(English below)
Dieser Aufruf zur Beteiligung kann man auch bei der Url
http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/de-index.html auf deutsch lesen | Cet appel
à participation se trouve aussi en français à l'url
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partecipazione e' disponibile anche in Italiano all'indirizzo
http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/it-index.html | versión español
próximamente
We should like to announce the creation of a new project and community, hosted
by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (KCL), applying humanities
computing to the study of the ancient world. The Digital Classicist has a pilot
web site at http://www.digitalclassicist.org, which, as well as serving as a
placeholder for further content, sets out our aims and objectives in a
preliminary manner. As you will see, key sections of the website and summaries
of articles will, where possible, be translated into the major languages of
European scholarship: e.g. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish etc. The
project also comprises a discussion list, a Wiki, and a Blog.
The project, which is committed to being ongoing and available in the long
term,
fills a gap in the current academic environment: there are countless important
digital research projects in the classics, including many that offer advice and
share tools; there are sites that discuss, host, or list such resources (the
Stoa, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, Centre for the Study of
Ancient Documents in Oxford, EAGLE in Rome, to name but a few); but there is no
single platform for scholars and interested experts in the international and
polyglot community to discuss problems, share experiences, post news and
advice, and go to for help on all matters digital and classical. We shall of
course work closely with other organisations and projects that are active in
these areas (in particular the Stoa, and other subject communities such as the
Digital Medievalist, including specialists in archaeological, historical, and
geographical technologies), to avoid excessive overlap and maximise
co-operation and collaboration.
At this point we especially need members of the international scholarly
community to contribute to the project. If you feel you could get involved in
an editorial capacity, or you could recommend somebody else to do so, please do
get in touch. There is no obligation that editors give up many hours of their
time, of course--editorial roles are discussed in a posting at
http://tinyurl.com/cpdsu . In addition we should be very grateful if you could
suggest other people--especially those in non-Anglophone Europe--who might be
interested in participating in this project in any way.
And in any case, please spread the word, join the mailing list and get involved
in the discussions as we establish this new project and community.
Best regards,
The Editors
digitalclassicist.org
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Gabriel BODARD
Inscriptions of Aphrodisias
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
Kay House
7, Arundel Street
London WC2R 3DX
Email: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 78 48 13 88
Fax: +44 (0)20 78 48 29 80
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Dear Colleagues,
The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL, www.cerl.org) has
set up a project for developing a federated search facility for
manuscripts. One of the options now being worked on is using the
technique of harvesting through the OAI protocol.
In order to make a recommendation on how to proceed after the project
phase I would like to know a bit more about how many manuscripts
databases (both with and without images) support harvesting through OAI.
I am hoping you could help me with this.
Those of you involved with manuscript databases I would like to ask the
following three questions:
- do you support searching by Z39.50 or SRU, or harvesting through
OAI?
- what kind of material does your database contain (period, spatial
coverage, number of records)?
- might you, in principal, be interested in taking part in an
international federated search facility?
I thank you in advance for your input in this small investigation,
best wishes,
Liesbeth Oskamp
_______________________________________
Liesbeth Oskamp
Consortium of European Research Libraries
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE Den Haag
Postbus 90407, 2509 LK Den Haag
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0)70 314 0377
Fax +31 (0)70 314 0633
E-mail: Liesbeth.Oskamp(a)cerl.org
Website: www.cerl.org
**EXTRA! THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE ACLS**=20
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ACLS OPENS COMPETITION FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
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The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce
its new Digital Innovation Fellowship program, in support of digitally
based research projects in the humanities and humanistic social
sciences. These fellowships, created with the generous help of The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are intended to support an academic year
dedicated to work on a major scholarly project of a digital character
that advances humanistic studies and best exemplifies the integration of
such research with use of computing, networking, and other information
technology-based tools. The online application for the fellowship
program is located at http://ofa.acls.org <http://ofa.acls.org/> ;
applications must be completed by November 10, 2005 (decisions to be
announced in late March 2006).
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This is the first national fellowship program to recognize and reward
humanistic scholarship in the digital sphere, and to help establish
standards for judging the quality, innovation, and utility of such
research. Many scholars have been working in the humanities for years
with such tools as digital research archives, new media representations
of extant data, and innovative databases-and now the ACLS sees an
important opportunity to start identifying and providing incentive for
distinctive work, on a national basis. "Information technology can be
the means for scholars to answer new and old questions that have so far
resisted our curiosity and our effort. This program will support a
rising generation of scholars in making exactly that kind of progress,"
says James O'Donnell, provost of Georgetown University, Chair of the
ACLS Executive Committee of Delegates, and author of Avatars of the
Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (1998).
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Up to five Digital Innovation Fellowships will be awarded in this
competition year, for tenure beginning in 2006-2007. As this program
aims to provide the means for pursuing digitally-based scholarly
projects, the fellowship includes a stipend of up to $55,000 to allow an
academic year's leave from teaching, as well as project funds of up to
$25,000 for purposes such as access to tools and personnel for digital
production, collaborative work with other scholars and with humanities
or computing research centers, and the dissemination and preservation of
projects.
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The ACLS criteria for judging applications include the project's
intellectual ambitions and technological underpinnings, likely
contribution as a digital scholarly work to humanistic study,
satisfaction of technical requirements for a successful research
project, degree and significance of preliminary work; potential for
promoting teamwork and collaboration (where appropriate), and
articulation with local infrastructure at the applicant's home
institution.
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Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States
as of the application deadline date and must hold a Ph.D. degree
conferred prior to the application deadline. However, established
scholars who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D. in publications
and professional experience may also qualify.
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Applications for the 2005-06 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship Program
Deadline: November 10, 2005
Contact: American Council of Learned Societies, 633 Third Avenue, New
York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 697-1505
E-mail: sfisher(a)acls.org
Web: www.acls.org/difguide.htm
(I don't know how many folks on the list live in the area affected by Katrina,
but please pass this message along to anyone who may qualify)
We at the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH)
at the University of Kentucky are so impressed by the recent
announcement that The Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park
(http://www.mith.umd.edu/) is offering a fellowship for scholars
affected by Hurricane Katrina that we have petitioned the College of
Arts and Sciences at UK to support a similar position at RCH. Please
distribute this announcement to other lists and post as you see fit. A
web version of the announcement is posted at
http://www.rch.uky.edu/fellowship.html.
Thank you,
Dot Porter, Program Coordinator, RCH
NOTE: The RCH website may be unavailable Friday, September 9, until the
late afternoon.
*****
*Announcement: Residential fellowship available for scholar displaced by
Hurricane Katrina*
With the support of the College of Arts & Sciences and the University of
Kentucky Libraries, the newly reorganized Collaboratory for Research in
Computing for Humanities (RCH) at the University of Kentucky,
Lexington, is pleased to be able to offer an immediate residential
fellowship available to any one faculty member or ABD doctoral candidate
at an institution closed by Hurricane Katrina.
As described in our new mission statement, RCH brings together faculty
and students from Engineering and the Humanities for research projects
with benefits for all involved. We provide infrastructure, technical
assistance, and grant writing assistance to individuals and groups who
propose projects under its auspices. We also encourage and support
interdisciplinary projects among individuals and groups from UK and
around the world.
We invite proposals from individual scholars who are currently working
on a humanities computing project and require facilities to continue
work OR who are in the process of starting a new project and require
facilities and other assistance in getting the project off the ground.
Projects through RCH have traditionally focused on image-based editing
of medieval and, more recently, classical materials, however we are
currently in the exciting process of branching out and investigating new
topics. Any project focused on the electronic editing of or access to
humanistic materials (manuscripts, rare books, artworks) would be
acceptable.
For more details on RCH, please visit our website at
http://www.rch.uky.edu/.
The fellowship includes:
* Private workspace, including both PC and Macintosh workstations.
* Access to our own hardware and software, and that of the
Preservation and Digital Programs Division
<http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/Special/> of the University of
Kentucky Libraries (a list of hardware available at
http://www.rch.uky.edu/index-prop.html#Fac)
* An opportunity to speak through the "Wednesday Seminar" series at
the Center for Computational Sciences <http://www.ccs.uky.edu/>.
* Access to the RCH and Stoa.org <http://www.stoa.org> development
and production servers. This includes online publication space, as
well as archival storage space.
* Consulting on issues of digital scholarship.
Although we will probably not be able to offer a stipend, we are able to
provide some funding for relocation and assistance with a search for
housing.
To apply, please send a letter of inquiry describing your project, a CV,
and contact information for three references. Please send application
materials by email to Dot Porter, the RCH Program Coordinator, at
dporter(a)uky.edu <mailto:dporter@uky.edu>, or by regular mail to:
Dot Porter
Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
351 William T. Young Library
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0456
Consideration of applications will begin immediately. Applications from
women and minorities and graduate students and faculty at Historically
Black Colleges and Universities is encouraged.
Ross Scaife and Jurek Jaromczyk, Directors
http://www.rch.uky.edu/
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Dorothy Carr Porter, Program Coordinator
Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
University of Kentucky
351 William T. Young Library
Lexington, KY 40506
dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549
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Oops, sorry I sent that private email to the group. Mea culpa
(-:
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:37:01 -0600
>From: Jesse Hurlbut <jesse_hurlbut(a)byu.edu>
>Subject: [dm-l] CFP: User Interfaces at Kalamazoo
>To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca
>
>CFP: Kalamazoo, May 2006
>Finding a Friendlier Front End: User Interface Design for
Electronic
>Critical Editions
>
>Abstract submission deadline: Sept. 15, 2005
>
>This session hopes to feature both real practices and
imagined ideals
>for crafting a better presentation of data in electronic
critical
>editions. While some presentations may deal in part with
tools or
>initiatives for developers, the focus is really on the user.
Are
>there factors of layout and design that make it easier for
the user
>to access complex data? What tools can we provide that
facilitate the
>user's experience with an ancient text? In what ways can we
yet
>exploit the new media to enhance the interaction of the
reader with a
>textual tradition? What are some best practices in designing
an
>interface that adequately reflects the 'mouvance' of a text?
What is
>the potential functionality of an electronic critical
apparatus?
>Topics need not be limited to existing technologies.
>
>Send abstracts (include websites if appropriate) to Jesse D.
Hurlbut at:
>
>jesse_hurlbut(a)byu.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>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
Way to go, Jesse, if you want you can put CER as a sponsor of
this. Patti
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:37:01 -0600
>From: Jesse Hurlbut <jesse_hurlbut(a)byu.edu>
>Subject: [dm-l] CFP: User Interfaces at Kalamazoo
>To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca
>
>CFP: Kalamazoo, May 2006
>Finding a Friendlier Front End: User Interface Design for
Electronic
>Critical Editions
>
>Abstract submission deadline: Sept. 15, 2005
>
>This session hopes to feature both real practices and
imagined ideals
>for crafting a better presentation of data in electronic
critical
>editions. While some presentations may deal in part with
tools or
>initiatives for developers, the focus is really on the user.
Are
>there factors of layout and design that make it easier for
the user
>to access complex data? What tools can we provide that
facilitate the
>user's experience with an ancient text? In what ways can we
yet
>exploit the new media to enhance the interaction of the
reader with a
>textual tradition? What are some best practices in designing
an
>interface that adequately reflects the 'mouvance' of a text?
What is
>the potential functionality of an electronic critical
apparatus?
>Topics need not be limited to existing technologies.
>
>Send abstracts (include websites if appropriate) to Jesse D.
Hurlbut at:
>
>jesse_hurlbut(a)byu.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>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
The Digital Medievalist project invites participants for two sessions at
the 2006 International Congress on Medievalist Studies in Kalamazoo:
Digital publication (Digital medievalist)
* Paper and/or abstract submissions are invited on the topic of
digital publication. We are looking in particular for discussion
of tools, processes, and/or best practices, but will consider
other approaches to the topic (e.g. the economics of running a
wiki or commons?).
What every digital medievalist should know (Digital medievalist)
* Paper and/or abstract submissions are invited on the topic of
basic skills and training for digital projects in medieval
studies. What should medievalists know before they begin a new
project? How can they find out
(see also
http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Kalamazoo_2006#Digital_Medievalist_…)
Proposals should be submitted by email before September 15th to
daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca or digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca. Please use a
clear subject line in your email.
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Director, Digital Medievalist Project
University of Lethbridge
Hello all,
As the deadline for Kalamazoo approaches, I thought I'd remind everyone
about the Wiki based page on digital sessions at Kalamazoo 2006:
http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Kalamazoo_2006. Currently this
lists calls for papers (if you have one that is not listed, please
consider adding it: it is not hard and we can help if you need it).
Once the sessions are submitted and approved, we will use this as a
programme for digital sessions at the 2006 conference in much the same
way we did last year for Kalamazoo 2005:
http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Kalamazoo_2005. There are
similar pages for the Leeds conferences. If you know of another event or
conference that you would like to do something similar with, please feel
free to add it (or ask us to add text for you if you are worried about
adding stuff to a wiki).
-dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca>
University of Lethbridge