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Hacking the Past: An Archives Game Jam
by Seaward, Louise 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

***With apologies for cross-posting*** Hacking the Past: An Archives Game Jam 23-24 February 2019 UCL Hatchery, Base KX, London, NC1 4PF The National Archives (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/) in collaboration with the Bentham Project, University College London (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/) are coming together to create a FREE game jam, focusing on games with a purpose (GWAPs). These organisations have experience of crowdsourcing the transcription of historical documents with the assistance of interested volunteers. They have also been experimenting with the use of Handwritten Text Recognition software to automate the transcription of documents. However, the transcription of historical material can still be a time-consuming and complex task. The challenge for this Hackathon is to create imaginative and engaging digital games that encourage and help people to transcribe documents efficiently. These transcriptions will open up access to historical material and make them discoverable for anyone interested in historical research. As a team, participants will be invited to create exciting games based on digital images from a diverse range of historical collections at both The National Archives and University College London. The event will include: * Interesting talks about the documents from archivists and historians * Briefing on the tasks ahead * A chance to learn and develop exciting new digital skills * A showcase of all the work produced over the weekend * A lot of hacking time * And of course, pizza! Find out more and register to attend at the Eventbrite page: https://archives-gamejam.eventbrite.co.uk -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Louise Seaward Research Associate Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H 0EG Email: louise.seaward(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:louise.seaward@ucl.ac.uk> Tel: 020 3108 8397 Web: Transcribe Bentham<http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/>; Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ)<http://read.transkribus.eu/> Twitter: @TranscriBentham<https://twitter.com/transcribentham>; @Transkribus<https://twitter.com/Transkribus>

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Rencontres lyonnaises des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique
by Ariane Pinche 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

[Apologies for cross posting] Chères et chers collègues, Veuillez noter que la date limite de soumission pour les Rencontres lyonnaises des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique est repoussée au 20/01. ____ Description de l’événement : L’association Diachronies contemporaines <https://diachro.hypotheses.org/>, vouée à la promotion du travail des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique, organise cette année les Rencontres lyonnaises des jeunes chercheurs en linguistique historique. Ce colloque se tiendra le 06/06/2019 à l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. Des actes numériques et éventuellement papier seront édités. Vous trouverez l’appel à communication en pièce jointe ainsi que sur la page de l’événement <https://diachro.hypotheses..org/rencontres_2019>. Nous encourageons, évidemment, à la plus large diffusion de cette information ! Cordialement, Au nom de l’association Diachronies contemporaines <https://diachro.hypotheses.org/>, A. Pinche, P. Plocharz, T. Premat, V. Surrel et F. Zuk.

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[ds:UniVie] Lecture Series continues with Elaine Chew on Jan 17th
by Maria Vargha 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

The research platform "Data Science @ Uni Vienna" continues its lecture series, to which we would like to cordially invite you. Elaine Chew will give a talk and concert mix titled "The (Data) Science of Time: From Music to the Heart", Elaine Chew will present and discuss mathematical models of time, timing and temporal structure in music and heart data, with demonstrations at a Bösendorfer piano. When: 17. January 2019, 16.30h Where: BIG Lecture Hall, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien Speaker: Elaine Chew, Queen Mary University Title: The (Data) Science of Time: From Music to the Heart Abstract: The explosion of data in the music industry and technological developments in musical instruments that can record performance nuances have made possible modern investigations into intangible properties of music such as expressivity. How do musicians shape performances? How are masterful interpretations crafted? What are the decisions that define a performance? What is the process of musicking: performing and listening? These have all become quantifiable and subject to scientific probing.The consequent ability to capture and model the rhythmic variations of performance transfers to other music-like systems like the human heart. This enables descriptions of individual experiences of cardiac arrhythmias, personalised diagnoses, and disease or risk stratification. Elaine Chew will present and discuss mathematical models of time, timing and temporal structure in music and heart data, with demonstrations at a piano. We are looking forward to seeing you! Registration for the event is not mandatory, but it will help us with the organization. Please sign up here: https://datascience.univie.ac.at/lecture-series/registration/ About the lecture series: The lecture series introduces international scientists with talks about their views on the possibilities and challenges of data science in their respective fields. We aim to reach a broad audience from various scientific backgrounds as well as the industry – from students to lecturers right up to entrepreneurs and interested parties and individuals. The next lecturers will be Elaine Chew, professor for digital media from the Queen Mary University in London (January 17^th 2019) and Gudrun Gersmann, professor for history from the University of Cologne (April 4^th 2019). About us : Data Science @ Uni Vienna is a new research platform at the University of Vienna that presents a hub on all activities in data science at the University of Vienna. Our primary focus is to bring researchers from different areas together to work on and solve several of the challenges that this new field presents. We specifically focus on problems arising in one of the following five domains, Astronomy, Digital Humanities, Finance, Industry 4.0, Medical Sciences. While these areas are broad, they have in common that they are data-driven and use similar methods from computer science, mathematics, and statistics. Further information: https://datascience.univie.ac.at/lecture-series/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dsUniVie -- Anne Marie Faisst, BA Organisationsassistentin Universität Wien Fakultät für Informatik Forschungsgruppe Visualization and Data Analysis Koordination Forschungsplattform Data Science Währinger Straße 29/S6/1.04, A-1090 Wien T +43-1-4277-790 03 _______________________________________________ DataScience mailing list DataScience(a)lists.univie.ac.at https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/datascience -- Mária Vargha Praedoc-Assistentin für Digital Humanities Institut für Geschichte Univestität Wien

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CfP: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Resource-Scarce Literatures
by Georg Vogeler 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

Name: Susanna Allés Torrent Email: susanna_alles(a)miami.edu Article Title: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Resource-Scarce Literatures Post type: Call for Papers Post: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Resource-Scarce Literatures 24-25 April 2019 University of Miami, FL Call for Papers This two-day symposium aims to bring together scholars and researchers working with computational approaches to texts. The event targets a broad audience interested in the application of digital text analysis technology, as text mining, topic modeling, authorship detection, writing style analysis, text reuse, or more generally tasks performed through Natural Language Processing (NLP). These techniques have significant potential not only for the study of literature but also for the study of texts and language in general. The symposium aims to create an open forum for showcasing these techniques. The event is also grounded in the idea that computational text analysis should be integrated not only in the academic research by faculty and their PhD students, but also in a pedagogical environment. The use of computational analysis opens up new questions in literary studies, and exposes students to many different ways of thinking about literature today. Computer-aided literary studies still thus tend to be focused on literatures written in modern languages. NLP tools are quite developed for modern languages, especially for the modern English language. For medieval and premodern languages, due to their instability of orthographic forms, attempts to conduct computer-aided (thus, to a degree, systematic) research face many challenges to normalize and standardize their linguistic forms. Therefore, the symposium also aims to explore the use and challenge of using NLP tools for studying literatures written in underrepresented and historical languages, such as the medieval and premodern variants and precursors of Spanish, French, Latin, and Dutch. Therefore, a special focus will be on the preprocessing routines available for these texts, such as lemmatization, by which we collect inflected forms under a single item or lemma, as well as challenges faced normalizing orthographic variation of historical texts and other languages with unstable orthographies. Among the international and national speakers we will have several experts on the topic. Our envisioned program for the symposium is as follows: On the first day, there will be several workshops, including one devoted to integrating computer-assisted analysis in the classroom, which will offer an introduction to stylometry, visualization, and text-reuse. On the second day, there will be talks (30 min) that present ongoing research projects, methodologies, and challenges. The subject languages are preferably, but not limited to underrepresented and historical languages. We are specifically interested in receiving proposals for contributions on one or more of the following topics: Stylometry for authorship studies Stylometry as an approach to literary study Natural Language Processing and linguistic annotation Lemmatizers for underrepresented modern languages and old languages Text reuse detection Normalization Distributional semantics Network analysis Text visualization We especially welcome contributions from those working with any type of textual corpora, preferably those conceived for a specific research and/ from a diachronic perspective. We conceive this symposium as an opportunity to share (best)-practices and broaden conversation, thus proposals can be on ongoing and experimental methodologies. Confirmed Speakers: Greta Franzini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) Francisco Gago Jover (College of the Holly Cross) Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp) Enrique Manjavacas (University of Antwerp) Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) Dennis Tenen (Columbia University) Organization committee Susanna Allés Torrent Lindsay Thomas Scientific committee Susanna Allés Torrent Alberto Cairo Mitsunori Ogihara Allison Schifani Important dates 15 January 2018. Deadline for the submission of abstracts 30 January 2019. Notification of acceptance 24-25 April. Symposium Abstract submissions and format We invite researchers to submit 500-word proposals (including footnotes but excluding the bibliography) in one single page related to any of the topics mentioned above. The format of the contributions will be 20 mins presentations followed by 10 min Q&A. Title, name(s) and affiliation should appear and the prefered formats are .txt, .docx, .odt and pdf. Submissions must be sent to susanna_alles(a)miami.edu and they will be reviewed by the scientific committee. Languages The official language of the symposium is English, but it is possible to submit a proposal also in Spanish, French, or Italian. The symposium will be held with support from: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences SEED You Choose Program Center for the Humanities In collaboration with: University of Antwerp The Digital Humanities Flanders (DHuF) research community, sponsored by the FWO ---- Time: 2019-01-07 at 15:51 IP Address: 46.18.45.37 Contact Form URL: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/news-post/ Sent by an unverified visitor to your site. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Digital Medievalist" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to DMedievalist+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. 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Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Digital Humanities Winter School Palermo 2019
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

FYI -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Digital Humanities Winter School Palermo 2019 Data: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 13:18:36 +0100 Mittente: Paolo Monella <paolo.monella(a)GMX.NET> Applications are invited for the “Digital Humanities Winter School Palermo 2019” (#DHWSPA19) that will take place at the University of Palermo, Italy, from March 4-7 2019. The winter school is sponsored by the Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale, and by the Departments Scienze Umanistiche and Culture e Società and the Dottorato di ricerca internazionale in Studi Culturali Europei | Europäische Kulturstudien of the University of Palermo. During the first day, talks by Fabio Ciotti, Vito Matranga, Raul Mordenti, Tito Orlandi, Elena Pierazzo, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco will provide an initial introduction to the digital humanities and Simona Stoyanova will lead a 2-hours workshop on TEI/EpiDoc markup. In the following days, three 7-hours workshops will provide a hands-on introduction to: 1. TEI XML markup per scholarly digital editions (Luciano Longo); 2. Python programming for text and TEI XML analysis (Paolo Monella); 3. querying and visualization of a TEI XML edition (Tiziana Mancinelli). A detailed program, the syllabi of the workshops and further information are available on the winter school website http://dhwspa19.unipa.it. Participation is free of charge and open to students working on their BA or MA thesis, PhD students and scholars. No previous specific digital skills are required. Please apply by filling in the form in https://dhwspa19.unipa.it/call/ and uploading a CV (including an optional publication lists) by January 15, 2019. Priority will be given to PhD students and to those with research projects including digital humanities methods. Acceptance will be communicated by January 20. The language of the winter school will be Italian, with the exception of the TEI/EpiDoc workshop held by Simona Stoyanova, which will be in English. [Italian version in https://dhwspa19.unipa.it/call/] All best, Luciano Longo Paolo Monella Tiziana Mancinelli

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies
by Haraldur Bernharðsson 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

[cid:D25434B5-297D-4B64-B6F6-8B1EB2A3F2DB@rhi.hi.is] The University of Iceland offers two international graduate programs in medieval studies, taught in English: (1) Medieval Icelandic Studies, a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters' (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester's worth (30 ECTS) master's thesis. The summer semester is the thesis semester, which means that the program can be completed in 13 months. See https://english.hi.is/medieval_icelandic_studies (2) Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, a four-semester (120 ECTS) graduate program run in cooperation with the University of Oslo in Norway, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University in Denmark. The first year--60 ECTS' worth of course work--take place in Iceland, but the third semester is spent either in Oslo, Aarhus, or Copenhagen, completing 30 ECTS of courses. The fourth semester is devoted to writing the master's thesis, and can be spent in Iceland or Oslo. See http://oldnorse.is/ Deadline for applications: February 1, 2019. Please share … --------------------- Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medieval Studies University of Iceland -- The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies Árnagarði við Suðurgötu IS-101 Reykjavík I C E L A N D + 354 525-4023 / +354 891-7511 - haraldr(a)hi.is<mailto:haraldr@hi.is> - https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/ - Skype: haraldur_bernhardsson --------------------- Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Program: http://oldnorse.is/

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Digital Medievalist 11 (2018)
by Franz Fischer 27 Dec '18

27 Dec '18

Dear Medievalists, Last Monday, 24 December 2018, the article on "Automatic Scribe Attribution for Medieval Manuscripts" by Mats Dahllöf from the University of Uppsala has been published in Digital Medievalist: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/10.16995/dm.67/ This publication also marks the closure of the 11th volume of the journal, which is the first volume to be published in collaboration with Open Library of Humanities (OLH). For your convenience, here is the table of contents: */Digital Medievalist 11 (2018)/* On the Classification of the Slavic Menaia Manuscripts Dated from the 11th to 14th Centuries, by Aleksei and Natalja Netsunajev Spatial Reading: Digital Literary Maps of the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas, by Mary Catherine Kinniburgh Omeka and Other Digital Platforms for Undergraduate Research Projects on the Middle Ages, by Esther Liberman Cuenca and Maryanne Kowaleski On Not Writing a Review about Mirador: Mirador, IIIF, and the Epistemological Gains of Distributed Digital Scholarly Resources, by Joris van Zundert Automatic Scribe Attribution for Medieval Manuscripts, by Mats Dahllöf /DM Reviews - June 2018/ Review on "Digital Classics outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement. London, 2016: Ubiquity Press", by Eleonnora Litta Review on "ALIM: Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo. http://en.alim.unisi.it/", by Traianos Manos Review on "Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 4. Norderstedt, 2017: Books on Demand", by Lisa Fagin Davis All articles are published under a CC BY 4.0 licence and can be freely accessed under https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ Thank you to all contributors, peer reviewers and editors. A great thank you also to our partners from Ubiquity Press and Open Library of Humanities for their generous and professional support. I wish you all a good year in 2019. Franz Fischer, Editor-in-Chief

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Ege no. 29 reconstructed in Fragmentarium
by Lisa Fagin Davis 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

Dear Friends, I'm writing to share my Simmons Library Science students' final project, a reconstruction of Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves" no 29 using the Fragmentarium interface. As with last year's project on Ege no. 30, each student was assigned one leaf of no. 29 to catalogue in Fragmentarium. Then we worked together in class to put the leaves in the correct order, using Fragmentarium to reassemble the manuscript. We used the Schoenberg Database to look for records of the manuscript when it was whole (we couldn't find any with certainty). The final step was to analyze the reconstructed manuscript to see if we had enough evidence to determine Use - although we only had Compline from the Hours of the Virgin and so not enough evidence for Use there, we had nearly all of the Matins responsories from the Office of the Dead and were able to determine that the manuscript is Use of Rome. Those of you with one of Ege's "Fifty Original Leaves" portfolios in your collection may wish to update your record for no. 29 to indicate the Use. Feel free to add the link to the reconstruction as well: FOL 29: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-waaj Now, while I will grant you that this particular manuscript is hardly going to make art-historical waves or have any major liturgical significance, the project was a huge success from a pedagogical standpoint. My students determined the contents of each leaf by identifying the liturgy, worked together to put the leaves of each section in the right order, and used both the updated Madan tests and the online version of Ottosen to analyze the liturgy. They learned how to work in a IIIF/shared canvas environment, how to work with VIAF and other authorities, and how to parse and catalogue a Book of Hours. Their individual records are online and public (I've proof-read all of them) with persistent URLs, something for their resumes as they begin looking for library jobs. If/when more leaves come to light, they can easily be added. The images we've used, some of which are phone-camera snapshots, can be easily replaced if/when better images become available. While many of the leaves are online in their home institution's digital repository, none of those images are IIIF-compliant yet. If/when any of them make that transition, I intend to use Fragmentarium's IIIF feature to import them directly, replacing the image-files we uploaded to the Fragmentarium server. In the meantime, the Fragmentarium records for individual leaves include URLs of home-repository records if they exist. This is the fourth Book of Hours reconstruction I've worked on with my students - we've done Ege 29, 30, 47, and 48 so far. In case you're interested, here are the other links: FOL 30: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-djs6 FOL 47: https://lis464.omeka.net/ FOL 48: https://fol48.omeka.net/ Next year, we'll work on FOL 31. I hope you are all well, and I wish you all the best in 2019! Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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Dark Archives conference, Oxford
by Juliana Dresvina 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

Dear Colleagues, I have been asked to draw your attention to the following conference in Oxford in September 2019: http://aevum.space/darkarchives Although the deadline is 31 December, at this stage they simply need an expression of interest and an idea for a paper; the abstract can follow later! With all best wishes, Julie

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CFP "Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Resource-Scarce Literatures", University of Miami, April 24-25 2019
by Susanna Allés Torrent 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

Dear all, I am writing to invite you to propose abstracts for our symposium "Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Resource-Scarce Literatures” organized by and to be held at the University of Miami (FL) on April 24-25 2019. The deadline for submissions is January 15. Best wishes, ========================= Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Resource-Scarce Literatures 24-25 April 2019 University of Miami, FL Call for Papers This two-day symposium aims to bring together scholars and researchers working with computational approaches to texts. The event targets a broad audience interested in the application of digital text analysis technology, as text mining, topic modeling, authorship detection, writing style analysis, text reuse, or more generally tasks performed through Natural Language Processing (NLP). These techniques have significant potential not only for the study of literature but also for the study of texts and language in general. The symposium aims to create an open forum for showcasing these techniques. The event is also grounded in the idea that computational text analysis should be integrated not only in the academic research by faculty and their PhD students, but also in a pedagogical environment. The use of computational analysis opens up new questions in literary studies, and exposes students to many different ways of thinking about literature today. Computer-aided literary studies still thus tend to be focused on literatures written in modern languages. NLP tools are quite developed for modern languages, especially for the modern English language. For medieval and premodern languages, due to their instability of orthographic forms, attempts to conduct computer-aided (thus, to a degree, systematic) research face many challenges to normalize and standardize their linguistic forms. Therefore, the symposium also aims to explore the use and challenge of using NLP tools for studying literatures written in underrepresented and historical languages, such as the medieval and premodern variants and precursors of Spanish, French, Latin, and Dutch. Therefore, a special focus will be on the preprocessing routines available for these texts, such as lemmatization, by which we collect inflected forms under a single item or lemma, as well as challenges faced normalizing orthographic variation of historical texts and other languages with unstable orthographies. Among the international and national speakers we will have several experts on the topic. Our envisioned program for the symposium is as follows: On the first day, there will be several workshops, including one devoted to integrating computer-assisted analysis in the classroom, which will offer an introduction to stylometry, visualization, and text-reuse. On the second day, there will be talks (30 min) that present ongoing research projects, methodologies, and challenges. The subject languages are preferably, but not limited to underrepresented and historical languages. We are specifically interested in receiving proposals for contributions on one or more of the following topics: Stylometry for authorship studies Stylometry as an approach to literary study Natural Language Processing and linguistic annotation Lemmatizers for underrepresented modern languages and old languages Text reuse detection Normalization Distributional semantics Network analysis Text visualization We especially welcome contributions from those working with any type of textual corpora, preferably those conceived for a specific research and/ from a diachronic perspective. We conceive this symposium as an opportunity to share (best)-practices and broaden conversation, thus proposals can be on ongoing and experimental methodologies. Confirmed Speakers: Greta Franzini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) Francisco Gago Jover (College of the Holly Cross) Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp) Enrique Manjavacas (University of Antwerp) Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) Dennis Tenen (Columbia University) Organization committee Susanna Allés Torrent Lindsay Thomas Scientific committee Susanna Allés Torrent Alberto Cairo Mitsunori Ogihara Allison Schifani Important dates 15 January 2018. Deadline for the submission of abstracts 30 January 2019. Notification of acceptance 24-25 April. Symposium Abstract submissions and format We invite researchers to submit 500-word proposals (including footnotes but excluding the bibliography) in one single page related to any of the topics mentioned above. The format of the contributions will be 20 mins presentations followed by 10 min Q&A. Title, name(s) and affiliation should appear and the prefered formats are .txt, .docx, .odt and pdf. Submissions must be sent to susanna_alles(a)miami.edu <mailto:susanna_alles@miami.edu> and they will be reviewed by the scientific committee. Languages The official language of the symposium is English, but it is possible to submit a proposal also in Spanish, French, or Italian. The symposium will be held with support from: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences SEED You Choose Program Center for the Humanities In collaboration with: University of Antwerp The Digital Humanities Flanders (DHuF) research community, sponsored by the FWO ========================= Susanna Allés Torrent Assistant Professor University of Miami http://susannalles.com susanna_alles(a)miami.edu

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