[Digital Literary Annotation Newslist] Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 89 (Second Quarter 2024)

Tue Jul 2 16:07:51 CEST 2024

    Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 89 (Second Quarter 2024) 


    TEASys – News  


    Our now quarterly newsletter coincides with the change of seasons,  
and is being composed to a soundtrack of summer storms. This is not  
the only seasonal change afoot. No, we're not thinking of all the  
recent and upcoming elections, but simply some new annotations  
prepared for you by our student teams. One might be particularly  
relevant to this time of change, and might make you ponder, perhaps on  
your summer holidays, as to the workings of time, and what those Fates  
spinning the thread of life have in store for us. Click here[1] to  
find about more about the Fates, and how a reference to them might  
have the surprising potential for social critique in Dickens's The  
Chimes.  


    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.  


    Calls for Papers 


    The Digital Academy at the University of Bielefeld is presenting  
an online workshop on Language Models in Digital Humanities Research.  
PhD and advanced Masters students will get the chance to present their  
research at a two-day workshop taking place on September 3-4. This is  
followed by an Open Space Day on September 5, on which experts in the  
fields of digital humanities and computational linguistics will share  
their experiences and answer questions. Those interested in  
participating in the workshop should send proposals by July 15. See  
the website here[3] for the full story. 


    The 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing  
for Digital Humanities will this year take place together with the  
2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in  
Miami, USA, November 12-16. They are looking for proposals for long,  
short and "lightning" talks on digital humanities research related to  
natural language processing or generation. The proceedings will be  
published in the ACL anthology. The submission deadline is September  
1, and more information can be found here[4]. 


    Events 


    A programme is now available for the Spatial Humanities 2024  
conference, taking place on September 25-27. The conference is  
concerned with geospatial technologies and their relationship with the  
humanities. This year proceedings will take place in Bamberg, Germany,  
which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site: one key focus of the conference  
will thus be on heritage. See the conference website[5] for more  
information.  


    Jobs and Funding 


    Postdocs interested in newspapers and radio might want to take a  
look at an opportunity offered by the research project Impresso –  
Media Monitoring of the Past at the University of Luxembourg. The  
project is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in computational  
humanities and / or digital history to join a team linking historical  
newspaper and radio collections across time, countries, modalities and  
languages. Candidates should have digital humanities experience, a PhD  
in either a historical discipline or computer science, and fluent  
English. The application deadline is August 1 2024, and further  
details can be found on their website[6]. 


    The Service Center for Digital Humanities (SCDH) in Münster is  
offering a full-time research post with specialisation in corpus  
linguistics and natural language processing. Master's level academic  
qualifications, the ability to programme and good knowledge of German  
and English are musts. The post is initially fixed-term until June  
2027 but with a possibility that the role could become permanent. The  
deadline is July 19 and full details are available here[7]. 


    The University of Cologne is offering a 3-year role in Digital  
Humanities / Computational Musicology. The project is using  
computational methods to research harmony in a corpus of 13th century  
motets. They are looking for either someone with a degree in  
musicology and experience in computational musicology, or someone with  
a degree in Digital Humanities and both a keen interest in music and  
an understanding of musical notation. The deadline for applications is  
August 31. This flyer[8] has more information. 


    Recent Publications 


    German speakers may be interested in the Handbuch zur Erstellung  
diskriminierungsfreier Metadaten für historische Quellen und  
Forschungsdaten (Handbook on the Creation of Non-Discriminatory  
Metadata for Historical Sources and Research Data), which is just  
receiving an online release now. The handbook is a guide to creating  
inclusive metadata based on the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible,  
Interoperable, Reusable). It is aimed at professional historians,  
archivists, librarians and anyone else working with historical data.  
It is intended as a "living document", meaning it will be continuously  
developed based on contributions from the research community. You can  
see the current state of play here[9]. 


Links:
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[1]  
https://www.annotating-literature.org/annotations/read.php?pid=110&chapter=2&chunk=2#collapse247
[2] http://www.annotation.es.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=215
[3]  
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/geschichtswissenschaft/abteilung/arbeitsbereiche/digital-history/digital-academy/
[4] https://www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2024
[5] https://spathum.uni-bamberg.de/
[6] https://impresso-project.ch/news/2024/06/06/job-ad.html
[7]  
https://stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/87bb75f54cab89d5958cd486ed1856b931e65ff90?ref=homepage
[8]  
https://jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibung/renderFile/1743?propertyName=flyer
[9] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11124720
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