globaloutlookdh-l October 2016

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UCLA Symposium: Composition Across/Between Edges, Surfaces and Materialities Dec. 8, 2016
by Élika Ortega 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Dear all, Apologies for cross posting I am happy to announce (if you have not seen this elsewhere) two events at UCLA in early December (Dec 8-9) co-organized by Miriam Posner, Patrik Svensson and myself. All best, Élika Composition Across/Between Edges, Surfaces and Materialities Symposium, Dec 8, 2016 This symposium explores compositions that happen, emerge, or are partly enacted at edges, between surfaces and across materialities, scales and modalities. These kinds of compositions–narrative, artistic, scholarly, political, infrastructural, etc.–demand a reorientation of established knowledge models, critical stances, vocabularies and infrastructures. They shift our attention to their architecture – conceptual and material – and the very process of composition as argumentative, narrative, and strategic media ideations. The symposium aims to develop further understandings of these compositions and partake in the imagining of new practices based on prolonged conversations, a range of concrete examples and thematic interventions. Questions addressed include: What compositions might be possible (and not possible) in contemporary – complex and multimodal – information ecologies? What tools and narrative/material strategies would be necessary to enact them? How can we go beyond “edged” thinking and practice (and contemporary compositional regimes)? How can we learn from earlier and contemporary work on materially complex compositions? What is the compositional significance of the edges? How do they affect material relations of power? How can they be used to enact social and cultural shifts? Participants bring expertise from a range of fields and practices including literary studies, design, scientific visualization, digital humanities, media studies, art history, classics, media arts, and information studies. Among invited and confirmed participants (so far) are: Rita Raley, Ricardo Domínguez, Mark Marino, Anne Balsamo, Zach Horton, Carter Emmart, Johanna Drucker, Erkki Huhtamo and Jeremy Douglass. More information and registration here: http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/compositions/ Please register and join us in Southern California/at UCLA in December (and also take the opportunity to attend the event described below)! Registered participants may be asked to be invited participants. Encoding Diversity Seminar, Dec 9, 2016, 10 am-12 Room 111, Information Studies Building. This UCLA Digital Humanities Seminar engages with critical themes inside and outside the field. The format is meant to be inviting, generous, sharp, dialogic and experimental. The theme for the December 9 seminar - "Encoding Diversity" - invites critical-material engagement with the encoding of library systems, biodiversity databases, public systems, (digital humanities) institutions and organizations, visual archives, digital humanities "data" and more. The use of "encoding" is also meant to indicate an interest in the active engagement with making, challenging and changing such structures. The conversation will include Ursula Heise, Geoffrey Bowker, Safiya Umoja Noble, Élika Ortega and Todd Presner. No registration required.

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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Research project - Challenges for Wikipedia projects in Latin American indigenous langauges
by Stuart A. Yeates 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eddie Avila <eddie(a)globalvoices.org> Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:24 AM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Research project - Challenges for Wikipedia projects in Latin American indigenous langauges To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello - My name is Eddie Avila and I’m with the organization Global Voices. I’ve been lurking for the past couple of months getting a feel of different experiences in research around Wikimedia-related topics. We were recently awarded a Project Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to conduct a research project examining the current state of active and incubator Wikipedias in indigenous languages of Latin America with a special focus on identifying ongoing challenges for native-speaking editors and the demand for this content in their communities. I believe some members of this list provided some feedback on the proposal, which was greatly appreciated. The project is still a work in progress and the final, refined proposal will be added to the original proposal. We are looking forward to adding the Lead Researcher to the team to help us better define the parameters and design the methodology. Anyway, we recently published a call for applications (it is in Spanish because of the language requirement associated with the position), but if you or someone you might know would be interested in applying, please send them this link. Deadline is next Friday, Nov. 4. *Global Voices Busca Investigador/a Principal Para Estudio Sobre Wikipedia en Lenguas Indígenas <http://bit.ly/wikilenguas> * Looking forward to providing updates along the way. Thanks, Eddie - - - - - - - - - - - - Eddie Avila Director, Rising Voices Global Voices http://globalvoicesonline.org @risingvoices _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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Manuscripts in the Digital Age Workshop Survey
by Matthew Thomas Miller 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Dear all, *Apologies for cross-posting!* On November 4th-5th, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park will host the “Manuscripts in the Digital Age Workshop," which is co-sponsored by Tufts University’s Perseids Project <http://perseids.org/>, UMD’s Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy <http://arhusynergy.umd.edu/>, UMD’s School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) <http://sllc.umd.edu/>, and Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science <https://www.kent.edu/slis>). It will bring together researchers, curators, librarians, and technical specialists from the Perseus Digital Library, Library of Congress, Digital Latin Library, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (UPenn), Freer & Sackler Galleries, and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities to discuss the technical challenges for the creation of an integrated online "manuscript workspace." The technical participants in this workshop want to better understand the needs and types of functionality that scholars, students, citizen scientists, and those working in the GLAM sector would ideally like to see in such a workspace. For this reason, we are asking any of you who work on manuscripts to consider taking this very brief questionnaire <http://kentstate.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9F8TmPXVOAZ1GHH> about what types of features and functionality you would like to see developed for digital manuscript studies: http://kentstate.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ 9F8TmPXVOAZ1GHH Sincerely, Bridget Almas, Perseids Project, Tufts University Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University Matthew Thomas Miller, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland Joshua Westgard, University of Maryland Libraries -- *Matthew Thomas Miller, Ph.D. * Roshan Institute Research Fellow Associate Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD) <http://persdig.umd.edu/> Roshan Institute for Persian Studies University of Maryland, College Park Professional website: http://www.matthewthomasmiller.com/ Academia.edu page: https://umcp.academia.edu/MatthewThomasMiller

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Revista Virtualis, Monográfico No. 16: Pensar la tecnología. SeminarioTF
by Francisco Barrón 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Estimada(o)s El Seminario de Tecnologías Filosóficas les hace la cordial invitación para participar en el número monográfico de la revista Virtualis cuyo problema eje será: *"Pensar la tecnología"*. Pueden ver la convocatoria en el siguiente enlace: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MTl1ZPH4NMDTrhwwR2do6mpB0J9TA3O4tVd_FnI… Pronto saldrá la convocatoria en línea y tendremos la traducción al inglés. Mientras se las hacemos llegar por este medio esperando sus participaciones. Reciban saludos Francisco Barron

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Launch of the Virtual Research Environment of LINHD - 19 October, also online!
by Elena González-Blanco 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

**apologies for cross-posting** Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure for me to announce the official release of our Virtual ResearchEnvironment EVI-LINHD www.evilinhd.com EVI-LINHDis a cloud platform free and open-source to create Digital Humanities projectswhich contains a XML-TEI digital edition tool and processing model based oneXist, a space to create digital libraries using Omeka and the power ofWordpress to design beautiful websites for the projects. Users are able tocreate a project from the beginning to the end and share it with their teammembers. The launchevent will take place on next Wednesday 19th October, at the Schoolof Economics of UNED, Sala Saenz Torrecilla, at 16:00h, and it will also bebroadcasted online. Moreinformation about the event, free registration, agenda and links to broadcastcan be found here: http://linhd.uned.es/en/news/launch_evilinhd/ Please, feel free to send this information to all peoplethat could be interested, Best regards ElenaGonzález-Blanco García Dpto. de LiteraturaEspañola y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722 Facultad deFilología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 http://linhd.uned.es http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ www.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco @elenagbg

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Deadline Extended - Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian Position, Michigan State University Libraries
by Kristen Mapes 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Dear all, Please consider applying to work with a robust community of DH-ers at Michigan State University! The following position is available at a particularly exciting moment as the Library will be hosing a Digital Scholarship Lab soon. An MLS/MLIS is required, and there is a minimum salary of $52,000 with good benefits. Share this opportunity widely and feel free to reach out to me with any questions -Kristen The Michigan State University Libraries currently has a posting for a Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian, Librarian I, posted on MAP (MSU Applicant Page). Posting 3981: Reporting to the Head of the Digital Scholarship & Curation Unit, outreach, branding and coordination of digital scholarship services will be a significant and immediate focus for this position. Growth and assessment of services are longer-term goals. Liaison with campus units currently involved in digital scholarship is a critical component of developing library services relevant to the MSU community. The Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian will work with a team, including another digital scholarship librarian, to create externally-facing services in anticipation of a new Digital Scholarship lab. Services will be defined, including documentation of workflows, limitations, policies, procedures, and protocols. This person will be expected to investigate and implement software in support of service management, client relationship, and project tracking. This person will also create the content for a robust web presence and catalogue of digital scholarship services by partnering with Web Services and User Experience. Additional responsibilities, based on interest and experience of the candidate, may include humanities data curation, text & data mining, E-Science projects, high-performance computing, GIS, licensing, project management, or repository development. You may view the posting and the additional details at https://jobs.msu.edu posting number 3981. *Closes at **5pm EST on Tuesday, October 25h, 2016.* Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Specialist, College of Arts & Letters Michigan State University 479 West Circle Drive, Linton Hall 308A East Lansing MI 48824 517.884.1712 kmapes(a)msu.edu

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Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition OCR
by Matthew Thomas Miller 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

*Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition OCR* https://www.academia.edu/28923960/Important_New_Developments_in_Arabographi… May be of interest to those interested in OCR for non-Latin scripts. We are very interested in comments, suggestions, feedback, and future collaboration! Best, Matt -- *Matthew Thomas Miller, Ph.D. * Roshan Institute Research Fellow Associate Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD) University of Maryland, College Park PersDig@UMD website: http://persdig.umd.edu/ Professional website: http://www.matthewthomasmiller.com/ Academia.edu Page: https://umcp.academia.edu/MatthewThomasMiller

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