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Webinar on “Documenting and Preserving Languages with Unicode: A Talk on Character Encoding, Keyboards, and Fonts”
by Debbie Anderson 05 May '23

05 May '23

The Unicode Consortium will be holding a webinar on “Documenting and Preserving Languages with Unicode: A Talk on Character Encoding, Keyboards, and Fonts” on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. The presenters are Dr. Deborah Anderson (Chair, Unicode Script Ad Hoc and Project Lead, Script Encoding Initiative, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley) and Dr. Andrew Glass (Chair of Unicode CLDR Keyboards Subcommittee). Abstract: The Unicode Standard is the basis of electronic communication today on computers and devices, and hence is fundamental to documenting and preserving languages and the scripts used to write them. But understanding how Unicode is structured, how characters and scripts are added, and how to get characters on keyboards and in fonts can be challenging. This webinar on character encoding, keyboards, and fonts is geared to language practitioners and users generally. It will provide an overview of Unicode, explain how characters are organized in Unicode and how to propose new characters, and discuss accessing the characters on keyboards and fonts. Please register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nm6l_jCnS9iMGGWswdbe5g#/registr… (N.B.: Please use the entire link above in the address bar, without a line break) For other, related talks, see the Scripts and Encoding playlist on the Unicode YouTube Channel. Please feel free to circulate this message to others who may be interested. With best wishes, Debbie (Anderson) dwanders(a)berkeley.edu

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Job: Senior Manager, Digital Humanities Outreach
by Amy Kirchhoff 05 May '23

05 May '23

Hello all ~ ITHAKA, the non-profit that brought you JSTOR, is hiring a Senior Manager for Digital Humanities Outreach. The position is integrated into our Outreach team (the staff who talk to librarians about ITHAKA services) and will work very closely with Constellate (constellate.org) Constellate helps users across all disciplines learn essential text analysis and data skills. ITHAKA is an established, not-for-profit organization and Constellate is a dynamic start-up within it - giving you the best of all worlds. You may read more about the position and apply here: https://www.ithaka.org/job/4247846005/?gh_jid=4247846005 Feel free to reach out to me directly if you have questions about ITHAKA (I've been here 26 years) or Constellate! All the best. ~ Amy -- Amy J. Kirchhoff (she/her) Constellate<https://constellate.org/> Sr. Manager / ITHAKA Twitter: @AmyPlusFour Constellate is the only text & data analysis platform that integrates access to scholarly content and open educational resources into a cloud-based application and lab to help faculty, librarians, and other instructors easily teach text and data analysis. Take your research further with text and data analysis skills!

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Job: Pre-doctoral assistant, Digital Humanities, University of Vienna
by Tara L Andrews 05 May '23

05 May '23

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities group at the University of Vienna is looking for a University Assistant (pre-doctoral) with a focus on digital methods for the history of the Middle Ages anywhere in the world, preferably including historical social network analysis. The post will run from July 2023 to June 2027. Further details are available at https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun…. Application deadline is 23 May! -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien

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CfP: Digital Academy "From Uncertainty to Action: Advancing Research with Digital Data"
by Neubert, Anna Maria 05 May '23

05 May '23

Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for our 4th virtual Digital Academy (#DA2023) with the topic "From Uncertainty to Action: Advancing Research with Digital Data". From 25 to 28 September 2023, we would like to discuss different approaches to the topic in two formats: 1. An Open Space Day, where experts will report on their research projects and subsequently discuss aspects of their work with the audience. This part of the program is open to all who are interested. 2. A three-day workshop, where the participants will get the opportunity to present and discuss their strategies for dealing with uncertainty within their own research projects. This workshop particularly aims at advanced Masters students, PhD students, and postdocs. We welcome submissions from all disciplines. The whole call and instructions on submission are available here: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/geschichtswissenschaft/abteilung/a…. Best regards from the organizing committee Silke Schwandt, Christopher Kuhlmann, Anna Maria Neubert, Sophie Spliethoff, Christian Wachter (all Bielefeld University)

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Music ontologies and competency questions survey
by Albert Meroño Peñuela 01 May '23

01 May '23

Dear All, In the European H2020 project Polifonia, we are developing an ontology network and competency questions pertaining to music history and musical cultural heritage. In this context, we are running a questionnaire and ask for your participation. The survey is here - https://forms.gle/5uLVMhvPGbtHThwB7 This will take you around 5 minutes to complete. We would very much appreciate your participation! If you have any questions, please contact us at albert.merono(a)kcl.ac.uk or jacopo.deberardinis(a)kcl.ac.uk. Thanks for your help, The Polifonia team

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Call for Papers - Formulaic Language in Historical Research and Data Extraction: An International Conference, 7-9 February 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands
by marijn Koolen 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Formulaic Language in Historical Research and Data Extraction: An International Conference CALL FOR PAPERS Huygens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Amsterdam, 7-9 February 2024 Formulaic language is a phenomenon familiar to scholars working with a great variety of historical sources. In official documents such as charters, acts, laws, ordinances, proceedings, but also in ‘private’ texts such as letters, petitions, egodocuments, and literary texts, we find (sequences of) words that appear over and over again, often in the same position in the text, over a long period of time. Such formulaic elements seem to fulfill many different functions: they may help the reader understand the type or genre of a text, structure the text, indicate its performative character, strengthen the relationship between author and reader, or help memorizing a text, to name but a few. Given the highly formulaic character of many written sources, especially (but not only) of the premodern period, the phenomenon of formulaic language has received surprisingly little attention in historical research. It has been studied in (socio)linguistics and historical pragmatics, but few historians have engaged with this scholarship. Until recently, moreover, the potential of formulaic language for (automated) data extraction of large digitized source corpora has remained virtually unexplored. The twofold aim of this international conference is: 1. to place formulaic language on the agenda as an object of historical study (in the broadest, interdisciplinary sense of this term) 2. to explore the potential of formulaic language for the digitization and data extraction of historical sources of different types and periods. Possible questions that we would like to address in this conference include: • What is formulaic language? In which societal domains and historical sources can it be found? When and why has language been considered formulaic, and by whom? How is formulaic language defined and studied in different academic fields? How does the use of formulaic language vary across (national) linguistic traditions and across space and time? • How has formulaic language historically been understood? Which purposes has it served? How, when and where has formulaic language emerged, transferred or disappeared? How has formulaic language evolved over time, and how can change be explained? How does formulaic language in written texts relate to speech acts and ritual performances? How does it relate to text genres and genre conventions? • What are the social and political connotations and consequences of formulaic language? Who produces it, who engages with it, who knows how to use it, and who is excluded by it? How do (political, religious, legal) authorities, intermediaries, and ordinary language users employ, exploit, and interpret formulaic language? Does formulaic language facilitate or hinder the participation of subaltern groups in society? What is the relationship between formulaic language and the subsequent transitions from oral to written culture to the age of print and the digital age, or with processes of standardization, professionalization, and bureaucratization? • How can formulas be used to extract information from texts? What information do formulaic expressions convey about the subject or meaning of a text? Can they play a role in recognizing and contextualizing named entities? Can they help to link texts with other texts? • How can formulaic language be identified in text corpora and archives, including long serial publications and heterogeneous archives of diverse documents? How can formulaic expressions be categorized and how can relationships between formulas be identified? We welcome proposals for papers (c. 250 words) on these and related topics from scholars working in different fields. Proposals should be sent, together with a short bio- bibliographical statement including indication of institutional affiliation, by 15 June, to Republic_Goetgevonden(a)huygens.knaw.nl. Please give your email the title ‘Formulaic Language conference’. We will prioritize proposals that go beyond singular case studies and address questions that help us understand the phenomenon of formulaic language through comparisons across time, space, language, genre or corpus. This conference is organized in the framework of the project REPUBLIC: Resolutions Published in a Computational Environment. In this infrastructural project, (digital) historians, computer scientists, data experts and developers collaborate with the aim of providing digital access to the resolutions (decisions) of the Dutch States General (1576-1796). Organisers: Rik Hoekstra Marijn Koolen Joris Oddens Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlands

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The passing of Prof. Dino Buzzetti
by Fabio Ciotti 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, dear EADH community, It is with immense sadness that I must inform you of the passing of Prof. Dino Buzzetti, one of the deepest and most insightful minds in the Digital Humanities, whose theoretical contributions have been a source of inspiration for many generations of scholars. Dino was a member of the Executive of EADH and President and co-founder of AIUCD, the Italian digital humanities association that first became an Associate Organization of EADH, also and especially at his behest. For me personally, he was a master and a friend whose passing opened a void that is difficult to fill. Farewell Dino, Fabio Ciotti -- Professor Fabio Ciotti Dept. "Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte" University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) Editor-in-Chief, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti @[email protected] f.ciotti(a)pec.it

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registration ESU DH 2023 "Culture & Technology"
by ALEXANDRA COTOC 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

ESU DH 2023 "Culture & Technology" hosted by Babeș-Bolyai University Romania has started the application process. Book your seat by registering for ESUDH 2023. Go to registration by clicking on the following link: https://esu-ct.conference.ubbcluj.ro/application/ Follow us on social media: https://linktr.ee/esudh_ct Alexandra Cotoc, PhD Senior Lecturer Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Letters<https://lett.ubbcluj.ro/>, Babeș-Bolyai University<https://www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/> Str. Horea, 31 400202, Cluj-Napoca, Romania https://linktr.ee/alexandracotoc https://www.dial4u-uni.eu/ [cid:339f9e7f-ea14-46c3-858f-3bf2f54d6bd4] [cid:7053dc1c-d3cf-4918-8745-b67d99287001] DISCLAIMER Prezentul mesaj și orice documente atașate pot conține informații confidențiale sau sensibile care aparțin Universității Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca. Conținutul mesajului nu poate fi dezvăluit sau utilizat de către altcineva decât destinatarul, persoană fizică sau juridică. Dacă ați primit acest mesaj dintr-o eroare, vă rugăm să ne anunțati imediat, ca răspuns la mesajul de față, și să ștergeți apoi din sistemul dvs. mesajul fără a-l copia sau deschide. Prin prezenta vi se notifică faptul că orice dezvaluire, copiere, distribuire sau inițierea/omiterea unor acțiuni pe baza prezentelor informații sunt strict interzise și atrag răspunderea civilă și/sau penală (art. 302 Noul Cod Penal). UBB nu este răspunzătoare pentru modificările care pot fi aduse prezentului mesaj și nici pentru întârzierile care pot surveni în recepționarea acestuia. De asemenea, nu putem garanta integritatea mesajului și nici că acesta este lipsit de viruși, interceptări sau interferențe de orice natură. ================= The contents of this email message and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information belonging to Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. This information is intended solely for the addressee, natural or legal person, and is legally protected from disclosure and may not be used by anyone other than the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. You are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments as well as taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and entails civil and/or criminal liability (under Art. 302 of the New Criminal Code). UBB accepts no liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free, as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. UBBCLUJ <https://www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/politici/>

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DH Benelux Conference 2023 : Registration now open
by Isabelle Gribomont 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Dear Colleagues, [Apologies for cross-posting] The registration<https://2023.dhbenelux.org/how-to-register/> for the upcoming DH Benelux conference is now open. The conference will take place 31 May - 2 June at KBR (Brussels, Belgium). The conference takes place in person, but talks will be streamed. Links will be provided to registered attendees shortly before the conference. The deadline for registration is on 16 May. The conference programme can be found here<https://2023.dhbenelux.org/schedule/>. We hope to see many of you there! Best wishes, on behalf of the conference organisers and the Programme Chairs, Isabelle Gribomont Chargée de recherche en humanités numériques à l'UCLouvain et responsable de LabEL (Laboratory for Electronic Literature)<https://www.kbr.be/fr/projets/label/> à la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLouvain and head of LabEL (Laboratory for Electronic Literature)<https://www.kbr.be/en/projects/laboratory-for-electronic-literature/> at the Royal Library of Belgium

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3 year postdoc at Huygens Institute Amsterdam
by Joris van Zundert 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Dear list members, I forward this on behalf of my colleague Olivia Fialho, and might I add that the Huygens Institute and Amsterdam are great places to work! We have just opened a 3 year postdoc position at the Huygens Institute (KNAW/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in Amsterdam. All information can be found here: https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterdam-Postdoc-in-the-empirical-study-of-l… Thank you for your attention, best wishes Olivia Fialho Dr. Olivia Fialho | Senior Researcher Empirical and Computational Literary Studies, Huygens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) | Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | room 2.07 | phone number: (020) 462-8537 | olivia.fialho(a)huygens.knaw.nl -- Dr. Joris J. van Zundert Researcher & Developer in Humanities Computing Dept. of Computational Literary Studies / DHLab Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences joris.van.zundert(a)huygens.knaw.nl @jorisvanzundert +31624461051 http://jorisvanzundert.net/ https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/medewerkers/joris-van-zundert-2/ visiting address Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185 1012 DK Amsterdam The Netherlands postal address P.O. Box 10855 1001 EW Amsterdam The Netherlands -- Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines.

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