The KRDB (Knowledge Rapresentation meets Databases) group at the
University of Bolzen/Bolzano will have back-to-back talks in
their Digital Humanities seminar on Monday, December 21, both
of which deal with medieval content:
Pt. 1 (Dr. Sara L. Uckelman, Durham University)
Digital Humanities, Lexicography, and Big Data: The Case of the
Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources
Pt. 2 (Dr. Joel Uckelman, Stroz Friedberg, London)
Building the Infrastructure for the Dictionary of Medieval Names from
European Sources from Common Household Open-Source Tools
For more info, see
http://www.unibz.it/en/public/university/eventsOverview.html?NewsID=114779
Cheers,
-Sara
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Dr. Sara L. Uckelman
Department of Philosophy
Durham University
https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/?id=12928
The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources
http://dmnes.org/
**Apologies for cross-posting**
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to offer 5 Digital Humanities positions in Madrid, associated to the European Project ERC-Stg-2015 POSTDATA: “Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data”, led by Elena González-Blanco, which will last from 2016-2020.
This project proposes a semantic linked open data model to deal with interoperability issues between the different poetic languages and traditions. It proposes a double level of standardization, which starts at the philological roots of the terminology used by the different literatures, to transform it into flexible structures filled with controlled vocabularies to build a digital platform to edit, analyze and share poetry.Candidates will work in an interdisciplinary environment at LINHD, the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab at UNED in Madrid www.linhd.uned.es· 2 Post-Doctoral positions, with Humanities (preferably literary or linguistic) background, and DH expertise and training to deal with poetry issues (especially focused on Spanish, Italian and French poetry). Relevant doctoral university degree (or research experience of at least four years), preferably in the Humanities, with Digital Humanities skills and experience. Appointment will last for 4 years, with possibilities of further consolidation. PhD students with extraordinary cv and training might be considered to cover these positions too.· 1 PhD position in computer science or digital humanities. The candidate must have a computer science background and will take care of some of the programming tasks, but especially in ontology development. Programming knowledges are required, but especially knowledge of semantic web technologies, linked open data, ontology design, standards, and metadata. Appointment will last for 5 years.· 1 Programmer position. The candidate must show strong programming abilities in several languages: especially desired are Java, PHP, Phython, Javascript and SQL. Web design, XML based languages and CMS management (especially Wordpress and Drupal), and knowledge of Linux is also required.· A Half-time project manager position. Expertise with H2020 or FP7 European projects is required. Skills in documentation management, accounting knowledges and high English level is required for this position.General requirements for candidates are:
- Motivation to work in an interdisciplinary team in an academic environment, focused on academic curricula, continuous team training (through attending to conferences and workshops), with a special focus on publications and academic outputs.
- A good understanding of the role that digital technology can play in transforming our literary and cultural world approaching poetry to society thanks to technology.
- A flexible, supportive and collaborative working style, with effective leadership and communication skills.
- Excellent IT and digital skills, including web development, content and database management, and an understanding of poetry idiosyncratic world.
- Good knowledge of current trends, standards and practices in the use of digital technology within the literary and linguistic projects.
- Enthusiasm in taking part of and developing an academic specialized and leading group in digital poetry, semantic web technologies and digital humanities.
Salaries will be paid according to the academic level proposed according to the Spanish established salaries for the university positions.
For best consideration, applications should be submitted no later than January 8th, 2015, but as soon as possible. Review will continue until positions are filled. Personal interviews will take place during the second half of January. Contracts will start in February or March.
Candidates must send a cv and a motivation letter to egonzalezblanco(a)linhd.uned.es
For any questions about the project or the positions or the project, do not hesitate in contacting me.
Best regards,
Elena González-BlancoDpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722Facultad de Filología, UNEDPaseo Senda del Rey 7
28040 MADRID
tel. 91 3986873www.uned.es/remetca
http://filindig.hypotheses.org/http://linhd.uned.eswww.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco@elenagbg
Queridos amigos:
Tengo el placer de comunicarles que desde el Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales de la UNED estamos ofreciendo 5 puestos de trabajo en Humanidades Digitales en Madrid, asociados al Proyecto europeo ERC-Stg-2015 POSTDATA: “Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data”, dirigido por Elena González-Blanco, cuya duración se extenderá entre los años 2016-2020.
El proyecto tiene como objetivo la creación de un modelo semántico de datos enlazados abiertos que facilite la interoperabilidad entre las diferentes tradiciones poéticas y sus correspondientes proyectos digitales. Propone un doble sistema de estandarización que parte de las raíces filológicas de las diferentes tradiciones poéticas, con el fin de abstraer los conceptos transformándolos en un sistema flexible estructurado, una ontología, poblada de vocabularios controlados que, integrada en una plataforma digital, permita editar, indizar, analizar y compartir colecciones de poesía a los usuarios en diferentes lenguas.Se ofrecen 5 contratos, cuyo trabajo se desarrollará en el marco del Laboratorio de Innovación de Humanidades Digitales de la UNED www.linhd.uned.es con las siguientes características· 2 contratos postdoctorales de 4 años de duración cada uno, para candidatos con una formación humanística (preferentemente doctorados en filología y con perfil de literatura, lingüística o métrica), en español, francés o italiano. Se requiere experiencia de trabajo en proyectos de Humanidades Digitales o estudios realizados en este campo. Excepcionalmente se aceptarán candidatos no doctores para estos puestos si su cv demuestra que cuentan con la calidad requerida.· 1 contrato predoctoral de 5 años para un estudiante de doctorado con formación en informática. El candidato se ocupará de tareas de programación, pero desarrollará su investigación y tareas en el campo del desarrollo de ontologías y de web semántica. Se requieren conocimientos de lenguajes de programación, pero especialmente familiaridad con las tecnologías de la web semántica, el diseño de ontologías, y los estándares de metadatos.· 1 contrato de programador experto. El candidato debe contar con experiencia en programación en diferentes lenguajes, y en especial, Java, PHP, Phython, Javascript y SQL. Se requieren también conocimientos de diseño y tecnologías web (lenguajes basados en XML) y manejo de CMS (en especial Wordpress y Drupal), además de conocimientos de Linux.· 1 contrato de media jornada para un Project Manager. Imprescindible contar con experiencia en gestión de proyectos europeos H2020 o FP7. Se requieren conocimientos de manejo de documentos legales, contabilidad y alto nivel de inglés. Los candidatos a todos estos puestos deberán además tener:
- Motivación para trabajar en un equipo interdisciplinar en un entorno académico centrado en el currículum universitario, en el que la formación continuada juega un papel fundamental (mediante la asistencia a congresos, cursos y seminarios), y la producción en forma de publicaciones es esencial.
- Un buen entendimiento del papel esencial que la tecnología juega en la transformación del mundo literario y cultural, materializado en la aproximación de la poesía a la sociedad mediante la tecnología.
- Una forma de trabajar flexible, colaborativa con un liderazgo efectivo y capacidad de comunicación.
- Excelentes competencias tecnológicas, que incluyan el desarrollo web, el manejo de datos y contenidos en bases de datos y una sensibilidad y comprensión hacia el idiosincrático mundo de la poesía.
- Un buen conocimiento de las tendencias actuales, estándares y prácticas en el uso de la tecnología digital aplicada a proyectos literarios y lingüísticos.
- Entusiasmo y ganas de formar parte de un grupo académico líder que abra una línea de investigación fuerte especializada en tratamiento digital de la poesía, web semántica, datos enlazados y humanidades digitales.
· Los sueldos se pagarán de acuerdo con las cantidades establecidas para los niveles propuestos en la universidad española.
Las solicitudes deben enviarse antes del 8 de enero de 2015 (preferentemente lo antes possible), y se aceptarán hasta que los puestos se hayan cubierto. Se realizarán entrevistas en persona durante la segunda quincena de enero y los contratos comenzarán en febrero o marzo.
Los candidatos deben enviar un cv y una carta de motivación a egonzalezblanco(a)linhd.uned.es Pueden escribir a esta misma dirección si desean conocer más detalles acerca del proyecto o los puestos ofrecidos.
Saludos cordiales,
Elena González-BlancoDpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722Facultad de Filología, UNEDPaseo Senda del Rey 7
28040 MADRID
tel. 91 3986873www.uned.es/remetca
http://filindig.hypotheses.org/http://linhd.uned.eswww.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco@elenagbg
Dear all,
Please excuse cross posting.
For an article exploring pluralism and diversity within Digital Humanities,
we are gathering data about digital humanists, their environment, and their
work.
We have designed a very brief survey (it should take less than five minutes
to complete) and would like your help with it. If you can spare a few
minutes to fill up the answers, this will contribute to our understanding
of the field and of the people who work within it.
The survey can be found here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DHatWork
Thank you for your support,
Barbara Bordalejo
Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities
KU Leuven
Job Offering:
*Experienced Researcher/PostDoc*
“Canonical reference & sustainability of digital editions”
(40 hours/week; fixed-term employment for the period of 12 months, starting
1 April 2016)
The Centre for Information Modeling – Austrian Centre for Digital
Humanities at the University of Graz has rich experience in DH research
and teaching and is involved in a variety of (inter)national projects.
The main research area of the ZIM-ACDH is digital edition as a
generalizable method of semantic and formal enrichment and analysis of
research data from the humanities and cultural heritage domains.
* Job Specifications*
- The research fellow will do supervised research on “Canonical
reference & sustainability of digital editions” in the Marie Curie
Initial
Training Network “DiXiT”.
- It is crucial that digital scholarly editions are stable reference
texts that embed in themselves established canonical reference
systems and
persistent identifiers (PIDs). The relationship between well-established
reference systems and technical PID systems will be explored in order to
contribute to a common resolving infrastructure.
- The candidate will conduct theoretical research on canonical reference
and human naming systems and their inherent logics, develop a
proposal for
a generic referencing system for digital editions and implement this
system
in the Graz FEDORA-Commons-Infrastructure GAMS (
http://gams.uni-graz.at/doku) as a proof of concept.
* Professional Qualifications*
- Relevant doctoral university degree (or research experience of at
least four years), preferably in the Humanities.
- Prior experience with scholarly editing and canonical reference
systems.
- Ability to present the subject in English (spoken and written).
- High level of commitment and motivation for scientific work and
international collaboration.
*Formal Requirements*
This position is funded through the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial
Training Network (DiXiT). To download the mandatory Application Form, visit
dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellowships/application/. Note that applicants
- must be in possession of a doctoral degree (or have research
experience of at least four years) and have less than five years of
full-time equivalent research experience.
- must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work,
studies, etc.) in the country of their host organization (i.e.
Austria) for
more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to recruitment.
- must be willing to spend a time period of up to 2 months of their
tenure at one of the DiXiT partner institutions.
*Application Deadline: 29 January, 2016*
Send your application, consisting of a letter of intent, your CV and a
brief outline (up to 1 page) of a specific project you would like to
realize in the context of this position by e-mail to zim(a)uni-graz.at or by
regular mail to:
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
University of Graz
Elisabethstraße 59/III, A-8010 Graz
The completed Application Form must be sent separately to:
dixit-info(a)uni-koeln.de
For further information see
dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellowships/experienced-researchers/ or contact the
Centre at zim(a)uni-graz.at or +43 316 380 2292.
οἶδα μὲν οἶδα σφαλμάτων πολλῶν γέμον
<http://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occ/2101> www.dbbe.ugent.be/occ/2101
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are delighted to announce the official launch of the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE), freely accessible at <http://www.dbbe.ugent.be> www.dbbe.ugent.be. Hosted by Ghent University, this database seeks to collect all book epigrams (or: metrical paratexts) found in Greek manuscripts up to 1500.
You can search our corpus for a specific epigram or browse through it by a number of parameters such as date and type of manuscript. The information provided is based on catalogues, scholarly publications as well as our own consultation of manuscripts. We sincerely hope that DBBE will be of use for classicists and Byzantinists, literary scholars, linguists, palaeographers, art historians, and anyone generally interested in medieval manuscript culture.
Please be aware that this is a beta release. We are constantly including new data and working hard to guarantee the accuracy of the information provided. Moreover, we are counting on your feedback in order to improve and expand our database. Comments, corrections as well as suggestions for the inclusion of new material will be warmly welcomed and duly acknowledged.
We wish you an inspiring journey through the wondrous world of Byzantine book epigrams.
For the whole DBBE team ( <http://www.dbbe.ugent.be/about> www.dbbe.ugent.be/about),
Floris Bernard
Marc De Groote
Kristoffel Demoen
Ilse De Vos
Mark Janse
Rachele Ricceri
Dimitrios Skrekas
Maria Tomadaki
The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarianship (CAPAL) is hosting its 2016 Conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada: May 29-May 31, 2016 (preceded on May 28 with a pre-conference workshop on research).
Please consider submitting a proposal for this conference. The formal Call for Proposals is attached in both English and French.
Harriet.
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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/HarrietSonnedeTorrenshttps://utlibrarians.wordpress.com/
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Dear Colleagues,
Registration is now open for the 'Digital Editing Now’ conference, details below. Please circulate with colleagues and students.
Best wishes,
Orietta
7-9 January, 2016
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
University of Cambridge
For programme and booking, see: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26264
In recent years, there has been a significant shift in scholarly culture and funding
strategies towards digital formats for edition projects. This is driven by the potential
for new forms of production, presentation and access that the digital promises. And it
involves a reassessment of the conventions that have determined editorial practice in
the age of print. This conference gathers together leading figures in the field to
exchange ideas about the state of digital editing, its future potential, challenges
and limits. How should we place ourselves relative to fundamental issues of authority/openness,
durability/fluidity? Can we establish a set of ideal types for digital editorial method,
or would its optimal strengths rather lie in more hybrid forms, including a productive
mode of cohabitation with the print formats that it appears to want to supersede?
***********************************
Dr Orietta Da Rold
University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500
Faculty of English
9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
01223 335089
Fellow of St John´s College
Cambridge, CB2 1TP
01223 768181
od245(a)cam.ac.uk
North Carolina State University is pleased to announce that it will be
participating in the Council on Library and Information Resource's
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Medieval Studies program,
under which we will be hiring a fellow for the 2016-18 academic years. For
details on the position, please see
*http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/north-carolina-state-university
<http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/north-carolina-state-uni…>.*
The deadline for applications is December 30th; for more information,
please see http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants.
Please address any questions to Timothy Stinson at tlstinso(a)ncsu.edu.
--
Timothy L. Stinson
Associate Professor
Department of English
North Carolina State University
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/tlstinso
Reconstructing the Beauvais Missal: Gratulation for this inspiring project.
I mentioned the problem of broking up manuscripts in my Blog Archivalia in
2013. Archivalia has a new adress:
http://archivalia.hypotheses.org/6145
Klaus Graf
2015-12-04 2:04 GMT+01:00 <dm-l-request(a)uleth.ca>:
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> From: Lisa Fagin Davis <lfd(a)themedievalacademy.org>
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> Subject: [dm-l] Reconstructing the Beauvais Missal
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> Those of you whose collections include a leaf or two of the Beauvais
> Missal may be interested in my ongoing online project devoted to
> reconstructing and studying the manuscript:
>
> http://brokenbooks2.omeka.net
>
> On the site, you will find images and metadata for 94 known leaves of
> the manuscript as well as initial findings about the Missal and a link
> to a digital surrogate (a test case for the University of St. Louis
> Center for Digital Humanities' Broken Books [1]project).
>
> Please contact me you have any questions about the project or your
> leaf's metadata, or if you know of any leaves of the Missal that I
> haven't included. In addition, if your leaf has an OPAC record, please
> feel free to send me the PURL so I can include it.
>
> Many thanks -
>
> Lisa
>
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> ? Lisa Fagin Davis
> ? Executive Director
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> ? Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org
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> Links:
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> 1. http://165.134.241.141/brokenBooks/home.html?demo=1
>