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Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University

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Registration is now open for the Brown University Women Writers Project’s summer and fall workshops on topics in TEI and digital humanities:

http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/

These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands-on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer an opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory
setting.

More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/

Students and members of the TEI consortium receive a 33% discount on registration.

All workshops are held at Brown University. Space is limited so please register early.

July 20-22, 2011
Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities
Syd Bauman and David Birnbaum
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

August 29-31, 2011
Introduction to TEI Customization
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

September 26-28, 2011
Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

December 5-7, 2011
Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI
Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
$450 ($300 for students and TEI members)

We hope to see you in Providence!

best wishes, Julia

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library
http://www.wwp.brown.edu
http://library.brown.edu/cds/

Balisage Call for Late-breaking News

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Proposals for Late-breaking News presentations at Balisage are due June 10th.

http://www.balisage.net/latebreaking-call.html

The peer-reviewed part of the Balisage 2011 program has been scheduled (http://www.balisage.net/2011/Program.html). A few slots have been reserved for presentation of “Late-breaking” material.  In order to be in serious contention for addition to the final program, your proposal should be either:

a) really late-breaking (it reports on something that happened in the last month or two) or
b) a well-developed paper, an extended paper proposal, or a very long abstract with references on a topic related to Markup and not already on the 2011 conference program.

The competition for late-breaking slots is fiercer than for regular peer-reviewed papers. Now is the time to start writing or to encourage someone you want to hear from at Balisage to get to work.

For more information see: http://www.balisage.net/latebreaking-call.html

or send email to: info@balisage.net

Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2011

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This is a reminder that we are running a comprehensive 5 day Summer School in Digital Humanities this summer.
It takes place from July 25th-29th, at Oxford University Computing Services and Wolfson College.

The summer school introduces a range of digital research components to researchers, project managers, research assistants, or students working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital data for the humanities.

Please visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/DHSS2011/ for details.

The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS),Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), e-Research South, and Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster, under the direction of Sebastian Rahtz and Dr James Cummings at OUCS.

The programme will consist of:

• Two parallel streams of morning practical sessions using the well-equipped It teaching facilities at OUCS
• Two parallel streams of afternoon workshops at Wolfson College concentrating on techniques and best practice
• Guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts about their research projects

Our guest plenary speakers for this year include:

David De Roure, Professor of e-Science at OeRC
Jeni Tennison, UK eGov guru
John Coleman, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory
Min Chen, Professor of Visualization at OeRC
Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria

Topics include:
• Best practice for digital linguistic corpora
• Building queryable document-based websites
• Creating community collections and digital outreach
• Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI
• Working with maps
• Critical apparatus and digital genetic editions in TEI
• Database design for humanities projects
• Digital Images for the Humanities
• Digital library technologies and best practice
• Getting funding: quality, impact, sustainability.
• Introduction to copyright and open licensing
• Introduction to document/project modelling
• Introduction to XML databases
• Managing Digital Humanities Projects
• Practical RDF modelling and conversion
• Publishing XML files using XSLT
• RDF querying and visualization
• TEI for linking text and facsimiles
• Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora
• Visualization using jQuery
• Working with audio files
NOTE: Early Bird registration discounts end on 16 May!

VOICE XML Corpus and VOICE 1.1 Online

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VOICE XML is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) and includes all corpus texts in XML format as well as derived HTML and TXT versions of the corpus with reduced mark-up. For more information on VOICE XML see https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/corpus_availability_xml and consult
the README file included in the download package.

In addition, the release of VOICE XML also marks the release of VOICE 1.1, an updated version of the corpus that includes minor revisions in some of the corpus texts. As of today, the web interface of VOICE Online
is therefore updated to VOICE 1.1 Online (https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/corpus_availability_online).

We hope you will find these additional resources helpful, and we are looking forward to receiving any kind of feedback you might have (please mail to voice@univie.ac.at).

We have recently started a new subsection on VOICE-based publications on our website and would like to invite you to let us know when you (have) publish(ed) or present(ed) work which makes use of VOICE Online and/or VOICE XML.

California Digital Library Announces Release of XTF Version 3.0

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California Digital Library Announces Release of XTF Version 3.0

Oakland, CA, April 5, 2011 – The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content.  XTF provides efficient and practical methods for creating customized end-user interfaces for distinct digital content collections and is used by institutions worldwide.

Highlights from the 3.0 release include:

  • Scanned book display support in default UI
  • Stability improvements to index rotation support
  • Globalization and RSS support
  • Further Unicode improvements
  • Many bug fixes

See the full change log (http://xtf.cdlib.org/documentation/changelog/) for further details.

XTF is a combination of Java and XSLT 2.0 that indexes, queries, and displays digital objects and is based on open source software (e.g. Lucene and Saxon).  XTF can be downloaded from the XTF website (http://xtf.cdlib.org/download/) or from the XTF Project page on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtf/), where the source code can also be found.

The XTF website also provides a self-guided tutorial and a sample of the default installation (http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/search), demonstrating the capabilities of the tool out-of-the-box. Both of these resources provide a quick view of the capabilities of XTF prior to download.

Offering a suite of customizable features that support diverse intellectual access to content, XTFinterfaces can be designed to support the distinct tools and presentations that are useful and meaningful to specific audiences.  In addition, XTF offers the following core features:

  • Easy to deploy: Drops directly in to a Java application server such as Tomcat or Resin; has been tested on Solaris, Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
  • Easy to configure: Can create indexes on any XML element or attribute; entire presentation layer is customizable via XSLT.
  • Robust: Optimized to perform well on large documents (e.g., a single text that exceeds 10MB of encoded text); scales to perform well on collections of millions of documents; provides full Unicode support.
  • Extensible:
    • Works well with a variety of authentication systems (e.g., IP address lists, LDAP, Shibboleth).
    • Provides an interface for external data lookups to support thesaurus-based term expansion, recommender systems, etc.
    • Can power other digital library services (e.g., XTF contains an OAI-PMH data provider that allows others to harvest metadata, and an SRU interface that exposes searches to federated search engines).
    • Can be deployed as separate, modular pieces of a third-party system (e.g., the module that displays snippets of matching text).
  • Powerful for the end user:
    • Spell checking of queries
    • Faceted displays for browsing
    • Dynamically updated browse lists
    • Session-based bookbags

These basic features can be tuned and modified.  For instance, the same bookbag feature that allows users to store links to entire books, can also store links to citable elements of an object, such as a note or other reference.

Examples of XTF-based applications both within and outside of the CDL include:

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ Symposium

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‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ One-Day Symposium
5th September 2011, King’s College London

The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography.

In recent years, scholars have begun to develop and employ new technologies and computer-based methods for palaeographic research. The aim of the symposium is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects which overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies. Possible topics could include:

•       Project reports and/or demonstrations
•       Palaeographical method; ‘Digital’ and ‘Analogue’ palaeography
•       Quantitative and qualitative approaches
•       ‘Scientific’ methods, ‘objectivity’ and the role of evidence in manuscript studies
•       Visualisation of manuscript evidence and data
•       Interface design and querying of palaeographical material

To propose a paper, please send a brief abstract (250 words max) to digipal@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 8th May 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 20th May 2011.
—
Dr Stewart J Brookes
Research Associate
Digital Resource for Palaeography
King’s College London

TEI course at Rare Book School, July 4-8, 2011

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Rare Book School is currently accepting applications for XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts, taught by David Seaman. The course is a practical exploration of the creation, preservation, and use of electronic texts and their associated images in the humanities, with a special focus on Special Collections materials. This course is aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at librarians, publishers, and scholars keen to develop, use, publish, and control electronic texts for library, research, scholarly communication, or teaching purposes.

The week will center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images (texts such as 18th and 19th century letters, which are short enough to allow each participant to take an entire document through all its creation stages during the course). Topics include: XML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines; Unicode; metadata issues (including a discussion of METS and Open Archives Initiative harvesting), project planning and funding; and the manipulation of XML texts using stylesheets for re-publishing HTML, in ebook formats, and in PDF.

Applicants need to have some experience with the tagging of HTML documents. In their personal statement, they should assess the extent of their present knowledge of the electronic environment, and outline a project to which they hope to apply the skills learned in this course.

The course takes place 4-8 July in Charlottesville, VA. Applications are available online at http://www.rarebookschool.org/applications/

[This course is a revised version of “Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images”, which ran from 1995-2009.]

TEI council face to face meeting 11-13 April 2011

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Dear all,

The TEI council will meet face to face in Chicago on 11-13 April next month. Why would you care? Because we will try to work out the various bugs and features documented and discussed in the TEI source forge server: http://tei.sourceforge.net/

It’s a good opportunity for you all to have a look at the ones for which you may have specific interests and provide feedback if necessary. You may also file in bugs or features that you have identified since ages and never took the time to document…The work of the council only makes sense if it reflects the expectations and competences of the community!

Laurent

PS:

  • Bugs:
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=106328&atid=644062
  • Feature requests:
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=106328&atid=644065

    • Laurent Romary
    INRIA & HUB-IDSL
    laurent.romary@inria.fr

    Call for Papers: 2011 TEI Members’ Meeting

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    Dear TEIers,
As you know already, the TEI conference will take place this year in
Würzburg (Germany) from 13 to 15 October (preceded by workshops and
tutorials). It is a major event for our community as it is the
possibility for all of you to exchange your ideas and experience in
using the TEI guidelines, as well as providing feedback and proposals
on making the TEI technical environment evolve to serve digital
scholarship even better.  Indeed, the TEI has become an essential
aspect for any text-based research in the humanities and our user
community grows everyday quicker. The conference should be able to
reflect this variety by bringing together both experienced eHumanists
and more traditional scholars looking for  digital answers to their
research questions.
You will find below the call for paper, which will soon be followed by
a call for workshops and tutorials. Pleas do not hesitate to spread
the word further on your favorite social networks.
I am looking forward to see you all in Würzburg,
Laurent Romary

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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 - 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.

For the international programm comittee,

Laurent Romary (programm committee chair)

    Day of Digital Humanities 2011

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    Digital humanists are invited to participate in the third annual Day of Digital Humanities, a project tracking 24 hours in the field of digital humanities. On March 18th, 2011 individuals in the field or related professions will document the events of their day with photos and discussion.

    This project is an online collaborative publication, with each participant co-authoring and decisions made communally. However, participating in the Day of DH shouldn’t require a large time commitment. Most of the work will be in uploading short entries and photographs during the documentation day. The degree of involvement beyond that will be up to you. To find out about this interaction and the previous two iterations of the Day of Digital Humanities see:

    http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011

    This project is intended to bring members of all types and from around the field together to post about what they do and reflect on what others are doing. We particularly encourage graduate students, developers and international colleagues to participate. You don’t have to be “important”; you don’t have to write in English; and you don’t have to have a lot of experience in the field. Your opinions count!

    To participate please fill out the application form by March 15th, 2011.

    Apply now at http://bit.ly/DoDH11-apply

    And mark the 18th of March down for the next Day of Digital Humanities.

    Yours,

    Geoffrey Rockwell