Program

June 14, 2013
Opening
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome
Joachim Hornegger
Vice-President of University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

8:45 Message from Chairs
Klaus Herbers, Irmgard Fees
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

9:00 Script and Signs. A Computer-based Analysis of High Medieval Papal Charters. A Key to Europe’s Cultural History
Vincent Christlein
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

09:15 Presentation of the Papal Documents Database
Thorsten Schlauwitz
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Section I. Traditional Palaeography

09:30 Considerations of the Identification of Scribes: Aims and Methods of Traditional Palaeography
Martin Wagendorfer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

10.10 Forensic Handwriting Analysis
Gudrun Bromm
Mannheim Laboratory for Script and Document Analysis

10:50 Break

Section II. Writer Identifcation

11:10 The Right Hand of the Pope: on the Authenticity of the Cardinal Signatures in Registers from the 12th and 13th Centuries
Werner Maleczek
University of Vienna

11:50 Role of Automation in the Examination of Handwritten Items: the Lindbergh Case
Sargur Srihari
University at Buffalo – State University of New York

12:30 The necessity of simultaneous multiple perspectives in digital identification of the hand
Lambert Schomaker
University of Groningen

13:10 Lunch Break

Section III. Digital Palaeography

14:10 The Evolution of Handwriting in the Papal Curia of the 15th Century
Thomas Frenz
University of Passau

14:50 In Meaning versus Mining, and Putting the Palaeographer in Charge
Peter Stokes
King’s College London

15:30 Break

15:50 Image Analysis and Clustering of Medieval Scripts: an Evaluation Protocol
Dominique Stutzmann
French National Center for Scientific Research

16:30 Handwritten Word Spotting in Historical Documents: the Project Five Centuries of Marriages
Josep Lladós
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

June 15, 2013

Section IV. General Document Analysis

8:30 Layout and Writer Identifcation
Otfried Krafft
University of Marburg

9:10 Multispectral Image Acquisition and Analysis for Manuscript Research
Robert Sablatnik
Vienna University of Technology

09:50 Break

Section V. Automatic Handwriting Recognition and Analysis

10:10 Diptychon: a Transcription Assistant System for the Separation of Glyphs in Medieval Handwritings
Björn Gottfried, Matthias Lawo
University of Bremen / Monumenta Germaniae Historica and Humanities

10:50 Searching Handwritten Manuscripts
Raghavan Manmatha
University of Massachusetts

11:30 Automatic Tools for Historical Manuscript Analysis
Lior Wolf
Tel Aviv University

12:10 Concluding Discussion
Kurt Gärtner
Union of the German Academies of Sciences

13:00 Lunch & guided tour in Bamberg

For further information please visit: http://www.aot.uni-erlangen.de/saot/events/workshops/workshop-20/workshophistoricalanalysis.html

Posted by: Viktoria Trenkle (Viktoria.trenkle@gesch.phil.uni-erlangen.de).

The program is available at the following link :
http://gieca.sciencesconf.org/conference/gieca/GIECA_programme_low_res.pdf

Free registration to attend the conference :
http://gieca.sciencesconf.org/registration/index

Posted by: Jimenes, Rémi (remi.jimenes@univ-tours.fr).

Posted by: Susanna Allés Torrent (susannalles@imf.csic.es).

Digitizing the Medieval Archive: An International Conference

Centre for Medieval Studies ⋅ University of Toronto ⋅ March 27-29, 2014

Keynote Speakers:
David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)
Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library)

The discussion about the digitization of the Middle Ages, by its very nature, tends to be one that takes place in an online setting. As the question of how medievalists may work within this digital environment becomes an increasingly popular topic of Internet conversation, we invite scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences to come together in real time to consider and discuss the possibilities of a digitized medieval archive.

Click here
http://medieval.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Digitizing-the-Medieval-Archive.pdf
for the full call for papers and the check the conference website for more information. http://digitizingmedievalarchive.wordpress.com/
Please submit a short C.V. and abstracts of 250 words by October 1, 2013 for consideration. To contact the conference organizers write to digitizingmedievalarchive@gmail.com.

Posted by: Lisa Chen (lisa.chen@mail.utoronto.ca).

The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare announces one short-term Library Research Grant, dedicated to The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris or to Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies, for graduate students to promote scholarly use of its important collections.

This Library Research Grant, which has a value of up to € 2.000, is meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Vercelli during the tenure of the grant. The length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal, but is ordinarily up to one month. Library Research Grant awarded in this year is tenable from June 2013 to May 2014 (except from 18th July to 4th September), and the deadline for applications is 15 May 2013. No applications will be accepted after that date.

Applicants are asked to complete an Application Form (visit the website) and submit a Word or PDF file (the latter is the preferred format) containing a Budget Form, a full Curriculum Vitae and a Research Proposal not exceeding one thousand words in length. Application should be sent by postal mail to the Library Research Grants Committee or by Email at the address given below. Applicants must also arrange for two Confidential Letters of Recommendation to be sent directly to the Library Research Grants Committee by postal mail or Email.

The proposal should address specifically the relevance to the proposed research of unique resources found in the Biblioteca and Archivio Capitolare collections or in the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo collection (The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris Grant) or in the Biblioteca Capitolare collections (Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies Grant). Prospective grantees are urged to contact the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books for detailed descriptions of the collections. The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare reserves the right to have a copy of the research that the applicant will publish at the end of her or his studies.

A committee consisting of members by University of Piemonte Orientale, Turin, Gottingen and of the Library Management will award the grant on the basis of the relevance of the proposal to unique holdings of the library and museum, the merits and significance of the project, and the applicant’s scholarly qualifications.

Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare
piazza Alessandro D’Angennes, 5
13100, Vercelli – Italy
www.tesorodelduomovc.it

Dr Timoty Leonardi
Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books
timoty.leonardi@tesorodelduomovc.it
Tel. and fax: +39 0161 51650

Published by RRDT

We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as established researchers and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, semantics and linguistics, imaging and visualization, linked data, open access, geographic analysis, information science and serious gaming, although this list is by no means exhaustive. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects and their immediate context, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in ancient studies. Presentations should have an academic research agenda relevant both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information specialists or digital humanists.

The seminars will run on Friday afternoons at 16:30, from June to early August in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London. There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but please enquire if you’re coming from further afield).

To submit a paper for consideration for the Digital Classicist London seminars, please email an abstract of 300-500 words to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk, by midnight UTC on March 22nd, 2013.

More information will be found at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html

Posted by: Gabriel BODARD (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

The Digital Medievalist Executive Board is happy to announce a major update in the DM wiki website (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki). We have added a substantial amount of new content, and we have also revised the structure to make it easier to use for both readers and contributors.

To make browsing easier, we have added entries to the main navigation bar and refined the list of categories.

To help you share information on projects, conferences, software or any other relevant topic, we have created a number of templates for adding new pages.

We hope that the DM wiki will progressively become a powerful tool for the activities of our community. Of course, it all depends on your will to share and to look for information on this wiki. Please feel free to create or to edit pages on the DM Wiki. If you have any ideas on how to improve the main page or the navigation bar, or other aspects of the site, please use the page http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/index.php/WikiFix or write an email to board [at] digitalmedievalist.org. If you think material is missing then please go ahead and add an article yourself.

Best regards,

Alexei Lavrentiev on behalf of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board

Posted by: Alexei Lavrentiev (alexei.lavrentev@ens-lyon.fr).

Apologies for cross-posting, this is the definitive programme of the first Italian conference of Digital Humanities which will take place next week in Florence. Also thanks to the European Association for Digital Humanities for kindly supporting this event.

Un’agenda per l’informatica umanistica e la cultura digitale. I Convegno Annuale

13-14 dicembre 2012, Firenze Società Dantesca Italiana, Palagio dell’Arte della Lana, Via Arte della Lana 1

13 Dicembre

SESSIONE 1 - Infrastrutture e convergenza

Presiede la sessione Dino Buzzetti

9.00-9.30 Prolusione di Dino Buzzetti, La transizione al digitale: Il ruolo delle Digital Humanities
9.30-10.00 Giovanni Ragone (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), L’esperienza DIGILAB
10.00-10.30 Maristella Agosti (DEI, Università di Padova), Biblioteche digitali tramodellazione, gestione e valutazione
10.30-10.50 Joris Van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands), “It’s live Jim, but not as we know it”. Coping with Living Data

10.50-11.10 Intervallo

11.10-11-40 Henk Harmsen (Universiteit van Amsterdam – UvA), DARIAH: The strength of building together. National vs. international infrastructures. Cultural vs. research needs
11.40-12.10 Carlo Meghini (CNR Pisa), Modeling foundations for a cross-domain, cultural heritage infrastructure
12.10-12.30 Andrew Ashton (Center for Digital Scholarship – Brown University, Providence, RI), The Brown Digital Repository: A platform for digital preservation and access

12.30-13.00 Dibattito

SESSIONE 2 – La ricerca, la valutazione e la diffusione dei risultati nell’informatica umanistica

Presiede la sessione Anna Maria Tammaro
14.30-15.00 Prolusione di Tito Orlandi, Problematiche aperte
15.00-15.20 Frédéric Clavert (Centre Virtuel sur la Connaissance de l’Europe), Piattaforme e infrastrutture per la certificazione e l’accreditamento
15.20-15.40 Giovanni Solimine, Chiara Faggiolani (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), La valutazione della ricerca umanistica fra peer review e bibliometria
15.40-16.00 Gianluca Setti (Università di Ferrara), Gli indicatori bibliometrici ed il loro significato

16.00-16.30 Discussione e conclusioni

14 Dicembre

SESSIONE 3 – Progetti italiani ed esperienze di convergenza multidisciplinare

9.00-10.45 – Presiede la sessione Francesca Tomasi

Interventi di:

• Pierluigi Feliciati, Convergere a valle. Lo studio del punto di vista degli utenti dei servizi digitali culturali nell’esperienza del progetto “Una Città per gli Archivi” (Bologna)
• Maria Guercio, Cecilia Carloni, Livelli descrittivi, relazioni e contesti di produzione nella Sapienza Digital Library
• Francesca Mambelli, Una risorsa online per la storia dell’ate: il database della fototeca Zeri
• Maristella Agosti, Lucio Benfante, Nicola Ferro, Marta Manfioletti, Nicola Orio, chiara Ponchia, Gianmaria Silvello, L’apertura di uno strumento digitale per la ricerca umanistica ad un pubblico non specialista: il progetto CULTURA

10.45-11.00 Intervallo

11.00-13.00 – Presiede la sessione Fabio Ciotti

Interventi di:

• Gioele Barabucci, Angelo Di Iorio, Fabio Vitali, Stemma codicum: analisi e generazione semi-automatica
• Chiara Leoni, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Il progetto Visionary Cross: verso un’edizione digitale multimediale e distribuita
• Paolo Monella, Più testimoni, più livelli: l’edizione critica digitale del Iudicium coci et pistoris iudice Vulcano di Vespa (Anth. Lat. 199 Riese)
• Caterina Bernardini, Envisioning the Digital Future of Literary Translation. A Hands-on Experience at the Whitman Archive
• Federico Boschetti, La localizzazione in lingua italiana dell’infrastruttura per lo studio dei classici greci e latini costituita dal Perseus Project

14.30-16.30 – Presiede la sessione Federico Meschini

Interventi di:

• Antonella Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria Falcone, Il progetto ENARC. Attività didattiche innovative e creazione di archivi digitali
• Maurizio Lana, digilibLT – digital library of late-latin texts / biblioteca digitale di testi latini tardoantichi
• Michele Mauri, Paolo ciuccarelli, Ruolo dell’Information Visualization nella progettazione di interfacce per archivi digitali eterogenei
• Marco Giunti, Giuliano Vivanet, Giuseppe Sergioli, Ontologia, semantica e rilevanza dell’informazione negli archivi della Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui (BIA)

16.30 Trasferimento presso l’Auditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Via Folco Portinari 5/r

17.00-19.00 Assemblea dei soci

Programma
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Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (roberto rossellidelturco at gmail com)

Please join us for the Digital Humanities (DH) & Libraries THATCamp on November 3, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. The DH and Libraries THATCamp will provide a venue to explore on-going conversations about strategic partnerships and services libraries are uniquely situated to offer to the digital humanities arena, moving away from a support model to a truly collaborative framework in which librarians foster and contribute to DH as experts and scholars in their own right. The format is wide-open, from demos and working sessions to discussions and strategizing sessions. Our hope is that we generate a diversity of session topics and session formats so that we can each walk away with something tangible to apply in our respective institutional context.

The DH and Libraries THATCamp is open to anyone interested in the intersection of libraries and digital humanities work. This can include librarians and library staff, IT professionals, and administrators, as well as faculty and graduate students in library school and the humanities. If your library supports digital humanities or is interested in doing so, we encourage you to hang out with us for the day.

The DH & Libraries THATCamp is hosted by the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and is part of the DLF Forum pre-conference series. The registration fee for the DH & Libraries THATCamp is $25 and will be collected at the door. If you are also interested in participating in the DLF Forum, and your institution is not a DLF member, you will qualify for the member discount rate: .

For more information, please visit: or follow the twitter hashtags: #thatcamp #dhlib2012. Feel free to send questions to: dhlibthatcamp2012@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Dot Porter

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

http://blogs.music.indiana.edu/chmtl/2012/08/16/interdisciplinary-workshop-august-31-september-1/

Digital editions have already begun to drastically change the work of scholars, but many questions of method, technology, academic recognition, remain open. This workshop will draw together scholars from a variety of fields to present and discuss their diverse experiences in digital scholarly publication, and aims to answer such questions as the following: what are the advantages of a digital edition, compared with a traditional one? How difficult is to create a digital edition today, and what type of collaboration between different scholars does it entail? Are the standard techniques used by scholars sufficient/suitable for all purposes? How are different fields (Literature, History, Music, etc.) benefiting or not benefiting from the possibilities of this new medium? Finally: are electronic editions advanced enough, and well-regarded enough by scholars and institutions to suggest that the age of printed editions is coming to an end?

The workshop, organized jointly by the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature (CHMTL) and the Medieval Studies Institute (MEST) of Indiana University will have a special, albeit not exclusive, focus on medieval and Early modern themes and materials. During the workshop new initiatives of the CHMTL will be presented, stemming from one of the oldest projects of the center, the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum.

Posted by: Giuliano Di Bacco (gdibacco@indiana.edu).

Humanities scholars come from a wide array of backgrounds and embark on a variety of careers in areas like libraries, museums, archives, higher education and humanities administration, publishing, research and technology, and more. SCI anticipates that data collected during the study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the diversity of career paths that humanities scholars pursue after their graduate studies, while also highlighting opportunities to better prepare students for a range of careers beyond the tenure track.

The study complements the public database that SCI recently created as a way to clarify the breadth of the field, and to foster community among a diverse group (available at http://altacademy.wufoo.com/reports/who-we-are/).

Both the database and the surveys are being administered by Dr. Katina Rogers as part of SCI’s current phase of work — which includes a close concentration on graduate education reform and the preparation of future knowledge workers, educators, and cultural heritage and scholarly communications professionals.

The survey results will help us to make curriculum recommendations so that graduate programs may better serve future students, and anonymized or summarized data will be made available at at a later date via http://uvasci.org. Please contact Katina at katina.rogers@virginia.edu if you’d like to know more.

• Complete the main survey: http://alt-academy.questionpro.com/ • Complete the employer survey: http://alt-academy.employers.questionpro.com/

Thank you in advance for your time and support on this project.

Friday July 20th at 16:30
Room G37,
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Paolo Monella (Centro Linceo, Roma)
‘In the Tower of Babel: Modelling primary sources of multi-testimonial textual transmissions’

ALL WELCOME

This talk aims at discussing a model for digital scholarly editions of texts with a multi-testimonial textual tradition where, for each witness, two layers of digital representation are formally and explicitly distinct, though interrelated: A. The graphical representation of the text of that witness, mirroring its specific encoding system (alphabet, capitalisation, punctuation, word boundaries, scribal abbreviations, page space arrangement etc.); B. The text of that witness in an ‘uniform’ digital encoding, necessary to make the representations of the text of different witnesses digitally comparable. The talk will also explore how TEI P5 can address the theoretical modelling issues involved.

Full abstract is available:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-08pm.html

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Friday July 13th at 16:30
Room G37,
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Maggie Robb (KCL)
‘Digitising the Prosopography of the Roman Republic’

ALL WELCOME

The history of the Roman republic is the history of a highly competitive aristocratic elite, which oversaw Rome’s remarkable transformation from middling Italian city-state to ruler of a world empire. A great deal of the basic information about the prosopography of the Roman elite has already been collated but the sheer scale and complexity of the material has made complex analysis impracticable. By creating a searchable digital database comprising all known members of the republican elite, the project will open up radically new opportunities for revisiting old questions as well as asking entirely new ones.

Full abstract is available:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-07mr.html

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Friday July 6th at 16:30
Room G22/26 (note room change),
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Charlotte Tupman (KCL)
‘Digital epigraphy beyond the Classical: creating (inter?)national standards for recording modern and early modern gravestones’

ALL WELCOME

Early modern and modern gravestones are a vast but rapidly decaying historical resource. Weathering, damage, and re-use have all affected the size and scholarly value of this material. There are no agreed standards for recording and publishing gravestones, and recording is fragmentary and inconsistent. However, many of the standards used in the digital publication of Classical and Medieval inscriptions are applicable to modern gravestones: this paper investigates whether they provide a viable method of recording such a large body of data, where the researchers are often not experts in epigraphy, and solutions are suggested for designing a pilot project.

Full abstract is available:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-06ct.html

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

The Digital Medievalist Executive Board elections are now open.  To vote, please fill in the brief survey at:

http://surveymonkey.com/s/DM-elections2012

You do _not_ have to be a medievalist to vote, nor highly technical. If you are on the DM-L mailing list then that is the only qualification needed to vote.  The only information we ask is to confirm the email address you are subscribed
with and choose (up to four) candidates to vote for. There is an optional question for feedback about DM at the end.  The
biographies of the candidates are available on the survey page. Any personal information will be deleted afterwards.

We have a good slate of seven candidates with a wide range of experience to choose from. The DM Executive Board is responsible for the running of DM and the day-to-day management of its outputs such as the journal, wiki, this mailing list, and conference sessions. One of the first tasks of the new DM Board will be to choose a new director (potentially from among one of the newly elected members).
The survey will close at midnight GMT at the end of:  Friday 29 June 2012.

Friday June 22nd at 16:30
Room G37,
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Alejandro Giacometti (UCL)
Lindsay MacDonald (UCL)
Alberto Campagnolo (University of the Arts)

‘Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging’

ALL WELCOME

In this seminar we describe the methodology and present preliminary results of a project using multispectral imaging to document the deterioration of parchment. A series of treatments has been applied to degrade samples from a deaccessioned manuscript using both physical and chemical agents. Each sample has been photographed before and after the treatment by a multispectral imaging system to record the effect of the treatments on both the writing and the parchment. We present the initial imaging of the samples, details on their treatment agents and how they affect the writing and parchment, the final imaging, and some image processing analysis.

Full abstract is available:

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Friday June 15th at 16:30
Court Room (note change of room),
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Angeliki Chrysanthi (Southampton)
‘A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites’

ALL WELCOME

This paper investigates movement and behaviour patterns of visitors to archaeological sites as a way of informing interpretive planning. A critical point was the development of a hybrid methodology for collecting and assessing data on movement around sites. I will demonstrate the methodology developed at the archaeological site of Gournia in Greece. Recognised forms of observation and the collection of qualitative data, and technologies such as GPS body tracking, geo-tagging and GIS applications were employed. The interpretation of the processed data provided better insight and an overview of the site’s affordances for movement and revealed the site’s ‘hot spots’ according to visitors’ assessment.

Full abstract is available:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-03ac.html

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Friday June 8th at 16:30
Room G37,
Senate House,
London, WC1E 7HU

Jari Pakkanen (Royal Holloway)
‘Pattern detection in archaeological data: quantum modelling, Bronze Age Aegean lead weights and Greek Classical Doric architecture’
ALL WELCOME

Can statistically significant patterns be detected in Late Bronze Age Aegean balance weights made of lead? How should we approach the question of what type of a design system the fifth-century BC Greek architects used for Doric temples? Is it possible to say whether one of the several modern interpretations is more likely than another? Kendall’s quantum modelling and Monte Carlo computer simulations may help in finding the answers.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

The full abstract and seminar programme are at:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Chiara Salvagni (KCL) ‘Digital Critical Editions of Homer’

Friday June 1st at 16:30
Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

“I intend to discuss how the scholia to the Odyssey of Homer can be encoded in order to be part of a digital edition of the first book of the Odyssey, with special concern for their critical apparatus, starting with an analysis of how a printed edition of the scholia works. I will take into account the possibility of using the Open Source Critical Edition methodological framework for my work on the Odyssey, and the specific characteristic of the Homeric text, its oral origin and the Homeric question on the existence or non existence of Homer.”
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

All are welcome.

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH), King’s College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to work as a developer on the research project “Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic” (DigiPal: http://digipal.eu/). The position will involve designing and developing computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship in the study of medieval and ancient handwriting and documents.

The successful candidate for this position will have wide experience in modelling structured data and developing tools to search, query, retrieve and display them using relational databases and related technologies; in designing, writing and modifying programs which facilitate content creation; and collaborating in the development of integrated interfaces for web publication.

Experience in creating and manipulating structured data with a range of RDB-related and web-delivery standards and technologies (SQL, Django/Python, Javascript/JQuery) is essential. Familiarity with ontologies, text processing techniques and standards-compliant XHTML and CSS is highly desirable, as is experience in the modelling of humanities data, especially that relating to manuscripts and documents.

In addition you will need to have an understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and you will be expected to make a contribution to the departmental research profile. The successful candidate will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English.

Salary
The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications, within the Grade 6 scale, currently £31,020 to £37,012 per annum, plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance.

Further information
For an informal discussion of the post please contact Dr Peter Stokes on +44(0)20 7848 2813, or via email at peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk.

Further details and application packs are available on the College’s website at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs . All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number R6/AAV/478/12-JM.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (peter.stokes@kcl.ac.uk).

The full programme for the Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2012 is available at:
http://www.stoa.org/archives/1528

Abstracts will be available shortly on the Digital Classicist website.

Simon

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

The full programme for the Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2012 is available at:

Abstracts will be available shortly on the Digital Classicist website.

Simon

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Posted by: Sharon Paice MacLeod (macleod_eolas@yahoo.com).

Post Specification
Post Title: Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities Post Status: Three year contract
Department/Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Salary: This appointment will be made on the Department of Education and Skills Lecturer Scale in line with current Government pay policy.

Closing Date: 12 noon on Friday, 11th May, 2012

Post Summary

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seeks applications for an Assistant Professor in Digital Arts and Humanities. Applicants will have a PhD, a research profile in Digital Humanities and relevant teaching experience. While the responsibilities of the post will include participation in Faculty level programmes, the successful applicant will be located in one of the Schools within the Faculty. This location will be a function of their prior experience and substantive interests.

The successful applicant will have a proven track record in applying visualization techniques and technologies in one or more of the following areas: virtual worlds, temporal and/or spatial analysis, HCI, or visualizing large data sets.

We are seeking an individual with vision and enthusiasm and a genuine commitment to the central roles of teaching and research. Candidates should have an established record of research and show clear potential for future research accomplishment. They should also show an appreciation for other research activities represented in the School to which they are appointed.

Trinity College Dublin acknowledges the financial support of UBM in making this appointment.
Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of the School of Histories and Humanities: Professor Brian McGing (bmcging@tcd.ie).

Background to the Post

Digital Arts and Humanities is one of Trinity College’s priority research areas. This appointment seeks to deepen and expand existing expertise within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The College has recently introduced an MPhil. in Digital Humanities and Culture and a PhD programme in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH).

* The new academic title of Assistant Professor, previously known as Lecturer, as approved by University Council (15 June 2011) and Board (29 June 2011)

Please visit our jobs website http://jobs.tcd.ie for a full job specification and to apply online via e-Recruitment.

TEI and the C(r|l)o(w|u)d
2012 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture

* Workshop proposals due Wed 15 May 2012
* Meeting dates: Wed 7 November to Sat 10 November, 2012
* Workshop dates: Mon 5 November to Wed 7 November, 2012 (see separate call)

The TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting will be preceded by educational tutorials or workshops. The goal of the tutorials is to give an opportunity to learn more about the use of TEI markup under the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners, whereas workshops are an opportunity for specific groups to meet and work together on a TEI related subject.
Workshops and tutorials range in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two days. Tutorials are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the tutorial. Workshops are expected to be free of charges.

If you are interested in proposing either a workshop or a tutorial for the 2012 Members’ Meeting and Conference, please submit your proposal as early as possible and before 15 May 2012 via conftool, the availability of which will be announced shortly. Expressions of interest should include as much as possible of the following information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in developing their proposals): * A proposed topic
* A rationale explaining why this topic is likely to draw sufficient attention to the TEI community * Preferred length of the event
* Infrastructural requirements
* (In the case of a tutorial) A proposed instructor or slate of instructors including brief
discussion of relevant experience, as well as a preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if any).
* (In the case of a workshop) A core list of people who are likely to participate, keeping in mind that workshops are by essence open for participation
Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local organising committee.

Tutorial proposals will be evaluated by the programme committee primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community, the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction, and cost. The committee will work with selected organizers after this date to refine the details of their proposals.

Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org.

For the International Programme Committee,

Elena Pierazzo (chair)

TEI and the C(r|l)o(w|u)d
2012 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture

* Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012
* Meeting dates: Wed 7 November to Sat 10 November, 2011
* Workshop dates: Mon 5 November to Wed 7 November, 2012 (see separate call)

The Programme Committee of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI – http://www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, scholarly editing or any topic that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:
TEI and Google Books
Handicraft vs. Large Scale Digitization: a False Dichotomy?
TEI and massive digital collections
TEI and Recording Document Corrections
TEI and “Dirty” OCR
TEI Schemas and Document Publication History
Text vs. Document: Can the TEI semantics express both?
TEI and text corpora
The relation between representation (encoded text) and presentation (visualisation, user-interface) TEI encoded data in the context of quantitative text analysis Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards
TEI as metadata standard
TEI as interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data (in particular in relation to other formats or software environments)

In addition, we are seeking proposals for 5 minute micropaper presentations focused on experiences with the TEI guidelines gained from running projects and discussing one specific feature.

Submission Types

Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers.

Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including:

* three paper-panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics

* round table discussion: 5-8 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief optional presentations.

Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster presenter is expected to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session.

Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted via conftool, the availability of which will be announced shortly. Please submit your proposals by May 15, 2012.

If you don’t have already one, you will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract.

* Individual paper or poster proposals (including tool demonstrations): Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. Submission should be made in the form of an abstract of 750-1500 words (plus bibliography).

* Micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 500 words. Please be sure the abstract mentions the TEI feature to be presented!

* Panel sessions (three paper panels): The panel organizer submits a proposal for the entire session, containing a 500-word introduction explaining the overarching theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers, together with a 750-1500 words section for each panel member.

* Panel sessions (round table discussion): The panel organizer submits a proposal of 750-1500 words describing the rationale for the discussion and includes the list of panelists. Panelists need to be contacted by the panel organizer and have expressed their willingness in participation before submission.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers.

Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room.

Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org.

Conference submissions will be considered for conference proceedings, edited as a special issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming.

For the International Programme Committee,

Elena Pierazzo (programme committee chair)

Posted by: Elena Pierazzo (elena.pierazzo@kcl.acuk).

Early English Laws will be introduced by Michael Wood, and there will then be a brief demonstration of the website and database, followed by a reception in the Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London.

If you would like to join us in celebrating this important landmark for the project, email Emma Bohan (emma.bohan@sas.ac.uk) by Thursday 15 March 2012. For details on finding us, see http://www.history.ac.uk/contact

Posted by: Jane Winters (jane.winters@sas.ac.uk).

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 7, Issue 1: 1 March 2012

The next issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2012. This special issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of spatial order, and place as a socially constructed category, in the art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music of the Middle Ages.

Graduate students working in any discipline and period of Medieval Studies are welcome to submit their articles related to this year’s theme via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1, 2012. We are also interested in book reviews on recent publications which may be of interest to a broad audience of Medieval Studies scholars. For further information please visit our website at http://www.hortulus.net.

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas.

Posted by: Hortulus Journal (hortulus@hortulus.net).

L’édition électronique dans tous ses états : évolution des pratiques, évolution des besoins

Vendredi 20 janvier, 14h00-17h
Recherche Sans Frontières : la Text Encoding Initiative et la coopération internationale dans les Digital Humanities
Elena Pierazzo, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, membre du Board of Directors de la TEI

Lundi 23 janvier, 09h30-12h30
Les « Gascon Rolls », une source majeure de la Guerre de Cent ans, du parchemin au digital
Guilhem Pépin, Université d’Oxford, et Paul Spence, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

Lundi 23 janvier, 14h00-15h30
Histoire de la TEI : un cas d’étude dans l’évolution des méthodes et pratiques scientifiques dans les SHS ?
Lou Burnard, TGE ADONIS, membre du Board of Directors de la TEI

Lundi 23 janvier, 16h00-18h00
Donner forme à la TEI : outils et méthodes pour l’édition structurée
Dominique Roux, Presses Universitaires de Caen

Salle de séminaire du CIHAM / UMR 5648 – Sous-sol du 18, quai Claude Bernard – 69007 Lyon Contact : marjorie.burghart@ehess.fr

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (marjorie.burghart@ehess.fr).

The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare announces two short-term Library Research Grants for graduate students to promote scholarly use of its important collections. The first one is dedicated to The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris and the second one dedicated to Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies.

These Library Research Grants, which have a value of up to € 2.000 each, are meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Vercelli during the tenure of the grant. The length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal, but is ordinarily up to one month.

Library Research Grants awarded in this year are tenable from May 2012 to April 2013 (except from 18th July to 4th September), and the deadline for applications is 15 April 2012. No applications will be accepted after that date.

Applicants are asked to complete an Application Form (download from http://www.tesorodelduomovc.it/) and submit a Word or PDF file (the latter is the preferred format) containing a Budget Form, a full Curriculum Vitae and a Research Proposal not exceeding one thousand words in length. Application should be sent by postal mail to the Library Research Grants Committee or by Email at the address given below. Applicants must also arrange for two Confidential Letters of Recommendation to be sent directly to the Library Research Grants Committee by postal mail or Email.

The proposal should address specifically the relevance to the proposed research of unique resources found in the Biblioteca and Archivio Capitolare collections or in the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo collection (The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris Grant) and in the Biblioteca Capitolare collections (Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies Grant). Prospective grantees are urged to contact the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books for detailed descriptions of the collections. The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare reserves the right to have a copy of the research that the applicant will publish at the end of her or his studies.

A committee consisting of members by University of Piemonte Orientale, Turin, Göttingen, Kiel and of the Library Management will award the grants on the basis of the relevance of the proposal to unique holdings of the library and museum, the merits and significance of the project, and the applicant’s scholarly qualifications.

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© 2011-2012
Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare
piazza Alessandro D’Angennes, 5
13100, Vercelli – ITALY
http://www.tesorodelduomovc.it/

Dr Timoty Leonardi
Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books
timoty.leonardi@tesorodelduomovc.it
Phone and fax: +39 0161 51650

Posted by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

The Weil fellowship was established to foster the professional development of gifted scholars and the further enrichment of the university’s vigorous research environment. The HDW fellow is expected to pursue her or his own research, but will also join the research team of one or more of the projects currently supported by the HDW; the Fellow is expected to participate in the intellectual life of the HDW as well as of other units relevant to the Fellow’s research interests. Teaching responsibilities include a course each Fall and Spring semester, as well as supervision of a small number of students.Some courses may be centered in the Fellow’s substantive discipline; others may straddle disciplines, but with a methodological focus in digital scholarship. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the entire fellowship period, apart from research-related travel. Fellows will receive a salary of $60,000 per year, plus Washington University postdoctoral benefits; and a $5,000 annual research/travel stipend.

Applicants should submit a CV, graduate school transcript, two letters of recommendation, a description of the proposed research project, a brief account of the applicant’s involvement in digital humanities, and a proposal for a seminar (introductory or advanced) in digital humanities. Submit all application materials electronically
to the HDW Fellowship Search Committee, c/o hdw-artsci@wustl.edu .Inquiries may be directed to Joseph Loewenstein jfloewen@wustl.edu or Douglas Knox dknox@wustl.edu .*Applications must be received by March 1, 2012*.Washington University in St. Louis is an AA/EO employer, and strongly encourages applications from women, ethnic minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Femme, je n’écris pas ton nom.
Elle au carrefour des sciences du langage

Le département de français de la faculté des Langues (AL Alsun) organise un colloque international de linguistique française qui se tiendra à l’Université d’Ain Shams (Le Caire- Égypte), 29 -30 Avril 2012.

Date limite de la réception des résumés – (200 à 400 mots) -des propositions + Mots clés : 19 décembre 2011

Elle pronom personnel, elle non-personne, elle le féminin de il, Elle symbole de la femme. Sous la dénomination de genre, Elle imprègne le corps du langage par sa présence. Le traitement de la catégorie de sexe dans le langage touche la troisième personne en grammaire tout en forçant chaque locuteur, s’il en est une, à proclamer son sexe physique (sociologique), c’est-à-dire à apparaître dans le langage, représenté sous une forme concrète par les différentes marques du féminin et non sous la forme abstraite que la généralisation nécessite, celle que tout locuteur masculin a le droit inquestionnable d’utiliser. La présence du elle, en manifestant dans sa forme subjective le genre, arrive à le réaliser par excès de présence de féminin (et de féminisation) couvrant un large territoire du domaine linguistique. Elle propose donc un examen des problèmes liés à la tradition grammaticale française, une analyse syntaxique, et une étude du rôle de
ces constructions dans la dynamique du texte et dans la structuration du champ de référence et du champ communicationnel. En outre, Elle ne se borne pas à manifester la troisième personne au féminin. Elle en linguistique n’est pas uniquement le féminin, la féminité, et autres fétiches essentialisants. Dire d’une femme « elle » et s’abstenir de mentionner son prénom, quand on ne l’ignore pas, n’est pas dénué de sens. En outre, Elle peut porter l’héritage du discours philosophique. Assumant à son tour le « postulat nominaliste » décrit par Michel de Certeau à propos de Montaigne, elle, dans le dispositif d’écriture, signifie « la chose » (par opposition au nom), celle « qui est l’étrangère, [celle qui] n’est jamais là où le mot la dit. ».
Enfin, N. Sarraute écrit : « contre elle, on ne peut rien » (Elle est là) signalant l’obstination et la force, si souvent sous-estimée d’ELLE.

Quel que soit l’approche linguistique, elle dispose d’une grande variété d’usages et reste un territoire d’exploration riche en apports.

Les contributions seront liées aux domaines de la linguistique cités ci-après : • Grammaire
• Grammaire de texte
• Énonciation
• Pragmatique
• Argumentation
• Syntaxe
• Sémantique
• Stylistique
• Approches contrastives et comparatives (langues autorisées : français-arabe, français-anglais).

NB. Toute approche interdisciplinaire ou cumulant plus d’une discipline sera la bienvenue. Mais il faut le préciser dès l’envoi de votre résumé.

La langue du colloque : le français.
La langue des contributions : le français (NB. pour les approches contrastives des exemples peuvent être rédigés en anglais ou en arabe).

Comité d’organisation: Racha EL Khamissy, Riham EL Khamissy, Yomna Safwat

Calendrier :
• Date limite de la réception des résumés – (200 à 400 mots) + 4 mots-clés : 19 décembre 2011
• Date limite de notification de l’acceptation ou du refus des propositions de communications : 1er janvier 2012
• Date limite de la réception du texte complet de la communication : 19 mars 2012 • Directives pour la version définitive : début avril 2012
• Date du colloque : 29-30 avril 2012

Pour Candidater :
Les propositions de communications doivent être anonymes, ce qui signifie qu’à aucun moment les lecteurs ne doivent être en mesure d’identifier le ou les auteurs. Des résumés-New Times Roman 12 – (200 à 400 mots) + 5 mots clés + bibliographie indicative.

Les propositions doivent parvenir à l’adresse électronique suivante : conf_alsun2012@yahoo.com

Dans le corps du message électronique, vous préciserez :
1. Vos informations personnelles
Nom et prénom
Nationalité
Statut (chercheur, enseignant, enseignant-chercheur)
Post et Affiliation
Titre de votre contribution
Brève notice biobibliographique de l’auteur (5 lignes max.)
NB. En cas de co-écriture : Pour des raisons de commodité, un seul auteur sera désigné comme « correspondant ». Le ou les autre(s) seront seulement “présentateur(s)”.C’est l’auteur “correspondant” qui recevra les différents messages électroniques liés à la proposition de communication (rapport d’évaluation). Seule son adresse électronique est donc nécessaire, celle de son éventuel co-auteur est facultative. 2. La thématique dans laquelle vous souhaitez vous inscrire.
Sera attaché au courriel, en version WORD. Doc, le résumé anonyme et le titre de votre contribution. 3. Le type de votre contribution :
• Présentation + publication
• Publication seulement
Pour plus d’infos, consultez la page du colloque sur le site de la faculté des langues – (AL ALSUN). Après acceptation
Frais d’inscriptions selon le type de votre participation :

Présenter + Publier Publier seulement Assister seulement
Pour les enseignants chercheurs égyptiens :
550 LE 350 LE Gratuitement
Pour les enseignants-chercheurs étrangers :
330 euros Gratuitement
Pour les étudiants égyptiens

Gratuitement

L’article complet est de 15 pages maximum. Or, vous ne présenterez, lors du colloque, qu’une communication de (2500 signes sans espaces compris ni références). Un texte plus complet figurera dans les Actes du colloque.

La mise en forme de votre article complet
1. Votre article doit être envoyé au format .doc
2. Marge de 3cm de chaque côté
3. Titre principal de votre contribution en Times Roman 16
4. Sous –titres Times Roman en 14
5. Corps du texte : Police Times Roman en12
6. Espace entre paragraphe (Auto)
7. Interligne simple
8. Les paragraphes sont justifiés
9. Les titres et les sous-titres sont centrés
10. Les citations courtes sont insérées entre guillemets dans le corps de texte : les citations longues –plus de trois lignes) peuvent être distinguées par un retour à la ligne et un retrait d’1 cm. Elles sont sans guillemets et rédigées en New Times roman 11. 11. Les références
Les références figurent dans le corps du texte (système (auteur : date))
Pour la bibliographie, Times ou Times New Roman, taille de police 10, justifié. La première ligne de chaque référence (donc la première ligne de chaque paragraphe) doit être affectée d’un retrait négatif de 0,5 cm. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le format des références pour les articles et les ouvrages.
Nom de l’auteur, Prénom. (Année de publication). Titre de l’article. Nom de la revue, Numéro de la revue, numéros des pages.
Nom de l’auteur, Prénom. (Année de publication). Titre de l’ouvrage. Ville : Éditeur.
Les renvois aux sites doivent préciser la date consultation et éventuellement la date de publication.
Les notes infrapaginales en New Times roman 10 ne sont utilisées que pour des remarques ou des explicitations. Elles doivent être limitées autant que possible. Vous êtes priés de suivre les normes de présentations ci-dessus.

Posted by: Riham EL (conf_alsun2012@yahoo.com).