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Latest developments of Biblissima, the Observatory of the Written Heritage of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
by Régis Robineau 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

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, The Biblissima team is pleased to announce its main achievements over the last few months. 1. The iconography of manuscripts from French libraries in the Biblissima Portal: The data from Initiale, the catalogue of illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages maintained by the IRHT-CNRS, can now be consulted in the Biblissima Portal [1], thus joining those of the Mandragore database (Bibliothèque nationale de France). More than 306,000 records of illuminations and decoration elements can be consulted through a common interface, representing at this stage a corpus of approx. 230,000 digital images accessible via IIIF protocols. For more details, read this Twitter feed [2]. The Portal home page offers a thematic entry point [3] into this large iconographic corpus. 2. Publication of a repository of quotations for ancient manuscripts and printed works: Biblissima's shelfmarks authority file has been published on data.biblissima.fr<http://data.biblissima.fr>, the Biblissima authority data platform [4]. To date, it references nearly 200,000 shelfmarks from various catalogues and databases from Biblissima's partners, progressively integrated into the Portal since 2017, and from the datasets aggregated into the IIIF-Collections search engine. The creation of this authority file responds to the need to unambiguously and uniformly identify manuscripts and printed books thanks to a stable and unique URI identifier that acts as the indispensable pivot for aggregating metadata about the same object. 3. Enrichments of the IIIF-Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books search engine: IIIF-Collections, the search platform for digitised manuscripts and rare books, aggregates data from 17 digital libraries and allows a federated search on more than 75,000 records [5]. The last two datasets that have been processed and integrated this month come from the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. We remain open to any collaboration on shared entity files in the fields covered by Biblissima, and for the integration of new resources in its Portal. The Biblissima Team. Campus Condorcet 8, cours des Humanités 93322 Aubervilliers CEDEX biblissima.fr<https://biblissima.fr/> / @biblissima<https://twitter.com/biblissima> [1] Biblissima Portal: https://portail.biblissima.fr/en [2] Twitter feed announcing the Portal update with iconographic data: https://twitter.com/biblissima/status/1280485981544644609 [3] Iconographic Thesaurus (Initiale/Mandragore): https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/thb806db559f2abfe3bd6884def6909… [4] Biblissima Authority Files: https://data.biblissima.fr/w/Accueil/en [5] IIIF-Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books: https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/

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2020 Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Virtual Edition)
by Ransom, Lynn 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

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 at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 13th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Manuscript Studies in the Digital Covid-19 Age November 18-20, 2020 In the early spring of 2020, as the world shut down, scholarship and teaching were thrown into a virtual, online world. In the hands-on world of manuscripts studies, students, teachers, researchers, librarians, and curators lost physical access to the very objects upon which their work centered. But we were ready. Thanks to world-wide digitization efforts over the past twenty years, scholars at all levels and around the world have, by all counts, virtual access to more manuscripts and manuscript-related metadata than even a generation ago and are benefited by a broad array of digital tools, technologies, and resources that allow them to locate, gather, analyze, and interrogate digitized manuscripts and related metadata. But in a Covid-19 Age, have these resources and tools been enough to continue manuscript research and study? Has scholarship and teaching been supported by these resources and tools in the ways that those who created them intended? Has access to these artifacts of our shared intellectual heritage become more open and equitable or are there still hurdles for scholarship around the world to overcome? Has a forced reckoning with digital tools, technologies, and resources spurred new questions or avenues of research or thrown up barriers? As creators and users of digital tools, technologies, and resources, have we learned anything since March about the success or failure of such projects? We will consider these questions and the opportunities and limitations offered by digital images and manuscript-related metadata as well as the digital and conceptual interfaces that come between the data and us as users. Our goal is to offer a (virtual) space to discuss lessons learned since March and how those lessons can push us to better practice and development of strategies in the future. The symposium will take Wednesday, November 18 to Friday, November 20. Each day will consist of a 90-minute session with papers in the morning, followed by a 90-minute panel discussion led by invited moderators in the afternoon. All sessions will be recorded and made available after each session. Two events will be held conjunction with the symposium: * Scholarly Editing Covid`19-Style: Laura Morreale will lead a 3-day crowd-sourcing effort to transcribe, edit, and submit for publication an edition of Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience, from UPenn MS Codex 660<https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cr5nc34> (f. 86r-95v). * Virtual Lightning Round: Pre-recorded 5-minute lightning round talks featuring digital projects at all stages of development, from ideas to implementation. Want to feature your digital project? Submit your proposal here<https://forms.gle/aW4eRSr8fKtU6kPq8> by Friday, October 28, to be considered. For program information and to register, go to: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium13. Registration is free and open to the public but required. A Zoom link for all three days will be provided upon registration.

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ATNU Virtual Visiting Speaker: Elaine Treharne, Thursday 24 September, 18:00BST
by James Cummings 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

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. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. [Please Forward to Anyone Interested] 'Just an Illusion': Beowulf Book Beautiful Elaine Treharne Thursday 24th September, 18h00 (BST) https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/virtualspeakerseries202020211.html Professor Elaine Treharne<https://english.stanford.edu/people/elaine-treharne> from Stanford University and Stanford Text Technologies<https://texttechnologies.stanford.edu/> will join us for the first in this year's ATNU visiting speaker series, via zoom. Elaine's talk promises a lively discussion on textual representation, beautiful books and, just as a sample text, Beowulf. Join us on the 24th of September at 18h00 (BST) from wherever you are in the world. See the abstract below for more information, and don't forget to register to receive the joining link<https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=9147398>. The talk is open to all. Abstract: I am interested in three things, all of which center on textual wholeness; my example—'Beowulf'—is simply a case study of a larger theory about representations of TEXT. I’ll ask: i) What can we say about Beowulf in the context of London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A. xv—a book beautiful, without doubt; ii) How did nineteenth- and twentieth-century editors and writers try to make of Beowulf a book beautiful? iii) And finally, what can we say about a bodiless Beowulf?— ‘Beowulf Beyond’: the poem in the digital era, beyond the confines of print. I’ll examine editions of Beowulf in a variety of media, including facsimile, digitized, and digital instantiations of the work. This will allow us—as a collaborative—to reflect upon whether or not any edition can ever be considered more than an illusion: that which is, in essence, an incorrect experience. Register for zoom link at: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=9147398 Many thanks, James

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A welcome (and a farewell)
by Alberto Campagnolo 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

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. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear Digital Medievalist Members It has come the time for me to leave the Executive Board (having finished my third and last possible biannual term). For the last five years, after a first year as vice-director, I have tried my best to fill the big shoes of my predecessors as Board Director. I have seen the community grow and become ever more engaged, both in the DistList and through social media, and, last year, I’ve introduced the student and early-career sub-committee<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/introducing-dms-student…> as a means to foster collaboration with and involve in DM a number of talented scholars at the beginning of their careers, with all their energy and stimulating ideas. I now leave the Direction of DM in the very capable hands of Lynn Ransom. Lynn is Curator of Programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscripts Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and, since 2008, she has directed the Schoenberg Database for Manuscripts. Lynn joined DM in 2016 and has been an invaluable member of the Executive Board since the very beginning. This year, we also say goodbye to a number of longstanding members of the Board: Franz Fischer, who will carry on his role as Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Medievalist Journal<https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/>, Mike Kestemont, and Georg Vogeler. It has been an exciting six-years, and I am looking forward to all the good work that the new board, under Lynn’s direction, will undoubtedly do. Farewell to you all and good luck to Lynn and the new board. Alberto Campagnolo

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DM Roles and Next Meeting
by Ransom, Lynn 24 Aug '20

24 Aug '20

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. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Hi all, Thanks, Rose, for pulling this list together! It's nice to see that the enthusiasm and willingness to take on roles. I've taken a look at Els's doodle poll (thanks, Els!). I'd like to suggest Tuesday, September 15, 8am, or Thursday, September 17. 8am EDT (GMT -4). I have a slight preference for Tuesday, but let me know what your thoughts are. Should we ask that a representative from the early stage researchers group come? Since we are deciding roles for the board, it's probably not necessary for everyone in that group to be there, but it might be good to have one representative there. I'm cc'ing Jamie for his thoughts. Also, I would like to try a video meeting. Does anyone object? If we do a video meeting, someone would need to take minutes. Volunteers if so? Lynn From: Rose Faunce <rose.faunce(a)anu.edu.au> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 9:34 AM To: Rose Faunce <rozazor(a)gmail.com> Subject: DM Roles Thank you everyone for indicating your preferences. I have drafted a list. My apologies in advance for any mistakes. I am not sure how many people are needed for each of the roles, so I added the names of everyone who nominated for a role. If anyone wants to swap out of something, happy to make changes - just let me know. At our next meeting we can 'chat' about the roles and get going on what needs to be done. Have a good weekend... [cid:image001.png@01D67A21.93BF1010] Executive Board Members 2020 - 2023 Luise Borek - Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany 2017- 2021 Lisa Fagin Davis - Medieval Academy of America, USA 2019 - 2021 Rose Faunce - Australian National University, Australia 2020 - 2023 Tobias Hodel - University of Berne, Switzerland 2020 - 2023 Laura Morreale - Washington DC 2015 - 2021 Els de Paermentier - Ghent University, The Netherlands 2016 - 2022 Lynn Ransom - University of Pennsylvania, USA 2020 - 2023 Claudia Sojer - University of Innsbruck, Austria Outgoing 2017 - 2020 Roman Bleier - Graz University, Austria 2017 - 2020 Alberto Campagnolo - University of Udine, Italy 2014 - 2020 Franz Fischer - Ca' Foscari University, Italy 2016 - 2020 Mike Kestemont - University of Antwerp, Belgium 2014 - 2020 Georg Vogeler - Graz University, Austria Early Stage Researchers Subcommittee Hannah Busch - Huygens ING, The Netherlands Nathan Daniels - Johns Hopkins University, USA Tessa Gengnagel - University of Cologne, Germany James Harr - North Carolina State University, USA Aylin Malcolm - University of Pennsylvania, USA Caitlin Postal - University of Washington, USA Daniela Schulz - The Herzog August Library, Germany Dr Rose Faunce (working remotely) College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National University +61 2 6287 3863 | rose.faunce(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:rose.faunce@anu.edu.au>

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REED: Hampshire collection released
by James Cummings 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

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. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The Records of Early English Drama announces the open access publication of its latest edition in the REED series: REED: Hampshire, edited by Peter Greenfield and Jane Cowling. Now available on REED Online at https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/ and https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/collections/hamps/ REED: Hampshire offers the largest and most varied set of medieval and renaissance records yet included in REED Online, spanning from the late 10th century to the start of the Civil War in 1642. Records range from a kingale mentioned in a 1381 coroner's report to a previously unpublished play based on Sophocles and Seneca performed at Winchester College. Hampshire's record of seasonal festivities – especially that known regionally as a 'king ale' – complements and extends the Berkshire data across the common county boundary. Winchester, Winchester College, and Southampton are major stops in a lively performance circuit including other towns, monasteries, and aristocratic households which provide abundant evidence of itinerant minstrels, players, and other performers. Collection highlights include records of the Quem Quaeritis at Winchester, the boy bishop tradition at St Swithin's Priory, a 1409 legal dispute over a St Agnes play, expenses for constructing stages and sets in the Winchester College hall, licenses to acting troupes from the Master of the Revels that name star actors like Edward Alleyn and Will Kemp, and the elaborate entertainment for Queen Elizabeth provided by the earl of Hertford at Elvetham in 1591, which appears here in its Hampshire context. Also included are Isle of Wight records of both folk customs and aristocratic entertainments. All locations are linked to the GIS provincial map of England, which now defines, for the first time, pre- and post-Reformation diocesan boundaries. Now available on REED Online at https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/ and https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/collections/hamps/

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Issue 2-2020 of journal magazén
by Paolo Monella 09 Aug '20

09 Aug '20

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. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear all, with apologies for cross-posting, I am forwarding the call for papers of the 2nd issue of the first number (2020) of the new DH jounal "magazén". Please note that the deadline is close: August 15. Best, Paolo Monella --- Call for Papers – Issue 2/2020 – “Fusions” magazén | International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (unive.it/vedph) Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Deadlines: Abstract Submission – August 15, 2020 Abstract acceptance – August 30, 2020 Articles Submission – December 15, 2020 Prospective publication – June 2021 –––––––––– magazén | International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities magazén is the interdisciplinary journal of the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) based at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice undergoing double blind peer review and published twice per year in print, digital copy and html version in open access by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. The VeDPH is founded upon an initiative of excellence that aims at stimulating an interdisciplinary methodological discourse to serve as a basis for the collaborative development of durable, reusable, shared resources for research and learning in the field of digital and public humanities. Its disciplinary domains include Digital Textual Scholarship, Digital and Public Art History, Digital and Public History, Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital and Public Archaeology. –––––––––– Call for Papers | Issue 2/2020 magazén is looking for contributors to its 2020 inaugural volume entitled “Fusions”, which will devote also the second semestral issue of the journal to the intertwining landscape emerging from the recent development of digital and public humanities. As a matter of fact, in the last two decades much effort was placed in defining separate disciplinary fields, in order to canonise and validate the use of digital methodologies or public approaches in the specific subsets of the humanities. However, evidence suggests that digital and public challenges facing singular disciplines are actually common to the entire field of the humanities, thus favouring a cross-disciplinary approach rather than thematic isolation. Indeed, the impact of digitisation and public involvement offered a unique opportunity to the humanities: a window for experimentation with merged methodologies, blended sharing practices, joined representation modes, interpenetrated material research. In this process new actors, factors and agents emerged that are about to consolidate today’s landscape in the digital and public humanities, although still on the search for standards and best practices that could suit the entire field. For its inaugural volume magazén is set to examine in two semestral issues (Summer 2020 and Fall 2020) the concept of “fusions” as the very backbone of recent developments in the realm of digital and public humanities. Scholars are particularly invited to submit contributions that span from theoretical debates to methodological reflections, also comprising the examination of particular case studies. See the full call for papers at: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/info#details –––––––––– Abstracts | Focus and Submission guidelines For scholars interested in submitting a proposal for our second semestral issue, please write an abstract of no more than 200 words together with a short biographical note and the provisional title of the paper. All materials should be sent by August 15, 2020 via email (subject: “magazen 2/2020 – Call for Papers”) to the editorial board at the following address: magazen(a)unive.it Notice of selection will be given to authors within two weeks from submission deadline. Finalised contributions are expected to be 6.000–9.000 words long (notes and bibliography included) and will undergo double blind peer review. Accepted languages are Italian and English, though all texts must have an English abstract and stick to the editorial guidelines of Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. Texts that shouldn’t comply with editorial guidelines won’t be accepted. Please note that the author must secure all copyright permissions (reproduction costs included) for images and other media. The deadline for all accepted articles is December 15, 2020 and final publication of the second issue is planned by June 2021. For further details please contact the editorial board (magazen(a)unive.it).

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2021 - Save the Date!
by Kristen Mapes 07 Aug '20

07 Aug '20

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. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear colleagues, The Global Digital Humanities Symposium Planning Committee is pleased to announce that the 6th annual Symposium will take place April 12-15, 2021. This virtual event will take place synchronously over four days, with approximately three hours each day of programming. A full call for proposals will be forthcoming in September 2020, and free registration will open by January 2021. Find out more, including information about past Symposia at http://msuglobaldh.org. We are pleased as well to inform you that the Committee is working to support multilingualism at the Symposium and will provide live captions for all presentations. Further details to come soon. Sincerely, Kristen Mapes, on behalf of the Symposium Planning Committee Kristen Mapes Assistant Director of Digital Humanities College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Applying machine learning to the study of inscribing texts (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

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. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Charlotte Tupman (Exeter) Reconsidering the Roman workshop: Applying machine learning to the study of inscribing texts Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 17:30 BST Digital Classicist London Seminar 2020 Streamed live at https://youtu.be/sVUg9R13l5E This paper examines whether our understanding of lettercutting processes in the Roman world can be enhanced through combining traditional scholarship and machine learning. The pilot project applies a neural network to a dataset of images made available by the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg. We investigate whether the model can learn effectively to identify and measure the layouts of inscriptions. In this paper we present the results and implications of the first stage of the project, in which we train the model to recognise text within images of varying quality, and discuss the next steps in furthering our knowledge of Roman craftsmanship. Hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies ALL WELCOME == Dr Gabriel BODARD (he/him) Reader in Digital Classics Institute of Classical Studies University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU E: Gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk T: +44 (0)20 78628752 Especially at the moment, I may email at odd hours of the day and night/days of the week. I do not ever expect a reply outside of your working hours.

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2020 DM Executive Board Election Results
by James Harr 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

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. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear Digital Medievalist community, We have the pleasure of announcing the results from the 2020 DM elections. The tally for Digital Medievalist Executive Board Elections (term 2020-22) has been computed and the elected members of the community to the Board are (in alphabetical order): * Luise Borek * Tobias Hodel * Laura Morreale * Lynn Ransom * Claudia Sojer We would like to thank the other candidates for standing and providing us with an outstandingly rich choice. Thank you for your participation! Best wishes to the new DM board, and the DM community as a whole, Best, Alberto, Jamie, and Georg DM 2020 Election Committee

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