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Reviews of Online Resources: Call for DM 6

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Dear all,

This is a call for contributions for the next issue of the Digital Medievalist journal (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/). As we all know, there are now many scholarly resources which have been published online as websites but which have never been reviewed as scholarly publications. This is a problem both for us as practitioners and for the discipline in general, not least because it can imply that these publications are somehow less scholarly. Furthermore, the career of academics and research departments often depends on having reviewed publications, as a result of which many online publications are inadmissible for tenure, research assessment and the like.

This problem is being addressed by bodies such as the MLA, but still there are relatively few reviews being written. To help encourage this process, the editors at DM have decided to take action and will include as many of these reviews as we can manage in our next issue (and thereafter). We therefore ask (a) for suggestions of resources that should be reviewed, and (b) offers from reviewers. Of course the ideal is to offer both a resource and a review.
As usual, reviews should be approximately 1,500 words and should consider the publication both from the ‘digital’ and ‘medieval/humanities’ standpoints. We are interested primarily in projects on medieval topics, but as always we are open to anything of interest to medievalists. See the journal’s Submission Guidelines for further details (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/).

Please note also that we are thinking specifically of freely available online publications, not printed books, CD-ROM publications or subscription-only resources (although we will of course still consider reviews of these as usual). In particular, this means that we cannot promise reviewers copies of the publication being reviewed, or access to subscription-only sites.

Thanks, and we look forward to your suggestions,

The Editors, Digital Medievalist
editors@digitalmedievalist.org

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/). Our on-line, refereed Journal accepts work of original research and scholarship, notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, tools and software, etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (pas53@cam.ac.uk).

2 PhD Positions in Text Analysis and Speech Synthesis, Trinity College Dublin

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[Apologies for multiple postings; please circulate as appropriate.]

2 Phd Positions involving speech and text analysis are open within TCD.

http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/

The bursaries include payment of fees, some research costs, and a stipend of 16K per annum. The funding covers four years of study within a structured PhD program. This funding is equivalent to that provided by IRCSET awards.

Position 1: Speaking the 1641 Depositions

This innovative project under the theme of  “Digital Humanities and Sustainable Records” will attract candidates who are interested in independent and advanced research linking speech synthesis and important historical documents. It will involve application of advanced linguistic and statistical methods, using the latest tools and technologies, for the analysis and rendering into speech of large bodies of annotated historical text. The project will last for four years and research costs, a stipend, and coverage of fees, etc., will be offered. Successful applicants will have a background in either history or computing. They will have keen analytical skills and will join a small team of researchers with similar interests in the way people speak and present information. They will be especially interested in expressing personality through speech synthesis, and in attempting to render historical texts in order to express character through the synthesised voices.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: http://www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB01)

Position 2: Technology for harmonising interpersonal communication

We explore how contemporary modes of interaction, typically at a distance via electronic devices, can be supplemented to support the sorts of information flow and inference that evolution has endowed humans sensitivity to in face-to-face communications. The research entails that various prototype applications be constructed, deployed and analyzed. A successful candidate will have demonstrable expertise in computer programming, preferably with experience of end-user application delivery. The candidate will be engaged in the delivery of software alongside performance of quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic data. The background research topic is in discerning sentiment and other non-propositional content of textual communications (such as text messages) and projecting the same through appropriate vocal synthesis. Prior expertise in text and dialogue analysis as well as speech synthesis will be an advantage. Candidates should be comfortable with computational theoretical frameworks for syntax and formal semantics, as well as statistically oriented approaches to language analysis.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: http://www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB08)

Corpus Release: Corpus OVI dell’Italiano antico

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A new version of Corpus OVI dell’italiano antico is now available online! After this update, this corpus consists of 1978 texts with 21,817,929 words, 443,810 different word forms, 116,224 lemmas and 3,615,478 lemmatized occurrences.

Corpus TLIO aggiuntivo

For not yet lemmatized texts awaiting inclusion in the Corpus OVI, an additional corpus has been created, the Corpus TLIO aggiuntivo, which at present contains 306 texts with 1,189,808 words and 71,900 different word forms.

Archivio Datini

In collaboration with the Archivio di Stato of the Tuscan town of Prato, OVI has developed a lemmatized database containing all published letters (3000 texts with 1,100,987 words and 50,139 different word forms, 7,591 lemmas and 146,741 lemmatized occurrences) in the archive of the great Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini (1335-1410).

Corpus ARTESIA

Corpus ARTESIA, created by University of Catania, is hosted on the OVI server. It consists of 239 early Sicilian texts, with currently 1,025,367 words.

Further informations

http://www.vocabolario.org

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Institute Opera del Vocabolario Italiano

Firenze, via di Castello 46

I-50141

tel. +39 055 452841

fax +39 055 452843

e-mail ovi@ovi.cnr.it

Posted by: Giulio Vaccaro (piovanoarlotto@gmail.com).

2010 DHO Summer School – Registration Now Open

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www.dho.ie/ss2010

The DHO is pleased to announce that registration for the 2010 DHO Summer School, in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative, is now open.

The Summer School welcomes registrants from the various fields of the humanities, information studies, and computer science. Workshops and lectures cover subjects as diverse as text encoding, virtual worlds, and geospatial methods for the humanities. These are facilitated by leading experts, with plenty of time during evening activities for informal interaction.

This year, in addition to four-day workshop strands, the DHO is also offering mid-week, one-day workshops. For those unable to attend the entire Summer School, it is possible to register separately for these mid-week workshops and lectures.

As in previous years, the Summer School brings together Irish and International scholars undertaking digital projects in diverse areas to explore issues and trends of common interest. The programme will offer attendees opportunities to develop their skills, share insights, and discover new opportunities for collaboration and research. Activities focus on the theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of digital humanities projects today.

The pricing for the full Summer School, as well as one-day workshops and lectures, is available on the registration page: http://dho.ie/ss2010/registration.

A number of subsidised places are available for attendees at HSIS institutions. For more information about these places, please contact the DHO Consultative Committee representative at your institution. Names of representatives can be found at: http://dho.ie/committee.

Full details of the workshop strands, lectures and guest speakers can be found on the Summer School website at: www.dho.ie/ss2010.

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin.

—
Emily Cullen, Ph.D.,
Programme Co-ordinator
Digital Humanities Observatory
28-32 Upper Pembroke Street
Dublin 2
Ireland

Tel: +353(0)1-2342442
Fax:+353(0)1-2342400
E-mail: e.cullen@ria.ie
http://dho.ie

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

TEI meeting 2010: Call for pre-conference workshop and tutorial proposals

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TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources
2010 Annual Meeting of the TEI Consortium

http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/

* Meeting dates: Thu 11 November to Sun 14 November, 2010
* Workshop dates: Mon 08 November to Wed 10 November, 2010
* Workshop proposals due Wed 31 March 2010

Traditionally, the TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting has been preceded by educational or research workshops. The goal of these workshops is to give members of the TEI community an opportunity to learn more about the use of the TEI markup under the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners. In the past such workshops have ranged from a basic introduction to the use of TEI markup to more specialized sessions on specific aspects of the TEI or its use in specific domains. They have ranged in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two days. Workshops are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the workshop.

We are now soliciting proposals for workshops for the 2010 Conference and Members’ Meeting, to be held November 8-14 at University of Zadar, Croatia. Workshops are distinct from other conference activities, such as papers, sessions, and Special Interest Group meetings and we have tentatively reserved three days for them. These workshops should be educational in focus or involve hands-on work with a research problem. They should propose topics that are likely to be of interest to recognizable segments of the TEI community. Possible topics include:

  • An Introduction to TEI
  • TEI and libraries
  • Editorial practice and the TEI
  • Extending and customizing the TEI
  • Introduction to the ODD system
  • Using the TEI with other standards and markup languages
  • Images and the TEI
  • Use and development of tools and processes

Proposals addressing other topics are welcome and encouraged. If you are interested in proposing a workshop for the 2010 Members Meeting and Conference, please email meeting@tei-c.org by 31 March 2010. Expressions of interest should include as much as possible of the following information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in developing their proposals):

  • A proposed topic
  • A rationale explaining why this topic is likely to be of interest to the TEI community
  • A proposed instructor or slate of instructors including brief discussion of relevant experience
  • Method of instruction
  • Preferred length for the workshop
  • A preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if any).

Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local organising committee.

Proposals will be evaluated by the program committee primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community, the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction, and cost. The committee will work with selected organizers after this date to refine the details of their workshops.

For the international programm comittee,

Christian Wittern (chair)

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

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