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TEI@Oxford Summer School 2010

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TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010

http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/

The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication.

Each day will also include a number of afternoon 2.5 hour parallel workshops on related technologies and topics. These will include: TEI Publishing; TEI for Language Resources; Transforming TEI with XSLT; TEI in Libraries; Creating a TEI-based Website with the eXist XML Database; and Genetic Editing: transcribing documents, transcribing the process. There will also be optional surgery sessions for those who wish to consult with TEI@Oxford about their particular projects or encoding issues. There will also be guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts familiar with the TEI talking about their own projects.

If you are a project manager, research assistant, or encoder working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital text, this course is for you.

The course runs from Monday 12 July – Wednesday 14 July, 2010. The course runs from 09:30 – 17:30 each day in our fully-equipped computer training rooms. Lunch and refreshments are included in the course fee.

Questions about booking on the workshop: courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Dr James Cummings
Research Technologies Service
University of Oxford

Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 17-22 May 2010

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The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased to announce the second year of this AHRC-funded course in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King’s College London.

The course is open to arts and humanities doctoral students registered at UK institutions. It involves six days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval manuscripts in the digital age to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats.

The first half of the course involves morning classes and then visits to libraries in Cambridge and London in the afternoons. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning’s themes to concrete examples. In the second half we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers.

The course is aimed principally at those writing dissertations which relate to medieval manuscripts, especially those on literature, art and history. There are no fees, but priority will be given to PhD students funded by the AHRC. Class sizes are limited to twenty and places are ‘first-come-first-served’ so early registration is strongly recommended.

For further details see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/study/mmsda/ or contact Dr Peter Stokes at mmsda@sas.ac.uk.

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Dr Peter Stokes
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
The University of Cambridge
9 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
Tel: +44 1223 767314
Fax: +44 1223 335092

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Call for Papers: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II

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It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) undertook an initiative entitled “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age”. Yet its first results have already been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age” was launched at an international symposium in Munich. Here, experts from all over the world met as a community to share their knowledge, interests and concerns regarding digital issues in the various fields of manuscript research.

The feedback on both the anthology and the conference has been remarkably positive, not least from experts who are less acquainted with digital methods. For the first time, widely dispersed, cutting-edge research in the field of computer-aided codicology and palaeography can be surveyed and assessed as a whole phenomenon.

Yet, despite the fact that the anthology gives a broad insight into theory and practice, some relevant subjects and questions have not been covered. For this reason the IDE plans to publish a second volume of “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age”. The following questions in particular should now be addressed:

* To what extent can quantitative approaches and the analysis of codicological databases be complemented by a systematic analysis of digital manuscript facsimiles?
* How can manuscript-related research in the history of arts or in musicology be supported by digital tools and methodology?
* How successfully can methods from the sciences be applied to the analysis of manuscripts (e.g. DNA analysis of parchment)?
* How can electronic manuscript-catalogues and virtual libraries be brought together by means of comprehensive portals and hybrid research environments in order, for example, to facilitate exhaustive semantic studies?
* How can existing digital tools for palaeographic transcription be promoted and improved? * How can the range of applications be expanded?
* How can philological analysis and further use in literary studies be enhanced?
* How can questions about the history of script be addressed by digital methods?
* How can digital resources best supplement the originals, in the context of restoration and preservation? How can archives, libraries and museums take advantage of the opportunities, for public benefit?
* To what extent are software-generated answers to codicological and palaeographic questions sustainable, verifiable and reliable?

Contributions which explore these and similar subjects (cf. previous CfP) are most welcome and can be submitted in English, French, German or Italian. Again, the launch of the volume will be accompanied by an international symposium. Proposals of not more than 500 words should be sent by 30 November 2009 to kpdz-ii@ide.de or any of the editors listed below.

Organisation:

* Franz Fischer (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin), f.fischer@ria.ie
* Christiane Fritze (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), fritze@bbaw.de
* Georg Vogeler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich), g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
* Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne, Cologne Center for eHumanities), sahle@uni-koeln.de
* Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel), schassan@hab.de
* Malte Rehbein (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de
* Bernhard Assmann (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Cologne), as@ba.tuxomania.net

Dates:

30. November 2009: Abstract Submission Deadline
30. April 2010: Paper Submission Deadline

Kind regards,
Christiane

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Christiane Fritze
The German Text Archive
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Jaegerstr. 22/23
10117 Berlin

phone: +49 (0)30 20370 523
email: fritze (at) bbaw (dot) de
http://www.deutsches-textarchiv.de/

IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de/

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Deadline Extended: Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference

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We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference.  Due to many requests, we are also extending the submissions deadline to Nov. 15, 2009.

New! Melissa Terras will address the conference in a plenary invited talk.

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Digital Humanities 2010
Call for Papers
Abstract Deadline: Nov. 15, 2009

Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will be available at the conference web site from October 8th. Presentations may be any of the following:

  • Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
  • Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words)
  • Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching.  We welcome submissions in all areas of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent developments.

Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example,

  • text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning
  • IT in librarianship and documentation
  • computer-based research in cultural and historical studies
  • computing applications for the arts, architecture and music
  • research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media
  • the role of digital humanities in academic curricula

The special theme of the 2010 conference is cultural heritage old and new.

The range of topics covered is reflected in the journals of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press, and the Digital Humanities Quarterly, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.

The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is Nov. 15th, 2009. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 24, 2010. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 8th, 2009 (which will be linked from http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/papers/call.html).

Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposals or reviews or to register for a Digital Humanities conference should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one.

If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact dh2010
at digitalhumanities.org.

See below for full details on submitting proposals.

Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be made to the local conference organizer as early as possible.

For more information on the conference in general please visit the DH2010 web site.  http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/.

Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal.

Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.

1) Papers
Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original, unpublished work: preferably completed research with substantial results, but also the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical or critical discussions. Individual papers have 20 min. for presentation and 10 for questions.

Proposals concerning new computing methodologies should show how the methodologies are applied to humanities research, and should critically assess the application. Those concerning a particular application should compare earlier traditional and computational approaches and should also assess the new methodologies. References are naturally required. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as
possible.

2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations
Poster sessions showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in humanities computing. Poster presentations may include technology and project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards also apply, but posters/demos may be more suitable way for
late-breaking work, or work in progress. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal.

Poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than talks. Poster presenters can present their work and exchange ideas one-on-one and in detail with those most deeply interested. Presenters will have about two square meters of board space for display and may also wish to provide handouts. Posters remain on display throughout the conference, and are the sole focus of separate dedicated poster sessions. Additional times may be available for
software or project demonstrations.

As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster.

3) Sessions
Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:

Three papers. The proposal should include a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session.  All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session.  Focused sessions should have added value when compared to the set of the individual papers.

or

A panel of four to six speakers. The proposal is an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how discussion will be organized, the names and affiliations of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.  All speakers are required to register for the conference and to participate in the session.

International Programme Committee

Elisabeth Burr
Richard Cunningham
Jan-Christoph Meister
Elli Mylonas
Brent Nelson
John Nerbonne (Chair)
Bethany Noviskie
Jan Rybicki
John Walsh

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