Hello DM list

This is a bit of a late notice, but tomorrow at noon (EST) I'm going to be presenting a Digital Library Brown Bag locally (at Indiana University Bloomington): "Medievalists' Use of Digital Resources and the Development of the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA)". The talk will be webcast, so if this looks interesting but you can't make it to Bloomington (and many can't) please feel free to join the webcast. The talk will also be recorded, and posted online soon after the event. I'll post the recording once it's live.

I'm pasting the official announcement below, the instructions for joining the webcast are towards the bottom, just below the abstract.

Thanks, Dot ***

Greetings! Please join us Wednesday, October 3rd for a digital library brown bag presentation by Dot Porter. The presentation will be held at the Herman B Wells Library, room E174, from 12:00-1:00

-------------- Medievalists' Use of Digital Resources and the Development of MESA Dot Porter, Associate Director for Digital Library Content and Services Digital Library Program Wells Library, Room E174

The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) is a federated international community of scholars, project, institutions, and organizations engaged in digital scholarship within the field of medieval studies. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MESA seeks both to provide a community for those engaged in digital medieval studies and to meet emerging needs of this community, including making recommendations on technological and scholarly standards for electronic scholarship, the aggregation of data, and the ability to discover and repurpose this data.

This presentation will focus on the discovery aspect of MESA, and how it might serve the non-digital medievalist who may nevertheless be interested in finding and using digital resources. Starting with a history of medievalists and their interactions with digital technology as told through three data sets (the International Congress on Medieval Studies (first held in 1962), arts-humanities.net (a digital project database in the UK, sponsored by JISC and the Arts & Humanities Research Council), and two surveys, from 2002 and 2011, that looked specifically at medievalists' use of digital resources), I will draw out some potential issues that this history has for the current developers of digital resources for medievalists, and investigate how MESA might serve to address these issues.

-------------- Presentation slides and audio will be available via the Connect Meeting Service (formerly known as "Breeze"). Go to http://breeze.iu.edu/diglib to view and listen to the presentation. If you are not a registered user for Connect Meeting/Breeze, select the "Enter as a Guest" option.

-------------- The Digital Library Brown Bag series is held most Wednesdays this Fall 2012 semester. All presentations are in the Herman B Wells Library, room E174, from 12:00-1:00 pm unless otherwise noted. The complete schedule, including abstracts, is available on the Digital Library Program web site: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/.

To receive a reminder and an abstract of each presentation, send an emailtolistserv@indiana.edu with the message body: sub dl-brownbag-l Your Full Name

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| Michelle Dalmau, Digital Projects & Usability Librarian Indiana | University Digital Library Program Herman B Wells Library | 1320 East 10th Street, W501 | Bloomington, Indiana 47405 | (812) 855-1261, mdalmau@indiana.edu | http://mypage.iu.edu/~mdalmau/

-- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org MESA blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*