[Digital Literary Annotation Newslist] Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 83 (August 2023)

Mon Aug 14 17:57:59 CEST 2023

DIGITAL LITERARY ANNOTATION NEWSLETTER NO. 83 (AUGUST 2023)

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TEASYS – NEWS

This time, our annotation of the month concerns the word “pilgrimage”  
in John Donne’s “Song – Go and Catch a Falling Star”. Our student  
annotation offers an interpretation as well as an explanation in the  
context of Donne’s time. Find out about the different layers of  
meaning in our TEASys viewer by following this link[1].

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The Annotated Web Edition Directory[2] is looking forward to your  
suggestions. We are always on the look-out for new entries to add to  
the list. Feel free to recommend literary digital editions that  
include explanatory annotation (of the social or the editorial kind),  
web platforms, tools and applications that enable the user to  
(collaboratively) annotate texts. Please use the corresponding form on  
our webpage. We thank you for your help.

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CALLS FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

For the 46th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS  
2024) from February 28 – March 1, 2024, at the Ruhr-University Bochum  
a call for abstracts has been published. The conference topic is  
“Computational approaches to metaphor and figurative language” and the  
organisers invite contributions that deal with the identification of  
(specific forms of) non-literal language, with the interpretation of  
figurative expressions, or with the relation between literal and  
non-literal meanings in distributional semantic representations.  
Please find more topics and details here[3] and mind the SUBMISSION  
DEADLINE ON AUGUST 25, 2023.

The NFDI-Consortium Text+, the priority program Computational Literary  
Studies (SPP-CLS), and the European project Computational Literary  
Studies Infrastructure (CLS INFRA) have started a survey seeking your  
answers to the question “How do you Compose your Literary Corpus or  
Literary Collection?”. They are interested in the categories and  
criteria used to compose both digital and non-digital collections of  
texts. If you wish to participate in the survey, follow this link[4].

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JOBS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

If you are interested in filling the position of research assistant  
(TV-L 13, 65%) for the Lese- und Schreibzentrum at the University  
Hildesheim, you may APPLY UNTIL AUGUST 21, 2023, via their online  
portal. The position is situated within the project “KI & Text” and  
you will research new technologies within AI-based writing tools,  
develop trainings for a variety of target groups (teachers, learners,  
creative people…) and apply them yourself while teaching at the VHS.  
For more information, click here[5].

The University of cologne has set up a new professorship for Digital  
Practices in Cultural Studies and Humanities (W2) at the Faculty of  
Arts and Humanities and is now seeking candidates. Please find the job  
offer online[6] and submit your application UNTIL SEPTEMBER 17, 2023.

The Zentralbibliothek Zürich awards WILLY BRETSCHER FELLOWSHIPS to  
researchers pursuing a digital humanities approach, focusing on the  
20th century and using holdings or data from the Zentralbibliothek  
Zürich. Fellowships can last from 3 to 12 months and offer a monthly  
grant of CHF4,000. The Zentralbibliothek promotes researchers in the  
field of digital humanities or computational science with a focus on  
the 20th century that use the library’s holdings or data. Please hand  
in your application digitally UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30, 2023. For further  
information see here[7].

The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage  
(ACDH-CH) are looking for a PROJECT SCIENTIST for the  
interdisciplinary OeAW Heritage Science project "Digitization,  
Recognition, and Automated Clustering of Watermarks in the Music  
Manuscripts of Franz Schubert." The APPLICATION DEADLINE IS AUGUST 15,  
and more information can be found here[8].

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WORKSHOPS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

On AUGUST 17 AND 18, 2023, you will have the opportunity of  
participating in an INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP TO THE TüBINGEN SYSTEM OF  
TEXT PROCESSING PROGRAMS (TUSTEP) held at the Trier Center for Digital  
Humanities under the guidance of Heidi Hein and Hans-Werner Bartz.  
TUSTEP is a wide-range toolbox for scholarly processing textual data  
on which you can find more information here[9]. Please remember to  
register and find the venue and requirements here[10].

The Digital Humanities Association of southern Africa is calling for  
contributions to the DHASA Conference 2023 with the topic “Digital  
Humanities for Inclusion”. The conference aims at fostering growth and  
collaboration in the field of Digital Humanities among scholars from  
Southern Africa or focusing on research on the geographical area of  
southern Africa. Please find the call for papers online[11] and submit  
your paper UNTIL AUGUST 22, 2023.

If you wish to participate in the DIGIMEET 2023 “Digitalisation  
Research and Network Meeting: Diversity in digital transformation”  
that will take place on NOVEMBER 28, 2023, you may want to have a look  
at the Call for Participation[12]. The DigiMeet aims at connecting  
early career researchers with a focus on digitalisation-related topics  
and discussing results, ideas, and more. There will be presentations  
(10-15 minutes) of the individual projects covering several topics  
such as “Diversity in digital transformation”, “Digital technologies,  
education and life-long learning”, “Governance of innovation in  
digital democracies”, and “AI, work, and tools”. In the afternoon, two  
workshops on “Resilience for Researchers – Dealing with hate speech  
and right-wing agitation in the academic context” (Dr. Josephine B.  
Schmitt (CAIS)) and “Actually relevant?! ... Designing inclusive work  
systems” (Prof. Dr. Frauke Mörike (TU Dortmund)) will add to the  
morning keynote by Josephine Ballon (Head of Legal at HateAid). Please  
SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION WITH A SHORT ABSTRACT ONLINE UNTIL SEPTEMBER  
20, 2023, and REGISTER BY OCTOBER 31, 2023, once you are accepted  
(October 10, 2023).

The Staatsbibliothek in Berlin is offering a German language workshop  
on text mining and the recognition of "toxic terminology" in their  
digital collections. The six-hour workshop WILL TAKE PLACE ON  
SEPTEMBER 21 AT 10AM. Those interested can find more information and a  
registration form here[13].

An international workshop "Digital Approaches to Post-Byzantine  
Inscriptions," hosted by the University of Cologne, WILL TAKE PLACE IN  
HYBRID FORMAT ON DECEMBER 4-7, 2023. It is being organised by the  
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in the framework of  
the project "DiBS: Creating a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for  
Research-Based Teaching in Byzantine Studies." Participants will  
participate in discussions about post-Byzantine church murals and  
their accompanying texts, and be introduced to digital methods for the  
encoding and visualisation of such inscriptions. It is open to  
postgraduates and early career researchers, and the DEADLINE FOR  
APPLICATIONS IS OCTOBER 6, 2023. More information can be found here[14].

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The book /From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the  
Age of Climate Crisis /by Anne Baillot is now available to buy or as a  
free download from Open Book Publishers. Baillot assesses the impact  
of digitalisation on archiving, looking at how the preservation and  
archiving of texts has changed over time, and investigating the  
sustainability of our current methods. More details and the book  
itself can be found here:  
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0355

A new version of EXMARaLDA has been released. The open-source tool can  
be used freely for working on the transcription and annotation of  
digital audio and visual corpora. It facilitates managing corpora and  
serves for queries and analysis. Here[15], you can find further  
information on the tool and this is the link to the blog post  
entry[16] that announces the new version with its updates.

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Links:
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[1] http://www.annotating-literature.org/annotations/read.php?pid=100
[2] http://www.annotation.es.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=215
[3] https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/metaphor-dgfs2024/cfp.html
[4] https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/916873?lang=en
[5]  
https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/997fecea0caa735b14158d91beba0a68fc24d8e30
[6] https://dh.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/stellenausschreibungen
[7]  
https://www.zb.uzh.ch/storage/app/media/services/PDF/Bretscher_Call_for_applications_2024-25_EN.pdf
[8] https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/team/open-positions
[9] http://www.tustep.uni-tuebingen.de/tustep_eng.html
[10] https://tcdh.uni-trier.de/en/event/tustep-workshop-tcdh
[11] https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/call-for-papers/
[12]  
https://www.bidt.digital/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/CfP_DigiMeet2023_31.07.2023.pdf
[13] https://lab.sbb.berlin/events/text-mining-mit-r/
[14] https://uni.koeln/M6KQG
[15] https://exmaralda.org/en/about-exmaralda/
[16] https://exmaralda.org/de/2023/07/19/neue-offizielle-exmaralda-version/
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