For all those digital medievalists who are going to Kalamazoo this year and are planning to go next year... Once more this year, DM is organizing a series of sessions at the Kalamazoo medieval congress. This years sessions are: 446 -- Text and Image in Digital Materials, Schneider 1360, 1.30 Saturday: a chance particularly to see the wonderful work being done in Marburg on digitization of medieval charters. I'll also show some work we have been doing on Codex Sinaiticus. 499 -- Long term preservation of Digital Medieval Resources, Schneider 1360, 3.30 Saturday: a panel discussion with various eminent persons addressing what happens with digital materials once we have finished making them 583 -- The future of electronic editions of medieval materials, Schneider 1125, 10.30 Sunday. What it says! In addition, Dot Porter is involved in the workshops on digitization of primary materials for medievalists (sessions 298, 351).

Following the success of these sessions over the last years, we have already started planning the Kalamazoo sessions for DM for 2009. We (the board, or at least some of the board) thought of three possible topics for sessions for next year: 1. What every digital medievalist should know (with apologies to Jim Marchand): a panel 2. Exemplary research applications using digital methods (papers) 3. Digital materials in the medieval classroom (papers -- note the slightly ambiguous use of the term medieval here)

We are very open to suggestions as to further topics/changes in these. We are particularly keen on sessions which will bring in people outside the usual central DM small circle -- it is excellent that this year, most of the presentations in DM sessions are from people who have not taken part in DM sessions at Kalamazoo before. By May 16 we have to present our list of proposed sessions to the conference organizers so if you have any ideas, approach myself or anyone else from the DM board at Kalamazoo.

All the best Peter

Peter Robinson Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing Elmfield House, Selly Oak Campus University of Birmingham Edgbaston B29 6LG P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376 www.itsee.bham.ac.uk