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Digital Scriptorium News and Survey
by Ransom, Lynn 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. Our website unites scattered resources from many institutions into a national digital platform for teaching and scholarly research. It serves to connect an international user community to multiple repositories by means of a digital union catalog with sample images and searchable metadata. DS has valiantly served manuscript researchers around the world since it was launched in 1997. However, as online technology has changed dramatically since then and digitization has become the norm rather than the exception, DS's Executive Board is undertaking a strategic planning initiative to address the future of DS and what needs to be done to ensure its critical contribution to manuscript studies on a national and global level. As part of this process, we would like to get your input on the current DS platform and your suggestions for ways that DS might improve in any aspect. To this end, we invite you to complete a short survey (5-10 mins) to help us determine how DS is used, what works and what doesn't, and who uses it and why. The survey can be accessed through this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FHWWVK9 or by going to the DS website go to: http://www.digital-scriptorium.org/. Thanks in advance for your help! The DS Executive Board: Debra Taylor Cashion (St. Louis University), Executive Director & President Janine Pollock (Free Library of Philadelphia), Vice President Lynn Ransom (University of Pennsylvania Libraries), Secretary E. C. Schroeder (Beinecke Library, Yale University), Treasurer Lynne Grigsby (UC-Berkeley), Technology Host Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University), Director at Large Vanessa Wilkie (The Huntington Library), Director at Large Cherry Williams (UC-Riverside), Director at Large To learn more about DS, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Scriptorium.

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5 Data Science (of which one Digital Humanities) PhD positions at the University of Vienna
by Tara L Andrews 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Dear colleagues, I’d like to take this opportunity to announce some open positions at the University of Vienna, one of which is dedicated explicitly to Digital Humanities. Please forward to any likely candidates! Best wishes, Tara Andrews Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien *** Starting Date: May 1st, 2018 Application deadline: April 30th, 2018 Duration: 3 years http://datascience.univie.ac.at Job ad: https://tinyurl.com/ds-UniVie Data Science @ Uni Wien 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. We have openings for five enthusiastic PhD students to establish an interdisciplinary research environment. The PhD students will be hosted in one of the faculties of Computer Science, Mathematics, or Business, Economics and Statistics. Each of the PhD students will be co-supervised by members of at least two different faculties and work on research problems in one of five domains, Astronomy, Digital Humanities, Finance, Industry 4.0, Medical Sciences. The focus in these areas is described as follows: Astronomy is currently undergoing a data deluge with multiwavelength missions on earth and space. The focus of the PhD project in this area is the development of algorithmic and visual analysis techniques for the Gaia mission data, an ambitious ESA satellite currently charting a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy with accurate positions and velocities of about 2 billion stars. The student will focus on large data exploration and data analysis to tackle astrophysical questions, making use of Data Science tools. The Digital Humanities area will have a particular focus on digital historical studies. The student will focus on the development of suitable data models for information about historical people and cultures that is harvested from the digitisation of texts and artifacts. Another goal will be to look at how these models, and machine learning techniques that make use of them, will coexist with the interpretative critical frameworks through which historical analysis is usually done. Potential topics in the area of Finance are visual analysis tools for the analysis of volatility, liquidity and market microstructure relations based on large cross-sections of limit order book data. A second area will focus on the development and application of dimension reduction techniques for high-dimensional dependence and network structures. Among others, further topics will be the development of monitoring tools to analyze market dynamics around singular events. In Industry 4.0, the production process in a shop floor consisting of cyber-physical production systems produces huge amount of data. In addition a current trend in modern societies is the increased need in personalized products. This aspect increases the number of different product variants and results in smaller lot-sizes, which leads to a higher complexity and to dynamic processes. In such dynamic environments exceptions and disruptions are frequent and often lead to unforeseen situations and possibly negative consequences. Hence, the PhD position focuses on detecting dynamic process changes or unexpected disruptions early by exploiting the available data. Moreover, strategies to avoid negative impacts whenever such disruptions occur have to be developed. Such strategies may apply predictive methods for planning in advance or adopt real-time planning approaches with the aim to revise the original plans quickly. In the area of Medical Sciences the goal is to develop new data analysis methods supporting an integrative view on information originating from different sources including medical imaging, genetic data, clinical biomarkers and demographic data. We will particularly focus on clustering methods supporting the stratification of patient collectives with the long term goal of personalized medicine. As applications we will consider Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer. Applications including: - Letter of motivation that clarifies the candidate’s particular domain(s) of interest and the target phd programme - Curriculum vitae - List of publications - Evidence of teaching experience (if available) - Degree certificates should be submitted via the Job Center to the University of Vienna (http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at) no later than Apr 30th, 2018, mentioning reference number 8347._______________________________________________ DS-Board mailing list DS-Board(a)lists.univie.ac.at https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/ds-board

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MAA2019 CFP: Digitizing the Global Middle Ages
by Ransom, Lynn 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Dear friends, The 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held in Philadelphia on the University of Pennsylvania campus from March 7-9, 2019. The overall theme of the conference is "The Global Turn in Medieval Studies." As a co-chair of the organizing committee, I would especially like to invite members of the dm- list to propose papers or sessions relating to the thread "Digitizing the Global Middle Ages: Practices, Sustainability, and Ethics." While this thread can be broadly interpreted, our aim is to further conversations on the role and value of digitization in the preservation of our shared cultural heritage and on the practices and ethics of digitizing across cultural and geographic boundaries. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please consult the CFP, available here: www.medievalacademy.org/page/2019Meeting<http://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2019Meeting>. Individuals or groups may propose a poster, paper, full session, roundtable or workshop. Membership in the Medieval Academy is required to present at the conference, but special consideration will be given to individuals whose fields would not traditionally involve membership in the Medieval Academy. Proposals are due June 15, 2018. Please feel free to distribute this announcement to other lists that may have interested members. And please don't hesitate to contact me or any member of the organizing committee (names appear on CFP) if you have questions. Best, Lynn ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Curator of Programs, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies schoenberginstitute.org Project Director, The New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/ Co-Editor, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies mss.pennpress.org The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851

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Latest Blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Medieval manuscripts at Miami University of Ohio, and an Ege trove in a private Cincinnati collection: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/manuscript-road-trip-mi… - 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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Digital Philology 6.2
by Albert Lloret 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Dear All, The new issue of Digital Philology is finally out! Guest-edited by Mark Chinca and Christopher Young (University of Cambridge), DPh 6.2 is devoted to "Medieval Studies and Digital Philology in the German-Speaking World." It includes contributions by: Martin Baisch (Universität Hamburg) Hannah Busch (Universität Trier) and Philipp Hegel (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Veit Probst (Universität Heidelberg) Astrid Breith (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) Ramona Fritschi (Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne) Michael Stolz (Universität Bern) Mark Chinca and Christopher Young (University of Cambridge) Check out the TOC here: http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/38200 <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmuse.jhu.edu%2Fissue%2F38200&h= ATPwDpwy1I1n5A5oNfHveRYi96gOtcUiMcUhNqb1k7Zu-gAq5-sQhobAyNdywBZgxWt2cvY7L8Su YsHmPD-Vd3DA9Q5KG__jc-rSUed_X5gAuqu1DXRj4c9mRr8v1n9gwkt-dj0> Best, Albert Albert Lloret, Ph.D. Managing Editor, Digital Philology Associate Professor of Spanish and Catalan Graduate Program Director, Spanish and Portuguese University of Massachusetts Amherst

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PhD Opportunity in Digital Human Science and Design at Stockholm University
by J Love 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear Colleagues, A funded PhD position on Digital Human Science and Design is being offered here at Stockholm University. https://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/phd?rmpage=job&rmjob=5020&rml… It is part of a newly formed Digital Human Science group, and we are currently looking for a promising student to join our ranks. Please forward this notice to anyone you might think interested. The application deadline is just under a couple of weeks from now (15 April). Regards, Jeff Love -- Bað Þorsteinn þá eigi fela sik, "því at ek kann at gera þann hulinshjálm, at mik sér engi." Goðmundr segir þat góða kunnáttu. Thorstein told them there was no need for them to hide him. 'I can make myself a helmet of invisibility so nobody can see me' he said. Godmund said this was a useful skill to have. (Þorsteins Þáttr Bæjarmagns, ch. 5)

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CfP 'Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age' (Ghent, 17-18 Sept 2018)
by Els De Paermentier 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

Dear colleague, We are writing you this e-mail in the supposition that you might be interested in the International Conference "The Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age" that we are organizing at Ghent University from 17-18 September 2018. The Call for Papers is attached to this e-mail, and the confirmed speakers can be found below. For detailed information, please visit our website: www.mcda.ugent.be. We would be very grateful if you would consider submitting a proposal with a provisional title by the 10th of May. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us. Sincerely, ORGANISING COMMITTEE — J. De Gussem, E. De Paermentier, J. Deploige, V. Fraeters, M. Kestemont, W. Verbaal, D. Wouters ACADEMIC BOARD — J. Deploige, M. Kestemont, L. Mortensen, F. Stella, K. van Dalen-Oskam, W. Verbaal, F. Willaert ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers International Conference “The Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age” Ghent University, 17–18 September 2018 We invite submission of abstracts for the international conference “The Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age,” to be held at Ghent University from 17-18 September 2018. An often repeated promise of the digital humanities, in the wake of the “computational turn,” is that the wide availability and accessibility of historical texts would enable scholars to breach the restrictions of a literary canon. The present international conference wishes to explore how exactly the digital humanities can provide such insights for medieval studies, in which such a promise raises critical questions. (1) In spite of the computational turn, much of the digital scholarship for the Middle Ages still seems to hinge on well-conserved and therefore well-known theological and literary authorities, whose texts have been reproduced continuously in subsequent editions and translations. To what extent does today’s computational research manage to escape the straitjacket of the traditional canon? (2) Considering that in the past decades, medieval scholars have become increasingly sensitive to the materiality of textual transmission in the Middle Ages, the virtual, normative and reductive character of a digital environment are not always compatible to their research interests. As the emancipation of the digital humanities from their merely supportive role is proclaimed increasingly, and as the tools for digital medieval studies proliferate (e.g. digital scholarly editing, computational stylistics, digital palaeography, digital stemmatology, ...), this conference welcomes papers —based on either case studies or broader research questions— that both problematize the specialized character of medieval literary production and demonstrate the potential for computational criticism to “breach” or “widen” the medieval canon through digital tools. Full details on the topic and discussion of the conference are available on the conference website http://www.mcda.ugent.be. The conference, to which we will accept 8 scholars in addition to the confirmed speakers (cfr. infra) will consist exclusively of plenary sessions, with ample time for discussion. The conference committee encourages proposal submissions by both established and junior researchers. Please send abstracts (ca. 300 words) and a five line biography via email to Jeroen De Gussem (jedgusse.degussem(a)UGent.be) by the 10th of May. Participants will receive a notification concerning the acceptance of their application by the end of May. We expect from our applicants that they have the ability of covering their own travel costs. Accepted speakers are offered lunches and an invitation to our conference dinner. Accepted speakers from abroad (any country other than Belgium) will also be offered up to 3 hotel nights in Ghent. The following invited speakers have confirmed their participation: Godfried Croenen (University of Liverpool) / Maciej Eder(Pedagogical University of Kraków) / Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago) / Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan) / Karina van Dalen-Oskam (University of Amsterdam) / David J. Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi) Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the organisers. Sincerely, ORGANISING COMMITTEE — J. De Gussem, E. De Paermentier, J. Deploige, V. Fraeters, M. Kestemont, W. Verbaal, D. Wouters ACADEMIC BOARD — J. Deploige, M. Kestemont, L. Mortensen, F. Stella, K. van Dalen-Oskam, W. Verbaal, F. Willaert

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium, (Today & Tomorrow) Livestream information
by Kristen Mapes 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

*Global Digital Humanities Symposium* *March 22-23, 2018* Michigan State University msuglobaldh.org #msuglobaldh Join in virtually! The event will be livestreamed at http://go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its third 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. *Program and Schedule (all times EDT)* Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 1:00-1:30 - Opening Remarks - 1:30-2:10 - Infrastructure for the Digital (Lightning Talks) - Introducing the Oxford-BYU Syriac Corpus: An Archive for the Preservation of Syriac Texts, James Walters, Rochester College - Bringing Arabic-Language Scholarly Content Online: An Investigation, John Kiplinger and Anne Ray, JSTOR - The Humanities Scholars Today: New Directions for Academic Libraries in Nigeria, Yetunde Zaid and Adebambo Oduwole, University of Lagos and Lagos State University, Nigeria - Digital Analysis of poetic themes in Mirza Ghalib, Syed Affan Aslam and Abdul Wahid Khan, Habib University - 3:00-3:40 - Pedagogy in/of the Digital (Lightning Talks) - Mapping Lusofonia: Integrating GIS Instruction into Foreign Language Curricula, Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Joshua Sadvari, and Maria Scheid, Ohio State University - Toward a Rubric-Based Assessment of Global Digital Tools and Pedagogies: Taking a closer look at Mandarin Tone Learning Apps, Yilang Zhao and Catherine Ryu, MSU - Tuning in: A Digital Soundscape of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Benjamin Fuhrman and Catherine Ryu, MSU - Beyond the Classroom: Maps, Texts and Multimedia to Make Visible the Afro Presence in Argentina, Marisol Fila, University of Michigan - Storytelling and Social Media: Tackling the Digital Divide, Autumn Painter and Marcy O’Neil, MSU - 4:30-5:30 - Keynote, Lisa Nakamura, "Racial Empathy Machine: Discourses of Virtual Reality in America After Trump" - 5:30-7:30 - Reception Friday, March 23, 2018 - 9:00-10:30 - Environmental DH Panel - Supporting Research, Public Engagement, and Learning Through Environmentally Focused Digital Humanities, Jamie Rogers, Florida International University - #EcoDH: Global Environmental Digital Humanities, Amanda Starling Gould, libi rose striegl, Craig Dietrich, Ted Dawson, Max Symuleski, Duke University, UC Boulder, Occidental College, and Vanderbilt - 11:00-12:15 - Creating Community - Colonial Pasts and Techno-Utopian Futures, Dhanashree Thorat, University of Kansas - Exploring Culture and Identity using Linked Open Data and the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA), Taylor Wiley (presenting), Joshua Wells, Eric Kansa, Kelsey Noack Myers, and R. Carl DeMuth, Indiana University South Bend, Open Context, and Indiana University Bloomington - Digital Community Engagement at SIUE: How a Regional University can have a Global Impact, Katherine Knowles and Benjamin Ostermeier, The IRIS Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - Partnering for Digital Publishing: Resurfacing At-Risk Works of the Small, Independent, Feminist Press, Jane Nichols and Elle Bublitz, Oregon State University Libraries and Calyx Press - 12:15-1:30 - Lunch (provided) - 1:30-2:30 - Language and Meaning - Mercator of the Trap: Black Orality and the Naming of Place in the Hip Hop Soundscape, Melissa Brown, University of Maryland - Visualizing Claude McKay’s Black Atlantic, Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University - Urban Language Topographies: Cites as Sites of Language Maintenance, Michelle McSweeney, Columbia University - 3:00-4:15 - Mapping and the Geo-Spatial - West Hollywood Goes Global: Exploring Queer Identity on GeoCities, Sarah McTavish, University of Waterloo - Digital Tools, Grassroots Use: Open Source Mapping Communities and Global Knowledge Production, Ned Prutzer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Migrant Segregation in Victorian England: Geo-Spatial Technologies and Individual-Level Data Harmonisation, James Perry, Lancaster University - 4:45-5:45 - Keynote: Schuyler Esprit, “There, and In This Place”: Caribbean Readers in Public (Digital) Spaces - 5:45-6:00 - Closing remarks Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Coordinator College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Registration open for new PARTHENOS eHumanities and eHeritage Webinars April 2018
by Ulrike.Wuttke＠gmx.net 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

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Samewords: a tool for word disambiguation in critical editions
by Michael Stenskjær Christensen 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

Dear all (with the familiar apologies for cross-posting), I would like to let the list know of a tool that might relieve the textual critic of a few grey hairs. If you have tried making critical editions in LaTeX with the wonderful Reledmac package (https://ctan.org/pkg/reledmac), you will know that it incorporates a feature for handling references to one of several instances of a given word in the same line. The challenge is that these potentially conflicting identical words need to be annotated before the .tex file is compiled, and it is therefore generally done manually. This is painstaking work, and even small changes in layout may require a revision of the whole text to check for new potentially ambiguous words. So I am working on a script that does this for you. It currently lives at https://github.com/stenskjaer/samewords. You can see more in the documentation at http://samewords.readthedocs.io/. I have worked on it intermittently for a longer period now, and it generally runs well and handles stuff that I throw at it rather well. But it is still a younger tool, and is therefore also still moving towards a 1.0 version. Although I have tried putting it through as many different possible and impossible scenarios as I can think of, there may still be some cases that it does not handle correctly. So if you try it and find any problems, either in usability or the results it spits out, please let me know, either via email or (preferably) an issue on Github. If you should have any other comments, feedback or thoughts, or just find the solution useful I am of course all ears. All the best, Michael S. Christensen [R&R] <http://representationandreality.gu.se/> Michael Stenskjær Christensen<mailto:michaelsc@hum.ku.dk> • PhD-student<http://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/345119> Representation and Reality<http://representationandreality.gu.se/> • University of Gothenburg<http://www.gu.se/english> Department of Greek and Latin<http://saxo.ku.dk/> • University of Copenhagen<http://www.ku.dk/>

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