[Digital Literary Annotation Newslist] Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 86 (December 2023)

Tue Dec 12 16:35:39 CET 2023

DIGITAL LITERARY ANNOTATION NEWSLETTER NO. 86 (NOVEMBER 2023)

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TEASYS – NEWS

Christmas is around the corner, and we can all hear the bells ringing  
out the season. But what do they sing? “Keep a good heart, Toby! Toby  
Veck, Toby Veck, keep a good heart, Toby”. Follow this link[1] to find  
out what our students have found out about this peculiar speech of the  
bells in Charles Dickens’ /The Chimes/.

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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 EXPERIMENTS AND PAPERS

You may want to answer the CALL FOR EXPERIMENTS “Generative KI, LLMs  
und GPT bei digitalen Editionen” for the DHd24 conference. They invite  
experiments around digital editions with AI and reports on  
transformation of unstructured texts (transcription) into structured  
text (markup), named entity recognition, error management, integration  
of workflows etc. Find out about the submission details here[3] and  
submit your contribution until JANUARY 26, 2024.

A call for paper has been issued for the first international  
conference “A DIGITAL EPISTEMOLOGY FOR THE RECYCLING OF LITERATURES:  
DIGITAL LITERARY STUDIES UNDER DEBATE” at the Complutense University  
of Madrid on September 26-27, 2024. Possible topics are theories and  
methods of literary analysis in Digital Humanities, methods, and  
applications of the digital analysis of literary corpora and texts as  
forms of cultural recycling, or Analysis of mixed methods that blend  
previous literary-theoretical traditions and procedures that are  
specific to the Digital Humanities.  More details are available  
online[4]. The deadline for submission of proposals is FEBRUARY 28,  
2024.

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JOBS

Apply last minute for the position as SENIOR SCIENTIST at the  
Institute for European and Comparative Languages and Literature  
(DEADLINE DECEMBER 15, 2023). Your tasks will be, among others,  
documenting and supporting projects and project applications in the  
field of digital humanities within Vienna University, coordinating the  
syllabus of the Digital Humanities master’s course, collaborating in  
research projects, and international publications and participation in  
international conferences. Click here[5] to find the job description.

The Schaufler Lab at TU Dresden is currently filling SEVEN PHD POSITIONS  
(65%, 3 years), and one POSTDOC POSITION (75%, 3 years). The topic of  
the upcoming grant period is “Daten↔Welten. Soziotechnische und  
kulturelle Synthesen neuer Wirklichkeiten”.   Please find out here[6]  
what the positions are about and apply until DECEMBER 19, 2023.

A POSTDOC POSITION (full-time, for 3 years) is now available at the  
“Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities” at the Freie Universität  
Berlin. They are looking for a communicative, team-oriented,  
innovative and intellectually curious person to coordinate the  
activities of the Digital Humanities at the university. Application  
deadline is DECEMBER 20, 2023. Please click here[7] to find more  
information on tasks and requirements.

The University of Bern is offering a PROFESSORSHIP IN GERMAN MEDIEVAL STUDIES.
An assistant professorship with tenure track, associate or full  
professorship in German Medieval Studies (older German literature up  
to around 1500) is to be filled at the Institute of German Studies at  
the University of Bern as of August 1, 2025 (successor to Prof. Dr.  
Michael Stolz). The position has a focus on Digital Humanities or  
scholarly editing. This is the link for more information[8]. Please  
mind the application deadline on JANUARY 05, 2024.

The Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf is searching for a  
full-time RESEARCH ASSISTANT for the project “Digital Humanities für  
Bewegtes Bild mit Schwerpunkt Forschungsorte” within the collaborative  
research project QUADRIGA (Berlin-Brandenburgisches  
Datenkompetenzzentrum für Digital Humanities, Verwaltungswissenschaft,  
Informatik und Informationswissenschaft). QUADRIGA unites four  
disciplines, Digital Humanities, administrative science, computer  
science and information science, and deals with text, tables, and  
motion pictures. Find the full job description and requirements  
here[9] and apply until JANUARY 08, 2024.

If you have completed your PhD and are competent in the historically  
working Humanities or Cultural Studies, you may apply for the POSITION  
AS RESEARCH ASSISTANT AT THE LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FüR EUROPäISCHE  
GESCHICHTE IN MAINZ. The position is concerned with digital,  
historical research in European history and perspectives on societal,  
religious, cultural or environmental studies. Starting date is  
February 01, 2024, at the DH Lab (full-time). Please follow this  
link[10] to find more information on the position and application  
modalities and mind the application deadline on JANUARY 08, 2024.

The Language Technologies research group at the Institute for Applied  
Linguistics at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy, invites applications  
for a research position in Corpus Linguistics and Data Science. One of  
the first tasks of the selected candidate will be the relaunch and  
extension of Korpus Südtirol[11]. The official announcement is  
available online[12] and the deadline for application is JANUARY 10,  
2024.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Katrin Dennerlein, Thomas Schmidt, and Christian Wolff have published  
their article “Computational emotion classification for genre corpora  
of German tragedies and comedies from 17th to early 19th century” in  
the December issue of /Digital Scholarship in the Humanities/ (Vol.  
38, Issue 4, December 2023). Their article focuses on methods of  
emotion analysis for German drama based on annotations of 17 dramatic  
texts resulting in 11,939 annotations which were used as training  
material. Please find the open-access publication here[13].

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Links:
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[1]  
https://www.annotating-literature.org/annotations/read.php?pid=110&chapter=1&chunk=5
[2] http://www.annotation.es.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=215
[3]  
https://www.e-teaching.org/news/eteaching_blog/call-for-experiments-generative-ki-llms-und-gpt-bei-digitalen-editionen
[4] https://www.ucm.es/leethi/literary-recycling-for-postdigital-readers
[5]  
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-Scientist-at-the-Institute-for-European-and-Comparative-Languages-and-Literature/1009771801/
[6]  
https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/arbeiten-an-der-tud/stellenangebote/copy_of_stellenangebote?strukturId=BereichGSW&style=cms2
[7] https://fu-berlin.de/xwjvgn3
[8]  
https://www.philhist.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/aktuell/ausschreibung_institut_fuer_germanistik/index_ger.html
[9]  
https://karriere.filmuniversitaet.de/jobposting/2b54e6be6d6a60ca9f15fd7a5c9a9fed0164518f0?ref=homepage
[10]  
https://www.ieg-mainz.de/Ausschreibungen-im-Detail-Wissenschaftliche-r-Mitarbeiter-in-Digitale-historische-Forschung-2023
[11] http://www.korpus-suedtirol.it/
[12] https://eurac.onboard.org/jobs/7G6XQymb?from_career_page=true
[13] https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/38/4/1466/7226216
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