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PhD Programme: HISTORY – change and continuity in a global world

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Applications:
2 May to 15 June 2016 (FCT grants)
2 May to 9 September (PhD Programme)

This is an international and inter-university PhD programme, with the participation of the most relevant History departments and research units of the University of Lisbon (Institute of Social Sciences and Faculty of Letters), ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Portuguese Catholic University and University of Évora.
This PhD programme has been selected for funding by the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology (FCT). It offers 4 PhD scholarships and further financial support throughout the preparation of the PhD dissertation.
Classes run in Lisbon from 19 September 2016 onwards. Courses and seminars are taught in Portuguese and English. Enrolled students receive monitoring assistance by tutors and supervisors.
Please circulate this announcement among colleagues and graduate students of your institutions and networks.

More info available at: http://piudhist.ics.ul.pt/.
For further information please contact: secretario.piudh@ics.ulisboa.pt

Clustering of medieval scripts through computer image analysis: Towards an evaluation protocol

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Dear digital medievalists,

I am happy to announce the publication of a new article in Digital Medievalist, “Clustering of medieval scripts through computer image analysis: Towards an evaluation protocol” by Dominique Stutzmann.

Here the abstract:

This paper addresses the question of objective categories of medieval scripts and their elaboration through both medieval palaeography and image analysis. It introduces a dataset of 9800 images and metadata from the catalogues of dated manuscripts in France, as a ground truth and evaluation protocol, to be used for image feature analysis, taxonomy building, and clustering methods. It further compares the results of the categorization performed by two teams, one in Lyon (LIRIS/INSA, Frank Lebourgeois) and the other in Tel-Aviv (The Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Lior Wolf). It also addresses the questions of taxonomy, interpretation and goals of the interdisciplinary research, such as development of expert systems or exploratory research.

You can access the full article here. It is the last full article of the current volume #10. But before closing, a review on the visualization tool CatView will follow soon. Watch this space!

And enjoy reading: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/

Kind regards,
Franz Fischer
Editor-In-Chief, Digital Medievalist Journal

Call for Nominations to DM Board 2016-18

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Dear Digital Medievalist subscribers,

Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2016 for four positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms, and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it would be expected that you are willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities, like editing the journal, organising conference sessions, administering the website, the Facebook group and news feeds, or maintaining a technical infrastructure – and there is room for any initiative you would like to take to foster the communication on digital methods in medieval studies.

For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the Digital Medievalist website, particularly:

We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the Digital Medievalist project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or generally to the field of digital medieval studies.

If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, Alexei Lavrentiev (alexei.lavrentev [at] ens-lyon.fr) and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti (emiliano.degli.innocenti [at] gmail.com), who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 15 June. Elections will be held by electronic ballot from Wednesday, 22 June 2016, closing at 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 7 July 2016.

Best wishes,

Alexei Lavrentiev and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti

Paleography Summer School (Madrid, Spain)

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The Complutense University of Madrid has organized a new summer school hosted at the Geography and History Faculty for this coming July entitled “Writing and documents: Paleography, Diplomatics and Archival Science” (language: Spanish).

The official website, where you can find all the information about this course is:
https://www.ucm.es/citehar/escuela-de-verano-escritura-y-documentacion-paleografia,-diplomatica-y-archivistica

Originally posted by:
Barbara Santiago Medina
Professor of Paleography and Diplomatics
Historical Sciences and Techniques and Archaeology Department
Complutense University of Madrid