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 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).

Northeastern University in Boston is a nationally-ranked research university with a strong urban mission, a global perspective, and an emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship. Its signature Cooperative Education Program and study-abroad opportunities such as Dialogues of Civilization provide experiential learning opportunities for its 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The newly founded College of Social Sciences and Humanities incorporates the departments of African-American Studies; Economics; English; History; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Philosophy and Religion; Political Science; and Sociology and Anthropology. The College is home to the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Its eight interdisciplinary programs include International Affairs; Law and Public Policy; East Asian Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Jewish Studies.

Applications will only be accepted through the College of Social Sciences and Humanities website. To apply, please go to http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/, and click on the Faculty Positions link. Applicants already holding tenure should upload a letter of application, CV, a statement of current and future research interests, a writing sample of no more than 50 pages, and the names of three referees. Untenured applicants should upload a letter of application, CV, a statement of current and future research interests, a writing sample of no more than fifty pages, and should have three references submitted via the Faculty Positions site. Review of applications will begin October 20, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. Questions about the position may be directed to the Chair of the Search Committee, David Lazer, or to Co-Chair, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon at dighumsearch@neu.edu .

Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University. Northeastern University particularly welcomes applications from minorities, women, and persons with disabilities.

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

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

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. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in any discipline and period of Medieval Studies. We are also interested in book reviews on recent works: interested reviewers should send a query, indicating the book they would like to review.

Our upcoming 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. Place and space theories have manifested themselves in Medieval Studies recently in a number of ways, from analysis of specific spaces and places, such as gardens, forests, cities, and the court, to spatially theorized topics such as travel narratives, nationalism, and the open- or closedness of specific medieval cultural areas. Over an array of subjects, the spatial turn challenges scholars to re-think how humans create the world around them, through both physical and mental processes. Articles should explore the meaning of space/place in the past by situating it in its precise historical context.

Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:

Medieval representations of spatial order
The sense of place in the construction of social identities Mapping and spatial imagination
Topographies of meaningful places
Beyond the binary of center/periphery
Spatial policies of separation: ethnicity, religion, or gender Travel and the sense of place
Creating landscape
The idea of place in medieval religious culture
Pilgrimage
Workplaces
Intimate space, public place
Liminality and proximity as social categories

The 2011 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2012. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net before March 1, 2012.

Posted by: Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies, www.hortulus.net (hortulus@hortulus.net).

I hope that the following will be of interest to those on this list.

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’ at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012)

The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional methodologies used in palaeographical and manuscript research. The aim of this session is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects that overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies.

Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and the Congress Participant Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15th September 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 1st October 2011.

We are looking for a suitably experienced individual to assist with intellectual/digital content creation for a virtual learning environment (VLE) for Palaeography, Diplomatic and Manuscript Studies in the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London. The VLE is being developed by a consortium of Institutes of SAS (the Institutes of Classical Studies, English Studies, Historical Research, and the Warburg Institute).

The successful candidate will be responsible for presenting and describing source materials and for writing contextual and promotional material for the online training resource. S/he will also be responsible for liaising with a range of archives and repositories for the acquisition of digital images, and will be required to work with the technical team developing the VLE.

For more information and further particulars, see http://www.history.ac.uk/news/2011-08-30/project-officer-vle-palaeography-diplomatic-manuscript-studies.

Closing date 13 September.

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

Friday August 12th at 16:30
Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Valentina Asciutti & Stuart Dunn (KCL)
Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace

ALL WELCOME

Throughout history, artefacts have been removed from their original location by a series of processes, leaving a fragmented picture of the material past. Geospatial and visualization technologies give us the opportunity to visualize and conceptualize the histories of such dispersed heritage, recording findspot, current location and physical and interpretive stages that went between. Using examples including Romano-British verse inscriptions and geographic data gathered on Hadrian’s Wall, we will show a database of different types of cultural heritage objects with multiple location fields. Using a combination of quantitative GIS and KML-based views of the data, we will illustrate how the history of artefacts can be traced through both time and location.

For the full abstract see:

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/wip2011.html

Posted by: simon mahony (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).

February 3–4, 2012
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Seventh Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, February 3 and 4, 2012, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).

For this year’s workshop we invite presentations that focus on the reading, interpretation, and use of manuscripts. The relationship between a text and its readers is reciprocal – the text speaks to readers, readers in turn talk back to the text, and meaning emerges through this series of encounters between readers and texts and negotiations among different readers. Readers sometimes create new texts to answer the ones they read – literary practices such as commentary, quotation, or reference. But they also leave traces of their reading in material ways: physical wear and tear, annotations and corrections, interpolations and excisions, glosses and marginalia, the purposeful grouping or arrangement of texts in a codex or books in a library. How is such evidence recognized and understood? How is it presented to modern readers? What does it tell us about the history of the text? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.

The deadline for applications is October 15, 2011. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to rliuzza@utk.edu, or by mail to the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.
The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Further details will be available later in the year; please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.

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

I hope that the following will be of interest to those on this list.

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’ at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012)

The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional methodologies used in palaeographical and manuscript research. The aim of this session is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects that overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies.

Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and the Congress Participant Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15th September 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 1st October 2011.

Friday July 22nd at 16:30
Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Sandra Blakely (Emory)
Modeling the Mysteries:
GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace
ALL WELCOME

The mystery cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace promised safety in sea travel as the reward for initiation. This ongoing project tests the hypothesis that the promise was real, effected through the human social networks created through initiation and festival participation. A GIS database of sites plots the locations of Samothracian affilitation, based on epigraphic and textual evidence for initiation, theoroi, proxenoi, koina, priesthoods and shrines; historical comparanda suggest the potential for these to support long distance maritime travel. Network models recommend the hypothesis that Samothrace functioned as a super-node connecting smaller independent networks, offering an economic argument for the cult’s longevity.
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/wip2011.html

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

Convegno conclusivo della ricerca MIUR (PRIN 2007) “BIA-Net: accesso in rete alla Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui”

Con il patrocinio di:

Fondazione “Rinascimento digitale”

Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale

Centro di ricerca sulle Tecnologie Informatiche e Multimediali Applicate al Diritto (TIMAD) – Università di Catania

PROGRAMMA

12 settembre 2011

Ore 9,30 – Registrazione dei partecipanti

Ore 10,30

Saluti – Mario Citroni – direttore dell’Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

Il panorama degli studi antichistici nell’era digitale: problemi e prospettive – Nicola Palazzolo, Università di Perugia

Strumenti digitali per la ricerca nella discipline antichistiche: linee di sviluppo – Alessandro Cristofori, Università della Calabria

Tavola Rotonda

Le riviste elettroniche di antichistica

coordina:
Orazio Licandro, Università di Catanzaro
intervengono:
Francesco Sini, Università di Sassari
(direttore di “Diritto & Storia”);
Ferdinando Zuccotti, Università di Torino
(direttore di “Rivista di diritto romano”);
Franco Montanari, Università di Genova
(direttore di “L’Année philologique”);
Paola Moscati, CNR/Roma
(direttore di “Archeologia e Calcolatori”)

Ore 13,30 – Lunch

Ore 15

Lo storico del mondo antico e il computer: la gestione digitale del documento storiografico - Paolo Desideri, Università di Firenze

Il trattamento digitale delle fonti giuridiche di tradizione manoscritta – Gianfranco Purpura, Università di Palermo

Esperienze diverse e complementari nel trattamento digitale delle fonti epigrafiche: il caso di EAGLE ed EpiDoc  – Antonio Enrico Felle, Università di Bari

Edizione e ricostruzione digitale dei testi papiracei – Isabella Andorlini, Università di Parma

13 settembre 2011

Ore 9,30

Da BIA e BD-Rom a BIA-Net: l’integrazione in rete degli archivi dei diritti dell’Antichità – Francesco Arcaria, Patrizia Sciuto, Ignazio Zangara, Università di Catania

L’uso degli standard XML per la gestione in rete dei documenti giuridici romani - Daria Spampinato, CNR/Catania

Tecnologie di web semantico per le scienze umane: thesauri, ontologiee linked data  – Aldo Gangemi, CNR/Roma

Una biblioteca digitale per gli studi antichistici – Anna Maria Tammaro, Università di Parma

Ore 13 Pranzo

Ore 14,30

La filologia del testo assistita da calcolatore – Andrea Bozzi, CNR/Pisa

Filologia latina e testo elettronico. La ricerca dei prototipi letterari in poesia epigrafica – Paolo Mastandrea, Università di Venezia

Metodi quantitativi nell’attribuzione dei testi. Un caso di studio romanistico: Ausonio – Maurizio Lana, Università del Piemonte Orientale

Le integrazioni delle lacune nei testi giuridici romani: il Gaio digitale – Filippo Briguglio, Università di Bologna

Conclusioni - Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

Nei due giorni del convegno saranno presentati in una sala attigua alcuni prodotti informatici di particolare interesse:

BIA-Net: la Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui in rete
Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Università di Catania

Progetti di Papirologia Digitale in corso
Nicola Reggiani, Università di Parma

Diritto romano e lingua greca. Un lessico della terminologia greca utilizzata nell’amministrazione e nel diritto in età romana
Andrea Raggi, Università di Pisa

Posted by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

Friday July 8th at 16:30
Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Timothy Hill (New York University)
Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity

As increasing numbers of historical datasets are made available online, the question of how best to mediate among them becomes more pressing. But the standard computational approach to such mediation, the creation of a unifying framework ‘over’ the datasets, is problematic in the context of historiography: often, for historians, the question of overarching ‘frame’ is itself the point at issue. This paper explores, with particular reference to Late Antique urban culture, the potential for electronic tools to free the historian from this reflexive bind, and facilitate an ‘experimental’ research approach to history, as advocated by e.g. Marcel Detienne and other classicist anthropologists.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

ALL WELCOME

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/wip2011.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).

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

Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”)
Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures:
From practice to requirements

ALL WELCOME

In the context of Preparing DARIAH, the DCU engaged in a research programme consisting partly of an empirical study of scholarly research activity. The study involved 24 interviews, and the largest groups of interviewees included archaeologists, historians and classicists. What emerged was the diversity in the evidence and sources associated with Classical Studies nowadays. Classicists indicated that in addition to text-based research they also use objects, sites, and other historical-cultural material. This challenges earlier perceptions that Classicists only employ strictly linguistic/textual methods of research. Moreover, it indicates the evolving nature of Classics as an increasingly hybridized, thematic, and multi-methodological interdiscipline.

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/wip2011.html

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

Alessandro Vatri (Oxford)
HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study

ALL WELCOME

HdtDep is a treebank and search engine based on the first book of Herodotus’ Histories. The structure of the sentences has been parsed applying a modified version of Mel’čuk’s dependency syntax, and has been encoded in an XML database. The search engine allows searching for precise dependency patterns involving specific grammatical categories or lexemes in exact sequences, and can easily be programmed through a user friendly graphic interface. This tool is especially designed for classicists and linguists investigating Greek word order—hence the choice of Herodotus’ prose as linguistic material—but can also be useful for teachers and language learners.
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/wip2011.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).

Charlotte Roueché & Charlotte Tupman (KCL)
Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer

ALL WELCOME

SAWS uses digital technologies to analyse wisdom literatures in Greek and Arabic. Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages collections of wise sayings (gnomologia) were circulated as a response to the cost and inaccessibility of full texts. These moral and philosophical anthologies formed a crucial route by which ideas of reasonable behaviour were disseminated over the course of centuries. We are publishing gnomologia using TEI XML and developing a series of explanatory links in RDF between sections of collections, their source texts, and texts which drew upon them. This paper discusses challenges in publishing and linking these texts.
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 (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).

David Scott & Mike Jackson (Edinburgh)
‘Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data’

ALL WELCOME

The SPQR project (http://spqr.cerch.kcl.ac.uk) is investigating the integration of heterogeneous datasets relating to Classical antiquity via Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies to produce an intuitive way for researchers to explore the data. EpiDoc XML (including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania) has been converted into Linked Data. In addition to relationships arising from shared properties of the objects, such as the materials from which they are made, there are links to external resources such as the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. A user evaluation by classicists at KCL of the tools and techniques used is under way.
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/wip2011.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).

This workshop will run from 12.30 to 4.30pm, with lunch provided.

Please contact Donna Baillie (see below) if you would like to attend.

Digital Research and Editing Environments offer humanities researchers the opportunity to extend the range of methodologies open to them through the use of advanced online text analysis tools. However, their adoption remains highly localised and unevenly distributed because of, among other things, lack of awareness, the inappropriate configuration of editing tools, lack of institutional support, and the instability and unfamiliarity of interfaces.

This workshop will look at the current state of the field from three viewpoints:
• the researcher, open to learning new skills but wary of the transience, inflexibility and insecurity of some services;
• the editor, looking to broaden the reach of his or her published output, but requiring complex and sometimes bespoke workflows
• the technologist, eager to understand researchers’ needs but unsure how these will develop and change over time

For those attending the workshop, issues arising from the speakers’ presentations will be discussed in an ‘Ideas Café’, which will be followed by an open discussion session. While this workshop will be particularly useful for practitioners currently working on or with Digital Research and Editing Environments, the IHR actively invites contributions from researchers and scholars who may have further observations, experience of, or different insights into the adoption of these new tools and technologies. Parts of the workshop will be live streamed through the IHR’s History SPOT service, with an option to contribute in real time, allowing interested parties who cannot attend to ask questions during the open discussion.

Speaker biographies:

Mark Hedges is Deputy Director of the Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King’s College London, and prior to this was Technical Manager at the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS#. Mark took the lead in the planning, design and development of the repository-based infrastructure to support the curation, preservation and delivery of the diverse and complex digital resources managed by the AHDS, and since October 2007 he has been extending the scope of the work to providing a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary research infrastructure for King’s.

Rob Iliffe is the Director of the AHRC Newton Papers Project with an overall responsibility for completing the online publication of all four million words of Newton’s Theological Papers. He is also responsible for extending the scope of the original project to include dealing with Newton’s scientific and mathematical work. Rob gained his PhD from Cambridge University and is currently Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of A Very Short Introduction to Isaac Newton #Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007#, and has published extensively on early modern history and the history of science. He is currently completing a major work on Newton’s theology for online release.

Philip Schofield is Professor of the History of Legal and Political Thought, Director of the Bentham Project, Chair of the Bentham Seminar, and General Editor of the Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. In 2010 the Bentham Project was awarded a Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact #DEDEFI) Award from the AHRC to launch the Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative, or Transcribe Bentham for short. The Bentham Project, in collaboration with the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, the University of London Computer Centre, UCL Library Services and UCL Learning and Media Services, has created a Transcription Desk where volunteer users can log-in and transcribe previously unstudied and unpublished manuscripts from the Bentham Papers collection in UCL Library’s Special Collections.

Jane Winters has been Head of Publications at the Institute of Historical Research since 1999, and of the new IHR Digital since the autumn of 2010. She is responsible for the IHR’s publishing and scholarly communications strategy, including the management of a range of research projects focusing on the provision of digital resources for historians. Currently, she is Co-Director of the JISC-funded Connected Histories project; Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Early English Laws project to digitize Anglo-Saxon legal texts; and Publishing Editor of the Bibliography of British and Irish History. She is also Executive Editor of the IHR’s journal, Historical Research.

URL:
http://www.livestream.com/historyspot

Event Location:
Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research
Malet Street Senate House, North Block
London WC1E 7HU
United Kingdom

Contact details:
Donna Baillie
donna.baillie@sas.ac.uk

Posted by: Donna Baillie (donna.baillie@sas.ac.uk).

Friday June 3rd at 16:30
Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Kathryn Piquette & Charles Crowther (Oxford)
Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material
ALL WELCOME

Ancient documentary scholars face a range of challenges in obtaining accurate physical documentation to support both decipherment and study of the processes of writing. In this seminar we present results from a joint Southampton-Oxford AHRC-funded project designed to address these issues through the application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technologies. Through case studies of Egyptian and Classical material captured using a custom lighting-dome system and highlight-based RTI, we demonstrate how RTI is able to overcome challenges of image lighting as well as providing a more reflexive environment for observation and processes of ‘looking at’ inscribed surfaces.
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/wip2011.html

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

Institute of Classical Studies Digital Classicist Seminar, Summer 2011 Fridays at 16:30 in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

June 3
Kathryn Piquette and Charles Crowther (Oxford),
Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material

June 10
David Scott and Mike Jackson (Edinburgh University),
Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR): Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data

June 17
Charlotte Roueché and Charlotte Tupman (King’s College London), Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer

June 24
Alessandro Vatri (Oxford University),
HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study
July 1
Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”),
Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures: From practice to requirements

July 8
Timothy Hill (New York University),
Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity
July 15
Elton Barker (Open University) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton), Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus

July 22
Sandra Blakely (Emory),
Modeling the mysteries: GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace
July 29
Marco Büchler (Leipzig),
Bringing Modern Spell Checking Approaches to Ancient Texts: Automatized Suggestions for Incomplete Words

August 5
Daniel Pett (British Museum),
The Portable Antiquities Scheme: a tool for studying the Ancient landscape of England and Wales
August 12
Valentina Asciutti & Stuart Dunn (King’s College London),
Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace

ALL WELCOME

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html

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

http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/live-stream

Posted by: Peter Webster (Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk).

I am most pleased to announce the appearance of the first issue of the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter (ISSN 2078-3841).

The Newsletter can be downloaded from http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/COMSt_Newsletter_1_2011.pdf.

From now on, the Newsletter will be appearing in regular installments: the editors are hoping that the second issue can be finalized and published this fall, making it a semi-annual publication.

Please contact us if you or your institution would like to have a printed copy of the issue. And do feel free to join the COMSt virtual network – and to suggest contributions for the forthcoming Newsletter issues.

With my very best regards, and wishing you all an enjoyable read,

Evgenia Sokolinskaia (Coordinator COMSt)
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Universität Hamburg
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Tel./Fax +49-40-42838-7777/-3330

http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/
http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/ethiostudies/

Posted by: Evgenia Sokolinskaia (eae@uni-hamburg.de).

Joe Zucca, Director, Planning & Communication

215-573-4643

zucca@pobox.upenn.edu

Posted by: David McKnight (dmcknigh@pobox.upenn.edu).

First CALL for PAPERS

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPDigHum2011

Workshop associated with RANLP 2011, 12-16 September 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/start3.php

Following several digitization campaigns during the last years, a large number of printed books, manuscripts and archaeological digital objects have become available through web portals and associated infrastructures to a broader public. These infrastructures enable not only virtual research and easier access to materials independent of their physical place, but also play a major role in the long term preservation and exploration. However, the access to digital materials opens new possibilities of textual research like: synchronous browsing of several materials, extraction of relevant passages for a certain event from different sources, rapid search though thousand pages, categorisation of sources, multilingual retrieval and support, etc.

Methods from Language Technology are therefore highly required in order to ensure extraction of content-related semantic metadata, and analysis of textual materials. There are several initiatives in Europe aiming to foster the application of language technology in humanities (CLARIN, DARIAH). Through such initiatives as well as many other research projects, the awareness of such methods for the humanities has risen considerably. However, there is still enough potential on both sides:

· on one hand, there are still research tracks in the humanities which still do not sufficiently and effectively exploit language technology solutions

· on the other hand, there are many languages, especially historical variants of languages, for which the available tools and resources still have to be developed or adapted to serve the various humanities applications.

The current workshop aims to bring together researchers from humanities and language technologies and foster the above-mentioned directions.

We are looking for submissions of original, unpublished work, related (but not restricted) to:

· language tools and resources for analysis of old textual material or language variants

· (semi-) automatic extraction of content related metadata

· semantic linkage of heterogeneous data within digital libraries

· multilingual applications in digital libraries

· pilot applications in humanities using language technology methods

Papers can be submitted via the workshop submission tool, which will be announced in the second call. Submissions should be between 6 and 8 pages and should conform to the format of the main conference (http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/submissions.php)

Shorter submissions of project demonstrations (4 pages) are also encouraged.

Selected contributions will be considered for publication in an international journal.

Important Dates

· paper submission: 19 June 2011

· notification of acceptance / rejection: 28 July 2011

· final paper submission: 22 August 2011

Programme Committee

Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
David Baumann (Perseus, Tufts University)
Günther Görz (University Erlangen, Germany)
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University , Berlin, Germany)
Gábor Proszéky (MorphoLogic, Hungary)
Laurent Romary (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France)
Éric Laporte (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Manfred Thaler (Cologne University, Germany, Germany)
Tamás Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Nuria Bel (University of Barcelona)
Nicoletta Calzolari (University of Pisa)

Organising Committee

· Stelios Piperidis (ILSP Athens)
spip AT ilsp DOT gr

· Milena Slavcheva (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
milena AT lml DOT bas DOT bg

· Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)
cristina DOT vertan AT uni-hamburg DOT de

· Petya Osenova (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
petya AT bultreebank DOT org

Posted by: Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

***

Dear all,

The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce a Request For Proposal to collaborate with OAC researchers for building implementations of the OAC data model and ontology. The OAC is seeking to collaborate with scholars and/or librarians currently using and/or curating established repositories of scholarly digital resources with well-defined audiences of scholars. The OAC intends to fund a set of four projects that are complementary in content media type and use cases that leverage the OAC Data Model to the fullest extent, and that leverage existing annotation tools or at least have articulated an interesting scholarly annotation use case.

Two of the successful Respondents will collaborate with OAC
researchers at the University of Maryland and the other two will collaborate with OAC research at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. (For these collaborations, Illinois and Maryland will provide guidance on the implementation of the OAC data model and ontology, help in defining extensions of the data model that might be necessary, advice on existing tools that might be adaptable for the demonstration experiment, feedback on correctness of mappings from/to native annotation formats and/or annotations created.)

The full text of the RFP can be found at
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/openAnnotationRFP.pdf

The IP agreement attachment to this RFP is available at:
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/openAnnotationIP_Agreement_forRFP.pdf

A FAQ about this RFP is available at:
http://www.openannotation.org/RFP_FAQs.html

Please make all submissions regarding this RFP, including your letter of intent and proposal, to oac2rfp@support.lis.illinois.edu

Questions: regarding any details of this RFP should also be emailed to oac2rfp@support.lis.illinois.edu; answers to substantive questions from individuals will be posted immediately on the RFP FAQ page mentioned above (so as to available to all proposers).

The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Cheers,
Neil

The 2012 meeting will take place in Glasgow, Scotland from 11-14th April 2012. We welcome papers on any of the above topics. A full CFP is
available from: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/index.php. The deadline for the submission of papers and sessions is 1st May 2011. Enquiries can be made to Ian Gregory (I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk).

Posted by: Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ One-Day Symposium
5th September 2011, King’s College London

The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography.

In recent years, scholars have begun to develop and employ new technologies and computer-based methods for palaeographic research. The aim of the symposium is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects which overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies. Possible topics could include:

• Project reports and/or demonstrations
• Palaeographical method; ‘Digital’ and ‘Analogue’ palaeography • Quantitative and qualitative approaches
• ‘Scientific’ methods, ‘objectivity’ and the role of evidence in manuscript studies • Visualisation of manuscript evidence and data
• Interface design and querying of palaeographical material

To propose a paper, please send a brief abstract (250 words max) to digipal@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 8th May 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 20th May 2011.

It is with pleasure and relief that the editors, staff, and board of The Heroic Age announce the release of “Issue 14 Part 2.” We had the very great advantage of having two sections edited for us by two quality editors on two different themes. In November 2010, we were able to work with the print journal postmedieval to release a joint issue The State(s) of Early English Studies edited by Eileen Joy; now we are announcing the release of the second section, Anglo-Saxon Law edited by Andrew Rabin. Point your browser to http://www.heroicage.org and click on Issue 14 (under Current Issue). I would like to thank Andrew, Eileen, my co-editor Deanna Forsman, our readers, copy-editors and editors for taking time from their classes, families, and other activities to work on this issue.

Sincerely,

Larry Swain
Editor in Chief, The Heroic Age

Posted by: Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Position: Associate Director, MITH; Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research, Libraries

Category: Faculty, Full-time (12-month Appointment)

Salary: $80,000 – $110,000, commensurate with experience.

Benefits: 22 Days Annual Leave, 15 Days Sick Leave, 3 Days Personal Leave, 15 Paid Holidays

DESCRIPTION:

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the University Libraries at the University of Maryland are seeking an experienced, dynamic, and highly talented individual to fill a joint position as an Associate Director of MITH and Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research in the Libraries. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for developing joint projects between MITH and the University Libraries, coordinating activities and initiatives between the two units, and developing a digital
scholarship strategy for the Libraries and its digital humanities collections.

Made possible by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a collaboration among the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology. Since its founding in 1999, MITH has become internationally recognized as one of the leading centers of its kind, distinguished by the cultural diversity so central to its identity. In recent years, MITH has achieved a track record of prominent and successful grant funded projects from NEH, the IMLS, the Mellon Foundation, and the NSF, among other agencies and funders. Its collaborators include the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian, among many others. MITH’s strength is its collegial spirit, born of the value it places on its staff and their experiences, and the ideas they bring to the team. The University of Maryland Libraries is the largest university library system in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area, serving 37,000 students and faculty of the flagship College Park campus. The Libraries are new members of the HathiTrust digital library and are in a position to build upon that membership, existing library digital programs, a new strategic plan, and planned growth. The position therefore offers the right scholar-professional unique possibilities to establish a new and vibrant cooperative model between a digital humanities center and university research library. Situated just miles outside of Washington DC, the University of Maryland’s College Park campus also offers all of the opportunities that come from the libraries, museums, and cultural institutions of the area.

The successful candidate will occupy a position of influence that will serve as a platform for a complete digital humanities research agenda spanning both a leading digital humanities center and a major university research library. We have a particular interest in individuals with expertise in humanities data curation and sustaining digital scholarship. Qualifications include:

* Experience in developing strategic vision and plans for digital humanities scholarship

* Experience in developing digital humanities projects and seeing them to successful conclusion

* Demonstrated record of success in developing partnerships within and between institutions

* Demonstrated record of success in writing grants

*Strong grasp of the latest developments in online humanities scholarship, including social media

*Strong record of publication and professional participation in digital humanities

*Ability to analyze and advise on structure and organization of digital programs and cyberinfrastructure

*Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and to communicate well and work with people from a variety of disciplines and a number of different career paths

Position is appointed to Librarian Faculty Ranks as established by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. Rank at appointment is based on the successful applicant’s experience and relevant
credentials. For additional information, consult the following website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/groups/la/APPSC/index.html.

APPLICATIONS: Electronic applications required. Please apply online at https://jobs.umd.edu, click faculty. The University of Maryland Libraries will not sponsor individuals for employment. You must be legally able to work in the United States. An application consists of a cover letter which includes the source of advertisement, a Curriculum Vitae, and names/e-mail addresses of three references. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and accepted until April 15, 2011.

The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

Posted by: Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

This is a meta-session intended for speakers who have already had a paper accepted at another session at the congress. Its purpose is to allow for followup, the presentation of additional details or demonstrations, and also simply as a way of letting people catch up on papers they might have missed because of scheduling conflicts. An informal session at the 2009 Congress was extremely well attended, with lots of discussion, questions, and posters.

Posters are welcome on any aspect of the use of digital media, tools, techniques, and principles in medieval studies. The only restriction is that they must be associated with a paper already accepted for presentation at the 2011 Congress. Acceptable posters might share exactly the same focus and the presented paper, or they might focus on the presentation, demonstration, or elaboration of aspects from the presentation that are better suited to the poster format.

If you are interested in presenting a poster, please contact the session organisers, Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com), Jim Ginther (james.ginther@gmail.com), or Dan O’Donnell (caedmon@uleth.ca) for further information or enquiries.

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

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 2011 to April 2012 (except from 18th July to 4th September), and the deadline for applications is 15 April 2011. No applications will be accepted after that date.

Applicants are asked to complete an Application Form (download from www.tesorodelduomovc.it [1]) 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, Oxford, 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.

[1] Note that the application form might not be available online at the time of the announcement: please send your application via email to Dr. Timoty Leonardi in that case, email address reported below.

*************************************************

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

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

SDH-SEMI 2011 Conference, 30 May – 1 June 2011, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

The 2011 SDH-SEMI conference will be held this year on May 30 and June 1 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The theme of the conference is “The Undiscovered Country”: Exploring People and Places through Digital Humanities. See also our call for papers (but note that the deadline was extended for technical reasons).

The final deadline for consideration is March 13, 2001.

Abstracts may be submitted via http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool/

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

The research program ANR GRAPHEM (2008-2011), lead by the LIRIS (UMR 5205, Laboratoire d’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’information), federates four resarch teams: 2 laboratories in computer science (LIFO, EA 4022, Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale d’Orléans, and LIPADE, Laboratoire d’Informatique Paris Descartes, former CRIP5) and 2 in human sciences (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des Textes and Ecole nationale des chartes). Its aim is to improve the data mining and image processing techniques applied to medieval scripts and their classification.

This symposium will not only present the technological achievements or the software and tools produced during this research program, but also draw a methodological conclusion on interdisciplinary work in the field of Palaeography and Image Analysis.

Program

— 14 April

* Denis Muzerelle (IRHT): Image Analysis Techniques applied to Medieval Scripts (« Les techniques d’analyse d’images appliquées aux écritures médiévales »)
* Matthieu Exbrayat (LIFO): Spatial Exploration and Interaction: Implementation in the Research Program Graphem (« Exploration et interaction spatiale: mise en œuvre dans le cadre du projet Graphem »)
* Stéphane Brès (LIRIS): Script Characterization from Local Visual Signs (« Caractérisation d’écritures à partir d’indices visuels locaux »)
* Nicole Vincent (LIPADE): A Proposal of Script Property Descriptors for Typological Grouping (« Proposition de descripteurs des propriétés des écritures en vue d’apparentements typologiques »)
* Round table (moderator: Marc Smith, École nationale des chartes): Current applications of informatics in paleography, by which methods and for what purposes?

— 15 April

* Permanent Seminar on Cursive Scripts [specific program: http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/actualites/seminaire-permanent-sur-la-cursivite-paris-irht-15]

URL [fre] : http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/colloques/analyse-image-paleographie-systematique URL [eng] : http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/en/node/1453

Posted by: Dominique Stutzmann (dominique.stutzmann@irht.cnrs.fr).

Project Developer (Maternity Cover) – InfoDev
Grade: Grade 7
Salary: £29,099 – £35,788 – Full-time, 1 year fixed term

This is a 1 year fixed term maternity cover post.
The post is within the Information and Support Group’s
Development Team (InfoDev; http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/infodev/) of the Computing Services. InfoDev is responsible for providing data solutions, undertaking web projects, and delivering research support to the department and the University. Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS; http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/) offers facilities, training, and advice to members of the University in all aspects of academic computing.

Do you have:
* A strong IT background with experience of providing client-facing services?
* Experience of web design and development technologies (e.g. HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, Javascript, jQuery)?
* A good knowledge of at least one common programming language (e.g Perl, Python, PHP, Java)?
* Some experience with content management systems (e.g. Drupal)?
* A proven track record of both individual and collaborative development work to a specification and deadline?
* An interest in providing intuitive and easy to use web front ends?
* A good understanding of software development technologies and practices?
If so, this may be your opportunity to join a friendly team working on a wide range of data development and web projects. You will be working with other members of the InfoDev team to provide maintenance, troubleshooting and administration for ongoing services as well as developing new bespoke websites and applications to clients’ specifications.

Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 14 March 2011. Interviews will be held on Thursday 24 March 2011.
For more information please see:

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/infodev.xml

-James

There has been much speculation to the age of the Koran, and now through digital imaging, we hope to solve this riddle. The manuscript measures H: 876mm x W: 592mm x D:184mm and weighs approximately 52kg, and is beautifully illuminated throughout.

944 images were created, photographing the Koran in its entirety. The manuscript will be available online, through the John Rylands Unviersity library, using Turning the Pages, which will create a virtual version. All information and progress of the project can be found online on our blog;

www.gatewaytothekoran.wordpress.com

Posted by: James Robinson (james.robinson-3@manchester.ac.uk).

Marie-Christine Bornes-Varol, Marie-Sol Ortola, Jean-Daniel Gronoff,
Avant-propos. Le projet ALIENTO

Éditer un texte parémiologique
Hugo Oscar Bizzarri, ¿Reproducir o reconstruir? El refranero en la
periferia de la crítica textual
Paloma Diaz Mas, Carlos Mota, Los Proverbios Morales de Sem Tob de Carrión, entre la literatura de adâb, la sabiduría rabínica y la tradición hispánica
Francisco Crosas, Sobre Burley y su edición

Traduction, intention et spécificités textuelles
Cristiano Leone, La réception occidentale du Mukhtâr al-hikam à travers ses traductions
Ahmed-Salem Ould Mohamed Baba, La collection parémiologique d’Azzajjâlî (XIIIe siècle)
Barry Taylor, Los libros de proverbios bilingües: disposición e intención
Haviva Ishay, The Political Philosophy In The Proverbs Of Shmuel Ha-Nagid, Servant Of Two Kings
Nili Shalev, Proverbs in Rhymed Poems: Joseph Qimhi’s Sheqel Ha-Qodesh and Medieval gnomic literature

Traditions spécifiques et questions de définition
Nejmeddine Khalfallah, Les préludes d’une théorie du genre sapientiel chez ‘Abd al-Qâhir al-Jurjânî (m. 474/1078)
Revital Refael Vivante, Meshal Haqadmoni by Isaac Ibn Sahula Adab book (Spain 13th Century)
Mary-Nelly Fouligny, Les Adages d’Érasme : définition, genèse et sources de l’adage selon l’auteur et étude rapide de quelques exemples d’adages recourant à des sources cicéroniennes
Maria-Celeste Augusto, De quelques particularités des corpora portugais : une lecture lexico-sémantique de l’élément zoomorphique
Pour commander :
CID – 31, boulevard Saint-Michel – 75000 PARIS – Tél. 01 53 10 53 95 – Fax : 01 40 51 02 80
ACHAT en ligne : http://www.lcdpu.fr/editeurs/pun

Posted by: Daniel Paul O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

The Undiscovered Country: Exploring People and Places through Digital Humanities 30 May – 1 June 2011

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Deadline for Submission: 1 March 2010 (delegates will be notified by 15 March in order to be able to register at the discount rate before 31 March)
The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2011 Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in Fredericton, NB, from 30 May-1 June.
This years Congress theme is Coasts and Continents: Exploring People and Places, and our societys annual meeting focuses that wider Congress theme upon the digital humanities. Although the digital age has arrived, replete with descriptions, counter-descriptions, and critical commentary on digital natives, digital immigrants, e-books, and e-readers, etc., the digital still represents something of an undiscovered country, even to those who work in the digital humanities community. As we continue to define and explore research projects that will lead us into the future of humanities scholarship, we also renegotiate our relationships to the people and places both of the past and of the present. We encourage papers and panels likely to contribute to an understanding of how digital technologies are fostering digitally enabled inquiry into people, places, text, images, and data. Mindful of the politics of appropriation, we also encourage papers that explore the dynamics of return (that is to say, the notion of giving back to the community), which we see ranging widely across a series of issues: e.g. the ethical repatriation of cultural (especially digital) artifacts to indigenous communities, the scholarly return of open access to scholarship and data sets, the political and economic return of open source software.
Submissions informed in any way by these themes are especially encouraged, but we also encourage any submission relevant to the digital humanities. Of particular interest to those likely to attend would be papers on any of the following topics:
* GIS — spatialization and mapping
* chronologies — temporality and history
* communities — virtual or real-world
* gaming studies
* multimedia arts
* 3D modeling
* simulations
* archival projects
* prosopographies
* textual analysis, editing or encoding
* database theory
* cyberculture
* postcolonialism and globalization
Graduate students are particularly welcomed to submit a proposal to present at, or even simply to attend, SDH/SEMIs annual meeting. The Society has some funding available to support a graduate student panel.
Interested applicants should inquire using the contact information listed below. In the recent past, papers presented at the annual meeting of SDH/SEMI have been revised and submitted for publication in the Societys on-line journal Digital Studies/ Le champ numeriques. Submissions
Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until 1 March 2011 via the SDH-SEMI website at
. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the
time of the conference. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper’s thesis, methodology, and conclusion.
Accepted Formats:
* Traditional Papers: 20 mins (3 per 1 hour session)
* Panel Proposals: 3-6 speakers on a unified theme (1 panel per 1 hour session) * Roundtables: 4-8 people addressing each others work (1 per 1 hour session) * Posters
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Appel de communications

Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs
«Le Pays inconnu»: l’exploration des peuples et des lieux par les sciences humaines numériques

30 mai – 1er juin 2011
Fredericton, Nouveau Brunswick, Canada
Date limite de réception des propositions de communication: 1 mars 2010
(les conférenciers recevront une réponse avant le 15 mars afin de pouvoir s’inscrire au congrès à un tarif réduit avant le 31 mars)
La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2011 de la Fédération canadiennes des sciences humaines à Fredericton, NB, du 30 mai au 1er juin.
Le thème du congrès cette année est Rivages et continents: exploration des peuples et des lieux, et la réunion annuelle de notre société élargie la réflexion à cette thématique pour inclure les sciences humaines numériques. Bien que l’ère du numérique soit déjà arrivé, remplie de descriptions, contredescriptions, et de commentaires critiques sur les natifs numériques, immigrants numériques, livrels, liseuses, etc., le numérique représente toujours à un certain niveau un «pays inconnu», même pour ceux qui oeuvrent dans la communauté des sciences humaines numériques. Pendant que nous continuions d’explorer et d’articuler des projets de recherche qui nous guiderons vers le futur des études en sciences humaines, nous renégocions également les relations que nous entretenons aux peuples et aux lieux présents et passés. Nous encourageons les communications et symposia susceptibles de contribuer à une compréhension de la façon dont les nouvelles technologies nourrissent des enquêtes numériques sur les individus, lieux, textes, images, et informations. Sensibles à la politique de l’appropriation, nous encourageons également les propositions qui explorent la dynamique du «retour» (soit la notion de redonner à la communauté), qui s’applique à une panoplie de questions: p.ex. le rapatriement éthique des artéfacts (spécialement numériques) aux communautés indigènes, le retour érudit au libre accès à l’érudition et aux ensembles de données, le retour politique et économique des logiciels à code source libre.
Les soumissions qui s’articulent autour de ces thématiques sont particulièrement encouragées, mais nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des science humaines numériques. Les sujets qui seraient particulièrement pertinents pour ceux qui assisteront au colloque sont les suivants:
* SIG — spatialisation et cartographie
* chronologies — temporalité et histoire
* communautés — virtuelles ou réelles
* études des jeux
* arts multimédia
* modélisation 3D
* simulations
* projets d’archivage
* prosopographies
* analyse, édition, et codage de textes
* théorie des bases de données
* cyberculture
* postcolonialisme et globalisation
Les étudiants aux cycles supérieurs sont particulièrement bienvenus à soumettre une proposition, ou simplement à assister, à la réunion annuelle de la SDH/SEMI. La société a des fonds limités pour permettre la participation d’un symposium étudiant. Les requérants intéressés pourront se renseigner en utilisant les coordonnées fournies ci-dessous. Dans le passé récent, les conférences présentées à la réunion annuelle de la SDH/SEMI ont été révisés et soumis pour publication dans la revue en ligne de la Société Digital Studies/ Le champ numerique.
Soumissions
Les propositions de communication et/ou de session seront acceptées jusqu’au 1 mars 2011 via le site web de la SDH-SEMI à <http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool/>. Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la SDH/SEMI au moment de la conférence. Les résumés de propositions devraient compter entre 150 et 300 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion.
Formats acceptés:
* Communications traditionnelles: 20 mins (3 par session d’une heure et demie)
* Propositions de symposium: 3 à 6 présentations sur un thème uni (1 panel par session d’une heure et demie)
* Tables rondes: 4 à 8 intervenants qui abordent le travail de chacun (1 par session d’une heure et demie)
* Posters

Posted by: Daniel Paul O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Osaka Symposium on Digital Humanities 2011
The Inaugural Symposium of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

28-9 March 2011
http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~osdh2011/

Hosted by the Graduate School of Language and Culture, University of Osaka

Co-Sponsored by:
Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
International Institute for Digital Humanities
Center for Evolving Humanities, University of Tokyo Center for Informatics in East Asian Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
British Academy/Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences

Submission deadline: 7 February 2010 (Midnight JST).

Presentations include:

Papers (abstract max of 300 words) or
Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 300 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

I. General Information

The OSDH2011 Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of no less than 300 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to
interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field. The symposium web site is in development at
http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~osdh2011/. The Programme Committee
aims for a varied programme.

Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities:

� research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium;

� computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning;

� the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and related areas;

� the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;

� the role of digital humanities in academic curricula;

Abstracts should be sent to osdh2011@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp. The deadline for submitting abstracts to the Programme Committee is 7 February 2011. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on 14 February 2011.

II. Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Programme Committee may be either: (1) paper presentations or (2) multi-paper sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). Papers/sessions should be given in English.

1) Paper presentations: Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions.

2) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes): The session/panel organizer should submit an abstract of 300 words describing the session/panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.

III. Programme Committee

Hiroyuki Akama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Gerhard Brey (CCH, King’s College London)
Maki Miyake (GSLC, Osaka)
A. Charles Muller (Tokyo)
Kiyonori Nagasaki (Institute for Digital Humanities)
Lisa Lena Opas-H�nninen (Oulu, Finland)
Espen S. Ore (Oslo, Norway)
Masahiro Shimoda (Tokyo)
Tomoji Tabata (GSLC, Osaka)
Christian Wittern (Kyoto)

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES-BLOOMINGTON
Metadata/Cataloging Librarian
Visiting Assistant Librarian (Two Year, Non-Tenure Track Appointment)

The IU Bloomington Libraries are seeking an innovative and service oriented individual for the position of Metadata/Cataloging Librarian at the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries. This is a two-year, full-time, non-tenure track appointment in the Libraries Technical Services Department.

Founded in 1820, Indiana University-Bloomington has grown from a small state seminary into the flagship campus of a great public university with over 42,000 students and almost 3,000 faculty. Innovation, creativity, and academic freedom are hallmarks of IU Bloomington and its world-class contributions in research and the arts. The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries (http://www.libraries.iub.edu) are among the leading academic research library systems in North America, having recently been named the top university library by the Association of College and Research Libraries. The IUB Libraries provide strong collections, quality service and instructional programs, and leadership in the application of information technologies. The collections support every academic discipline on campus and include more than 6.6 million books, journals, maps, films, and audio/visual materials in over 900 languages. Users can access more than 400 databases, 43,000 electronic journals, and 22 4,000 electronic books, as well as locally developed digital content.

The IUB Libraries are active members of regional and national associations and consortia including the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and is a founding member of HathiTrust, a shared digital repository. IU is the principal investigator for Kuali Open Library Environment (OL and is working with academic library partners to develop a next generation open source library management system.

The Technical Services Department consists of two divisions: Acquisitions and Cataloging. Reporting to the Head of the West European Cataloging Section (WECS) of the Cataloging Division, the incumbent will provide an integral knowledge link from MARC to non-MARC descriptive metadata activities for cataloging staff. This position will play an important role in assisting managers to develop and define the ongoing evolution of metadata in a traditional cataloging environment. In addition, the successful candidate will catalog materials in Western European languages in multiple MARC formats via the SirsiDynix Symphony integrated system and OCLC.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Metadata/Cataloging Librarian will:
Participate in all aspects of non-MARC descriptive metadata for digital projects within the Cataloging Division: project development and planning, implementation, document preparation, training and creation of metadata using standard schemas Serve as non-MARC metadata resource person for Technical Services
Provide full-level cataloging for monographs and CD-ROMs, including e-books, in English and West European languages, creating original cataloging records and enhancing cataloging copy
Contribute monographic original and enhanced cataloging copy to BIBCO, the monographic bibliographic record program of the Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Provide full-level cataloging for archive collections (mixed materials format) by creating original cataloging records
Establish new name, series, and subject authority records for contribution to the national online name authority file via NACO and SACO, the name authority and subject authority cooperative programs of the Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging Manage the rush cataloging workflow for non-continuing resources Supervise student assistants

QUALIFICATIONS: Required: M.L.S. from an ALA-accredited library school; minimum of one year relevant non-MARC metadata experience in an academic or research library system; minimum of one year original monograph cataloging experience in an academic or research library system; evidence of effective planning, implementation, document writing, and training of non-MARC metadata for digital projects; demonstrated working knowledge of cataloging rules, standards, and tools such as AACR2rev, LCRI, DACS, LC classification, and subject headings; demonstrated working knowledge of MARC (books format) and at least one other standard metadata scheme (e.g. TEI, MODS, Dublin Core, EAD); relevant experience with OCLC and an integrated library system; facility with at least one West European language; demonstrated ability to perform NACO authority work; excellent oral and written communication skills. Preferred: Demonstrated supervisory experience; cataloging experience with mixed materials M
ARC format; relevant experience with the SIRSIDynix Symphony integrated library system; experience in crosswalking, normalizing, and transforming XML-based metadata; working knowledge of XML-related technologies such as XSLT and XPath.

SALARY AND BENEFITS: This is an entry-level position, with minimum starting salary of $40,400. Benefits include a university healthcare plan, university-funded base retirement plan, a 100% university paid group life insurance plan, and a generous paid time off plan. For a full list of benefits programs, please refer to the following resources: Web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefits/neweeo-profe.html. Video: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefitsvideo/academic.html.

TO APPLY: Review of applications will begin February 1, 2011. The position will remain open until filled. Please send letter of application, professional vita, and the names/addresses/telephone numbers of six references to:

Jennifer Chaffin
Director of Human Resources
Libraries Human Resources
Herman B Wells Library 201B
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812-855-8196
Fax: 812-855-2576
Email: libpers@indiana.edu

For more information about Indiana University Bloomington go to http://www.iub.edu.

Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Indiana University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and in that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

To Browse other open academic positions at IU Bloomington, please go to http://www.indiana.edu/~vpfaa/baalist.shtml and see the Bulletin for Academic Appointees.

Posted by: Daniel Paul O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

“My project involves applying image processing methods to multi-spectral images in order to enhance or reveal difficult-to-read text.

The type of images that I need are the full-spectrum of unmodified, multi-spectral images of manuscripts or documents. The methods that I use will try to enhance text from this manuscripts. Ideally the images should be from palimpsestic text, where at least one of the text is very difficult to see or image with visible light captures.”

Alejandro Giacometti alejandro.giacometti.09@ucl.ac.uk
Dept. of Medical Physics & Bioengineering
Dept. of Information Studies

This profile was developed to fill a need tied to our participation in the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, which brings over 3,000 medieval scholars to Western Michigan University annually. WMU Libraries and its digitization program have participated in workshops for the Congress which highlighted the problems of small institutions (holding only one or two items) and individual scholars who wish to provide metadata for digitized manuscripts, but do not have the right combination of technical and subject skills.

Posted by: Daniel Paul O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Posted by: Daniel Paul O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

TEI By Example (TBE) offers a series of freely available online tutorials walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document
in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Besides a general introduction to text encoding, step-by-step tutorial modules provide example-based introductions to eight different aspects of electronic text markup for the humanities. Each tutorial module is accompanied with a dedicated examples section, illustrating actual TEI encoding practise with real-life examples. The theory of the tutorial modules can be tested in interactive tests and exercises. The tutorial materials are contextualised with a TBE validator application, allowing you to test your TEI encoding as you type!

We hope you will consider using TEI by Example in your (online)teaching and refer students of markup to these tutorials.
We also hope you will submit more examples of encoding for inclusion in TBE.

We’re eager to receive your comments and learn about your use of TEI by example in (self-)teaching environments.

Please contact the editorial team with any feedback at teibyexample.

Funding for the project has been made available by the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Centre for Computers and the Humanities – King’s College London, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature.

• Melissa Terras
• Ron Van den Branden
• Edward Vanhoutte

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (on behalf of Melissa Terras, Ron Van Branden, Edward Van Houtte) (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

The research project is conducted in partnership between Bangor University and the Warburg Institute (University of London), in collaboration with the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College, London). It will present the first systematic study of mise-en-page – the ways in which verbal text, musical notation and other graphic devices interact on the written or printed page – for sources of polyphonic music from the period c.1480-1530; it will also investigate how meaning was and is constructed by readers and performers on the basis of this interaction.

The successful candidate will, in collaboration with the other members of the research team, contribute to an online catalogue of mise-en-page information for all extant sources from this period, providing above all descriptions of the initials, borders, and other visual devices present in the manuscripts. S/he will also research and analyse a number of manuscript sources and their layout in detail with regard to strategies of production and use; the results of this research will be published both in print form and in an online environment.

The appointee, based at the Warburg Institute, will be an art historian with a doctorate or equivalent qualification; s/he will have specialist knowledge of art of the 15th and 16th centuries, specifically of manuscript illumination. Expertise in codicology, or a willingness to acquire such expertise, will be essential, as will be some knowledge of Latin and of paleography; an interest in music of the period and knowledge of musical notation would be desirable. The candidate will be encouraged to develop his/her own research within the context of the project.

The post will begin on 1 December 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. It is tenable for a fixed term of three years. The appointment will be to Level 7 (Research), currently GBP 28,983-35,646 p.a. plus London Allowance of GBP 2,134 p.a., making a total of GBP 31,117-37,780 p.a.

Further details of the project, the studentship and how to apply can be found at http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/. Informal enquiries may be addressed to the project director, Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste, at mus205@bangor.ac.uk.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday, 1 November 2010, and interviews will be held in London on Thursday, 11 November 2010.

Posted by: Thomas Schmidt-Beste (mus205@bangor.ac.uk).

There might be still some minor adjustments necessary, but we think it will basically stand as it is now.

I would also like to inform you that the program committee together with the local organizers decided to impose a 20% surcharge on all registrations received after Oct. 25, due to the organizational overhead this will cause. So, to ensure a smooth preparation and to avoid unnecessary surcharges, please go to the TEI webshop [2] at your earliest convenience to register for the conference, if you have not done so yet. There are also a few seats left in the pre-conference workshops, which can be booked from the same page.

Looking forward to see all of you soon,
for the program committee,

Christian Wittern (Chair)

[1] http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/sessions.php
[2] http://tei-shop.org

–
Christian Wittern
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)