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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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Final Call for Nominations to DM Board 2019–2021
by Ransom, Lynn 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

Dear friends and colleagues, This is a final reminder to submit nominations to the DM 2019-2020 Board. The deadline is this Saturday, June 8. Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2019 for five positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it is expected that you are willing and able to commit a little bit of time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as helping to run its journal, conference sessions, etc.). For further information about the Executive Board and Digital Medievalist more generally, please see the DM website, particularly: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or to the field of digital medieval studies. If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact Lynn Ransom (lransom(a)upenn.edu<mailto:lransom@upenn.edu>) or Greta Franzini (greta.franzini(a)unicatt.it<mailto:greta.franzini@unicatt.it> ) who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Saturday, June 8, and elections will be held by electronic ballot from Saturday, 25 June 2019, closing at 23:59 UTC on Friday, 5 July 2019. Sincerely, Lynn Ransom & Greta Franzini, Elections Committee Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/<http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Umanistica Digitale issue 5 published
by Fabio Ciotti 27 May '19

27 May '19

Dear Colleagues, *Umanistica Digitale* (ISSN 2532-8816), the journal of the AIUCD (Italian Association of Digital Humanities and Cultures), is pleased to announce the publication of the 5th issue, available at https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it. This issue of the journal presents a selection of the papers given at the AIUCD2017 Conference (12-18 January 2017, Sapienza University of Roma), whose theme was “The Reverse Telescope: Big Data and Distant Reading in the Humanities” and an article by Mike Kestemont and Luc Herman. ------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduzione - Fabio Ciotti ARTICLES Can Machines Read (Literature)? - Mike Kestemont, Luc Herman The Index Thomisticus as a Big Data Project - Geoffrey Rockwell, Marco Passarotti An open problem in computational stemmatology - a model for contamination - Armin Hoenen Un’Analisi Multidimensionale della Ricerca Italiana nel Campo delle Digital Humanities e della Linguistica Computazionale - Rachele Sprugnoli, Gabriella Pardelli, Federico Boschetti, Riccardo Del Gratta Visualizing Gender Balance in Conferences - Sytze Van Herck L’impatto culturale e sociale dei dati archeologici nella tutela e valorizzazione del paesaggio storico. Un case study: il XV Municipio di Roma - Margherita Bartoli Ripensare i formati, ripensare i metadati: prove “tecniche” di conservazione digitale - Nicola Barbuti REVIEWS AND REPORTS H. W. Gabler, Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays, OpenBook Publishers (2018) - Carolina Rossi ----------- We invite you to visit our web site and to review articles and items of interest. Fabio Ciotti -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" DH2019 PC Co-Chair Chief Editor "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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DH2019 Programme and Keynotes speakers
by Fabio Ciotti 24 May '19

24 May '19

Dear colleagues we are pleased to announce that the Programme of the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 in Utrecht is available at https://bit.ly/2WmBEFY. 123 long papers, 135 short papers, 28 panels and 121 posters make DH2019 the biggest DH event so far! We wish to wholeheartedly thank the Programme Committee members, the reviewers, the authors and presenters, and all the DH global community, for this great success. We are also pleased to announce that DH2019 keynotes speakers will be: Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, South Africa (opening keynote) "ICTs as Juju. African Inspiration for Understanding the Compositeness of Being Human through Digital Technologies" Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles (closing keynote) "Digital Humanities—Complexities of Sustainability" We will finally have the honor to host the Busa Prize Lecture from the winner of the 2019 Roberto Busa Prize: Prof. Tito Orlandi, Emeritus Sapienza University of Rome, Italy "Reflections on the Development of Digital Humanities" On the conference website you can find other information about the program, the venue, accommodation and travel information: https://dh2019.adho.org/. Registration to the DH2019 Conference are open at: https://dh2019.adho.org/registration/. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions you may have. For question regarding the academic program: dh2019(a)adho.org For question regarding the registration and local organization: info@dh2019 .org We look forward to meet you in Utrecht! Kind regards, Elena Pierazzo Fabio Ciotti DH2019 Chairs on behalf of the Program Committee The DH2019 Local Organizers

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IQLA-GIAT International Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data
by Fabio Ciotti 24 May '19

24 May '19

Apologies for cross posting --------------------------------------------------- IQLA-GIAT International Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data 4th edition Call for participation Recent developments in digital methods are not only changing how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences, but also how new research is planned and designed. In order to reach the full potential and benefits of this revolution, most research activities need a new generation of researchers: data scientists for humanities and social sciences. Digital methods are being utilised by a variety of disciplines. The growing availability of large corpora and large databases calls for new methods that are able to deal with new problems, open the door to new questions and develop new knowledge. Presentation "Distant Reading", "Digital Methods", "Computational social sciences" and "Statistical learning from textual data" are general terms that refer to a wide range of methods that have a common aim: retrieving information from texts by means of computer-aided tools. Today, computer-aided text analysis is an umbrella term referring to a number of qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches. It is an object of research in many sectors of linguistics, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics. Furthermore, computer aided text analysis is used as a research tool within a number of disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, sociology, sociolinguistics, education, history, political studies, literary studies, communication and media studies. The recent evolution of information technologies (IT) and computational methods has led to a number of distinct but interrelated sectors (e.g. computational linguistics, information retrieval, natural language processing, text mining, text analytics, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, topic extraction, etc.) with interesting industrial applications, such as electronic dictionaries, artificial intelligence, plagiarism detection and similar. Recent studies have stressed the need for developing, adopting and sharing interdisciplinary approaches. The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is the ideal environment for developing innovative analytical tools by pooling together the research methods from different disciplines. The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is characterized by three main elements: 1. a general part devoted to quantitative methods; 2. a special issue that has changed over time (2019: Data Science and Data scientists in Humanities and Social Sciences); 3. several lab-sessions dedicated to computer-aided analysis of textual data. Objectives Teaching activities at the School will raise questions that can be answered thanks to quantitative methods implemented within a text analysis framework and other procedures that may be used to identify and compare text characteristics. The aim is to discuss the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of quantitative methods for text analysis with postgraduate students, early career researchers and scholars of different disciplines. The Summer School aims at: 1. sharing information on software, corpora, relevant literature and research results; 2. promoting a dialogue among different disciplines on emerging research issues; 3. developing innovative analytical tools and integrated research methods; 4. introducing postgraduate students and early career researchers to new strains of research and applications; 5. sharing state-of-the-art techniques in digital methods for text analysis (topic detection, text classification, data visualization). Does this School fit your needs? Would you like to take into account a large number of relevant novels, articles published by newspapers, transcriptions of open-ended interviews, or comments posted on social media in your research? Are there definitely too many texts for any scholar to read them in a life span? Why not trying to ask a computer to do this task? A software package is not able to "close read" a text. On the contrary, by means of mathematical and statistical tools, it might be smart to "distant read" a text (i.e. collecting data, retrieving relevant information, summarizing features, finding patterns, etc.). Instead of close-reading a limited number of texts, why not working with thousands of texts, upload them into the memory of a computer and ask a software package to produce analyses and results? Credits The IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data is organized by GIAT – Interdisciplinary Text Analysis Group (www.giat.org) in collaboration with the International Quantitative Linguistics Association ( www.iqla.org). The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is a project funded by the University of Padova (www.unipd.it) and coordinated by Professor Arjuna Tuzzi (University of Padova). Application and deadlines The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is open to 20 participants including researchers, scholars and postgraduate students. The selection of 20 participants is due to the capacity of the laboratory room. Applicants should send a file in pdf format including: 1. curriculum vitae; 2. personal mission statement and research interests (max 500 words); Applications should be sent to the following address: qatd.school(a)fisppa.it Deadline June, 27th Tuition fee 250 € Schedule The IQLA-GIAT Summer School will take place from Monday 9th to Friday 13th September 2019. The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is a full-time intensive course held: - On Monday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm - From Tuesday to Thursday from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm - On Friday from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm On Friday, the last two hours will be left for the final assessment. Location University of Padova Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education & Applied Psychology (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA) Sociology buildings via Cesarotti, 10/12 35123 Padova, ITALY Classes All courses are in English. Teaching activities include lectures and lab sessions, as well as tutorials illustrating software tools. The teaching staff includes researchers and experts from different Universities and Research institutes: - Dominique Brunato (ILC / CNR of Pisa, Italy) - Fabio Ciotti (Univ. of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) - Sascha Diwersy (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier, France) - Maciej Eder (Univ. of Kraków, Poland) - George Mikros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) - Stefano Ondelli (Univ. of Trieste, Italy) - Pierre Ratinaud (Univ. of Toulouse II, France) - Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian Univ. of Kraków, Poland) - Giuseppe Veltri (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Main topics Computational stylistics, stylometry, texts and gender, topic modelling, text classification, opinion mining, Forensic linguistics, author profiling and authorship attribution methods Final Evaluation and self-assessment All participants will be requested to complete an evaluation questionnaire to express their opinions about the main aspects of the IQLA-GIAT Summer School (e.g. organization, teaching, materials, facilities and equipment, expectations, satisfaction rate, suggestions etc. ). It is worth mentioning that the fourth edition of the Summer School is organized also considering the results and suggestions obtained through the evaluation questionnaires done in 2013, 2015 and 2017 editions. All participants will complete a self-assessment questionnaire on technical skills and general knowledge including 30 multiple choice questions (one correct answer out of four). Grades will reflect the sum of all correct answers (one point) according to the following range: A (29-30 points); B (25-28 points); C (21-24 points); D (17-20 points); E (15-16 points). Website and social networks The IQLA-GIAT Summer School will provide a specific website within GIAT's domain (www.giat.org) for the distribution of learning resources, links and bibliographic references before, during and after the Summer School. The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is also active on Facebook and Twitter. Info For any further information and details about terms, deadlines, application forms and payment methods, please contact: qatd.school(a)fisppa.it -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" DH2019 PC Co-Chair Chief Editor "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" DH2019 PC Co-Chair Chief Editor "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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Call for Nominations to DM Board 2019–2021
by Ransom, Lynn 16 May '19

16 May '19

Dear friends and colleagues, Want to be more involved in Digital Medievalist or know someone who does? Please consider submitting a nomination for the upcoming Executive Board elections to help shape the future of the organization. Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2019 for five positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it is expected that you are willing and able to commit a little bit of time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as helping to run its journal, conference sessions, etc.). For further information about the Executive Board and Digital Medievalist more generally, please see the DM website, particularly: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ The call for nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections is now open. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or to the field of digital medieval studies. If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact Lynn Ransom (lransom(a)upenn.edu<mailto:lransom@upenn.edu>) or Greta Franzini (greta.franzini(a)unicatt.it<mailto:greta.franzini@unicatt.it> ) who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Saturday, June 8, and elections will be held by electronic ballot from Saturday, 25 June 2019, closing at 23:59 UTC on Friday, 5 July 2019. Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/<http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidI320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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