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Dear members of the Digital Medievalist community,
I am writing to let you know that we will be moving the Digital Medievalist Mailing List, <dm-l> to a new, more sustainable platform managed by JiscMail. This move comes as part of our updates to the digital infrastructure of Digital Medievalist in its 20th year as an organisation. JiscMail<https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/> is the mailing list service provided by Jisc<https://www.jisc.ac.uk/>, a not-for-profit organisation serving as the UK’s digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research and innovation.
As a member of <dm-l>, you are a member of Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.org/membership/>. This email is to notify you of the mailing list move; there is no change in your membership and you do not need to do anything. The email address with which you are registered to the current mailing list will be transferred to the new platform. We will inform all members when the move is completed. The current list will remain open for posts until the new platform is fully functional. Archived posts may be viewed on the Lethbridge DM-L Archive<https://listserv.uleth.ca/hyperkitty/list/dm-l@uleth.ca/>.
The new <dm-l> page<https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=dm-l> will allow for subscribing/unsubscribing and posting messages from January 2024 as well as viewing archived posts. The <dm-l> privacy policy will remain the same and all posts will remain to be public. Please feel free to get in touch with us<mailto:DM-L-request@jiscmail.ac.uk?subject=DM%20List%20Query> if you have any questions or concerns about your Digital Medievalist membership or the DM-L move.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the University of Lethbridge, in particular Dan O’Donnell, who is one of the founding members of Digital Medievalist and who initiated <dm-l>, as well as all past moderators of <dm-l> for their support of Digital Medievalist over the years.
All best wishes for the holidays and a Happy New Year!
Kivilcim
on behalf of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board
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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz
Lecturer in Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities
Institute for Medieval Studies | School of History
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
How to pronounce my name?<https://record.reverb.chat/s/0b8OQ3VsxjK5GAGq8uD0>
Pronouns: she/her (What is this?<https://pronouns.org/what-and-why>)
School of History Academic Lead for Inclusive Pedagogies<https://inclusiveteaching.leeds.ac.uk/embedding-inclusivity/our-academic-le…>
Director of the Executive Board: Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.org/>
Member of the Advisory Council: Digital Scriptorium<https://digital-scriptorium.org/>
Member of the Advisory Board: “The Book of Books: Hernando Colón's Libro de los Epítomes”<https://bookofbooks.ku.dk/>
Member of the Advisory Board: Transcription Challenge Framework<https://tcf.lauramorreale.com/>
Most recent project: Principal Investigator: “Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library”<https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/dir-record/research-projects/1784/digital-e…> (Feb-Jul 2023)
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Dear all,
This summer, we are leading a digital humanities summer institute in Vercelli, Italy. This program is aimed to teach multispectral imaging, 3D modeling, and other digital humanities technologies, as well as traditional manuscript skills such as codicology and paleography. The summer program will take place and in collaboration with a renowned archive of medieval manuscripts, which includes the famed Vercelli Book and a large Mappa Mundi. We aim to make this program accessible to graduate students, contingent faculty, and tenured/tenure-track faculty. We are particularly interested in bringing together librarians, archivists, grad students, and faculty. Please see the attached flyer and blurb below for more information. I am happy to chat with anyone who may be interested in joining us.
The Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society at Elon University
The Center for Research Frontiers in the Digital Humanities at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
The Museo del Tesoro di Duomo in Vercelli
SAVE THE DATE
Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World: A Summer Digital Humanities Institute in Vercelli, Italy
June 16th through June 22nd, 2024
Click here for <https://videntesmsi.com/medieval-manuscripts-in-a-modern-world/> schedule, pricing, and more information
The Videntes Imaging Collective is delighted to announce its 2024 Summer Digital Humanities Institute held in Vercelli, Italy: Medieval Manuscripts in a Modern World. Participants will engage in five days of workshops, lectures, and labs designed around materials held by the Capitular Archives of Vercelli. In collaboration with the Museo del Tesoro di Vercelli and the Capitular Archives this institute will engage the use of traditional approaches to medieval texts such as codicology and paleography alongside innovative technologies such as multispectral imaging and photogrammetry, all with an eye towards using digital tools for knowledge-sharing, such as VisColl and Digital Mappa. Participants will learn about the DH project life cycle, meet like-minded international scholars, and experience a truly collaborative DH team at work.
If you are a librarian, early career scholar, graduate student, conservator, archivist, Digital Humanities enthusiast, click on the link above to ensure you will be notified when registration opens.
The DH Institute will be led by:
* Dr. Helen Davies (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) Digital Humanities, Multispectral Imaging, Medieval Literature, Manuscript Studies
* Dr. Evan Gatti (Elon University) Art History, Museum Studies and Public History
* Dr. Heather Wacha (University of Wisconsin) Medieval History, Manuscript Studies, Material Culture, Digital Humanities
* Katie Albers-Morris (University of Rochester) Medieval Literature, Digital Humanities, 3D Modeling, Manuscript Studies
* Dr. Silvia Faccin (Museo del Tesoro di Vercelli) Chief Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Educational Services
* Dr. Sara Minelli (Museo del Tesoro di Vercelli) Chief Museum Curator, Documentation Services, Public Relations
* Dr. Gionata Brusa (Museo del Tesoro di Vercelli), Medieval Studies, Medieval Art, Liturgical Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Thank you very much,
Helen
Helen Davies, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Research Frontiers in the Digital Humanities
Assistant Professor, Department of English
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Please note that my working hours may not be yours. Please respond within your normal work hours.
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*Apologies for cross posting*
Dear colleagues,
Registration for the Open Up Digital Editions conference (University of Zurich, 24-26 January) is open until 15 January.
Visit the conference website at https://open-up-dse.github.io to view the programme and register.
Online participation is also possible.
Best wishes,
Elena Spadini & Yann Stricker
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Hello all,
I am Haripriya Mehta, an MIT alum, co-founder of MehtA+<https://mehtaplustutoring.com/>, based in the US and head instructor of AI/Machine Learning Research bootcamp.
For the past several summers, we have successfully taught 75+ high school students, who have applied advanced AI/machine learning techniques to the digital humanities and the sciences, completing projects independently and with universities such as Northeastern University<https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/machine-learning/>, Williams College, Singapore Institute of Technology and University of Bologna, Italy.
Examples of past projects<https://github.com/MehtaPlusTutoring/studentprojects/tree/main/aimlresearch…> include improving upon a Greek lemmatizer, building a better search function for an art museum, dating an Italian philosopher's texts using handwriting recognition, classifying whether a patient has melanoma using images of skin lesions, charting the evolution of the word "que" in the Spanish language and determining the author of disputed Federalist papers.
For this upcoming summer, we are looking to partner up with scholars (professors/PhD students/postdocs) in the humanities/sciences/engineering in need of help in applying AI techniques to their work. Our staff will mentor students on computational aspects of the project, and the scholar will volunteer their time to provide datasets and domain knowledge that will help students work on the project. Expected time commitment would be ~2-4 hours during the summer. Projects that are of a predictive/classification nature, and that may involve natural language processing or image recognition are ideal for this camp.
If there are other computational projects (app development/web development, etc.) that you would like our students' help with or if you are unsure if AI/machine learning techniques that we teach in our camp will be applicable to your work, please still feel free to reach out! Our students have created a mobile app for an educational startup, an educational website for a kidney transplant surgeon and a data visualization for the University of Buffalo SUNY's Marianne Moore Digital Archive.
If you know anyone who would be interested in such a collaboration, please feel free to forward this email.
I would be happy to hop on a Zoom call with you if you would like to discuss this more.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Haripriya Mehta
Co-founder of MehtA+
hpm(a)mehtaplustutoring.com<mailto:hpm@mehtaplustutoring.com>
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[German version below]
Research assistant (doctoral candidate 100%) in the field of Digital German Medieval Studies wanted!
As part of the Chair of German Studies – Computational Philology and Medieval Studies in the Department of Social and Historical Sciences, the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at TU Darmstadt is seeking to fill the position of a research assistant (f/m/d), initially limited to three years, as of 01.04.2024. The position also serves the academic qualification of the applicant with the aim of a doctorate.
We are looking for a person who
* contributes to the teaching of students in the German and digital philology degree programmes to the extent of 4 SWS, in particular in medieval studies and computational philology, partly also in English;
* who participates in the supervision of ongoing and the conception of new third-party funded projects in the field of digital research infrastructures and the digitization and research of cultural heritage;
* has practical experience in working with philological expert software, digital research infrastructures, XML concepts and familiarity with relevant international data standards;
* enjoys working in a diverse and lively team and
* is planning and pursuing a research project in the form of a dissertation in the field of medieval studies/computational philology.
In addition to an excellent academic degree in German medieval studies or digital humanities, we expect you to have a strong ability to work independently, teamwork and communication skills and a good knowledge of written and spoken German and English.
We offer development opportunities in a dynamic and supportive environment characterised by a willingness to take risks, team spirit and internationality in research and teaching. The Institute pursues an approach in digital humanities in which digitality is seen as part of the identity of the discipline and with this profile is one of the leading DH locations in Germany. Opportunities for further education and training are provided by the Ingenium graduate organisation programme and the University Teaching Certificate, among others.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me: rapp [at] linglit.tu-darmstadt.de.
More information via https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/karriere_an_der_tu/stellenangebote…
[German version]
Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (Doktorand:in 100%) im Bereich Digitale Germanistische Mediävistik gesucht!
Im Rahmen der Professur für Germanistik – Computerphilologie und Mediävistik im Fachbereich Gesellschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften ist am Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft der TU Darmstadt zum 01.04.2024 die zunächst auf drei Jahre befristete Stelle als wiss. Mitarbeiter:in (w/m/d) zu besetzen. Die Stelle dient zugleich der wissenschaftlichen Qualifikation der/der Bewerber:in mit dem Ziel der Promotion.
Wir suchen eine Persönlichkeit, die
* an der Ausbildung von Studierenden in den germanistischen und digitalphilologischen Studiengängen im Umfang von 4 SWS mitwirkt, insbesondere in der Mediävistik und der Computerphilologie, z.T. auch in englischer Sprache;
* die sich an der Betreuung laufender und Konzeption neuer Drittmittelprojekte im Bereich der digitalen Forschungsinfrastruktur sowie der digitalen Erschließung und Erforschung des kulturellen Erbes beteiligt;
* praktische Erfahrungen beim Umgang mit philologischer Expertensoftware, mit digitalen Forschungsinfrastrukturen, mit XML-Konzepten und Vertrautheit mit entsprechenden internationalen Datenstandards gesammelt hat;
* Freude an der Zusammenarbeit in einem diversen und lebendigen Team hat und
* ein eigenes Forschungsvorhaben in Form einer Promotion im Bereich Mediävistik/Computerphilologie konzipiert und verfolgt.
Wir erwarten von Ihnen neben einem überdurchschnittlichen wissenschaftlichen Studienabschluss in der germanistischen Mediävistik oder den Digital Humanities die ausgeprägte Fähigkeit zu selbständigem Arbeiten sowie Team- und Kommunikationsfähigkeit sowie die Beherrschung des Deutschen und Englischen in Wort und Schrift.
Wir bieten Ihnen Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten in einem dynamischen und unterstützenden Umfeld, das sich in Forschung und Lehre durch Risikofreude, Teamgeist und Internationalität auszeichnet. Das Institut verfolgt in den Digital Humanities einen Ansatz, bei dem Digitalität als Teil der fachlichen Identität gesehen wird und gehört mit dieser Programmatik zu den führenden DH-Standorten Deutschlands. Möglichkeiten zur Fort- und Weiterbildung sind u.a. durch das Programm der Graduiertenorganisation Ingenium oder das Zertifikat Hochschullehre gegeben.
Für Rückfragen stehe ich sehr gerne zur Verfügung: rapp [at] linglit.tu-darmstadt.de.
Weitere Informationen über https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/karriere_an_der_tu/stellenangebote…
<https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/karriere_an_der_tu/stellenangebote…>Herzliche Grüße Andrea Rapp
Prof. Dr. Andrea Rapp
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Residenzschloss 1
64283 Darmstadt
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4933-4397
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Dr. Luise Borek
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Residenzschloss 1
Gebäude S3|13 Raum 240, 64283 Darmstadt
Telefon: 06151-16-57407
luise.borek(a)tu-darmstadt.de<mailto:luise.borek@tu-darmstadt.de>
Junge Akademie der AdW Mainz
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Dear colleagues,
[Apologies for cross-posting]
In 2024, SIGTYP is hosting a Shared Task on Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages: https://sigtyp.github.io/st2024.html The workshop will be co-located with EACL.
Summary
In recent years, sets of downstream tasks called benchmarks have become a very popular, if not default, method to evaluate general-purpose word and sentence embeddings. Starting with decaNLP (McCann et al., 2018) and SentEval (Conneau & Kiela, 2018), multitask benchmarks for NLU keep appearing and improving every year. However, even the largest multilingual benchmarks, such as XGLUE, XTREME, XTREME-R or XTREME-UP (Hu et al., 2020; Liang et al., 2020; Ruder et al., 2021, 2023), only include modern languages. When it comes to ancient and historical languages, scholars mostly adapt/translate intrinsic evaluation datasets from modern languages or create their own diagnostic tests. We argue that there is a need for a universal evaluation benchmark for embeddings learned from ancient and historical language data and view this shared task as a proving ground for it.
The shared task involves solving the following problems for 12+ ancient and historical languages that belong to 4 language families and use 6 different scripts. Participants will be invited to describe their system in a paper for the SIGTYP workshop proceedings. The task organisers will write an overview paper that describes the task and summarises the different approaches taken, and analyses their results.
Subtasks
For subtask A, participants are not allowed to use any additional data; however, they can reduce and balance provided training datasets if they see fit. For subtask B, participants are allowed to use any additional data in any language, including pre-trained embeddings and LLMs.
A. Constrained
1. POS-tagging
2. Full morphological annotation
3. Lemmatisation
B. Unconstrained
1. POS-tagging
2. Full morphological annotation
3. Lemmatisation
4. Filling the gaps
* Word-level
* Character-level
Data
For tasks 1-3, we use Universal Dependencies v. 2.12 data (Zeman et al., 2023) in 11 ancient and historical languages, complemented by 5 Old Hungarian codices from the MGTSZ website (HAS Research Institute for Linguistics, 2018) that are annotated to the same standard as the corpora available through UD. For task 4, we add historical Irish data from CELT (Ó Corráin et al., 1997), Corpas Stairiúil na Gaeilge (Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann, 2017), and digital editions of the St. Gall glosses (Bauer et al., 2017) and the Würzburg glosses (Doyle, 2018) as a case study of how performance may vary on different historical stages of the same language. We set the upper temporal boundary to 1700 CE and do not include texts created later than this date in our dataset. List of languages:
* Ancient Greek
* Ancient Hebrew
* Classical Chinese
* Coptic
* Gothic
* Classical, Late & Medieval Latin
* Medieval Icelandic
* Old Church Slavonic
* Old East Slavic
* Old French
* Old Hungarian
* Old, Middle & Early Modern Irish
* Vedic Sanskrit
Important dates
05 Nov 2023: Release of training and validation data
02 Jan 2024: Release of test data
08 Jan 2024: Submission of the systems
13 Jan 2024: Notification of results
20 Jan 2024: Submission of shared task papers
27 Jan 2024: Notification of acceptance to authors
03 Feb 2024: Camera-ready
15 Mar 2024: Video recordings due
21/22 Mar 2024: SIGTYP workshop
Important links
* Registration form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdINgMfzzZGIZ-uBVQhvyndB6yeaaj-wT7…>
* Data + detailed description: https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2024
Task organisers
* Oksana Dereza, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway
* Priya Rani, SFI Centre for Research and Training in AI, Data Science Institute, University of Galway
* Atul Kr. Ojha, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway
* Adrian Doyle, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway
* Pádraic Moran, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Moore Institute, University of Galway
* John P. McCrae, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway
Contact details
* Oksana: oksana.dereza(a)insight-centre.org<mailto:oksana.dereza@insight-centre.org>
* Priya: priya.rani(a)insight-centre.org<mailto:priya.rani@insight-centre.org>
Best wishes,
Oksana and the organisers
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[With apologies for cross-posting]
Dear Colleagues,
"magazén - International Journal of Digital and Public Humanities" is
accepting abstract proposals to its 2024 volume. Scholars are
particularly invited to submit contributions that span from theoretical
debates to methodological reflections from the domains of Digital and
Public History, Art History, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Museum
Studies, and Textual Scholarship.
See the full call at:
https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/magazen/info#call
Please circulate widely.
Important dates:
Abstract Submission – November 30, 2023
Abstract Acceptance – December 21, 2023
Articles Submission – March 31, 2024
Prospective Publication – Summer/Autumn 2024
On behalf of the magazén Editorial Board,
Paolo Monella
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Dear DM members,
as a continuation of the IDE training events on digital scholarly editing (https://www.i-d-e.de/aktivitaeten/schools/), the master class Digital Scholarly Editing (#mcdse2024) introduces state of the art techniques of digital scholarly editing practices.
The master class takes place from 19th to 23rd February 2024 in Saarbrücken, at Saarland University. It was initiated by the research project "Sorores" (https://sorores.hypotheses.org/) and is carried out in co-operation of Universität des Saarlands (chair for Medieval History, Cristina Andenna) and the Institute for Documentology and Editorial (IDE). Participation is free of charge.
The master class will provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge on digital scholarly editing and the opportunity to discuss their own (digital) scholarly edition with peers and experts.
The language of instruction is English.
Please check the school page (https://www.i-d-e.de/aktivitaeten/schools/masterclass-2024-saarbruecken/) for further details.
Interested persons are welcome to contact us by email (to sorores-school(a)i-d-e.de<mailto:sorores-school@i-d-e.de>) with their name, institution and description of edition project or edition-related research project (ca. 500 words).
There is a limited number of bursaries for accomodation and meals available. Please indicate in your application if you would be interested in receiving this.
The application deadline is on *October 31st, 2023*. There will be a waiting list in case of over-registration.
All the best,
Roman
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Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to remind you of the upcoming conference
Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators, and the Practice of Compiling
17-20 October 2023
Roma, KNIR (Royal Institute of The Netherlands, via Omero 10/12).
The conference will be opened by a Keynote Lecture by Emanuela Colombi (University of Udine) on Artificial Intelligence, few-shot learning layout analysis, and medieval homiliaries
Tuesday 17/10, h. 18.00
Full program is available at this link<https://www.knir.it/nl/evenementen/conference-patristic-sermons-in-the-midd…>.
Everyone is welcome!
Kind regards,
Shari Boodts (Radboud University - ERC project PASSIM)