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DM Nominee Announcement
by Dot Porter 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

The Digital Medievalist is pleased to announce the slate for the first election of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board. 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 Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws Voting will be held by email from March 21 through March 25. March 25 is Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, and was New Year's Day until 1752, when western dating moved from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. It is thus a suitable day to welcome the new Digital Medievalist board members. Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. Watch for an announcement with details on how to cast your vote on March 20. 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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Membership update
by Herdsman Caedmon 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

I was doing some membership maintenance--a spammer is trying VERY hard to join dm-l (unsuccessfully)--and thought, since we have a nominations deadline and elections approaching, that I'd let people know where we stand: 341 members. That's up about 100 since last summer, I believe. -dan -- 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/

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Conference Session Call for Papers: Markup as Theory of the Text
by Herdsman Caedmon 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

(apologies for cross posting) Hi all, In keeping with the TEI Call for Papers for their member's meeting (1-3 November 2007, University of Maryland), I would like to put together a proposal for a session on Markup as a theory of text. This topic came up on TEI several months ago and received some expressions of interest. Basically, I am wondering about two types of questions: 1) What are the theoretical implications of digital markup for editors, paleographers, book historians, literary critics, 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? Of course I'm 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. To keep with the TEI submission guidelines, I'd like to have abstracts emailed to me daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca (*not* the address I am using to post to this mailing list) by March 26th, so that I have sufficient time to come up with a slate before the TEI's April 6 deadline. -dan -- 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/

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DM News: Call for papers: TEI@20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities
by caedmon＠uleth.ca 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

A new article has been added to the news section at DigitalMedivalist.org -- Call for papers: TEI@20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities To view this article, please follow this link: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news.cfm?n_ID=86

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TEI Member's Meeting cfp
by Herdsman Caedmon 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi all, I'm forwarding this to our list because the Members' Meeting this year is trying out a new more-conference-like and less business-meeting-like approach. As a member of the planning committee for the conference, moreover, I can assure you that we are looking for a broad range of approaches to markup and/or the TEI--and not just "boy this koolaid sure is tasty." -dan ---------------------------- The TEI Members' Meeting 1-3 November 2007 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA *TEI@20*: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities The Organizing Committee of this anniversary TEI Members' Meeting invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, and poster/tool demonstrations on the theme, broadly conceived, 'The TEI@20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities'. Topics might include but are not restricted to * Building and using tools for TEI-based text encoding * Teaching TEI: Challenges and Opportunities * TEI as a theory of text * TEI: the next 20 years * New career opportunities for those using the TEI * Lacunae and omissions: new directions for the TEI Paper presenters will be allocated 30 minutes to speak, 25 minutes for delivery, and five minutes for questions. Alternatively, group sessions can be organized for 1.5 hours each and may be of varied formats, including: * A working papers session (pre-circulated papers) * A round-table discussion * Software demonstrations Of the formats described above, a working paper session might be more appropriate for a smaller group, all of whom have all read the pre-circulated papers in advance. This type of format may span more than one session and will be held concurrently with the general session. Submission Procedure /Individual paper proposals/: submit a title, brief abstract (no more than 500 words), the name of the presenter, institutional affiliation, and email address. /Panel sessions/: submit a session title, brief overview of the session (no more than 300 words), abstracts of each of the papers (no more than 500 words each) OR a 500 word abstract for a panel discussion, the names of each of the participants, their institutional affiliations, and email addresses. /Poster Session/Tool Demonstration/: submit a title, brief abstract (no more than 500 words), the name of the presenter, institutional affiliation, and email address. The local organizer will provide a flip chart and a table for each presenter, along with wireless internet access. All poster session participants will have an opportunity to participate in a poster slam immediacy preceding the poster session/reception. All submissions should be sent to Conference Chair, Sebastian Rahtz <mailto:sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk> <mailto:sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk%3E> by 6 April 2007. Conference papers will be considered for a *TEI@20* Proceedings. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming.

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DM Nominations (FINAL CALL)
by Dot Porter 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

***Nominations will be accepted through Wednesday, March 14. Please send nominations to dot.porter(a)gmail.com. Self-nominations are welcome*** The Digital Medievalist is now taking nominations for members of the executive board. 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, with four spaces available each year. Eligibility to run for the board is determined by "demonstrable contribution to the project within the previous year," although there is no precise definition of a "demonstrable contribution." This might include editing the DM wiki, publishing an article or review in the DM Journal, or participating in a DM-sponsored session. Anyone who is subscribed to the Digital Medievalist listserv is eligible to vote. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please send a brief biographical statement (max 200 words) to Dot Porter at dot.porter(a)gmail.com. For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws Nominations will be accepted through March 14, at which point the slate will be announced and biographies will be sent to the DM Listserv and posted to the DM website. Voting will be held by email from March 21 through March 25. March 25 is Lady Day, the Feast of the Annunciation, and was New Year's Day until 1752, when western dating moved from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. It is thus a suitable day to welcome the new Digital Medievalist board members. -- *************************************** 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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Re: [dm-l] Wikipedia
by simon mahony 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

All sounds good! Infiltrating other wikipedia articles and having them link to ours seems a good plan - experience shows here Ed. on pix: Gabriel, I have your DC poster archived with all the others and could add that if you wish. James, do I remember you having a poster for DM on display at the PBW launch? If so that could be used as well. Simon On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:49:19 +0000 Gabriel BODARD <gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk> wrote: > Thanks for all the helpful comments. > > I'm not sure, however, that "Digital Classics" is the most useful page > to consider the parent article. Firstly because Medieval Studies is not > a sub-discipline of Classics ;-) but both are subsdisciplines of the > humanities. Digital Humanities (an already existing article) would be a > much better parent. There are several Digital Humanities bodies, > institutions, and publications (among which DM and DC) that *are* listed > in Wikipedia, I think. > > Pictures: yes! Anyone have pictures they want to put into the public domain? > > G > > Buckner a écrit : > > OK can we decide where to hang out. I've contacted Gabriel on the Wiki, > > but there are 3 pages it could be: > > > > Digital classics > > Digital Classicist > > Digital Medievalist (once created, of course) > > > > I suggest camping out at Digital classics as that is the parent article. > > You need to stake out a position by establishing a big parent article > > with lots of things linking **to** it. Talk pages don't count. The > > best way is to find related articles, add in a section or just a > > sentence that mentions digital techniques, then add a link to the parent > > article. > > > > The parent article should be Digital classics in my view, but you guys > > are the experts. > > > > Once you've got, say, 20 articles linking to it, then you have something > > no one will ever delete, because it is so embedded. > > > > Next step is to make brief mentions of the 'child' articles. Then > > create the child articles. These should not be too much like adverts. > > Make a good case for the child article adding research or subject > > interest. > > > > AND LOTS OF PICTURES!!!! Wikipedians love pictures, I can't believe you > > guys. This is a subject area that is crying out for some beautiful > > manuscript illustrations, carolingian whatsits, finials, you name it. I > > have stuff if you don't, but let's make a beautiful wonderful article. > > Wikipedia is all about plumage. > > > > So, let's go. > > > > > > EB > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Digital Medievalist Project > > Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org > > Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm > > RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm > > Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php > > Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm > > Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca > > dm-l mailing list > > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > -- > Dr Gabriel BODARD > > Inscriptions of Aphrodisias > Centre for Computing in the Humanities > King's College London > Kay House > 7, Arundel Street > London WC2R 3DX > <http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX> > > Email: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk > Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88 > Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80 > > _______________________________________________ > Digital Medievalist Project > Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org > Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm > RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm > Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php > Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm > Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca > dm-l mailing list > dm-l(a)uleth.ca > http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l ---------------------- Simon Mahony Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel St London WC2R 3DX Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX

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Wikipedia
by Buckner 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

OK can we decide where to hang out. I've contacted Gabriel on the Wiki, but there are 3 pages it could be: Digital classics Digital Classicist Digital Medievalist (once created, of course) I suggest camping out at Digital classics as that is the parent article. You need to stake out a position by establishing a big parent article with lots of things linking **to** it. Talk pages don't count. The best way is to find related articles, add in a section or just a sentence that mentions digital techniques, then add a link to the parent article. The parent article should be Digital classics in my view, but you guys are the experts. Once you've got, say, 20 articles linking to it, then you have something no one will ever delete, because it is so embedded. Next step is to make brief mentions of the 'child' articles. Then create the child articles. These should not be too much like adverts. Make a good case for the child article adding research or subject interest. AND LOTS OF PICTURES!!!! Wikipedians love pictures, I can't believe you guys. This is a subject area that is crying out for some beautiful manuscript illustrations, carolingian whatsits, finials, you name it. I have stuff if you don't, but let's make a beautiful wonderful article. Wikipedia is all about plumage. So, let's go. EB

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Wikipedia
by Buckner 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

OK I've taken a look and the Digital Classicist, which *is* still there. Digital Medievalist was not there, but apparently it has been deleted, yes? Does anyone have copies of the Talk page? A couple of the editors who objected I know quite well, so I'll have chat with them. Meanwhile, the article does look a bit like an advert. Another objection was that it doesn't get many Google hits. Nothing wrong with that, but need to think of ways round. I'll ask the editors concerned if they can help. E

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Digital classics
by Buckner 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

OK I've put an image on the Digital classics page as an experiment. Signing of for tonight. See you later.

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