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by Lisa Fagin Davis 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

I'm back on the virtual road, gearing up to explore medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in Canada: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/manuscript-road-trip-o-… 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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Multispectral Imaging and Digital Manuscript Recovery at Kzo
by Helen Davies 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Dear all, The Lazarus Project <http://www.lazarusprojectimaging.com/>, will be hosting multispectral imaging workshops at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo on techniques for digital manuscript recovery. The Lazarus Project is a multispectral imaging initiative that works with imaging specialists from around the world. We have recently worked on projects at Chartres, Vercelli, the National Library of Wales, and the Beinecke Library. If you are interested in participating in either an imaging or processing workshop, please sign up here http://goo.gl/forms/dT3Jtz3CZg <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2Fforms%2FdT3Jtz3CZg&h=YA…> We hope to see you there! Thank you, Helen Davies -- Helen Davies PhD Student Department of English University of Mississippi

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Beyond the Library: Agency, Practice, and Society Preliminary Conference Program
by Harriet Sonne de Torrens 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

*La version française suit* *Please circulate widely* *Excuse cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the conference organizing committee, I am pleased to present the preliminary program for CAPAL16: Beyond the Library: Agency, Practice, and Society, the third annual conference of the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL). The program can be viewed in full online at: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/program/ In keeping with the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2016 theme, Energizing Communities, CAPAL16 seeks to look "Beyond the Library" to rethink how academic librarians engage with their communities within which our institutions are situated or those with whom we share disciplinary concerns or approaches. Such communities may be physical, epistemic, academic, or imagined communities, communities of identity, or those communities around us and to which we contribute. We are honored to welcome keynote speakers Leroy Little Bear, Ry Moran, and Dr. Bonnie Stewart. Long-time advocate for First Nations education, Leroy Little Bear served as Director of the Harvard University Native American Program, and helped to design the Bachelor of Management in First Nations Governance at the University of Lethbridge. Dr. Bonnie Stewart serves as the Coordinator for Adult Teaching for the University of Prince Edward Island, where she directs and develops professional education and career development initiatives for a suite of adult education programs. Ry Moran is Director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at the University of Manitoba, which is tasked with preserving, protecting and providing access to all materials, statements and documents collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). A Metis and graduate of the University of Victoria where he studied political science and history, Moran worked in traditional language preservation with a focus on Michif. In 2008, he received a National Aboriginal Role-Model Award, which led an invitation to Rideau Hall and his involvement with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as Director of Statement Gathering, and eventually Directorship of the National Research Centre. Registration for the conference is now open and available at the following link: http://congress2016.ca/register Note that Congress fees are cheaper if you register before March 31st. Please visit our website for further information and updates: http://conference.capalibrarians.org<http://conference.capalibrarians.org/home/> The CAPAL Research & Scholarship Committee is pleased to offer a CAPAL 2016 Preconference Workshop at the University of Calgary on May 28, 2016. For further information and updates, see the pre-conference workshop webpage: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/preconference-workshop/ Also, follow us on Twitter at #CAPAL16 and join our Facebook page at https://goo.gl/dedxUU<https://goo.gl/dedxUU> to connect with others attending. *************************************** *Prière de faire circuler à vos réseaux* *S-v-p excusez les envois multiples* Chères/chers collègues, Au nom du comité organisateur du congrès, je suis heureuse de vous présenter le programme préliminaire de ACBAP16 : Au-delà de la Bibliothèque: action, pratique et société, la troisième conférence annuelle de l'Association canadienne des bibliothécaires académiques professionnels (ACBAP). Le programme complet peut être consulté en ligne à l'adresse suivante: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/programme/ En continuité avec le thème du Congrès 2016, L'énergie des communautés, ACBAP16 vise à aller « Au-delà de la bibliothèque » afin de repenser les interactions des bibliothécaires académiques avec les collectivités soutenues par nos institutions ou avec celles qui partagent nos préoccupations et approches disciplinaires. Il peut s'agir de communautés physiques, épistémiques, universitaires ou imaginées, ainsi que de collectivités auxquelles nous contribuons autour de nous. Nous sommes honorés d'accueillir les conférenciers Leroy Little Bear, Ry Moran, et Dre Bonnie Stewart. Militant depuis longtemps pour l'éducation des Premières Nations, Leroy Little Bear a été directeur du programme « Native American » de l'Université Harvard et il a contribué à la conception du baccalauréat « Management in First Nations Governance » à l'Université de Lethbridge. Dre Bonnie Stewart est coordinatrice à l'enseignement des adultes à l'Université de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard. Elle dirige et développe des initiatives d'éducation et de développement de carrière professionnelle pour plusieurs programmes d'éducation des adultes. Elle donne des cours dans les domaines des technologies, des communications, des pédagogies numériques et de l'éducation des adultes. Ry Moran est le directeur du Centre national pour la vérité et réconciliation (CNVR), à l'Université du Manitoba, qui a pour mandat de préserver, de protéger et de donner accès à tout le matériel, déclarations et documents rassemblés par la Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada (CVR). Membre de la Nation Métisse et diplômé de l'Université de Victoria où il a étudié la science politique et l'histoire, Ry Moran a travaillé à la préservation des langues traditionnelles et s'est intéressé plus particulièrement au michif. En 2008, il a reçu un prix national des modèles autochtones, qui l'a conduit à être invité à Rideau Hall ainsi qu'à son implication auprès de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation en tant que directeur de la consignation des témoignages et éventuellement à son rôle de directeur du Centre national de recherche. L'inscription à la conférence peut se faire dès maintenant à l'adresse suivante :http://congres2016.ca/inscriptions Veuillez noter que les frais d'inscription au congrès sont moins élevés si vous vous inscrivez avant le 31 mars. Visitez notre site Web pour de l'information supplémentaire et des mises à jour :http://conference.capalibrarians.org/accueil/ Le comité de la recherche et des bourses de l'ACBAP est heureux de présenter un atelier préconférence à l'Université de Calgary le 28 mai 2016: http://conference.capalibrarians.org/atelier-prconfrence/ Suivez-nous sur Twitter (#CAPAL16) et rejoignez notre page Facebook au https://goo.gl/dedxUU pour vous joindre aux autres conférencier(e)s. Meilleures salutations, Harriet Sonne de Torrens ******************************************************************************* Harriet Sonne de Torrens, MISt., Ph.D., L.M.S.| Academic Librarian| HMALC Library and Department of Visual Studies, UTM | 905-569-4610 | https://utoronto.academia.edu/HarrietSonnedeTorrens https://utlibrarians.wordpress.com/ [Standardized Email Signature_96dpi]

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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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