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ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script
by Dominique Stutzmann 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Dear colleagues and friends, As part of the competitions organized for the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, we organise a competition focussed on (Latin) Medieval Scripts, as described here: ICFHR2016 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script | Écriture médiévale & numérique <http://oriflamms.hypotheses.org/1388> The challenge for Computer Scientists is to identify correctly the main script types (e.g. uncial, caroline, textualis, humanistic), having two aims in mind: 1) automated cataloguing in large digital libraries, not only for whole volumes, but even at a page level; 2) preparing text recognition. As many of you, we are well aware that the given categories are far from representing the complexity and the dynamics, but it is a first step. Best regards, Dominique Stutzmann, Marlène Helias-Baron, Florence Cloppet, Véronique Eglin, Nicole Vincent –– M. Dominique Stutzmann Chargé de recherche à l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (CNRS, UPR 841)

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Visiting Research Fellowships-Call for applications
by Ransom, Lynn 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

**apologies for cross-posting** The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Visiting Research Fellowship program seeks applications for the 2016-2017 academic year. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of pre-modern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts<http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/index.html> and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age<http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium.html>. The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the pre-modern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection. Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located near other manuscript-rich research collections (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term. Applicants can apply to spend 1, 2, or 3 months at SIMS. Project proposals should demonstrate that the Libraries' pre-modern manuscript resources are integral to proposed research topics. Recipients will be expected to work on-site at Penn Libraries for the duration of their fellowship, excluding possible short research trips in support of the proposed project to nearby institutions. Proposals with a digital component are encouraged though not required. A total of $15,000 per year will be divided among up to 3 fellows in increments of $5,000 per month. Awards must be used between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017. Applications are due May 15, 2016. For more information on eligibility and the application process, go to: http://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships. For more information on SIMS, go to http://schoenberginstitute.org/. For more information on the Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, go to http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/schoenberg. On Penn's pre-modern manuscript holdings in general, go to: http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren. ****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Curator of Programs, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies schoenberginstitute.org Project Director, The New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg Managing Editor, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies mss.pennpress.org The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851

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EVT version 1.0 has been released
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Dear all, after a couple of intermediate releases, EVT version 1.0 is finally available! There are many new features in this version: support for single document information to be showed in the text frame, a full text search engine, support for named entities (name highlighting in the edition text, browsable full lists with links to single documents), User Interface localization, and more! Full announcement here: https://visualizationtechnology.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/evt-version-1-0-ha… Direct link to the SourceForge site here: https://sourceforge.net/p/evt-project/ Please send all feedback to evt.developers(a)gmail.com, we would love to hear from you: bug reports, suggestions, even your general impressions about how EVT has worked for you are more than welcome. R -- 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)

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Fwd: Rare Book School: The Medieval Manuscript in the 21st Century
by Dot Porter 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

(apologies for cross-posting) Hi everyone, This summer, for the third year running, Will Noel and I will be teaching our course for the Rare Book School, The Medieval Manuscript in the 21st Century. I'll paste the description below, and you can find more information here: http://rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m95/ The course will be at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (not in Charlottesville), 10-15 July. We'll start accepting applicants soon, so if you want to attend this summer I encourage you to apply now! Application information is here: Feel free to email me with any questions. Thanks! Dot Porter Course Description: This course is designed to introduce students of both the digital humanities and manuscript studies to the concepts and realities of working with medieval manuscripts in the twenty-first century. Through the course, students and faculty will examine materials from the collections of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, as well as digitized versions of those materials and others. Students in the course will consider four issues relating to using medieval manuscripts in a digital world. The first issue is theoretical, considering the relationship between medieval manuscripts and their digital counterparts, and questioning the notion of digital surrogacy. What does “digital surrogacy” mean and how might it affect our consideration of the physical objects represented through the surrogate? The second issue is the practical one of imbuing best practices when creating digital assets out of medieval manuscripts. If we are to digitize manuscripts, how can we ensure that those digital versions are the best they can be? And again: what does that mean? The third issue concerns the present landscape for digital medieval manuscripts (and medieval studies more generally), including current publication technologies and the place of Open Data. The fourth issue is that of building resources with and for digitized medieval manuscripts. What tools are available to enable us to create something new? As a final project, students and faculty in the course will work together to build something new—either “hacking” an application to display and sort medieval manuscript data, or creating an exhibition using an existing platform (such as Omeka). The specific direction of the final project will depend upon the skill sets available in the room. Students should plan to bring a laptop with them to class. In their personal statement, applicants should indicate their background, special interests, and expectations from the course. They should clearly state their experience working with manuscripts or manuscript-related courses they have taken, as well as any experience using digital technologies. Although it is expected that some students will have some technological experience, it is not a requirement for the course. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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“Jedli: A Textual Analysis Toolbox for Digitized Arabic Texts”
by Hannah-Lena Hagemann 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, The team of the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work” based at Hamburg are very pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of the Early Islamic Empire Working Paper Series. “Jedli: A Textual Analysis Toolbox for Digitized Arabic Texts” by José Haro Peralta and Peter Verkinderen is now available for download at https://www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/publications-tools/publication…. The working paper contains a detailed manual of how to use Jedli, a toolbox developed by the two authors to help scholars make use of digitized Arabic texts more quickly and efficiently. Scholars working with Arabic texts are often confronted with an extraordinary number of sources at their disposal. Manually researching these texts can take an inordinate amount of time. Although many of the primary sources in Arabic have been available in digital form for some time now, the potential inherent in this development has not been fully realized yet. Inspired by the advent of digital humanities, the project team have started developing a number of tools for text mining and data analysis that more fully take advantage of the digitization of Arabic sources. Jedli is a toolbox that currently contains three distinct search functions: the indexer, the highlighter, and the context search. The indexer enables you to produce a custom index of any word in a text (or any number of words in any number of texts at the same time), complete with references to the specific volume and page number of each occurrence, and a user-defined amount of context around the search word. The highlighter marks any number of search terms in different colors according to a user-defined color scheme, to help you identify relevant text segments more quickly. The context search allows you to restrict search results to contexts pertinent to your research through the combination of customized (lists of) search terms. The current version of Jedli can now be downloaded for free from our website at https://www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/publications-tools/digital-too…. We also provide a directory containing a collection of digitized Arabic texts that we have already converted into the format required for Jedli to work (.txt). The current version only runs on Windows platforms, but we are working to ensure that it will run on other operating systems in the near future as well. If you encounter any bugs or problems during the execution of the program, or have requests for additional features, please let us know by e-mailing us at joseharoperalta(a)gmail.com and/or peter.verkinderen(a)uni-hamburg.de. With best wishes from Hamburg, Hannah Hagemann Dr. Hannah-Lena Hagemann Research Associate, ERC Project "The Early Islamic Empire at Work - The View From the Regions Toward the Center" Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Rm 16 20146 Hamburg, Germany T: +49 40 42838 3095 E: hannah-lena.hagemann(a)uni-hamburg.de W: https://www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/

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Two DH Faculty positions at Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities
by Dot Porter 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

(Please excuse the cross-posting. Posting on behalf of a friend) The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for 2 fulltime assistant professorships in Digital Humanities. Assistant Professor Digital Humanities with focus on text analysis (1.0 fte) Vacancy number: 16-061 Assistant Professor Digital Humanities with focus on data-analysis and visualization (1.0 fte) Vacancy number: 16-062 *Key responsibilities* The Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) is recruiting two assistant professors to develop innovative research projects that take full advantage of digital sources and methods, to design and implement teaching programmes in Digital Humanities and to collaborate with digital humanities research across the university. The two hires will be in complementary areas of the Digital Humanities (DH). We are looking for candidates with an area of specialisation in one of two broader areas. The first position will focus on text analysis (including text and image mark-up, text-mining, corpus linguistics, named entity recognition, topic modelling, or machine learning). The other will focus on the development of data analysis and visualisation platforms (including database design, visualisation, network analysis, or geographic information systems). Please indicate for which of the two specialisations you wish to apply and explain relevant experience to one or more of the subfields listed. • Coordinating DH activity across the Humanities Faculty and with other faculties and units such as the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science, the University Library, and the Data Science Centre; • Designing courses and training for staff and students at all levels; • Advising on technical design and implementation of humanities research projects; • Generating research funding and assisting in the development of digital humanities research proposals; • Developing collaborative research projects with university, national, and international partners; • Authoring and co-authoring DH research outputs. For more information and how to apply: http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/16-061-… -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Travel bursaries / Registration open until 1 March - DiXiT Convention 2: 'Digital Editions: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society', Cologne, 15-18 March
by Franz Fischer 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear digital medievalists, Registration is closing soon for the 2nd DiXiT Convention in Cologne, 15-18 March 2016: 'Digital Editions: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society'. Four travel bursaries for young researchers of up to 250 € each are still available. For details of the application process please visit: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/news/ Full programme of the conference and further information: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/programme/convention-2/ Registration is open & free of charge until 1st of March: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/convention-2-registration/ We look forward to welcoming you in Cologne! On behalf of the conference committee Franz Fischer -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 Email:franz.fischer@uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de http://www.i-d-e.de http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de http://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de http://confessio.ie

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Trends in Manuscript Studies. LIBeR Summer School. June 27th to July 1st, 2016
by Erica Orezzi 19 Feb '16

19 Feb '16

The *Laboratorio LIBeR. Libro e ricerca* of the University of Cassino, in cooperation with the Abbey of Montecassino, is pleased to announce its second *Summer School* on *Trends in Manuscript Studies*, for the benefit of master and PhD students, scholars, librarians and other experts or interested persons working with medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The *School* will take place in Cassino (FR, Italy) from June 27th to July 1st, 2016. Each session at the University of Cassino will be followed by a visit to the Archive of Montecassino, where a selection of manuscripts related to the session's topic will be presented. For any information: http://www3.laboratori.unicas.it/Libro-e-ricerca/SummerSchool Email: liberschool(a)unicas.it ___ Erica Orezzi, Ph.D. Laboratorio LIBER (Libro e ricerca) Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale via Zamosch I-03043 Cassino (FR)

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DayofDH 2016 will take place on April 8th, hosted by LINHD
by Elena González-Blanco 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

**apologies for cross posting**---To all digital humanists or people working on digital humanities projects, Please, save the date and join us for the annual Day of Digital Humanities that will take place on April 8th, 2016. A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a project looking at a day in the work life of people involved in digital humanities computing. Every year it draws people from across the world together to document, with text and image, the events and activities of their day. The goal of the project is to weave together the journals of participants into a resource that seeks to answer, “Just what do digital humanists really do?" This year, the event will be hosted on behalf of centerNet at the Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (LINHD) in Madrid. For this reason, want to innovate and make the day more collaborative. We will boost multilingual participation and groupal cooperative activities. We are working on the website now, www.dayofdh2016.uned.es which will be opened for registration soon. If you have any suggestions or ideas in the meantime, please, let us know! Yours, The LINHD team Twitter: @dayofdh and #dayofDH Elena González-Blanco García Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873

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REMINDER: MMSDA Applications open: last days
by Pierazzo, Elena 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Dear Al, This is just a reminder that application for MMSDA will close in a week (22 February). We particularly encourage applications for the Modern manuscripts strands (which includes correspondence and archival documents), but there are still possibilities also for Medievalists. Fro further details see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda/ Best wishes Elena __ Elena Pierazzo Visiting Senior Research Fellow King's College London Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities Université Grenoble-Alpes - LUHCIE Bureau Bâtiment 'Stendhal' F307 BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 Tel. +33 4 76828032

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