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DH@Madrid Summer School 3-5 July, also online!
by Elena González-Blanco 24 May '17

24 May '17

Dear colleagues,We are pleased to inform you that from July 3rd to 5th, 2017, LINHD UNED will host the 4th DH@Madrid Summer School: “Semantic Technologies and Linguistic Tools for Digital Humanities”.This year’s DH Summer School is also part of the activities led by the ERC POSTDATA project. The course is sponsored by the CLARIN-ERIC European infrastructure and brings together a varied group of leading international experts in Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing and language technologies.Our Summer School will be of special interest for humanists focused in digital research methods applied to the humanities. It can be followed online or delayed, and in face-to-face classroom mode.Discounts are available for students, unemployed people and members of Spanish DH associations.More information and registration: http://linhd.es/en/p/dh-summer-2017-lang-en/ Elena González-Blanco & Gimena del RíoLINHD --- Queridos amigos,Nos complace anunciaros que del 3 al 5 de julio de 2017 se llevará a cabo en la UNED el curso de verano de este año: “Tecnologías semánticas y herramientas lingüísticas para Humanidades Digitales”. Este curso, que cuenta con la colaboración de importantes expertos internacionales en Humanidades Digitales, tecnología semántica y procesamiento del lenguaje, constituye la cuarta edición de la DH@Madrid Summer School. Este año cuenta además con dos importantes patrocinadores, pues forma parte de las actividades del proyecto ERC POSTDATA, y además está patrocinado por la infraestructura europea CLARIN. Está dirigido a todos aquellos interesados en métodos digitales de investigación aplicados a las humanidades, y centrado principalmente en personas con formación humanística. El curso de este año se centra en la enseñanza de herramientas y tecnologías del lenguaje, en general, y más particularmente en tecnologías semánticas que puedan utilizarse en proyectos de investigación. Puede seguirse de forma presencial, semipresencial, o completamente online en directo o en diferido desde cualquier lugar del mundo.Los estudiantes, miembros de asociaciones hispánicas de HD y personas en paro cuentan además con descuentos especiales. Más información en: http://linhd.es/p/dh-summer-2017-es/ ¡Os esperamos!Elena González-Blanco y Gimena del RíoLINHD

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Fw: «Mirabile» Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Fellowships in Digital Humanities, deadline July 15, 2017
by Georg Vogeler 22 May '17

22 May '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Application: «Mirabile» Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Fellowships in Digital Humanities, deadline July 15, 2017 Datum: Sat, 20 May 2017 08:34:54 +0000 Von: Micrologus <micrologus-microloguslibrary(a)unil.ch> An: Micrologus <micrologus-microloguslibrary(a)unil.ch> Application: «Mirabile» Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Fellowships in Digital Humanities, deadline July 15, 2017 Mirabile. Digital Archive for Latin Medieval Culture www.mirabileweb.it -- ------------------------------------- Professor Dr. Georg Vogeler Chair for Digital Humanities Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Universität Graz A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstraße 59/III Tel. +43 316 380 8033 <http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at> - <http://gams.uni-graz.at> Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de> International Center for Archival Research ICARus <http://www.icar-us.eu> -- ------------------------------------- Professor Dr. Georg Vogeler Chair for Digital Humanities Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Universität Graz A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstraße 59/III Tel. +43 316 380 8033 <http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at> - <http://gams.uni-graz.at> Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de> International Center for Archival Research ICARus <http://www.icar-us.eu>

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Rochester Cultural Heritage Imaging
by Helen Davies 18 May '17

18 May '17

Dear all, (apologies for cross-posting) The new collaboration between RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) and the University of Rochester that is now named "Rochester Cultural Heritage Imaging, Visualization, and Education" ("R-CHIVE") will be holding a small conference on 6/19-20th (6/19 at RIT, Tuesday 6/20 at the UR). The conference is intended to stimulate interest in the growing and important field of imaging to recover cultural heritage. The general areas of focus of the conference are best practice for imaging of cultural heritage and how studies of materials (parchment, papyrus, and ink) can help in the imaging and image processing. Confirmed speakers include Ira Rabin of Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing in Berlin and the Center for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg, Chet Van Duzer, NEH-Mellon Fellow at the U.S. Library of Congress, and Michael Phelps of the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library. Everyone who is interested in the field is invited to attend. The conference has a small registration fee of $10 for students and $30 for faculty and staff to cover costs. Register at the "Conference" tab at www.r-chive.net Feel free to contact Helen Davies (hdavies2(a)ur.rochester.edu ) with any questions. For a sneak peak of the kind of things we will be discussing at the conference: https://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_heyworth_how_i_m_discovering_the_secrets_… Thank you, Helen Davies PhD Student University of Rochester Department of English

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Latest blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 06 May '17

06 May '17

My latest blogpost, about an unstudied Book of Hours at the New Bedford Public Library, also includes a step-by-step primer on working with Books of Hours. https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/manuscript-road-trip-th… 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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CfP: The Library: Spaces of Thought and Knowledge Systems, 41. Cologne Mediaevistentagung, September 10-14, 2018
by Franz Fischer 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

[Fwd from Prof Andreas Speer, Thomas Institut, University of Cologne] Call for Papers (deadline: August 15, 2017) English version below (and at http://kmt.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/10209.html) French version: http://kmt.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/10210.html German version: http://kmt.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/10208.html 41. Cologne Mediaevistentagung, September 10-14, 2018 The Library: Spaces of Thought and Knowledge Systems In the digital era, the experience of what a library once was seems to slip away slowly but unstoppably: the library meant access to a substantial, yet limited amount of books, which were available only at a certain place, at a certain time and under certain conditions. It was a collection subject to certain criteria, which required a reasonable and steady order to enable finding anything there. All of these limitations concerning the immediate access to books are increasingly removed by global search engines and comprehensive search algorithms. We experience every day in which way our reading and working conditions are practically altered by this. Which consequences this might have for our conceptions of knowledge and research is, however, at best only vaguely apparent. Thus, making the Library topic of a Mediaevistentagung is supposed to reveal some generalities regarding the relation between the library and knowledge, which might facilitate our reflection on current changes as well as on conditions and mechanisms of knowledge in general. This may be achieved by studying the question of how libraries in their various forms fit into and affected intellectual processes and their social and material conditions. For this purpose – and according to the framework of our conference –, we look upon a millennium in which libraries played a crucial role in passing on knowledge across linguistic and cultural borders. Libraries were places of thinking, writing, translating, and copying. A library is not merely a cluster of books which are waiting for their users. Libraries are spaces of thought and institutions of organized knowledge. They reflect the questions of their times and preserve them for the future. Thus, they are privileged spaces of participation in knowledge, to which we contribute with the books we write ourselves. Early on, those knowledge carriers were treasured in places in which they could be stored, studied, and reproduced. Those places were archives of all kinds and, above all, libraries. According to their size and conception, they have since granted access to a certain and at the same time limited amount of knowledge carriers: may it be scrolls, documents, manuscripts, books, microfilms or databases. The concept of a library shows the interdependence of conceptual and material culture, the interweaving of the history of knowledge and institutional context conditions. At the outset of every considerable movements of knowledge reception are books or text corpora. In this context, libraries are spaces of thought which, on the one hand, reflect concepts and, on the other, enable them in the first place. Many knowledge systems originate from library practice, which can itself – implicitly or explicitly – be an expression of a theoretically established knowledge system, which again becomes accessible only through this practical knowledge. Thus, there is a broad basis for an interdisciplinary approach to the conference’s topic. Without intending to be exhaustive, some questions shall be addressed in the following. (i) First, there is the question of how libraries emerge and decline: Where do they exist? Who owns them? Who establishes them? How is the material collected? Where do the books come from? What are their values? How does the collection develop over time? How do storage, arrangement, and utilization of the material take place? Who are the users? Which rules must be followed in using the material? Who monitors this and how? What do the users do with or to the books under certain circumstances, e.g., read them, copy them, gloss them, damage them, steal them…? When and how are catalogues prepared? According to which systems? Are libraries at certain points purposely reconstructed? For which reasons? What are the reasons for the loss of libraries? (ii) In this context, the question of how contemporaries perceive and describe libraries arises. For which purposes are they visited? Who is allowed to visit them? Who is not? What does a visit to the library look like? Is there an awareness of the specific features of a certain library? Are there descriptions of experiences concerning a certain library, its richness or its shortcomings? (iii) Closely related to this is the image of a library: How are libraries depicted in literary texts and paintings – actually existing ones, on the one hand, and stereotype, fictional, or imagined ones on the other? Which mental experiences (insight, epiphany, conversion, boredom) are connected to libraries? What does the layout of a library (e.g., chest, lectern, rooms, buildings) and of its books (e.g., covers, illumination) tell us about their meaning and the perceptions of their owners? And last, which perceptions and wishes shape the (actualized as well as not actualized) planning of a library? (iv) Libraries, as text ensembles, are not necessarily bound to a certain place or a specific material form. We reconstruct immaterial libraries and, in doing so, investigate what an author might have read, which sources were available to a reader, and what a nowadays lost library might have looked like at a certain time. The digital era further opens new possibilities for the creation of ideal libraries that, concerning their claim to completeness and their presence, exceed their historical paragons by far and thus open new, unprecedented perspectives for research. At this, the reconstruction of the library of an author does not only represent his intellectual cosmos, but also provides an insight into his ways of doing research, his search for specific texts, their selection and compilation as well as the observed gaps, which were then filled by their own productions. (v) Further, classifications, reading guides, lectionaries, and establishing systems essentially belong to the library. Regarding, for instance, the Aristotelian and Platonic text corpora (although these are certainly not the only ones), it becomes apparent that libraries and scientific classifications are closely linked. There are libraries for scholastic and mystical theology, for physicians, lawyers, and astronomers. That way, a canon is established, taught, transmitted, transformed, and replaced. (vi) Moreover, libraries are the basis for intertextuality. They thereby demand certain skills of the reader. How is this particular knowledge imparted? Do libraries feature a ‘common core’ for the discourse across fields of expertise? To what extent do libraries influence the reading and quoting habits of their users? (vii) In terms of disciplinarity, the topic encompasses different realms, which – according to the type of library considered – may occur separately or in conjunction: monastic libraries, university libraries, court libraries as well as the libraries of professors (e.g., Amplonius), of physicians (e.g., Arnaldus de Villa Nova), of academic prelates (e.g., Nicholas of Cusa), of writers (e.g., Richard de Fournival, who, among other things, composed a Biblionomia), of councilmen, rabbis, and travelling scholars reflect the interests of their users and the collectors. Various aspects also emerge by including Byzantine culture, Jewish tradition, and the Islamic world, with their often quite different conditions, for instance, the notable dominance of private libraries. (vii) Libraries have always been places of media transfer: form scrolls to parchment to paper, from manuscripts to letterpress to digital storage media. Transfer processes, however, always involve the danger of losing something. Only rarely are collections entirely transferred from one medium to another. Certain technical and social changes can be observed through the prism of the library, such as the introduction of paper, of letterpress, or of the increasing vernacular literature (also in the sciences). How is this media change and transfer addressed? What does it mean for the collection of a library? Like always, the Cologne Mediaevistentagung aims at the broadest possible interdisciplinary spectrum. Thus, we would like to invite philosophers and theologians, historians and philologists, literary scholars and cultural scientists, art historians and science historians, and so on, to participate with a question from their field of expertise or with an interdisciplinary issue in the 41. Cologne Mediaevistentagung. It is our goal to challenge and reconsider habitual perceptions and opinions and to thereby open up new perspectives. Let me conclude by kindly asking for your topic proposals together with a short abstract (of about 1 page), preferably to be send in by August 15, 2017 (thomas-institut(at)uni-koeln.de). I would be delighted to welcome you personally at the 41. Cologne Mediaevistentagung next year. Please feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues who are not yet listed in our address file or send us the address of those who are possibly interested. Thank you very much! I am looking forward to receiving your proposals and remain with kind regards Cologne, March 2017 Andreas Speer Academic Direction and Organization: Prof. Dr. Andreas Speer (andreas.speer(a)uni-koeln.de) Lars Reuke, M.A. (lreuke1(a)uni-koeln.de) Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln Universitätsstraße 22 D-50923 KÖLN Tel.: +49/(0)221/470-2309 Fax: +49/(0)221/470-5011 Email: thomas-institut(a)uni-koeln.de www.kmt.uni-koeln.de │ www.thomasinst.uni-koeln.de

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Repatriation of Medieval Manuscripts
by Lisa Fagin Davis 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Two manuscripts and a printed book were voluntarily repatriated to Italy today by the Boston Public Library. Here are a few links with details: BPL press release: http://www.bpl.org/press/2017/04/19/boston-public-library-repatriates-histo… Boston Globe article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/19/overdue-library-italian-docume… My latest blogpost, detailing my research on one of the repatriated manuscripts: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/manuscript-road-trip-fl… - 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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Job available for PhD candidate, digital editions, University of Vienna
by Tara L Andrews 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities group at the University of Vienna is looking for a new member! The post is for a Ph.D. candidate who has some experience of the current landscape of digital scholarly editions of text; the ideal candidate will have an interest in the use of digital editions for historical research. She or he will work in collaboration with several universities and institutions of higher education across Austria to build a national infrastructure for digital editions, as part of the KONDE (KOmpetenzNetzwerk Digitale Editionen) project. This is a three-year post, at 75% FTE (which is the Austrian equivalent of full-time for doctoral candidates). The full job posting and instructions for how to apply can be found at the following URL: https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun… <https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun…> Please forward to anyone who may be interested! Best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien

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FSCI Force11 Scholarly Communications Institute July 31-Aug 4 San Diego
by O'Donnell, Dan 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Hi all, This may be of interest to people on this list. We've done our best to ensure that it is multi-disciplinary and there are some real insights to be gained on current trends in Scholarly Communication. Hi all, This may be of interest to many here. There will be some special funding for attendees from the Global South, though we are still working out the mechanism for how the limited funds available will be disbursed (if this might apply to you, contact me directly, and I'll find out what to do about it). [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5e2d2ee75f2d3afd1d39a666d/images/fa17fc67-746…]<http://www.force11.org/FSCI> FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute July 31 to August 4, 2017 UC, San Diego La Jolla CA Courses Selection and Registration Open www.force11.org/fsci<http://www.force11.org/fsci> WHO SHOULD ATTEND Courses have been established for all levels, from absolute beginners to advanced. They are also aimed at different audiences such as: * Researchers * Institution Administrators * Funders * Publishers * Librarians * Students ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FORCE11 (Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship)—a global community of researchers, students, librarians, publishers, funders and scholars interested in the future of scholarship—is pleased to announce the launch of its new annual Summer Institute in Scholarly Communications: the Force 11 Scholarly Communications Institute at the University of California, San Diego (FSCI@UCSD). FSCI@UCSD<http://www.force11.org/fsci> is a week-long program that offers participants training, networking and skills development in new modes of research communication. The UC San Diego Library is hosting the event that will take place at the Institute of the Americas on the UC San Diego Campus. Based on proven models in other disciplines, FSCI@UCSD brings world-leading experts in different aspects of scholarly communication to San Diego to deliver courses that will help participants to navigate this new world. ABOUT FORCE11 FSCI is organised by FORCE11 (The Future of Research Communication and eScholarship) in collaboration with the University of California San Diego. Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that arose organically to study and facilitate new developments in knowledge creation and communication. Membership is open to all who share this interest! Join Today.<https://www.force11.org/help-sustain-force11-donate-today> WWW.FORCE11.ORG<http://www.force11.org/> [U of Lethbridge Logo] [U of Lethbridge Logo] Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English and Associate Member of the University Library Academic Staff Editor, Digital Studies/Le champ num<http://digitalstudies.org/>érique <http://digitalstudies.org/> Vice President, Force 11<http://force11.org> Department of English and University Library University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive West Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell @danielPaulOD #FLCS #FrontDeLibérationDuComicSans

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DayofDH2017 last 2 days to register!
by Elena González-Blanco 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Dear Digital Humanists, This is a last days remainder!!! Just twodays to go! Don’t miss the opportunity to register for the biggest event of theDH Year! The annual Day of Digital Humanities will takeplace on April 20th, 2017, join us here! http://dayofdh2017.linhd.es/ A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities(DayofDH looks at a day in thework life of people involved in digital humanities. Every year it draws peoplefrom across the world together to document, with text and image, the events andactivities of their day. The goal of the project is to weave together thejournals of participants into a resource that seeks to answer, “Just what dodigital humanists really do?" This year, the event willbe hosted on behalf of centerNet at the Laboratorio deInnovación en Humanidades Digitales de la UNED (LINHD) in Madrid and co-organized by HDCAYCIT, Argentina. For this reason, we want to innovate and make the daymore collaborative. We will boost multilingual participation and groupcooperative activities. We ask you to organize parallel activities todisseminate DH on that date and to use the digital platform to disseminatethem. We also ask you to disseminate broadly the DayofDH website. Best regards and enjoy the Dayofdh2017! Elena González-Blanco Gimena del Rio And all the LINHD team http://linhd.uned.es Twitter: @dayofdh and #dayofDH ---- Queridos humanistas digitales, Este es el último recordatorio, no perdáisla oportunidad de participar en el evento anual de las Humanidades Digitales,el DayofDH 2017, que tendrá lugar el 20 de abril! Quedan solo dos días pararegistraros y contarnos lo que hacéis en HD, cómo las definís y cuáles sonvuestros proyectos! Hacedlo aquí: http://dayofdh2017.linhd.es/ Por tercer año consecutivo el LINHD, con lacolaboración de HD CAICYT, organiza el dayofdh2017. Como todos saben, el DayofDH es un proyecto que busca reflejar la un día en la vida y en eltrabajo del humanista digital. Es un evento que cada año atrae personas de losdiferentes puntos del planeta para documentar, mediante texto e imágenes, susactividades. La finalidad del proyecto es unir las contribuciones de losparticipantes en un único recurso que busca contestar la pregunta de “¿Quéhacen exactamente los humanistas digitales?”. Es nuestra intención que la plataforma delDayofDH de cuenta de la participación de la mayor cantidad de interesados enlas HD y que sea realmente un encuentro global. Por ello, además de animarlos aque organicen actividades presenciales para la difusión de las HD, que generensus perfiles e intercambien opiniones con colegas de todo el mundo desde elsitio del DayofDH, y desde allí se sumen a las actividades virtuales queorganizaremos, queremos invitarlos a que auspicien el evento. Por un lado, les pedimos que desdela asociación difundan el uso del sitio del DayofDH, que participenactivamente de él o propongan alguna actividad, como posteo de noticias, etc.Todas las sugerencias son bienvenidas. En la landing page del sitio pondríamoscada uno de los logos de las asociaciones que apoyan y auspician elevento. ¡Esperamos contar con vuestraparticipación! Elena y Gimena Elena González-Blanco Gimena del Rio And all the LINHD team http://linhd.uned.es Twitter: @dayofdh and#dayofDH

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Latest blogpost: manuscript leaves in the heartland
by Lisa Fagin Davis 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

My latest, on Otto Ege's relationship with the Lima Public Library: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/manuscript-road-trip-ba… - 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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