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Issue #10 of Digital Medievalist released
by Malte Rehbein 19 Aug '15

19 Aug '15

Dear Digital Medievalists, I am happy to announce the launch of issue #10 of the Digital Medievalist Journal. This issue is opened by Ludger Zeevaert's "Easy tools to get to grips with linguistic variation in the manuscripts of Njáls saga". As within the past, we are operating a policy of rolling release meaning that more contributions will be published during the course of the year. Enjoy reading: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Kind regards, Malte Rehbein Editor-In-Chief, Digital Medievalist Journal

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Fwd: CFP: Technical Communication in the Middle Ages
by M. Wendy Hennequin 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '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 15. 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 -- 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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CfP: DiXiT Convention "Digital Editions: Academia, Society, Cultural Heritage", Cologne, 16-18 March 2016
by Franz Fischer 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

*please circulate widely* *apologies for cross-posting* DiXiT Convention "Digital Editions: Academia, Society, Cultural Heritage", Cologne, 16-18 March 2016 Call for papers The Cologne Center for eHumanities is organizing the second DiXiT convention, taking place 16-18 March 2015 in Cologne, Germany. 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 The convention organizers invite contributions from everyone working in the field of scholarly editing and its neighbouring areas. Early career scholars are welcome. 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. 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 -- 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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Registration Opens for DigiPal V: Wednesday 2nd September 2015
by Brookes, Stewart 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Dear all, It is with great delight that the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities (King's College London) invite you to attend the fifth DigiPal Symposium at King's on Wednesday 2nd September 2015. As usual, the focus of the Symposium will be the computer-assisted study of medieval handwriting and manuscripts. Papers will cover on-line learning resources for palaeography, crowdsourcing Ælfric, image processing techniques for studying manuscripts, codicology, the Exon Domesday book and medieval Scottish charters. Speakers will include: * Ben Albritton (Stanford): "Digital Abundance, or: What Do We Do with All this Stuff?" * Francisco J. Álvarez López (Exeter/King's College London) "Scribal Collaboration and Interaction in Exon Domesday: A DigiPal Approach" * Stewart Brookes (King's College London) "Charters, Text and Cursivity: Extending DigiPal's Framework for Models of Authority" * Ainoa Castro Correa (King's College London) "VisigothicPal: The Quest Against Nonsense" * Orietta Da Rold (Cambridge) "'I pray you that I may have paupir, penne, and inke': Writing on Paper in the Late Medieval Period" * Christina Duffy (British Library) "Effortless Image Processing: How to Get the Most Out of your Digital Assets with ImageJ" * Kathryn Lowe (Glasgow) * Leonor Zozaya "Educational Innovation: New Digital Games to Complement the Learning of Palaeography" Plus a roundtable with Arianna Ciula (Roehampton), Peter Stokes (King's College London) and Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes). Registration is free and includes refreshments and sandwiches. It's easy: just sign-up with Eventbrite: https://digipal-v.eventbrite.com For further details, please visit http://www.digipal.eu/blog/digipal2015/ And, in case that wasn't enough palaeography for one early September, the following day there's also the "The Image of Cursive Handwriting: A One Day Workshop", with David Ganz, Teresa Webber, Irene Ceccherini, David Rundle and Marc Smith. To register, visit http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/cursivity-workshop/ Very much looking forward to seeing you in September, at one or both events, Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Department of Digital Humanities King's College London

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Digital technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 13 Aug '15

13 Aug '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday August 15 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Sarah Hendriks (Oxford) *Digital technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri* The technology available today could not even be dreamed of over 250 years ago when the Herculaneum Papyri were first discovered. Although technological developments have always been crucial for accessing the papyri, the dawn of the digital age and the subsequent innovations in technological resources have seen a dramatic increase in our ability to read these long-buried texts. Drawing on examples from PHerc. 78, the so-called Caecilius Statius, this paper will outline the history of technology and the Herculaneum papyri, and how changing resources have, and continue to enable, new discoveries among this unique collection. For those who cannot make it to London, the seminar will be live-streamed on the Digital Classicist YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIamtu1Z62wL5XRk2mE8HKw ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk, Hugh.Bowden(a)kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony(a)ucl.ac.uk or Charlotte.Tupman(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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Graecum-Arabicum-Latinum Encoded Corpus (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday August 7 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Graecum-Arabicum-Latinum Encoded Corpus (GALEN©)* Usama Gad (Heidelberg) GALEN is a long-term project to produce the first comprehensive digital corpus of translations between Greek, Arabic and Latin. The project seeks not only to include the medieval translations from Greek into Arabic (8th-10th Century AD) and again from Arabic into Latin (11th -13th Century AD), but also to comprise the modern translations of Greek and Latin literature into Arabic (19th -21st Century AD). Moreover, the project would ideally include Arabic translations of Greek and Latin Papyri found in Egypt. The main idea behind this project is then to integrate as much Graecum-Arabicum-Latinum sources as one could in both Arabic and classical studies, presenting these sources to both scholars and students in a digital format with open access license CC BY-SA. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk, Hugh.Bowden(a)kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony(a)ucl.ac.uk or Charlotte.Tupman(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html

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The Visionary Cross Project announces a free beta test of its viewer for the Ruthwell Cross
by Daniel O'Donnell 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

The Visionary Cross Project announces a free beta test of its viewer for the Ruthwell Cross You can access the test viewer at the following URL: http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/cross/ About the test We are using this test to gain initial feedback on usability and use cases for the viewer including corrections, advice for further development, and discussion of potential uses. As a result we are particularly interested in: - Suggestions for improvement and additional features that you would like to be added for it being a useful product for all the intended users. - Comments on shortcomings or problems with the viewer quality. - General feedback and comments on the viewer We will be collecting comments via a simple feedback questionnaire at the end of your session. The data we collect will be used to assist us refactoring the interface for future official release. Nothing will be shared with third parties or used for other purposes. Potential use cases We anticipate that this edition of the cross will be useful for teaching, popularisation activities and self-study. The edition provides a moderately detailed 3D representation of the Ruthwell Cross (optimised for use over the web) that can be rotated and manipulated by the user in various ways (zoom in, turn on and off colour, rotate horizontally and vertically, and examine with a “light source” that can be used to throw features into relief). Annotation aimed at the lay person is associated with each face of the cross and its panels. Licence and copyright The material in this viewer is being released under a Creative Commons Attribution Only 3.0 licence (CC-BY) <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>. This means that you can Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and/or Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially) provide you give appropriate credit <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#> (as indicated on the beta test site), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#>. Use of the Beta test is free of charge. About the project The Visionary Cross project is an international, multidisciplinary research project whose principal objective is the development of a new kind of digital archive and edition of texts and objects associated with the Visionary Cross tradition in Anglo-Saxon England. The material this project represents includes some of the most studied and most popular artefacts from the Anglo-Saxon period: the Ruthwell Cross, Bewcastle Cross, Brussels Cross and Vercelli Book Dream of the Rood and Elene poems. Taking its cue from recent developments in digital editorial theory and practice, the project takes a data-centric, distributed, and generalisable approach to the representation of cultural heritage texts, objects, and contexts in order to encourage broad scholarly and popular engagement with its material. This is a collaborative project between University of Lethbridge, University of Leeds, Università degli Studi di Torino, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, ISTI-CNR, Pisa. We are now collecting and publishing these digital representations as part of a thematically organised, Open Access, and extensible, multimedia digital library. We will also develop two other forms of mediated access: a research/educational edition aimed at researchers and students and a more popular interpretative portal designed to work with tourism and cultural heritage outreach activities. We intend to release the final version aimed at: - General public/ tourists - Scholars working with the artifacts involved - Lecturers/Teachers for pedagogical usage The project has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (O’Donnell, PI; James Graham, Wendy Osborn, Co-applicants), the University of Lethbridge CREDO (O’Donnell, PI), the University of Leeds (Karkov, PI), and the Università degli Studi di Torino (Rosselli Del Turco, PI).

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DAMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday July 31 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Federico Aurora (Oslo) DAMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo DĀMOS is an annotated corpus of all the published Mycenaean texts, allowing for a corpus linguistics approach to the study of the earliest attested Greek dialect. Text files, reproducing the most updated editions of the texts, have been imported into a relational database (MySql) and are now being annotated for morphology, syntax and lexical information. Noteworthy is that DĀMOS allows for storing multiple, competing analyses of a given linguistic unity (e.g. a word). A rich set of metadata, including – automatically imported – detailed epigraphical information, is also available for searches and can, thus, be crossed with linguistic data. Online edition: https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk, Hugh.Bowden(a)kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony(a)ucl.ac.uk or Charlotte.Tupman(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 E: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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CfP: Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Editions fo Accounts - Regensburg 22. Oct. - 24 Oct. 2015
by Georg Vogeler 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Call for Papers Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts (MEDEA) Account books have long been used as primary sources for economic and social history since they allow scholars to explore the development of economic behavior on both a macro- and micro-structural level. A number of projects in Europe and the United States have begun to explore models for digitizing such sources. 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 will foster discussion of benefits and deficiencies in existing standards by bringing together economic historians, scholarly editors, and technical experts to discuss and test the 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 first workshop, which will be held in *Regensburg (Germany), Oct. 22-24, 2015*. 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? Proposals should not exceed 700 words and should be submitted to medea.workshop(a)ur.de by August 24, 2015. The programme committee will assess the proposals and notify applicants no later than September 2, 2015. We particularly encourage proposals from early-career researchers from Europe and from the United States. A limited budget is available to support costs of travel and accommodation. If there remain any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. See more details on the project at http://medea.hypotheses.org/ . Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History Wheaton College Norton, Massachusetts Ass.-Prof. Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Universität Graz Elisabethstr. 59 / III A-8010 Graz Prof. Dr. Mark Spoerer / Kathrin Pindl M.A. Universität Regensburg Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 93040 Regensburg

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CFP: Technical Commication in the Middle Ages
by M. Wendy Hennequin 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

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