CMS Toronto Conference — Digitizing the Medieval Archive

2013-03-15 digitalmedievalistnews

Call for Papers: CMS Conference – Digitizing the Medieval Archive

Digitizing the Medieval Archive: An International Conference

Centre for Medieval Studies ⋅ University of Toronto ⋅ March 27-29, 2014

Keynote Speakers:
David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)
Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library)

The discussion about the digitization of the Middle Ages, by its very nature, tends to be one that takes place in an online setting. As the question of how medievalists may work within this digital environment becomes an increasingly popular topic of Internet conversation, we invite scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences to come together in real time to consider and discuss the possibilities of a digitized medieval archive.

Click here
http://medieval.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Digitizing-the-Medieval-Archive.pdf
for the full call for papers and the check the conference website for more information. http://digitizingmedievalarchive.wordpress.com/
Please submit a short C.V. and abstracts of 250 words by October 1, 2013 for consideration. To contact the conference organizers write to digitizingmedievalarchive@gmail.com.

Posted by: Lisa Chen (lisa.chen@mail.utoronto.ca).

Digital Classicist London 2013: Call for Papers

2013-01-24 digitalmedievalistnews

The Digital Classicist London seminar series, which provides a forum for research into the ancient world that employs digital research methods, invites submissions for Summer 2013.

We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as established researchers and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, semantics and linguistics, imaging and visualization, linked data, open access, geographic analysis, information science and serious gaming, although this list is by no means exhaustive. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects and their immediate context, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in ancient studies. Presentations should have an academic research agenda relevant both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information specialists or digital humanists.

The seminars will run on Friday afternoons at 16:30, from June to early August in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London. There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but please enquire if you’re coming from further afield).

To submit a paper for consideration for the Digital Classicist London seminars, please email an abstract of 300-500 words to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk, by midnight UTC on March 22nd, 2013.

More information will be found at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html

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

InScribe: Palaeography Learning materials, a new online training platform

2013-01-23 digitalmedievalistnews

InScribe is an online course for the study of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies developed by several of the institutes within the School of Advanced Study (including the Institute of Historical Research and Institute of English Studies), with support from the Department of Digital Humanities (King’s College London), Senate House Library (London) and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives. Devised by Prof Michelle Brown (IES) and Dr Jane Winters (IHR), InScribe aims to support the teaching of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at a postgraduate level.

At present we are releasing the introductory module which introduces some basic notions about Palaeography and provides an overview of the evolution of script in the medieval period (with particular reference to the English context). Similarly, it gives students the chance to transcribe text from a selection of newly digitised manuscripts from Senate House Library and Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives. Later in the year, new modules will be released that will provide advanced training on Diplomatic, Script and Translation, Codicology and Illumination. The introductory module is free of charge.

To know more about InScribe click here (http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography).

Posted by: Francisco J Alvarez Lopez (francisco.alvarez-lopez@sas.ac.uk).

EpiDoc Workshop 22-25 April 2013

2013-01-14 digitalmedievalistnews

EpiDoc Workshop 22-25 April 2013

Applications are invited for a 4-day training workshop on digital text-markup for epigraphic and papyrological editing, to be held in the Institute for Classical Studies, London. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL), James Cowey (Heidelberg) and Charlotte Tupman (KCL). There will be no charge for the teaching, but participants will have to arrange their own travel and accommodation.

EpiDoc (epidoc.sf.net) is a set of guidelines for using TEI XML (tei-c.org) for the encoding of inscriptions, papyri and other ancient documentary texts. It has been used to publish digital projects including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Tripolitania, the US Epigraphy Project, Vindolanda Tablets Online and Curse Tablets from Roman Britain, Pandektis (inscriptions of Macedonia and Thrace), and the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML and markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object description in EpiDoc as well as use of the tags-free Papyrological Editor too (papyri.info).

No technical skills are required to apply, but a working knowledge of Greek or Latin, epigraphy or papyrology and the Leiden Conventions will be assumed. The workshop is open to participants of all levels, from graduate students to professors or professionals.

To apply for a place on this workshop please email gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk with a brief description of your reason for interest and summarising your relevant skills and background, by Friday 1 March 2013.

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

DM wiki updated

2013-01-14 digitalmedievalistnews

Dear DM subscribers,

The Digital Medievalist Executive Board is happy to announce a major update in the DM wiki website (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki). We have added a substantial amount of new content, and we have also revised the structure to make it easier to use for both readers and contributors.

To make browsing easier, we have added entries to the main navigation bar and refined the list of categories.

To help you share information on projects, conferences, software or any other relevant topic, we have created a number of templates for adding new pages.

We hope that the DM wiki will progressively become a powerful tool for the activities of our community. Of course, it all depends on your will to share and to look for information on this wiki. Please feel free to create or to edit pages on the DM Wiki. If you have any ideas on how to improve the main page or the navigation bar, or other aspects of the site, please use the page http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/index.php/WikiFix or write an email to board [at] digitalmedievalist.org. If you think material is missing then please go ahead and add an article yourself.

Best regards,

Alexei Lavrentiev on behalf of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board

Posted by: Alexei Lavrentiev (alexei.lavrentev@ens-lyon.fr).