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Invitation to Participate in a Digital Humanities Study

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Dear Colleague,
Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is a large-scale collaborative research project in the digital humanities directed by Dr. Ray Siemens, Department of English, University of Victoria, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our research team is examining the complex processes of human engagement with information that is available digitally. Specifically, we are interested in identifying and understanding the ways in which social sciences and humanities readers engage with forms such as the electronic scholarly edition, the academic monograph, scholarly journal and essay collections, and electronic literature.

With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research. The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to you and other researchers.

The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, you will find it online at . Your identity will be kept confidential. All documents and participants will be identified only by code number. Digital data records will be kept on password-protected hard drives and on disks stored in locked filing cabinets. Only the principal investigator and the co-investigators will have access to the data. If you have any concerns about your treatment or rights as a research participant, you may contact the Research Subject Information Line in the UBC Office of Research Services at 604-822-8598. Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw from the study at any time. Your completion and submission of the survey will indicate your consent to participate.
In consideration of your time, you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire.

We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or katay164@interchange.ubc.ca.

Best regards,

Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team
Associate Professor
Director, Digital Literacy Centre
University of British Columbia
c/o Department of Language & Literacy
2125 Main Mall,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4

Posted by: Karen Taylor (katay164@interchange.ubc.ca).

Numérisation du patrimoine écrit: du projet scientifique à sa mise en œuvre. L’exemple de «Europeana regia»

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Numérisation du patrimoine écrit : du projet scientifique à sa mise en œuvre. L’exemple de « Europeana regia »

30 et 31 mars 2010

INP-BNF, Auditorium Colbert, 2 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris
Entrée libre
Reservations, renseignements : emilie.maume@inp.fr

Parallèlement au lancement de programmes de masse consacrés aux livres imprimés et à la presse, la numérisation des manuscrits et des archives écrites devient progressivement un enjeu majeur des politiques scientifiques et de valorisation du patrimoine écrit.

D’abord cantonnée à des projets limités ou consacrés aux « trésors » des institutions qui les conservent, elle prend aujourd’hui de nouvelles dimensions, souvent dans le cadre de projets coopératifs, nationaux ou internationaux.

Le lancement du projet européen Europeana Regia, consacré à trois grands ensembles de manuscrits du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance aujourd’hui dispersés, est l’occasion de faire le point sur cette question. Le colloque, qui associe présentation de réalisations effectives, projets en cours ou en gestation, aspects techniques et scientifiques, se veut tout à la fois réflexif, pratique et opérationnel. Il est destiné aux responsables de collections, aux chefs de projets, aux chargés de numérisation, dans les Bibliothèques, les Musées et les Archives.

Comité scientifique : Thierry Delcourt, conservateur général des bibliothèques, directeur du département des Manuscrits de la BnF et Gennaro Toscano, professeur des universités, directeur de la recherche et des relations scientifiques de l’INP

Organisation : Emilie Maume, chargée des manifestations culturelles et scientifiques et du mécénat

Mardi 30 mars

9h 30
Ouverture du colloque
Eric Gross, directeur de l’Institut national du patrimoine
Bruno Racine, président de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

9h 45
La numérisation du patrimoine, politique stratégique du Ministère de la Culture
Philippe Bélaval, directeur général des patrimoines, MCC
Jacqueline Sanson, directrice générale de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

10h 15
Le projet « Europeana regia » et son intégration dans les politiques de numérisation des bibliothèques
Thierry Delcourt, directeur du département des manuscrits, BnF
Claudia Fabian, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

11h
La numérisation des manuscrits carolingiens : choix scientifiques, critères de conservation
Modérateur : Thierry Delcourt
Charlotte Denoël, département des manuscrits, BnF
Marie-Pierre Dion, directrice de la Bibliothèque municipale de Valenciennes

11h 45
La reconstitution virtuelle d’une bibliothèque perdue : la librairie de Charles V
Modérateur : Thierry Delcourt
Marie-Hélène Tesnière, département des manuscrits, BnF
Ann Kelders, cabinet des manuscrits, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique
Yann Sordet, bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

12h 30
Déjeuner

14h
La librairie des rois aragonais de Naples
Modérateur : Frédéric D. Martin, département de la coopération, BnF
Gennaro Toscano, directeur de la recherche et des relations scientifiques, Institut national du patrimoine
Marie-Pierre Laffitte, chef du service des manuscrits médiévaux, BnF
Henry Ferreira-Lopes, directeur de la bibliothèque municipale de Besançon

14h 45
Les manuscrits de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Modérateur : Frédéric D. Martin, département de la coopération, BnF
Michèle Sacquin, département des manuscrits, BnF
Barbara Roth, Bibliothèque de Genève
C. De Alberto, Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale (sous réserves)

15h 30
Pause

16h
Des catalogues aux métadonnées
Modératrice : Emmanuelle Bermès, département de l’information bibliographique et numérique, BnF
Matthieu Bonicel, département des manuscrits, BnF
Florent Palluault, service du livre et de la lecture, MCC
Matthieu Gerbault, responsable du patrimoine, bibliothèque municipale de Reims

17h
Aspects techniques de la numérisation du patrimoine écrit
Modérateur : Marie-Elise Fréon, département de la conservation, BnF
Lotfi Belkhir, Kirtas Technologies
Hermann und Kramer, I2S

Two Postdocs at UCL in Manuscripts/ TEI/ Transcriptions: Bentham Project

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The Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative is an ambitious and ground-breaking project which will increase access to and encourage user participation with the papers of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (17481832, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/). We are now hiring for two postdoc research associates. Both posts are available immediately and funded for one year in the first instance.

Research Associate: The post holder will co-ordinate the various aspects of the project. They will write up the documentation for the amateur transcribers, run the publicity campaign which will recruit them, act as moderator of the submitted transcripts, and help to draft the qualitative user study and the final report.
See https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1129607 for further information.

Research Associate (IT): The post holder will be working with the other Research Associate and the web developer to create an attractive and intuitive interface. They will take responsibility for the mark-up of the existing transcripts from MS Word into TEI compliant XML, link the digital images to the existing database catalogue and the transcription tool, and help draft user documentation and a qualitative user study.
See https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1129779 for further information.

Closing date for both applications is 8th March 2010. Please get in touch with Philip Schofield (p.schofield@ucl.ac.uk) or Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk) if you have any queries, or want further information.

Posted by: Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk).

Symposium on Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage

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Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage: Technological Challenges and Solutions
28-29 October 2010 in Helsinki, Finland.
Organizer: The Academy of Finland Research Unit Ancient Greek written sources (CoE)
Partner: The National Library of Finland
For more information, see http://www.eikonopoiia.org

The Academy of Finland research unit Ancient Greek written sources (CoE) is organizing a symposium “Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage: Technological Challenges and Solutions”. The symposium takes place on 28-29 October, 2010, in Helsinki, Finland.

The programme comprises of two plenary sessions that are open for public, two workshops that are intended for the speakers only, and one open session on end-user perspective.

Participation in the symposium is free of charge (however, registration is compulsory). For the accepted speakers the CoE will be covering the travel and accommodation costs.

Maarit Kinnunen
tel. + 358 50 577 9153
maarit.kinnunen@expericon.fi

2010 DHO Summer School Registration Now Open

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2010 DHO Summer School Registration Now Open

http://www.dho.ie/ss2010

The DHO is pleased to announce that registration for the 2010 DHO Summer School, in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative, is now open.

The Summer School welcomes registrants from the various fields of the humanities, information studies, and computer science. Workshops and lectures cover subjects as diverse as text encoding, virtual worlds, and geospatial methods for the humanities. These are facilitated by leading experts, with plenty of time during evening activities for informal interaction.

This year, in addition to four-day workshop strands, the DHO is also offering mid-week, one-day workshops. For those unable to attend the entire Summer School, it is possible to register separately for these mid-week workshops and lectures.

As in previous years, the Summer School brings together Irish and International scholars undertaking digital projects in diverse areas to explore issues and trends of common interest. The programme will offer attendees opportunities to develop their skills, share insights, and discover new opportunities for collaboration and research. Activities focus on the theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of digital humanities projects today.

The pricing for the full Summer School, as well as one-day workshops and lectures, is available on the registration page: http://dho.ie/ss2010/registration

Full details of the workshop strands, lectures and guest speakers can be found on the Summer School website at: http://www.dho.ie/ss2010

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin.

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