Pre-conference Workshops at DH2010: expressions of interest and proposals

As in previous years, the days 3-6 July, before the DH2010 conference (7-11 July at King’s College London ) have been set aside for community-run workshops. One can reach a diverse and committed body of participants in the Digital Humanities at DH2010. Do you or your project have a workshop up your sleeve that would interest this Digital Humanities community?

Half- or one-day slots are available for workshops, which need to be self-organized and self-funding. KCL can provide space for the workshop at no or low cost, so it is likely that the costs per participant would be low.

We would like to receive proposals for such workshops.

In your full proposal (total 500-800 words), please include:

(1) a brief description of the workshop programme, the project or community out of which it arises, the trainers who will run the workshop, and its proposed length;

(2) what is the demand for this workshop, and who do you expect the audience to be? What minimum number of attendees would be needed for you to do the workshop?

(3) what funding is available or will you seek to help to support the costs of this workshop (for instance, travel for trainers, lunch or refreshments for participants, as applicable)?

A few groups have already expressed interest in running workshops, and we have been talking informally with them. If you have ideas that is not yet fully formed, we would be delighted to e-speak to you about them before you submit a proposal.

The closing date for full proposals will be 31 December 2009. Please send them via email to both John Bradley (john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk) and Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

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

DM Facebook Group and Twitter Feed

Due to public demand (well, discussion on the mailing list) Digital Medievalist now has a Facebook group and a Twitter feed. We already had the Facebook group to be honest, but there is no harm in re-advertising it at the same time.

The Facebook group is at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 and is available for all your digital medieval social networking needs.

The Twitter feed of our news articles is now available at: http://www.twitter.com/digitalmedieval for those of you who like to consume tweets. Currently this is just fed from the RSS feed of our newsfeed, but who knows, maybe we’ll add something extra to it during conferences.

Neither of these, of course, are meant in any way to replace: the DM-L mailing list, the DM Website, the DM Open Access Journal, the DM Wiki, or the DM News Posting Form. They are just another form of outreach and dissemination for you, the DM community, to make what you will of them.

Socially networked and twitterly yours,

James Cummings
Director, Digital Medievalist
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

Posted by: James Cummings (James.Cummings@digitalmedievalist.org).

Teuchos – An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology

Seminar: Teuchos – An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology

Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar

Friday July 10th at 16:30
STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

*Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)*
*Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology*

The talk will describe the general architecture of a digital research environment for manuscript and textual studies (particularly those pertaining to ancient Greek and Byzantine texts), and discuss some questions of data representation and encoding in the framework of such an online research platform (Teuchos. Zentrum fr Handschriften- und Textforschung).

ALL WELCOME

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller abstract can be found, and audio and slides will be uploaded after the event.

Digital Classicist podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml

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

Call for Applications/Proposals ESF Research Networking Programmes

For wide dissemination: Call for applications

ESF Research Networking Programmes – 2009 Call for Proposals

An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science. Key objectives include:

* creating interdisciplinary fora;
* sharing knowledge and expertise;
* developing new techniques;
* training young scientists.

A successful Programme proposal must show high scientific quality and also demonstrate added value by being carried out at a European level rather than by individual research groups at the national level..
Proposals may be submitted in any scientific field. Deadline for receipt of proposals: 22 October 2009 (16:00 CET).. Full details at http://www.esf.org/programmes.

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