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InScribe: Palaeography Learning materials, a new online training platform

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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

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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

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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).

Conference: First Meeting of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture

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Definitive Programme of the First Italian Conference of Digital Humanities

Apologies for cross-posting, this is the definitive programme of the first Italian conference of Digital Humanities which will take place next week in Florence. Also thanks to the European Association for Digital Humanities for kindly supporting this event.

Un’agenda per l’informatica umanistica e la cultura digitale. I Convegno Annuale

13-14 dicembre 2012, Firenze Società Dantesca Italiana, Palagio dell’Arte della Lana, Via Arte della Lana 1

13 Dicembre

SESSIONE 1 – Infrastrutture e convergenza

Presiede la sessione Dino Buzzetti

9.00-9.30 Prolusione di Dino Buzzetti, La transizione al digitale: Il ruolo delle Digital Humanities
9.30-10.00 Giovanni Ragone (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), L’esperienza DIGILAB
10.00-10.30 Maristella Agosti (DEI, Università di Padova), Biblioteche digitali tramodellazione, gestione e valutazione
10.30-10.50 Joris Van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands), “It’s live Jim, but not as we know it”. Coping with Living Data

10.50-11.10 Intervallo

11.10-11-40 Henk Harmsen (Universiteit van Amsterdam – UvA), DARIAH: The strength of building together. National vs. international infrastructures. Cultural vs. research needs
11.40-12.10 Carlo Meghini (CNR Pisa), Modeling foundations for a cross-domain, cultural heritage infrastructure
12.10-12.30 Andrew Ashton (Center for Digital Scholarship – Brown University, Providence, RI), The Brown Digital Repository: A platform for digital preservation and access

12.30-13.00 Dibattito

SESSIONE 2 – La ricerca, la valutazione e la diffusione dei risultati nell’informatica umanistica

Presiede la sessione Anna Maria Tammaro
14.30-15.00 Prolusione di Tito Orlandi, Problematiche aperte
15.00-15.20 Frédéric Clavert (Centre Virtuel sur la Connaissance de l’Europe), Piattaforme e infrastrutture per la certificazione e l’accreditamento
15.20-15.40 Giovanni Solimine, Chiara Faggiolani (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), La valutazione della ricerca umanistica fra peer review e bibliometria
15.40-16.00 Gianluca Setti (Università di Ferrara), Gli indicatori bibliometrici ed il loro significato

16.00-16.30 Discussione e conclusioni

14 Dicembre

SESSIONE 3 – Progetti italiani ed esperienze di convergenza multidisciplinare

9.00-10.45 – Presiede la sessione Francesca Tomasi

Interventi di:

  • Pierluigi Feliciati, Convergere a valle. Lo studio del punto di vista degli utenti dei servizi digitali culturali nell’esperienza del progetto “Una Città per gli Archivi” (Bologna)
  • Maria Guercio, Cecilia Carloni, Livelli descrittivi, relazioni e contesti di produzione nella Sapienza Digital Library
  • Francesca Mambelli, Una risorsa online per la storia dell’ate: il database della fototeca Zeri
  • Maristella Agosti, Lucio Benfante, Nicola Ferro, Marta Manfioletti, Nicola Orio, chiara Ponchia, Gianmaria Silvello, L’apertura di uno strumento digitale per la ricerca umanistica ad un pubblico non specialista: il progetto CULTURA

10.45-11.00 Intervallo

11.00-13.00 – Presiede la sessione Fabio Ciotti

Interventi di:

  • Gioele Barabucci, Angelo Di Iorio, Fabio Vitali, Stemma codicum: analisi e generazione semi-automatica
  • Chiara Leoni, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Il progetto Visionary Cross: verso un’edizione digitale multimediale e distribuita
  • Paolo Monella, Più testimoni, più livelli: l’edizione critica digitale del Iudicium coci et pistoris iudice Vulcano di Vespa (Anth. Lat. 199 Riese)
  • Caterina Bernardini, Envisioning the Digital Future of Literary Translation. A Hands-on Experience at the Whitman Archive
  • Federico Boschetti, La localizzazione in lingua italiana dell’infrastruttura per lo studio dei classici greci e latini costituita dal Perseus Project

14.30-16.30 – Presiede la sessione Federico Meschini

Interventi di:

  • Antonella Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria Falcone, Il progetto ENARC. Attività didattiche innovative e creazione di archivi digitali
  • Maurizio Lana, digilibLT – digital library of late-latin texts / biblioteca digitale di testi latini tardoantichi
  • Michele Mauri, Paolo ciuccarelli, Ruolo dell’Information Visualization nella progettazione di interfacce per archivi digitali eterogenei
  • Marco Giunti, Giuliano Vivanet, Giuseppe Sergioli, Ontologia, semantica e rilevanza dell’informazione negli archivi della Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui (BIA)

16.30 Trasferimento presso l’Auditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Via Folco Portinari 5/r

17.00-19.00 Assemblea dei soci

Programma
Scarica il programma in formato .pdf

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (roberto rossellidelturco at gmail com)

Conference: First Meeting of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture

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An Agenda for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture

First Meeting of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture
Florence, 13-14 December 2012
Via dell’Arte della Lana, 1,
50123 Florence

The Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture is passing through a crucial moment. After the important works and results reached by the first researchers in this field, there is now in Italy a wide and lively community who shares methods, theories and practices, both on a national and an international level. One year ago this community has organized itself and it is represented by a national Association. The aim of this first meeting is to present Digital Humanities and Digital Cultures as a fundamental component for the development of humanities research in Italy.

Goals

During the meeting the discussion will focus on some fundamental issues so to define an agenda of the priority activities.

The questions which will foster the discussion will be:

  • What are the infrastructure requirements? What are the current research centers, libraries, archives and other services supporting research and teaching in digital humanities?
  • What are the standards for the evaluation of digital publications in the humanities? And what about the evaluation of research in digital humanities?
  • How to stimulate multidisciplinary research experiences? How to create synergies with other academic communities, starting with the computer science one?

Attendance to the meeting is free, but registration by 10 December 2012 at http://aiucd.eventbrite.it/ is mandatory.

Provisional programme

13 December
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Infrastructures
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Research, evaluation and dissemination of results in digital humanities

14 December
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Italian projects and experiences of multidisciplinary convergence
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Members meeting

The definitive programme will be published on the Association website (http://www.umanisticadigitale.it) and on related mailing lists as soon as it will be available.

Call for Papers

The organizing committee is proposing a Call for Papers for the third session “Italian projects and experiences of multidisciplinary convergence”.

Abstract proposals (maximum of 500 words) should be sent by email by 15 November 2012 to cunsolo@rinascimento-digitale.it.

The authors of the selected proposals will receive the acceptance communication by the end of November 2012. Papers presentation should have a maximum length of 20 minutes, including Q&A. Papers will be published as conference proceedings.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (roberto rossellidelturco at gmail com)