The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is accepting applications for its 2020-2021 Visiting Research Fellowship program. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of premodern manuscripts from around the world (https://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren), with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/) and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium).
The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the premodern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection. Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located near other manuscript-rich research collections (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Science History Institute, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term.
Applicants can apply to spend 1 month (minimum of 4 work weeks) at SIMS between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. Applications are due May 15, 2020. For more information and to apply, please visit: https://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships-2/
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Lynn Ransom, Ph.D.
Curator of Programs, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<https://schoenberginstitute.org/>
Project Director, The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts<https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/>
Co-Editor, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<https://mss.pennpress.org/home/>
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH20 | 27.5.–5.6.2020
http://heldig.fi/dhh20
* #DHH20 application period has started: http://bit.ly/32PdOna (until
2.4.2020)
* Free for accepted participants & possibility to apply for a bursary
* 5 ECTS credits possible for students in University of Helsinki and
other universities
For more information on this year's hackathon, including the themes,
data, team leaders, and what the hackathon was like in previous years,
see: http://heldig.fi/dhh20
Regards,
#DHH20 General organizers
Mikko Tolonen, Eetu Mäkelä, Jukka Suomela & Jouni Tuominen
http://heldig.fi/dhh20
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Jouni Tuominen, Coordinating researcher, Staff scientist
Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG)
University of Helsinki and Aalto University
HELDIG: Room A131, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Helsinki
Aalto: Room 3171, Maarintie 8, Espoo
+358 50 556 0402
http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/u/jwtuomin/
Dear colleagues,
The Mapping Manuscript Migrations portal was publicly launched on 30 January 2020 at the Digging into Data Conference at the National Science Foundation in Washington DC: https://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/
The MMM portal enables users to track more than 216,000 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts by origin, owner, author, and title. Users can also visualize their journeys over the centuries from production to last known location.
MMM uses Linked Open Data principles and technology to combine data from three important manuscript databases:
• Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/)
• Bibale (http://bibale.irht.cnrs.fr/)
• Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/)
The portal is the product of two and a half years’ work by the MMM project team, working across four partner institutions: the University of Oxford (Oxford e-Research Centre and Bodleian Libraries), the University of Pennsylvania (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies), the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS), and Aalto University (Semantic Computing Research Group).
The MMM project has been funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform under Round 4 of its Digging into Data Challenge (2017-2020). The national funding agencies contributing to the project are the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (US), the Agence nationale de la recherche (France), and the Academy of Finland.
Dr Toby Burrows
Oxford e-Research Centre
University of Oxford
Digital Classicist London invites proposals for the summer 2020 seminar, which will run on Friday afternoons through June and July at the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House.
To submit a paper, please email an abstract of up to 300 words as an attachment to gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk by Sunday, March 29, 2020. (Include the words “Digital Classicist seminar” in the subject line to be sure of not being missed!)
Proposals from researchers of all levels, including students, practitioners and academics, are equally welcome. We would like to see papers that address digital, innovative and collaborative research, teaching and practice in all areas of antiquity (including cultures beyond the Mediterranean), from classics, ancient history, cultural heritage, reception, or other perspectives. As with previous years, presentations will be live-cast and archived on Youtube. There is a small budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but partial reimbursement for longer trips may be possible).
Organizers:
Gabriel Bodard (Institute of Classical Studies)
Paula Granados García (Open University)
Eleanor Robson (University College London)
Simona Stoyanova (University of Nottingham)
Valeria Vitale (Institute of Classical Studies)
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
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
http://digitalclassicist.org/
We are glad to announce that the LEMMA BANK QUERY INTERFACE of the "LiLa: Linking Latin" ERC project is now online at: https://lila-erc.eu/query/
Users can query the LiLa collection of Latin lemmas, used to interconnect linguistic resources and tools with Linked Data technology, through a simple graphical interface. The Lemma Bank comprises 134,228 Lemma objects and 58,278 Hypolemma objects, as well as 4,224 lexical bases, 109 suffixes and 41 prefixes. Query results can be saved as a CSV file, visualized in the LOD View or LOD Live interfaces, and the underlying SPARQL code can be copied with a simple click.
Users familiar with the SPARQL query language can also access the LiLa triplestore, which currently provides three end-points: Lemma Bank, Corpora ("Summa contra Gentiles" of the "Index Thomisticus Treebank") and lexicalResources (the "Brill Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages"). Please note that both Corpora and lexical resources are work in progress.
For details, please check the list of publications about LiLa available at https://lila-erc.eu/output/
For future updates, please follow LiLa's official website and social media accounts!
Website: https://lila-erc.eu/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ERC_LiLa
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lilaERC/
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Greta H. Franzini, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher
LiLa: Linking Latin [ERC n. 769994]: https://lila-erc.eu
+39 02 72342954 | greta.franzini(a)unicatt.it<mailto:greta.franzini@unicatt.it> | http://gretafranzini.com/
Institutional page: http://docenti.unicatt.it/eng/greta_franzini/
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1159-5575
CIRCSE Research Centre: https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html
Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere
Franciscanum Building, 2nd Floor, room 209
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo Gemelli 1,
20123 Milan, Italy
Digital Medievalist Journal: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/
Umanistica Digitale Journal: https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it
Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD): http://www.aiucd.it/
Dear colleagues,
** With the usual apologies for cross-posting **
The call for applications for the NEH Institute "Advanced Digital Editing" is almost closing: applications are due Februari 28th, 2020.
The target audience for this two-week workshop is textual scholars who are already comfortable editing their digital texts in TEI XML or comparable alternatives; the goal of the Institute is to assist them in moving beyond textual editing to imagining, creating, and publishing research-driven, theoretically and methodologically innovative digital editions.
For the full call, see <https://pittsburgh-neh-institute.github.io/Institute-Materials-2020/call/>
Feel free to circulate this message widely.
Best wishes,
Elli
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May 18-22, 2020
“Making Books”
Call for Applications
Description: The Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture (CHPDC) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison is delighted to announce its first Book History and Digital Humanities Summer Institute. This year’s theme draws upon acts of “making” as conduits for exploring intersections of Book History and Digital Humanities. Participants will engage in a variety of practices of making books across analog and digital forms, including bookbinding, digital collating, papermaking, creating and editing digital editions, digitizing and editing difficult formats, incorporating data science in textual studies, working with innovative book structures, and more. All participants will share and receive feedback on an ongoing project they wish to present in addition to participating in collective workshops and discussion.
Organizers: Jonathan Senchyne is an Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. Heather Wacha is the Associate Coordinator for the CHPDC and also teaches in the iSchool.
Keynote Speaker: Dot Porter is Curator of Digital Research Services at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As a digital humanist, a medievalist, and a librarian, she participates in a wide-ranging digital humanities research and development team within the context of a special collections department. For more about Dot and her work, check out her blog<http://www.dotporterdigital.org/>.
Guest Speakers and Topics:
Jonathan Senchyne CHPDC Director, Professor, Literary Book History, Paper, Digital Substrates, and Letterpress Printing
Martin Foys Professor of English, Digital Editions, Linked and Annotated Data (e.g. Digital Mappa, IIIF, Mirador, Recogito)
Mary Hark Professor in Design Studies and Art, Papermaking, Substrates
Robin Rider Curator of Special Collections, Book History and the History of Science
Lyn Korenic Director of Kohler Art Library, Book Arts and Book Structures
Heather Wacha CHPDC Coordinator, Instructor, Medieval Manuscripts, Bookbinding, Spectral Imaging and Heritage Science
Jesse Henderson Digital Services Librarian Production Manager, Digital Collections, Digitization Processes
Justine Walden Solmsen Fellow, UW-Madison, Mapping and GIS in BH & DH
Sarah Stevens Data Science Hub, BH & DH in Data Science
Cameron Cook UW-Madison Research Data Services, Digital Curation
Clare Michaud UW-Madison Data Science Hub, BH & DH in Data Science
Max Gray PhD Candidate, English, MLIS Candidate, iSchool, UW-Madison, Experimental Forms in DH method and practice
Provisional Schedule:
During small group seminars in the morning, participants will have the chance to present work in progress (articles, dissertation chapters, conference drafts, syllabi, program proposals) and receive feedback from faculty and co-participants.
After the seminar session and before lunch, guest speakers will talk about innovative digital approaches they use to enhance their book history work.
Early afternoons will consist of hands-on experience making book structures, making paper, making digital editions, and making visual representations of collations.
Late afternoons will be reserved for workshop visits to Special Collections, the Kohler Art Library, and Jonathan Senchyne’s letterpress printing studio.
Details:
The workshop will begin at 11:30-12:30 May 18th and will finish early afternoon on May 22nd. All group sessions and lectures will take place on the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus.
The keynote lecture, open to the public, is scheduled for May 21, 2020 4:00-5:30 pm.
The cost of tuition is $350 for the week. If you need to request a tuition reduction please contact Jonathan Senchyne and Heather Wacha. The fee includes all instruction, visits, materials, and light refreshments.
We will provide a list of participants and a list of accommodation options in Madison, including a block of subsidized below-market campus hotel rooms. We can also assist participants in coordinating with others to share an airbnb or other short-term rentals.
Applications due March 30, 2020
To apply: There are two parts to the application.
1) Please fill in this google form<https://forms.gle/TjbvgXKDgbFznkk76> (https://forms.gle/TjbvgXKDgbFznkk76)
2) Please submit a two-page CV and up to a one-page (single-spaced) statement of intent (including a basic description of what you might like to present in the small seminar session.) These documents should be addressed to Dr. Heather Wacha and sent to chpdc(a)ischool.wisc.edu<mailto:chpdc@ischool.wisc.edu>.
3) For further information or if you have any questions, please contact Heather Wacha at chpdc(a)ischool.wisc.edu.
Dear colleagues,
Please find attached a call for papers for a conference that may be of
interest to some of you.
*Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts*
Call for a two-day international conference organised by the ‘Innovating
Knowledge’ Project
22-23 October 2020
Huygens ING, Amsterdam
In the last decade, methods of network analysis developed by social
scientists have been increasingly applied to historical disciplines. As a
result, we have seen the emergence of new bodies of researchers working
with network analytical methods, such as Social Network Analysis Research
in the Middle Ages (SNARMA), and new journals, such as the Journal of
Historical Network Research (JHNR). Researchers studying premodern
manuscript cultures have been actively engaged with this new methodological
trend. Completed and ongoing projects make it clear that the methods of
network analysis can be applied to the study of premodern manuscripts and
manuscript texts and yield relevant and exciting results. However, it is
also clear that scholars of premodern written cultures face unique
challenges when engaging with network analysis stemming from the nature of
the material they are working with. Not all methods devised by social
scientists are applicable to manuscripts and texts, while in other cases,
established methods need to be adapted to and reinvented for new needs.
Working with large corpora of manuscripts and texts, and approaching
premodern written cultures from a quantitative perspective bring their
unique challenges to fields that have a long tradition of looking at their
subjects in small quantities and with a qualitative lens. As any young
methodological subfield, the study of premodern manuscripts and manuscript
texts using network analysis is still in an exploratory stage, with
theoretical frameworks being forged and methods tested.
This conference aims to bring together researchers applying network
analysis to premodern manuscripts and manuscript texts. We would like to
invite researchers working in all fields of premodern manuscript studies
and researchers working with manuscript texts who engage with the methods
and concepts stemming from network analysis. Key topics include, but are
not limited to, the following:
- Theoretical reflections on the challenges and advantages of applying
network analysis, including social network analysis, to premodern written
cultures;
- Application of network analysis to corpora of premodern manuscripts
and texts;
- Network analysis as a means of understanding the circulation of texts
and transmission of knowledge in the premodern period;
- Quantitative study of networks of medieval book exchange and letter
exchange;
- Network analysis as a tool of textual criticism and text editing;
- Network graphs as stemmata of texts and genres with complex textual
history;
- Networks of co-citation of premodern authors and authoritative texts;
- Networks of co-occurrence and compilation of texts in medieval
manuscripts;
- Network analysis as a tool for the study of annotation practices and
commentary traditions in premodern manuscript cultures;
- Network analysis as a tool for the study of citation and reception in
premodern manuscript cultures.
We welcome proposals in two categories: a) 30-minute full papers suitable
for presenting completed or ongoing research; and b) 20-minute exploratory
papers suitable for presenting newly started research or research proposals
that are still being developed. The second category is particularly
intended for early career researchers who are new to the field of network
analysis and wish to have their ideas tested in front of an expert audience.
A keynote by *Matteo Valleriani* (Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science, Berlin/Technische Universität Berlin/University of Tel Aviv) is
included on the first day of the conference.
Proposals of between 300 and 500 words should be sent to Dr Evina Steinová
at evina.steinova(a)huygens.knaw.nl *by the end of April 2020*. Authors of
successful submissions will be informed by the end of June 2020 and
encouraged to submit full papers in the following months so that they can
be circulated in advance to stimulate a fruitful discussion.
The language of the conference will be English. We offer to cover the
accommodation costs for two nights and provide lunches. We also intend to
provide a small number of bursaries to speakers who may need travel
assistance. For further information, contact Dr Evina Steinová at
evina.steinova(a)huygens.knaw.nl.
Evina Steinova
https://evinasteinova.academia.edu/
Postdoctoral Researcher
NWO VENI project Innovating Knowledge
Huygens ING, Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam
My new book is finally out
<http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503581705-1>!
*(With apologies for cross-posting)*
Dear colleagues,
Please find below an announcement about a two-day course on *the* *theory
and the practice of automatic collation*.
https://www.unil.ch/doc-digitalstudies/home/menuinst/activites-du-programme…https://agenda.unil.ch/display/1580129618143
The course will take place at the *University of Lausanne*, on *March
26-27, 2020*.
PhD students of the universities of Berne, Fribourg, Genève, Neuchâtel and
Lausanne (UNIL et EPFL) have priority, but researchers from Swiss
universities and abroad are welcome. Participation is free, but
registration is required (please write to Alexandre Camus:
Alexandre.Camus(a)unil.ch). A social dinner is planned at the end of the
first day.
Instructors for this course will be Helena Bermúdez Sabel (UNIL), Elena
Spadini (UNIL) and Elisa Nury (UniGe). We are delighted to have a guest
presentation by Rudolf Mahrer (UNIL) and a keynote by Elli Bleeker (Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) as part of the program.
Please don’t hesitate to forward to interested colleagues and do contact us
should you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Elena, Elisa, Helena
Helena Bermúdez Sabel
Chercheuse FNS senior
Section des Sciences du Langage et de l’Information
Université de Lausanne
Quartier UNIL-Chamberonne
Bâtiment Anthropole, bureau 5144
CH-1015 Lausanne
Tel. 021 692 47 02