Month: May 2011

Digital Classicist seminars 2011

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The programme for the summer 2011 Institute of Classical Studies digital seminars has been released. http://www.stoa.org/archives/1430

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).

Text, Image and the Digital Research Environment

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Announcement of Parker Library-Keio EIRI Conference 2011

“Text, Image and the Digital Research Environment: Parker Library-Keio EIRI Conference on Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Books”

Friday 9 September 2011

Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

The monumental Parker on the Web project has now been up and running for several years, with constant updates and improvements. The Parker Library and the EIRI Project at Keio University (Tokyo) are co-organising a one-day conference focusing on new and future advances in digitisation and digitial resources and on the ways in which they are creating new research environments for medieval manuscripts and rare books. Papers will range from individual research papers to institutional projects. More information about speakers and the registration can be found at:

http://parkerkeio2011.wordpress.com/

For further information, please contact:
　Gill Cannell and Suzanne Paul (Parker Library): parker-library＠corpus.cam.ac.uk
　Satoko Tokunaga (Keio University/Corpus Christi College): satoko＠flet.keio.ac.jp

Posted by: Satoko Tokunaga (satoko@flet.keio.ac.jp).

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 1, 2011

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Dear colleagues,

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).

Call for Papers: Volume 7 of the Digital Medievalist Journal

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With the publication of volume 6 and a forthcoming special issue on the 2010 MARGOT conference, Digital Medievalist is now accepting papers for volume 7 of its on-line, refereed journal.

We are asking for contributions of original research and scholarship that meet the mission statement of Digital Medievalist. Contributions should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus. This includes notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, algorithms, tools and software, etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports. All contributions will be reviewed by authorities in humanities computing prior to publication.

Journal submissions or enquiries should be emailed to:
editors@digitalmedievalist.org

Submissions guidelines are available at
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/

With this forthcoming volume, we are re-establishing our “rolling issue” policy which means that contributions will be published as soon as they are ready for publication without firm deadlines. To allow inclusion in volume 7, however, submission before end of August 2011 is recommended.

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media. Established in 2003, the project helps medievalists by providing a network for technical collaboration and instruction, exchange of expertise, and the development of best practice. The project operates an electronic mailing list and discussion forum, on-line refereed journal, news server for announcements and calls for papers, a wiki and FAQ. It also organises conference sessions at international medieval and humanities computing congresses. It is an elected organization and has developed some governing bylaws. The Digital Medievalist Project is overseen by an eight-member executive of medievalists with considerable experience in the use of digital media in the study of medieval topics. See our website at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org for more information.

Malte Rehbein (Editor-In-Chief), Peter A. Stokes and Dan O’Donnell (Associate Editors), Rebecca Welzenbach (Reviews Editor)

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Dr. Malte Rehbein

Universität Würzburg
Zentrum für digitale Edition
Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

fon     +49.(0)931.31.88773
email   malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
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