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CFP: ESTS conference (Pisa-Florence), extended deadline to 11 June

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Dear everyone

We have received a pleasing number of proposals for the ESTS conference in Pisa/Florence November 25-2, this year.  However, we still have spaces for a few more proposals, preferably on the conference theme of ‘Texts worth editing’.  Possible participants should note that the conference is excellent value: we keep the registration fee low (likely only €50), accommodation in Pisa is plentiful and cheap, even without the special deal we have arranged.

The call text is:

All text editing begins with a choice: what text to edit.  How do we choose the text we edit? Are all texts worth editing, simply because they are texts? Even once we have chosen what we are to edit, further choices lie ahead of us.  If a text exists in many versions, and in many documents: are all versions, and all documents, equally worthy of editing?  If we choose to focus on a particular version, or a particular document, how do we make this choice, and how do we justify it to others?  Once we have made these decisions: choices of method will also be affected by perceptions of value.  Should we publish the full text of a particular version or document; or publish its variants only, in an apparatus? and if we choose to publish variants only: what are our criteria to determine which variants are worth publishing?
The programme chairs invite the submission of full panels or individual papers devoted to the discussion of current research into the different aspects of textual work, preferably focusing on the topics mentioned above. Proposals and abstracts (250 words) should be submitted electronically to: Peter Robinson,  p.m.robinson@bham.ac.uk, by 11 June 2010.

The full call is at http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2010.html.
Proposals should be emailed to me (not to the list, please!)

best wishes
Peter

Peter Robinson
Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing
Elmfield House, Selly Oak  Campus
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston B29 6LG
P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk
p. +44 (0)121 4158441, f. +44 (0) 121 415 8376
www.itsee.bham.ac.uk

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Balisage 2010 Program Announced

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Rockville, Maryland.  The organizing committee has released the program for “Balisage 2010: The Markup Conference” to be held in Montreal from 3 to 6 August, 2010.

“Balisage: The Markup Conference” (http://www.balisage.net/) is an annual peer-reviewed XML conference: how to create markup; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space).

Come to lovely Montreal, Canada from August 3rd to 6th for four action-packed days of angle brackets! Here’s a baker dozen (or so) sampling from the much larger list of Balisage 2010 presentations:

  • gXML, a new approach to cultivating XML trees in Java
  • Java integration of XQuery – an information unit oriented approach
  • Reverse modeling for domain-driven engineering of publishing technology
  • Managing semantics in XML vocabularies
  • XML pipeline processing in the browser
  • Where XForms meets the glass: Bridging between data and interaction design
  • Schema component paths for schema analysis
  • A streaming XSLT processor
  • Multi-structured documents and the emergence of annotations vocabularies
  • Processing arbitrarily large XML using a persistent DOM
  • Automatic upconversion using XProc
  • Scripting documents with XQuery
  • XQuery design patterns
  • Parallel processing and your XML data

Schedule At-a-Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2010/At-A-Glance.html.

Detailed schedule with descriptions: http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html.

Pre-conference symposium: XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/index.html.

Tower of Modern Babel Contest – Chance to win an Apple 15″ (i5)
MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook Air, or USD $2000: http://www.balisage.net/contest.html.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University

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The Brown University Women Writers Project is pleased to announce a new series of workshops on topics in TEI encoding and tools for digital humanists. These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands-on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer a wonderful opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory setting.

More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/workshops/.

Students and members of the TEI consortium receive a 33% discount on registration.

All workshops are held at Brown University and are led by Julia Flanders, Syd Bauman, and John Melson.

July 21-23, 2010
Introduction to TEI
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

August 16-18, 2010
Introduction to TEI Customization
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

September 24-25, 2010
Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI
$300 ($200 for students and TEI members)

November 5-6, 2010
Essential Tools for Digital Scholarship
$300 ($200 for students and TEI members)

December 3-4, 2010
Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI
$300 ($200 for students and TEI members)

Coming in 2011: Introduction to XSLT

We hope to see you in Providence!

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/
http://library.brown.edu/cds/

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Job Vacancy: Digital Humanities Specialist

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Application Deadline:
24/05/2010

Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), Dublin, Ireland
1 Year Fixed Term Contract

Applications are invited for a one year fixed term contract position of Digital Humanities Specialist to the DHO. The DHO is designing, constructing, and hosting a digital repository of humanities research. This joint national platform, funded under Cycle 4 of PRTLI, is being constructed for the RIA and its partners to provide for the building, coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level.

Reporting to the DHO Director, the Digital Humanities Specialist will join a team to promote and support the use of advanced computing techniques as applied to the humanities in Ireland.

Further information and details of the application process are available at http://dho.ie/vacancies/#dhs

The closing date for applications is Monday 24th May 2010 at 4 p.m.

The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

TEI MM 2010: Call for papers deadline extended to May 15th

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The program committee for the upcoming members meeting of the TEI has decided to extend the deadline for the call for papers to May 15th, 2010.

In addition to the members meeting and the academic conference, we are planning an exciting array of workshops in the days preceding the conference; details will be announced shortly.

Home page of the conference: http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/

Original call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/2010/03/01/tei-members-meeting-2010-call-for-proposals/

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

The program committee for the upcoming members meeting of the TEI has
decided to extend the deadline for the call for papers to May 15th, 2010.

In addition to the members meeting and the academic conference, we are
planning an exciting array of workshops in the days preceding the
conference; details will be announced shortly.