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Ad fontes: Teaching paleography, archival research, and analysis of historical sources
by Tobias Hodel 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Relaunch of the Ad fontes e-learning project The University of Zurich has relaunched its digital Ad fontes project with a new website and new tools designed to teach students how to navigate archives and work with historical documents. The project provides a set of tutorials that provide information about how archives are organized, how to find documents and other sources in an archive, and also how to read and analyze documents, including fundamental auxiliary skills like paleography and diplomatics. The core of the redeveloped site is a set of interactive exercises that allow users to practice the skills they’ve learned, like recognizing scripts, calculating dates for different dating systems, describing the parts of a charter, recognizing standard orthographical variations, or analyzing historical photographs. Another key part of the new Ad fontes is a large and growing number of transcription exercises that cover scripts from the 7th century to the 20th. The transcription exercises, many of which are user generated, are based on images of original sources from repositories across Europe and North America, with most coming from Switzerland and France. The exercises and resources are available in German, French, and often English. Students who are working with documents in archives for the first time and researchers who want to refresh their skills before a trip should benefit from the material. Ad fontes is free to use, and you can (you don’t have to) create a free login to save and track your progress at any time. Preparing and publishing your own exercises, tutorial, and resources The new version of Ad fontes also allows teachers and researchers to create their own learning resources. The editorial environment is easy to use, and both static pages and interactive exercises (especially transcription exercises) can be created. Contact the Ad fontes team for more information about making your own pages. Visit www.adfontes.uzh.ch to get a sense of what’s new. Or, send us an e-mail, we’re always happy to talk about the project: adfontes(a)hist.uzh.ch.

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Free Registration Open for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium! (Mar 21-22) - Closes March 15
by Kristen Mapes 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that registration for the Global DH Symposium is now open! Please consider joining us for all or part of this symposium, and do spread the word to students and colleagues. While on a wide range of topics, there will be several presentations of interest to medievalists during the symposium. Thanks, Kristen *Global Digital Humanities Symposium* March 21-22, 2019 Main Library, Green Room Michigan State University (USA) East Lansing, Michigan msuglobaldh.org #msuglobaldh Keynote presentations: - Maira E. Álvarez and Sylvia Fernández – “Responding to the “Border Crisis”: Digital Interventions and Transnational Partnerships” - Victor Temprano and Samantha Martin-Ferris – “Voices from Native Land, and the Challenges of Incorporating Land and Ecological Knowledge Into Digital Media” *Registration is now open!* Please register by: Friday, March 15 *Free* and open to the public. Register (for in person and/or virtual attendance) at http://msuglobaldh.org/registration/ Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its fourth year. We are delighted to feature speakers from around the world, as well as expertise and work from faculty and students at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. The full program will be announced in early February. Kristen Mapes Assistant Director of Digital Humanities College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Graduate Fellowship in Digital Art History
by Hannah Jacobs 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

***Please share. Apologies for cross-posting!*** The Art, Art History & Visual Studies Department at Duke University is pleased to announce the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Digital Art History. The fellowship for $30,000 will help to offset the cost for an entering student in our Masters (MA) program in Digital Art History and Computational Media. The fellowship is specifically meant for populations of students often underrepresented in digital art history including people of color, first generation college students, and women. Duke is an ideal institution to receive this specialized intellectual training to prepare the student for success in rigorous PhD programs in art history and visual studies. For full details on the program see https://aahvs.duke.edu/graduate/MA-historical-cultural-visualization. Through this fellowship we intend to help diversify our field and to develop sophisticated, and rigorous computational work. Our MA is specifically targeted to address art historical questions in conjunction with area computational and cultural specialists at Duke. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has made extraordinary contributions in the last decade to the support of new digital art history initiatives. This Kress Graduate Fellowship fosters and strengthens the connection between art historical research and the broader field of Digital Humanities. It builds off of the tested curriculum of the MA in Digital Art History & Computational Media while guiding the student to future success in an art history and visual studies PhD. Our goals are: 1) To increase the opportunities of underrepresented populations for participation in Digital Humanities 2) To improve the chances of MA art historians to enter a high-level art history and visual studies PhD program or succeed in digital areas once they are in such a program, especially to prepare them for university careers 3) To strengthen the diversity of art history as a discipline 4) To expand digital art history as a subfield Candidates who would like to be considered for this opportunity should apply to the MA in Digital Art History & Computational Media and express their explicit interest in their application for pursuing advanced work in an art history and visual studies PhD program. For questions, contact paul.jaskot(a)duke.edu<mailto:paul.jaskot@duke.edu?subject=Kress%20Fellowship%20in%20DAH>. View this announcement online<http://www.dukewired.org/2019-dah-grad-fellowship/>. --- Hannah L. Jacobs Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab | she/her/hers Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University hannah.jacobs(a)duke.edu 919-660-6563 dukewired.org @dukewired fb.com/wiredduke

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Digital and Practical Epigraphy/EpiDoc training (London)
by Gabriel Bodard 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

We invite applications for a six-day training workshop in digital and practical epigraphy at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 29 April – 4 May 2019. The workshop will be organised by Gabriel Bodard (ICS) and Katherine McDonald (Exeter), with additional training provided by Charlotte Tupman (Exeter), Charles Crowther (Oxford), Valeria Vitale (ICS) and Caroline Barron (Birkbeck). There will be no charge for the workshop. There will be a limited number of bursaries available to assist students and other unfunded scholars with the costs of travel and accommodation, provided by the AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellowship ‘Connectivity and Competition’ (PI Katherine McDonald). The focus of the workshop will be on skills for Greek and Latin epigraphy, including squeeze-making, photogrammetry, reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), and EpiDoc. EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a community of practice, recommendations and tools for the digital editing and publication of ancient texts based on TEI XML. No expert computing skills are required, but a working knowledge of Greek/Latin or other ancient language, epigraphy, and the Leiden Conventions will be assumed. The workshop is open to participants of all levels, from graduate students to professors and professionals. Although the focus is on Greek and Latin epigraphy, we welcome applications from those in other adjacent fields. To apply for a place on this workshop please email k.l.mcdonald(a)exeter.ac.uk by *Friday 15 February 2019,* including the following information: a brief description of your reason for interest your relevant background and experience if you would like to request a bursary, an estimate how much you would need. If you have any questions before applying, please don’t hesitate to contact Katherine (k.l.mcdonald(a)exeter.ac.uk) or Gabby (gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk). == 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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Manuscript Studies_ Announcements and CFP
by Ransom, Lynn 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

The editors of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania are pleased to make the following announcements: * The Fall 2018 is out! Abstracts are available here: https://mss.pennpress.org/current-issue-abstracts/ * We are seeking peer-reviewed article submissions for the Spring 2020 issue and beyond. Articles for possible publication in the Spring 2020 should be submitted no later than June 1, 2019. * Non-peer reviewed Annotations can be submitted up to February 1, 2019 for the Spring 2019 issue. Annotations submitted after that date are eligible for publication in Fall 2019 and beyond. * Thanks to a generous agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press, all Articles and Annotations in Manuscript Studies are made available for open access after one year from the date of publication. Articles and Annotations from Vol. 2:2 are now available for downloading on Penn's Scholarly Commons repository. To access the pdfs, go to: http://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims/ Manuscript Studies brings together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. This peer-reviewed journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We publish articles that engage in a larger conversation on manuscript culture and its continued relevance in today's world and highlight the value of manuscript evidence in understanding our shared cultural and intellectual heritage. Studies that incorporate digital methodologies to further understanding of the physical and conceptual structures of the manuscript book are encouraged. A separate section, entitled Annotations, features research in progress and digital project reports. For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. For direct inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact the editors at sims-mss(a)pobox.upenn.edu<mailto:sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu> .

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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. To post to this group, send an email to DMedievalist(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/DMedievalist/163360d6ee0a4b4ca950c6a449a2…. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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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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