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CFP: User Interfaces at Kalamazoo
by Jesse Hurlbut 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

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

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CFP: Medieval Video Gaming (proposals 10/01/2005)
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Proposals for THE MEDIEVAL IN MOTION: Neomedievalism in Film, Television, and Video Games (An Anthology of Critical & Pedagogical Analysis) I am soliciting proposal for essays (or completed essays) concerning the representation of the medieval period in computer, video, and console gaming. While the anthology is organized around the idea of "neomedievalism" (defined below), contributors are encouraged to theorize the relationship of the medieval / medievalisms to gaming in all its permutations. Additionally, although it is not a widely-known fact, the video game industry outgrossed Hollywood last year in terms of domestic sales, and many students' first taste of the medieval period comes through the prism of video and console games. Thus, computer and console games are an important area for pedagogical reflection as well. Possibilities include: * Analysis of specific games (Diablo, Morrowind, Dungeon Siege, EverQuest, Fable, Stronghold, Medieval Total War, Age of Kings, Civilization, Warcraft-World of Warcraft) * Analysis of particular genres: First Person Shooters (FPS), Real-Time Strategy (RTS), Role-Playing Games (RPG), Massively-Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG), Turn-Based Strategy (TBS), Strategy, Stealth, Horror, Adventure, Action * Analysis of different platforms: PC, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, N64 * Chronological and technological development of games (Warcraft or the Final Fantasy series) * Online Guilds and Medieval(ish) Communities in MMORPGs * Marginality and liminality in game world and level construction * Old-school medievalism: text based games to Dungeons and Dragons * Representations of gender, race, age, ethnicity, * Representations of alternative species, aliens, and "otherness" * Representations of medieval warfare, technology, religion, social structure, and culture Section Editor for Video Games: Daniel T. Kline Department of English University of Alaska Anchorage 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage, Alaska 99508 Proposals Due: 10/01/2005 Final Essays Due: 01/15/2006 BOOK UNDER CONTRACT WITH: EDWIN MELLEN PRESS Many portrayals of the Middle Ages (well done or not) in motion pictures, TV, and games have gone through three movements of narrative style: Modernist-Medievalism, Post-Modernist Medievalism, Neomedievalism. Historically, these movements of style can be seen to loosely correlate with three movements of the technical medium of motion pictures: film, television, and video games. While such an over-simplification is far from comprehensive, we have proposed to use it to serve as a structural base from which discussions and debates may orient: in either a reliance upon, an expansion of, a disagreement with, or a total deconstruction of this base. What can be said about medievalism in motion pictures, TV, and games that hasn't been said before? In what ways might medieval motion pictures and TV-from the passive/receptive experience of film to the interactive experience of video games-be used productively in the classroom? Send drafts and/or proposals to: General Editor: Carol L. Robinson Kent State University-Trumbull 4314 Mahoning Ave., N.W. Warren, Ohio 44483-1998 clrobins_at_kent.edu * Section Ed.-Film: Pamela Clements, Sienna College (clements(a)siena.edu) * Section Ed.-Television: Sarah E. Gordon, U of Southern Utah (sgordon(a)cc.usu.edu) * Section Ed.-Video Gaming: Dan Kline, U of Alaska Anchorage (afdtk(a)uaa.alaska.edu)

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Re: [dm-l] Should Medievalist Graduate Programs require a humanities computing course?
by Dan ＠ PDA 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

I think Abdullah and James are talking about two extremes of the question I was asking. Before posting, I took a look around and saw *graduate* humanities courses on how to use word and frontpage (which seems to me to be a misuse of resources) and on quite detailed aspects of advanced HumCom. But what prompted the question was the sense that a conceptual, transferable understanding of things like markup, networking, database design and the like might now be as necessary as research methods are now thought to be in many places. So many medievalists are now proposing digital projects of one kind or another. How one thinks about a new project depends to a large extent on what one already understands the possibilities to be. Since (unlike research methods) a conceptual understanding of how the magic box works is not something one can necessarily expect to pick up in the department by osmosis, my question is really whether a conceptual overview might not be increasingly essential. The focus might be different that what a CompSci or IT department would offer, since we don't need to turn everybody into a programmer; but it would be nice if more in our field had a realistic understanding of what options are available as they plan new projects. There is BTW an article on how CompSci departments are moving away from this in today's New York Times. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell [/pda] Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax +1 (403) 382-7191 E-mail daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca Web http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ -----Original Message----- From: James Cummings Date: 22/8/05 23:40 To: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list Subj: Re: [dm-l] Should Medievalist Graduate Programs require a humanities computing course? Abdullah Alger wrote: > Anyway, now that I am at the University of Manchester I see that there is > an enormous gap that needs to be filled. Some of the students here cannot > even copy a file correctly or do simple tasks in Word. We do have some > courses that enable some students to understand some basic concepts, but > if you ask them what HTML is or how to write a web page there will be > question marks written all over their faces. Is it really the job of humanities departments to provide this education? These tasks are basic computer literacy which has little to do with 'Humanities Computing' per se. Almost every university in the UK has some provision for IT training should students require it. Even at the University of Manchester where you are students can take courses via the IT Services: http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/trainingcourses/ Surely what you should be doing on any course which requires basic IT skills (or heaven forfend more advanced skills!) is stating this as a prerequisite and directing students to the IT Services to receive training in these skills. If teaching a course (say on use of XML for producing critical editions or general text encoding) I don't think that we should feel any compunction in listing basic familiarity with HTML as a prerequisite, as long as students have access to training in that area. (I'm not suggesting you say they must have taken specific course X, simply that they are aware that it is a prerequisite and so they should have learnt it somewhere.) It just seems to be an inefficient waste of resources for us to duplicate training that is already available to most students. Great, offer topics which use a higher level of technology to drive the learning process, but where it isn't the end in itself (teaching palaeography on computer is a good example of this). If increasingly all the interesting courses list 'At least basic computer literacy' as a prerequisite then students will start to make sure they have these skills. But of course, I was using mainframes at the age of 8, so my perspective may vary from yours. ;-) -James _______________________________________________ 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

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New electronic editions at the Ecole des chartes
by Gautier Poupeau 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

I repost my mail, because there is a problem with URL, excuse-me. The Ecole nationale des Chartes (Paris, France) has just released a few new documents on its website ELEC, the free online editions of the Ecole des Chartes (http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr). The Obituary of Saint-Mont (http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/obituairesaintmont/). Ms. Marie-José Gasse-Grandjean, researcher at the University of Burgundy, publishes the first critical edition of this manuscript, along with the document itself digitized by Metz public library (médiathèque du Pontiffroy). The obituary, which has been dated 1406, was written for Guillaume de la Perche, prior of Saint-Mont, in order to list the names of all monastery benefactors and to celebrate their memory. This nice "book of practice", not quite a «*nécrologe* », nor a calendar nor a «censier» (liber censuum), is a unique source of information on everyday life among a small monastic community depending on the Abbey of Remiremont. The Formulary of Odart Morchesne (established according the manuscript ms BnF fr. 5024) (http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/morchesne/). This edition, prepared by Mr. Olivier Guyotjeannin, professor at the École des chartes, and Mr. Serge Lusignan, professor at the University of Montreal, with the help of students of the Ecole des Chartes, contains about 270 models of acts which were useful for notaries and secretaries working for the King of France in the XVth century. This handbook is remarkable because the acts were annnotated by the author himself. The richness of the vocabulary is also outstanding. This is why the École des chartes will publish this document twice : there will be a print version (to be published in the collection Mémoires et documents de l’École des chartes) more convenient for reading and an electronic version allowing to access and search the text. The Language of Acts, proceedings of the XIth International congress of diplomatics Troyes, Sept. 11-13, 2003 (http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/sommaire163.html). The eleventh plenary session of the International Commission of diplomatics was organized by the École des chartes. The various workshops focused on the language of acts, a topic which had emerged after a survey done by the École des chartes research center “History, mémory, heritage” (EA 3624). Papers are published on the Website as soon as Mr. Olivier Guyotjeannin receives them. Digital cartularies of the region Ile-de-France (http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/cartulaires/) The library of the École des chartes has a collection of early XXth century editions of cartularies of the region Ile-de-France which surrounds Paris. This digitization project, supported by the French Ministry of Education, has three aims: *to provide a digital facsimile of these rare editions which are not available in most libraries *to allow browsing through full-text acts and indexes and to provide a critical presentation of the edition (critical apparatus by the students of the Ecole des Chartes under the direction of Olivier Guyotjeannin) *to enhance digitization by providing access and search tools linking text and images, by creating tables for browsing, by allowing full-text search and the creation of personal data files. The following editions are available on our site : - Cartulary of the Abbey of Saint-Martin de Pontoise - Cartulary of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Roche - Cartulary of the royal Abbey of Montmartre - Cartulary of the Abbey of Porrois - Priory of Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Liber testamentorum Sancti Martini de Campis - Cartulary and censier (liber censuum) of Saint-Merry de Paris - Cartulary of Saint-Spire de Corbeil The most recent technologies in electronic publishing were used to produce these documents. Thanks to the standards chosen by the École des chartes (METS, TEI, XML), it is easy to browse through the documents, to make a full-text search http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/exist/rechercher.php and to create indexes. Electronic documents produced by the École des chartes abide by TEI recommendations, thus promoting the durability and the interoperability of data among the international community dedicated to electronic edition in the field of Humanities (http://www.tei-c.org). Best regards, Gautier Poupeau, Electronic publisher at the Ecole des chartes

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New electronic editions at the Ecole des chartes
by Gautier Poupeau 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

The Ecole nationale des Chartes (Paris, France) has just released a few new documents on its website ELEC, the free online editions of the Ecole des Chartes (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr <http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/>_). The Obituary of Saint-Mont (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/obituairesaintmont/_). Ms. Marie-José Gasse-Grandjean, researcher at the University of Burgundy, publishes the first critical edition of this manuscript, along with the document itself digitized by Metz public library (médiathèque du Pontiffroy). The obituary, which has been dated 1406, was written for Guillaume de la Perche, prior of Saint-Mont, in order to list the names of all monastery benefactors and to celebrate their memory. This nice "book of practice", not quite a «*nécrologe* », nor a calendar nor a «censier» (liber censuum), is a unique source of information on everyday life among a small monastic community depending on the Abbey of Remiremont. The Formulary of Odart Morchesne (established according the manuscript ms BnF fr. 5024) (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/morchesne/_). This edition, prepared by Mr. Olivier Guyotjeannin, professor at the École des chartes, and Mr. Serge Lusignan, professor at the University of Montreal, with the help of students of the Ecole des Chartes, contains about 270 models of acts which were useful for notaries and secretaries working for the King of France in the XVth century. This handbook is remarkable because the acts were annnotated by the author himself. The richness of the vocabulary is also outstanding. This is why the École des chartes will publish this document twice : there will be a print version (to be published in the collection Mémoires et documents de l’École des chartes) more convenient for reading and an electronic version allowing to access and search the text. The Language of Acts, proceedings of the XIth International congress of diplomatics Troyes, Sept. 11-13, 2003 (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/sommaire163.html_). The eleventh plenary session of the International Commission of diplomatics was organized by the École des chartes. The various workshops focused on the language of acts, a topic which had emerged after a survey done by the École des chartes research center “History, mémory, heritage” (EA 3624). Papers are published on the Website as soon as Mr. Olivier Guyotjeannin receives them. Digital cartularies of the region Ile-de-France (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/cartulaires/_) The library of the École des chartes has a collection of early XXth century editions of cartularies of the region Ile-de-France which surrounds Paris. This digitization project, supported by the French Ministry of Education, has three aims: * to provide a digital facsimile of these rare editions which are not available in most libraries * to allow browsing through full-text acts and indexes and to provide a critical presentation of the edition (critical apparatus by the students of the Ecole des Chartes under the direction of Olivier Guyotjeannin) * to enhance digitization by providing access and search tools linking text and images, by creating tables for browsing, by allowing full-text search and the creation of personal data files. The following editions are available on our site : - Cartulary of the Abbey of Saint-Martin de Pontoise - Cartulary of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Roche - Cartulary of the royal Abbey of Montmartre - Cartulary of the Abbey of Porrois - Priory of Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Liber testamentorum Sancti Martini de Campis - Cartulary and censier (liber censuum) of Saint-Merry de Paris - Cartulary of Saint-Spire de Corbeil The most recent technologies in electronic publishing were used to produce these documents. Thanks to the standards chosen by the École des chartes (METS, TEI, XML), it is easy to browse through the documents, to make a full-text search _http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/exist/rechercher.php_ and to create indexes. Electronic documents produced by the École des chartes abide by TEI recommendations, thus promoting the durability and the interoperability of data among the international community dedicated to electronic edition in the field of Humanities (_http://www.tei-c.org <http://www.tei-c.org/>_). Best regards, Gautier Poupeau, Electronic publisher at the Ecole des chartes

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Should Medievalist Graduate Programs require a humanities computing course?
by Dan O'Donnell 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

On a number of occasions recently, I have been struck by the basic ignorance of many professional medievalists concerning developments in computing that affect their daily lives. By this I don't mean the latest revisions of TEI P5 and how this will affect the markup of unclear textual variants. Rather I mean much more basic issues such as what XML is and how it is different from HTML or Word; or the relationship between fonts and characters. This has been striking to me because it is affecting basic aspects of these medievalists' work. You don't have to be a 'computer person' to benefit from Unicode, for example, and I have been surprised how many often quite complicated projects seem to be completely ignorant of fundamental aspects of humanities computing that would greatly simplify their work. So my question is this: should there be a basic humanities computing course required of beginning graduate students similar to the research methods course so many universities require or recommend? What should such a course contain? Looking around on the internet, I tend to see two types: very practical courses that concentrate on using current software and techniques (e.g. Macromedia, Excel, Word, etc.) and quite advanced courses that focus on the trivia of building standards compliant editions. I'm wondering if there perhaps is not a need for a more conceptual approach: what is Unicode? what is XML? structural vs. display markup? how the web works. database design. I realise these are not topics that speak to many graduate students in our field--who are, after all presumably interested in their disciplinary subject. But given how many projects now include an electronic component, it seems to me that we may be rapidly approaching the time when a medievalist should be expected to have a basic conceptual grasp of contemporary humanities computing. What do others think? I'm thinking of asking the same question on Medtext and, phrased more generally, on Humanist. But before I do, I thought I'd ask here. I suspect the issue is more important for medievalists and classicists than it is for scholars in more modern periods: more of us seem to work more closely with things that can be digitised. Or is that discipline prejudice? -d -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191 (@webmail)

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TEI and concurrent hierarchies
by Marjorie Burghart 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Dear DMs, Maybe this should be better posted on the TEI list, but I hope some of you could have interesting experience in the field ! I'm encoding an ongoing project in TEI XML, and I'm encountering problems to represent concurrent hierarchies. I'd like to markup some rhetorical elements, that can either be contained in paragraphes (<p> tags), or contain <p> tags, depending on their length and importance. Therefore, I can't use <seg>, for instance. >From a "logical" point of view, it seems to me that <div> tags would be perfect (with a convenient type), but in this case I would have a problem of concurrent hierarchies (possible overlapping of <div> and <p> elements). The solutions proposed in the current TEI Guidelines for the handling of multiple hierarchies would work, BUT I'm afraid they would fairly complicate the processing of the encoded texts with standard XML tools. I thought about customizing the DTD to make <p> tags empty, which would be convenient for my purpose, but the markup wouldn't be TEI compliant any more (as CDATA is not allowed as child of div or body)... In a way, it seems to be the problem too for, eg, the quite seducing HORSE approach recently discussed by S. Bauman reguarding TEI (http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2005/Bauman01/EML2005B…) ? Thanks in advance for your help and experience (especially concerning the efficiency of processing the marked texts) ! Marjorie -- Marjorie Burghart Université Lyon II

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Re: [dm-l] Should Medievalist Graduate Programs require a humanities computing course?
by Larry Swain 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

> > Well, of course I'd like to see such classes taught in every > doctoral program -- but from what i know of such programs, I think > most of them would oppose it. Why, it would take time away from > seminars! (sheesh) > > While I understand your concern about e.g. xml vs html - and I know > it is ONLY an "e.g.": at least in the old days medievalists were as > knowledgeable in computer-humanities materials and procedures as > anyone, and probably more so. What has happened ? In the wild and wooly days, there were few specialists in computers: if you wanted it done, you did yourself. While computing has become more general, real computing use for research has become more specialized, more tools need to be learned etc. What has happened? Specialization for one. Just a thought. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [dm-l] Should Medievalist Graduate Programs require a humanities computing course?
by Norman Hinton 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

Well, of course I'd like to see such classes taught in every doctoral program -- but from what i know of such programs, I think most of them would oppose it. Why, it would take time away from seminars! (sheesh) While I understand your concern about e.g. xml vs html - and I know it is ONLY an "e.g.": at least in the old days medievalists were as knowledgeable in computer-humanities materials and procedures as anyone, and probably more so. What has happened ?

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[Fwd: [MEDTEXTL] OCR-software]
by Dan O'Donnell 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [MEDTEXTL] OCR-software From: "Margarete Springeth" <margarete.springeth(a)SBG.AC.AT> Date: Thu, August 18, 2005 3:41 pm To: MEDTEXTL(a)listserv.uiuc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello list, the team running the Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB) is desperately looking for a new text recognition software (OCR) that is well suited for scanning primarily 19th century printed editions. Our old software is still running on DOS-basis and can no longer be adapted to our new hardware/software configuration. The commercially available OCR-packages (like OmniPage, ReadIris, ABBY, etc.) are not well suited for our purposes, since they are only working well with newer print media. We would be well served if someone could supply us with a Windows version of something like Kurzweil, Optopus, ProLector or a similar software that has a very high learning capacity for fonts. Can anyone help us out or direct us to a source that could supply us with what we are looking for??? Price is also a factor, of course! Thanks, Margarete Springeth & Klaus M. Schmidt. ------------------------------------------------------------- Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank (MHDBDB) Dr. Margarete Springeth Universitaet Salzburg Akademiestrasse 22 A - 5020 Salzburg Tel. +43 / 662 / 8044 - 4347 Fax: +43 / 662 / 6389 - 4347 mailto:margarete.springeth@sbg.ac.at http://www.sbg.ac.at/ger/people/springeth.htm -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191 (@webmail)

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