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DM Community Survey and Executive Board Elections (last reminder)
by Lavrentev Alexey 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Dear Digital Medievalists, The DM Executive Board organizes a survey in order to better understand the interests and the expectations of the DM community. The results of the survey will determine the priorities of the new Executive Board. Please use the following link to participate in the survey: https://goo.gl/JFSkPQ We would also like to remind you that the vote for the DM Board Elections is open until *12 July 2016 23:59 GMT*. This is *Tuesday* (and not Thursday as mistakenly announced in previous emails). To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l at uleth.ca> (Follow <https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/mailing-list/> to join). To vote, use the link and the voting token that have been sent to the email address that you have used to register to DM. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ ++++++++++++++++++ If you have not received your voting link and token, please, email the returning officers directly at alexei.lavrentev [at] ens-lyon.fr or emiliano.degli.innocenti [at] gmail.com. ++++++++++++++++++ 2016-2018 CANDIDATES (in alphabetical order by surname): - Alberto Campagnolo - Franz Fischer - Torsten Hiltmann - Mike Kestemont - Gene Lyman - Lynn Ransom - Georg Vogeler

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DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDITIONS AS INTERFACES (23-24/9/2016 Graz, University)
by Georg Vogeler 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

=== DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDITIONS AS INTERFACES (23-24/9/2016 Graz University) === = Programme: https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/aktuelles/digital-scholarly… = = Registration: http://goo.gl/forms/lmSHeYgodMf5owOv1 = Dear list, the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz is inviting to a two days sympoisum on DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDTIONS AS INTERFACES which is kindly endorsed by DiXiT. The symposium will discuss the relationship between digital scholarly editing and interfaces by bringing together experts of DSEs and Interface Design, editors and users of editions, web designers and developers. It will include the discussion of (graphical/user) interfaces of DSEs as much as conceptualizing the digital edition itself as an interface. Keynote Speakers are Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) and Stan Ruecker (IIT Institute of Design). Please find attached the details about dates and venue, the link to the registration form and the official programme. Best wishes, Georg Vogeler (on behalf of the organising committee) *DETAILS:* Date: 23.9.2016 - 24.9.2016 Venue: Karl-Franzens-Universit; RESOWI Building, Room 15.1; Universitätsplatz 3, 8010 Graz (Austria) Hosted by: Centre for Information Modelling – Graz University Programme chair: Georg Vogeler, Professor of Digital Humanities Endorsed by: Dixit * * *REGISTRATION IS OPEN:* Please fill out the form: http://goo.gl/forms/lmSHeYgodMf5owOv1 Registration is free of charge! * * * * *PROGRAMME: * (see also: https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/aktuelles/digital-scholarly…) ** * * ** Programm: *Day 1: Friday, 23.09.2016* 9.00 Welcome *Keynote* 9.30 Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania /What is an Edition anyway? A critical examination of Digital Editions since 2002/ 10.15 Coffee break * * *Session 1: Readability, Reliability, Navigation* 10.30 Ingo Börner, University of Vienna /The navigation of Digital Scholarly Editions - A corpus study/ 11.00 Eugene W. Lyman, Independent Scholar /Digital Scholarly Editions and the Affordances of Reliability/ 11.30 Christopher M. Ohge, University of California, Berkeley /Navigating Readability and Reliability in Digital Documentary Editions: The Case of Mark Twain’s Notebooks/ 12.00 Lunch break * * *Session 2: Visualisation, Typography and Design I* 14.00 Elli Bleeker and Aodhán Kelly, University of Antwerp /Interfacing literary genesis: a digital museum exhibition of Raymond Brulez’ Sheherazade/ 14.30 Hans Walter Gabler, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Joshua Schäuble, University of Passau /Visualising processes of text composition and revision across document borders/ 15.00 Richard Hadden, Maynooth University /More than a pretty picture: network visualisation as an interface for Digital Scholarly Editions/ 15.30 Coffee break * * *Session 3: Visualisation, Typography and Design II* 16.00 Daniel O'Donnell, University of Lethbridge /Let's get nekkid! Stripping the user experience to the bare essentials/ 16.30 Shane A. McGarry, Maynooth University /Bridging the Gap: Exploring Interaction Metaphors That Facilitate Alternative Reading Modalities in Digital Scholarly Editions/ 17.00 Piotr Michura, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow /Typography as interface – typographic design of text visualization for Digital Scholarly Editions/ * * *Keynote* 18.30 Stan Ruecker, IIT Institute of Design /Task-Based Design for Digital Scholarly Editions/ 19:15 Reception *Day 2: Saturday, 24.09.2016* *Session 4: How to program the interface* 9.00 Hugh Cayless, Duke University Libraries /Critical Editions and the Data Model as Interface/ 9.30 Chiara Di Pietro, University of Pisa, and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, University of Turin /Between innovation and conservation: the narrow path of UI design for the Digital Scholarly Edition/ 10.00 Jeffrey C. Witt, Loyola University Maryland /Digital Scholarly Editions as API Consuming Applications/ 10.30 Coffee break * * *Session 5: Theoretical implications* 11.00 Arndt Niebisch, University of Vienna /Post-Human Texts? Reflections on Reading and Processing Digital Editions/ 11.30 Peter Robinson, University of Saskatchewan /Why Interfaces Do Not and Should Not Matter for Scholarly Digital Editions/ 12.00 Tara Andrews, University of Vienna, and Joris van Zundert, Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands /What Are You Trying to Say? The Interface as an Integral Element of Argument/ 12.30 Federico Caria, University of Rome La Sapienza /Evaluating digital scholarly editions: a focus group/ * * *Poster session* 13.00 Narvika Bovcon, Alen Ajanović and Pija Balaban, University of Ljubljana /Designing a graphical user interface for digital scholarly edition of Freising Manuscripts/ Dorothée Goetze and Tobias Tenhaef, Bonn University /APW digital - a Digitized Scholarly Edition/ Elina Leblanc, Grenoble-Alpes University /Thinking About Users and Their Interfaces: The Case of Fonte Gaia Bib/ Lunch break * * *Session 6: User oriented approaches I* 14.30 Christina M. Steiner, Alexander Nussbaumer, Eva-C. Hillemann and Dietrich Albert, Graz University of Technology /User Interface Design and Evaluation in the Context of Digital Humanities and Decision Support Systems/ 15.00 Jan Erik Stange, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam /How close can we get to the reader? Co-creation as a valid approach to developing interfaces for scholarly editions?/ 15.30 Ginestra Ferraro, King's College London, and Anna Maria Sichani, Huygens ING /Design as part of the plan: sustainability in digital editing projects/ 16.00 Coffee break * * *Session 7: User oriented approaches II* 16.30 Stefan Dumont, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften /“Correspondances” Digital Scholarly Editions of Letters as Interfaces/ 17.00 James R. Griffin III, Lafayette College /Encoding and Designing for the Swift Poems Project/ 17.30 Wout Dillen, University of Borås /The Editor in the Interface. Guiding the User through Texts and Images/ 18.00 Closing Frederike Neuber Visiting Researcher | DDH - King's College London Researcher | Centre for Information Modelling - Graz University Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow | DiXiT ITN Web: dixit.uni-koeln.de/ <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de> | informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/en

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CFP _ Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Sponsored Session at 52st International Congress on Medieval Studies
by Ransom, Lynn 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Call for Papers Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Sponsored Session at the 52st International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017 We seek proposals for the following session: Networks of Transmission: Histories and Practices of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts and Documents This session will focus on the mapping of those networks of sale and purchase through which medieval manuscripts have been pursued and on the collectors and collecting that have catalyzed this transmission across the centuries. This session - like The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts itself - is rooted in the belief that studying manuscripts' provenance can have dynamic and profound effects not only on our understanding of these medieval materials as objects to be bought and sold but also on their texts through mapping their circulation and reception. We particularly welcome proposals that explore diverse topics from the role of digital technologies such as the SDBM in conducting provenance research, the relationship between institutional and private ownership of manuscripts, specific case studies of collecting practices, the transatlantic travels of medieval materials, collectors' roles in the dispersal of libraries and the fragmentation of manuscripts, collectors and manuscript preservation, and how a manuscript's provenance history can affect its value and collectability on the rare books market, to how collectors and the act of collecting can shape and influence interpretations of manuscript evidence. Please send proposals with a one-page abstract and Participant Information Form (www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html<http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html>) to Lynn Ransom (lransom(a)upenn.edu<mailto:lransom@upenn.edu> ) by September 1, 2016.

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CfP - SSNM Conference 'Parchment, Paper and Pixels. Medieval Writing and Modern Technology'
by Els De Paermentier 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

**apologies for cross-posting** Second International Conference Parchment, Paper and Pixels. Medieval Writing and Modern Technology Maastricht, The Netherlands, February 2-3, 2017 organized by the working group 'Writing and Writing Practices in the Medieval Low Countries', (Schrift en Schriftdragers in de Nederlanden in the Middeleeuwen - SSNM) in collaboration with Huygens ING and Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg For more information, please visit https://www.historici.nl/nieuws/call-papers-parchment-paper-and-pixels-medi… or see the attached flyer. Best wishes, on behalf of the board of SSNM, Els De Paermentier ---- Prof. dr. Els De Paermentier Universiteit Gent Vakgroep Geschiedenis (Middeleeuwen) St-Pietersnieuwstraat 35 (lok. 120.18) B-9000 Gent T +32.9.331.20.18 research.flw.ugent.be/en/els.depaermentier http://www.pirenne.ugent.be https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/

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VOTE NOW - DM Elections
by Emiliano Degl'Innocenti 05 Jul '16

05 Jul '16

This is a friendly reminder for the DM Elections: Voting for the DM board 2016-2018 OPENS NOW until THU 12 July 2016, 23:59 GMT. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l at uleth.ca> (Follow <https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/mailing-list/> to join). To vote, use the link and the voting token that have been sent to the email address that you have used to register to DM. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ ++++++++++++++++++ If you have not received your voting link and token, please, email the returning officers directly at alexei.lavrentev [at] ens-lyon.fr or emiliano.degli.innocenti [at] gmail.com. ++++++++++++++++++ 2016-2018 CANDIDATES (in alphabetical order by surname): - Alberto Campagnolo - Franz Fischer - Torsten Hiltmann - Mike Kestemont - Gene Lyman - Lynn Ransom - Georg Vogeler ++++++++++++++++++ CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (in alphabetical order by surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of up to 4 votes. ++++++++++++++++++ Alberto Campagnolo Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator (in Spoleto, Italy) and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, e.g. London Metropolitan Archives, St. Catherine?s Monastery (Egypt), and the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library Materials at Ca? Foscari University Venice, and holds an MA in Digital Culture and Technology from King?s College London. He pursued a PhD on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre (University of the Arts, London). He has been working on Semantic Web applications to bookbinding descriptions as DH Research Fellow at Ligatus and, currently, as DH MMW Fellow at the Herzog August Library Wolfenb?ttel. From September 2016, he will be working as a CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Medieval Studies at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC). Alberto has served on the Digital Medievalist board since 2014, first as Deputy Director, and as Director since 2015. ******************* Franz Fischer Franz Fischer has been serving on the Digital Medievalist Executive Board since 2014 and is editor-in-chief of the Digital Medievalist Journal. He is coordinator and researcher at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne. He studied History, Latin and Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre?s treatise on liturgy. From 2008-2011 he created a digital edition of Saint Patrick?s Confessio at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. Franz Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT. He is a founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE), teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE, a series on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE, a review journal on digital editions and resources. ******************* Torsten Hiltmann Torsten Hiltmann studied History, Philosophy and Psychology at the Technical University of Dresden and holds a PhD degree in Medieval History from TU Dresden and the ?cole pratique des hautes ?tudes (EPHE) in Paris (co-tutelle). He collaborated in several database and editorial projects at the German Historical Institute Paris, before he changed to the University of M?nster where he is now a Juniorprofessor for High and Late Medieval History and Auxiliary sciences. He is specialised in medieval manuscripts, courtly culture and visual communication. In his current research project he explores medieval heraldic communication from the perspective of cultural history. In the field of Digital Humanities he focuses on the use of computational methods in auxiliary sciences, with regard to textual as well as visual sources. He is especially interested in semantic web technologies, digital editions and NLP, as well as methodological reflections about DH, and is developing and conducting several projects in these domains. Besides that he is editor of the academic blog ?Heraldica nova?. ******************* Mike Kestemont I enjoy research in computational text and image analysis for the Humanities, in particular for medieval European literature. Authorship attribution and stylistics are my main areas of expertise: in stylometry, we try to design intelligent algorithms which can automatically identify the authors of anonymous texts through the quantitative analysis of individual writing styles. I warmly recommend the documentary about this topic and which we published in the public domain: "Authorship and Stylometry: Hildegard of Bingen" (vimeo.com/70881172). I am an assistant professor (department of literature) at the University of Antwerp and regularly teach workshops on Digital Text Analysis and Programming for the Humanities. Currently, I am co-authoring a monograph on data science for humanists (with Princeton UP) and co-editing a special supplement of Speculum on digital medieval studies. I live in Brussels, code in Python (github.com/mikekestemont), and tweet in English (@Mike_Kestemont). ******************* Gene Lyman After significant service as a senior university administrator in charge of funds development and public outreach, Gene Lyman returned to his first passion ? the scholarly study and promotion of medieval literature. His Ph.D. thesis, University of Virginia, 2009, addressed reconfiguring scholarly editions in digital environments with particular emphasis on how findings in cognitive science can make these editions more reliable and useful than their printed counterparts. Lyman received his B.A. at Yale in the interdisciplinary major, History, the Arts, and Letters. He has presented papers at conferences in North America and Europe on subjects of special importance to digital editorial theory and practice, late medieval scribal practices, Chaucer, and the development of software for display and analysis of scholarly texts. He is currently the Medieval Academy of America's Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair, a Centennial Committee member, and ex officio member of its Executive Committee. He created the Elwood Viewer for the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, where he also an editor. He is currently the Reviews Editor for DM. ******************* Lynn Ransom Lynn Ransom is the Curator of Programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscripts Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Since 2008, she has directed the Schoenberg Database for Manuscripts, which is currently being redeveloped into an online, user-driven, community-maintained tool for the study of the movement of manuscripts across time and geography. She has also been the primary organizer for the Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age since 2008. Prior to coming to Penn, Dr. Ransom has held curatorial and research positions at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and at the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. She received her PhD in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in 13th-century French manuscript illumination in 2001. She has published on the role of imagery in devotional practice from the 13th to the 16th century. ******************* Georg Vogeler I'm a trained medievalist with a specialisation in historical auxiliary sciences. I did my PhD on late medieval tax administration records and my habilitation on the use of the charters of Emperor Frederic II in Italy. Meanwhile I got intreagued with digital methods, started the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), contributed to the technical development of largest charter portal monasterium.net (http://www.monasterium.net, http://github.com/icaruseu/mom-ca), became member of the Institut f?r Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de) and engaged in other fields of digital methods in medieval studies. Finally I ended up as chair for Digital Humanities at the Centre for Information Modelling at Graz University and member of the board of the digital medievalist. In the DM board I try to support those in the front line from the background. If reelected this would not change. But I would hope and try to put effort into, that the DM community can broaden its self perception from people being subscribed to a mailing list to enthusiasts of digital tools applied to medieval studies who are engaged in lots of activities: social media, scholarly publications, conferences, research projects. Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/news/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l --- Emiliano Degl'Innocenti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche DARIAH-IT Communication Officer Skype: emiliano.degli.innocenti Mobile: +393334945358

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Digital Classicist Seminar: Annotating and resolving geographical names in historical sources
by Vitale, Valeria 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Digital Classicist London 2016 Seminar Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday July 8th at 16:30 in room 234 *Chiara Palladino (Leipzig & Bari)* *Annotating and resolving geographical names in historical sources* This seminar will focus on ancient Greek and Roman texts containing geographical information referred to real-world space. These sources challenge our perspective on way-finding and navigation, as the way they interpreted and expressed space was substantially different from ours. We will inspect currently existing strategies for the representation geospatial documents in the digital environment, focusing on the topics of Named Entity Recognition, semi-automatic and geo- annotation. We will highlight existing problems in the encoding of geospatial patterns in ancient geographical descriptions, focusing on what is currently available and what can be done to improve this research. ALL WELCOME Recommended reading: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2016-06cp.html Live screencast: https://youtu.be/Ng4pJNdkRWQ Valeria Vitale PhD candidate King's College London Department of Digital Humanities 26-29 Drury Lane, Boris Karloff Building WC2B 5RL London UK +44(0)7413335591

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Manuscript Studies_ CFP & Forthcoming Issues
by Ransom, Lynn 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

**My sincere apologies to Scott Gwara for omitting his name below and to the list in advance for duplicating a message** Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies aims to bring 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. The editors are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2017 issue. To submit, please send a cover page with your name and contact info, the title of the submission and a short abstract along with your submission to sims-mss(a)pobox.upenn.edu<mailto:sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu>. For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. We are delighted to announce that the first issue is out and available online through Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33571). The Fall 2016 issue will be devoted to histories of collecting and provenance studies, featuring the following contributions: * Megan L. Cook, Joseph Holland and the Idea of the Chaucerian Book * Anne-Marie Eze, "Safe from Destruction by Fire": Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian Manuscripts * Julia Verkholantsev From Sinai to California: The Trajectory of Greek NT Codex 712 from the UCLA Young Research Library's Special Collections (170/347) * Eric Johnson and Scott Gwara, "The Butcher's Bill": Using the Schoenberg Database to Reverse-Engineer Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books from Constituent Fragments * William P. Stoneman, The Linked Collections of William Bragge (1823-1884) of Birmingham and Dr. Thomas Shadford Walker (1834-1885) of Liverpool * Peter Kidd, Medieval Origins Revealed by Modern Provenance: The Case of the Bywater Missal * Lisa Fagin Davis, Canons, Huguenots, Movie Stars, and Missionaries: A Breviary's Journey from Le Mans to Reno * Toby Burrows, Manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps in North American Institutions * Hanno Wijsman, The Bibale Database at the IRHT: A Digital Tool for Researching Manuscript Provenance * Debra Taylor Cashion, Broken Books The Spring 2017 issue, guest-edited by Justin McDaniel, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will be devoted to a survey of major Thai manuscript collections around the world. If you are interested in proposing a special issue for 2018 and beyond, please contact Lynn Ransom, Managing Editor, at lransom(a)upenn.edu<mailto:lransom@upenn.edu>. For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org.

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Manuscript Studies_ CFP & Forthcoming Issues
by Ransom, Lynn 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies aims to bring 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. The editors are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2017 issue. To submit, please send a cover page with your name and contact info, the title of the submission and a short abstract along with your submission to sims-mss(a)pobox.upenn.edu<mailto:sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu>. For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. We are delighted to announce that the first issue is out and available online through Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33571). The Fall 2016 issue will be devoted to histories of collecting and provenance studies, featuring the following contributions: * Megan L. Cook, Joseph Holland and the Idea of the Chaucerian Book * Anne-Marie Eze, "Safe from Destruction by Fire": Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian Manuscripts * Julia Verkholantsev From Sinai to California: The Trajectory of Greek NT Codex 712 from the UCLA Young Research Library's Special Collections (170/347) * Eric Johnson, "The Butcher's Bill": Using the Schoenberg Database to Reverse-Engineer Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books from Constituent Fragments * William P. Stoneman, The Linked Collections of William Bragge (1823-1884) of Birmingham and Dr. Thomas Shadford Walker (1834-1885) of Liverpool * Peter Kidd, Medieval Origins Revealed by Modern Provenance: The Case of the Bywater Missal * Lisa Fagin Davis, Canons, Huguenots, Movie Stars, and Missionaries: A Breviary's Journey from Le Mans to Reno * Toby Burrows, Manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps in North American Institutions * Hanno Wijsman, The Bibale Database at the IRHT: A Digital Tool for Researching Manuscript Provenance * Debra Taylor Cashion, Broken Books The Spring 2017 issue, guest-edited by Justin McDaniel, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will be devoted to a survey of major Thai manuscript collections around the world. If you are interested in proposing a special issue for 2018 and beyond, please contact Lynn Ransom, Managing Editor, at lransom(a)upenn.edu<mailto:lransom@upenn.edu>. For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org.

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Seminar: Rethinking 3D visualisation (Friday July 1)
by Gabriel BODARD 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Digital Classicist London 2016 Seminar Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday July 1st at 16:30 in room 234 *Valeria Vitale (KCL)* *Rethinking 3D visualisation: from illustration to research tool* The use of 3D visualisation is becoming increasingly popular in the study of the Ancient World. However, 3D images are often merely used as eye-catching illustrations, their value reduced to aesthetic pleasantness or technological lure. This seminar will start by showing, through examples and case studies, the importance of spatial information (such as location, dimension, geometry) in the understanding of ancient places and artefacts. Then, it will discusses how 3D visualisation can be used as a powerful tool to represent and investigate this kind of information, enhancing—and sometimes challenging—our approaches to tangible and intangible ancient cultural heritage. Recommended readings at: <http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2016-05vv.html> The seminar will also be screencast on YouTube at: <https://youtu.be/w0f_a3Dk-wo> ALL WELCOME -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Reader in Digital Classics Institute of Classical Studies University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU E: Gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk T: +44 (0)20 78628752 http://digitalclassicist.org/

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VOTE NOW - DM Elections
by Lavrentev Alexey 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Voting for the DM board 2016-2018 OPENS NOW until THU 12 July 2016, 23:59 GMT. To vote in the election you must be one of the subscribers to the Digital Medievalist mailing list, <dm-l at uleth.ca> (Follow <https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/mailing-list/> to join). To vote, use the link and the voting token that have been sent to the email address that you have used to register to DM. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. Members of the board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board and candidates should be willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal). Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially: https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/ https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/ ++++++++++++++++++ If you have not received your voting link and token, please, email the returning officers directly at alexei.lavrentev [at] ens-lyon.fr or emiliano.degli.innocenti [at] gmail.com. ++++++++++++++++++ 2016-2018 CANDIDATES (in alphabetical order by surname): - Alberto Campagnolo - Franz Fischer - Torsten Hiltmann - Mike Kestemont - Gene Lyman - Lynn Ransom - Georg Vogeler ++++++++++++++++++ CANDIDATE STATEMENTS The following biographical candidate statements (in alphabetical order by surname) are intended to help you decide for whom you may wish to vote. There are 4 positions available and so you may cast a total of up to 4 votes. ++++++++++++++++++ Alberto Campagnolo Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator (in Spoleto, Italy) and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, e.g. London Metropolitan Archives, St. Catherine’s Monastery (Egypt), and the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library Materials at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, and holds an MA in Digital Culture and Technology from King’s College London. He pursued a PhD on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre (University of the Arts, London). He has been working on Semantic Web applications to bookbinding descriptions as DH Research Fellow at Ligatus and, currently, as DH MMW Fellow at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel. From September 2016, he will be working as a CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Medieval Studies at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC). Alberto has served on the Digital Medievalist board since 2014, first as Deputy Director, and as Director since 2015. ******************* Franz Fischer Franz Fischer has been serving on the Digital Medievalist Executive Board since 2014 and is editor-in-chief of the Digital Medievalist Journal. He is coordinator and researcher at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne. He studied History, Latin and Italian in Cologne and Rome and has been awarded a doctoral degree in Medieval Latin for his digital edition of William of Auxerre’s treatise on liturgy. From 2008-2011 he created a digital edition of Saint Patrick’s Confessio at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin. Franz Fischer is currently coordinating the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Digital Scholarly Editions DiXiT. He is a founding member of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE), teaching at summer schools and publishing SIDE, a series on digital editions, palaeography & codicology, and RIDE, a review journal on digital editions and resources. ******************* Torsten Hiltmann Torsten Hiltmann studied History, Philosophy and Psychology at the Technical University of Dresden and holds a PhD degree in Medieval History from TU Dresden and the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) in Paris (co-tutelle). He collaborated in several database and editorial projects at the German Historical Institute Paris, before he changed to the University of Münster where he is now a Juniorprofessor for High and Late Medieval History and Auxiliary sciences. He is specialised in medieval manuscripts, courtly culture and visual communication. In his current research project he explores medieval heraldic communication from the perspective of cultural history. In the field of Digital Humanities he focuses on the use of computational methods in auxiliary sciences, with regard to textual as well as visual sources. He is especially interested in semantic web technologies, digital editions and NLP, as well as methodological reflections about DH, and is developing and conducting several projects in these domains. Besides that he is editor of the academic blog “Heraldica nova”. ******************* Mike Kestemont I enjoy research in computational text and image analysis for the Humanities, in particular for medieval European literature. Authorship attribution and stylistics are my main areas of expertise: in stylometry, we try to design intelligent algorithms which can automatically identify the authors of anonymous texts through the quantitative analysis of individual writing styles. I warmly recommend the documentary about this topic and which we published in the public domain: "Authorship and Stylometry: Hildegard of Bingen" (vimeo.com/70881172). I am an assistant professor (department of literature) at the University of Antwerp and regularly teach workshops on Digital Text Analysis and Programming for the Humanities. Currently, I am co-authoring a monograph on data science for humanists (with Princeton UP) and co-editing a special supplement of Speculum on digital medieval studies. I live in Brussels, code in Python (github.com/mikekestemont), and tweet in English (@Mike_Kestemont). ******************* Gene Lyman After significant service as a senior university administrator in charge of funds development and public outreach, Gene Lyman returned to his first passion – the scholarly study and promotion of medieval literature. His Ph.D. thesis, University of Virginia, 2009, addressed reconfiguring scholarly editions in digital environments with particular emphasis on how findings in cognitive science can make these editions more reliable and useful than their printed counterparts. Lyman received his B.A. at Yale in the interdisciplinary major, History, the Arts, and Letters. He has presented papers at conferences in North America and Europe on subjects of special importance to digital editorial theory and practice, late medieval scribal practices, Chaucer, and the development of software for display and analysis of scholarly texts. He is currently the Medieval Academy of America's Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair, a Centennial Committee member, and ex officio member of its Executive Committee. He created the Elwood Viewer for the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, where he also an editor. He is currently the Reviews Editor for DM. ******************* Lynn Ransom Lynn Ransom is the Curator of Programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscripts Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Since 2008, she has directed the Schoenberg Database for Manuscripts, which is currently being redeveloped into an online, user-driven, community-maintained tool for the study of the movement of manuscripts across time and geography. She has also been the primary organizer for the Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age since 2008. Prior to coming to Penn, Dr. Ransom has held curatorial and research positions at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and at the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. She received her PhD in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in 13th-century French manuscript illumination in 2001. She has published on the role of imagery in devotional practice from the 13th to the 16th century. ******************* Georg Vogeler I'm a trained medievalist with a specialisation in historical auxiliary sciences. I did my PhD on late medieval tax administration records and my habilitation on the use of the charters of Emperor Frederic II in Italy. Meanwhile I got intreagued with digital methods, started the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de), contributed to the technical development of largest charter portal monasterium.net (http://www.monasterium.net, http://github.com/icaruseu/mom-ca), became member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (http://www.i-d-e.de) and engaged in other fields of digital methods in medieval studies. Finally I ended up as chair for Digital Humanities at the Centre for Information Modelling at Graz University and member of the board of the digital medievalist. In the DM board I try to support those in the front line from the background. If reelected this would not change. But I would hope and try to put effort into, that the DM community can broaden its self perception from people being subscribed to a mailing list to enthusiasts of digital tools applied to medieval studies who are engaged in lots of activities: social media, scholarly publications, conferences, research projects.

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