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Ad fontes hacks Cappelli
by Tobias Hodel 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

with apologies for cross-posting The Ad fontes project (www.adfontes.uzh.ch <http://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/>) is going to hack Cappelli! We want to digitally hack the Lexicon abbreviaturarum of Adriano Cappelli into pieces in order to digitize and make each and every abbreviation systematically searchable. The „Cappelli“, printed in 1899, is a benchmark book for abbreviations in Latin and Italian, containing about 15'000 abbreviations. By crowdsourcing Cappelli, the abbreviations are going to be searchable beyond alphabetical traits. Browsing through the pages of Cappelli will be a thing of the past. You will be able to filter the abbreviations by identified letters or the position of abbreviation or contraction signs. The data gathered will be made available to the public for free (using a creative commons license). We aim to digitize all of Cappelli’s abbreviations by the end of 2015. Help us hack Cappelli and be part of this global endeavor (see also the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkorEJPTlc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkorEJPTlc>): http://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/cappelli <http://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/cappelli> For inquiries and questions: adfontes(a)hist.uzh.ch <mailto:adfontes@hist.uzh.ch> Best, Tobias Webinterface to crowdsource Cappelli ------ Tobias Hodel Projekt «Ad fontes» Universität Zürich

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Job posting: Programmer Analyst, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
by Lynn Ransom 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

**Apologies for cross-posting & please distribute freely and widely!** Programmer Analyst for the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries With a growing collection of over 225,000 records representing approximately 100,000 manuscripts, the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM <http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg/index.html> ) is the largest freely available repository of data on manuscript books produced before 1600. The SDBM, maintained by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, is being redeveloped into an online, open-access, collaborative tool for researching the historic and current locations of the world's pre-modern manuscripts. We are seeking to fill a two-year, full-time, NEH-funded Programmer Analyst position to take over the technical development of the New SDBM. Working directly with the project manager and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS <http://schoenberginstitute.org/> ) Digital Content Programmer, the PA will continue the development of the New SDBM, a crowd-sourced application providing web, mobile, and application interfaces for the discovery, access, and entry of manuscript data, using the Ruby on Rails framework, jQuery, Blacklight, and AngularJS. The PA will also work with Library Technology Services (LTS) to integrate the New SDBM with the Library's Digital Library Architecture (DLA). For more information on requirements and salary and to apply, go to: https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/postings/13447 (IT Graded Rank: B; Ref. no: 50-21143)

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Fwd: I: [Corpora-List] Call for abstracts: Diachronic Treebanks (Workshop at SLE-2016)
by Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

> >> Da: corpora-bounces(a)uib.no <corpora-bounces(a)uib.no> per conto di Passarotti Marco Carlo <marco.passarotti(a)unicatt.it> >> Inviato: lunedì 5 ottobre 2015 18.16 >> A: corpora(a)uib.no >> Oggetto: [Corpora-List] Call for abstracts: Diachronic Treebanks (Workshop at SLE-2016) >> >> ***Diachronic Treebanks*** >> >> - Workshop at the 49th SLE meeting, Naples Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2016 - >> >> >> >> Convenors: Hanne Eckhoff (University of Tromsø, Norway), Silvia Luraghi (Università di Pavia, Italy), Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) >> >> >> >> The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in historical linguistics, who combine a solid linguistic background with an interest for the exploitation of electronic resources, and in particular of syntactically parsed corpora, in research on language change. We welcome proposals addressing diachronic issues under any type of approach and methodology, provided that they highlight the contribution of empirical evidence retrieved from treebanks in achieving meaningful results. >> >> >> >> MOTIVATION AND AIMS >> Over the last two decades, treebanks have become an increasingly useful instrument for data-driven study of linguistic structures at various levels. The proliferation of treebanks has led to a very large number of resources available for different languages, which can support comparative research of various issues cross-linguistically. In recent years, a growing number of treebanks has also become available for ancient languages and for different historical stages of the same language: the York-Toronto-Helsinki corpus (http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang22/YcoeHome1.htm) and the Penn Corpora of Historical English (https://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/) for English, Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank (https://nestor.uit.no) and RRuDi (https://www.slawistik.hu-berlin.de/de/member/meyerrol/subjekte/rrudi) for Russian, PROIEL (http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/proiel/) for various ancient Indo-European languages and recently extended to host treebanks for medieval stages of Romance and Germanic languages, Perseus Latin and Ancient Greek Dependency Treebanks (http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/) for Latin and Ancient Greek, the Index Thomisticus Treebank (http://itreebank.marginalia.it) for Latin, and several others. This allows data extraction aimed to assessing the scope and the effects of diachronic developments, managing a large amount of data and retrieving information whose relevance can then be evaluated through statistical methods. Possible issues that can be tackled through diachronic treebanks are potentially numerous and of different nature, and include increasing or decreasing productivity of syntactic or morphological constructions, and, most interesting, interrelationships between different changes that have previously been considered unrelated or whose interrelation is otherwise hard to prove. >> >> >> >> Possible TOPICS include (but are not limited to): >> >> - historical developments of constructions as evidenced by data extracted from diachronic treebanks; >> >> - suitability of different types of treebanks (constituent-based vs. dependency-based) for research on specific diachronic changes; >> >> - correlations between developments in different areas of a language’s grammar; >> >> - similarities and differences between parallel developments of similar changes in different languages; >> >> - how evidence from already known and documented diachronic change can give input for annotation; >> >> - how semantic and/or pragmatic information can be supplied in order to better understand the rationale of changes highlighted by data extracted from treebanks; >> >> - specific issues raised by the development of diachronic treebanks; >> >> - methods and tools to build and access diachronic treebanks; >> >> - issues in data selection for representativeness purposes; >> >> - issues pertaining to scarce and non-standardised data >> >> >> >> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS >> >> We invite you to submit abstracts up to 300 words (references not included) describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Abstracts should be in an editable format (e.g. .doc or .docx; no pdf will be considered), and should be sent to all workshop organizers: >> >> - hanne.m.eckhoff(a)uit.no >> >> - silvia.luraghi(a)unipv.it >> >> - marco.passarotti(a)unicatt.it >> >> >> >> The DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION of the short abstract is NOVEMBER 15, 2015. Abstracts will be evaluated by the convenors, and selected abstracts will accompany the workshop proposal. We will notify you of inclusion in the workshop proposal when we submit it on Nov. 25th. >> Note that if the workshop has been accepted, you will also have to prepare a full abstract and submit it to be reviewed by the SLE scientific committee. The deadline for the submission of full abstracts is January 15, 2016. >> >> For further information, please refer to the SLE meeting webpage at http://sle2016.eu/call-for-papers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora >> Corpora mailing list >> Corpora(a)uib.no >> http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora

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New resource: vHMML
by Kalvesmaki, Joel 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library is very excited to announce the launch of vHMML<http://vhmml.org/>, an online environment for manuscript studies. Creation of vHMML has been supported by a National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, with additional support from Arcadia Fund of London. You can read more about the whole project here<http://vhmml.org/about>. You’ll find instruction in Latin and Syriac scripts in School<http://www.vhmml.org/school>, Latin and Syriac annotated images in Folio<http://folio.as.uky.edu/>, answers to all of your terminological questions (“what does rinceaux mean, anyway?”) in Lexicon<http://vhmml.org/lexicon>, and lots of bibliography in Reference<http://vhmml.org/reference> (exportable to Zotero, and with links to digital versions in archive.org). For now vHMML will take you to our online catalog, OLIVER, but starting in early 2016 it will link to the new vHMML Reading Room where registered users will be able to browse thousands of complete manuscripts for free. vHMML will be continually updated and enriched. Later in 2015 there will be more Syriac lessons, including transcription practice, and in 2016 we’ll add Arabic and Armenian, and possibly other traditions. Please have a look, and let us know your suggestions for improvement or additions: vhmml(a)vhmml.org.

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Digital Editing Now: Call for digital posters
by Orietta Da Rold 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Dear Colleagues, Please, see call for posters below. Feel free to forward to any interested party. Best wishes, Orietta Digital Editing Now: Call for digital posters 7-9 January 2016 Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) University of Cambridge Graduate students and early career scholars with interests in digital edition work are invited to submit proposals for digital posters relating to this field. The selected posters (a main page either in web page format, with the option of links to one or two additional pages, or in pdf) will be projected for five-minute presentations during the course of the conference. Those presenting will receive a bursary towards the costs of attendance. Please send your proposal (maximum 200 words) to Tom Taylor (tmt24(a)cam.ac.uk) by Friday 23 October 2015. 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 will gather interested parties together to exchange ideas about the state of digital editing and its future potential. It will also provide the opportunity to ask critical questions about the limits of the digital. 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? While the conference will be fully open in historical and disciplinary terms, the exchange that is proposed here will be focused around four key sets of concerns, which cut across differences of material and context: Material texts and digital forms What possibilities does digital editing provide to do justice to the material character of the texts it seeks to present, to their physical bedding and the means of their inscription? Can it find creative and meaningful ways of getting close to the experience of the archive? And how does it respond to the need for the kinds of durability and reliability associated with its physical counterparts? Editorial agents and agencies (providers, in various roles, and users) Digital editions are the collaborative product of a range of types of expertise. They bring different agents together (academics, archivists, information technologists) in what can be a delicate process of negotiation between systems of knowledge. At the same time, users – expert and otherwise – experience, and in some cases reconfigure, digital editions, in various ways. How can the collective agency of these networks be made most fruitful? Chronology and topography (genetic and diplomatic methods) Critical editions always have to deal with the tension between presenting the historical genesis of their material and the spatial lay-out of its iterations. How can digital functions convey the relations between the two in dynamic and enlightening fashion? Digital edition and performance practices Digital editing offers the means to open up and enliven a range of different cultural materials. How might it provide a new basis for performance practices, in both live and digitally mediated forms, and in combinations of the two? And how might this extend beyond material self-evidently for performance (music, drama) to other types of resource? *********************************** 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

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Search for an English unedited medieval manuscript
by Johanna Feenstra 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Dear readers, At this moment I am a research student at the University of Groningen. For a course I need to make an edition of a manuscript belonging to my field of expertise. In my case this is the English Middle Ages. However, after asking many of my professors I have not yet come across a satisfying manuscript. Perhaps you can help me out! I am looking for a medieval manuscript in the English vernacular (Old/Middle English) which had not yet been edited. I am aware this query is far-fetched, but I am willing to try anyway. With regard to the content of the manuscript, my preference goes out to something related to magic, charms, bestiary (cats are a pro), supernatural, romance ect. However, even if you might happen to know a manuscripts that only includes the content preferences, I am very eager to learn about it still. Of course, the same stands for the first preference: A unedited manuscript with any other content is also very welcome. I hope some of you have suggestions and I am looking forward to your replies. Best regards, J. Feenstra

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Reminder: DiXiT Convention "Digital Editions: Academia, Society, Cultural Heritage", Cologne, 16-18 March 2016
by Franz Fischer 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

*please circulate widely* *apologies for cross-posting* Reminder: DiXiT Convention "Digital Editions: Academia, Society, Cultural Heritage", Cologne, 16-18 March 2016 CfP Deadline: 16 October 2015! Keynote by Claire Clivaz (University of Lausanne) and Claudine Moulin (University of Trier) Confirmed speakers include Gregory Crane (University of Leipzig), Helene Hahn (Open Knowledge Foundation, Berlin), Ray Siemens (University of Victoria) To be confirmed: Hilde Bøe (Munch Museum, Oslo), Arianna Ciula (University of Roehampton) Club talk by Ben Brumfield (Independent scholar, Texas) The convention organizers invite contributions from everyone working in the field of scholarly editing and its neighbouring areas. Early career scholars are welcome, and a limited number of travel bursaries is available. I. Topics While the convention is open to any research about digital scholarly editing, the focus will be on its relation to academia, society and cultural heritage. As such, topics for the sessions may especially include: * textual criticism and the future of the high standard critical edition * open/public knowledge: mutual benefit for academia & society * social editing, crowdsourcing, citizen science * issues of rights and ethics related to scholarly editions * scholarly curation and usage of cultural heritage data * museums, libraries & archives as data providers for the edition * dissemination, sustainability and addressability of digital heritage assets * publishing the edition and the role of publishers * editors and the job market: career prospects * and others We encourage exploratory papers and posters. The conference will be preceded by a day dedicated to workshops on: * Publishing Models for Digital Scholarly Editions * Aggregation of Digital Cultural Content and Metadata Mapping * XML-Free Scholarly Editing II. Submissions We invite proposals for papers and posters. In the case of papers, speakers will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. We ask those interested in presenting a paper or poster to email their proposal to dixit-info(a)uni-koeln.de. The proposal should include: * name and email of the presenter * title of the paper * abstract (ca. 400 words) The deadline for submission is 16 October 2015. A decision about acceptance and the subsequent notifications will be made in early December 2015. Information about registration for the convention and workshops will follow. Every announcement can be found on the DiXiT website: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/. On behalf of the Organization Committee Franz -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 Email: franz.fischer(a)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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DiXiT fellowship in Borås: Digital scholarly editing and memory,institutions
by Georg Vogeler 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

Senior researcher fellowship: "Digital scholarly editing and memory institutions" The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) at the University of Borås (http://www.hb.se/en/), Sweden, is offering a Marie Curie funded fellowship for an Experienced Researcher in the DiXiT project (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network, http://dixit.uni-koeln.de). The position is full-time, with a fixed-term employment for 12 months, starting March 1 2016, and located at SSLIS. Description: The study of this Experienced Researcher project aims to critically explore the range of measures and methods for establishing trustworthiness, quality parameters and authenticity of digital reproductions in libraries and archives, particularly by looking at cases where levels and measures are negotiated between such memory institutions and external agents hired to perform parts of the process. The results of such negotiations might have significant bearing on the value of the digitized resource, and the level of post-processing work, use and re-use that can be performed with the digitized material within digital edition projects and other scholarly work. How and to what extent are these measures and methods maintained consistently throughout projects versus being renegotiated, possibly affecting the scholarly value of the digitized resource? Formal requirements: Within DiXiT, the applicant for the position of Senior Researcher must: - be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. - also have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience. - be fluent in English. There is also a mobility rule within the DiXiT project which means that the applicant of the position as Senior Researcher at SSLIS must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies etc) in the country of his/her host organization (Sweden) for more than 12 months in 3 years immediately prior to his/her recruitment. Short stays, such as holidays, are not taken into account. Professional qualifications: - Relevant doctoral degree (or at least four years of research experience, see above) - Prior experience with digitization, digital scholarship, scholarly editing. Application deadline: December 1, 2015 Full position announcement and instructions for applicants can be found at http://www.hb.se/en/About-UB/Work-at-UB/ (scroll down and select “Senior Researcher DiXit”). Information about the position is also available at http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/er-1-application/ / Mats Dahlström, DiXiT partner representative at the University of Borås. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mats Dahlström, associate professor Swedish School of Library and Information Science UC Borås / University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mats dot Dahlstrom at hb dot se ; +46 33 435 44 21 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

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CFP Deadline Extended: Technical Communication in the Middle Ages
by M. Wendy Hennequin 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Please excuse cross-posting, and please feel free to forward to any relevant lists. CFP, ICMS ("Kalamazoo") 2016: Technical Communications in the Middle Ages Scholars have long recognized Chaucer’s “Treatise on the Astrolabe” as an early technical document, yet few similar medieval texts have been discussed as specimens of technical communication. This session seeks to consider the traditions and conventions of medieval technical communication, as well as the connections between medieval and contemporary technical writing. Possible texts for consideration might include (but are not limited to) penitential and conduct manuals, monastic rules, business correspondence, medical treatises, scientific and pseudo-scientific manuals (including alchemical and astrological ones), cookery books, law codes, and government and military documents. Papers should consider the texts as technical communication, but may focus either on any aspect, including writing, layout, design, etc. Please send abstracts and participant information forms via e-mail to Wendy Hennequin (mwhennequin(a)gmail.com) by SEPTEMBER 25. Thanks, Wendy -- Dr. M. Wendy Hennequin Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy Tennessee State University 3500 John A Merritt Blvd. Nashville, TN 37209 MWHennequin(a)gmail.com

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The Inaccuracy Of “Historical Accuracy” In Gaming And Media
by Anne McClanan 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

This piece in TechCrunch today has a discussion of representations of race/ethnicity in medieval-based historical games that might be interesting to some listmembers: :http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/15/missing-the-target/

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