TextGrid is a platform for scholars in the humanities, which makes possible the collaborative analysis, evaluation and publication of cultural remains (literary sources, images and codices) in a standardized way.

The central idea was to bring together instruments for the dealing with texts under a common user interface. The workbench offers a range of tools and services for scholarly editing and linguistic research, which are extensible by open interfaces, such as editors for the linkage between texts or between text sequences and images, tools for musical score edition, for gloss editing, for automatic collation etc.

On the occasion of the official release of TextGrid 2.0 a summit will take place from the 14th to the 15th of May 2012. On the 14th the summit will start with a workshop day on which the participants can get an insight into some of the new tools. For the following day lectures and a discussion group are planned.
For more information and registration see this German website TextGrid Summit 2012.

The DCA is currently in its formative stage and looking for new members. We welcome interest and input from all quarters.

The immediate goal of the organization is to create a venue for the informal and formal discussion of digital classics at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association (APA), including a poster / demonstration session. In such discussions at the largest annual meeting of classicists in North America, scholars working on digital projects can compare methods and results, and scholars unfamiliar with digital methods can gain an acquaintance with them. This venue is meant to complement other existing in-person and online sites for digital humanities and digital classics discussions.

For the purposes of the APA application, the following 5-person Interim Steering Committee has been formed:

Co-Chairs: Neil Coffee (University at Buffalo) and Gregory Crane (Perseus, Tufts University)
Secretary-Treasurer: Allen Romano (Florida State University)
Steering Committee Member: Charlotte Roueché (King’s College London)
Steering Committee Member: Christopher Blackwell (Furman University, Center for Hellenic Studies)

If the APA charter application is successful, the DCA will hold its first meeting at the January 2-5, 2014 APA conference in Chicago. All aspects of the organization will be open to discussion and vote at that meeting. There will be a full and open vote on leadership, as well as on the structure and activities of the Association.

If you are interested in becoming a DCA member and supporting the group’s application to the APA, please submit your name and email address in the boxes to the left (under “Join our mailing list”; you do not need to follow the “sign-up” link). Your information will be used for no other purposes than 1) to submit the membership list to the APA, and 2) to send you occasional email updates on DCA activities.

The Department of Scienze Storiche, Giuridiche, Economiche e Sociali of University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria and the Department Diritto dell’Organizzazione Pubblica, Economia e Società of University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, within BILG (Inscriptiones Graecae et Latinae Bruttiorum) project, is organising an intensive training workshop of EpiDoc, with Monica Berti (Tufts University – Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Lou Burnard (TEI Editor) and Marion Lamè (Università di Bologna). This workshop is an introduction to the use of TEI and of EpiDoc, XML schema for the encoding and publication of literary texts and inscriptions, papyri and other documentary classical texts respectively. Participants will study the use of EpiDoc markup to record the distinctions expressed by the Leiden Conventions and traditional critical editions, and some of the issues in translating between EpiDoc and the major epigraphic and papyrological databases.

The course is targeted at scholars of historical and ancient texts, epigraphic and papyrologic ones (from advanced graduate students to professors), that are interested and want to learn some of the hands-on technical aspects in the markup, encoding, and exploitation of digital editions. The course will give a practical introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative, an introduction to EpiDoc markup and editing tools, and the text transformations with XSLT.

For more details about EpiDoc and TEI /XML, see at http://epidoc.sf.net and http://www.tei-c.org. Knowledge of Greek and/or Latin, the Leiden Conventions, the distinctions expressed by them and the kinds of data that need to be recorded by epigraphic scholars and ancient historians are of course essential. The course will be held in English with Italian tutors. No particular computer skills and technical expertise are required, even if the possession of an interest for computer know-how is preferable.

The workshop is free of charge and open to all, but spaces are limited (not more than 20 people) and registration as soon as possible is essential. To enrol in the training, please contact daria.spampinato@cnr.it or stefania.romeo@unirc.it with a brief
statement of qualifications and interests.

Faculty, graduate students, and library professionals are encouraged to apply. Applicants should submit proposals by February 15, 2012. Participant proposals must include CVs and statements of purpose (no more than 1,000 words) describing how they will be able to use participation in the Institute to advance their subsequent careers. Participants must be committed to collaborative work and to publication of results from this Institute under a Creative Commons license. Participants should identify source materials with which they propose to work during the Institute and which must be in the public domain or available under a suitable license. In an ideal case, source materials would include both texts for intensive analysis and annotation and one or more larger corpora to be mined and analyzed more broadly. Statements of purpose must describe initial goals for the Institute. For more information or to submit applications, please contact lisa.cerrato@tufts.edu.

We particularly encourage participants who are committed to developing research agendas that integrate contributions and research by undergraduates, that expand the global presence of the Humanities, and that, in general, broaden access to and participation in the Humanities. Preference will be given to participants who are best prepared not only to apply new technologies but to do so as a means to transform their teaching and research and the relationship of their work to society beyond academia.

For further details see Working with Text in a Digital Age – NEH Institute at Tufts University

July 23-August 10, 2012 Tufts University, Medford MA

This institute will provide participants with three weeks in which (1) to develop hands on experience with TEI-XML, (2) to apply methods from information retrieval, text visualization, and corpus and computational linguistics to the analysis of textual and linguistic sources in the humanities, (3) to rethink not only their own research agendas but also new relationships between their work and non-specialists.

A call for applications will follow shortly.

3ème Colloque International – Sapiential Statements and Exemplary Literature: a Complex Intertextuality
Nancy (MSH Lorraine) – Paris (INALCO) 22-24 novembre 2011

Program (in French)

The ALIENTO scientific team organises every year a three-day encounter on medieval sapiential tradition (VIIIth-XVth C.) in the Iberian Peninsula, its sources and its posterity in the perspective of the data base that is being built up.

In March 2009 took place the first international conference untitled: “Sapiential sentences: cultures et transmissions”. Its main purpose was the presentation of the project content, its aims and its methods. The November 2010 Conference: Ancient corpora and data bases” focussed on the Ancient sources of the Medieval corpus from the Iberian Peninsula and the articulation of the project with other data bases dealing with Ancient corpora (GASC – Corpus der arabischen und syrischen Gnomologien, SAWS – Sharing Ancient Wisdom).

At this stage of the work, a presentation of the first results obtained by textual crossings will be made and conclusions on our primary experimentations will be drawn with the specialists of the texts of the ALIENTO corpus. We will also organise the future work. A session will be devoted to the appended data bases: normalisation of files and bibliography.

This year, the papers will be on Intertextuality between our corpora and the exemplary literature that circulated in the Iberian Peninsula during that period. A particular attention will be paid to Calila and Dimna.

ALIENTO collaborators are invited to present a paper on the connections between wisdom literature, sapiential units and fables, exempla, Mirrors for Princes, adâb literature… from the same epoch.

The 22 and 23 November sessions will take place in Nancy and the 24 November session will be in Paris. On 23 November, there will be workshops; the sessions of the 22 and the 24 will be devoted to papers. The presentations will not exceed 30 minutes; a fifteen-minute discussion will follow.

In March 2011 the Department of History and Civilisation of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, will host THATCamp, an important event in the field of Digital Humanities and Digital History organized by several European scholarly institutions. Italian and European Digital Humanists will be invited to meet and discuss digital scholarship and methods today. Participation is not limited to EUI members.

THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp), is a so-called “un-conference” promoted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Virginia, our partner in organising this event for the first time in Italy.

THATCamp Florence will be preceded by a BootCamp, consisting of introductory courses in the Digital Humanities & Digital History provided by one or more teachers. The Bootcamp is sponsored through the generosity of the Mellon Foundation, the Kress Foundation, and the Council on Library and Information Resources in the USA. They will provide also small individual fellowships for participants.

Registration for THATCamp Florence is necessary and is possible until the 15th of March 2011. For more information please contact Maria Caterina Cunsolo, THATCamp Florence Officer, [info@thatcampflorence.org]

The University of Würzburg with its Centre for Digital Editing in cooperation with the German Archive of Literature / Museum of Modern Literature Marbach and the international Programme Committe welcome you to the 2011 International Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative.

• Date: 10-16 October 2011
• Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2011
• Venue: University of Würzburg, Hubland Campus

All information regarding the conference will be published step-by-step on this website.

See here for the preliminary program.

The Call for Papers and Proposals is now available.

(Programma – pdf)

Giovedì 24 Febbraio

9.30 Saluti delle autorità
10.00 Eugenio Lanzillotta, Introduzione ai lavori

10.20 Gabriella Vanotti, Presentazione del volume Il lessico Suda e gli storici greci in frammenti (Atti dell’incontro internazionale, Vercelli 6-7 novembre 2008)
10.35 Valeria Foderà, Ecateo di Mileto e le tradizioni argive
11.00 Eduardo Federico, Da parafrasi a sunto: Pausania e la syngraphe di Ione di Chio

11.25 Pausa caffè

11.45 Amedeo Visconti, Tradizione antica e trasmissione dei frammenti di Ippi di Reggio: qualche esempio
12.10 Discussione

15.00 Marina Polito, Per la costituzione del corpus dei frammenti della Milesion Politeia di Aristotele
15.25 Donatella Erdas, Note sulle fonti delle politeiai di Magna Grecia e di Sicilia
15.50 Manuela Mari, Funerali illustri nella Sicilia di Timeo: tiranni, re, ‘benefattori’

16.15 Pausa caffè

16.40 Gabriella Vanotti, A proposito di Stesimbroto di Taso FGrHist 107/1002 F 3
17.05 Stefania Gallotta, Aspetti della storiografia di Memnone di Eraclea
17.30 Discussione

Venerdì 25 Febbraio

9.30 Franca Landucci, Gli Argeadi di Macedonia nella storiografia di Duride di Samo: il caso di Filippo II
9.55 Silvana Cagnazzi, Il ferimento di Alessandro a Isso
10.20 Gianluca Cuniberti, Hypomnemata dei generali e di re. Gli scritti ‘storici’ di Arato di Sicione e dei Tolemei

10.45 Pausa caffè

11.10 Giuseppe Mariotta, Frammenti papiracei riferibili alle Elleniche di Ossirinco: il problema delle copie nella prospettiva della paternità
11.35 Angela Moretti, A proposito di Aristobulo
12.00 Carla Ravazzolo, A proposito di Efippo
12.25 Discussione

15.00 Edith Parmentier, Elementi per un’edizione critica di Nicola di Damasco: composizione del corpus, classificazione, datazione e attribuzione dei frammenti
15.25 Ilaria Sforza, Ecateo di Abdera tra mito e storia
15.50 Stefania Adiletta, Opere storiche su Atene non pertinenti all’attidografia

16.15 Pausa caffè

16.40 Francesca Gazzano, Note sulla figura di Creso nella tradizione post-classica
17.05 Lellida Todini, Frammenti di storiografia samia
17.30 Discussione

Sabato 26 Febbraio

9.30 Federicomaria Muccioli, Tra Alessandria e Roma. Retorica, storiografia ed erudizione in Timagene
9,55 Guido Migliorati, Storici greci in frammenti del III secolo d.C. (FGrHist 211-218) rispetto a Dexippo e alla Historia Augusta

10.20 Pausa caffè

10.45 Monica Berti, Citazioni e dinamiche testuali. L’intertestualità e la storiografia greca frammentaria
11.10 Virgilio Costa, Rileggendo il De historicis graecis di Gerhard Johannes Voss
11.35 Discussione

Team:

London: Charlotte Roueché, Stuart Dunn and Mark Hedges, Charlotte Tupman

Uppsala: Denis Searby and Måns Billund

Vienna: Elvira Wakelnig, Ines Dallaji-Hichr, Lorenz Nigs

Attending:

Aliento: Marie-Sol Ortola, Marie-Christine Varol

CASG (Corpus der arabischen und syrischen Gnomologien): Ute Pietruschka

D.A.R.E. Digital Averroes: Raphaela Veit

eAqua: Marco Büchler, Charlotte Schubert

Fragmentary Texts: Monica Berti

HiFoS (Historische Formelhafte Sprache und Traditionen des Formulierens): Natalia Filatkina

HyperHamlet: Regula Hohl-Trillini

Interedition: Tara Andrews (tbc)

TextGrid: Wolfgang Pempe

Apologies:

BiblIndex: Laurence Mellerin

Scriptorium: Raphael Lyne

DMM, The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Bart Besamusca

Agenda

Wednesday 16 February

I. Meeting one another: a brief (5-10 minutes) factual introduction of each project

What are you working on
What is the (i) chronological and (ii) geographic scope of your material?

How do you work?
What existing use of digital resources (of any kind) do you currently make?
Describe the workflow you use when editing a text  with a list of tools,/software that you use

Coffee

II. Shared Questions

The following questions may apply to many or all projects. Please think about what you would like to present under each heading.
As a by-product, it could be useful to devote a small amount of time to discussing definitions/preferred terms for various aspects of the texts?  Are there any problematic definitions?  Please bring a list of your local terminology, and we will do the same.

1  Identifying

What do you think your unit of research is? A citation? A proverb? Something else?
How do you identify it? And how do you mark it up?
How many different kinds of units of research are we dealing with?

Lunch

2. Goals

(i) What textual, historic or social research questions do you approach?
(ii) Have you carried out any use-case research? What research questions are other scholars likely to use your work to pursue?

3. Searching

How do you find your units? How important are search mechanisms for you?

4. Publication

What form will your publication(s) take?
(1) Collections
(2) Complete texts
Printed editions are simple, and need not concern us:  Will you be contributing to one or more online libraries? Will this involve non-textual resources such as images or maps?

Thursday 17 February

5. Relationships

What kinds of relationship do you think about between your units? What definitions of relationship have you come up with? Are the relationships quantitative, qualitative, direct, inferred, explicit, implicit, semantic, textual, literal, linguistic? Are they internal to your text, or external, or both?
How do you describe these relationships? Can we compile a shared list of relationships?

6. What next?

What other questions do we need to engage with, in further workshops?
What tools do we need?