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Editing the Medieval Laws of England: Workshop

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Editing the Medieval Laws of England

Date: 24 October 2009
Location: Institute of Historical Research
Description: The Institute of Historical Research, London, will be hosting a free one-day workshop which will bring together established academics and postgraduate students with an interest in early English laws.

The workshop will facilitate discussion about editing the various legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215. It aims to provide participants with an opportunity to share and discuss their ideas about methodology and issues such as digitisation and linguistics in a friendly, informal atmosphere. This event will offer project presentations and demonstrations as well as practical sessions on editing and presenting the laws in the digital age.

Booking: Attendance is free, but places are limited and offered on a first come basis. For more information and/or to register contact Dr Jenny Benham, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

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

Seminar: Paper Watermark Location and Identification

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Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2009

Friday July 3rd at 16:30

Note: STB 9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

*Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)*
*Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification*

ALL WELCOME

Watermark studies go back many years, but the advent of large digital repositories and advances in imaging present new opportunities. We present two attacks. Both use a back-lighting approach that delivers good quality, digitally-native images. We exhibit work on a wide range of images, and have uncovered hitherto unseen results.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html, where a longer abstract is available, and the audio and slides will be posted shortly after the event.

Digital Classicist Podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml

Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

Mingana collection launch

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Dear everyone (apologies for cross posting)

I am delighted to announce that next Wednesday, 8 July, we will be launching the Mingana Collection and Virtual Manuscript Room online. We are having a launch celebration at the Barber Institute, at the University of Birmingham. Speakers include a number of experts in Arabic texts and manuscripts. Some manuscripts from the Mingana collection will be on display. Admission is free, lunch and refreshments will be provided, but pre-registration is essential. If you are interested in attending, please contact Frouke Schrijver

(FXS821@bham.ac.uk)

Everyone and anyone on this list is welcome to come to the launch! There is some information about the project at http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmrsite/. We are keeping the actual url under wraps as we work on the site; we will announce this on Tuesday evening, next week.

I hope to see some of you at the launch,

best wishes
Peter Robinson

Posted by: Peter Robinson (P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk).

Call for Nominations: TEI Board and Council

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The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and Council. Nominations should be sent to the nomination committee at [nominations at tei-c.org] by July 1, 2009.

See http://www.tei-c.org/News/index.xml#CallForNominations for details.

TEI-C membership is NOT a requirement to serve on the Board or Council. Candidates should be familiar with the TEI and should be willing to commit time to discussion, decision-making, and TEI activities. If you have ideas about how to make the TEI stronger or can help it do a better job, nominate yourself! Or, if you know someone who you think could contribute to TEI, nominate him or her!

New Digital Medievalist News Server!

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Hi there!

Digital Medievalist has setup a news server based on sending items to a wordpress blog. The results are then incorporated back into our website based on the atom feed available from wordpress.

It is hoped that this will allow DM users to post news items more easily. To post an item please fill in our news posting form and your item will be submitted pending moderation. Eventually we will introduce browsing of news articles by the tags above.

You should be allowed to use any HTML or shortcodes which are allowed in a wordpress.com blog.

Thanks for your contributions, and if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask.

-James Cummings
James.Cummings@digitalmedievalist.org