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Registration open for El’Manuscript 2016 Conference and Workshops

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Vilnius, Lithuania
22-28 August 2016
URL: http://textualheritage.org/en/conf.html

Call for papers (closed): https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/elmanuscript-2016-conference-vilnius-lithuania/

Even if you did not submit a proposal to present at this conference in August, there are still other ways to participate!

There is a list of papers accepted to the conference linked from the word “Reports” at http://textualheritage.org/content/view/664/288/lang,english/ . If you would like to attend the conference without presenting, please fill out the form linked from that page. (Those who are presenting have already submitted information for registration.)

You’ll see that the form also includes a list of possible workshops to be held in Vilnius in conjunction with the conference. If you are interested in attending workshops — even if you have already submitted information as a speaker during the conference — please fill out the form to help gauge interest in the various possible topics.

CfP: Fifth AIUCD Annual Conference

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Digital editions: representation, interoperability, text analysis and infrastructures

Fifth Annual Conference of the AIUCD (Italian Association of Digital Humanities)

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

Date: 7-9 September 2016
Location: Aula Magna S. Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin, Dorsoduro 3825/e – 30123 Venezia
URL: http://www.himeros.eu/aiucd2016/

The AIUCD 2016 conference is devoted to the representation and study of text under different points of view (resources, analysis, infrastructures) in order to bring together philologists, historians, digital humanists, computational linguists, logicians, computer scientists and software engineers and discuss about text.
On the one hand, the Digital Humanities, in addition to the creation and maintenance of resources (digitization, annotation, etc.), must take into account how these will be used. On the other, Computational Linguistics, in addition to the development of computational tools (parsers, named entity extractors, etc.), must take into account the quality of the resources on which the same tools are applied.
These aspects, i.e. formal (models), digital (resources), computational (tools), infrastructural (platforms) and social (communities) involve different skills that the conference aims to make interact with each other.
The creation of resources and the development of tools should advance hand in hand, and should be based on solid models that meet the requirements established by the experts of the field. It is necessary that resources and tools be developed in parallel: only if you know how to use the text, what can be extracted from it and how to do it, can you adequately represent it.
Now that the major digitization initiatives provide multiple editions of the same works, abundant secondary literature, as well as numerous reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.), the philologist who works in the digital age should be able to seamlessly switch from handling purely philological phenomena (variant studies) to text analysis performed according to different methods (computational linguistics). The analysis tools and statistical methods developed to be used on an entire corpus of literary texts or extensive secondary literature collections must be integrated with the tools for comparing textual variants and evaluating possible interpretations.
It is time for research infrastructures to be able to guarantee interoperability and integration between the instruments for philological studies and the instruments for the analysis of large textual corpora, breaking down the rigid barriers between digital and computational philology on the one hand, and corpus linguistics on the other.

For more information about topics and submissions, and for an Italian version of the Call for Papers please visit: http://www.himeros.eu/aiucd2016/

Digital Medievalist communities

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On 18th January we made an announcement on our mailing list and Facebook page about an analysis conducted on the Digital Medievalist social network, which revealed a minimal overlap between our Facebook community and the followers of our official Mailing list and Discussion Forum.

This thought-provoking analysis was carried out by Gene Lyman, the DM Journal reviews editor, by comparing the names of the individuals registered to our Facebook group and those who subscribe to the mailing list. The task was not trivial, and while not an error-free procedure, it nonetheless highlighted that only a very small percentage of individuals (around 9-10%) are members of both communities.

This is an interesting observation. Thanks to Gene’s network analysis skills, we will be looking at the state of our—de facto—communities more in detail to have a better idea of our different audiences. To gain deeper insight into the nature of these communities and into your expectations or needs we are planning a community survey to which we hope many of you will contribute.

Yours,

The Digital Medievalist Executive Board

Medieval and Modern Manuscripts in the Digital Age (MMSDA) 2016

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2 – 6 May 2016, Cambridge and London

We are very pleased to announce the sixth year of this course, funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), and run by King’s College London with the University of Cambridge and the Warburg Institute. The course will run in two parallel strands: one on medieval and the other on modern manuscripts.

The course is open to any doctoral students working with manuscripts. It involves five days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval or modern manuscripts 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 afternoon visits to libraries in Cambridge and London. 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 free of charge but is open only to doctoral students (PhD or equivalent). It is aimed at those writing dissertations relating to medieval or modern manuscripts, especially those working on literature, art or history. Eight bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation. There are thirty vacancies across the medieval and modern strands, and preference will be given to those considered by the selection panel likely to benefit most from the course. Applications close at 5pm GMT on 22 February 2016 but early registration is strongly recommended.

For further details see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda/ or contact dixit-mmsda@uni-koeln.de.

[Originally posted by Elena Pierazzo]

New Editor-in-Chief for the Digital Medievalist Journal

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After six years of hard work and commitment, Malte Rehbein has decided to step down from his role of Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Medievalist Journal.

Malte took on his role in 2009, and has contributed ever since to the stabilization of the publication workflow and the incubator system, leading to the successful publication of 37 articles and reviews. A great achievement indeed. We are sorry to see him go.

The Executive Board has decided to appoint Franz Fischer as new Editor-in-Chief.

We would like to thank Malte on behalf of the Digital Medievalist community and wish godspeed to Franz for his new role!