[Digital Literary Annotation Newslist] Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 88 (First Quarter 2024)

Tue Apr 2 16:17:50 CEST 2024

    Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 88 (First Quarter 2024) 


    TEASys – News  


    Spring is here, and with it birdsong, blossom and even the  
occasional balmy day. The clocks have sprung forward, the days are  
getting longer, and we can look forward to all the joys and ease that  
the warmer weather promises (as well as some enticing Summer Schools;  
see below). But as we enjoy the turn of the season, we should spare a  
thought for poor Toby Veck of Charles Dickens's The Chimes, who is  
shivering in the winter rain of mid-nineteenth century London. To see  
how Dickens brings Toby's troubles into vivid life, and by doing this  
comments on the situation of the urban poor of his time, follow this  
link[1]. 


    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.  


    Events and Calls for Papers 


    The 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems, known as  
SEMANTiCS, has just been announced. The conference welcomes  
researchers and industry professionals interested in the fields of  
Knowledge Graphs, Machine Learning, Data Science, Linked Data,  
Artificial Intelligence, and Natural Language Processing. The  
conference will take place September 17-19, 2024. The organisers are  
also calling for research and innovation papers related to semantic  
systems, with a submission deadline of April 22. More details on  
topics of interest and submission guidelines can be found here[3].  


    Proposals for papers on computational linguistics are being sought  
by KONVENS 2024, which will take place will take place at the  
University of Vienna, Austria on September 9-13, 2024. The conference,  
whose acronym stands for Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher  
Sprache (Conference on Natural Language Processing) welcomes papers on  
all aspects of natural language processing, and offers the option of  
submitting for either long or short papers (8 or 4 pages  
respectively). The submission deadline is April 30, and small stipends  
are offered for students. The conference website[4] has more  
information. 


    Summer Schools 


    The Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) have  
announced a "Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities",  
July 8-12, 2024. This will provide training in theories, technologies  
and methods of the digital humanities applied to Venentian sites. It  
is open to PhD students, postdocs and practitioners. There are no fees  
for the summer school itself, so it will only cost the entry fees for  
the sites, travel and accomodation. The deadline for applications is  
April 15. More details can be found here[5].  


    The Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of  
Göttingen are hosting an international summer school in digital  
palaeography, August 26 - September 6, 2024. The school is intended as  
an intensive training course for postgraduate students in traditional  
Latin palaeography and codicology, as well as the use of digital  
technologies in these disciplines. Successful applicants to the summer  
school will receive free accommodation for the 13 nights.  
Contributions towards travel costs are also possible on request.  
Applications are due on April 30.  


    Jobs and Funding 


    The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library) are  
offering digital humanities fellowships for research into their  
metadata and collections using text and data mining methods. The focus  
in 2024 is on the library catalogue data, which, as the DNB has  
collected everything published in Germany since 1913, can give insight  
into more than a century of the country's literary, scientific and  
musical production. The fellowships are intended for young researchers  
with digital humanities experience and they offer 1,250€ per month for  
projects lasting between three and six months. The deadline is April  
30. You can find more information here[6]. 


    German speaking applicants with experience or interest in research  
management, might be interested in a new role[7] at the  
Weizenbaum-Institut in Berlin. Tasks include implementing a research  
information system, monitoring research standards, reporting and more.  
There's no application deadline but it looks like they are trying to  
fill the role as quickly as possible. 


    The Saxon Academy of Science in Leipzig are looking for a Research  
Software Engineer in the area of Digital Humanities to assist with  
their research project "Bibliotheca Arabica – Towards a New History of  
Arabic Literature". The candidate should have a degree in Digital  
Humanities or Computer Science, and experience with application  
development and Digital Humanities projects. The job is part-time (50%  
or 75%) and initially limited to two years. Applications should be in  
by April 15. Further information available here[8]. 


    Recent Publications 


    A new German-language digital edition of Thomas Bernhard's drama  
Heldenplatz is available, courtesy of the Austrian Centre for Digital  
Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Not only does the edition offer  
indexes and commentary on individual passages, it also offers numerous  
documents witnessing the genesis of the text (typescripts, drafts,  
fragments and galley proofs) and a visualisation of the reception  
history of the text in connection with its controversial 1988 premiere  
in Vienna. The edition is available to all but requires registration  
on the website here[9]. 


Links:
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[1]  
https://www.annotating-literature.org/annotations/read.php?pid=110&chapter=1&chunk=2
[2] http://www.annotation.es.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=215
[3] https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep
[4] https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/
[5] https://www.unive.it/pag/39288/
[6]  
https://www.dnb.de/EN/Professionell/Services/WissenschaftundForschung/DHStipendien/dhstipendien_node.html
[7]  
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/detail/referentin-forschungsinformationswesen-und-berichterstattung-m-w-d/
[8]  
https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/projekte/bibliotheca-arabica/news/job-advertisement-research-software-engineer-digital-humanities
[9] https://hp.ace.oeaw.ac.at/index.php
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