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Call for Contributions: Early Career Researchers Online Symposium (Basel/Online, July 9-10)
by Sven Martin Kraus 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '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, we are pleased to announce that we will be hosting an online symposium for early career researchers of the digital humanities on the 9-10th of July 2020. As many other workshops and conferences are being postponed or cancelled this summer, we hope to provide a forum for fruitful discussion and exchange. We welcome short abstracts for project presentations as well as suggestions for round table discussions. Submission deadline is the 8th of June. For more details, please see the attached call for contributions. Best regards, Sven Kraus (Basel)

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Upcoming webinar on medieval fragments
by Lisa Fagin Davis 18 Apr '20

18 Apr '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, everyone, I hope you're all well and that you're staying safe. You may be interested in the webinar I'm leading next week, hosted by Stanford's Text Technologies project, on the subject of medieval fragments and modern methodologies of digital fragmentology. Thursday, April 23, 10 AM PDT. More info here: https://events.stanford.edu/events/876/87658/ Please circulate at will! Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 6 Beacon St., Suite 500 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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A new secretary hand font
by Baker, Peter S (psb6m) 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

With the usual apologies for cross-posting: Many of you know that in addition to my day job, I have a weird hobby of making fonts for medievalists. This one is a little bit later than the Middle Ages, but may still be of interest. I have just released a font called "Joscelyn," which I call "an uncompromising secretary hand font" because, unlike any other secretary hand font I have seen, it makes no concessions to modernity. It is based on the main hand of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 488, John Joscelyn's Historiola Collegii Corporis Christi. The hand (not Joscelyn's own) is rather formal, and so less difficult than many secretary hands, but it is as near as I've been able to come so far to an authentic reproduction of the hand. When I teach paleography, the most difficult bit for my students is always the last--secretary hand. The idea behind this font is that a decent way to learn this difficult hand might be to (1) install the font, (2) start a Microsoft Word file by double-clicking an included template, (3) apply the "Joscelyn" character style, (4) type whatever you like, and (5) just observe. The authenticity of the font depends on seveal OpenType features being enabled, but the template turns them on for you. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have to say that it's fun to type in this font and see the OpenType features applied in real time--s changed into long s, initial and final forms applied, and much more. And in addition, you can pass as much time as you like playing with the font without running the smallest risk of contracting COVID-19! The font is free (licensed under the Open Font License). You can get it here: https://github.com/psb1558/Joscelyn-font/releases Stay well, everyone. Peter Baker Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions Department of English University of Virginia P.O. Box 400121 Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4121

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Medieval font dump
by Baker, Peter S (psb6m) 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '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. I've decided to do this all at once rather than annoying people by posting about them one by one. The story overall is that I have a number of font projects, some going back nearly thirty years, and I have decided to make public repositories for any that are in a usable state. Why? Because I am a senior citizen, and life seems uncertain right now. I want them out in public, with source code, so that people can download and enjoy them, fork them if they want, and develop them farther. A couple of these have been out in the wild for some time, but the repository is where you will find the latest version. I haven't made releases for these, but each repository has a "font" folder. To get the font, click on that folder, then click on the name of the file, then find and click the "Download" button. Here are the fonts: BeowulfOT This is an update of my Beowulf1 font, which has been out and about just about forever, and which you see in lots of places from websites to book covers to TV titles. This version, never before released, has a modern mode (legible to modern readers) and a historical mode (for teachers and purists). Unlike the original version, it has ligatures and a number of other OpenType features. https://github.com/psb1558/BeowulfOT-font Eadui A reproduction of the English Caroline minuscule hand of the great eleventh-century Canterbury scribe Eadui Basan. It has modern and historical modes and numerous contextual alternates and other cool features. It has been available on various websites for years, though it is not as well known as Beowulf1. https://github.com/psb1558/Eadui-Font Cissanthemos Based on the ninth-century Royal Bible, BL MS Royal 1 E. VI, a splendid example of insular hybrid minuscule. It contains caps in three different styles, one of which has long been available as the font "Anglo-Saxon Caps" (from 1993!), which you see everywhere. Cissanthemos has modern and historical modes and a very large number of contextual alternates, giving it an irregular, hand-made look. https://github.com/psb1558/Cissanthemos-font ParkerChronicle Based on the first hand of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 173, "The Parker Chronicle." The font is named after the book because I haven't yet thought up a better name for it. With modern and historical modes and plenty of OpenType goodies. This has been seen in public precisely once, when I gave a copy to the proprietor of Blue Mountain Brewery to use on the label of "Adambeor," an Old English-themed craft beer that you can sample if you ever find yourself, post-pandemic, driving through Afton, Virginia. (He paid me for my help and the font with two cases of his really excellent beer.) https://github.com/psb1558/ParkerChronicle-font Joscelyn The secretary hand font, mentioned here a few days ago. https://github.com/psb1558/Joscelyn-font Elstob A modern variable font mainly for web use. If you don't know what a variable font is, visit https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/ and play around. There are lots of OpenType features, outlined in an accompanying document, and these are also available in a desktop version, ElstobD. This has been submitted to Google Fonts, but they're so backed up, I don't know when they'll get to it, if ever. Repository: https://github.com/psb1558/Elstob-font Releases: https://github.com/psb1558/Elstob-font/releases Finally there's Junicode-new (https://github.com/psb1558/Junicode-New), a long-term project to expand, modernize and improve my rather long-in-the-tooth Junicode font, but there are no usable fonts in that repository yet. May we all dodge the virus and come through the next few harrowing months sane and in good health! Peter Peter S. Baker Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions Department of English University of Virginia P.O. Box 400121 Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4121

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Spring (online) Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities - VeDPH
by Paolo Monella 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Dear colleagues, with the usual apologies for cross-posting, we announce the complete programme of the Spring (online) events of the series "Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities", organized by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The programme is in https://static.unive.it/server/eventi/38554/DPH%20sem%20Aprile2020.pdf All seminars will be held online at 17:00 GMT+1 (Italian time). Please email vedph(a)unive.it to register. 1 April 2020 - Rodolfo Delmonte, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: "Semantics, Expressivity and Synthetic Speech: SPARSAR recites poetry" 8 April 2020 - Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento: " Building tools and datasets to detect online hate speech: current studies on cyberbullying and islamophobia" 15 April 2020 - Marie Redmond, VeDPH: " Creating Interactive Narratives in Cultural Contexts" 22 April 2020 - Elisa Corrò, VeDPH: "Water Matters. Digital solutions for a better understanding of past extreme events" 29 April 2020 - Barbara Tramelli, VeDPH: "Le chemin de l’image in Renaissance Lyon: digital tools for the study of early modern illustrations" 13 May 2020 - Leonardo Campus, VeDPH: "Le leggi razziali in tv: tra audiovisivo, storia e pubblico" All best, Paolo Monella Visiting scholar, VeDPH

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Re: [dm-l] [MEDTEXTL] A new secretary hand font
by Grover Zinn 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

Thanks for this remarkable font, Peter. best Grover Grover Zinn William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, emeritus former Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 grover.zinn (at) oberlin.edu On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:26 PM Wheeler, Bonnie <bwheeler(a)mail.smu.edu> wrote: > What a remarkable gift to us in Covid-19 time, Peter. So many thanks! > Bonnie Wheeler > > On Mar 28, 2020, at 7:59 PM, Baker, Peter S (psb6m) <psb6m(a)virginia.edu> > wrote: > > > With the usual apologies for cross-posting: > > Many of you know that in addition to my day job, I have a weird hobby of > making fonts for medievalists. This one is *a little bit* later than the > Middle Ages, but may still be of interest. > > I have just released a font called "Joscelyn," which I call "an > uncompromising secretary hand font" because, unlike any other secretary > hand font I have seen, it makes no concessions to modernity. It is based on > the main hand of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 488, John Joscelyn's *Historiola > Collegii Corporis Christi*. The hand (not Joscelyn's own) is rather > formal, and so less difficult than many secretary hands, but it is as near > as I've been able to come so far to an authentic reproduction of the hand. > > When I teach paleography, the most difficult bit for my students is always > the last--secretary hand. The idea behind this font is that a decent way to > learn this difficult hand might be to (1) install the font, (2) start a > Microsoft Word file by double-clicking an included template, (3) apply the > "Joscelyn" character style, (4) type whatever you like, and (5) just > observe. The authenticity of the font depends on seveal OpenType features > being enabled, but the template turns them on for you. > > At the risk of sounding immodest, I have to say that it's fun to type in > this font and see the OpenType features applied in real time--s changed > into long s, initial and final forms applied, and much more. And in > addition, you can pass as much time as you like playing with the font > without running the smallest risk of contracting COVID-19! > > The font is free (licensed under the Open Font License). You can get it > here: > > https://github.com/psb1558/Joscelyn-font/releases > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_psb1558_Jos…> > > Stay well, everyone. > > Peter Baker > > Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions > Department of English > University of Virginia > P.O. Box 400121 > Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4121 > >

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Yet another call from yet another fancy magazen
by Franz FISCHER 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Dear digital medievalists, We are glad to announce the launch of "Magazén | International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities", 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 web version in open access by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. Magazén is looking for contributors to its 2020 inaugural volume entitled "Fusions", which shall devote two semestral issues of the journal to the intertwining landscape emerging from the recent development of digital and public humanities. Deadlines: Abstract Submission – April 15, 2020 (issue 1) or August 15, 2020 (issue 2) Abstract acceptance – April 30, 2020 (issue 1) or August 30, 2020 (issue 2) Articles Submission – July 15, 2020 (issue 1) or December 15, 2020 (issue 2) Prospective publication – December 2020 (issue 1) and June 2021 (issue 2) The VeDPH is founded upon an initiative of excellence that aims at stimulating an interdisciplinary methodological discourse to serve as 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. The call for papers, with further information on the new journal, is available in Italian: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/info and in English: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/info Best wishes, Franz -- Franz Fischer Direttore, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH) Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università Ca' Foscari Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia Tel.: +39 041 234 6266 (ufficio), +39 041 234 9863 (segreteria del centro) https://www.unive.it/vedph https://www.i-d-e.de/ https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/

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Digital Medievalist Journal - Call for Submissions
by Franz FISCHER 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Dear digital medievalist community, Digital Medievalist is an indexed (see below), open access and internationally peer-reviewed scholarly journal, devoted to topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus. It publishes work of original research and scholarship, theoretical articles on digital topics, notes on technological topics, commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, tutorials, and project reports. The journal also encourages reviews of books and major electronic sites and projects. All contributions are reviewed before publication by authorities in humanities computing. The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publicly available. Special collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page. The journal’s publisher, Open Library of Humanities, focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability. Ubiquity Press journals are indexed by the following services: Nordic list, Google Scholar, Chronos, ExLibris, EBSCO Knowledge Base, JISC KB+, SHERPA RoMEO, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCOHost, OpenAire and ScienceOpen. Prospective authors should consult the Author Guidelines at: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/about/submissions/ More information can be found at the journal’s homepage: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ We look forward to receiving your submissions! Digital Medievalist Editorial Board -- Franz Fischer Direttore, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH) Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università Ca' Foscari Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia Tel.: +39 041 234 6266 (ufficio), +39 041 234 9863 (segreteria del centro) https://www.unive.it/vedph https://www.i-d-e.de/ https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/

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Medieval Academy of America Virtual Annual Meeting
by Lisa Fagin Davis 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Dear friends, In the wake of the cancellation of the 2020 Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, the scaled-down conference has been moved online and will take place on 27-29 March. The conference is free and open access. Click here for details and join us! https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/MAA2020VirtualMeeting Stay safe - - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 6 Beacon St., Suite 500 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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VeDPH Forthcoming Seminars
by Paolo Monella 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Dear colleagues, In this difficult time, we would like to inform you about our activities and upcoming events. The seminar by Daniele Fusi, "Presenting Cadmus: a general-purpose and modular content editing alternative for complex models" (see abstract below) will be held online Wednesday 25 of March at 17:00 on Google Meet. If you are interested in participating, please send and email to vedph(a)unive.it. The VeDPH seminars will continue in April and May. The next seminars will be: 1 April 2020 at 17:00, Rodolfo Del Monte, "Poetry and computer speech - Analysing and Reading Elizabethan and modern poets with SPARSAR"; 8 April 2020 at 17:00, Sara Tonelli, "Building tools and datasets to detect online hate speech: current studies on cyberbullying and islamophobia". In the meantime you can see videos of past VeDPH seminars on our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpVTd9npww6UwFQti5yu4NQ. Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to write to us. Yours sincerely, Paolo Monella VeDPH - Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities --- ABSTRACT Daniele Fusi, "Presenting Cadmus: a general-purpose and modular content editing alternative for complex models" In the traditional content creation process of Scholarly Digital Editions, a "text-centric" perspective is often responsible of the persistence of a "book paradigm" in its digital reincarnation. At least when producing content, we essentially deal with a text which flows from paper to a digital document with annotations (XML), to be then published to HTML via XSLT. Here, the tree structure laid on the text bears the whole data universe. This is consistent with the typical usages of TEI, essentially oriented to the "reconstruction of documents". Yet, in some cases, especially with the outgrow of data provided by new types of analysis (e.g. morphological, syntactical or metrical tagging), and/or when handling very complex documents (e.g. inscriptions or complex literary traditions), this may not be the most efficient paradigm for creating content. In such scenarios, a paradigm shift might be beneficial. Here, TEI might be the final outcome of a more articulated production flow, rather than its starting point. Thinking textual, meta-textual or non-textual content beyond the technological and mental markup constraints allows freeing scholars from a number of practical issues (e.g. apparatus and workarounds like stand-off), letting them focus on their logical rather than physical models. Also, when creating content we should emphasize the typical requirements of any modern content editing infrastructure (e.g. centralization, robustness, real-time validation and search, web-based concurrent editing, etc.), which are very difficult to be met when dealing with text files. For these scenarios, I'm proposing a simple, modular and open editing solution, codenamed Cadmus.

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