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Managing Editor

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The Editorial Board of
Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR) is pleased to announce the official launch of its website.

http://opuscula.usask.ca/

We seek single-witness editions of Medieval and Renaissance texts under 6,000 words accompanied by a brief introduction (1000-1500 words) and translation. We invite submission of a broad range of pre-modern texts including but not limited to literary and philosophical works, letters, charters, court documents, and notebooks. Texts should be previously unedited and the edition must represent a discrete text in its entirety.

For more information or to view a sample edition, go to opuscula.usask.ca or write Frank Klaassen, General Editor at editor@opuscula.usask.ca.

OSTMAR is an on-line and open-access journal published by Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan under a creative commons license. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review and must be accompanied by readable digital facsimiles of the original documents.

Posted by: Jason Underhill (opusedit@opuscula.usask.ca).

AccessTEI Launched: New Digitization Benefit for Member Institutions Now Available from TEI

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With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundations Scholarly Communications and Information Technology programme, and in cooperation with Apex CoVantage, LLC, a leader in content management outsourcing, the Text Encoding Initiative is pleased to announce the launch of its new AccessTEI digitization program.

AccessTEI is a digitization program that allows member institutions of the TEI to realize saving and workflow efficiencies in the outsourcing of digitization work normally available only to the largest and most active of institutions. By taking advantage of economies of scale among the TEI membership, AccessTEI is able to offer preferred pricing even on very small jobswhile still providing users with access to individual project management and Quality Assurance programs. Pricing is set by the output kilobyte, providing cost certainty.

Using the AccessTEI web portal member institutions submit work for digitization. In recognition of the fact that TEI members work with a wide variety of content, AccessTEI accepts a very wide variety of original documents from modern print to manuscript and in western and non-western character sets. An innovative pricing matrix allows users to determine the cost effectiveness of any particular job, ensuring that limited resources (including the time of skilled researchers) are applied with maximum efficiency.

Submissions to this program are encoded in TEI Tite, a special TEI-developed customization developed to ensure maximum keyboarding efficiency. Users can easily transform documents encoded in Tite into TEI P5 XML or other standard markup languages.

Contact the TEI to learn about how your project can become a member in order to take advantage of this program. Already a member? Contact membership@tei-c.org to set up your AccessTEI account.

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

Digital Classicist and Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010

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Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010

Friday June 11th at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Hafed Walda (Kings College London) and Charles Lequesne (RPS) ‘Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology’

*ALL WELCOME*

This paper will describe the process of bulding a set of guidelines for an informational model based on Geographical Information System technology to organise Libyas archaeological data and publish it in an electronic form accessible to scholars and excavators both worldwide and especially in Libya itself.

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).

Call For Nominees

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Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June for four positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected. 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 if you are willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as hands on copy-editing of its journal) then please take this into consideration when nominating yourself or accepting a nomination. For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the DM website, particularly: – http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about.html
– http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws.html

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 by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l at uleth.ca) and have made some demonstrable contribution to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or 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, Peter Stokes and Dan O’Donnell, at

election at digitalmedievalist.org

who will treat your nomination in confidence. The nomination period will close at 0000 UTC Friday June 18 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the end of the week of July 2, 2010.

Many thanks,

Peter Stokes and Dan O’Donnell

election at digitalmedievalist.org

Posted by: Peter Stokes and Dan O’Donnell (election@digitalmedievalist.org).

ESU “Culture & Technology”, 26 – 30 July 2010 University of Leipzig

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ESU “Culture & Technology”, 26 – 30 July 2010
University of Leipzig – http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/

We are happy to announce that registration for the European Summer School, Culture & Technology, is now open. Supported by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing the Summer School will take place at Leipzig University, Germany, from the 26th to the 30th of July.

The Summer School is directed at an international audience. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, and postdocs from the Humanities, Engineering or Computer Sciences from all over Europe, as well as academics, librarians and technical assistants who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries or archives, or wish to do so are its target audience. School teachers who plan to carry out technology-based projects with their students and want to discuss them in a wider context are welcome as well.

The Summer School seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences, as well as in Libraries and Archives everywhere. The Summer School aims at integrating these activities into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked. The Summer School plans to show-case possible realisations of such questions via the presentation of concrete projects.

The Summer School will offer Humanities students in particular the possibility to gain practical knowledge of the application of computational methods to the digitalisation, description, analysis and production of humanities contents and artefacts (languages, texts, images, etc.), to discuss related theoretical questions and to forge new perspectives on the study and preservation of languages, cultures and cultural memory and the translation between cultures.

Computer and Engineering Sciences students, for their part, will be given the opportunity at the Summer School to acquire insights into the nature of humanities data, to get to know the areas in the Arts and Humanities in which computational methods are employed, to learn to recognise the difference of the Humanities approach to these methods and to confront themselves with the challenges that work with diffuse and extremely complex data presents for soft- and hardware solutions.

The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The Summer School will close with a round table discussion focusing on the necessity, structure and contents of curricula for Digital Humanities und e-Humanities.

The following workshops will be offered:

* Introduction into the Creation of a Digital Edition
* From Document Engineering to Scholarly Web Projects
* Methods in Textual Analysis
* XML and the Modelling of Knowledge Contained in Historical Sources
* Image-based Digital Editing of Text-bearing Objects

Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Information on how to apply for a place in one of the workshops can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/

Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and describe this project in a qualified way.

Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they support their expectations from the summer school with good arguments.

If more funding can be secured fees will be reduced and a bursary scheme will be put into place.

For important dates and other relevant information please consult the multilingual Web-Portal of the European Summer School Culture & Technology: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/.

Univ.-Prof’in Dr. phil. habil. Elisabeth BurrFranzische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Institut f Romanistik
Philologische Fakult
Universit Leipzig
Haus 1 / 3. Etage, Zi. 1307
Beethovenstr. 15
D-04107 Leipzig
Tel. +49 (0)341 97 37413/37411
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/gal2010
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr/JISU/
elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).