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DM elections day 3
by Dot Porter 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

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 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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Conference Session Call for Papers: Markup as Theory of the Text (Second Call)
by Daniel O'Donnell 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

(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, 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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DM elections day 2
by Dot Porter 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

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Re: [dm-l] Electronic scholarship, Peer Review and Tenure
by Ray Siemens 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi Folks, Here are some links to resources that might be helpful in this regard. >From MLA: Statement on Publication in Electronic Journals http://www.mla.org/resources/documents/rep_it/statement_on_publica Guidelines for Evaluating Work with Digital Media in the Modern Languages http://www.mla.org/resources/documents/rep_it/guidelines_evaluation_digital Guidelines for Institutional Support of and Access to IT for Faculty Members and Students http://www.mla.org/resources/documents/rep_it/it_support I've seen each used in literary studies and modern language T&P processes over the past year or two. And an earlier statement from my own institution, helpful in this regard, is the 'Report On Academic Computing Recognition', at http://ise.uvic.ca/Foyer/CompRecog.html Cheers, Ray

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Electronic scholarship, Peer Review and Tenure
by James Ginther 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

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 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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DM elections start tomorrow
by Dot Porter 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

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 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. -- *************************************** 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 *************************************** -- *************************************** 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: 20.526 PhD fellowship; job at UCLA
by Abdullah Alger 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

This may be of interest to some people. ----- Forwarded message from willard(a)LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU ----- 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 PhD fellowship; job at UCLA 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.html www.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 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------ 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= =20 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ----- End forwarded message -----

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Temporary change in list behaviour
by Daniel O'Donnell 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

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 -- 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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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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