An announcement for digital medievalists who will be at DH2010, or in London on July 7 2010.

Peter Stokes has reserved a table for Digital Medievalist at the Edgar Wallace (a link to google maps is appended below) at 11:30 am on Wednesday, July 7. I’ll be by the DH registration tables from 11: 15 until 11:25 (the Edgar Wallace is just around the corner). I’ll be the one with the baby.

I’ve already received word from several people who intend to come. If you’d like to add your name please contact me (dot.porter@gmail.com ), but if you find yourself available on the day please feel free to stop by the Edgar Wallace and look for us. I expect we’ll be there for a while.

See you there!

Dot Porter

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

Elections for the Digital Medievalist Board are now open. Anybody currently subscribed to Digital Medievalist is eligible to vote in the election (whether you view yourself as a digital medievalist or not).

There are 4 vacancies on the board and eight candidates. Eligible voters may vote for up to four candidates.

Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about.html
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html

Candidate biographies are available at:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/election2010/

The ballot is available at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YFN6TLW

In order to check eligibility, voters will be asked to supply the email address they use for their subscription to dm-l. This information will not be used for any other purpose, and will be discarded after the election.

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

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010

Friday June 18th at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Tim Hill (King’s College London)
After Prosopography: Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre

ALL WELCOME

Database technology profoundly altered the scope and power of the prosopography; more recently developed technologies have the potential to transform the genre yet again. Advances in the areas of digitised social network analysis, natural language processing, and ontological reasoning have the potential not only to extend the research reach and utility of the prosopography, but also to allow us to ask new questions of the past. The purpose of this paper is to outline these new technologies and tentatively to explore where these new questions might take us.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html

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