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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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Release of the BFM2019 Corpus
by Alexey Lavrentev 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the BFM2019 corpus on the web portal of the Base de Français Médiéval http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/?command=documentation&path=/BFM2019. The graphical design of the BFM-TXM web portal has been entirely revised and improved at this occasion. The Terms of use have been simplified and all the texts are now available under an open licence Etalab (https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence). The BFM2019 corpus includes some fifteen new texts and amounts approximately 4,700,000 words. All the texts are formatted according to the TEI guidelines (including the instances of directed speech), automatically pos-tagged and lemmatized. The POS tags are manually verified in 4 new texts (38 total, approximately 1,000,000 words), and the lemmatization is verified and disambiguated in 18 texts (approximately 400,000 words). The corpus includes three new original editions: - /La Vie de saint Alexis/, ed. T. Rainsford et C. Marchello-Nizia, - /L’image du monde/ by Gossouin, prose version, ed N. Kanaoka, - /Les quinze joies de mariage/, ed. N. Kanaoka on the basis of the printed edition prepared by M. Guéret-Laferté, S. Louis and C. Mira, Rouen, Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2009. Best regards, The BFM Team bfm [at] ens-lyon [dot] fr

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Methodologies for teaching History with Wikipedia (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

Juliana Bastos Marques (Rio de Janeiro) Methodologies for teaching Ancient History with Wikipedia Friday June 28, 2019 at 16:30 in room G34 Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU This activity will present and discuss some methodologies in different scenarios for teaching about the Ancient World through the use of Wikipedia, where the students learn content, writing and critical reading through editing articles. Several classroom models are possible, from a 2-hour lecture, a full-day workshop to an entire semester. We will approach the encyclopaedia’s “Five Pillars” (notability, impartiality, free content, civility in cooperation, and proactivity) and how they can help students to develop informational literacy through the study of Classics. We will also discuss Wikimedia Commons for working with media related to the written content. Please bring along your laptops if you'd like to participate in live editing! Seminar will be streamed and archived at: https://youtu.be/9ELFC90I2jI Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2019.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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Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams: NEW version online!
by Ilse De Vos 24 Jun '19

24 Jun '19

Dear colleagues and friends, We are excited to release a new version of the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE, hosted at Ghent University), freely accessible at https://www.dbbe.ugent.be. Thanks to the generous support of the Special Research Fund of Ghent University, DBBE has been completely redesigned over the past two years, in close collaboration with the Database, Document and Content Management<https://ddcm.ugent.be/> research group of the Faculty of Engineering of Ghent University and with the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities<https://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/>. The corpus of Byzantine metrical paratexts collected in our Database has been consistently enlarged, through the systematic consultation of manuscripts and relevant secondary literature, and it now counts some 10700 single epigrams, over 7000 of which are the result of first-hand inspection of (reproductions of) manuscripts. In comparison with the previous version of DBBE, our users are offered the possibility to navigate more easily through the different records, which are much better linked to each other. The search function of Greek text has been refined and provides users with more accurate results. While the distinction between Occurrences<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/search> (unique epigrams as to be found in manuscripts) and Types<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/search> (normalised texts of similar occurrences) has been retained, a new way to group epigrams has been introduced: the Verse Variants records. These pages display a clear overview of the parallels and deviations of single verse lines. The Verse Variants are accessible by clicking on single epigram verse lines. The main scope of DBBE is collecting Byzantine book epigrams and offering their texts to the scholarly community. However, we are aiming to make available contextual data as well, and have paid major attention to the improvement of information on Manuscript<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/manuscripts/search> and Persons<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/persons/search>. The Bibliography section has been adjusted and it now includes a search path. We gladly refer to our Help page<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/help> and Search Tricks and Tips<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/search-tips-tricks> page for more information. We encourage users to explore the new features of DBBE and are eager to welcome their comments and feedback at dbbe(a)ugent.be<mailto:dbbe@ugent.be>. For the whole DBBE team<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/team>, Floris Bernard Julián Bértola Julie Boeten Cristina Cocola Sien De Groot Kristoffel Demoen Pieterjan De Potter Ilse De Vos Rachele Ricceri Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Attend FSCI 2019 Scholarly Communications Institute- Early bird rate ending this Friday!
by O'Donnell, Dan 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

With apologies for cross-posting [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d/images/861d7fe8-353…] <https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> The FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) will take place at UCLA August 5 - 9, 2019. Be sure to take advantage of the early-bird discounts<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> which end this Friday, June 21. This recent post on Scholarly Kitchen<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> places FSCI in the context of the existing training opportunities within Scholarly Communication, showing that FSCI enables and serves those that are done asking why, and are now asking how we move towards an Open Knowledge culture together. FSCI2019<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> offers participants 5 immersive days of training and skills development in new modes of research communication. All levels of participants, from beginners to advanced, will find courses of interest. There are 27 Courses<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> to choose from (check out the Course Abstracts<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…>), with topics designed to appeal across disciplines. We also have an exciting agenda of plenary events<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> (see list below), and Speakers and Instructors<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> are coming from 6 continents, including experts in scholarly communication from many communities of practice. The diversity of perspectives provided by the instructors and attendees is one of FSCI’s key strengths, allowing for comprehensive exploration of the issues in class and beyond. We hope you’ll add your voice to the conversation, and broaden your perspective on the evolving world of scholarly communication! PLENARY EVENTS Monday, August 5 9:00 am - 9:30 am - Welcome Introduction - Palisades Ballroom Welcome Speakers: * Ginny Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, UCLA * Joe Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Academic Senate, UCLA First thing on Monday morning we will all meet to kick off the Institute. Expect a short introduction, basic logistics information, run over the week's schedule and a brief overview of the courses. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Lightning Talks - Palisades Ballroom Chair/Moderator: Daniel S. Katz, Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications NCSA, University of Illinois This session will consist of reviewed 5-minute talks by FSCI participants. These short talks are meant to present something the speaker is passionate about, related to scholarly communications. Talks may be about new technology that might change our lives or vanish without a trace, tell us about a policy that has made a difference somewhere, rants about how the scholarly communications world should be, and other topics. The talks will inspire us to think and to discuss things that make an impact on scholarly communications. Tuesday, August 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Do-a-Thon - Palisades Ballroom Chair/Moderator: Steve Diggs, Technical Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Building off the concept of a hackathon, a do-a-thon is a work-sprint where people from different skill sets work together and collaborate on different challenges and projects. Sign up forms will be posted on the website in early July. Wednesday, August 7 8:30 am - 12:00 pm - Plenary Session Panel - What if Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society had never existed? Learning from the successes beyond the North Atlantic - Palisades Ballroom * Gimena Del Rio Riande (Moderator), Researcher, Investigadora Adjunta CONICET in Argentina * Dan O’Donnell, Professor of English, University of Lethbridge Speakers from around the globe will be presenting in this centerpiece plenary session Much of today’s debate around open access and scholarly communication in Northern America and Europe centers around how well plans developed in one part of this “North Atlantic” region might work in another, or, usually as an afterthought, in the “Global South”. In this session we want to turn this on its head. What would scholarly communication be like if our origin myth did not start in the UK’s Royal Society in London in 1665? Let’s imagine a world where Phil Trans never existed and we instead had developed our systems from the ideas underpinning the success stories of scholarly communications infrastructures and systems from Latin America, Asia and Africa, from beyond the English-speaking world, and from communities not traditionally considered as “scholarly”. Thursday, August 8, 2019 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - “Moving the Needle” Roundtable - Palisades Ballroom Speakers: * Ginny Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, UCLA * Alison Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, UCLA * Tom Olijhoek, Molecular Biology Researcher, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) * Cameron Neylon, Professor of Research Communication, Curtin University Engage in a discussion with a panel pulled together to discuss some of the highest-level recent developments to “move the needle” towards open research and publishing. Virginia Steel, The UCLA Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, and Alison Scott, the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, will discuss the University of California’s negotiations with Elsevier to secure a read and publish contract; Tom Olijhoek will discuss the European Union’s “Plan S” which requires state-funded research output to be Open by 2020; and Cameron Neylon will discuss recent results evaluating how universities are implementing Open Access globally. Who is doing this well? What is driving change, and in what direction? What will these changes mean for the scholarly communication ecosystem? Come with questions and opinions, and join the discussion. 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Battledecks: PowerPoint Karaoke - Palisades Ballroom Chair/Moderator - Nicky Agate, Assistant Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Projects, Columbia University You will not want to miss this night!! Everyone is invited to take part in Battledecks (a.k.a. PowerPoint karaoke). How are your improv skills? Ready to perform in front of a live audience? Each contestant will be given 3-5 minutes to present ten slides on a surprise topic, with the goal of telling a coherent story while (a) entertaining the audience and (b) keeping a straight face. Link to upload your slide decks will be posted in May. Friday, August 9, 2019 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Birds of Feather Topic tables - DeNeve Cafeteria Private Room Co-Chairs: * Anna Oates, Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services Librarian, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis * Dan O’Donnell, Professor of English, University of Lethbridge Join your colleagues in the De Neve cafeteria to discuss School Comm topics in an informal setting. You'll be able to network and exchange ideas, insights, and experiences. If you are interested in leading a BOF table or have ideas of topics you wish to contribute, please send an email to FSCI-INFO(a)force11.org<mailto:FSCI-INFO@force11.org>. Or you may add to the list that will be posted here June 17. 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Keynote: Would including open scholarship in tenure guidelines move the needle? Speaker: Juan Pablo Alperin<https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…>, Assistant Professor in Publishing and Co-Director of the Scholarly Communications Lab Despite all the arguments and evidence in favor of open scholarship, years of advocacy, tool building, mandates, and policies, less than half of the research that is published is publicly available. But what if we could magically add open scholarship practices as a valued activity in every salary review and tenure guideline document? Would such an explicit valuation of open scholarship for academic career advancement serve to move the needle? This presentation will challenge commonly held notions of the barriers to change through evidence from the analysis of hundreds of salary review and tenure guideline documents from universities in the United States and Canada, and from results of a survey of faculty from the same universities. This empirical exploration of what we say we value in academic careers, how we say it, and what we think our peers value may confirm your belief that review, promotion, and tenure processes affect the adoption of open scholarship practices—but it just won't be in the way you think they do. Visit the FSCI 2019 <https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> website for more information. Convinced? Then register here <https://force11.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d…> and take advantage of the early-bird discount that ends on June 21st. We hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles! 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2019 Schoenberg Symposium_Save the date!
by Ransom, Lynn 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age November 21-23, 2019 Hooking Up In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, Hooking Up. The concept of linked open data is the holy grail of the digital humanities. Yet the problem of how to link information across platforms has existed since civilization began. As knowledge and learning expanded in pre-modern society, the problems associated with collecting, combining, and disseminating information inspired new approaches to and technologies for the material text. In the internet age, we continue to grapple with the same problems and issues. While technologies have changed, the questions remain the same. This year's symposium explores the connections between historic and current approaches to data linkage in regard to manuscripts and manuscript research. Hooking Up addresses the topic from a variety of angles and considers how the manuscript book operates as a vehicle for information retrieval and dissemination from the technology of the page and the textual apparatus of a book, to the library, and finally, the internet. We will also consider such questions as how medieval practices of memory shaped information retrieval and gathering, how did the technology of the manuscripts book-in all its many forms-facilitate or hinder information processing, how can medieval solutions inform modern technologies, and how do modern technologies illuminate medieval practices? The program will also feature sessions highlighting projects that are advancing linked data technologies for manuscript researchers, including the T-AP Digging Into Data Challenge project Mapping Manuscript Migrations<http://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/>. For more information, go to http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium12. Registration opens in September 2019.

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DM Executive Board Elections_OPEN TODAY
by Ransom, Lynn 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

Dear friends and colleagues, DM elections are now open! We are excited to present an impressive slate of 6 candidates for 4 open positions (a previous message misstated that there were five open positions). Here is the list of candidates (for more info, please see the bios at the end of the message and here https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/elections-2019/): * Roman Bleier, University of Graz * Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America * Rose Faunce, Australian National University * Els de Paermentier, Ghent University * Grant Simpson, University of Göttingen * Sean Winslow, University of Graz To vote, you will receive today an invitation by email from the Helios Voting System, which will supply you with a link to the ballot as well as a login and password. Please choose four candidates. Remember that you can vote as many times as you want, but only your last vote will be counted. Voting will be open from today, 17 June, to Monday, July 2. The DM Executive Board oversees the strategic direction of the DM community, runs the open access journal Digital Medievalist, and coordinates outreach among community members via the listserv and at conferences held around the world. We are grateful to these candidates for stepping up to ensure that DM continues to have strong leadership to serve the community! PLEASE VOTE!! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the Election Committee: * Lynn Ransom, lransom[AT]upenn.edu * James Harr, jbharr[AT]ncsu.edu * Greta Franzini, greta.franzini[AT]unicatt.it BIOS: ROMAN BLEIER 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 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 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 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 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 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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Exploring the Productivity of Homeric Formulae through Distributional Semantics (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 14 Jun '19

14 Jun '19

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday June 14, 2019 at 16:30 in room G34 Martina Astrid Rodda & Barbara McGillivray (Alan Turing Institute) Exploring the Productivity of Homeric Formulae through Distributional Semantics The language of archaic Greek epic is overwhelmingly composed of formulae, i.e. repeated, rigid linguistic structures. Formulae do show some limited variation in their form; however, describing the boundaries and the mechanisms driving formulaic variation is notably difficult. Computational methods on large-scale digital collections can shed new light onto this problem. We present the first computational model which uses Distributional Semantics to assess how meaning variation drives formulaic productivity in ancient Greek epic. By comparing the distribution of meanings in archaic vs. later poetry, we can detect trends of development in formulaic usage through time and investigate their causes. This seminar will be livestreamed to https://youtu.be/NTVa05fOIz4 Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2019.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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