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GRANTS FOR GRADUATE FOREIGN STUDENTS 2011/2012

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The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare announces two short-term Library Research Grants for graduate students to promote scholarly use of its important collections. The first one is dedicated to The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris and the second dedicated to Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies.

These Library Research Grants, which have a value of up to € 2.000 each, are meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Vercelli during the tenure of the grant. The length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal, but is ordinarily up to one month. Library Research Grants awarded in this year are tenable from May 2011 to April 2012 (except from 18th July to 4th September), and the deadline for applications is 15 April 2011. No applications will be accepted after that date.

Applicants are asked to complete an Application Form (download from www.tesorodelduomovc.it [1]) and submit a Word or PDF file (the latter is the preferred format) containing a Budget Form, a full Curriculum Vitae and a Research Proposal not exceeding one thousand words in length. Application should be sent by postal mail to the Library Research Grants Committee or by Email at the address given below. Applicants must also arrange for two Confidential Letters of Recommendation to be sent directly to the Library Research Grants Committee by postal mail or Email.

The proposal should address specifically the relevance to the proposed research of unique resources found in the Biblioteca and Archivio Capitolare collections or in the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo collection (The Memory of mons. Giuseppe Ferraris Grant) and in the Biblioteca Capitolare collections (Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon Studies Grant). Prospective grantees are urged to contact the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books for detailed descriptions of the collections. The Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare reserves the right to have a copy of the research that the applicant will publish at the end of her or his studies.

A committee consisting of members by University of Piemonte Orientale, Turin, Oxford, Kiel and of the Library Management will award the grants on the basis of the relevance of the proposal to unique holdings of the library and museum, the merits and significance of the project, and the applicant’s scholarly qualifications.

[1] Note that the application form might not be available online at the time of the announcement: please send your application via email to Dr. Timoty Leonardi in that case, email address reported below.

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Fondazione Museo del Tesoro del Duomo e Archivio Capitolare
piazza Alessandro D’Angennes, 5
13100, Vercelli – ITALY
www.tesorodelduomovc.it

Dr. Timoty Leonardi
Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books
timoty.leonardi@tesorodelduomovc.it
Tel. and fax: +39 0161 51650

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

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD HUMANITIES DIVISION MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES

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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
HUMANITIES DIVISION
MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Salary: £29,099 – £30,870 (As at 1 October 2011)

A two-year research and teaching appointment in Digital Humanities from October 2011 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career.
These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford.
Applicants must have obtained his or her doctorate by 1 October 2011, and should not normally have completed it earlier than 1 October 2007. We welcome applications from all whose research is in the digital humanities, involving the innovative and productive application of digital tools or resources to research questions in any subject under the Humanities Division (see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/).
The Fellow will be employed by the Faculty closest to his/her academic interests. A college association will be arranged for this post, and he/she will also become a Research Associate at the OeRC (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/).

For further details, information about how to apply and an application form, please visit: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/ Applications must be received by midday on Wednesday 23 March 2011.

Posted by: Camille Fairbanks (herdsman.caedmon@gmail.com).

TEI Conference and Members’ meeting – CfP

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Call for papers and proposals

Philology in the Digital Age
2011 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium University of Würzburg, Germany

http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/

* Deadline for submissions: May 1st, 2011
* Meeting dates: Wed 12 October to Sat 15 October, 2011
* Workshop dates: Mon 10 October to Wed 12 October, 2011 (see separate call)

The Program Committee of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI – http://www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel
sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, scholarly editing or any topic that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics

Topics might include but are not restricted to:
• TEI and scholarly editing
• TEI and textual criticism
• TEI and the evolution of digital philology
• TEI and text corpora
• The relation between representation (encoded text) and presentation (visualisation, user-interface)
• TEI encoded data in the context of quantitative text analysis • Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards • TEI as metadata standard
• TEI as interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data (in particular in relation to other formats or software environments)

In addition, we are seeking proposals for 5 minute micropaper presentations focused on experiences with the TEI guidelines gained from running projects and discussing one specific feature.

Submission Types

Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Submission should be made in the form of an abstract of 750-1500 words (plus bibliography).

Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including:

* three paper panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics

* round table discussion: 5-8 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief presentations.

Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster presenter is expected to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session.

Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes.

Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted at http://www.tei-c.org/conftool/ by May 1st, 2011 (please check on the conference website for the availability of conftool).

You will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract.

* Individual paper or poster proposals (including tool
demonstrations): Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted.

* Micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 500 words. Please be sure the abstract mentions the feature to be presented!

* Panel sessions (three paper panels): The panel organizer submits a proposal for the entire session, containing a 500-word introduction explaining the overarching theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers, together with a 750-1500 words section for each panel member.

* Panel sessions (round table discussion): The panel organizer submits a proposal of 750-1500 words describing the rationale for the discussion and includes the list of panelists. Panelists need to be contacted by the panel organizer and have expressed their willingness in participation before submission.

All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers.

Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room.

Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org.

Conference submissions will be considered for conference
proceedings, edited as a special issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming.

Posted by: Camille Fairbanks (herdsman.caedmon@gmail.com).

University of Oxford – Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities

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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
HUMANITIES DIVISION
MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Salary: £29,099 – £30,870 (As at 1 October 2011)

A two-year research and teaching appointment in Digital Humanities from October 2011 for an outstanding academic at an early stage of his or her career.

These fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a wider Oxford University initiative which is designed: to provide an intensive and supported career development opportunity for outstanding academics at an early stage of their career; and to promote equality of opportunity by helping to create a more diverse pool of potential candidates for future academic posts at Oxford.

Applicants must have obtained his or her doctorate by 1 October 2011, and should not normally have completed it earlier than 1 October 2007.

We welcome applications from all whose research is in the digital humanities, involving the innovative and productive application of digital tools or resources to research questions in any subject under the Humanities Division (see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/).

The Fellow will be employed by the Faculty closest to his/her academic interests. A college association will be arranged for this post, and he/she will also become a Research Associate at the OeRC (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/).

For further details, information about how to apply and an application form, please visit: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/index/230311/arrs7423j/

Applications must be received by midday on Wednesday 23 March 2011.

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).

Book Announcement: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2

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Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 – Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2. Hrsg. Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze, Georg Vogeler, unter Mitarbeit von Bernhard Assmann, Malte Rehbein, Patrick Sahle. Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 3. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2010.

ISBN 978-3-8423-5032-8. Hardcover, 464 pp., incl. numerous illustrations.

[Online version coming out in summer 2011. Further information below and on the IDE website: http://www.i-d-e.de/]

 

INTRODUCTION / EINLEITUNG

Digital technology changes the way scholars work with manuscripts. This volume deepens the questions raised by the first volume on palaeography and codicology in the digital age, published a year ago, particularly questions on digitisation and cataloguing, on character recognition and the analysis of script. Moreover, the focus has been widened to include the fields of computer-aided manuscript research in musicology and history of art, as well as to methodologies applied in computational and natural sciences. Besides Latin, this  volume covers also Greek, Glagolitic, Judeo-Arabic and other scripts. The spatio-temporal frame stretches from ancient Egypt of 1800 BC to Paris of the 20th century.

Der Einsatz digitaler Technik verändert den wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit der handgeschriebenen Überlieferung. Dieser Band vertieft Fragen zu Digitalisierung und Katalogisierung, zu automatischer Schrifterkennung und Schriftanalyse, und er erweitert eine Diskussion, die mit dem im letzten Jahr erschienenen ersten Band zur digitalen Handschriftenforschung angestossen worden ist: Welche Erkenntnisse können etwa naturwissenschaftliche Methoden liefern? Welche musik- und kunsthistorischen Fragestellungen lassen sich mit Hilfe moderner Informationstechnologien beantworten? Wie lassen sich Methoden einer digitalen Auswertung lateinischer Handschriften auf griechische, glagolithische oder ägyptische Texte anwenden? Der raum-zeitliche Rahmen der hier von einer internationalen Autorenschaft zusammengetragenen 22 wissenschaftlichen Beiträge reicht vom alten Ägypten bis ins Paris der Postmoderne.

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INHALTSVERZEICHNIS / CONTENTS

Vorwort / Preface

Einleitung / Introduction:

FRANZ FISCHER, PATRICK SAHLE: Into the Wide – Into the Deep: Manuscript
Research in the Digital Age

DIGITALE REPRODUKTION / DIGITAL REPRODUCTION

PÁDRAIG Ó MACHÁIN: Irish Script on Screen: the Growth and Development of a Manuscript Digitisation Project

ARMAND TIF: Kunsthistorische Online-Kurzinventare illuminierter Codices in österreichischen Klosterbibliotheken

ALISON STONES, KEN SOCHATS: Towards a Comparative Approach to Manuscript Study on the Web: the Case of the Lancelot-Grail Romance

MELISSA M. TERRAS: Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital Imaging of Ancient Texts

DIGITALER KATALOG UND SEMANTIK / DIGITAL CATALOGUE AND SEMANTICS

SILKE SCHÖTTLE, ULRIKE MEHRINGER: Handschriften, Nachlässe, Inkunabeln& Co.: Die Erschließung der deutschen Handschriften und die Bereitstellung von Sonderbeständen in Online-Katalogen an der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen mit TUSTEP

MARILENA MANIACI, PAOLO ELEUTERI: Das MaGI-Projekt: Elektronische Katalogisierung der griechischen Handschriften Italiens

EZIO ORNATO: La numérisation du patrimoine livresque médiéval : avancée décisive ou miroir aux alouettes ?

TOBY BURROWS: Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Medieval Manuscript Research

ROBERT KUMMER: Semantic Technologies for Manuscript Descriptions — Concepts and Visions

HANDSCHRIFTEN UND NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN / MANUSCRIPTS AND THE SCIENCES

LIOR WOLF, NACHUM DERSHOWITZ, LIZA POTIKHA, TANYA GERMAN, RONI SHWEKA, YAACOV CHOUEKA: Automatic Palaeographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts

DANIEL DECKERS, LEIF GLASER:Zum Einsatz von Synchrotronstrahlung bei der
Wiedergewinnung gelöschter Texte in Palimpsesten mittels Röntgenfluoreszenz

TIMOTHY STINSON: Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis
to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production

PETER MEINLSCHMIDT, CARMEN KÄMMERER, VOLKER MÄRGNER: Thermographie – ein neuartiges Verfahren zur exakten Abnahme, Identifizierung und digitalen Archivierung von Wasserzeichen in mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Papierhandschriften, -zeichnungen und –drucken

DIGITALE PALÄOGRAPHIE / DIGITAL PALAEOGRAPHY

PETER A. STOKES: Teaching Manuscripts in the Digital Age

DOMINIQUE STUTZMANN: Paléographie statistique pour décrire, identifier, dater. . . Normaliser pour coopérer et aller plus loin ?

STEPHEN QUIRKE: Agendas for Digital Palaeography in an Archaeological Context: Egypt 1800 BC

MARKUS DIEM, ROBERT SABLATNIG, MELANIE GAU, HEINZ MIKLAS: Recognizing
Degraded Handwritten Characters

JULIA M. CRAIG-MCFEELY: Finding What You Need, and Knowing What You Can Find: Digital Tools for Palaeographers in Musicology and Beyond

TRANSKRIPTION UND TEXTKODIERUNG / TRANSCRIPTION AND TEXT ENCODING

ISABELLE SCHÜRCH, MARTIN RÜESCH: Ad fontes – mit E-Learning zu ersten Editionserfahrungen

CAROLE DORNIER, PIERRE-YVES BUARD: L’édition électronique de cahiers de travail : l’exemple de Mes Pensées de Montesquieu

SAMANTHA SAÏDI, JEAN-FRANÇOIS BERT, PHILIPPE ARTIÈRES: Archives d’un lecteur philosophe. Le traitement numérique des notes de lecture de Michel Foucault

ELENA PIERAZZO, PETER A. STOKES: Putting the Text back into Context: A Codicological Approach to Manuscript Transcription

APPENDICES

Kurzbiographien / Biographical Notes

KPDZ 1 – CPDA 1

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