
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/
--
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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A reminder to cast your vote for the first elected Digital Medievalist
Executive Board.
For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board,
please refer to the Bylaws:
http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws
Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to
vote.
The election will end on March 25 at 6am, GMT.
We have four open slots and five names on the slate. You may vote for
one, two, three or four names. If you submit five names all of your
…
[View More]votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are
acceptable but count as one of your four votes.
Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with
the most votes will come to the Executive Board.
Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to
dot.porter(a)gmail.com.
Nominee biographies are also posted at
http://james.cummingsfamily.org.uk/DMnom2007.html
*************************************
Abdullah Alger:
My name is Abdullah Alger and I am currently finishing my PhD thesis
at the University of Manchester which examines the verbal parallels
and punctuation of the poems in the Exeter Book. I have been
interested in the use of IT and literary studies since my
undergraduate degree at Washington State University where I graduated
with a B.A. in English focusing on rhetoric and composition. At the
moment, I am particularly interested in the use and abuse of
manuscript digitization projects, as well as future trends in the
field which might include the merging of text, image and concordance
applications. Furthermore, I am also interested in formulaic theory,
which explains my interest in concordances, but concerned with the
extension of the theory's basic tenets to analyze and theorize
hypertexts. Much of my interests lie in the development of
information technology to help explain Anglo-Saxon textual culture,
which I hope to develop further to include the early modern period, or
the English Renaissance.
-------------------------------------
Arianna Ciula:
Dr. Arianna Ciula is Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the
Humanities, King's College London.
She teaches a postgraduate course on Material Culture (Medieval
manuscripts) in the MA of Digital Humanities and, in general, has been
lecturing within undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on
humanities computing and primary sources at the University of
Siena-Arezzo. She is a member of various international digital
communities (e.g. ALLC and ACH associations, Digital Medievalist,
Digital Classicist) and has been an elected member of the TEI
Technical Council for the term 2007-2009.
She has collaborated to the organization of two conferences on issues
related to humanities computing (DIGIMED - Digital Philology and
Medieval Texts; CLiP - Computers, Literature and Philology). She
graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of
Siena, Italy) in 2001 and received an MA in Applied Computing in the
Humanities (King's College London) in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. in
Manuscript and Book Studies at the University of Siena in 2005. Her
research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of
digital resources related to primary sources. More specifically, she
is interested in the integration of medieval palaeography and
humanities computing, image-based research and textual technologies.
-------------------------------------
Dan O'Donnell
Daniel Paul O'Donnell is the current director of the Digital
Medievalist project and was the Principal Investigator on its initial
SSHRC grant. He is currently also Chair of the Text Encoding
Initiative and the Department of English at the University of
Lethbridge. He publishes primarily in Anglo-Saxon studies and Digital
Humanities. His digital-and-print edition of the earliest known
English poem, Cædmon's Hymn, was published by D.S. Brewer in 2005. He
also writes a regular column on Humanities Computing for Heroic Age.
-------------------------------------
Peter Robinson:
Peter Robinson is Co-Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship
and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is
developer of the textual-editing program Collate, used by many textual
editing projects worldwide, and of the Anastasia electronic publishing
system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was
editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's
Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996.) He acts as consultant on
electronic publishing to many scholarly groups, and particularly
Cambridge University Press. He has published and lectured on matters
relating to computing and textual editing, on text encoding,
digitization, and electronic publishing, and on Geoffrey Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales. He is active in the development of standards for
digital resources, as a past board member of the Text Encoding
Initiative and as leader of the EU funded MASTER project. In 2000, he
founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions,
specializing in high-quality electronic publications. He has been
active in Digital Medievalist almost since its inception: attending
various panels, contributing to DM discussions, and writing an article
for the first DM journal, and looks forward to the opportunity to
serve the DM community as a board member.
-------------------------------------
Torsten Schassan:
I am accepting this nomination for the DM board as I want to support
this initiative which I think is very useful and needed to bring
together people and offer a platform for resources.
My main fields of interest are digital editions as well as
digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts. In a more
general view I am interested in markup languages, the theory of
representation of information, in database and GUI design.
Currently I am preparing a digital edition of a medieval palimpsest
manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel. Here,
before that, I have been responsible for the adoption of TEI-P5 for
the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system. I am part of the
project team of the projects CESG and e-codices.ch, responsible for
metadata and server administration.
My educational background includes a M.A. in medieval and modern
History, German literature and language and Philosophy, received at
the University at Cologne, as well as teaching experience at the
Computer Science for the Humanities (professorship) at the University
at Cologne.
--
***************************************
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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My dept has begun a review of tenure requirements and one of the questions
posed is whether (or how) electronic scholarship could become part of the
research components of our tenure requirements. Peer review is the
cornerstone of qualifying research production and so my colleagues are
wondering if there are any established guidelines for peer review of
web-based projects, or stand alone applications, that are not published by
a traditional publisher. The issue is NOT about e-journals which …
[View More]retain the
standard peer review process, but rather projects or applications that do
not normally go through standard scholarly evaluations (although they often
undergo more severe critique by the Academy in an informal manner).
Has anyone addressed this in their department or university? I am simply
looking for some basic guidelines or sustained discussion on how to
integrate the kind of research we do on this list, and/or the methods to
demonstrate its comparative value to traditional forms of scholarship.
Many thanks
Jim
--
--------------------
Dr James R. Ginther, PhD
Assoc. Professor of Medieval Theology
& Director of Graduate Studies
Dept of Theological Studies
St Louis University
ginthej(a)slu.edu
---------------------------------
dept: http://theology.slu.edu/
research: http://www.grosseteste.com/
-----------
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
-Wernher von Braun
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Elections for the Digital Medievalist Executive Board will begin
tomorrow and run through March 25. Per the Digital Medievalist Bylaws,
Board members will be expected to serve the DM membership by serving
on an editorial committee responsible for the production of the DM
journal, overseeing the operation of the DM wiki, moderating the dm-l
listserv, and/or organizing conference and poster sessions on behalf
of Digital Medievalist. Board members serve two-year terms.
For more information on the …
[View More]Digital Medievalist and the DM Board,
please refer to the Bylaws:
http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws
Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to
vote.
You may cast your vote on March 21 beginning at 6am, GMT (5pm in
Melbourne, Australia; 7am in Vienna, Austria; 2am in New York; 11pm
[technically still March 20] in Victoria, BC) ending March 25 at 6am,
GMT.
We have four open slots and five names on the slate. You may vote for
one, two, three or four names. If you submit five names all of your
votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are
acceptable but count as one of your four votes.
Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with
the most votes will come to the Executive Board.
Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to
dot.porter(a)gmail.com.
Nominee biographies are also posted at
http://james.cummingsfamily.org.uk/DMnom2007.html
*************************************
Abdullah Alger:
My name is Abdullah Alger and I am currently finishing my PhD thesis
at the University of Manchester which examines the verbal parallels
and punctuation of the poems in the Exeter Book. I have been
interested in the use of IT and literary studies since my
undergraduate degree at Washington State University where I graduated
with a B.A. in English focusing on rhetoric and composition. At the
moment, I am particularly interested in the use and abuse of
manuscript digitization projects, as well as future trends in the
field which might include the merging of text, image and concordance
applications. Furthermore, I am also interested in formulaic theory,
which explains my interest in concordances, but concerned with the
extension of the theory's basic tenets to analyze and theorize
hypertexts. Much of my interests lie in the development of
information technology to help explain Anglo-Saxon textual culture,
which I hope to develop further to include the early modern period, or
the English Renaissance.
-------------------------------------
Arianna Ciula:
Dr. Arianna Ciula is Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the
Humanities, King's College London.
She teaches a postgraduate course on Material Culture (Medieval
manuscripts) in the MA of Digital Humanities and, in general, has been
lecturing within undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on
humanities computing and primary sources at the University of
Siena-Arezzo. She is a member of various international digital
communities (e.g. ALLC and ACH associations, Digital Medievalist,
Digital Classicist) and has been an elected member of the TEI
Technical Council for the term 2007-2009.
She has collaborated to the organization of two conferences on issues
related to humanities computing (DIGIMED - Digital Philology and
Medieval Texts; CLiP - Computers, Literature and Philology). She
graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of
Siena, Italy) in 2001 and received an MA in Applied Computing in the
Humanities (King's College London) in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. in
Manuscript and Book Studies at the University of Siena in 2005. Her
research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of
digital resources related to primary sources. More specifically, she
is interested in the integration of medieval palaeography and
humanities computing, image-based research and textual technologies.
-------------------------------------
Dan O'Donnell
Daniel Paul O'Donnell is the current director of the Digital
Medievalist project and was the Principal Investigator on its initial
SSHRC grant. He is currently also Chair of the Text Encoding
Initiative and the Department of English at the University of
Lethbridge. He publishes primarily in Anglo-Saxon studies and Digital
Humanities. His digital-and-print edition of the earliest known
English poem, Cædmon's Hymn, was published by D.S. Brewer in 2005. He
also writes a regular column on Humanities Computing for Heroic Age.
-------------------------------------
Peter Robinson:
Peter Robinson is Co-Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship
and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is
developer of the textual-editing program Collate, used by many textual
editing projects worldwide, and of the Anastasia electronic publishing
system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was
editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's
Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996.) He acts as consultant on
electronic publishing to many scholarly groups, and particularly
Cambridge University Press. He has published and lectured on matters
relating to computing and textual editing, on text encoding,
digitization, and electronic publishing, and on Geoffrey Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales. He is active in the development of standards for
digital resources, as a past board member of the Text Encoding
Initiative and as leader of the EU funded MASTER project. In 2000, he
founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions,
specializing in high-quality electronic publications. He has been
active in Digital Medievalist almost since its inception: attending
various panels, contributing to DM discussions, and writing an article
for the first DM journal, and looks forward to the opportunity to
serve the DM community as a board member.
-------------------------------------
Torsten Schassan:
I am accepting this nomination for the DM board as I want to support
this initiative which I think is very useful and needed to bring
together people and offer a platform for resources.
My main fields of interest are digital editions as well as
digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts. In a more
general view I am interested in markup languages, the theory of
representation of information, in database and GUI design.
Currently I am preparing a digital edition of a medieval palimpsest
manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel. Here,
before that, I have been responsible for the adoption of TEI-P5 for
the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system. I am part of the
project team of the projects CESG and e-codices.ch, responsible for
metadata and server administration.
My educational background includes a M.A. in medieval and modern
History, German literature and language and Philosophy, received at
the University at Cologne, as well as teaching experience at the
Computer Science for the Humanities (professorship) at the University
at Cologne.
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Dot Porter, University of Kentucky
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Program Coordinator
Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549
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Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
porter(a)vis.uky.edu
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Dot Porter, University of Kentucky
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Program Coordinator
Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549
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Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project
Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
porter(a)vis.uky.edu
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This may be of interest to some people.
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:57:34 +0000
From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty
<willard.mccarty(a)kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard(a)LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty
<willard.mccarty(a)kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard(a)LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject: 20.526 …
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To: humanist(a)Princeton.EDU
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 526.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.htmlwww.princeton.edu/humanist/
Submit to: humanist(a)princeton.edu
[1] From: Matthew James Driscoll <mjd(a)HUM.KU.DK> (82)
Subject: PhD fellowship in "Textual criticism and the sociology
of texts"
[2] From: "McAulay, Elizabeth" <emcaulay(a)library.ucla.edu> (26)
Subject: position announcement: Head, Digital Resources
Metadata Section
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:43:54 +0000
From: Matthew James Driscoll <mjd(a)HUM.KU.DK>
Subject: PhD fellowship in "Textual criticism and the
sociology of texts"
PhD Fellowship (re-advertisement)
"Textual Criticism and the Sociology of Texts"
Applications are invited for a PhD fellowship in "Textual criticism and the
sociology of texts".
The fellowship is funded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and
Innovation and is offered jointly through the Georg Brandes School at the
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Copenhagen University, and the
Department of Literature, Institute for the Sociology of Literature, Uppsala
University. The successful candidate will be expected to divide his or her
time between Copenhagen and Uppsala, and will be allocated a supervisor from
each institution, the principal supervisor however will be a professor or
associate professor from the University of Copenhagen.
Funding is provided for a research project within the area known as "the
sociology of texts", meaning that texts are regarded not as abstract bearers
of meaning but rather as historical phenomena which have physical
manifestations and are the products of social interaction. This point of
view necessitates an awareness of the factors and agents which are involved
in the cultural processes of production, dissemination and reception, as
texts are constantly recast, re-issued and reinterpreted by different people
at different times.
It is assumed that the research project will combine a theoretical
perspective with a specific body of texts. The research undertaken by the
PhD candidate might focus on one - or combine several - of the following
areas:
1. An historical investigation into the various agents involved in textual
production - paper-makers, printers, publishers etc. - and the working
methods and conventions developed in these areas, such as page layout, font
design, orthography and punctuation, marketing strategies and so on.
2. A study of the transmission of an individual work (e.g. a chapbook) or
group of works (e.g. those of a particular author).
3. Scholarly editing, including a discussion of the principles for the
establishment of the text and the provision of commentary.
4. A study of reception, including reviews and criticism in particular
periods and places, reading circles, the history of book collections and
libraries and patterns of readers' behaviour.
5. A consideration, from a text-sociological point of view, of traditional
literary-critical concepts such as the author, authorial intention,
authorisation, textual errors, the model and empirical reader, copyright,
censorship, literary genre and interpretation.
Applicants must possess a Master's Degree or the equivalent or expect to
possess one by May 1, 2007. All applicants must have submitted a thesis and
enclose an assessment of it along with the application.
Appointment as a PhD fellow is subject to the rules of the Faculty of
Humanities. Appointment is conditional upon enrolment as a PhD student at
the Faculty.
Appointment as a PhD fellow is subject to the agreement between the Ministry
of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).
In accordance with this agreement, PhD fellows are obliged - without extra
payment - to accept work corresponding to 840 hours over a three-year
period.
The application must contain:
A project proposal with a full description of the proposed research project
and a realistic plan to meet the requirements concerning participation in
courses, seminars and study trips to other
institutions. The project proposal should not be longer than
12,000 characters (including spaces, but excluding the bibliography); the
total number of characters must be indicated at the end of the project
proposal.
A CV of no more than one page.
A list of publications.
A degree certificate or a complete transcript.
The recipient of the PhD fellowship will be employed in accordance with the
current agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish
Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).
The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities will appoint an assessment committee.
Upon receipt of the report of the committee each applicant will receive the
specific portion of the committee's assessment pertinent to him/her. The
applicants will only be assessed in relation to the announced position.
Applications are invited from qualified candidates regardless of age, sex,
race, religion or ethnic origin.
Six copies of the application and all enclosures (6 copies of each) must be
sent to: The Rector of the University of Copenhagen, The Faculty of
Humanities, Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, with reference to J.nr.
211-0085/07-4550
The application deadline is May 2, 2007 at 12:00 (Noon). No enclosures will
be accepted after the deadline.
Information regarding the Danish PhD ministerial order and employment as a
PhD fellow can be obtained by contacting Birgit H=FCttmann, tel.:
+45 35 32 80 54 or e-mail:bhu@hum.ku.dk.
For further information about the Fellowship and the Georg Brandes School
please contact Pil Dahlerup phone +45 35 32 83 34 or e-mail: pil(a)hum.ku.dk=
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:44:45 +0000
From: "McAulay, Elizabeth" <emcaulay(a)library.ucla.edu>
Subject: position announcement: Head, Digital Resources
Metadata Section
Job Posting: UCLA Library Head of Digital Resource Metadata Section
Brief Description
Within the Cataloging & Metadata Center, the Digital Resources Metadata
Section is responsible for the bibliographic control of digital
resources using a number of metadata schema, providing training and
documentation for the use of these standards, and assessment of metadata
services. In support of local digital library work, the section
coordinates metadata creation within the center and/or with other
library and university staff. For selected projects, the section
advises library staff on best practices for metadata standards and
applications. Standards used include Dublin Core, MODS, VRA Core, METS,
XML, etc.
Please see the complete announcement at
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLA%20Library_Head%20of%20Digital%20Re
sources%20Metadata_January%202007.pdf. Although date for first
consideration is March 1, applications are still being actively
considered.
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
Digital Library Program
UCLA Library
390 Powell Library Building
Box 957201
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7201
(310) 825-7657
email: emcaulay(a)library.ucla.edu
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Hi all,
For the duration of the balloting, I have changed the default behaviour
of the list: if you wish to reply to a message on dm-l, you will need to
enter dm-l(a)uleth.ca manually. Otherwise, your email will go only to the
poster of the message to which you are replying.
I am changing it this way to avoid accidental postings of ballots. After
the election is over, the list behaviour will return to normal.
-dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Department Chair and Associate Professor of …
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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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