Dear list,
my chair for digital humanities at the Centre for Information Modelling
- Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of
Graz offers two vacancies, which are to be filled from 1 July 2016, and
digital medivalists are certainly an option:
University Assistant with doctorate (30 hours/week; limited to 5 years)
Content focus: independent scientific research in the subject area of
"Digital Humanities", especially in the area of Computational
Linguistics or Information Science and their application to humanistic
research data
data.
University Assistant without doctorate (20 hours/week; limited to 4 years)
Content focus: Independent scientific research in the subject area of
"Digital Humanities", especially in the areas of "Digital Scholarly
Edition" or "Digital Diplomatics".
The application deadline is May 13, 2016th
Details on content, requirements and application procedure can be found
in the documents or the website:
http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeiten/detail/article/s…
Best Regards,
Georg Vogeler
ZIM-ACDH
Karl-Franzens-University Graz
Dear list,
due to popular demand we have decided to extend the deadline for the symposium on "Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces" for *one week*. The new and final deadline for submitting abstracts for 20-minutes talks is Sunday, the 24th of April 2016. For more information see:
https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/aktuelles/digital-scholarly…<http://>
The Symposium will be organized by and at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz in collaboration with Dixit. It will take place from Friday 23 to Saturday 24 September 2016. Keynote speakers are Dot Porter and Stan Ruecker.
Best wishes,
Frederike Neuber
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Frederike Neuber
King's College London - Department for Digital Humanities <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx> (Visiting Researcher)
Drury Lane Campus, Office 210.
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Centre for Information Modelling
Graz University <https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/en/>
Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/>
Insitut für Dokumentologie und Editorik <http://www.i-d-e.de/>
April 10, 2016
Hi Digital Medievalist list,
Greetings!
Today, I would like to share some questions about a famous manuscript,
one where the superb digitization project of 2009 (the year it was placed
online), the Codex Sinaiticus Project, helped reveal some amazing elements.
In a sense this very set of questions is a thank you to the digital
contribution to manuscript study.
First, allow me to explain that the Codex Sinaiticus has a: highly
problematical provenance with no substance before the 1840s allegations in
the 1860s that Sinaiticus was a modern manuscript allegations in the 1860s
that there had been colouring of the ms in the 1850s to make it look
older creative
and suspicious fabrications surround its discovery and procurement. And
Sinaiticus has an unusual palaeographic dating history. The 4th-century
date was pushed very aggressively, with minimal science, by its
"discoverer" Constantine Tischendorf. This dating was quickly *set in stone*
in textual circles by 1870-1880 despite various objections, minor and
major. The palaeographic dating was based almost entirely on the pictures
and descriptions in facsimile book editions, editions by Tischendorf that
omitted salient facts about the manuscript's condition. Tischendorf also
included lots of theorizing on soft evidences, the script (a standard
easy-to-emulate script) and the textual components. Hardly anybody was
actually viewing and handling the manuscript. This situation is still true
today, except that the Codex Sinaiticus Project allowed for viewing the ms.
online and included solid numerical representations about items like colour
and thickness and numerous other features.
The digitization revealed the fact that the two sections of the
manuscript were different, in ways that are major anomalies. 1844 - 43
leaves - Leipzig - Codex Friderico-Augustanus - pristine white parchment -
all leaves the same colour 1859 - 347 leaves - St.
Petersburg-->England-1933 - "yellow with age" - unusual
colour variance in the leaves A gentleman named David R. Smith has
been studying Codex Fuldensis (it might be a couple of hundreds years later
than commonly accepted) and made a salient comment:
"I do not trust palaeography to prove an old date, but I do trust it to
disprove such a date.
It is easy to imitate what is antique, but impossible to predict what
will be novel."
Palaeography is a non-symmetrical discipline, in terms of time
chronology. Some professional palaeographers, especially Brent Nongbri,
have been making this point on the common early papyri dating, that the
range of years is often far too restrictive (in that case the issue is
usually a couple of hundred years of range.) And all the researchers
involved in identifying forgeries and replicas are very aware of this basic
fact. However, in Bible textual manuscript dating, it is often left out of
view.
Here is one basic concern, parchment manuscripts yellow with age and
use: Gavin Moorhead: The colour of parchment varies with animal type,
making process and condition or state of decline. *New parchment can be
near white but as it ages or is exposed to detrimental factors it will
start to yellow* and go brown-black if left to degrade completely. The
colour change can also be influenced by the type of degradation and degree
of gelatinization Now we get to a key point.* Leipzig is white
parchment*, it "forgot" to yellow. Overturning the known chemical
processes that we can see on manuscript after manuscript. This was hidden
from view publicly until after 2009, it was never mentioned in the
Sinaiticus literature. (Porfiry Uspensky references this about the 1845
full manuscript before it was separated to two major sections, and Ernst
von Dobschütz mentioned the Leipzig section as snow-white parchment in one
publication in 1910.) And this was never mentioned in the context of all
the literature about palaeographic dating, from Tischendorf to Lake to
Skeat & Milne to Parker and others today.
*This white parchment anomaly alone should ring loud alarm bells, and
should cause a full reappraisal of the dating of Sinaiticus*. Then you
add the flexible and supple condition, and then you add the colouring
discussed below.
Note that there had been tests planned on these Leipzig pages for April
2015 by BAM, * Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfungin* in
Berlin, a group which studied carefully the parchment and ink of the Dead
Sea Scrolls. *The Leipzig University Library cancelled those plans*.
Today, Leipzig does not want to discuss anything at all about the
manuscript condition and history of conservation. (The British Library, to
their credit, has engaged in open discussion, with various theories and
conjectures about the unusual elements of the manuscript. Although for them
the possibility of non-antiquity is an *elephant in the living room*.)
So where does this leave us today?
Here you can see the wonderful condition of Sinaiticus. Flexible,
supple, not at all brittles. The Codex Sinaiticus: The Oldest Surviving
Christian New Testament - The Beauty of Books - BBC Four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Xkv2gjzZw Sinaiticus in some cases used
as the exemplar for parchment and ink longevity. * If Sinaiticus is
actually a modern production, the discipline and integrity of parchment
conservation science is compromised. *Thus, even if textual critics, a
somewhat cloistered group with their own peculiar areas of emphasis, are
slow to consider the implications, the professionals in manuscript
conservation and the related chemical sciences that are applied to
manuscripts should have real concern.
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Another major point. I have barely referenced the compelling evidence
that *the British pages taken from Sinai in 1859 were coloured by
hand, *perhaps
using lemon-juice, matching the 1860s accusation. That was actually the
first point that glared out at us as researchers. Why was there such a
marked difference between Leipzig and the British Library pages? If you
look at these two sites, you can learn a lot about the colouring. Codex
Sinaiticus Authenticity Research http://www.sinaiticus.net/
Sinaiticus - authentic antiquity or modern?
http://purebibleforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65 =========
One of the difficulties here is that the evidences are so simple, clear
and compelling.
We find the very simplicity is difficult for those in the scholarly and
academic realms!
All feedback from the manuscript experts, and all forum readers,
welcome!
Thanks!
Steven Avery
Dutchess County, NY
SART - Sinaiticus Authenticity Research Team
sinaiticus.net(a)gmail.com
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*Global Digital Humanities Symposium*
*April 8-9, 2016*
Union Building, Room 55
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
http://msuglobaldh.org/
Free and open to the public.
Friday afternoon and all day Saturday will be livestreamed:
*Livestream link for Friday, April 8 - https://youtu.be/OSW5d-qutgI
<https://youtu.be/OSW5d-qutgI>*
*Livestream link for Saturday, April 9 - https://youtu.be/LoKAZVkFETg
<https://youtu.be/LoKAZVkFETg>*
We are delighted to feature speakers from outside of the area as well as
expertise and work from faculty at Michigan State University in this two
day symposium. The Symposium will begin with a half day workshop on Minimal
Computing and will include a range of talk types across the two days.
*Breakfast, lunch, coffee, and snacks will be provided to all registrants
on both Friday and Saturday. In addition, a reception with appetizers will
be provided on Friday.*
*Schedule*
Friday, April 8
- 9:00-11:30 - Minimal Computing Workshop, Alex Gil
- 11:45-1:00 - Lunch (provided)
- 1:15-1:30 - Welcoming Remarks
- 1:30-2:30 - (Global) Digital Humanities and Subalternity: Questions
and Provocations - Radhika Gajjala
- 2:45-3:45 - Panel
- Mapping the Religious Soundscape of the Midwest, Amy DeRogatis and
Bobby Smiley
- Muslims in the Midwest, Mohammad Khalil
- MSU Vietnam Group Archive, Charles Keith
- 4:00-6:00 - LOCUS <http://digitalhumanities.msu.edu/locus/next/>
(lightning
talks session)
- 6:30-7:30 - Reception
Saturday, April 9
- 9:45-10:45 - Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World
Literature, Hoyt Long
- 11:15-12:15 - MSU Archive of Malian Photography, Candace Keller
- 1:30-1:45 - Remarks, Dean Christopher P. Long, College of Arts and
Letters
- 1:45-3:00 - Roundtable
- 3:30-4:30 - Minimal Computing and the Borders of the New Republic of
Letters, Alex Gil
- 5:00-6:00 - Lessons from Global, Pre-Modern, Jewish Digital
Humanities, Dorothy Kim
Find out more about the symposium at http://msuglobaldh.org/about/
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Specialist
College of Arts and Letters
Michigan State University
718-216-5695
kristenmapes.com
kmapes(a)msu.edu
kmapes86(a)gmail.com
This week, the "Manuscript Road Trip: Canadian Edition" visits Nova
Scotia:
https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/manuscript-road-trip-ca…
- 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
Dear list,
I'd like to remind you that the deadline for submissions for "Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces" - a two days symposium at the Centre for Information Modelling at Graz University (23.-24.9.2016) - is approaching. The symposium will explore the role of digital scholarly editions as interfaces between humans, machines and manuscripts from different perspectives (editors, users of editions, interface designers, developers etc). Keynotes speakers are Dot Porter (Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Stan Ruecker (Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago). For more information see the call for papers: https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/aktuelles/digital-scholarly…
We invite you to submit proposals for a talk (20 minutes; < 700 words) until April 17, 2016 to dixit(at)uni-graz.at<https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/aktuelles/digital-scholarly…>.
Best wishes,
Frederike Neuber
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Frederike Neuber
King's College London - Department for Digital Humanities <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx> (Visiting Researcher)
Drury Lane Campus, Office 210.
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Centre for Information Modelling, Graz University <https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/en/> (Researcher)
Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/> (Fellow)
Insitut für Dokumentologie und Editorik <http://www.i-d-e.de/> (Member)
Dear colleagues,
Just a quick reminder: DayofDH 2016, a Centernet initiative hosted by LINHD
at UNED will take place this year on next Friday April 8th. Do not forget
to register, create a blog, share your experience and meet projects, groups
and digital humanists online at www.dayofdh2016.uned.es
Looking forward to meeting you online!
best regards
The LINHD Team
Rosa Sebastià
LINHD
linhd.uned.es
A second beta version of the Digital Vercelli Book is now available for
everybody to browse and study! Full announcement here:
http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/?p=2067.
The new URL is http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta2/, visit this page to
start with The Dream of the Rood:
http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta2/#doc=DOTR&page=VB_fol_104v.
There are many new items to check in this version: *all of the
manuscript images* are now online, *four more texts* were added to the
edition (Homilies I, II and III, and the Soul and Body poem), there now
is a *search engine*, complete with a virtual keyboard for special Old
English characters, and several other improvements to the whole edition.
Any comments, suggestions or bug reports will be more than welcome.
RRDT
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Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it
Dipartimento di Studi roberto.rossellidelturco at fileli.unipi.it
Umanistici Then spoke the thunder DA
Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE)
Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre,
mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)