globaloutlookdh-l December 2013

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Open Access Journals Outside High Income Economies
by O'Donnell, Dan 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hi all, I'm on the executive committee at force11.org, a Community of Practice focussed on the future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship. It is an interesting group because of the range of domains and sectors it involves: Science and humanities, Commercial and Open access, and so on. We're in the early planning stages of a series of workshops on "the Commons and the Silo", in which we want to look specifically at what is common and what is unique across the entire domain of scholarly and Scientific dissemination. I have two questions that this group is probably the best place to ask. The first is whether anybody knows of similar groups focussed specifically on the issues of Research Communication and dissemination outside the High Income World or of initiatives we really should know about about scholarly communication in a global context (I should stress, BTW, that this ignorance is a reflection on me not Force11). The second is whether anybody on this list is working on anything similar and/ or would be interested in being kept in the loop on our progress. Thanks in advance as always to this super helpful group! P.S. If you are interested in these things, please feel free to say here. But also consider joining force11. It really is an interesting group! Daniel Paul O'Donnell Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1J 2X5 CANADA +1 403 393 2539 daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca @DanielPaulOD http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ http://dpod.kakelbont.ca/ Sent from my Samsung tablet, probably using handwriting recognition. Which means less typos than on my phone, but often Strange capitalisation.

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Russian DH and Convocatoria Icono14
by Domenico Fiormonte 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Dear all, I am forwarding this interesting call for papers from Icono14, one of the first Spanish online New Media journals. Those of you who use Twitter may have noticed this post on the emergence of Russian DH: http://infolet.it/2013/12/11/dh-in-russia-prove-di-dialogo-epistemologico/ The author is Ilaria Niero, a Master student who is working with me on a thesis on the digital encoding of a Russian manuscript by Nobel Prize writer Ivan Bunin. She is looking for more information about Russian DH and especially people working on the encoding of Russian manuscripts. We'd both be very grateful for any suggestion! All the best Domenico _____________________________________ Da: Carolina Fernández Castrillo [carolina.fernandez.c(a)udima.es] Inviato: giovedì 12 dicembre 2013 10:39 Oggetto: Convocatoria publicación Estimados colegas: Actualmente coordino un número especial sobre Media Art: Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología en Icono14. Revista de comunicación y tecnologías emergentes en el que se pretende abordar el estudio de nuevas estrategias comunicativas y culturales en la era digital. Les estaría muy agradecida si pudieran publicar la siguiente convocatoria en su web para que los posibles interesados puedan acceder a dicha información. Les adjunto la versión en español e inglés. Se encuentra abierta la convocatoria para la recepción de originales correspondiente al próximo número de la revista indexada Icono14. Revista de comunicación y tecnologías emergentes que versará sobre Media Art: Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología . El objetivo de este monografía internacional es ofrecer una genealogía del Media Art junto a una visión panorámica de las principales investigaciones y prácticas culturales en la era digital. El plazo para el envío de propuestas finaliza el 1 de Marzo de 2014. Los artículos se someterán a un proceso de revisión por pares y el número especial saldrá publicado en Junio de 2014. Más información en: - Convocatoria<http://www.icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono14/announcement/view/4> - Normas editoriales<http://www.icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono14/about/submissions?phpMyAdmin=R…> Coordinadora del número: carolina.fernandez.c(a)udima.es<mailto:carolina.fernandez.c@udima.es> Idiomas aceptados: español e inglés. *-*-* Papers are invited for publication in a special issue entitled Media Art: Art, Science and Technology at the indexed journal Icono14. Journal of Communication and Emergent Technologies. The aim of this international publication is to provide a genealogy of Media Art and an overview of the current digital culture. The deadline for the paper submission in final format is March 1st 2014. Your proposal will undergo peer‐review and the special issue will be published in June of 2014. For more detailed information on submissions, see also: - Call For Papers<http://www.icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono14/announcement/view/4%20http://> - Author Guidelines<http://www.icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono14/about/submissions?phpMyAdmin=R…> Editor: carolina.fernandez.c(a)udima.es<mailto:carolina.fernandez.c@udima.es> Publication languages: English and Spanish. Atentamente, Profra. Dra. Carolina Fernández Castrillo, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA)<http://www.udima.es/es/profesor/carolina-fernandez-castrillo.html>

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Bylaws review
by Alex Gil 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Hi all, We wanted to remind you to take a look at our proposed bylaws<http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/proposed-bylaws/>and provide us with feedback if you have some time. We have extended the review deadline until January 1, as Dagmar suggested, to give people time to wrap up their semesters where that is the case. We look forward to hearing from you. The next elections will be on February 1st. Cheers, Alex.

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A proposal for a new working group
by Daniel O'Donnell 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hi all, Laurie Taylor and I have just been talking about the idea of setting up a new working group at DH: a group focused on ways of facilitating donations of equipment or sharing services. The impetus for this comes from two projects we are thinking of at the U of L. One is to collect and donate computers that are being decommissioned this coming spring university wide (we got a grant to replace a large number of computer lab and faculty workstations); the other is some web mirroring that we are looking into doing for a university that doesn't have a very robust infrastructure. Laurie also knew of examples of donations of computing equipment in the past to Haiti, for example. This may be is a little bit more straight aid than is the norm for GO::DH (which is primarily /not/ about aid but about sharing knowledge, research, and experience every which way). But it also may be something we may be able to help each other in: there are some logistics involved that people who've done this before elsewhere might be able to help advice on for example; there also may be a need to fundraise for certain opportunities. What do others think? Any interest and/or experience? -dan -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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Digital Humanities Opportunity: XQuery Summer Institute
by Michelson, David Allen 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Dear GO::DH Community, With apologies for cross-posting, please consider joining us for this event: Vanderbilt University invites you to participate in a summer seminar for humanities scholars working with XML documents (such as TEI, EAD, or MODS). The XQuery Summer Institute is designed for scholars with basic experience marking up texts who would like to acquire advanced skills in how to query and computationally analyze XML documents. We welcome applications from archivists, faculty members, librarians, alt-ac professionals, and advanced graduate students. Over the course of two weeks, we will teach you how to program in XQuery, a language designed for querying and manipulating XML documents. You will leave the Institute knowing how to maximize the value of your XML encoding. The Institute will take place from Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 20 in 2014 on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. It will be led by six instructors with experience in the digital humanities (see http://xqueryinstitute.org/instructors), including Jonathan Robie, Lead Editor of the XQuery and XPath specifications at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There are no registration costs to the Institute thanks to generous support from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities (see the announcement of Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant- ... -july-2013<http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant-news/announcing-3-institutes-advance…>). We will also provide subventions for participants’ travel, lodging, and meals. Participation is limited to twelve. Applications are due by February 14, 2014. Please join us! Take your XML skills to the next level in Nashville this summer. For information about the Institute and the application process, see http://xqueryinstitute.org/. Questions? Please email Clifford Anderson, Director for Scholarly Communications, at Vanderbilt University: clifford.anderson(a)vanderbilt.edu<mailto:clifford.anderson@vanderbilt.edu>. Best, David David A. Michelson Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School Affiliate Assistant Professor of Classics, College of Arts & Sciences Vanderbilt University www.syriaca.org<applewebdata://1BF564ED-0704-4232-AE2B-687A713B2E71/www.syriaca.org>

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Proposed bylaws published
by Daniel O'Donnell 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

Hi all, I've been overdue in publishing proposed bylaws for GO::DH. You can now see them here: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/proposed-bylaws/ Because GO::DH is an experiment in global community building (and ADHO SIG development) we began the year without bylaws and set establishing some as a main task for the founding executive. Over the course of the last six months or so, the executive and the smaller steering group of officers has been developing a set of bylaws to establish governance, elections, and all the other things a community needs if it is to thrive. The initial work was led by Barbara Bordalejo, who did some research on the bylaws and comparable scholarly societies and communities. She wrote a first draft based on those at digitalmedievalist.org. These were then heavily revised by the steering group, the bylaws committee, and subsequently the larger executive. The results of that process is available at the website. Since we currently don't have any bylaws, the approval process is not clear. In the absence of any other rules, my proposal is that we open these bylaws up for discussion on the general list for the next two weeks. If they prove uncontroversial and it appears that there is a consensus in favour of their adoption, then, at the end of the two weeks, we as a community will delegate the Executive to make any final editorial changes and approve them on our behalf. If, on the other hand, it appears they are unsatisfactory in some way or that we are not developing a consensus in their favour, we will ask the executive to begin a consultation process with a goal of resolving such differences as quickly as possible and proposing a compromise set of bylaws for a vote by the entire mailing list membership. If the bylaws pass over the next two weeks, then the next step will be soliciting nominations for the new Executive as described in the bylaws. The elections to the Executive are required to be finished by Feb. 1, 2014. Please do not be shy about discussing this proposal. Feel free also to distribute information about it widely and to offer translations and/or paraphrases. -dan -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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DiXiT Job at University of Oxford (Marie Curie ITN Experienced Researcher)
by James Cummings 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Please forward to anyone you think may be interested. === IT Services at the University of Oxford would like to announce that applications are now being accepted for a 20 month experienced researcher fellowship position on the DiXiT project funded as part of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. The post-holder should start on 1 April 2014 and will be responsible for the analysis and improvements of technologies for the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. They will be familiar with the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and be skilled in using related technologies such as XSLT to generate digital scholarly editions from TEI P5 XML source files. The post-holder will contribute to the teaching at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School and the DiXiT TEI training workshop. For a full list of duties and criteria please see the job description attached to the advert on the University of Oxford recruitment website: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… The EC funding for this position starts from £54,692 p.a. (depending on employer deductions, personal circumstances, and the exchange rate to be notified by the EC), which includes an annual living allowance and a mobility allowance (to cover the expenses associated with working in a different country). *Eligibility Requirements:* 1) either be in possession of a doctoral degree, independently of the time taken to acquire it, or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience; 2) have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience; (posts that are not _research_ do not count against this) 3) not have lived in the UK for more than 12 months during the past 3 years; 4) be willing, during the 20 month post, to undertake a 3 month secondment to King's College London (United Kingdom) and a 3 month secondment to SyncRo Soft Ltd. (Romania). *Application Process:* Please note that applications from any qualified applicants, regardless of gender, ethnicity or country of origin are welcome if they meet the eligibility requirements. Applicants should ensure they have completed both the following steps by midday on 11 December 2013: 1. Submitted a DiXiT project ER application to dixit-info(a)uni-koeln.de see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html for more information 2. Completed the University of Oxford online application process from the job posting on the https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… website. Including having: a. Uploaded a full C.V. b. Provided contact details for two referees c. Uploaded a covering letter demonstrating how you meet both the essential/desirable criteria listed in the further particulars and the eligibility requirements d. Uploaded a copy of your DiXiT project ER application form Informal enquiries concerning the post may be sent to Dr James Cummings at james.cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk. The interviews are expected to be held on Friday 17 January 2014. -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford

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Open DH Awards 2013
by Alex Gil 03 Dec '13

03 Dec '13

(apologies for cross-posting) === The annual open DH Awards 2013 are now accepting nominations! Please nominate any Digital Humanities resource you feel deserves to win in any of this year's categories. The open DH Awards 2013 are openly nominated by the community and openly voted for by the public as a DH awareness activity. There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won and an icon for your website. Nominations will be open until 31 December 2013 (midnight GMT), voting will take place in January 2014. Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that were launched/finished/created in 2013. To nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/ The categories we are accepting nominations for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2013 are: === *Best DH tool or suite of tools* Nominations for this category should be for a tool or suite of tools created by members of the DH community, used for enabling, encouraging, and/or accomplishing DH work. *Best DH contribution not in the English language* Nominations for this category should be for DH resources or publications that are not in the English language. *Best use of DH for fun* Nominations for this category should be for projects/resources/sites for DH which are designed to be fun or inherently playful. *Best DH blog post, article, or short publication* Nominations for this category should be for a specific short DH publication (peer-reviewed or not) whether article, blog post, or other publication. *Best DH visualization or infographic* Nominations for this category should be for a graphic, infographic, or visualization created for or by the DH community. *Best DH project for public audiences* Nominations for this category should be for a DH project designed to be used by audiences primarily outside of higher education, including educators, students, enthusiasts, genealogists, engaged citizens, etc. === Again, to nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/ If you have any questions please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ or ask at james(a)dhawards.org or tweet @DHawards

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Global Outlook::Digital Humanities Essay Prize Winners Announced (Please repost)
by Daniel O'Donnell 01 Dec '13

01 Dec '13

lt is with great pleasure that Global Outlook::Digital Humanities announces the winners of its first DH essay prize. http://t.co/7xhUcgfUXG The competition, which was supported by funds awarded by the University of Lethbridge and an anonymous donor, attracted 53 entries in 7 languages. The first prize winners (in alphabetical order) are * Dacos, Marin (Open Edition, France). La stratégie du Sauna finlandais: Les frontières de Digital Humanities. Essai de Géographie politiqued’une communauté scientifique. * Gawne, Lauren (University of Melbourne, Australia). Language documentation and division: Bridging the digital divide. * Pue, A. Sean, Tracy K. Teal, and C. Titus Brown (Michigan State University, USA). Bioinformatic approaches to the computational analysis of Urdu poetic meter. * Raval, Noopur (Jawaharlal Nehru Univesity (JNU), New Delhi, India). On Wikipedia and Failure: Notes from Queering the Encyclopedia. Second prize winners (also in alphabetical order) are * Arauco Dextre, Renzo (Memoragram, Lima, Peru). Memogram, un Cloud-Service Para la Memoria Colectiva. * Carlson, Thomas A. (Princeton University, USA). Digital Maps are still not territory: Challenges raised by Syriaca.org’s Middle Eastern places over two millenia. * Tomasini Maciel, Julia (University of Maryland, USA). Humanidades Digitales y traducción literaria: Latinoamérica entre el portugués y el español. * Portales Machado, Yasmín Silvia (Havana, Cuba). Perfil demográfico de la blogosfera hecha en Cuba en diciembre de 2012. * Tasovac, Toma and Natalia Ermolaev (Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgrade, Serbia). Interfacing diachrony: Rethinking lexical annotation in digital editions. Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): * Arbuckle, Alyssa (University of Victoria, Canada). The risk of digital repatriation for indigenous groups. * Baryshev, Ruslan, Igor Kim, Inna Kizhner, Maxim Rumyantsev (Siberian Federal University, Russia). Digitial Humanities at Siberian Federal University. * Calbay, Francis Raymond (HayPinas.org, Taipei, Taiwan). User-Generated vitriol: Ethnic stereotypes in online comments on media reports of a South China Sea shooting incident. * Farman, Jason (University of Maryland, USA). Mapping virtual communities: The production of crisis maps and cultural imaginaries of the Diaspora. * Finney, Tim (Vose Seminary, Australia). How to discover textual groups. * Ives, Maura and Amy Earhart (Texas A&M University, USA). Establishing a digital humanities center: Vision, reality, sustainability. * Kaltenbrunner, Wolfgang (Leiden University, The Netherlands). Transparency strategies in digital scholarship. * López Villaneuva, José Manuel (Mexico). Reflexiones sobre la RedHD en México: desarrollo y alcance de la RedHD en la comunidad académica universitaria. * Menon, Nirmala (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India). Multilingual digital publishing: A postcolonial Digital Humanities imperative. * O’Sullivan, James (Ireland). The emergence of Digital Humanities in Ireland. * Ouellette, Jessica (University of Massachussetts, USA). Blogging borders: Transnational feminist rhetorics and global voices. * Perozo Olivares, Karla (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Venazuala). Una aproximación al desconocimiento de las masas digitales. * Riedel, Dagmar (Columbia University, USA). The digitization of books in Arabic script and the digital divide in Muslim societies. * Sandstedt, Jørgen (University of Iceland, University of Oslo, Iceland/Norway). Text-dependent automated methods in scribal hand identification. * Schmidt, Desmond (University of Queensland, Australia). Towards a model for the digital scholarly edition. * Sobczak, Anna (Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Poland). A CO Z HUMANISTAMI? – CYFROWA HUMANISTYKA JAKO LEKARSTWO NA OBECNY STAN POSTRZEGANIA HUMANISTYKI W MEDIACH ELEKTRONICZNYCH? The committee thanks all authors for their submissions and their patience with the (longer-than-anticipated) adjudication process. The competition was extremely tight and the remaining submissions included many excellent papers that the referees singled out for special comment. Although this exhausts the current funding, it is hoped that we will be able to repeat this competition in future years. The organisers also thank the adjudication panel for their hard work and willingness to help out. -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539

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