Digital Classicist Seminars (London, 2011)

*This is reminder call for presentations. Please note the fast approaching deadline: April 15th.*

(Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate widely–we welcome proposals from students as well as established researchers.)

The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars in Summer 2011, on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. Themes could include, but are by no means limited to, visualization, information and data linking, digital textual and linguistic studies, and geographic information and network analysis; so long as the content is likely to be of interest both to classicists/ancient historians/archaeologists and information scientists/digital humanists, and would be considered serious research in at least one of those fields.

The seminars run on Friday afternoons (16:30 – 19:00) from June to mid-August in Senate House, London, and are hosted by the Institute of
Classical Studies (University of London). In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published in an online special
issue of Digital Medievalist, a printed volume from Ashgate Press, a BICS supplement (in production), and the last three years have been
released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher.

We have a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire).

Please send a 300-500 word abstract togabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by April 15th, 2011. We shall announce the full programme at the end of April.

http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html

(Coörganised by Will Wootton, Charlotte Tupman, Matteo Romanello, Simon Mahony, Timothy Hill, Alejandro Giacometti, Juan Garcés, Stuart Dunn & Gabriel Bodard.)

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

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).