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Observatory of Written Heritage | "Low Countries" - Meeting 2021
by Lucien Reynhout 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. (Apologies for cross-posting) Observatory of Written Heritage | "Low Countries" (owhlc.hypotheses.org<http://owhlc.hypotheses.org/>) Meeting 2021 Brussels, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), 23rd and 24th November 2021 Organized by [cid:image001.jpg@01D7C013.B883B570] Funded by [https://intranet.kbr.be/doc/logos/logoBelspoEN.jpg] Over the course of the Middle Ages and the first Renaissance, what was called the 'Low Countries' (BeNeLux, Northern France, Northern-Western Rhine Regions) developed an original written culture. The essential part of what has been preserved of this important heritage has fortunately survived in the libraries and manuscript collections of our regions, sometimes abroad. Over the last few years, important survey and recovery projects have been started. However, not all the heritage collections have been identified or explored, especially in the private and ecclesiastical libraries. Moreover, not all the pre-modern sources useful for the study of this written heritage have yet been identified, surveyed or edited. To facilitate these scholarly activities, we must call on information technologies and particularly on digital humanities for inventory, research, preservation and enhancement of this heritage. Relevant technologies include managing metadata, digitization, electronic editions, data mining, virtual libraries and virtual digital museology or digitally restoring medieval books. However, all these initiatives have not yet necessarily been surveyed, and they are still not all accessible from a central point of information. Moreover, many manuscripts and the relevant sources that document their history are still poorly known to scholars working in this field. It therefore seems timely and opportune to make an assessment of the initiatives and to establish a research community around the written heritage of the historical Low Countries and the application of digital humanities to this field. An 'observatory of written heritage', comparable to Biblissima and in close collaboration with this pioneering French portal in the field, would be a good approach to creating a synergy between keepers of the historical collections, expert librarians, academic scholars and teachers and digital humanities researchers. In order to launch this contact group's activities, a webinar has already been organized in May 2021. Now that the relaxation of the Covid-19 rules allow for in-person meetings, we are able to organize a meeting on 23rd and 24th November. This will not be a conference, but working groups deliberating on the need of such a network, the expectations for it, and the possible activities it could undertake in the next future. If you are a librarian, an archivist, a written heritage preservation or digitization specialist, a Digital Humanities specialist, a researcher or a teacher involved in the field of written cultures of the area in question, and if you are a representative of your institution, unit, laboratory, etc., you are friendly invited to participate in the working days (there may be several participants for each institution, depending on their skills). !!! Due to Covid health measures in Brussels-Capital Region, access might be made conditional on presentation of a 'Covid Safe Ticket' !!! REGISTRATION FORM <https://forms.gle/ksjh97nY9zVBhxpXA> (please CTRL + click to open) PROGRAM Tuesday, November 23rd 10:00 Welcome Coffee 10:30 Opening Speeches Lunch Time 13:00 Working Groups (Metadata and Cataloguing, Preservation and Heritage Management, Digitization, Research, Education and Training in Written Heritage and Digital Humanities, Virtual Museology and Enhancement of Written Heritage, etc.). 15:00 Visit of KBR Museum Wednesday, November 24th 09:30 Presentation of the Working Groups Summaries (1) 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Presentation of the Working Groups Summaries (2) Lunch Time 13:30 General Discussion 15:00 Closing Drink

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A database of the early medieval manuscripts of Isidore's Etymologiae
by Evina Steinova 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear DM community, In April this year, I informed you about the beta launch of the Innovating Knowledge database. This database contains information about all surviving and identified early medieval manuscripts transmitting the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, fully or partially. Today, I am glad to inform you that the final version of the database was released at: db.innovatingknowledge.nl<http://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/>. Introduction to the database and explanatory texts can be found at the Innovating Knowledge website<https://innovatingknowledge.nl/?page_id=33>. This final version describes 478 manuscripts, giving us for the first time a good overview of how popular and widespread work the Etymologiae was in the early Middle Ages. It is almost certainly not the final count as new witnesses of Isidore's text from the early Middle Ages continue to be identified. The database can be, hopefully, curated for at least a few more years and new manuscripts can be added to it. If more funding can be secured for the database, one day it can be hopefully expanded to contain also post-1000 manuscripts of the most important medieval Latin encyclopaedia. The final version of the database also contains images of 270 of the manuscripts. As a novel feature, the database has an integrated Mirador viewer, which allows you to open and browse through all manuscripts equipped with a IIIF manifest (there are 264 of them) directly via the database. We also improved our free text search and filters and added two new formats (XML and Excel) to download options. Together with the database, the project also releases the data behind the database for reuse by other projects. They can be found here<https://zenodo.org/record/5564441>. I sincerely hope the Innovating Knowledge database will be a welcomed addition to the tools available to the Digital Medievalist community. We at the Innovating Knowledge project also welcome any tips for new manuscripts to include into the growing list of early medieval witnesses of the Etymologiae and also any corrections and additions of the extant entries in the database. Best wishes, Evina Steinova https://homomodernus.net/ https://evinasteinova.academia.edu/ Postdoctoral Researcher NWO VENI project Innovating Knowledge<http://innovatingknowledge.nl> Huygens ING, Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

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Postdoc position, Digital Humanities / History, University of Vienna
by Tara L Andrews 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. (Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities group within the Institute for History at the University of Vienna is seeking a post-doctoral assistant. This is a full-time position, to start in February 2022 and limited to six years; it includes independent teaching responsibilities of up to 4 SWS (~two classes per semester). Our group has a strong profile in digital methods for historical research, and a particular emphasis on the medieval period in a variety of different regions; current projects within the group include a study of ethical issues around use of linked open data in GLAM institutions, a digital prosopography of medieval Georgia, a new edition of the Peterborough Chronicle, continuing work on the Armenian-language Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, and most recently an ERC-funded project, RELEVEN, that focuses on the eastern and northern parts of the Christian world in the eleventh century and how we can manage the historical data generated from our sources for this period. We welcome applications from anyone who has completed their doctorate (or will have the diploma in hand before February), and who combines digital methods with the (worldwide) medieval era in their research. For more details about the job and how to apply, please visit https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun…. Best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien

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Reminder: SIMS Online Lecture Series This Friday! Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History
by Ransom, Lynn 07 Oct '21

07 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. There is still time to register for next week's SIMS Online Lecture. We look forward to seeing you there! * Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, and Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto Friday, October 15, 2021, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT (via Zoom) The Book and the Silk Roads approaches the "book" in a capacious way: it is a writing surface, taken from the natural world, hand-crafted to bear textual records. Books can be rolls, leaves, screenfolds, codices, tablets, and even standing stones. To reveal their meanings, to read their diverse texts and scripts alongside their materials, physical structures, and layers of accretions, we need to marshal innovative, interdisciplinary approaches and a collaborative methodology, embedded within a global perspective. Over the past year and a half, we have worked to transform our understanding of the human past and its nonhuman contexts by establishing a wide range of research partnerships, laying the groundwork for a global history of the book. In this talk, we will offer an overview of The Book and the Silk Roads that 1) summarizes the lessons learned during the pandemic, as our project has pivoted in a nimble way to accommodate increased use of online environments and limitations on research travel; 2) outlines some of our research findings, from birchbark Kashmiri manuscripts to palimpsests from Sinai; and 3) describes our increasingly substantial public humanities focus, including our upcoming exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum, Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads. Click here for more information and the link to registration<https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/growing-research-networ…>. **To receive the SIMS newsletter for regular monthly updates on SIMS programs, events, and news, sign up here<http://eepurl.com/hJY9vP>.**

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VeDPH workshop on iconographic indexations
by Paolo Monella 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. (With apologies for cross-posting) Dear all, the VeDPH announces the one-day online workshop "Digitising, Cataloguing, Searching and Sharing the Medieval and Early-Modern Image: On-Going Projects & Different", organized by Barbara Tramelli and Matilde Malaspina, on methodologies of iconographic indexations. Details: https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/2/52382 Registration: https://bit.ly/3BwQaMY All best, Paolo --- Associate member of the VeDPH research center -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system. -- Fai crescere i nostri giovani ricercatori dona il 5 per mille alla Sapienza *codice fiscale 80209930587*

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CFP Schoenberg Symposium: Video Lightning Talks on digital manuscript projects
by Dot Porter 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Call for proposals for Video Lightning Talks to be posted to the SIMS YouTube Channel as part of the 14th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, November 17-19, 2021 Engaging with pre-modern books and manuscripts necessarily involves reckoning with the paradox of loss. While a historical document from the distant past is the material survivor of a singular attempt to hedge against the disappearance of an idea, image, or text, the extant specimen always has to be considered alongside missing exemplars, damage and erasure, lost comparanda, and the vanished life-worlds that produced the object in the first place. This symposium will interrogate the notions of loss, survival, and recuperation in manuscript studies, so often in the background but rarely acknowledged as defining features of the field. For our 2021 Lightning Talk videos, we are particularly interested in talks that focus on digital aspects of loss in manuscript studies. The videos will be posted to the SIMS YouTube channel. You can see the 2020 Lightning Talks here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8e3GREu0zuD1mR_tXBvn4ovYib9E3qwq Videos must be five minutes long or shorter, and may present any project relating to manuscript studies in the digital age. Submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/6zJqNUgFgwbCxsyq5 Deadline for submitting applications is October 26 Applicants will be notified by November 2 Lightning Talk videos must be five minutes or shorter. Videos must be submitted to SIMS by November 9 The symposium is Free and is open to the public! For more about the symposium, including registration, visit the website here: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs_symposium14 Thanks and we look forward to reading your proposals! Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com<mailto:dot.porter@gmail.com> Penn Manuscripts on Tumblr: http://upennmanuscripts.tumblr.com/ MESA: http://mesa-medieval.org *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Updates from the DM Executive Board
by Ransom, Lynn 27 Sep '21

27 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear members of the Digital Medievalist Community, On behalf of the Executive Board of Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/executive-board/>, I write to update members of the DM community on recent activities of and news from the DM Executive Board as we set forth in the (relatively) new academic year. New 2021-2022 Board Roles · Director: Lynn Ransom · Deputy Director: Claudia Sojer · Conference Representatives: Lisa Fagin Davis, Rose Faunce, Laura Morreale, Kivilcim Yavuz · Social Media Admin: Tobias Hodel · Website Admin: Tobias Hodel and Rose Faunce · DM-L Admin: Gustavo Riva · Early Stage Researchers Subcommittee Liaison: Luise Borek · Journal Associate Editorial Board: Lisa Fagin Davis, Gustavo Riva, and Kivilcim Yavuz, joining Franz Fischer (Editor-in-Chief) Greta Franzini, Mike Kestemont, Daniel O'Donnell, Peter Robinson, and Virgil Granfield (Managing Editor) DM at Kalamazoo 2022 DM will be holding a workshop "Medieval Digital Humanities: How to Get Started" at the virtual International Congress of Medieval Studies taking place online Monday, May 9, through Saturday, May 14, 2022. This workshop will introduce digital humanities strategies to those interested in computer-based methodologies for teaching and research. The session will feature members of the Digital Medievalist organization, and cover data visualization, topic modelling, linked open data, data modelling, and AI techniques. Coding Codices Podcast Since December 2020, the DM Early Stage Researchers Subcommittee<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/postgraduate-subcommittee/> has posted seven podcasts all available here Coding Codices - Podcast (digitalmedievalist.org)<https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/>. They will be starting their next season of podcast in the coming weeks. Please subscribe and follow on Twitter @digitalmedieval<https://twitter.com/digitalmedieval> or subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform. For more info, go to About - Coding Codices (digitalmedievalist.org)<https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/about/>. DM Journal The editors are delighted to announce a special issue forthcoming in 2021. The issue features results from The Canterbury Tales Project<http://canterburytalesproject.com/> and is edited by Barbara Bordalejo with contributions by Nicole Atkins, Kendall Bitner, Barbara Bordalejo, Kyle Dase, Peter Robinson, and Adam Alberto Vázquez. The editors are also currently seeking submissions for future issues. If you are interested in submitting to DM please go to https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ for more info. Digital Medieval Webinar Repository (DMWR) Led by board member Laura Morreale, the DM board created the curated Zenodo community DMWR<https://zenodo.org/communities/dmwr/?page=1&size=20> last year to house recorded presentations on medieval topics, especially those that involve digital work. DMWR follows best practices for digital preservation that encourage storing materials in multiple locales. For more info, including instructions on how to upload your presentations, go to https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/digital-medieval-webinar-repositor…. Be sure to check out new presentations from this summer's DV Virtual Conference that have recently been uploaded, with more to come soon. Feel free to add your own content anytime! If you have any questions or comments on the above, have ideas for other community resources, or want to inquire about how to get more involved with DM, please don't hesitate to contact the board at Dmedievalist(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:Dmedievalist@googlegroups.com>, or start a discussion on this list. Either way, we look forward to hearing from you! Best, Lynn Ransom Director, Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/>

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Current Trends in (Digital) Epigraphy - October 1st, 2021 (online)
by Martina Filosa 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. (With apologies for cross-posting) Dear List Members, We have the pleasure of inviting you to attend the online conference and round table Current Trends in (Digital) Epigraphy, organised by Martina Filosa (University of Cologne) and Dimitar Iliev (St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia). The conference will be held on Zoom on October 1st, 2021. If you would like to attend, please register here: digital-epigraphy.eventbrite.de<http://digital-epigraphy.eventbrite.de/>. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at martina.filosa(a)uni-koeln.de<mailto:martina.filosa@uni-koeln.de> or diiliev(a)uni-sofia.bg<mailto:diiliev@uni-sofia.bg>. With all best wishes, Martina Filosa (University of Cologne) Dimitar Iliev (University of Sofia) Current Trends in (Digital) Epigraphy 10:00 Welcome! 10:15 Charlotte Roueché (London): New Approaches to Collaboration in Digital Epigraphy 10:45 Dimitar Iliev (Sofia): Telamon: the Monuments, the Platform, the Collaboration 11:15 Ilenia Gradante (Oxford): Building a Digital Corpus of Roman Signacula in Sicily 11:45 Coffee 12:00 Tsvetan Vassilev (Sofia): The Biblical Quotations in the Bachkovo Refectory: Inscriptions in Greek Language from the 17th century 12:30 Nikolay Sharankov (Sofia): Reshaping Reality: Uses of Damnatio in Inscriptions from Bulgaria 13:00 Lunch 14:30 Arkadiy Avdokhin (Moscow) & Andreas Rhoby (Vienna): Epigraphies of Pious Travel. A Digital Corpus of Greek and Russian Pilgrimage Graffiti 15:00 Maria Parani (Nicosia): A Digital Corpus of Painted Greek Inscriptions from Medieval Cyprus (10th – 13th centuries AD) 15:30 Martina Filosa (Cologne) & Alessio Sopracasa (Paris): SigiDoc 1.0 and the Digital Turn in Byzantine Sigillography 16:00 Coffee 16:30 Round table & discussion with Irene Vagionakis (Bologna) and Gabriel Bodard (London) 18:00 Closing remarks -- Martina Filosa, M.A. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Universität zu Köln Institut für Altertumskunde Abteilung Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-50923 Köln martina.filosa(a)uni-koeln.de<mailto:martina.filosa@uni-koeln.de>

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14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Online)
by Ransom, Lynn 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS<http://schoenberginstitute.org/>) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 14th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Online) Loss November 17-19, 2021 Engaging with pre-modern books and manuscripts necessarily involves reckoning with the paradox of loss. While a historical document from the distant past is the material survivor of a singular attempt to hedge against the disappearance of an idea, image, or text, the extant specimen always has to be considered alongside missing exemplars, damage and erasure, lost comparanda, and the vanished life-worlds that produced the object in the first place. This symposium will interrogate the notions of loss, survival, and recuperation in manuscript studies, so often in the background but rarely acknowledged as defining features of the field. Bringing together scholars, librarians, curators, and conservators, we will investigate losses unknowable and quantifiable, ancient and recent, large and small, physical and digital. How have chance survivals shaped literary and linguistic canons? How might the topography of the field appear differently had certain prized unica not survived? What are the ways in which authors, compilers, scribes, and scholars have dealt with lacunary exemplaria? How do longstanding and emergent methodologies and disciplines-analysis of catalogs of dispersed libraries, reverse engineering of ur-texts and lost prototypes, digital reconstructions of codices dispersi, digital humanities. and cultural heritage preservation, and trauma studies to name a few,-serve to reveal the extent of disappearance? How can ideologically-driven biblioclasm or the destruction wrought by armed conflicts -- sometimes occurring within living memory -- be assessed objectively yet serve as the basis for protection of cultural heritage in the present? In all cases, losses are not solely material: they can be psychological, social, digital, linguistic, spiritual, professional. Is mournful resignation the only response to these gaps, or can such sentiments be harnessed to further knowledge, understanding, and preservation moving forward? The online program will take place in morning and afternoon sessions (EST) from Wednesday, November 17, to Friday, November 19. The symposium will end with a keynote address by Professor Elaine Treharne, Stanford University.. For more information and to register, please visit https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs_symposium14.

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Linked Pasts Symposium (CFP)
by Gabriel Bodard 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear all, I would like to call your attention to two calls: (1) for activities; (2) for posters, for the Linked Pasts Symposium, hosted by Ghent University and CLARIAH Flanders from Dec 13-17 (online) and Dec 20-21 (in person). We are interested in discussions, hackathons, new project planning, and other practical activities, in the area of Linked Open Data and the historical world. (1) Call for Activities: There will be space for suggestion and selection of activities at the conference, but we also welcome proposals for research activities, which may include (but are not restricted to): development of standards, ontologies and research applications; discovery and integration of datasets; enrichment and annotation of textual collections; collaboration, pedagogy and community expansion; other relevant undertakings with a focus on Linked Open Data and the historical world. To propose a stream or working group for the conference programme, please fill in the form at <https://forms.gle/Z3aj3UfixTNENyaB8> with a max. 200-word abstract outlining your suggestion, type of activity and the medium in which it will be run, and some indication of the likely participants (e.g. names, community or expected stakeholders) by the end of Monday October 18, 2021. (2) Call for posters: In the absence of individual presentations and lectures, posters are a great way to share a project, dataset, method or activity related to the LOD and historical or heritage research, and discuss your work in a less formal setting with other interested attendees. We will hold an online digital poster session available throughout the symposium. To propose a poster, please send an abstract of 100–150 words to gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk by the end of Monday October 18, 2021. More information about the Linked Pasts Symposium at <https://linkedpasts.hcommons.org/linked-pasts-vii/>

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