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The Digital Medievalist (DM) is a new on-line and refereed journal intended for medievalists working with digital media. The first issue is scheduled for publication this fall, with subsequent issues in Spring 2005 and Summer 2005. The journal is edited by the executive of the Digital Medievalist Project, hosts of the dm-l@uleth.ca mailing list: Peter Baker, Martin Foys, Murray McGillivray, Kenna Olsen, Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Roberto Rosselli del Turco, and Elizabeth Solopova. Our second issue will include a selection of papers on technological topics from Medieval Conferences in Kalamazoo and Leeds 2004 as well as other articles.

DM accepts work of original research and scholarship, notes on technological topics, commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports describing beginning, on-going, or completed projects. Contributors may also describe tools and utilities they have developed, stylesheets, markup-methods, imaging techniques, project management methods, etc. Future editions will also contain reviews of publications, web-sites and digital projects. All contributions are refereed by authorities in humanities computing.

Contributions to DM should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus. Contributions should be of an appropriate length to the subject under discussion. We anticipate most will be between 1000 and 10,000 words. Our preferred format is TEI-Lite xml. If you would like to discuss alternative submission formats, please contact the editorial board.

Submissions received by September 30, 2004 will be eligible for consideration for publication in the inaugural (Fall 2004) issue. Contributions received after that date may be considered for subsequent issues.

Contact Addresses: For general enquiries, please contact the General Editor daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca or the editorial board digitalmedievalist@uleth.ca.

Individual editors are also available to discuss contributions. Addresses and general areas of interests are listed below:

Peter Baker psb6m@virginia.edu: Interface Design and Utilities Martin Foys foys@hermes.hood.edu: Images and Material Culture Murray McGillivray mmcgilli@ucalgary.ca: Structural Markup and Tools Daniel Paul O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca: General Editor; Structural Markup; Project Reports Kenna Olsen klolsen@ucalgary.ca: Review Editor Roberto Rosselli de Turco rosselli@ling.unipi.it: Bibliography, Resources, and References Elizabeth Solopova elizabeth.solopova@bodley.ox.ac.uk: Metadata and Text Analysis