*Apologies for Cross-Postings*
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:
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.
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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 Matija,
Another web resource that you may want to take into account is the Portuguese
Early Music Database. It allows free and universal access to a large number of
manuscripts with musical notation written before c. 1650 preserved in many
different libraries and archives in Portugal and surrounding Spanish locations.
Every manuscript is given in full-colour reproduction and entered with a
general description.
http://pemdatabase.eu/
Kind regards,
Elsa De Luca
Post-doc research Assistant in Medieval Music
Music Department, University of Bristol
https://bristol.academia.edu/ElsaDeLuca
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>Da: matija.ogrin(a)zrc-sazu.si
>Data: 27/11/2015 15.39
>A: <dm-l(a)uleth.ca>
>Ogg: [dm-l] small and large collections
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>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
>
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>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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Dear digital medievalists,
The following CfP might be of interest for some of you.
Best, Franz
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CfP: WORDS – Medieval Textuality and its Material Display
Paris, June 30th – July 2nd 2016
Closing date: 30th January 2016
WORDS
Medieval Textuality and its Material Display
Paris, June 30th – July 2nd 2016
Keynote Speakers:
Eric Palazzo (Université de Poitiers)
Geoffrey Koziol (University of California, Berkeley)
For its 13th Annual Symposium to be held in Paris, the International
Medieval Society invites abstracts on the theme of Words in the Middle
Ages. The digital humanities, while altering the landscape of Medieval
Studies as a whole, have most importantly overhauled the concept,
appearance, and analysis of words and texts. Between the increasing use
of paperless media forms and the rise in the number of digital
collections, medievalists are seeking to adapt to these new means of
producing knowledge about the Middle Ages. At the same time, scholars in
this field are also trying to outline the methodological and historical
issues that affect the study of words, which now simultaneously exist in
the form of primary sources, codices, rolls, charters and inscriptions,
digitally reproduced images, and the statistical and lexicographical
data made possible by storage platforms and analytical tools.
In parallel with the digital humanities, the 13th Annual IMS Symposium
on WORDS aims to return to words themselves and to probe the
intellectual, technical and aesthetic principles that underpin their use
and social function in medieval graphical practices. By analysing the
material and symbolic properties of a particular medium; the conditions
in which texts become signs; and scribal expertise, this symposium will
address questions that initially seem simple yet which define the very
foundations of medieval written culture. What is a word? What are its
components? How does it appear in a given medium? What is the
relationship between word and text, word and letter, word and medium,
word and reader? In a Middle Ages forever torn between economic and
extravagant language, what is the status of the word and what kind of
elements – visual or acoustic, linguistic or extralinguistic – does it
contain?
This IMS Symposium will thus explore (but is not limited to) four broad
themes with a particular focus on medieval France, Francia and
post-Roman Gaul:
1) Words and wording: medieval discourse on texts and writing; texts
that reflect upon the act of writing (the poetic arts, prologues,
colophons and signatures); the relationship between the writer (scribe,
copyist, notary, stonecutter) and words, between copy and creation.
2) Words in and of themselves: the word between alphabetical
symbol/grapheme and other symbols; images and sounds of words (nomina
sacra, punctuation, poetic features); musical notation
(naming/interpretation of neumes, litterae significativae); variations
of meaning e.g. between mots and paroles; hierarchies of writing and of
content.
3) Words and matter: the word and its format; the concept of the
pagina, its definition, margins and limits, from manuscripts to
inscriptions; the material turn and palaeography; writing and object,
from book to amulet; the word beyond the text (images, heraldry,
emblems, numismatics); impressions and the first printed texts, beyond
the act of writing.
4) Beyond words: content-less words (pseudo-writing,
pseudo-alphabets, pseudo-texts); word, name and identity; etymologies;
word games and wordplay; the middle-ground between word and text
(calligrams, anagrams, epigrams); the relationship between words and
music (verse, prose etc. as expressed in melodies).
Through these broad themes, we aim to encourage the participation of
researchers with varying backgrounds and fields of expertise:
historians, specialists in the auxiliary sciences (palaeographers,
epigraphists, codicologists, numismatists) art historians,
musicologists, philologists, literary specialists…By bringing together a
wide variety of papers that both survey and explore this field, the IMS
Symposium intends to bring a fresh perspective to the word in medieval
culture.
Proposals of no more than 300 words (in English or French) for a
20-minute paper should be e-mailed to communications.ims.paris(a)gmail.com
<mailto:communications.ims.paris@gmail.com> by 30th January 2016. Each
should be accompanied by full contact information, a CV, and a list of
the audio-visual equipment that you require.
Please be aware that the IMS-Paris submissions review process is highly
competitive and is carried out on a strictly anonymous basis. The
selection committee will email applicants in February to notify them of
its decision. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the
IMS-Paris website. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for
their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros,
reduced for students, free for IMS-Paris members).
The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (French/English)
organisation that fosters exchanges between French and foreign scholars.
For the past ten years, the IMS has served as a centre for medievalists
who travel to France to conduct research, work, or study. For more
information about the IMS-Paris and past symposia programmes, please
visit our website: www.ims-paris.org <http://www.ims-paris.org/>.
IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize:
The IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best paper proposal
by a graduate student. Applications should consist of:
1) a symposium paper abstract/proposal
2) an outline of a current research project (PhD. dissertation research)
3) the names and contact information of two academic referees
The prize-winner will be selected by the board and a committee of
honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the Symposium.
An award of 350 euros to support international travel/accommodation
(within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the Symposium.
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Dear all,
the programme for the fourth annual AIUCD conference ("Digital
humanities and cultural heritage: what relationship?") is now available
at the URL http://www.aiucd2015.unito.it/node/12. The invited speakers
are evenly spread among the three days of the conference: our keynote
speaker will be Franco Niccolucci, Scientific Director of VAST-LAB
(PIN-Università di Firenze), coordinator of several European research
projects in the Digital Cultural Heritage area; we will also have as
invited speakers Leif Isaksen, Senior Lecturer in History (Digital
Humanities) at Lancaster University, Caterina Bon, Direttore Generale
della Direzione Generale “Educazione e Ricerca” of MiBACT, and Davide
Porporato, researcher in Antropologia at Università degli Studi del
Piemonte Orientale.
In the AIUCD website, at the address
http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/iscrizione-al-convegno-aiucd-2015/ you
can pay the registration fee for the AIUCD2015 conference. The fees are
differentiated for associates of AIUCD and not, and senior and junior
situations. Senior applies to people with a permanent job, junior to
students or people without a permanent job. You choose according to your
situation.
Warm greetings from the organizing committee, we hope to meet you in
Turin in December!
R
--
Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it
Dipartimento di Studi rosselli at ling.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)
[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
Venue
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid, Spain)
Information
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 live or deferred.
How to register and more information on our website:
https://www.fundacion.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/10854
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/
Dear list members,
Apologies for possible cross posting. I'd thought colleagues in the field
might be interested in the following workshop announcement.
All the best
--Joris van Zundert
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WORKSHOP AUTOMATED HANDWRITTEN TEXT RECOGNITION TRANSKRIBUS AND THE
‘RESOLUTIONS OF THE DUTCH STATES-GENERAL’ (Den Haag, Netherlands, 25
November 2015)
The workshop introduces Transkribus and is organized by Huygens ING, INL
and the tranScriptorium project. Transkribus is developed in the EU funded
project tranScriptorium, a research infrastructure for transcribing and
automated text recognition of historical documents.
Automated recognition of handwritten documents (HTR) is no longer wishful
thinking but a real option. Whether it concerns medieval codices or modern
archival documents, HTR is not only able to create an automated
transcription, it also offers significantly improved search capabilities
through new search methods (“keyword spotting”).
Until recently, intensive efforts by specialized researchers have been the
only way to make the content of the resolutions accessible. In the new
project, alternative ways to make the content of the resolutions accessible
for researchers and other users are explored. Huygens-ING carries out a
number of pilot projects to clarify to which extent advanced ICT techniques
and tools can reduce the dependency on manual labor. Working with HTR is
one of these pilots.
The workshop shows preliminary results of a training set of the 17th
century resolutions of the Dutch Staten-Generaal (Estates General), of
automated structuring of printed 18th century resolutions. Moreover, it
also offers a hands-on Transkribus session for the participants.
The transcripts of the *Resolutions of the States-General *consist of
200.000 pages of handwritten text that not only reflect the invention and
early development of the new Dutch State, but also are a witness of the
daily political activities of the “Hoogmogende Heren”.
*Programme*
Automated Handwritten Text Recognition – Transkribus and the project
‘Resolutions of the Dutch States-General’. Friday, 27 November 2015 The
Hague.
- 10.30-12.15 Lectures – This session offers an insight into the
technology behind Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), introduces the
Transkribus platform and will reveal the results of HTR applied to the
resolutions of the Dutch Staten-Generaal. In addition, it shows the results
automated structuring and interpretation of printed 18th century
resolutions.
- 10.00 Walk in, coffee and tea
- 10.30 Introduction by Lex Heerma van Voss, director of the Huygens
ING
- 10.40 Véronica Romero (Universitat Politècnica de València) –
Interactive Handwritten Text Recognition and indexing of historical
documents: the tranScriptorum Project
- 11.00 Ronald Sluijter (Huygens ING) – Introduction to the
Resolutions of the Staten-Generaal
- 11.10 Jesse de Does (Institute for Dutch Lexicology) – HTR on the
hand-written Resolutions of the Staten-Generaal
- 11.30 Walter Ravenek (Huygens ING)– Structure and interpretation of
the printed Resolutions of the Staten-Generaal 1725
- 11.50 Günter Mühlberger (University of Innsbruck)- Recognition and
Enrichment of Archival Documents – the READ Project. e-Infrastructure for
Humanities Scholars, Archives, Computer Scientists and the Public.
- 12.15 Lunch
- 13.30 Hands-on session Transkribus
During the second part the participants get the opportunity to try out
Transkribus on their own laptops to get a sense of the stage the technology
is in and what it can mean for their own work.
For this goal we ask participants to install Transkribus beforehand.
Instructions for this will be send to you prior to the meeting.
16.00 Drinks
*Place*
Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Prins
Willem-Alexanderhof 5, The Hague (the Netherlands)
*Links*
- EU FP7 Projekt tranScriptorium: http://transcriptorium.eu/
- TRANSKRIBUS Plattform: http://transkribus.eu/
*Registration*
Register via: congres(a)huygens.knaw.nl. Please indicate whether you intend
to attend just the morning program or the hands-on session as well.
The workshop is aimed at scholars who are involved in the transcription and
editing of historical documents. The number of participants is limited,
registrations will be accepted in the order of arrival. Registration
deadline is 20 November 2015.
Please bring your own laptop to the Workshop!
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Dear colleagues,
It is a pleasure for us to announce that registration is open 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/
Dear colleagues,
It is a pleasure for us to announce that registration is open 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/