April 2021 - Eadh-topics - lists.digitalhumanities.org

Happy Digital Humanities Day!
by Alice Borgna 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Digital Humanities Day 2021: today is the day! Participating is simple: - Tweet what you are doing (hashtag #dayofdh2021) - Peruse our Instagram hashtag #dayofday2021 and add your own. - Use the Day of Dh 2021 Graphics and Zoom background - Join a session of the floating Meet-up in your time zone or elsewhere in the world - Follow what your fellow digital humanists are up to - Play a few rounds of Digital Humanities Bingo with colleagues (be sure to post when you reach “bingo"!) For a list of events and all the graphics see https://dhcenternet.org/initiatives/day-of-dh/2021

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RIDE Tools - Call for reviews
by Elena Spadini 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

*Apologies for cross posting* Dear textual scholars, The Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) is calling for reviews for a special issue of the journal RIDE <https://ride.i-d-e.de/>, dedicated to *Tools and Environments for Digital Scholarly Editing (DSE)*. The first issue <https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-11/> of RIDE dedicated to Tools and Environments was published in January 2020. *Reviews for the second issue will be accepted until the 30st of September 2021.* To guide reviewers through the review process and to create a structure for the evaluation, we provide *Criteria for Reviewing Digital Tools and Environments for DSE* that are supposed to be applicable to various types of resources. The guidelines (Version 1.0) can be found here <https://www.i-d-e.de/publikationen/weitereschriften/criteria-tools-version-…> . We kindly ask you to email us before start reviewing a tool at *ride-tools (at) i-d-e.de <http://i-d-e.de/>* with a suggestion of which resource you would like to review and with a short explanation of your affiliation and area of expertise. This is important in order to avoid multiple reviews of the same tool. *Background* In the introduction to his book *Software takes command *(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) Lev Manovich states that “software has become our interface to the world, to others, to our memory and our imagination”. Is the same happening in the world of digital scholarly editing? Certainly we cannot ignore their fundamental role in our daily scholarly practices and in the interactions with our objects of study. Insofar as tools shape scholarly editions, they also shape scholarly editing. A new RIDE issue is devoted to tools for digital scholarly editing. The aim of this issue is to: - contribute to the discussion about tooling in Digital Humanities, - bring to the forefront the instruments instead of the final products, - provide a venue for discussing best practices in the development and usage of tools, - list useful resources for all those involved in scholarly editing. Beyond that, we hope that the critical examination of digital tools draws greater attention to the (scholarly) achievements that their creation and maintenance imply. The journal *RIDE* was founded in 2014 to “provide a forum in which expert peers criticise and discuss the efforts of digital editors in order to improve current practices and advance future developments” (RIDE Editorial). RIDE is Open Access, reviews are published as HTML and downloadable as TEI. All reviews will be peer reviewed in order to reach a high quality level of the evaluations. The special issue on Digital Tools and Environments for DSE will be edited by Anna-Maria Sichani (University of Sussex) and Elena Spadini (University of Lausanne). *Submission details* Reviews are accepted in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. The length of the review can vary depending on how much the resource offers that is worthy of discussion (approximately 2000-5000 words). Please submit your review at *ride-tools (at) i-d-e.de <http://i-d-e.de/>* as an editable text file (preferably, but not necessarily docx to facilitate the conversion to TEI). Please send illustrations as separate image files (jpg or png) and leave a note in the text as a placeholder for each image. In addition to the text, we collect keywords. Each review should be accompanied by a short abstract in English, independently of the language used in the main text. For further information please check the general RIDE guidelines for writing and submitting <http://ride.i-d-e.de/reviewers/writing-and-submitting/>. The questionnaire mentioned in the submission checklist has been designed for scholarly digital editions so far. We will keep you informed about how to proceed with the questionnaire for this special issue. All reviews will be peer reviewed in order to reach a high quality level of the evaluations. We believe that this is important because the evaluation of digital scholarly resources usually requires a double expertise in digital methods as well as in individual disciplines. This is also to increase the credit for reviews. *Suggestions for review* The following list is merely alphabetically and not comprehensive: - Annotation Studio <http://www.annotationstudio.org/> - Apache OpenNLP <https://opennlp.apache.org/> - CATview <http://catview.uzi.uni-halle.de/> - Classical Text Editor <http://cte.oeaw.ac.at/> - CorrespSearch <https://correspsearch.net/> - CWRC-Writer <https://github.com/cwrc/CWRC-WriterBase> - ecdosis <http://ecdosis.rocks> - eLaborate <http://elaborate.huygens.knaw.nl/> - EVT <http://evt.labcd.unipi.it/> - FreeLing 4.0 <http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/> - FromThePage <https://fromthepage.com/> - FuD <https://fud.uni-trier.de/> - Image Markup Tool <https://tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/> - Isilex <https://isilex.github.io/easy-xml/> - Kiln <http://kcl-ddh.github.io/kiln/> - LombardPress <http://lombardpress.org/> - ManuscriptDesk <https://manuscriptdesk.uantwerpen.be/md/Main_Page> - MOM-CA <https://github.com/icaruseu/mom-ca/wiki> - New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) < http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/de/manuscript-workspace> - oXygen <http://oxygenxml.com/> - PhiloEditor <http://site1705.web.cs.unibo.it/phed/> - Scripto <http://scripto.org/> - Stanford NLP <https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/> - Stylo <https://stylo.ecrituresnumeriques.ca/> - T-Pen <http://www.t-pen.org/TPEN/> - TEI Critical Apparatus Toolbox <http://teicat.huma-num.fr/> - TextGrid <https://textgrid.de/en/> - Pundit <http://thepund.it/> - Transcribo <http://transcribo.org/en/> - Transkribus <https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/> - Versioning Machine <http://v-machine.org/> - WMRCRE <http://vmrcre.org/> - Zooniverse <https://www.zooniverse.org/> More Digital Tools and Environments can be found on dedicated lists and in catalogs, for example: - TEI-Wiki Editing Tools < https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Category:Editing_tools> ( last modified on 2015-02-20) - DIRT <http://dirtdirectory.org> (last update 2015-04-24) - TAPOR 3.0 <http://tapor.ca/home> -- Elena Spadini Postdoc, Université de Lausanne elespdn.github.io/io/

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Shared Task on Scene Segmentation in German Narratives
by Nils Reiter 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

1st Shared Task on Scene Segmentation in German Narratives We invite contributions to the 1st Shared Task on automatic Scene Segmentation (STSS) for German narrative texts. Scenes are time-, location- and plot-wise coherent units of a story, and can predominantly be found in narrative texts like novels or biographies. Scene segmentation is needed for a high-level content analysis of longer texts, but also for many subsequent tasks for NLP applied in longer narrative texts, since even modern methods struggle with processing text longer than a couple of sentences or paragraphs. All the details can be found here: http://go.uniwue.de/stss2021. The shared task is co-located with KONVENS 2021: https://konvens2021.phil.hhu.de ## Important Dates June 7, 2021: Registration Deadline June 30, 2021: Start of final evaluation July 7, 2021: End of final evaluation July 15, 2021: Paper submission due August 10, 2021: Camera ready due September 6-9, 2021: KONVENS conference ## Contact stss2021(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de ## Organizers Albin Zehe, University of Würzburg Leonard Konle, University of Würzburg Lea Dümpelmann, University of Heidelberg Evelyn Gius, Technical University of Darmstadt Svenja Guhr, Technical University of Darmstadt Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg Fotis Jannidis, University of Würzburg Lucas Kaufmann, University of Würzburg Markus Krug, University of Würzburg Frank Puppe, University of Würzburg Nils Reiter, University of Cologne Annekea Schreiber, TU Darmstadt

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1-year Research Fellowship (+1 year extension) - Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Informatica - H2020 Project SPICE
by Antonio Lieto 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Open position at the University of Turin on “Semantic services for knowledge extraction, reasoning and integration in the cultural heritage domain” We are seeking a candidate for a one-year (renewable) research fellowship (from June/July 2021) to work on EU H2020 Project SPICE (Social Participation and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement - https://spice-h2020.eu). The candidate will be in charge of designing and deploying a semantic service for knowledge extraction, reasoning and integration in the field of cultural heritage. This service will be integrated into the socio-technical infrastructure of the SPICE project (2020-23), allowing third parties to perform reasoning tasks on the representation of the artworks and of the responses provided by the audience, with the ultimate goals of enabling advanced curation processes. Requirements for this position are a Master degree or Doctorate in Computer Science. The salary is €19.541. The call for application is available on the website of the University of Turin: https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2021-ii/file/Bando.pdf (REF INF.2021.10) Deadline: April 22 1:00 pm (CET). Online application at https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2021-ii/ Please write to Rossana Damiano for information (rossana.damiano(a)unito.it) ------------- Antonio Lieto, Ph.D Tenure-track Researcher (RTD-B) in Computer Science University of Turin, Department of Computer Science, Italy ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy Home: http://www.di.unito.it/~lieto/ ACM Distinguished Speaker: https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/lieto_12489 Vice-President of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science http://www.aisc-net.org/home/association/governing-board/ Deputy Editor in Chief of JETAI (Journal of Exp. & Theor. Artif. Intell., T&F) https://www.tandfonline.com/jetai <https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&j…> Author of "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" (2021), Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://www.routledge.com/Cognitive-Design-for-Artificial-Minds/Lieto/p/boo…

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Day of DH 2021 - April 29 - Save the date!
by Alice Borgna 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Day of DH is a way to show how digital humanities happens in many different ways and is practised by a varied group of people. This Day of DH comes after a year of living in the virtual space and for that, it is more special. We have had a year of seeing human life and technology intersect intimately and seen its affordances and its limitations come to the fore virtual meeting after virtual meeting. So #dayofdh2021 provides us with an opportunity to share and reflect upon how a global pandemic changed DH, its directions, your research questions, and more. *The day of DH 2021 will take place on April 29.* This year the organizing committee is led by Loyola University Chicago and UCLA in the USA, the University of Guelph in Canada, and Università del Piemonte Orientale in Italy. Day of DH 2021 theme is MULTILINGUAL DH. We aim to open up conversations about projects being undertaken in the various languages and put together a list of non-English tools, libraries, software products, tips, hacks, and resources available for researchers and institutions. --------- *How can I participate in the Day of DH 2021?* As in the years before, Day of DH will take place primarily on *Twitter* (please follow @dayofdh). If you or your centre will be writing a blog post or sharing news on some other medium, please tweet the URL of your blog post or web page. Please post about your workday, your plans and your daily activities. Also, Day of DH 2021 finally hits *Instagram*! This year, we’ll collect the visual stories and images of the day even on Instagram (please follow @dayofdh), with the shared hashtag #dayofdh2021. Show off your projects, visualizations, exhibits, your work-from-home setup, record a reel to share, set up a guide to DH related studies. Please share pictures as you share your day! Besides, since universities, research centres, and workplaces may still be closed for in-person gatherings, we also encourage hosting virtual lectures, project presentations or stream keynote lectures from past DH conferences. Advertising this with the #dayofdh or #dayofdh2021 hashtag might bring many more attendees to your event than in our former, embodied times. ------- For further information and materials (i.e. DH graphics or Zoom backgrounds), please visit https://dhcenternet.org/initiatives/day-of-dh/2021 and follow the official accounts (@dayofdh) on Instagram and Twitter. See you on April 29! -- Alice Borgna Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B), Latin Language and Literature DISUM - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università del Piemonte Orientale https://unipmn.academia.edu/AliceBorgna

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ESU DH 2021: Application phase 05.04. - 15.05.2021
by Ulrike Fußbahn 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

11th EUROPEAN SUMMER UNIVERSITY IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES "CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY" - 3 to 13 August 2021 UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG The 11th European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology"[1] (ESU DH C&T) takes place at the University of Leipzig from 3 to 13 August 2021. It is organised by the Institute for Romance Studies[2] together with the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig[3] (FDHL). Interest in the ESU DH C&T can be expressed already by creating an account with the ConfTool of the Summer University https://www.conftool.org/esu2021/[4]. Applications for a place at the Summer University are welcomed between 5 April 2021 and 15 May 2021. Information on how to apply can be found here: https://esu.fdhl.info/application/. The Summer University takes place across 11 whole days. The intensive programme consists of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion. The following workshops are offered (for more information see: https://esu.fdhl.info/workshops/) * Michael Dahnke (München, Germany) / Florian Langhanki (University of Würzburg, Germany): OCR4all – An Open Source Tool Providing a Full OCR Workflow For Creating Digital Corpus From Printed Sources (2 x 1 week) * Alex Bia (University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): XML-TEI document encoding, structuring, rendering and transformation (2 weeks) * Carol Chiodo (Harvard University, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): Hands on Humanities Data Workshop – Creation, Discovery and Analysis (2 weeks) * Jan Horstmann (Research Association Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel, Germany) / Marie Flüh (University of Hamburg, Germany) / Mareike Schumacher (University of Hamburg, Germany): Digital Annotation and Analysis of Literary Texts with CATMA 6 (2 weeks) * Bernhard Fisseni (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) / Andreas Witt (University of Mannheim, Germany): Corpus Linguistics for Digital Humanities. Introduction to Methods and Tools (2 weeks) * Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences / Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland) / Jeremi Ochab (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland): Stylometry (2 weeks) * Simone Rebora (University of Basel, Switzerland) / Giovanni Pietro Vitali (University College Cork, Ireland): Distant Reading in R. Analyse the text & visualize the Data (2 weeks) * Peter Bell (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) / Fabian Offert (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Image Processing and Machine Learning for the Digital Humanities (2 weeks) * David Joseph Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) / Randa El Khatib (University of Victoria, Canada): Humanities Data and Mapping Environments (2 weeks) * Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark) / N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, USA): Manuscripts in the Digital Age: XML-Based Catalogues and Editions (2 weeks) * Yael Netzer (Ben Gurion University, Israel) / Renana Keydar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Digital Archives: Reading and Manipulating Large-Scale Catalogues, Curating and Creating Small-Scale Archives (2 weeks) Each workshop consists of a total of 18 sessions or 36 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 10. Workshops are structured in such a way that participants can either take the two blocks of one workshop or two blocks from different workshops. The "workload" of the active participation in the European Summer University corresponds to 6 ETCS points. Like in the former years the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) makes available generous support to up to 20 alumni / alumnae of German universities. As soon as other scholarships are confirmed, we will send out a separate announcement. The Summer University is directed at 60 participants from all over Europe and beyond. It wants to bring together (doctoral) students, young scholars and academics from the Arts and Humanities, Library Sciences, Social Sciences, the Arts and Engineering and Computer Sciences as equal partners to an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experience in a multilingual and multicultural context and thus create the conditions for future project-based co-operations. The Leipzig Summer University is special because it not only seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences, as well as in publishing, libraries, and archives etc., but because it tries to integrate also linguistics with the Digital Humanities, which pose questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds. It is special furthermore because it consciously aims at confronting the so-called Gender Divide, i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany, Europe and many parts of the world, by relying on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the borders between the so-called hard and soft sciences and on the integration of Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering. For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology” https://esu.fdhl.info/ which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. To get some insight into what you can expect from the European Summer University please consult its former website https://esu.culintec.de/ and especially the year 2019. With my best regards and wishes Prof. (em.) Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics Director of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" University of Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/ Links: ------ [1] https://esu.fdhl.info/ [2] https://romanistik.philol.uni-leipzig.de/ [3] https://fdhl.info/ [4] https://www.conftool.org/esu2021/

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