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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)

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Dear colleagues,

It is a pleasure for us to announce that the Open University has extended the registration period until March 13 for the two courses offered by the Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD): the “Experto professional en Humanidades Digitales”,  in its second edition (specialization course in Digital Humanities), and the “Experto Profesional en Edición Digital Académica”  (specialization course in Digital Scholarly Editing).
Registration is open till 1st December and admissions are limited. The courses will start in January 2015 and will end in September. Each of them consists of 30 units, and will be taught completely online and in Spanish.
We hope that this initiative will provide users with a deeper knowledge of digital humanities and digital scholarly editing. Please, feel free to circulate this message among all people that could be interested in following any of these programs.

Best regards,

Elena González-Blanco García
Director of the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
http://linhd.uned.es

From “anhelitus” to “hanellissement”: Cross-referencing in the Anglo-Norman dictionary

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The Digital Medievalist Journal has published a new article, “From anhelitus to hanellissement: Cross-referencing in the Anglo-Norman dictionary” by Katariina Nara-Zanotti.

Here is the abstract:

Digitization of dictionaries originally in book form as well as the creation of online dictionaries has revolutionized the way dictionaries are presented and offers not only the opportunity of presenting textual links between dictionary headwords but the possibility of directly connecting one online dictionary to another. This article is an introduction to one of the new functions of the online Anglo-Norman dictionary, i.e. cross-referencing, the provision of links from the Anglo-Norman dictionary entries to other relevant medieval and modern dictionaries. In addition to establishing the usefulness of cross-referencing for dictionary users and presenting how this has been achieved in the Anglo-Norman dictionary, this article examines some of the potential pitfalls that need to be addressed when implementing live links to other dictionaries.

Access the full article here.

El’Manuscript 2016 Conference – Vilnius, Lithuania

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Vilnius, Lithuania
22-28 August 2016

URL: http://textualheritage.org/en/conf.html
Abstract submission opens: 26 October 2015
Abstract submission deadline: 10 December 2015
Notifications of acceptance sent by 1 February 2016

First Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2016 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, description, processing, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern handwritten and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or application of these resources—including researchers; instructors; staff of libraries, museums, and archives; programmers, and undergraduate and graduate students—is welcome to participate.

El’Manuscript-2016 is the sixth in a series of biennial international conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” that brings together linguists, specialists in historical source criticism, IT specialists, and others involved with publishing and studying our textual heritage. Tutorial sessions are planned for the conference, along with lectures, workshops, demo and consultations that will allow practitioners to become familiar with various systems and methods for working with them.

The working languages of the 2016 conference are Lithuanian, English, and Russian, and papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the textualheritage.org website.

E-mail (Organization Committee): elmanuscript2016(at)gmail(dot)com

Alliteration and character focus in the York Plays

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The Digital Medievalist Journal has published a new article, “Alliteration and character focus in the York Plays” by Richard Khoury and Douglas W. Hayes.

Here is the abstract:

This paper presents the first complete statistical study of alliteration in the York Cycle of Mystery Plays. To this end, an algorithm is designed to render the phonetic reading of the words of the play and to measure alliteration in the speeches of individual characters. Next, the alliteration statistics of the characters are studied in the entire Cycle, and in each individual play, in order to gain new insight on the possible significance of that linguistic feature in the Plays. Our results indicate that alliteration may have been used as a tool to focus the attention of the audience on one or two major characters in each individual play. Taken in the context of the entire Cycle, there is also a hint of repeating patterns in the manner that alliteration is used within the play.

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Textual Heritage and Digital Technologies (El’Manuscript 2015). International Research School in Novosibirsk, Russia, 10-28 Nov. 2015

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Novosibirsk State University and “Textual Heritage” scholarly community invite you to participate in the international research school “Textual Heritage and Digital Technologies” (El’Manuscript–2015) for young scholars. The current school upholds the tradition of research schools initiated in Izhevsk in 2006 and continued in Kazan, Ufa, Petrozavodsk, Varna (Bulgaria) (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 respectively).
The school will be held on November 10-28 in Novosibirsk, Russia, and will include lectures, workshops and presentation sessions aiming to familiarise students, postgraduate students and young scholars with the latest achievements of the world’s research in the field of studying old, medieval and modern texts using digital technologies, new methodology, software and tools. Courses will be taught by well-known specialists from Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia working on computer and corpus linguistics and corpus textual scholarship, digital strategies of historical factual account, text encoding and markup that aim to provide a possibility of digital data exchange and research on textual heritage of the Old Russian literature and Slavonic literature. One module is dedicated to the technologies of creating online catalogs and digital collections of manuscripts, old printed books and historical documents. Roundtables are included in the programme to involve young scholars in discussion about the aforementioned and related issues.

Working languages: Russian, English.
Website: http://textualheritage.org/content/view/43/238/lang,english
E-mail: elmanuscript(at)gmail(dot)com