Call for nominees, DM Board

Call For Nominees

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 (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 a little bit of time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities (such as helping to run its its journal, conference sessions, etc.). 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 simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either 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, James Cummings and Dominique Stutzmann:

election at digitalmedievalist.org

who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 0000 UTC on Tuesday June 19 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the whole of the week starting 25 June, 2012.

Posted by: James Cummings (James.Cummings@digitalmedievalist.org).

Seminar: A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012

Friday June 15th at 16:30
Court Room (note change of room),
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Angeliki Chrysanthi (Southampton)
‘A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites’

ALL WELCOME

This paper investigates movement and behaviour patterns of visitors to archaeological sites as a way of informing interpretive planning. A critical point was the development of a hybrid methodology for collecting and assessing data on movement around sites. I will demonstrate the methodology developed at the archaeological site of Gournia in Greece. Recognised forms of observation and the collection of qualitative data, and technologies such as GPS body tracking, geo-tagging and GIS applications were employed. The interpretation of the processed data provided better insight and an overview of the site’s affordances for movement and revealed the site’s ‘hot spots’ according to visitors’ assessment.

Full abstract is available:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-03ac.html

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Seminar: Pattern detection in archaeological data

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012

Friday June 8th at 16:30
Room G37,
Senate House,
London, WC1E 7HU

Jari Pakkanen (Royal Holloway)
‘Pattern detection in archaeological data: quantum modelling, Bronze Age Aegean lead weights and Greek Classical Doric architecture’
ALL WELCOME

Can statistically significant patterns be detected in Late Bronze Age Aegean balance weights made of lead? How should we approach the question of what type of a design system the fifth-century BC Greek architects used for Doric temples? Is it possible to say whether one of the several modern interpretations is more likely than another? Kendall’s quantum modelling and Monte Carlo computer simulations may help in finding the answers.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

The full abstract and seminar programme are at:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Digital Classicist seminar

Details of the first in this year’s Digital Classicist seminar series follow:

Chiara Salvagni (KCL) ‘Digital Critical Editions of Homer’

Friday June 1st at 16:30
Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

“I intend to discuss how the scholia to the Odyssey of Homer can be encoded in order to be part of a digital edition of the first book of the Odyssey, with special concern for their critical apparatus, starting with an analysis of how a printed edition of the scholia works. I will take into account the possibility of using the Open Source Critical Edition methodological framework for my work on the Odyssey, and the specific characteristic of the Homeric text, its oral origin and the Homeric question on the existence or non existence of Homer.”
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

All are welcome.

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2012 (Corrected version with link)

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2012

The full programme for the Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2012 is available at:
http://www.stoa.org/archives/1528

Abstracts will be available shortly on the Digital Classicist website.

Simon

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).