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Digital Middle Ages conference June 16-17 2010

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Call for papers:

THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE
THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES:
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
JUNE 16-17, 2010
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK, USA

Note that the proposed subjects include in particular:
– Digital palaeography
– Encoding of medieval manuscripts

D.M.

— Denis MUZERELLE
Resp. de la section “Paléographie latine”
Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS) 40, av. d’Iéna, F-75116 Paris

[See http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/2009/06/24/third-international-margot-conference-the-digital-middle-ages-in-teaching-and-research/ for more details.]

TEI meeting in Oslo Oct. 3, 2009

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The TEI consortium and the University of Oslo (IKOS) are pleased to announce an informal meeting of TEI users with officers from the TEI consortium in the context of the conference

Early Chan Buddhist Manuscripts among the Dunhuang Findings,
Resources in the Mark-up and Digitization of Historical Texts

held at Oslo University from Sep. 28 to Oct. 3, 2009 (more information available at http://folk.uio.no/christoa/ZenManus_Front.html).

Place: Oslo University (Georg Svedrup Library, Room TBA)
Date: Oct. 3, 2009
Time: 13:00 to 17:00

Current and previous members of the TEI Council and Board, including Chair of the Board Dan O’Donnell, Tone Merete Bruvik and Christian Wittern will be present.

The main purpose of the meeting is to learn more about the use of TEI in Norway and exchange information about the TEI, as well as give an opportunity to discuss issues related to text encoding, for example (but in no way limited to) the encoding of Chinese manuscripts in light of the problems discussed at the conference or in fact any other topic the participants of this meeting would like to discuss.

For updated information about the meeting, including the meeting room,
please visit http://folk.uio.no/christoa/ZenManus_Front.html or write to me.

Christian Wittern

—
Christian Wittern
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009)

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This year’s International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009) is a month away. The theme of DC 2009 is Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data. The conference will be held on 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea.

Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site till October 5th. On-site registration will be available while conference is in session. Please go to the registration page http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php to register for the conference and related events including Dublin Core tutorials on Monday, 12 October and following the conference on Friday, 16 October. The basic tutorials introduce “Dublin Core in historical context, Interoperability options in a complex Web of data, Other metadata standards, and Interoperability issues and basic approaches”. The advanced tutorials include “Ontology Design and Interoperability”, and “Transforming, Mapping, and Merging OS: Methodologies and Challenges”.

For registration, program, accommodation information and more, please go to links below:

Thank you,

—
Myung-Ja “MJ” Han
Metadata Librarian
220 Main Library
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1408 W. Gregory Dr. (MC-522)
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-9515 (Main Library)
217-244-7809 (Grainger)

Case studies in the humanities – call for expressions of interest

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The RIN (Research Information Network) is looking to fund a series of case studies that will provide a detailed analysis of how humanities researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources. The case studies will focus on the behaviours and needs of researchers working in a number of subject or disciplinary areas in the humanities. They follow a first round of case studies in the life sciences (to be published shortly). We are making available up to £120,000 for this project, which is intended to run from November 2009 to September 2010. Closing date for this call is call is 30 September 2009.

More information available at the URL http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies.

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Sarah Gentleman
Communications Officer
**Research Information Network**

96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
telephone: 020 7412 7241

email: sarah.gentleman@rin.ac.uk
website: http://www.rin.ac.uk/

*Freedom of information: what’s in it for researchers?* – free RIN workshop, 14 September 2009 in Glasgow, more information and booking at http://www.rin.ac.uk/foi-scotland.

Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) at TU Darmstadt

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The Department of German at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Technische Universität Darmstadt invites applications for a vacant

Professorship in Humanities Computing (W3) (ID-No. 295)

The prospective postholder is expected to teach courses in German linguistics or literary studies as well as humanities computing at undergraduate and graduate level Bachelor/Master of Arts Germanistik, Master of Arts Linguistic and Literary Computing, teaching degrees).

The postholder must have research interests and a proven track record of excellent research in at least two of the following areas:
• Text technology
• History and theory of literature and media
• Text linguistics
• Media and communication (e.g. Conceptual History “Metaphern- und Begriffsgeschichte”)
• Digital editions

Formal requirements are the Habilitation (“Second book”) or equivalent qualification and an excellent record of teaching at university level. Postholders are expected to actively engage in cooperative interdisciplinary research within the faculty of History and Social Science as well as the natural sciences and engineering disciplines. They should have a record of attracting external research funding.

The position is tenured with a remuneration package commensurate with experience and qualifications, following the German “W-Besoldung”. The regulations for employment are specified under §§ 70 and 71 HHG (Hessisches Hochschulgesetz). Candidates who already hold a civil servant status (Beamtenverhältnis) can be reappointed under the same status. Nonpermanent contracts can be made permanent after positive evaluation.

The Technische Univesität Darmstadt intends to increase the number of female faculty members and encourages female candidates to apply. In case of equal qualifications severely disabled applicants will be given preference.

Applications referring to the Identification Number (ID-No. 295) (including a CV, list of publications, copies of relevant diplomas, a record of teaching activities and scientific accomplishments) are to be sent to the

Dean of the Faculty of History and Social Science,
Prof. Dr. Rudi Schmiede, Residenzschloss
64293 Darmstadt.

Deadline for applications: October 8th, 2009

Official URLs of this text:
German: http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/pvw/dez_iii/stellen/295.tud
English: http://www1.tu-darmstadt.de/pvw/dez_iii/stellen/295englisch.tud

—
Dr. Sabine Bartsch
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft – Englische Linguistik
Hochschulstr. 1         64289 Darmstadt
Fon: +49-6151-16 4570   Fax: +49-6151-16 3694
http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=bartsch