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Woruldhord Project

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Dear All,

On behalf of Dr Stuart Lee and the Oxford University Faculty of
English, I am pleased to announce the launch of the Woruldhord
Project, which opened on the 1st of July 2010 and is now
receiving submissions.

The Woruldhord Project is a joint initiative of the Oxford
University Computing Services and the Faculty of English. It aims
to combine the expertise of literary scholars, historians,
archaeologists, art historians and linguists together with
material from museums, historical sites and members of the
general public to create a comprehensive online archive of
written, visual and audio-visual material related to Old English
and the Anglo-Saxon period.

The Project is currently inviting contributions from anyone
researching or teaching on the Anglo-Saxon period at a university
level. We are particularly interested in images, audio/video
recordings, handouts, essays, articles, presentations,
spreadsheets, databases, course notes, lesson plans and materials
used in undergraduate teaching, but welcome submissions of any type.

Any material submitted will be made freely available worldwide
for educational purposes on the Project Woruldhord website
(http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/index.html), hosted by
the University of Oxford. However, all intellectual property
rights in the material will be retained by the contributor,
contributors will be named on the site, and all visitors will be
provided with a citation guide enabling them to properly
acknowledge the authors of the resources. Contributors can also,
if desired, attach links to their own or their University’s
website to their contributions, increasing their own web presence.

Timed to correspond with renewed public interest in the
Anglo-Saxons following the recent discovery of the Staffordshire
Hoard, this project presents an excellent opportunity to apply
computing technology to the study of Anglo-Saxon literature,
history and culture. It also aims to allow members of the public
across the world to access rare or difficult-to-obtain material
as well as the expertise of specialists in the field. We hope
that academics and teachers are willing to share this material,
especially if they feel it will be of benefit to the discipline.
The Woruldhord Project follows on from the Great War Archive
(http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/), a very successful project
which collected manuscript material, letters and other materials
from the First World War from March-November 2008.

To submit material to the project, simply visit
http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord

This page will take you through the simple-to-use submission
process where you can upload your object and provide some basic
information about it.

Other pages that may be of interest include:

http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/ – The main website
http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/ – The project blog
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/faq/index.html – Our
‘help’ section including a ‘how to get started guide’ and an FAQ
http://groups.google.com/group/project-woruldhord – A discussion
group for the project

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email the
project at: woruldhord@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Thanks in advance for any contributions you may send!

Anna Caughey
Research Officer, The Woruldhord Project
http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/index.html
tel: 0787 923 4840
e: woruldhord@oucs.ox.ac.uk

seminar: 3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts

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seminar: 3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010

Friday July 2nd at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Mona Hess (University College London)
3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts

ALL WELCOME

Digital technologies, like 3D colour laser scanning and 3D imaging, are not only challenging the traditional methods in the heritage field but they are also opening up new paths for scientific analysis of museum artefacts. I will discuss possibilities of integration of 3D image analysis in the daily museum workflow.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For the full programme see:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk).

Digital Medievalist Elections Open June 24 through July 4, 2010.

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Elections for the Digital Medievalist Board are now open. Anybody currently subscribed to Digital Medievalist is eligible to vote in the election (whether you view yourself as a digital medievalist or not).

There are 4 vacancies on the board and eight candidates. Eligible voters may vote for up to four candidates.

Information about Digital Medievalist is available at its website. See especially:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about.html
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html

Candidate biographies are available at:

http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/election2010/

The ballot is available at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YFN6TLW

In order to check eligibility, voters will be asked to supply the email address they use for their subscription to dm-l. This information will not be used for any other purpose, and will be discarded after the election.

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

St. Gall virtual library – manuscripts specialist

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Manuscripts Specialist (Staff Research Associate III)

Under the direction of the project’s Principal Investigator Professor Patrick Geary and the Project Manager Dr. Julian Hendrix, the Research Associate will be responsible for directing and performing archival and library research, and for identifying and analyzing the linguistic, orthographic, paleographic and textual features of some 168 medieval manuscripts for the research project “Creation of Virtual Libraries of the Carolingian Monasteries of St. Gall and Reichenau.” Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this project will make accessible online digital images, descriptions, and contextual data of ninth-century manuscripts from libraries at St. Gall and Reichenau. The Research Associate will assist the Project Manager with the development of XML
templates and user interfaces for the project’s manuscript website. The Research Associate will also assist the Project Manager in creating descriptions and indices of the manuscripts’ contents as well as be responsible for writing thematic essays highlighting significant elements of the manuscript collection for publication on the project website.

Candidates must have a PhD in some area of medieval studies and strong Latin and German, as well as extensive knowledge of Carolingian paleography and codicology, and experience working with early medieval manuscripts. Experience working with XML markup and web design is strongly preferred.

This is a two-year (07/01/10 – 06/30/12), grant-funded position. The availability of the position is subject to the grant being awarded. In addition to completing the online application at hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=56376 (you can not be considered for the position without applying on-line), please send a copy of your letter of application (cover letter) and CV to the project PI, Professor Patrick Geary, by email to geary@ucla.edu.

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Julian Hendrix
Staff Research Associate
UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
302 Royce Hall
Box 94551485
Los Angeles CA
90095-1485

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

After Prosopography: Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre

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Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010

Friday June 18th at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Tim Hill (King’s College London)
After Prosopography: Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre

ALL WELCOME

Database technology profoundly altered the scope and power of the prosopography; more recently developed technologies have the potential to transform the genre yet again. Advances in the areas of digitised social network analysis, natural language processing, and ontological reasoning have the potential not only to extend the research reach and utility of the prosopography, but also to allow us to ask new questions of the past. The purpose of this paper is to outline these new technologies and tentatively to explore where these new questions might take us.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk or M.Terras@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html

Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).