[On behalf of Elli Bleeker]
Dear digital medievalists,
**with apologies for the inevitable cross-posting**
We are pleased to announce a three-day workshop "Code and Collation:
Training Textual Scholars" that takes place in Amsterdam (The
Netherlands) from 2 - 4 November 2016. The event is part of the DiXiT
network <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/> and is hosted by the Huygens
Institute for the History of the Netherlands
<https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/?lang=en>. It brings together a group of
international experts from the fields of textual scholarship and
computer science.
The workshop engages with the theory and practice of semi-automated
collation and provides an intense training in the open source collation
program CollateX. Participants will learn how to prepare source
materials, how to perform semi-automated collation using CollateX, and
how to inspect and modify the results; they will acquire or improve
computational skills relevant to textual criticism and in particular to
the production of scholarly editions.
Registration is now open and free of charge. Early registration is
recommended since there are limited places available. Detailed
information can be found at the website:
https://sites.google.com/site/dixitcodingcollation/. For all questions,
do not hesitate to get in touch at dixitcollation[at]gmail[dot]com.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam!
On behalve of the organising committee,
--Elli Bleeker
University of Antwerp
Centre for Manuscript Genetics
Job opening: PhD fellowship in Greek / Byzantine Studies at Ghent University
The Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for a fully-funded and full-time doctoral research fellowship (4 years), starting between 1 October 2016 and 1 January 2017. The successful applicant will be working on a project entitled Poetry from the Margins, which is closely connected with the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams.
Application deadline: 7 July 2016.
For more information and details on how to apply, see http://www.letterkunde.ugent.be/en/node/4542 or attachment.
Please direct any queries to kristoffel.demoen(a)ugent.be<mailto:kristoffel.demoen@ugent.be>.
Latest blog: an Otto Ege trove found in a trunk in Maine!
https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/manuscript-road-trip-an…
- Lisa
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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
9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
November 17-19, 2016
Save the Date! Registration opens at the end of the summer.
Reactions: Medieval/Modern
In partnership with the Rare Book Department<https://libwww.freelibrary.org/rarebooks/index.cfm> of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS<http://schoenberginstitute.org/>) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's theme, "Reactions: Medieval/Modern," gives us space to explore the many and varied ways that people have reacted to, and acted upon, manuscripts from the Middle Ages up to today. Reactions take many forms. They include the manipulation of physical objects through, for example, the marking up of texts, addition of illustrations, the disbinding of books or rebinding of fragments, as well as the manipulation of digital objects, thanks to new technologies involved in digitization, ink and parchment analysis, virtual reconstruction, among many other processes. This symposium will also tackle how popular culture has reacted to manuscripts over time as witnessed by their use and appearance in books, games, and films. Our keynote speaker will be Michelle P. Brown, Professor emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and former Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library.
For more information and a list of speakers, visit the website: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium9.html.
Please forward!
There are less than two weeks left before the registration deadline of 13
June 2016 for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (4-8 July
2016). Two of our workshops are now full, but the other 6 still have room.
I'd especially highlight two workshops that are new this year, one on
"Analysing Humanities Data" (which uses the Wolfram Language for the
analysis, processing and visualisation of humanities data), and the other
on "Social Humanities: Citizens at Scale in the Digital World" (looking at
social media, citizen science and social machines). Not sure which to take?
Our ever-popular "An Introduction to Digital Humanities" workshop gives a
thorough overview of the theory and practice of Digital Humanities.
Register as soon a possible to guarantee a place! There are reduced fees
for academics and students.
Block booking discounts are also available. Any questions? Ask
events(a)it.ox.ac.uk for more information.
-James
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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
4 - 8 July 2016
Scholarship -- Application -- Community
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2016/
Do you work in the Humanities or support people who do?
Are you interested in how the digital can help your research?
Come and learn from experts with participants from around the world, from
every field and career stage, to develop your knowledge and acquire new
skills.
Immerse yourself for a week in one of our 8 workshop strands, and widen
your horizons through the keynote and additional sessions.
Workshops:
An Introduction to Digital Humanities
"Expert insights into our digital landscape"
An Introduction to the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative
"Markup for Textual Research"
Analysing Humanities Data
"An Introduction to Knowledge-Based Computing with the Wolfram Language"
Digital Musicology
"Applied computational and informatics methods for enhancing musicology"
>From Text to Tech [FULL]
"Corpus and Computational Linguistics for powerful text processing in the
Humanities"
Humanities Data: A Hands-On Approach
"Making the Most of Messy Data"
Linked Data for Digital Humanities [FULL]
"Publishing, Querying, and Linking on the Semantic Web"
Social Humanities: Citizens at Scale in the Digital World
"Social Media, Citizen Science, and Social Machines"
Keynotes:
- Opening Keynote: Identifying the point of it all: Towards a Model of
"Digital Infrapuncture", Deb Verhoeven (Deakin University)
- Closing Keynote: Open Access and Digital Humanities -- Opening up to the
World, Isabel Galina, (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Additional Lectures:
Supplement your chosen workshop with a choice of 3 from 9 additional
morning lectures sessions (Tue-Thurs) covering a variety of Digital
Humanities topics. http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2016/lectures
Evening Events:
Join us for events every evening, include a research poster and drinks
reception, the annual TORCH Digital Humanities lecture, and a dinner at
Exeter College. http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2016/events
Registration:
Reduced fees are available for academics and students, as well as group
bookings see the registration page at
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2016/registration for details.
For more information see: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2016/
Directors of DHOxSS,
James Cummings
Pip Willcox
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Dr James Cummings, Academic IT Services, University of Oxford,
Registration Open: Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, 4-8 July 2016
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2016
*With apologies for cross-posting*
The Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project is developing new technology to enable computers to recognise handwritten historical material. With Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology, computers can process any kind of document - from the Middle Ages to the present day, from old Greek to modern English. This research has huge and exciting implications for the accessibility of the written records of human history. It allows users to search in the full-text of large historical collections and also to extract information such as person names or data stored in tables and forms.
Anyone interested in finding out more about the project can now consult presentations which were given by the READ partners at the co:op<http://coop-project.eu/> project's 'Technology meets Scholarship'<http://coop-project.eu/event/first-international-coop-convention/?instance_…> conference.
Text transcripts and slides from the READ presentations are available here:
http://read.transkribus.eu/2016/03/31/presentations-from-the-read-partners-…
Videos of the READ presentations can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLElrWLCQvZaRny2G_gXAINGpCtNrpPBBO
For an introduction to HTR technology, try watching Dr Roger Labahn (University of Rostock) on 'Handwritten Text Recognition. Key Concepts':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLElrWLCQvZaRny2G_gXAINGpCtNrpPBBO&v=3d-…
For more information visit:
READ website:http://read.transkribus.eu/<https://read.transkribus.eu/><http://read.transkribus.eu/>
Transkribus website: <https://transkribus.eu/> https://transkribus.eu<https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/>
Transkribus github: https://github.com/Transkribus/
Or contact: email(a)transkribus.eu<mailto:email@transkribus.eu>
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Dr. Louise Seaward
Research Associate
Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, Bidborough House, 38-50 Bidborough Street, London, WC1H 9BT
louise.seaward(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:louise.seaward@ucl.ac.uk>
020 3108 8397
Dear all,
please note that the Scientific Committee of the 2016 AIUCD conference
in Venice (7th-9th September) has extended the deadline for the
Call-for-Papers-and-Posters to Sunday, June 12, 2016:
https://sites.google.com/a/unive.it/aiucd2016/call-for-papers-and-posters/d…
On behalf of the Scientific Committee,
RRDT
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Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it
Dip. di Studi Umanistici roberto.rossellidelturco at fileli.unipi.it
Universita' di Torino VBD: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta2/
EVT: http://bit.ly/24D9kdE VC: http://www.visionarycross.org/
Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre,
mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)
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Dear colleagues,
(Re-sending without verboten attachment.)
We would like to invite you to a launch event on June 10th, with the
Institute of Classical Studies and Ubiquity Press, for the recently
published volume:
Bodard G. & Romanello M. 2016. Digital Classics Outside the
Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement. London:
Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat
A limited number of print copies of the book will be available to view
and purchase, and several authors will be present to discuss their
chapters and the work as a whole. Wine and refreshments will be provided.
18:00 Friday June 10, 2016
2nd floor lobby, south block, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU
(Note this event follows the Digital Classicist seminar, 16:30 room 234,
see <digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2016.html>.)
We hope to see many of you there!
--
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/
Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to a launch event on June 10th, with the
Institute of Classical Studies and Ubiquity Press, for the recently
published volume:
Bodard G. & Romanello M. 2016. Digital Classics Outside the
Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement. London:
Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat
A limited number of print copies of the book will be available to view
and purchase, and several authors will be present to discuss their
chapters and the work as a whole. Wine and refreshments will be provided.
18:00 Friday June 10, 2016
2nd floor lobby, south block, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU
(Note this event follows the Digital Classicist seminar, 16:30 room 234,
see <digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2016.html>.)
Please also feel free to display or circulate the attached poster.
We hope to see many of you there!
--
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/