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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
by rsebastia14＠gmail.com 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure for us to announce at the Open University announced that the registration period is extended until March 13, for the two courses offered by the Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD): the “Experto professional en Humanidades Digitales” http://linhd.uned.es/p/titulo-propio-experto-profesional-en-humanidades-dig… in its second edition (specialization course in Digital Humanities), and the “Experto Profesional en Edición Digital Académica” http://linhd.uned.es/p/titulo-propio-experto-en-edicion-digital-academica/ (specialization course in Digital Scholarly Editing). Registration is open till 1st December and admissions are limited. The courses will start in January 2015 and will end in September. Each of them consists of 30 units, and will be taught completely online and in Spanish. We hope that this initiative will let users a deeper knowledge of digital humanities and digital scholarly editing. Please, feel free to circulate this message among all people that could be interested in following any of these programs. Best regards, Elena González-Blanco García Director of the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)http://linhd.uned.es/ Rosa Sebastià LINHD http://linhd.uned.es/

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small and large collections
by Matija Ogrin 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Dear Colleagues, Can you please give any example of a (small) digital collection of manuscript or printed primary sources which, 1) operates as an independent web-portal AND also 2) their data are in some way included/aggregated into some large collection or digital library? I am particularly interested in what happens as data pass from a "small" into a "large" digital resource? What kind of data are most suitable and frequent object of such aggregation in our area of digital humanities: only meta-data, or also msDesc, digital images, transcriptions? How "visible" is the original small collection after the aggregation? Etc. I hope this is not an off-topic question. Thank you for any advice, Matija -- Matija Ogrin, dr. Register of Early Modern Slovenian Manuscripts (NRSS) <http://ezb.ijs.si/nrss/> Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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Workshop TexGrid. LINHD-UNED
by gimena del rio riande 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

[UPDATED INFORMATION. apologies for cross-posting] Workshop. "Digital Scholarly Editions: From Analogue Material to Digital Publication" Organized by the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED / Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (LINHD-UNED) and the Research & Development Department of the Göttingen State and University Library Date December 14th–16th, 2015 Venue Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid, Spain) Sala Sáenz Torrecilla de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales de la UNED c/ Obispo Trejo, 2 28040 Madrid *Schedule, how to register and information:* http://linhd.uned.es/p/workshop-la-edicion-digital-academica-de-lo-analogic… This workshop will deal with theoretical problems regarding the digitization process, text encoding (TEI), digital storage and publication of digital texts, and it will discuss topics of interest with regard to current developments in the Digital Humanities, such as the ones related to infrastructure and long-term preservation. It will offer the opportunity to work on two hands-on sessions with the new version of the TextGrid Editor and its tools applied to the digital edition of the Cancionero Musical de Palacio and other Castilian medieval texts. Participants are invited to bring their own materials to discuss mark-up and edition problems. The languages of the workshop will be English (mainly) and Spanish, and it may be followed at UNED, online or deferred. Best regards Gimena del Rio Riande (CONICET-LINHD) and Elena González Blanco (LINHD-UNED) Gimena del Rio Investigadora. Seminario de Edición y Crítica Textual (SECRIT-IIBICRIT CONICET) http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 http://aahd.com.ar/

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Reconstructing the Beauvais Missal
by Lisa Fagin Davis 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

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 -- 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 Links: 1. http://165.134.241.141/brokenBooks/home.html?demo=1

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Manuscript Studies @ Penn
by Dot Porter 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

Hello list, CLIR is in the process of announcing the next bunch of postdocs in the "Data Curation for Medieval Studies" program, and it includes one at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, focused specifically on Digital Manuscript Studies. I've copied the complete description below, and it's also available on the CLIR website: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/university-of-pennsylvan…. The Deadline for application for all the postdocs is December 30th; application specifics are here: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants I'm happy to answer any questions about the Penn post. The other postdocs in the program are listed here: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/dc-medieval Thanks, Dot ********* University of Pennsylvania *Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Manuscript Studies* The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek an innovative and energetic CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Manuscript Studies to play an integral role in the working life of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Penn’s Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. *About the Position:* The Fellow will work on the SIMS team on several overlapping initiatives that explore both the materiality of medieval manuscripts as within a digital context and the possibilities of analyzing texts that the codices contain. These initiatives include: - Collation Visualization, a developing set of tools that enable scholars to virtually model and visualize the physical construction of manuscripts, relating the models to digital images and content https://github.com/leoba/VisColland http://dorpdev.library.upenn.edu/collation/ - Digital Editions, a project to create image-based editions of medieval manuscripts from our own and other collections and publish them online. (Complete: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljs225/, <http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljs225/>under development: http://schoenberginstitute.org/pembroke25) - Manuscript Ebooks, an ongoing project to create ebooks (in the epub format) from manuscripts in OPenn and from other open source repositories. http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks <http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/>/ <http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/> - Kalendarium, a project to build a crowd-sourced digital tool for collecting and identifying all the world’s medieval liturgical calendars. Begun at Penn, participants now include Stanford University and the Morgan Library as well as universities in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Scotland. http://schoenberginstitute.org/kalendarium/ - Video Facsimiles, an experimental project to create high-quality videos of complete manuscripts and annotate them on textual content, visual content, and issues of materiality. http://scalar.usc.edu/works/video-facsimiles/index - Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, currently in year two of a three-year, $300,000 grant from the NEH, which collects information about both the current and historic locations of the world's pre-1600 manuscript books, creating a metacatalogue for finding and indexing the world's manuscripts. http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/ - Video Orientations, short (1-2 minute) videos that briefly introduce our manuscripts to a general audience, which are stored in our scholarly repository, shared on social media, and linked to manuscript records in our OPAC.http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/ The centerpiece of the Fellow’s work will be developing a new initiative in conjunction with SIMS staff and using Penn’s physical and digital resources. This initiative may be a single extended project, or several short-term projects. This would be a two-year position, funded by the Mellon Foundation (via CLIR) and the Penn Libraries. *Required Qualifications:* - PhD in an area of medieval studies, with a concentration in the history of the book - Working knowledge of at least two non-English languages *Preferred Qualifications:* - Experience with prior digital projects and some knowledge of programming *Fellow Responsibilities:* - Contribute to the work of SIMS by supporting existing work as relevant to his or her interests, and develop his or her own initiative to work on during the course of the fellowship, as described above. - Participate in the ongoing digitization of medieval manuscripts through cataloging new manuscripts and generating metadata for existing manuscripts. - Assist the library in the adoption of new technologies for access to medieval material, including the International Image Interoperability Framework http://iiif.io/ - Participate in the curation of special collections library data, including: - Curation of data in OPenn (our open access collection of digitized medieval manuscript data:http://openn.library.upenn.edu/ - Development of a data repository in the library for data already available through Penn; - Curation of originally developed video content. - Participate in the acquisition of manuscript-related digital resources by Penn Libraries. - Make regular contributions to the Penn Libraries Manuscripts Tumblr (http://upennmanuscripts.tumblr.com/ At Penn the Fellow will receive mentoring and guidance from experts in the field. These include Dot Porter (Curator of Digital Research Services), Will Noel (Director – SIMS and Kislak Center), Doug Emery (Digital Content Programmer), Robert Ousterhout (Professor of History of Art, Director of the Center for Ancient Studies), as well as the wider Philadelphia history of the book community. The Fellow will be hosted by SIMS and have a joint appointment in the department of the History of Art at Penn. He or she will also participate in the programs of the Kislak Center and the department of the History of Art. These include organizing seminars on best digital practices, delivering lectures, and curating exhibitions. The Fellow will help plan, solicit contributions, and speak at the ninth annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age in 2017. This will provide the Fellow with a platform for presenting new developments in the field of medieval data curation, including those to which he or she has contributed. *About the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Kislak Center* The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is a teaching and research center devoted to the study of manuscripts in their material and digital forms. Housed in the Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, SIMS emphasizes hands-on work with unique witnesses to the past through the practical study of paleography, codicology, illumination, book arts, book history and the history of science and medicine, among many other fields. These primary source materials offer the Penn community and scholars everywhere unprecedented opportunities for collaboration in multidisciplinary research and scholarship. SIMS engages with regional and international institutions to foster study and use of the collection through lectures, symposia, publications, and digitization programs, and holds a firm commitment to develop and promote digital technologies that instruct and inspire scholars and students around the world through forward-thinking open-access policies. The Kislak Center is the product of a $17 million renovation project and houses an extraordinary collection of rare books and manuscripts. Its mission is to bring collections, modern technology, and a wide base of patrons together to facilitate access to our common cultural heritage. The fellow will benefit from the combined skills and knowledge of the Kislak Center’s staff as well as faculty of the humanities departments, and the wider resources, of the University. Through its faculty and library resources, the University of Pennsylvania has long been at the forefront of book history and material text research, especially in the medieval and early modern period. The fellow will play a key role in developing this field through his or her research as an integral part of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies team. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 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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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies
by Haraldur Bernharðsson 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

The University of Iceland offers two international graduate programs in medieval studies: (1) Medieval Icelandic Studies, a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters' (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester's worth (30 ECTS) master's thesis. The summer semester is the thesis semester, which means that the program can be completed in 13 months. See http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat… (2) Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, a four-semester (120 ECTS) graduate program run in cooperation with the University of Oslo in Norway, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University in Denmark. The first year--60 ECTS' worth of course work--take place in Iceland, but the third semester is spent either in Oslo, Aarhus, or Copenhagen, completing 30 ECTS of courses. The fourth semester is devoted to writing the master's thesis, and can be spent in Iceland or Oslo. See http://oldnorse.is/ Both programs are designed specifically for international students. The language of instruction is English. Application deadline: February 1st, 2016 --------------------- Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medieval Studies University of Iceland -- The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies Árnagarði við Suðurgötu IS-101 Reykjavík I C E L A N D + 354 525-4023 / +354 891-7511 - haraldr(a)hi.is - https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/ - Skype: haraldur_bernhardsson ---------------------

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CfP 2nd MEDEA Workshop on "Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts", Wheaton Mass. April 6-8 2016
by Georg Vogeler 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Second MEDEA Workshop Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, April 6-8, 2016 Account books allow scholars to explore the development of economic behavior on both a macro- and micro-structural level. In our first workshop at the University of Regensburg in October 2015, we heard from scholars who have begun to explore models for digitizing such sources in projects in Europe and the United States. Our second workshop will include reports on testing of models from the first workshop as well as presentations by scholars new to the MEDEA project. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has developed useful models to encode texts and digital scholarly editions, and the Semantic Web offers opportunities to collect and compare data from multiple digital projects. The MEDEA project looks at these methods with the goal of developing broad standards for producing semantically enriched digital editions of accounts. It fosters discussion of benefits and deficiencies in existing standards by bringing together economic historians, scholarly editors, and technical experts to discuss and test emerging methods for semantic markup of account books. For this purpose we call for contributions of scholars with experiences in the scholarly edition of historical financial records and ideas about how to use digital methods within this context. We invite proposals for participation in our second workshop, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts (USA), April 6-8, 2016. Participants will present current research projects using data from historical account books, describe the encoding models of their projects, and share ideas for a common model. The discussions and examples will focus on a set of questions intended to elucidate the features of accounts of greatest interest to scholars. Thus the activities will focus on the following issues: How might we model the economic activities recorded in these documents? In particular: What models of bookkeeping were followed historically and how can they be represented formally? Are data models developed for modern business reporting helpful? How can we model the economic reality behind the texts? Can we establish common resources on metrics and currencies or even the value of money that can be reused in other projects? Is it possible to build common taxonomies of commodities and services to facilitate the comparison of financial information recorded at different places and times? That is, can we develop references on the order of name authorities and standards for geo-referencing? How might we integrate topological information of the transcription with its financial interpretation? Is the “table” an appropriate method? What possibilities are offered by the TEI Manuscripts module and use of the tei:zone element? How can we integrate a topological/documentary approach and the growing linguistic interest in the texts with the interpretations that economic and social historians extract from the documents? Submit proposals (not to exceed 700 words) to medea.workshop(a)ur.de by January 15, 2016. The program committee will notify applicants of results no later than January 31, 2016. We particularly encourage proposals from early-career researchers. A limited budget is available to support costs of travel and accommodation. Please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information. See more details on the project and abstracts/presentations from the first workshop in Regensburg at http://medea.hypotheses.org/.

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**Revised CFP-CAPAL16: BEYOND THE LIBRARY: AGENCY, PRACTICE, AND SOCIETY
by Harriet Sonne de Torrens 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

**Apologies for the Cross-postings. Please see “potential topics * added below. Thank you.** Call for Proposals CAPAL16: BEYOND THE LIBRARY: AGENCY, PRACTICE, AND SOCIETY CAPAL/ACBAP Annual Conference – May 28–June 3, 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) invites participation in its annual conference, to be held as part of Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (http://congress2016.ca/). The conference offers opportunity to share critical research and scholarship, challenge current thinking, and forge new relationships across all disciplines. THEME In keeping with the 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. What can the discipline of library and information studies (LIS) learn from other disciplines? What might LIS as an interdisciplinary field look like? Where and how should academic librarianship be situated within and in relation to other communities? RATIONALE Like any institution, academic libraries both reflect and help shape the societies of which they are part. It is therefore critical for academic librarians to consider how they and their work are situated – professionally, ontologically, ethically, epistemologically, and physically. As social agents, we share and occupy socio-economic, political, and technological spaces in our efforts to provide diverse, high quality, informational resources and critical education within a contemporary (i.e., neoliberal) legal and economic framework. In such an environment, effecting change requires seeking out, examining, and engaging with new ideas, approaches, theories, communities, understandings, and ways of knowing, which, themselves, may fall outside the traditional boundaries of the discipline of library and information studies. We need to move our lines of inquiry “beyond the library”–physically and intellectually–into new arenas and new communities. This conference is an invitation to academic librarians and scholars who study libraries and information to discuss how we can reframe academic librarianship: in practice, in policy, in theory, and in society. Potential topic areas include but are not limited to: · Academic librarianship in the context of urgent socio-political priorities, such as climate change, environmental sustainability, and social equity; · The relationship between academic librarianship and democracy; · Academic librarianship and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples; · Indigenizing, decolonizing, diversity, and inclusion in academic librarianship; · The philosophical bases of academic librarianship in social theory; · The history of academic librarianship and the role of academic librarians in the academy; · The potentially biased treatment of controversial issues and scholarly debates in knowledge organization and information retrieval systems; · The sociology of knowledge mobilization; · Academic librarianship and its relationship to the design of user spaces; · Academic librarianship’s response to privacy and security in the “post-Snowden” era; · Community development, “town-gown” relationships, and academic librarianship; · Core values of academic librarianship in mediated spaces; · Critical theory, interdisciplinary approaches and subject expertise in LIS education for academic librarians. SUBMISSION INFORMATION The Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers as well as proposals for panel submissions of three papers. Individual papers are typically 20 minutes in length. For individual papers, please submit an abstract of 300 words and a presentation title, with brief biographical statement and your contact information. For complete panels, please submit a panel abstract of 300 words as well as a list of all participants and brief biographical statements, and a separate abstract of 300 words for each presenter. Please identify and provide participants’ contact information for the panel organizer. International proposals and proposals from non-members and students are welcome. Please feel free to contact the Program Committee to discuss a topic for a paper, panel, or other session format. Proposals should be emailed as an attachment as a doc. or docx. file, using the following filename format: Lastname_Keywordoftopic.docx Proposals and questions should be directed to the Program Chairs: Michael Dudley: m.dudley(a)uwinnipeg.ca<mailto:m.dudley@uwinnipeg.ca> John Wright: jpwright(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:jpwright@ucalgary.ca> Deadline for proposals: January 4th, 2016. ******************************************************************************* 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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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
by rsebastia14＠gmail.com 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
by rsebastia14＠gmail.com 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

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