News 2014

Job opening
CERL is seeking to appoint a Project Officer for the CENDARI project. The key aspects of the role are training, communication, awareness raising, dissemination and liaison. For more information see the job advertisement and/or contact Marian Lefferts (marian.lefferts@cerl.org).

International Colloquium on 'Latin Classics at the Dawn of Printing: texts, contexts and print culture (c. 1450-1540)', at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, 19-21 November 2014
CERL's Secretary, Dr Cristina Dondi, presented a paper on 21 November. The aim of the Colloquium was to approach Latin texts and print culture in the period between the creation of the press and the first decades of the sixteenth century (ca. 1450 – 1540) on the basis of recent contributions from different points of view. Programme and Practical Information.

CERL 2014 Seminar on Text Encoding
We received great feed back on the the seminar, and many enquiries about the power point presentations. They are now available here.

6th International Conference of the Manuscript Librarians Expert Group
'Digital and Traditional Manuscripts: Challenges of a Great Migration'. The conference was held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, 9-11 October 2014. The programme can be found here.

CERL Annual Seminar - 28 October 2014
The theme of the seminar was The application of text encoding facilities to digital versions of European early books, with a wide range of papers on AGORA, RETRO, the Monk project, the Venice Time Machine, crowd-sourcing and TEI. The full programme, biographies and abstracts can be downloaded here.

CERL Workshop at SHARP 2014 Antwerp
Historical Provenance Research: Material Evidence, Documentary Evidence, and Digital Humanities – CERL Workshop, 17 September, 9.00-13.30. SHARP CONFERENCE (Antwerp 17-20 September 2014). The full programme is here.

B2i will close in December 2014
The current host, the Baryerische Staatsbibliothek, is inviting organisations to take over the hosting of the B2i-portal, which will otherwise be closed down in December of this year. Read the BSB announcement.

CERL and LIBER sign a Memorandum of Agreement
CERL and LIBER have a long tradition of collaboration, and have now updated the wording of their Memorandum of Agreement. Read the MoU