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Kalamazoo Panels
by Helen Davies 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

Dear all, Please consider applying for the following panels at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo sponsored by The Lazarus Project and The Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester. Please send all papers to hrdavies5(a)gmail.com. The deadline for paper abstracts is September 15. ColLABoration Scholars have increasingly found themselves wrestling with the institutional and structural problems inherent in practicing the digital humanities within the modern university. Many have found that the traditional “lone scholar” approach so long embedded within humanities scholarship does not often translate well to large-scale DH projects, which may require skills in everything from (for example) multiple coding languages to paleography to imaging technology. At the Lazarus Project, we have adopted a laboratory model — in an English department — to approach the multifarious aspects of DH work that cannot and should not be the responsibility of any one person. We are looking for papers that deal with the advantages and disadvantages, problems and solutions, faced by scholars who have tried to integrate a collaborative or laboratory approach to the digital humanities within traditional humanities departments. These may be abstract (theory based), concrete (accounts of specific projects that faced these issues), or anything in between. Of particular interest might be the challenges of pitching and publishing interdisciplinary work and the tendency within traditional humanities fields — and traditional university bureaucracies — to value single-author publications and solo scholarly endeavors more highly than those involving co-authors and collaborators. We furthermore welcome papers that address interpersonal issues such as mentoring undergraduates in the digital humanities, integrating first-generation college students, awarding credit to collaboratively-produced results, and integrating the collaborative lab-based model into external departmental and interdisciplinary conversations. Mind the Gap: Bridging Departments and Disciplines in the Digital Humanities (Roundtable) At many universities and institutions, digital humanities projects exist in pockets around campus, tending as they do to spring up where individual professors are driving initiatives or leading projects. This roundtable seeks contributors who have participated in digital humanities projects that faced the issue of disciplinary divides. Accounts of interdisciplinary projects are welcome, as are theoretical examinations of the means of bridging the gap between different conceptual frameworks and practical treatments of organizing DH endeavors across departmental divides. How have you helped to foster an inclusive working environment that makes space for students and scholars of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and interests? What ideological blindspots hinder collaboration between departments? How can we change institutional expectations to facilitate collaborations across departments and disciplines? What unexpected benefits have you seen as a result of these collaborative initiatives? Medievalists are particularly equipped to deal with these challenges as we frequently must frequently work across departments and disciplines. We want to bring this insight and experience to discussion on the digital humanities. -- Helen Davies Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Digital Humanities Lazarus Project Graduate Student Coordinator PhD Candidate English Department University of Rochester

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Kzoo 2020 CFPs
by Anna Siebach-Larsen 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

Dear all, The Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester is sponsoring two DH-focused sessions at next year's ICMS at Kalamazoo. Please see the descriptions below, and contact me with any questions that you might have. Best wishes, Anna *DH on a Budget: how to develop digital projects with limited resources (a roundtable)* Sponsored by the Rossell Hope Robbins Library (University of Rochester) Organizer: Anna Siebach-Larsen Digital scholarship has been part of medieval studies for decades, and is only becoming more so, given the increased digitization of manuscript collections and the creation of new digital tools, alongside the heightened emphasis of digital skills in graduate training. Yet the development of digital scholarship requires resources – money, time, labor – that have always been limited and are becoming more so. This workshop panel will discuss on a practical level the kinds of digital scholarship and tools that can be developed with constrained resources, focusing on projects that can be built and supported across a range of institutions to meet a variety of research and pedagogical needs and interests. We encourage the demonstration of digital tools and scholarship alongside a discussion of their costs (money, labor, time) and requirements, with an eye toward encouraging replication, innovation, and collaboration. Possible tools include 3D modeling, RTI scanning, digital editions, imaging, mapping projects, and more. Presentations might include hands-on demonstrations and participation, advice for grant applications, and discussions on the importance of collaboration in all its possible guises. We encourage acknowledgement and discussion of the constraints of funding models, precarity, academic and professional hierarchies, student training, institutional support, replication, and sustainability. Please send proposals to Anna Siebach-Larsen ( annasiebachlarsen(a)rochester.edu) by *September 15, 2019.* *The Present and Future of Digital Editing (a roundtable)* Sponsored by the Rossell Hope Robbins Library (University of Rochester) Organized by: Ashley Conklin and Anna Siebach-Larsen In 2015, Elena Pierazzo argued that “cultural heritage texts are complex objects which have reached us inscribed on stratified, diversified and conflicting documents that require the cultural and dialectical intermediation of expert readers: the editors. This requirement has not changed with the advent of the Web: on the contrary, the easier it becomes to publish on the Web and the larger the quantity of textual materials available, the more important becomes the guidance of the editor.”[1] <#_ftn1> Her observations ring particularly true for digital editions of medieval texts, which often grapple with the material substrate of the texts themselves alongside the accretions of centuries of editorial traditions and practices. Yet, as has often been observed, we continue to grapple with the question of *what* a digital edition should be and *how* that vision might best be achieved. These questions remain at the forefront of digital editing on both a conceptual and pragmatic level: should a digital edition be a digital version of a print edition? what do we want our digital editions to do? how do different types of digital editions function in terms of research and the classroom, and how can and should they speak to each other? what benefits do new platforms such as Manifold offer for medieval texts and manuscripts? how can we fund the creation and support of digital editions? how might we best collaborate across projects and continue to build a community of practice? This roundtable will explore present practices in digital editing and look to its future. We encourage participation from speakers who are engaged in editing or publishing digital editions, and/or who have used digital editions in their own scholarship and teaching. In other words, we hope to facilitate a discussion about the benefits and challenges associated with digital editing from the producers and users of digital editions. Some of the discussion topics may include but are not limited to: the drawbacks and benefits of various platforms, moving from print to digital (or vice versa), open-access, crowd-sourcing, pedagogy, encoding methods, the accessibility and use of metadata, sustainability, invisible labor, the politics of digital vs print editions, the usefulness of standard guidelines, interdisciplinary collaboration, and successes and failures. Please send abstracts to Ashley Conklin (aconkli2(a)ur.rochester.edu) and Anna Siebach-Larsen (annasiebachlarsen(a)rochester.edu) by *September 15, 2019*. ------------------------------ [1] <#_ftnref1> Elena Pierazzo, *Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods* (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), 2. --- Anna Siebach-Larsen Director, Rossell Hope Robbins Library & Koller-Collins Center for English Studies annasiebachlarsen(a)rochester.edu

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Application of Photogrammetric 3D Modeling to Roman Domestic Space (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 24 Jul '19

24 Jul '19

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday July 26, 2019 at 16:30 in room G34 *The Application of Photogrammetric 3D Modeling to Roman Domestic Space* Kelly McClinton (Bloomington IN) Digital photogrammetry is well-suited to the illustration of Roman wall paintings. Unlike traditional photography, photogrammetry can offer three-dimensional documentation that captures features in the structure of the wall. It can also preserve the orientation of multiple walls in situ. This seminar will discuss the results of a photogrammetric campaign recently undertaken in the House of Marcus Lucretius at Pompeii. In the process, it will explore the use of 3D models to represent complex relationships between spaces and objects. To conclude, future avenues for research will be discussed, including the creation of a database to visualize connections within the material record. Seminar livestreamed and archived at: https://youtu.be/IlS_SY_lbUo Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2018.html ALL WELCOME

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Archeometric analysis of inks from Coptic manuscripts (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday July 19, 2019 at 16:30 in room G34 Tea Ghigo et al. (BAM, Berlin/La Sapienza, Rome) Archeometric analysis of inks from Coptic manuscripts The main aim of this research project is to record the technological evolution of writing inks in early Christian Egypt. We aim at reconstructing a geo-chronological map displaying the types of ink used in different areas. Our multi-analytical approach consists of different imaging and spectroscopic techniques to detect the composition of black and coloured inks. Once enough data have been collected, we will be able to place in time and space unknown manuscripts. In the meanwhile, our work supports palaeographic and codicological studies, helping distinguish different writing phases on a manuscript or in the reconstruction of ancient libraries. Seminar livestream: https://youtu.be/aBJq1OL80CE Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2018.html ALL WELCOME == 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/

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2019 DM elections_Results
by Ransom, Lynn 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Dear Digital Medievalist community, The tally for Digital Medievalist Executive Board Elections (term 2019-2021) has been computed and released. We now have the pleasure of announcing the results from the 2019 DM elections. In alphabetical order, the elected members of the community to the Board are: * Roman Bleier, Graz University * Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America * Els De Paermentier, Ghent University * Rose Faunce, Australia National University We would like to thank the other candidates for standing and providing us with an outstandingly rich choice. Thank you for your participation! For the purposes of transparency, please find the list of candidates and final tally of votes below. Best wishes to the new DM board, and the DM community as a whole, The DM Elections Committee: Greta Franzini James B. Harr III Lynn Ransom List of Candidates and Votes: (For those of you who retained your voting login and password, you may also see the tally here: https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/DM_elections_2015-17) ROMAN BLEIER: 70 Roman Bleier studied History and Religious studies at the University of Graz and completed a Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) at Trinity College, Dublin, with a research focus on digital documentary editing of St Patrick's epistles. He worked on the Saint Patrick's Confessio HyperText Stack project at the Royal Irish Academy, was CENDARI Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and worked as researcher on various projects at Maynooth University. In spring 2016 Roman became DiXiT Marie Curie postdoc fellow at the Center for Information Modelling - Austrian Center for Digital Humanities (ZIM-ACDH) at the University of Graz. His research in Graz focused on canonical reference, sustainability and persistent identifiers in digital editions. Currently Roman works as postdoc with the KONDE (Competency Network Digital Edition) project at the ZIM-ACDH, he is member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) and technical editor of the Versioning Machine (VM). LISA FAGIN DAVIS: 92 Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Studies PhD, Yale University, 1993) has been Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America since 2013. Previously, she spent twenty years cataloguing pre-1600 manuscript collections across the US and has been involved in the development of metadata standards for manuscript cataloguing. She serves on the Advisory Committees for Digital Scriptorium, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies, and Fragmentarium, and is deeply engaged in using and promoting both Mirador and IIIF. Publications include: the Beinecke Library Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Vol. IV; The Gottschalk Antiphonary; the Directory of Pre-1600 Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (with Melissa Conway); numerous articles in the fields of manuscript studies and codicology; La Chronique Anonyme Universelle: Reading and Writing History in fifteenth-century France (a critical edition that includes a digital resource developed in collaboration with the Digital Mappaemundi project); and the Manuscript Road Trip blog (http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com ). She regularly teaches an introduction to manuscript studies at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. ROSE FAUNCE: 69 Rose Faunce (Ph.D. University of Melbourne, 2017) is the Research Services Coordinator at the Australian National University. She has a background in the study of the history of the illustrated book, working for several years in the rare book and antiquarian print trade, specialising in natural history illustration. An encounter with the 14th century fragmentary Cocharelli Codex, dispersed in collections in London, Florence and Cleveland, led to a PhD under the supervision of Emeritus Professor Margaret Manion, to reconstruct transcribe and translate its text for the first time, and analyse the rich profusion of illustration gracing every page. An intrepid 'fragmentologist', she seeks to locate and virtually piece together the fragments of medieval manuscripts that are dispersed around the world. Working with Fragmentarium, the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, she oversees a project to improve access to manuscript fragments in Australian and New Zealand collections for pedagogical and research purposes. ELS DE PAERMENTIER: 88 Els De Paermentier is Assistant Professor in Medieval Diplomatics and Palaeography at Ghent University (Belgium). In 2010 she completed her PhD on the organisation of the comital chancery in the counties of Flanders and Hainaut (1191-1244). For her research she elaborated a computer-aided methodology to determine the editorial origin of charter texts. In 2012 she received a COST Action grant for a short term scientific mission at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT) in Paris, where she examined the interoperability possibilities between the Belgian and French Latin source databases Diplomata Belgica and TELMA-databases (Traitement Électronique des Manuscrits et des Archives). Shortly afterwards she became a member of the COST Action Program IS1005: Medieval Europe - Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources, and joined the working group for the design of a virtual centre for medieval studies (VCMS) (2012-2015). Currently, she is a member of the advisory board of the online charter database Diplomata Belgica: The Diplomatic Sources from the Medieval Southern Low Countries (http://www.diplomata-belgica.be) and of the steering committee of the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH). GRANT SIMPSON: 45 Grant Simpson is the specialist in digital humanities for the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) project at the University of Göttingen. A long time Digital Medievalist member, he has presented widely on digital humanities and digital medievalism. His work has appeared in Textual Cultures and jTEI. His dissertation, Computing the English Middle Ages, studied Old and Middle English DH projects from the 1960s to the present and the objects they produce. SEAN WINSLOW: 57 Sean Winslow studied History at the University of California at Santa Cruz before going on to receive an MA and PhD in Medieval Studies, Book History, and Print Culture from the University of Toronto. His work focuses on the scribal cultures of the Christian world, specifically Ethiopia and the Oriental Churches. He currently works as an FWF Post-Doc at the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for the Digital Humanities of the University of Graz, where he works on the modelling of manuscript data and metadata in the TEI. Recent work includes the conversion of Charters Encoding Initiative data to the TEI for the Illuminierte Urkunden project and as part of the modernization of the Monasterium digital charters portal. His other projects include his forthcoming book on Ethiopian scribal practices, the digital cataloguing of Ethiopian binding decoration via IIIF, and the digital component of a catalogue of Syriac manuscript treasures.

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Fragmentology blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

Greetings, all, I've just posted a blog in which I list all of the Ege-related digital reconstruction projects of which I am aware. Please let me know if I've missed any! <https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/manuscript-road-trip-fr…> https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/manuscript-road-trip-fr… - 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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TEI2019 Graz - Program
by gimena del rio riande 12 Jul '19

12 Jul '19

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to share the program of the TEI 2019 conference and members' meeting, hosted at the University of Graz, September 16-20, with you: https://www.conftool.com/tei2019/sessions.php We are looking forward to an engaging and interesting conference and hope to be able to welcome you to Graz soon. Please register at https://www.conftool.com/tei2019/ and share your thoughts on "What is Text, really? TEI and beyond" with us in Graz! Gimena del Rio Riande and Georg Vogeler (on behalf of the PC and LOC) ### Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8997-5415 Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Twitter: @gimenadelr Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: https://hdcaicyt.github.io/ Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Remitente notificado con Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 12/07/19 14:55:45

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Translating the Homeric Scholia in the manuscript Venetus A (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 10 Jul '19

10 Jul '19

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday July 12, 2019 at 16:30 in room G11 Georgia Kolovou (Center for Hellenic Studies) Translating the Homeric Scholia in the manuscript Venetus A: from the text to hypertext The Homer Multitext project offers a complete, web-based, digital scholarly edition of the contents of the manuscript Venetus A (10th century), the oldest complete witness to the poem, together with its marginal comments (scholia). The text and scholia have been transcribed as a digital diplomatic edition, representing faithfully the text of the manuscript, and marked up with TEI-XML encoding for several key features. In this paper, our goal is double: we will explain something of the importance of this deluxe manuscript and we will describe the work of transcribing and translating it in digital form. Seminar will be livestreamed and archived at: https://youtu.be/u4GylPmR17s Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2018.html ALL WELCOME == 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/

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Method Paper Available. .
by Gerard Cheshire 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Apologies for any crossposting. Dear Digital Medievalist list, Following the publication of the peer-reviewed paper The Language and Writing System of MS408 (Voynich) Explained, in the journal Romance Studies, many scholars have requested a method paper of instruction in order to participate in translating the manuscript. Thus, a free method paper is now available to download from the LingBuzz website, titled The Algorithmic Method for Translating MS408 (Voynich): https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004653 The manuscript is an aid memoire written for Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, and originates from Castello Aragonese, Ischia, Italy. c. 1444. Kindest regards, Dr. Gerard Cheshire. Research Associate. University of Bristol. https://bristol.academia.edu/GerardCheshire

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Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies (0.8FTE)
by Shari Boodts 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

Dear colleagues, Please find below an advertisement for a postdoctoral position in Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen. With my thanks for forwarding the announcement to possible candidates. Sincerely, Shari Boodts Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies (0.8FTE) Radboud University Nijmegen is advertising a position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies (0.8FTE) to be part of the research team of the ERC-funded project Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages. The dissemination, manipulation and interpretation of Late-Antique sermons in the Medieval Latin West (PASSIM). The Postdoctoral Researcher will study the customisation of patristic sermon collections for use in the liturgy and Divine Office in medieval manuscripts from the 7th to the 15th century, with a particular emphasis on the Carolingian homiliary of Paul the Deacon and its reception. Location: Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Duration: 3 years Starting date: 1 January 2020 (negotiable) Deadline for the application: 18 August 2019 Interviews: 16 September 2019 Contact: Dr. Shari Boodts (PI) Full details of the job offer can be found here: https://www.ru.nl/werken/details/details_vacature_0/?recid=602071 <https://www.ru.nl/werken/details/details_vacature_0/?recid=602071> More information on the research project can be found here: https://applejack.science.ru.nl/passimproject/?page=contact <https://applejack.science.ru.nl/passimproject/?page=contact>

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