From: Humanist Subject: Humanist begins its 10th year Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 1 (1) Birthdays and anniversaries seem like "eternal returns", ritual moments that demand reflection on the simultaneous past and future. So I am righteous in my excuse to belabour you with editorial ruminations at the end of Humanist's ninth year and the beginning of its tenth. Humanist began on 7 May 1987 as a consequence of an inspirational moment at a conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities in Columbia, South Carolina. Its beginning was almost accidental, no more than an attempt to provide continuing conversation for a small group of frustrated individuals who met after hours at the conference to discuss the lack of support for humanities computing and what might be done about it. Philosophical investigations and meditations, as well as exchanges of information, proved more appealing than academic politics, for which we may all be most grateful. Thus the creature we now exercise. What a dismal thing Humanist would have been otherwise! Almost a decade later computing has become nearly universal, although in the humanities its application remains at a primitive level on the whole and, as Mark Olsen has famously pointed out, its effects on the disciplines are not always obvious. It seems to me that John Burrows' counsel to patience, based on the fact that change in scholarship is slow, is right, however. He and many others have shown what can be done by what they have done, and if it takes the rest of us longer, or if some of us choose non-computational methods, so what? The proof is in the pudding, and I smell delicious puddings in several corners of the house. Yes, I know, many are cruelly excluded from the house altogether. How can we use computing to ameliorate the situation? Institutionally, even amidst euphemistical "downsizing" (for this read "getting a bonus for laying off employees"), there are nevertheless hopeful signs. Let me cite just a few with which I have been directly or indirectly involved; I'm sure news of others would be very welcome. One of the hopeful events I have for you affects the near-future of Humanist; this seems a particularly apt moment to tell you about it. First, two recent meetings of considerable significance. One was the annual gathering of the American Council of Learned Societies, in Washington, DC, U.S.A., 25-27 April, where five of us participated in a panel, "Internet-accessible scholarly resources for the humanities and social sciences". The participants were Susan Hockey (Director, CETH, Princeton/Rutgers), Jennifer Trant (Imaging Initiative, Getty Art History Information Program), Charles Henry (Director of Libraries, Vassar), and Richard Rockwell (Executive Director, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research); I, representing Humanist, was the commentator. What made this event significant was, I think, the fact of its being held at all, at this annual meeting. Such recognition of computing by the ACLS follows just a few months on Humanist becoming its adjunct publication, and a few more months on ACLS President Stan Katz's address at the ACH/ALLC conference in Santa Barbara, at which he identified computing as one of the most important priorities of the academy for the next decade. The second was a special meeting convened last week at the National Humanities Center, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A., to discuss the role computing should have in advanced humanities research, and specifically how the NHC should support its fellows with computing, even to encouraging computing applications. This meeting was divided into seven sessions, following NHC Director Robert Connor's summary of the history and goals of his Center. Five of these sessions consisted of brief presentations based on questions set by Robert Wright, Director of Development; two others were for discussion. 1. Susan Hockey, David Seaman: Advanced technologies, resources, and access 2. Morris Eaves, George Landow, Ann Okerson: Scholarship, publication, and and scholarly publications 3. Jacqueline Brown, Janet Murray: Teaching and curricular applications 4. Larry Friedlander, Institutional, professional, and disciplinary issues 5. Willard McCarty, John Unsworth: The role of colleges and universities, research libraries, professional organizations, and institutes for advanced study Again, the significant fact to my mind was that the NHC would take such trouble to consider the nature of humanities computing before incorporating it into its mission. I expect we will be hearing much more from the NHC later. At the beginning of this message I referred to the original motivation for Humanist, which was to establish humanities computing as a scholarly field. Humanist quickly became international and so took on a much broader purpose. Meanwhile institutions, which are conservative by nature, have been slow to respond, but responses are now visible. Numerous places appear to have worked computing into new academic positions in traditional departments (reports on these would be welcome). In other cases, most notably for N. America at Oberlin College, computer science has adopted the humanities as a major focus. New positions in humanities computing itself have been slower to develop, but there are a few: at Glasgow (Dan Greenstein), at McMaster, in Ontario, Canada (Geoffrey Rockwell), for many years at Groningen, the Netherlands (Harry Gaylord) and at Tuebingen (Wilhelm Ott). Which others have I missed? I am especially happy to announce :-) one other, at King's College London, where I have just been appointed Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing, in an academic unit known as the Centre for Computing in the Humanities. Although the technical and administrative details of Humanist have yet to be worked out completely, I will be editing Humanist from London, probably as of mid August. In the interim, with help, I trust there will be few interruptions, but I suspect the chaos of a major move will occasionally intrude. Your kind patience will be appreciated. So, on the ninth anniversary of Humanist we may have reason to think that our half-full glass, like the magical wallet of folktale, is slowly filling itself up. As a child I always thought that the number 9 was a threshold, as far as one could go without stepping over into a new cycle. Since I am as good at walking on water as my cats, my personal step over the threshold is a rather large one. (Prolonged study of Milton, some of you will notice, has left its mental mark.) On the verge, my best wishes and warmest regards to fellow Humanists. Happy Birthday! WM From: "Christopher G. Fox" Subject: Request from the Assistant Editor (please post) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 11:41:51 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 2 (2) As the summer approaches, many of you might not be checking your e-mail regularly, might be forwarding your mail to other addresses, or might be considering using an automated reply to indicate that you will be unavailable for a certain period of time. Although these three situations present few problems for personal, individual correspondance, they can be quite a headache for listserv administration and automated e-mail distribution. I therefore make the following requests: 1) If you will not be checking your e-mail, and you have a disk quota, please postpone your subscription. Once your disk quota has been exceeded, the messages we send will start being bounced back to us, and we will eventually need to delete your subscription. 2) If you are forwarding your mail to a different address, please remember that you will not be able to post messages or communicate with the ListProcessor from your new address. As far as the list is concerned, you are still subscribed at your regular address, regardless of where the mail ends up going. Anything you send with therefore be automatically rejected. If you would like to post a message or change your subscription parameters in some way, you need to telnet to the account at which you are subscribed and send mail from there. 3) If you set up your e-mail to make an automatic reply to all messages received, we will receive that reply often a dozen or more times a week. All such messages will appear as potential posts to Humanist, and we will have to delete them manually. The automated reply may be useful for individual correspondents, but it causes many problems for list administration. If you are planning to use it, please postpone your subscription. As always, if you have any questions about how to configure your subscription using listproc, that information is available on the Humanist web pages. Please feel free to ask me any questions you might have if your circumstances are not covered by the available instructions. Best wishes for the summer, Christopher G. Fox Assistant Editor--HUMANIST Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities From: "Gregory J. Murphy" Subject: Humanist Subscription Database Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 18:48:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 3 (3) In response to the many suggestions and complaints which we received, the on-line Humanist subscription database has been redesigned. The database contains contact and biographical information for users who subscribed via the database's WWW interface. At present, there are some 150 records in the database, representing the same number of subscribers. Improvements to the database engine and interface include: - new subscribers may now choose their own password - errors in email addresses are detected directly, before being passed on to listproc. - fields in the database are searched according to their type: character, numeric, or date. - search terms may now include most of the regular expression characters used by grep. Once the new database engine is in full swing, Humanist will accept new subscriptions _only_ via the WWW. Users who wish to join but do not have access to the web may request an email version of the subscription form. The new subscription mechanism may be accessed from the Humanist homepage. We strongly encourage members who have been around longer than the database to resubscribe with more up-to-date information. From: Subject: Re: 9.775 COLLATE? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 4 (4) & many others... from whom we learn that Peter Robinson, PeterR@vax.ox.ac.uk, is the author of Collate, and information about it may be obtained from the CTI Textual Studies Resource guide at http://info.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/resguide/analysis/collate.html Many thanks to all. From: Willard McCarty Subject: impermanence Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 21:36:18 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 5 (5) Bob Amsler, in Humanist 9.774, puts his virtual finger on a stubborn reality of electronic publication: "The basic philosophical problem of citing the Web is that it is a fundamentally transitory reference." Are we trying our best to ignore this problem because we STILL cannot quite see that the Web is not paper and print? that it has its own intrinsic tendencies which we are silly, or worse, to resist? Let me put the matter another way. Consider all the scholarship we publish that has value for the moment, for six months, a year, five years, but that we would be well rid of. (I am assuming, for purposes of argument, that everything which is published has value for some amount of time, however small.) Would this kind not be better published in "a fundamentally transitory" medium? Perhaps a more interesting question concerns the effects rapid, transitory publication might have on the humanities. What might happen if our research were more conversational, as in the social sciences? How might the academic professions be affected if paper-publication were reserved for material chosen on the basis of its long-term interest? Some years ago I was fortunate to hear a Stanford economist (whose name, alas, I have forgotten) brilliantly address the crisis in scholarly publishing. In essence what he pointed out was that scholarly publishing, as we know it, is an integral part of the academic world, that it cannot simply be changed without profound consequences, and that changes are not going to be easy because the system within which this publishing is integral will resist our efforts. Since our livelihoods and way of life depend on this integral system, should we not be examining the big picture? It seems to me that we must understand the sociology and philosophy of knowledge in order to know what to do with the new medium. Or we can just let others, such as our friends in the infotainment industry, make the decisions for us. Comments? WM Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Subject: Re: 9.774 citing Web documents Date: Tue, 7 May 96 10:44:04 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 6 (6) John Unsworth suggests avoiding the angle brackets on a citation because the sgml- or html- aware program will not know what to do with it. But this is undoubtedly the reason the form suggested by Berners-Lee includes the term URL as the initial element, as in the following citation* to, say, his home page. As has been pointed out, various software tools use the URL forms to highlight them or make automatic links out of them. --pg *http://www.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/> Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)445-5908; fax (908)445-5888 http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html> From: Andrew Burday Subject: Re: 9.774 citing Web documents Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 11:23:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 7 (7) On Mon, 6 May 1996, Humanist wrote: [deleted quotation] Um, sorry, but this just isn't right. First of all, I'm not sure what you mean by an "html-aware" program. I guess the term is often used to refer to programs with heuristics to pick out URLs, but that's not html. In any case, two related points can be made. First, surely Netscape and other web browsers count as "html-aware". But any properly designed web browser will do what you describe *only* in an html context. A document's content type may be identified by the header sent to it by an http server, or by the extension if it's a local file or if the header doesn't identify it. Any of those mechanisms can create what I'm calling an "html context". If, based on one of those mechanisms, the browser "thinks" it's displaying a plain text file, it will happily display any markup that happens to appear in the file, including angle brackets, and it will not highlight anchors or do anything if you select them. Second, if the program you're using -- mail reader, news reader, or whatever it is -- is ignoring text in angle brackets *outside of an html context*, it is badly designed. All kinds of strings get put in angle brackets, for all kinds of reasons. It is just unreasonable to assume -- outside of an html context -- that every string in angle brackets is an html tag. In other words, outside the context of a document which has (implicitly or explicitly) been declared to be html, the most "html-aware" programs there are will do nothing special with material in angle brackets. That is the most reasonable behavior, outside of an html context. And the question I was originally trying to address was how to identify URLs outside of html contexts. Again, I don't think it's worth trying to adjust our practices to fit whatever the writers of some particular mail or news reader have chosen to code into their software. The point is to have a consistent, standard way to refer to URLs outside the context of html. The software authors should be supporting the standards, not the other way around. [deleted quotation] I appreciate your taking the effort to come up with three counterexamples to your own thesis, so that I don't have to! ;*> Best, Andrew Burday andy@philo.mcgill.ca http://www.philo.mcgill.ca/> From: Subject: Leiden Summer School Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 8 (8) A series of self-contained, 2-day courses at introductory, intermediate and advanced levels. The Leiden Summer School is organized for postgraduate and advanced graduate students in history, professional historians and archivists. The Summer School is organized by the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA), the Postgraduate Programme for Historical Information Science (Leiden University), Department for Social and Economic History (Leiden University) Leiden Summer School Outline of Courses: June 17-22: Introduction to New Media and Advanced Methods for Historical Research (Doorn and others) This introductory course offers a broad overview of modern information technology for historians, including lectures, demonstrations and hands-on practicals on: the Internet, historical CD-ROMs, optical reading of historical documents, multimedia applications, historical data archiving, and other electronic information resources for historians. June 17-22: Scanning and Optical Character Recognition of Historical Documents (van Horik/Sesink) In this course students will learn to apply scanners for the automatic conversion of historical sources. Attention is paid to image enhancements techniques and formatting of OCR-output. This course is repeated in the second week. June 17-22: Advanced Statistics for Historical Analysis with SPSS-PC (Doorn) The SPSS-PC package is used to explain aspects of log-linear models, multiple regression and time series analysis, using historical data. June 17-22: Historical Databases (Leenarts/De Nijs) This course explores the potential and limitations of databases for the structuring and representation of historical sources, using dBASE (for Windows). June 17-21: Quantitative Approaches to the Colonial History of South-East Asia (Lindblad) This course is about how to apply computer assisted methods to major problems in the economic and social history of colonial South-East Asia (in particular Indonesia), including foreign trade, colonial drain, and coolie labour. June 24-29: Text Analysis I: TACT (Doorn/Leenarts) The TACT system is used in this course for computer assisted textual analysis. Attention is paid to the structuring of historical textual documents using a mark-up language. June 24-29: Text Analysis II: Hypertext, SGML, HTML, TEI (Leenarts/Nauta/Van Kersen) This course pays attention to the importance of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for electronic historical texts. The Text Encoding Initiative as an SGML-implementation is explained. It is shown how hypertexts for the World Wide Web can be structured with HTML. June 24-29: Multimedia for Historical Presentations (Luijting) In this course students learn how multimedia can be used to present historical information. The Toolbook authoring system in connection with Visual Basic will be used to prepare a presentation. June 24-29: The History of European Economic Integration: Computer Assisted Research and Electronic Information Resources (Griffiths) In this course computers are used for finding and manipulating data on the history of European integration, broadly described (EEC, EFTA, OECD, GATT). June 24-29: Preparing a Historical Dissertation with WP 6.1 for Windows (in Dutch; Doorn) This course is specifically meant for Dutch post-graduates (AIO/OIO's) who are preparing their dissertation. Many aspects of the lay-out and production of your own book are dealt with. Teaching Staff: Dr. Peter Doorn (NHDA/Leiden University) Prof. Richard Griffiths (Leiden University) Drs. Ren van Horik (NHDA) Drs. Janneke van Kersen (NHDA) Drs. Ellen Leenarts (Leiden University) Dr. Thomas Lindblad (Leiden University) Drs. Marc Luijting (Leiden University) Drs. Gerhard Nauta (Leiden University) Drs. Thimo de Nijs (Leiden University) Drs. Laurents Sesink (NHDA) Drs. Heiko Tjalsma (NHDA) More information considering registration, accomodation, social and cultural events and costs see: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/education/sum_school.htm or contact: Leiden Summer School c/o NHDA P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands Fax: +31 71 5272615 Phone: + 31 71 5277040 / 5272742 E-mail: ESF2@stpc.wi.leidenuniv.nl From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: an article on encoding Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 10:56:47 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 9 (9) The readers of Humanist might be interested in knowing that I have placed in an html site: http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/encod.html a contribution (in Italian) entitled: Teoria e prassi della codifica dei manoscritti, to be published in the Acts of the International Seminar: Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: Memoria, scrittura, riscrittura (Firenze 26-28 aprile 1996). Abstract: In Decembre 1995 Sperberg-McQueen, Lancashire, Durosau, Burnard, Mller, and DeRose discussed on Humanist some important features of the problems concerning the encoding of texts and the use of SGML and TEI standards: interpretations necessary for each encoding; correct represenation of grapheme in electronic environment; relations between encoding and editorial practices; purposes of the author in graphically organizing the text; distinction of types of markup; materiality of the text and representation of connotations; allography and orthography. This contribution is an effort to trace a theoretical structure which may include all such problems and help to solve them. Such theoretical structure depends on clearing the semiotic passages through which a text (message) goes from the author to the (last) reader. To clarify such passages some concepts are taken into consideration: the competence of the author and of the encoder; the different levels of a text: physical, "virtual", ideal; meaning of features of the text outside the pure sequence of graphemes; specific features of the electronic representation of the text; representation vs. substitution. Encoding cannot be based on the physical appearence of the text, but on the "virtual" text in the mind of those who have written it, and should be able to represent each element in the text contributing to its meaning. The encoder should therefore propose a complete table of correspondences. From: John Unsworth Subject: New software from IATH Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 11:08:32 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 10 (10) The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is pleased to announce the availability of two new software products, Inote and Mu, programmed by Mark Ratliff and Dan Ancona, respectively: Inote is a Java-based program for image annotation; it can be run through the web or stand-alone (with the Java developer's kit). Demonstrations, further information, source code, help documents, and an email/hypermail list for bug reports and developers, are all available at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/inote/ MU is a perl-based program that builds fill-out forms for SGML editing, based on simple templates. It supports lock files (for networked workgroups), and it is distributed with a TEI-lite template. Demonstrations, source code, help files, and an email list for bug reports and developers are available at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/mu/ Inote will work on any platform that supports Java (Windows95/NT and most Unix platforms, but not Windows 3.1, and only to a limited extent on Macs). Mu will work with any browser that supports fill-out forms, but the main program needs to be installed on machine that runs Perl (Unix Web servers, and some other platforms). If your web server is configured to permit cgi in user directories, you will not need root/supervisor access to install MU. Please download these programs, experiment with them, and report your experiences to their respective email discussion lists. We will be releasing future versions of both packages, so your feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome. John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ jmu2m@virginia.edu From: Subject: NEW: electronic thesis/diss site Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 11 (11) This is to announce a new web site I have developed for on-line references and resources related to electronic masters theses and doctoral dissertations (ETDs) in the humanities, including a directory of such work currently in progress: http://osi.lib.virginia.edu/ediss/ediss.html If you are a graduate student now at work on an ETD, please stop by and fill out a short form describing your project (available off of the "currently in progress" page). The information you provide will be added to the site's on-line ETD directory, which I hope will serve as a resource for other graduate students who are in the process of seeking approval for such work. I'd also like to hear from anyone who might have other suggestions as to the content or potential uses of this site. I envision it as a sort of clearing-house for ETD materials, including pointers to on-line initiatives and guidelines, publications, services, archived mailing-list discussions, and other relevant humanities computing materials. Some of the pages are stretched a bit thin, as ETDs have not attracted as much attention as other forms of scholarly electronic publishing; if you know of any ETD resources that I have not included, please tell me about them; also, please check back from time to time as the site expands. Potential audiences include not only graduate students but also faculty who want to make informed decisions about supervising an ETD, as well as librarians, administrators, and publishers. I have tentative plans to innaugerate a mailing list devoted to this topic as well. Please forward this announcement as seems appropriate, and please excuse cross-postings. Special thanks to the University of Virginia Library's On-Line Scholarship Initiative and Special Collections Deptartment for providing server space. Comments should be sent to me at the address below. ================================================================= Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k Electronic Text Center From: Subject: Re: 10.1 happy birthday to Humanist Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 12 (12) To the established teaching positions, add: "Informatica applicata alle Scienze Umane" at the Faculty of Letters, Rome University La Sapienza, which I keep after 2 years. Information: http://cisadu.let.uniroma1.it Tito Orlandi. From: "Peter Graham, RUL" Subject: Re: 10.4 citing Web documents Date: Tue, 7 May 96 23:10:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 13 (13) With all respect, I think Willard McCarty's musings on the value of impermanent scholarship verge too much on trendiness to be helpful. By which I mean he appears too easily to accept what presents itself as the current reality; I think it's important to lead the parade in the right direction rather than just join it. Certainly electronic communication is not like print and we can't try to apply all print models to it; but we can try to apply models or values that we think are important. One of those values is the idea that something worth saying is something worth keeping, which we have embedded in writing and printing and other marking ("recording") techniques. There are techniques in development that will allow us to keep what has been recorded electronically, and I look forward to having them in our quiver. The fact that a quantity of scholarship (and conversation in various media) is pretty disposable doesn't warrant not trying to keep what is valuable. Baby and bathwater here. (Certainly a lot of published material deserves ephemerality; in the first place, how do we judge it any better than the publishers; and in the second place, that's not an argument for ephemerizing it all.) I think WMcC is absolutely right in citing the Stanford economist (very possibly Ed Shaw--sounds like him) on the difficulty in changing the academic culture by changing publishing patterns. Makes it all the more important to try and to do it well. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)445-5908; fax (908)445-5888 http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html> From: Marta Steele Subject: transitory/permanent Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 14:05:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 14 (14) The notion of permanence in publishing is one of my favorite subjects/obsessions; not only does a paper/internet dichotomy make sense, substituting the internet for the strictly transitory, like stock market reports of the day, etc., but we need a third category, the "aei" element, which we must preserve for the remote future: the products of our research that we let die only at the peril of remote posterity: picture those poor souls having to reconstruct Greek from nothing but the hundreds of different ways that we transliterate it into the roman alphabet (ok, that's a slight exaggeration), if that happens to be the only Greek that remains due to natural forces and unnatural bellicose forms of destruction of various types. What I'm trying to say is that we ought to carve into stone, into eternity, what we have struggled so hard to reconstruct about classical civilization in even the last 200 years. Think how hard we had to work; think what they're having to do now to try to decipher what remains of the Dead Sea Scrolls; look what they had to do to decipher Linear B. All that is timeless and should be literally preserved via a medium more durable than (forgive me, this is my livelihood) even the book. What could that be? How can we transcend future holocausts and other natural destruction and preserve this category of knowledge for all time, to avoid future dark ages? I guess we have to turn to science? I'm sure there are ways, if we agree this is an important issue and resolve to address it. Marta Steele Princeton University Press From: Subject: HLT Survey on the WWW Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 15 (15) A book entitled "Survey of the State of the Art of Human Language Technology" is now available at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/HLTsurvey/ . The survey consists of articles by 97 authors in the following chapters: 1. Spoken Language Input 2. Written Language Input 3. Language Analysis and Understanding 4. Language Generation 5. Spoken Output Technologies 6. Discourse and Dialogue 7. Document Processing 8. Multilinguality 9. Multimodality 10. Transmission and Storage 11. Mathematical Methods 12. Language Resources 13. Evaluation Within a few months, the Survey will be published as a book by Giardini Publishers in Italy and by Cambridge University Press elsewhere. The electronic version of the Survey will remain on-line, but will be modified slightly based on copy-editing by the publishers. The Survey was funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission, with additional support provided by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Graduate Institute and the University of Pisa. Enjoy! Editorial Board Ron Cole Editor-in-Chief Joseph Mariani Hans Uszkoreit Annie Zaenen Victor Zue Managing Editors Giovanni Battista Varile Antonio Zampolli -------------------------------------------------- Vince Weatherill Center for Spoken Language Understanding Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology vincew@cse.ogi.edu 503-690-1142 __________________________________________________ From: Stephan Khinoy Subject: Re: 10.4 citing Web documents Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 23:47:46 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 16 (16) We can already cite ephemeral sources of information: "unpublished paper," "personal communication," and the like. When we post electronically, we have to be sure to list some actual-world coordinates like academic address, and we should be considerate in citing *our* sources and how we have treated them. In that way, when someone cites us, it will be a responsible citation. -- Stephan Khinoy From: Willard McCarty Subject: leading or pulling the parade? Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 00:11:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 17 (17) Opposition being true friendship, I am glad for Peter Graham's critical response in Humanist 10.8 to my notion that the e-medium, now transitory, should be used for transitory things. He says that I appear "too easily to accept what presents itself as the current reality; I think it's important to lead the parade in the right direction rather than just join it." This points to the question I was attempting to raise: when are we leading this parade, and when are we stubbornly forcing it to go contrary to its own genius, pulling it along against its will? I think it's important to feel the contrary tug, the essential resistance to our insensitive commandeering of one thing to be something else that it is not. I guess what Peter would say is that it's just as important to feel the cooperative willingness to follow. I think of the exercise known as "push hands" in Tai Chi Chuan. I am raising the question: which are we doing now in our efforts to make the electronic medium more permanent? WM From: "DONALD A. COLEMAN (EXT. 2850)" Subject: Re: Impermanence Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 13:19:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 18 (18) All interests Humanists: I hope no one will be disappointed to find a message like this one in the e-mail sack; assuredly it could seem like idle fantasy rather than responsible argument. All the same, the messages I've just been reading raise again in my mind a question which I've sometimes found myself asking: what do we of this scientized era suppose that future antiquarians a re going to do whith our scientized archives when the science that alone makes them useable has long since been forgotten? I think that at present a sort of evolutionist fabrication exists--indeed, a notion fashioned out of whole cloth--to the effect that science once done cannot be undone: that people in *our* future simply *couldn't* be antiquarians and, at the same time, have chosen classical understandings and a simple life over a world fashioned in the image and under the aegis of scientific technology. We have half a chance of deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls because we've had the wisdom to preserve, at least in some measure, the crafts of reading and writing, whose dependence on science is negligible. But if we ourselves can preserve our achievements only in ways radically dependent on science, do we not run the risk of depriving future civilizations of those achievements? I think that we can use science as an invaluable aid in preserving what we judge to be valuable, but I also think that in so doing we need to use wisdom. We need to provide access to the good things we have on the broadest possible terms. From: Subject: DRH'96 Programme & Registration Form Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 19 (19) DRH 96 digital resources for the humanities A Conference to be held at Somerville College, Oxford 1st - 3rd July 1996 The conference has been sponsored by: The British Library Cambridge University Press The Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford The Centre for Information Management and Technology for Scholarship, London Guildhall University Chadwyck-Healey Ltd The CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford The Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield The Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford The Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University Conference Organisation The Conference is being organised by the Continuing Professional Development Centre of the University of Oxford. For queries or further information please contact: Christine Merle CPD Centre Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford 67 St Giles Oxford, OX1 3LU Tel: +44 1865 288166 Fax: +44 1865 288163 Email: christine.merle@conted.ox.ac.uk URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh96/ Advances in computing affect all who work with the fundamental resources of humanities scholarship. Long-held paradigms of scholarly resources-their ownership, their use, their distribution-are being transformed. Archivists, librarians, scholars, and publishers have to rework their relationships in this new information world, without losing sight of the traditional values of academic discourse. This conference will provide a forum to explore these changes and to seek the best ways to exploit them together.Please note that the programme is provisional at this stage, and that some papers, or entire sessions may need to be rearranged. A final programme will be provided at the conference, together with a book of abstracts. Sessions will run in parallel strands (usually three at a time) and there will be an exhibition running throughout the conference. Delegates wishing to demonstrate software during the conference are asked to apply as soon as possible to the Conference Co-ordinator. Conference Venue The conference will be held at Somerville College, Oxford. Somerville College was founded in 1879 to promote the higher education of women. More than one century later, and numbering many famous women amongst its old members including many heads of states, the College is ideally situated for conference delegates. It is just a few minutes from the centre of Oxford with its many historic college and university buildings, museums, libraries and art galleries. Oxford, which is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, has excellent rail and road links, with frequent bus and train services to London and other major cities. For international delegates, frequent coach services are available from the bus stations situated at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The journey from Heathrow Airport takes about one hour. Accommodation Accommodation will be provided in single study bedrooms which are comfortable, if unpretentious, with washbasin and shared bathroom facilities. The cost of accommodation for two nights - 1st and 2nd July - is included in the Conference Fee. If you would like additional accommodation for any of the following nights this is available at an additional charge of 30 pounds per night for bed and breakfast. Please indicate your requirements on the Registration Form. Dinners will not be provided at Somerville College on these additional nights. However there are plenty of excellent restaurant close to Somerville College and list of restaurants will be available at the Registration Desk.=20 Registration The conference will run from lunchtime on 1st July 1996 until lunchtime on 3rd July 1996. Accommodation and meals will be provided for all delegates at Somerville College. The full cost of the conference is 275 pounds sterling. This price includes accommodation for 2 nights of July 1st and 2nd, registration fee, conference proceedings, and all meals including dinner on 1st July and the conference banquet. A non-residential rate is also available and the charge for this is 225 pounds. This price includes the registration fee, conference proceedings, all meals including dinner on 1st July and the banquet on 2nd July. Partner rates are also available at 125 pounds. This price includes two nights accommodation (1st and 2nd July), Dinner on 1st July, Welcome Reception on 1st July and the Reception and Banquet on 2nd July (lunches and daytime refreshments are not included). A limited number of bursaries are available to students and non-waged persons and will be awarded in order of application. To qualify, please apply by 5th June, stating why you want to attend and what you hope to get out of the conference. The fee with a bursary will be half the quoted conference price.=20 Bank Charges: Delegates paying with cheques drawn on non-UK banks or by credit card (VISA or MASTERCARD only), should add an additional 15 pounds t= o cover bank charges. Please indicate on your registration form if you would like to pay by Credit Card or Bank Transfer. Cancellations: Full refunds of the Conference Fee, less 25% administration costs, are payable for cancellations received in writing on or before Monday 3rd June. After this date, no fees are refundable; however, substitutions can be made at any time and at no extra cost. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME MONDAY 1ST JULY 10.00-13.00 Registration 13.00-13.30 Lunch 14.00-14.15 Welcome 14.15-14.45 Introduction, Marilyn Deegan, The International Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University, on behalf of the programme committee. 14.45-15.30 Keynote address Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey 15.30-16.00 Tea 16.00-17.30 1) Critical Editing in the Digital Age Donald Broady, Royal Institute of Technology/NADA, Stockholm, 'Digital Critical Editions. The Case of the Swedish National Edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works'. David R Chesnutt, University of South Carolina, & C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago and editor, Text Encoding Initiative, 'The Model Editions Partnership: Creating Editions of Historical Documents for the Digital Age'. John Lavagnino, Women Writers Project, Brown University, 'Reference and Allusion in Scholarly Writing, and the Problems they Pose for Digital Libraries'. 2) Digital Resources for Teaching Christian Kay, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow (chair). Ann Gow, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow, 'The COMET Project'. Jean Anderson, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow, 'A Guide to Scottish literature'. Michael Fraser, CTI Centre for Textual Studies, University of Oxford, 'Digital Resources and the Teaching of the Humanities'. 3) Workshop, 'Capturing Digital Images' Andrew Prescott, Manuscript Collection, British Library (chair) Hazel Podmore, Collections and Preservation, British Library Peter Carey, Collections and Preservation, British Library David French, Collections and Preservation, British Library Richard Masters, Document and Image Processing, British Library 18.30 Drinks Reception 19.30 Dinner TUESDAY 2ND JULY 9.00-10.30 1) Resources for Medieval Studies Michael Arnott, Iain Beavan, and Jane Geddes, University of Aberdeen, 'The Online Aberdeen Bestiary: Text and Hypertext'. Martin K Foys and James Caccamo, Loyola University, Chicago, 'A Digital Facsimile of the Bayeux Tapestry'. Carolyn Schriber, Rhodes College, 'The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies'. 2) Women's Archives. Julia Flanders, Women Writers Project, Brown University, 'Gender, Anxiety, and the Electronic Text'. Lesley Gordon, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 'The Gertrude Bell Archive.' Kathryn Sutherland, University of Nottingham,' Revising the Model: Computers, Women's Writings and the Protocols of Editing'. 3) Electronic Publishing Panel Andrew Rosenheim, Oxford University Press Kevin Taylor, Cambridge University Press Colin Day, University of Michigan Press 4) Editing Traditional Texts Peter Donaldson, MIT, 'Shakespeare Electronic Archive'. Timothy Finney, Baptist Theological College of Western Australia, Murdoch, 'Transcribing New Testament Manuscripts'. Speaker to be announced 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.30 1) Digital Resources and the Text Encoding Initiative Milena Dobreva, Institute of Maths and Science, Sofia, 'Problems in Design and Use of TEI based Repertoire of Slavic Manuscripts'. Espen Ore, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, 'Runic Inscriptions meet TEI and its WSDs'. C M Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago and editor, Text Encoding Initiative,'What TEI Means for your Project'. 2) The York Doomsday Project Meg Twycross and Paul Williams, Lancaster University. 3) Workshop, 'Making an Electronic Edition of a Text in Many Versions' Peter Robinson, The International Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University. 13.00-13.30 Lunch 14.00-15.30 1) Digitizing Visual Resources Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck Institut, G=F6ttingen, 'Objects as Digital Resources'. Jennifer Trant, Getty Art History Information Program, 'The Museum Educational Site Licensing (MESL) Project: Enabling Educational Use of Digital Museum Collections'. Joseph Viscomi, University of Virginia, 'Constructing the Blake Archive: A Progress Report'. 2) Networked Resources Colin Day, University of Michigan Press, 'Designing a Networked System for Disseminating Academic Writings'. Charles Henry, Vassar College, 'The American Arts and Letters Network: An Experiment in Web Communities'. Suzette Worden and Colin Beardon, Centre for Computers and Creative Work, University of Brighton, 'The Virtual Curator: Educational Software, the Context of Collaborative Development and Authorship'. 3) First Panel on 'Resource Providers and Services' The UK Arts and Humanities Data Service Harold Short, King's College, London (chair) Lou Burnard, Oxford University Daniel Greenstein, Director AHDS Executive 15.30- 16.00 1) Retrieving Digital Resources Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath, 'Resource Discovery Tools'. Lynn F Marko, Judith A. Ahronheim, and Kevin L. Butterfield, University of Michigan Library, 'The Humanities Text Initiative: A Collaboration Among Text Producers, Editors, and Cataloguers'. Jackie Shieh, University of Virginia Library, 'Overview on Organizing the Seemingly Unorganizable: Remote Access Files'. 2) Second Panel on 'Resource Services and Providers' International Aspects Daniel Greenstein, Director AHDS Executive (chair) Peter Doorn and Annuska Graver, Netherlands Historical Data Archive, 'Providing Digital Information for Historians'. David Green, Director American National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Director Canadian Heritage Information Network. 3) Workshop 'Using Digital Images ' Andrew Prescott, Manuscript Collection, British Library (chair) Clive Izard, British Library Leona Carpenter, Computing and Telecommunications, British Library Phil Barden, Document Supply Centre, British Library 19.00 Drinks Reception 19.30 Conference Banquet After-dinner speaker Ron Zweig, Tel Aviv University WEDNESDAY 3RD JULY 9.00-10.30 1) Digital Case Histories David L Gants, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, 'Commercial Printing in Early Modern London: A Digital Case History'. Mary Keeler and Christian Kloesel '"Kantinuity" and the Evolution of Pragmatism in C S Peirce's Manuscripts'. Maria Sollohub, the Wittgenstein Archives, 'Choices in the Preparation of Electronic Manuscript Resources-the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen'. 2) Editions for the Future Peter Robinson, The International Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University (chair) Richard Finneran, 'The Hypermedia Yeats'. Hoyt M Duggan, 'The Parts of an Electronic Archive: Documentary and Facsimile Editions of Piers Plowman Manuscripts'. George Landow, Brown University, Title to be advised. 3) The New Dictionary of National Biography (DNB): Computation and a large Cooperative Project Colin Matthew, Elizabeth Baigent, and Robert Faber. 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.00 Keynote address David Greetham 12.00-12.30 Close of Conference 13.00-13.30 Lunch and departure - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -= =20 Conference Registration Form [A WWW form is available at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh96] Please register the following delegate for the conference (for multiple registrations or partners please complete seperate forms): Title (Dr/Mr/Ms etc).................................................. First Name............................................................ Family Name/Surname................................................... Position/Job Title.................................................... Organisation.......................................................... 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Tel: +44 (1865) 288166=20 Fax: +44 (1865) 288163.=20 Electronic forms may emailed to christine.merle@conted.ox.ac.uk From: Subject: optimism Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 20 (20) A fellow Humanist has taken me to task, gently but firmly, for the optimism in my birthday message. He asked me not to forward the note to the group, so I am doing the next best thing, which is to paraphrase his objection and then to reply. How possibly can anyone be optimistic when so much around us is shutting down and turning inward? The optimist is perhaps always a fool, sometimes only a little foolish, sometimes a big one. Thus the spectrum of possibilities I contemplate for myself. My intention was not, however, to ignore the realities, rather it was more a call to arms for those who still have the energy to raise them. The economy may be against us, the Zeitgeist may be a crabbed and selfish spirit, but our wisdom is needed and in some places is in demand. It may be that the intellectual life will move out of the university and that to live it will mean for most a choice between the sofa and the desk chair in the evening, but there seems no question at all that humanities computing will play a growing role in how this life is lived, despite all. Not for everyone, of course, but for many. There are strong forces at work. I referred in my birthday message to recognition at high levels of the academy that we must play a central role. At the same time, one of the principal barriers, the relegation of humanities computing to the role of a mere "service", makes less and less sense, even as budgetary forces oppose its advancement. A passage I keep returning to in this regard -- forgive me, no doubt I have quoted it before -- is from Jaroslav Pelikan's book, The Idea of the University, where briefly he touches on the role of technology in the changing structure of the institution. With your indulgence I will quote it here: "Just as the reexamination of the idea of the university implies new attention to university's definition of itself as a community in its teaching, so the definition of the university as a community of research requires significant reconsideration in the light of the "sisterly disposition" of the sciences toward one another. That applies in the first instance to those departments, agencies, and personnel of the university who usually stand outside the classroom but without whom research would halt. Because of its unique position among these as the heart of the university, the university library... must be seen as a collegial part of a total university network of support services for research, and the network must be seen as a free and responsible community if it is to be equal to the complexities that are faced by university-based research. Indeed, even such a term as "providers of support services" is becoming far too limited to describe both the skills and the knowledge required of those who hold such positions. Scholars and scientists in all fields have found that the older configurations of such services, according to which the principal investigator has the questions and the staff person provides answers, are no longer valid, if they ever were; as both the technological expertise and scholarly range necessary for research to grow, it is also for the formulation and refinement of the questions themselves that principal investigators have to turn to "staff", whom it is increasingly necessary -- not as a matter of courtesy, much less a matter of condescension, but as a matter of justice and of accuracy -- to identify instead as colleagues in the research enterprise." (Yale U.P., p. 62) I suggest that we adopt the term "collegial service" to describe what now must happen, and that we equate it to the service-component common to academic jobs in N. America and the U.K. Perhaps a mere term will help to blur or in some cases to erase the often sharp boundary of privilege. All this to prove my optimism. Comments? WM From: Subject: Pronouncing the "@" sign. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 21 (21) A discussion has been going on on ExLibris about the "@" sign and its origin (probably a medieval scribal abbreviation). Also at issue is its pronunciation in different languages. What does one say in German, French, Italian, and in the many non-European languages on the internet when in English one gives an e-mail address, say "jones@exeter.ac.uk" as "jones at exeter.ac.uk" (allowing for the fact that the period is uttered as "dot")? ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@chass.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto ******************************************************************************* From: Subject: Optimism, etc. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 22 (22) I thank Willard for taking the time to paraphrase my objections regarding his optimistic "call to arms." (I appreciated the quote from Pelikan.) One of my original questions, however, escaped his paraphrase. With regard to assessing the impact of humanities-computing in generating new employment opportunities, I wondered if conflating the American and Canadian situations might conceal as much as it reveals. I've had numerous interviews for professional and professional-academic, humanities-computing positions in the States, but where are the positions in Canada? I *sense* that despite the "supranationalism" that "global" networking perpetuates (and, to a large degree, precipitates) we (i.e. Canadians) should not be too quick to conflate the Canadian and American situations in offering an overall assessment of the impact of humanities-computing. I may be way out in left field on this one, but I would appreciate comments and comparisons between the two situations. BTW, where can one go to find "solid data" with which to assess the impact that humanities-computing has had on North American universities? Best, Todd P.S. I apologize for focussing on North American issues in an international forum. _____________________________________________________ Todd Blayone - tblayone@peinet.pe.ca Project Coordinator, Chorus Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/blayone/todd.html From: Subject: First International Virtual Conference on Mad Science Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 23 (23) IVCMS'96 Things are getting tough for mad scientists, apparently. According to Michael Smith, in "The cyberspatial return of the mad scientist. Quick, Igor", (Mind & Matter, The Globe and Mail, 11/5/96), research grants for maniacal science are rare, and those castles in the Carpathian Mountains "now tend to be occupied by New York yuppies with their own private Learjets. The supply of spinally challenged troglodytes named Igor has all but disappeared. 'Plus', as one mad scientist put it, 'you can't get insurance.'" Thus ICVMS'96, intended "to reverse this distressing trend, put mad science back on the world agenda, and in the words of the organizer Paul Schleifer, 'replace the old drooling maniac stereotype of the mad scientist with a new drooling-maniac image that is more appropriate to the modern era.'" ICVMS'96 is taking its virtual place online, "which makes it possible to hold such an event 'without the usual overheads of building baroque laboratories, finding formaldehyde-free corpses and liberating prospective contributors from their respective institutions.'" Visiting Mr. Schleifer's Web site, at the URL http://www.ftech.co.uk/~madsite/ as the "the 7552nd aspirant delver into Things Best Left Unknown since 9 February 1996", I found the following statement of the conference theme: --------------------------------------------------------------------- THEME Mad science is a much maligned domain of human knowledge and its practitioners have for too long been relegated to B-movies and remote ancestral estates. IVCMS provides an international forum for the presentation, discussion and extension of research into these darkly powerful pseudosciences and dangerous technologies which fall beyond the scope of conventional science and good taste. The purpose of the conference is to promote a general understanding of mad topics within the broader scientific community, to encourage new researchers to dabble with things best left alone, to attract commercial sponsors to the potential benefits of mad science in the business world, and to replace the old drooling maniac stereotype of the mad scientist with a new drooling maniac image which is more appropriate to the modern era. The conference is hosted on the Web to avoid the overheads of unpredictable atmospheric conditions and revolting peasants. 44 candidate delegates are currently in attendance and available to discuss their papers in the Mad Science Masquerade. Correspondence from other mad scientists may also be viewed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Schleifer and his colleagues are now evaluating these 44 contributions for inclusion in the final conference programme. He plans to set up an Internet chat line on 24 June "for live (and possibly undead) discussion of those that make the cut." Mr. Schleifer is a PhD candidate at a London university that he wisely prefers not to have named. I am very much hoping that he is doing his work at King's. Just what would a mad humanist be like? Nominations are open. WM From: Subject: Call for Papers: ANTICOMODERNO Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 24 (24) _________________________________________________________ CHORUS http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/chorus.html _________________________________________________________ Chorus (HCR) still needs reviewers for the following items: (Due June 30) 2.Web Squirrel Mac OS-based hypertext/WWW software by Eastgate 3.Cyborg: Engineering The Body Electric Mac OS/Windows, non-fiction (Storyspace) hypertext by Diane Greco, published by Eastgate 6.CorelXara CD-ROM-based, 32-bit Windows graphics application for Internet illustration (Due July 30) 2.Corel WordPerfect Suite CD-ROM-based, 16-bit Windows applications suite published by Corel 3.World History 1996 Multimedia Mac OS/Windows CD-ROM by the Bureau of Electronic Publishing, Inc. 4.Great Authors Multimedia, Mac OS/Windows 3 CD-ROM set featuring "Much Ado about Shakespeare," "Like the Dickens," and "Twain's World" 5.Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier Book edited by Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby (MIT Press) Prospective reviewers should send the following information to chorus@peinet.pe.ca. (Please include "HCR Review" in your subject line.) Your Name Position/Institutional affiliation Surface address Software title Brief statement of your qualifications _____________________________________________________ Todd Blayone - tblayone@peinet.pe.ca Project Coordinator, Chorus Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/blayone/todd.html From: Fabio Ciotti Subject: Call for Papers: ANTICOMODERNO Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 02:02:02 -100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 25 (25) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: June 15, 1996 For the next issue of ANTICOMODERNO, whose topic will be the Philology from Ancients to Moderns, with a section dedicate to the application of computing to textual criticism, the editors are seeking potential contributors. Below will follow a brief description of the magazine in Italian and in English. ------------------------------------------------------------ Italian version AnticoModerno e' una collana di fascicoli a tema nata per iniziativa di alcuni dottorandi di ricerca in filologia romanza e italianistica dell'Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" accomunati dall'esigenza di approfondire lo studio di determinati fenomeni su una base temporale ampia, nel tentativo di disegnare dei percorsi che dagli antichi arrivino sino ai moderni in una prospettiva di massima apertura ideologica verso strumenti e tecniche di ricerca. Una versione elettronica della rivista e' in preparazione e sara' ospitata dalla home page del CRILet (Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura) [URL:http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet] e dal Progetto Manuzio [URL:http://www.liberliber.it]. Ogni numero e' strutturato in tre sezioni: parte monografica, miscellanea e di recensioni/bilanci, tutte ruotanti attorno ad un tema centrale. Il primo volume (Convergenze Testuali) si e' occupato della riprese intertestuali a distanza, con l'attenzione rivolta soprattutto alle riprese di auctoritates classiche e medievali da parte di autori contemporanei; il secondo (La metrica. La sestina e le sue derivazioni) si e' invece concentrato su una forma metrica specifica, cercando di approfondire il senso storico di un fenomeno e la sua portata generale nella prospettiva ampia della tradizione e trasformazione delle forme metriche, dal medioevo ad oggi. Nella sezione miscellanea hanno trovato spazio contributi su varie forme metriche in diverse epoche e letterature, mentre una conclusiva sezione di bilanci fa il punto su alcuni temi specifici. Il prossimo volume sara' dedicato alla Filologia degli Antichi e dei Moderni con l'intento di osservare metodi e lavoro filologico dall'eta' umanistica alle moderne sperimentazioni informatiche. Il dibattito teorico provocato dalla rapida introduzione di nuove tecnologie al servizio della ricerca filologica impone una approfondita riflessione sul senso e i modi della critica testuale oggi; articoli relativi ad esperienze di ricerca e considerazioni metodologiche sono la richiesta che rivolgiamo a tutti coloro i quali intendano collaborare con noi a definire nuovi scenari per la filologia. I contributi non dovranno superare le 20 cartelle Invitiamo ad inviare dei brevi abstract dei contributi proposti entro la data del 15 giugno 1996 ai seguenti indirizzi e:mail: ciotti@ axrma.uniroma1.it bertolo@axrma.uniroma1.it ------------------------------------------------------------ English version AnticoModerno is a periodical publication realized by some PHD students and researchers in Romance Philology and Italian Literary Studies at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Their main aim is to deepen the study of philological phenomena on a long temporal basis, to find research paths that come from Ancients to Moderns, without ideological inclination towards any methodological perspective . An electronic version of the magazine is forthcoming and will be hosted by CRILet home page (Center for Resarch in Computing and Literary Studies) [URL:http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet] and by Progetto Manuzio [URL:http://www.liberliber.it]. Each issue is divided in three sections: a monographic section, a miscellaneous section and a reviews section, all addressing one central theme. First issue (Convergenze testuali), has addressed the questions of intertextuality, with a special attention to the emergence of passages from classical auctoritates in contemporary writers; second issue (La metrica. La sestina e le sue derivazioni) was centered on a particular metrical form, the sextine, in the effort to understand the historical sense of a metrical phenomenon, and is influence in the history and evolution of metrical forms from the Middle Age to today. Next issue will be dedicated to The Philology on Ancients and Moderns. The intention of the editors is to examine the methodology of philological activity from Humanism to the contemporary computational experiments. The theoretical debate caused by the rapid introduction of computing in philological and human studies requires a serious consideration on the meaning and methodology of textual criticism. The editors are seeking for contributions on these topics: proposed papers, that should not be longer than 20 pages, can be focused on methodological and theoretical problems as much as on practical experiments and applications. Abstract of proposed papers describing themes and issues of the contribution can be sent by June 15 1996 to the following e:mail addresses: ciotti@axrma.uniroma1.it bertolo@axrma.uniroma1.it From: "Peter Graham, RUL" Subject: the parade Date: Mon, 13 May 96 9:18:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 26 (26) Willard McCarty responds to my concern about the parade and whether to lead or join it with more politeness than I probably deserve. He is certainly right that we may be whipping the sea, that is resisting the natural tendency of the medium. I think what I want to suggest is that it's important we do so. I know however that at times I feel some despair in being able to preserve anything in this environment (and even at times some despair at preserving the culture in any form past a few hundred years, really.) I am reminded, and I suspect that the example works both for and against my case, of what we now know of Homeric epic. It was preserved in spite of the transitoriness of the medium--oral repetition--which arguably is even more transitory than magnetic domains on disks. The mechanisms for preserving it included the many adjectival and adverbial phrases qualifying names and places and things ("wine-dark sea" being the stereotypical example), which apparently did duty as placeholders to piece out the line, as mechanisms for jogging the speaker's memory, and as time-fillers to allow the speaker's memory to work better (I'm sure I've oversimplified and corrupted the real case here). The result was a preservation in a form that was different from the original, whatever that was or if it ever could be said to have existed; yet, it was a preservation; the need was there, felt and responded to. In Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, his leading man Septimus Hodge dismisses the loss of history as unimportant, for we will discover it all again and we only have what we need anyway. Thomasina, the young prodigy whom he tutors, is desolate at the loss of so many Greek plays and of so much history. I'm on Thomasina's side. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)445-5908; fax (908)445-5888 http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html> From: "Peter Graham, RUL" Subject: Re: 10.10 citation and impermanence Date: Thu, 9 May 96 21:49:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 27 (27) And do not Willard's comments in his next message on Optimism come to bear here? Is it not optimistic to assume we can save human thought in spite of the transience of the medium? Now *there's* a triumph over nature! Should we not be optimistic? Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)445-5908; fax (908)445-5888 http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html> From: Marta Steele Subject: permanence Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:33:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 28 (28) The future will always rely on the past. I'm just concerned with preserving everything we have so laboriously had to rediscover, which previous generations, for one reason or another, lost. How can we demonstrate more concern for remote posterity than the past ever demonstrated for us? What is the ultimate foresight anyway? And what have we accomplished that is most important to preserve? I reread my posting yesterday and it sounded narrow because of my particular concentrations; I'm sure others in other fields may have similar, parallel concerns? That's all I want to know. Bury a time capsule, made of indelible lead? Bury several of them? Who knows? Marta Steele From: Subject: Re: 10.1 happy birthday to Humanist Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 29 (29) First, congratulations, Willard and others, on Humanist's Anniversary. And, further, special congratulations to you Willard (from a Brit who got a Master's from King's College, London) on your new appointment at King's. I wanted to pick up on your citing the ACLS panel meeting on "Internet-Accessible Scholarly Resources" held during its recent conference in DC. The panel, as you stated, certainly marks ACLS' continuing and concerted efforts at working to address the issues of computing in the humanities, that goes back several years. One thing you didn't mention, however, was that, as executive director of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (affectionately known as NINCH), I chaired and introduced the panel. This was no accident. NINCH was founded by ACLS, working co-equally with the Coalition for Networked Information and Getty AHIP, as a coalition of arts and humanities organizations to help coordinate and lead the way in preparing cultural resources for life on the Internet. ACLS has been a leader in looking at the implications of advancing technologies, especially digital technologies, for scholars in the humanities for many years, and the panel was one way of introducing NINCH to its membership. We are still very young (I came aboard in early March) but NINCH's 23 charter members, ranging from the Smithsonian and Library of Congress to the American Historical Association and the National Association of Artists Organizations, show an interest in learning about the techniques, the advancing technologies, and current projects in representing cultural resources in useful and accessible ways online. They have a lot to learn from each other and one of the challenges facing NINCH is to relate and coordinate the approaches, issues and achievements of the different sectors and disciplines of the (mostly nonprofit) cultural enterprise. One of the most interesting aspects of working on NINCH is comparing different national approaches to this immense opportunity of representing the breadth of cultural resources online in effective and usable forms. Unlike many European countries, there is, characteristically, no centralized national plan for doing this. An opportunity for comparing approaches will be afforded at the DRH 96 conference this July in Oxford. Dan Greenstein from the British Arts & Humanities Data Service will be chairing a session on Tuesday July 2 in which AHDS will be seen alongside NINCH, the Canadian Heritage Information Network (Lyn Elliot Sherwood) and the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (Peter Doorn and Annuska Graver). NINCH's strategy is still evolving: an initial plan will be available this summer. Any questions or those interested in talking further about how NINCH can best operate should e-mail me at david@cni.org. [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Call for Papers - South African Theatre Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 30 (30) On behalf of a colleague at the Open University: The Open University Post-Colonial Literatures Group CALL FOR PAPERS SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE AS/AND INTERVENTION Papers are invited for a conference on South African Theatre that aims to explore the idea of intervention. We welcome wide-ranging approaches to a re-evaluation of South African Theatre in the post-apartheid era. This is an opportunity to examine strategies of intervention among stage, audience, theatrical forms, critical methodologies, canonical and new texts, well-established and fledgling playwrights, new identities. We are especially interested in the body as a site of race, gender, class, and sexual difference. In re-thinking what we mean by South African Theatre we expect to focus on theoretical, theatrical, and/or societal issues. We anticipate papers that will: investigate the conditions of representation of theatre as intervention, stage interventions in interpretations of South African Theatre, and question the changing role of theatre as an interventionary vehicle. In addition to academic papers three playwrights from South Africa, including the Southern Arts Visiting Writer, Fatima Dike, will participate in a panel discussion and will give readings. Dr. Dennis Walder and I are negotiating the publication of selected papers and the playwrights' panel for submission by the end of 1996. Dates: 30-31st August, 1996. Conference Venue: Centre for English Studies, Seminar Room 362, Senate House, Malet Street, London. Please send abstracts of 200 words for 20-30 minute papers by May 20th, 1996 (although this date is 'negotiable' in view of the nearness of the 20th) to: Marcia Blumberg email: M.Blumberg@OPEN.AC.UK The Open University Phone: 01908 - 652092 Department of Literature Fax: 01908 - 653750 Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom _________________________________________________________________________ Cheers Simon _________________________________________________________________________ Simon Rae : S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK (Internet) Academic Computing Service : The Open University, Walton Hall : phone: (01908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom : fax: (01908) 653744 The URL for the OU's WWW home page is : http://www.open.ac.uk/ From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: FW: 10.8 impermanence Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 13:11:37 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 31 (31) The cost of electronic storage is falling exponentially. The space needed for this storage is becoming infinitesimal as compared to a "paper" library. There is no valid excuse for junking any bibliographical material whatsoever. I would go as far as saying that throwing away information is a crime against humanity, closely akin to book burning. As to the relevance and/or value of this material that is a matter for present and future scholars to study, judge, say and publish but never to destroy. -------------------------------------- dennis cintra leite dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br sao paulo business school (eaesp/fgv) snail mail:av.9 de julho 2029 sao paulo, sp 01313-902 brazil py2-etn From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.14 citation and impermanence Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 18:24:44 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 32 (32) First of all let me say that I am a bit outside scholarly citation and impermanence of electronic records in my work. But I am inside because I deal in public electronic records. I have been very concerned with the impermanence of electronic records with the mistakes that crop up when older backups are mistakenly put on the public systems. Files that go random. In my field we have multiple backups of electronic data, print it out hardcopy and/or microfilm off screen everything. With the worst case we can reconstruct from microfilm. If you have enough places where you have stored copies and if you keep updating the technology so you can retreve the data then you will be ok. If I know my history we have this problem everytime a new technology comes along. And things just get lost. Wars, fires, floods, ignorance all have lost infomation in the past. But so has technology. When we went from scrolls to codex's we lost many books because no one cared enough to copy them. As I recall some Roman poet's work survived in only one copy that was copied in the 14th century. An then the original copy was lost. We need to make sure that information gets spread around to everyone. That is the only way I can see that it can be saved. From: henrich@theol.unizh.ch Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 08:50:26 +0200 (MEST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 33 (33) Usually I say "at" even when speaking German (and I think this is the original meaning of the sign). In Swiss German, we call it "Affenschwanz" (which means monkey-tail). In Germany, it is called "Klammeraffe" (spider-monkey). -- Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. Bullinger-Briefwechsel-Edition Phone: xx41 1 257 67 54 Kirchgasse 9 Fax: xx41 1 262 14 12 CH-8001 Zuerich e-mail: henrich@theol.unizh.ch Switzerland http://www.unizh.ch/irg/henrich.html From: Lepine Brigitte Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 19:58:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 34 (34) What does one say in German, [deleted quotation]In French (here, in Montreal), I usually hear "a commercial" (which is of course "commercial a". B.Lepine lepineb@ere.umontreal.ca From: Attachment Research Center Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 20:50:29 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 35 (35) @ is "arroba" in Spanish; pronounced ah-'roh-bah JC Garelli ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Juan Carlos Garelli, MD, PhD Department of Early Development University of Buenos Aires From: iwml Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 01:08:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 36 (36) Never mind the "@" sign! On this side of the Atlantic, a period is a full stop in English! Ian Mitchell LAmbert University of KEnt at Canterbury From: Joseph Galron Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 20:52:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 37 (37) Concerning the"@" sign: in Israel, among many compute wizards, this sign is called "Strudel" (because of the shape of an Apfelstrudel) Joseph Galron ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph (Yossi) Galron | Internet: jgalron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Jewish Studies Librarian | galron.1@osu.edu Ohio State University Libraries | or jgalron@aleph.lib.ohio-state.edu 308 Main Library | URL http://aleph.lib.ohio-state.edu From: kosters@rulub4.LeidenUniv.nl Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 09:15:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 38 (38) Here in The Netherlands many of us say *apestaartje* (i.e. *monkey's tail*) or *slingeraap* (i.e. spider monkey, according to the dictionary) for *@*. The habit usually stops from the moment we know what *@* really means (i.e. *at*). OnnOKosters From: "Charles C. Hadley" Subject: Re: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 96 12:38:28 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 39 (39) In French I sometimes say "at" (in English), sometimes "arobace" (the French name for the typographic character), sometimes "a" with circular gesticulations. the "dot" is "point", incidentally. -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Charles C. Hadley, Doyen ! ...by these [words] be admonished: Faculte des Langues ! of making many books there is Universite Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 ! no end, and much study is a 74 rue Pasteur ! weariness of the flesh 69002 Lyon, France ! --Ecclesiates 12:12 phone (33) 72 72 20 88 ! hadley@univ-lyon3.fr ! -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- .... . From: Willard McCarty Subject: @ Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 08:03:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 40 (40) Perhaps someone more learned in palaeography than I will confirm that the @, "at-sign", is derived from the minuscule letter "a" by extending the terminal stroke (at the lower right-hand corner) counterclockwise up and over the top of the letter, then around it to the base-line. It is, I think, a "commercial a" in the sense that it was used by if not devised to serve those transcribing items with their prices, "5 pounds of potatoes AT 2 cents per pound". It would be interesting if in any language other than English the sense of "at" were to be used in speaking the @. WM Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: RE: 10.18 how to say "@"? Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 13:17:22 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 41 (41) In Portuguese we would say "arroba" - the reason being that the @ sign is used as notation for a measure of weight (non metric, equivalent to about 15 kilograms and somewhat obsolete) with that pronunciation. From: Subject: Annual Review online Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 42 (42) We've been mulling over doing part of our annual review process online since it currently generates such a cumbersome pile of paper which costs our department a good deal to reproduce. As a multi-campus department, moving information around on paper is a big problem. Switching to HTML annual reviews would save on material costs (of course at the expense of materially increasing the labor for the person being reviewed); but we are worried about confidentiality. Most people don't mind having their vitas on the Web, but student evaluations, work-in-progress, and a lot of other things shouldn't be there. I just realized that one could submit an electronic report on diskette, with relative links to confidential documents on the same disk and absolute links to materials mounted publically on the Web. (Our office computers all have ethernet connections to the Web.) Has anybody ever tried anything like this? How did it work? Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians From: Subject: Re: 10.19 @ = Affenschwanz, Klammeraffe, a commercial, Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 43 (43) arroba, Strudel, apestaartje, slingeraap, arobace -- FULL STOP! In Swedish, @ is called "snabel-a" (a with a trunk) or "kanelbulle" (cinnamon bun, from its similarity in shape), or, more soberly, "at" (i. e. the English word). From: Subject: Teaching and Language Corpora 96 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 44 (44) CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS TALC96 - TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA Lancaster University, UK, 9th-12th August, 1996 INCLUDED IN THIS EMAIL: General Details Provisional Programme Registration Details AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE While the use of computer text corpora in research is now well established, they are now being used increasingly for teaching purposes. This includes the use of corpus data to inform and create teaching materials; it also includes the direct exploration of corpora by students, both in the study of linguistics and of foreign languages. Talc96 will build upon the success of Talc94, which brought together researchers and teachers who are involved in such work, to take part in an international exchange of current experience and expertise. THEMES KEY THEME: Talc96 will have a special focus on evaluating the claims made for corpora in linguistics and language teaching. OTHER THEMES: which the conference is expected to cover include - 1.) The use of corpora in student led learning and investigation. 2.) Software for corpus based language and linguistics learning. 3.) Developing corpora for teaching purposes. 4.) The exploitation of corpus based teaching and learning materials. 5.) The theory and practice of corpus based teaching and learning. Papers presented at the conference will be of the typical 20 minutes talk plus ten minutes of questions format. WORKSHOPS Talc96 will also host several workshops related to teaching and language corpora. To give an example of what those workshops may be, Talc94 had a variety of workshops such as "Multilingual Corpus Building" and "Concordancing and Corpus Retrieval". Workshops will be of one to two hour duration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TALC96 - Provisional Programme. Day One (9th August): 09.00 - 13.00: Registration and Welcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.00 - 15.00: General Issues in Teaching and Language Corpora I 1. Issues in Applied Corpus Linguistics, Lynne Flowerdew, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2. Corpus Linguistics - evaluating the diffusion of an innovation, Chris Kennedy, University of Birmingham 3. Concordancing in English Language Teaching, Bernhard Kettemann, University of Graz 4. The Role of the Corpus Based 'Phrasicon' in English Language Teaching, Stephen Magee, University of St Andrews and Michael Rundell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15.00 - 15.30: Refreshments Break ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15.30 - 17.00: Creating Materials and Tests 1. CALL Materials Derived from Integrating 'Expert' and 'Interlanguage' Corpora Findings, Lynne Flowerdew, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2. Multilingual concordance-based exercise types, Francine Roussel, University of Nancy 3. Using Corpus Word Frequency Data in the Automatic Generation of English Language Cloze Tests, David Coniam, Chinese University of Hong Kong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19.00 Dinner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Day Two (10th August) 9.00-11.00: Parallel Corpora in Language Teaching and Translation 1. Parallel Texts in Language Teaching, Michael Barlow, Rice University 2. Corpora and Terminology: Software for the Translation Programme at Goteborg University, Pernilla Danielson and Daniel Ridings, Goteborg University 3. Parallel and Comparable Bilingual Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning, Carol Peters, CNR, Pisa. 4. COSMAS - a multipurpose system for the exploitation of text corpora, F Bodmer, J Cloeren and R Neumann, Institut fur Deutsche Sprache and Royal Spanish Academy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.00 Refreshments Break ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.30 - 13.00: Teaching Languages other than English Using Corpora 1. An Experiment in the Learning of French through Corpus Linguistics, Glyn Holmes, University of Western Ontario 2. A Corpus for Teaching Portuguese, A. Berber Sardinha, University of Liverpool 3. Research into the Functions of Particles in a Corpus, Marta Fernandez-Villaneuva ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13.00 Lunch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14.30-18.00: Workshops (Parallel Sessions) Parallel Workshop Session A Michael Barlow (Rice University) "ParaConc" (14:30 - 16:00) Chris Tribble (Lancaster University): "Developing Corpora for Teaching Purposes" (14:30 - 16:00) Parallel Workshop Session B Philip King, Tim Johns, David Wools (Birmingham University): "The Lingua Project - Parallel Concordancing" (16:00 - 18:00) Knut Hofland, "The ICAME Archive & Concordancing" (Bergen University) (16:00 - 18:00) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.00: Dinner -------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Three (11th August) 9.00-11.00: Corpora in Supporting ESP/EAP 1. Encouraging Students to Explore Language and Culture in Early Modern English Pamphlets, Josef Schmied, University of Chemnitz 2. The Ideology of Science as a Collocation: how Corpus Linguistics can Expand the Boundaries of Genre Analysis, Chris Gledhill, Aston University 3. Corpora, Genre Analysis and Dissertation Writing: An Evaluation of the Potential of Corpus-Based Techniques in the Study of Academic Writing, Chris Carne, University of Reading 4. Investigating Grounding Across Narrative and Oral Discourse with Students, Tony Jappy, University of Perpignan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.00: Refreshments ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.30 - 13.00: Corpora Supporting Aspects of Language Pedagogy 1. Roberta Facchinetti: The exploration of English diachronic corpora by foreign language students 2. Paul Bowden, Mark Edwards, Peter Halstead and Tony Rose: Knowledge extraction from corpora for pedagogical applications 3. Mary-Ellen Okurowski: Using Authentic Corpora and Language Tools for Adult-Centered Learning ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.00 Lunch ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.30-16.00: Corpora and Student Writing 1. Exploiting Learner Corpus Data in the Classroom: Form Focused Instruction and Data Driven Learning, Sylviane Granger, Universite Catholique de Louvain 2. Approaching the Assessment of Performance Unit Archive of Schoolchildren's Writing from the Point of View of Corpus Linguistics, M. Shimazumi & A Berber Sardinha, University of Liverpool 3. Teaching L1 and L2 composition in a multicultural environment, Robert Faingold, University of Tulsa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.00: Refreshments ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.30-18.00: Special Session on the British National Corpus 16:30 The British National Corpus as a Language Learner Resource, Guy Aston,University of Bologna 17:00 An Introduction to Retrieval from the BNC Using Sara, Lou Burnard, OUCS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 19.00 Dinner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.00: Software Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Four (12th August) 9 am-11.00: Corpus Resources and Systems 1. Teaching Terminology Using Corpora, Jennifer Pearson, Dublin City University 2. A Textual Clues Approach for Generating Metaphors as Explanations by an Intelligent Tutoring System, V. Prince & S. Ferrari, LIMSI-CNRS 3. Designing a CALL System Using Corpora for Speakers of Cantonese, John Milton, City University Hong Kong 4. Marrying VERBALIST to concordance data, John Higgins, University of Stirling ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.00: Refreshments ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11.30-13.00: General Issues in Teaching and Language Corpora II 1. Evaluating Corpora - are we Asking the Right Questions?, Marina Dossena, Bergamo University 2. Corpus Linguistics as an Academic Subject, Ourania Hatzidaki, University of Birmingham 3. A Corpus Based Description of Headline Grammar, John Morley, University of Sienna ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.00-14.30: Lunch ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.30: Close of Conference ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================= TALC96 REGISTRATION. ==================== To register, you may either: 1. Send this form by surface mail to: TALC96, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YT United Kingdom 2. Or fax it to: +44 - 1524 - 843085 3. Or email it to: mcenery@computing.lancaster.ac.uk or mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk 4. Or fill in the interactive form on the World Wide Web at the URL http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc/ Please register BEFORE 1st June 1996, otherwise we cannot guarantee availability of accommodation. 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Special dietary requirements: None [ ] Vegetarian [ ] Vegan [ ] Other [ ] Please specify: _______________ ______________________________ Any other comments: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Local Organising Committee Gerry Knowles - Lancaster University, UK Tony McEnery - Lancaster University, UK Anne Wichmann - Central Lancashire University, UK Simon Botley - Lancaster University, UK General Organising Committee Bernhard Kettemann - Graz, AU Lou Burnard - Oxford University, UK Tim Johns - Birmingham University, UK From: Richard Bear Subject: Montagu Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:00:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 45 (45) Richard Bear, Admissions, has published a new WWW (html) edition of his Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu at the URL: <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montagu.html>. Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu From: Khalid Choukri Subject: ELRA - JOB ADVERTISEMENT FOR A LANGUAGE RESOURCES CONSULTANT Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:58:52 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 46 (46) JOB ADVERTISEMENT FOR A LANGUAGE RESOURCES CONSULTANT (Please forward to whom it may concern and accept our apologies, if you receive this more than once) JOB ADVERTISEMENT FOR A LANGUAGE RESOURCES CONSULTANT The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) was established in February 1995, with the encouragement of the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LR). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of the non-profit Association is to promote the production of LR and to collect, validate, and make them available to users. It will gather information on market needs and encourage the Commission and other funding bodies to support the development of the LR most urgently needed. The Association has members drawn from every country in the European Union and expects to attract subscribers from throughout the world. At present, ELRA is financed from membership fees and grants; in the future the Association will derive income from the sale of licences to users world wide. After an initial start-up period of four years, it is planned that the Association will be financially independent and self-supporting. more information about ELRA available from the web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ELRA is seeking someone to undertake a short-term (3-4 months) full-time temporary contract related to Language Resources identification. The appropriate candidate should be well-established in the field, having a thorough knowledge of the Language Resources (LRs) area. He or she should also be aware of related ongoing projects within the EU, and be willing to devote his or her time to this work. This will carried out in coordination with ELRA experts and under the ELRA's CEO supervision. (Citizenship of, or residency papers for an EU country required) The tasks to be carried out are briefly summarized below. 0. Proposition for a workplan (tasks, budget). 1. Listing the major written corpora and lexicon resources (state of the Art) 2. Contacting potential suppliers to complete / review the list 3. Identifying the technical work that is still to be done (estimating the effort of packaging the data into a marketable product) 4. Ascertaining the legal situation regarding ownership and copyright 5. Negotiating the marketing of such resources through ELRA/ELDA and estimating the revenues/costs-effectiveness. 6. Signing "letter of intent" for such marketing arrangements on behalf of ELRA/ELDA. 7. Reporting to the CEO and handling over all information for contract conclusion with priorities/hierarchies set up regarding the each resources. The work is planned for a period of three months starting by the 20th of May. A list of deliverables should be produced: D1 - A list of LRs suppliers (with identified LRs) to be approached, "letter of intent" sample due 30 May D2 - First progress Report, due 30 June D3 - Second progress Report, due 30 July D4 - Estimates for product collection D5 - Signed letters of intent D4 and D5 are due by September 10th. The sub-contract will be split onto two phases: Phase 1: Tasks 1 and 2, Deliverable D1 Phase 2: Tasks 3 to 7, Deliverables D2 to D7, Compensation: A Basic sub-contract for phase 1 will be concluded and then a second one for phase 2. Compensation will be based on the number of agreements that will be concluded ("bonus performance"). A separate budget will be allowed for Travel expenses. For more information please contact: Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA Executive Director Tel. +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax. +33 1 45 86 44 88 87, Avenue D'ITALIE, 75013 PARIS Email: elra@calvanet.calvacom.fr Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ..................................... From: Bernhard Schroeder Subject: Autumn school of the GLDV, 1996 Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:58:42 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 47 (47) The following announcement of the autumn school of the GLDV in 1996 may be of interest for members of this list. Best wishes, Bernhard Schroeder ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A N K "U N D I G U N G GLDV Herbschule '96 Herausforderungen an die Computerlinguistik: Multilingualit"at, Multimedialit"at, Multidisziplinarit"at 23. - 27. September 1996 an der Otto-von-Guericke Universit"at Magdeburg ========================================================== Kursangebot: (je Kurs 5 * 1,5 Stunden): Elisabeth Andre' (DFKI Saarbr"ucken): Intelligente multimediale Benutzerschnittstellen John Bateman (GMD Darmstadt): Multilinguale Sprachgenerierung f"ur Informationssysteme Hans Haller (IAI Saarbr"ucken): Kontrollierte Sprache und Tools Roland Hausser (Universit"at Erlangen-N"urnberg): Semantisches Parsing Chris Mellish (Universit"at Edinburgh): Angewandte automatische Generierung von Texten und Hypertexten Dietmar R"osner (Universit"at Magdeburg): Wissensrepr"asentation mit terminologischen Logiken Wir versuchen, vor allem f"ur Studenten aus Osteuropa Stipendien vergeben zu k"onnen. Bitte senden Sie Ihre Bewerbung an uns. Fr"uhanmeldungen bis 30. Juni 1996: Mitglieder der GLDV Nichtmitglieder Studenten: 80,-- DM 100,-- DM Sonstige : 120,-- DM 150,-- DM Anmeldungen nach dem 30. Juni 1996: Mitglieder der GLDV Nichtmitglieder Studenten: 120,-- DM 160,-- DM Sonstige : 140,-- DM 200,-- DM Weitere Informationen, mit u.a. einer Beschreibung der einzelnen Kurse, "Ubernachtungsm"oglichkeiten, Wegbeschreibungen und einem Anmeldeformular werden auf der Homepage der Herbstschule ver"offentlicht: http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/herbstschule96.html Wenn Sie ein Bett in der Jugendherberge reservieren wollen, vermerken Sie dies bitte im Anmeldeformular. ========================================================== Otto-von-Guericke Universit"at Magdeburg Institut f"ur Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme Prof. Dr. Dietmar R"osner Universit"atsplatz 2 D-39106 Magdeburg tel: +49/391/67-1 87 18 fax: +49/391/67-1 20 18 email: herbstschule@iik.cs.uni-magdeburg.de www: http://www-ai.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/herbstschule96.html From: Dr Christiane Rahner Subject: art history on the WWW Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:41:52 GMT +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 48 (48) To all who have been so kind to send me information: many thanks for your help! Christiane Rahner From: "A. E. B. Coldiron" Subject: X-Post: Milton Transcription Project Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 16:44:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 49 (49) Dear HUMANIST Readers, As John Milton wrote in _Areopagitica_, "a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life." THE MILTON TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT is dedicated to assuring that all of Milton's poetry and prose will be available for public access on the Internet. Although most of Milton's poetry will soon become available at the Oxford Text Archive and at the University of Richmond server, most of the English and Latin prose--along with a great deal of fascinating Miltoniana-- remains to be transcribed. We invite you to join us in providing accurate scholarly transcriptions of these texts. THE MILTON TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT (MTP), currently supported by Milton-L, _Milton Quarterly_, the Computer Writing and Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, _EMLS_, and the University of Richmond's web-server, is the joint creation of volunteers from 24 colleges and universities in three countries. Volunteers may transcribe as much or as little as they wish; each transcription will be proofread, formatted, checked, and refereed. We shall acknowledge any significant contribution, and all accepted transcriptions will be credited by name. In order to volunteer, to view test sites, or to receive other information, please contact either Professor Hugh Wilson (MTP, Editor; dithw@ttacs.ttu.edu) or Professor A.E.B. Coldiron, (MTP, Internet Liaison; aec2b@virginia.edu). The only requirements are diligence, concern for accuracy, and the ability to type with one or more fingers. Volunteer: earn the intangible reward of "those whose publisht labours advance the good of mankind" (_Areopagitica_, 1644). From: Andrea Nixon Subject: History/Philosophy of Technology Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 09:41:06 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 50 (50) Does anyone on the list know of work that is being done in the fields of either the history of technology or the philosophy of technology that directly relates to computing in the humanities? I am looking for work focused on the implications of the use of information technologies in the humanities. Sincerely, Andrea Nixon anixon@carleton.edu From: Steve Taylor Subject: TACT guides Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 11:58:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 51 (51) A colleague has begun using the text-analysis program TACT, but has found the documentation to be inadequate. Does anyone know of any third-party guide for using TACT? Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University (404)727-8931 http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/ From: Subject: Re: 10.22 annual reviews online? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 52 (52) A query on a minor point about the on-line, html review, quoted here: [deleted quotation] Why would HTML "materially increase the labor for the person being reviewed"? Glenn Everett Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow University of Tennessee at Martin aaff@utm.edu From: Subject: hiatus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 53 (53) Your editor will be away from his usual haunts from Friday afternoon until Monday evening, and although computers and the Internet will doubtless be within reach, he is unlikely to have the time to use them on Humanist. Your messages will of course be safe on the Princeton server, but it will not be speaking to you until sometime on Tuesday. Humanists have always been great talkers. The occasional meditative silence -- does it make the chatter more welcome? Meanwhile, for your entertainment I have put on the Web something that I found among my papers while I was sorting the transatlantic-worthy from the unworthy last night. It is an essay on how to survive contrary arguments ("factifuging", or fact-fleeing), for which I have the name of the author but no other information. If anyone recognizes the piece, I'd be grateful to know more. Enjoy Nathan S. Kline, M.D., "Factifuging", at the URL http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/misc/factifuging.html Fleeing the scene but not the facts, WM From: Gustav Bayerle Subject: Re: 10.26 the polyglot @ Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 07:48:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 54 (54) In Hungarian @ is called _kukac_ "worm." From: Florian T Brody Subject: Re: 10.19 @ = Affenschwanz, Klammeraffe, a commercial, arroba, Strudel, apestaartje, slingeraap, arobace -- FULL STOP! Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 20:57:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 55 (55) as much as the & sign which as everybody knows is early latin shorthand for "et" is known in German, the @-sign is unknown and was introduced but the 7-bit IBM char set which had nothing but A..Z,0..9, and a few US style special chars such as #@ | As Rainer Henrich points out @ is called "Klammeraffe" - was called "Klammeraffe" until approx a year ago - now everybody (everybody who reads at least a tabloid) knows that it is the "Internet sign" - nobody who wants to be cool can do without and logos, mugs, T-Shirts everything has an "@" instead of an "a" wherever possible. even peope who claim that they use email regularily don't know how to draw the @ - observe people who they desperately make an "a" and then try to go around clockwise - change their mind midstream and go the other way around .... Another sign: the "#" which I know as "Doppelkreuz" in German (double cross) is sometimes referred as "Kanalgitter" (sewer cover/grid - the one on street corners to let the rain water run down). And in one glossary it was explained as Octothorp - unfortunately I never found a second reference to this. I really like the word and use it whenever there is a half way reasonable chance to do so - which is not very often :) anybody who knows more about this? Florian Brody MultimediaArt, Salzburg, Austria Art Center College of Design, Pasadenas CA and currently Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria From: Subject: Orlandi on theory and practice of MS encoding Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 56 (56) Many thanks to Tito Orlandi for calling our attention (in Humanist 10.1.1 of 7 May 1996) to his paper "Teoria e prassi della codifica dei manoscritti" at http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/encod.html. This paper is very much to the point, as regards the theory of encoding and its practical implications, and I recommend it to anyone interested in the field. If I may trespass a bit on the patience of those who are not thus interested in the field, I'd like to respond here to some issues raised by Orlandi's essay. In particular, I like Orlandi's attempt to bring order to the problem by distinguishing systematically the 'ideal text', the 'virtual text', and the 'material text' (testo ideale, testo virtuale, testo materiale), which correspond approximately with what I would call the authorial conception, the text as an abstract linguistic/cultural object, and the book or witness to the text. Orlandi usefully applies some basic semiotic thinking to the theory of encoding and the practical implications of that theory. In one point, however, I wonder whether Orlandi is not dismissing too quickly the position taken by Ian Lancashire in his postings to Humanist last December. Orlandi says in his concluding paragraph: Tuttavia, quale che sia lo scopo che ci si propone, la codifica su supporto magnetico non è la codifica del testo materiale, ma quella del testo virtuale, che si ottiene esaminando il testo materiale alla luce della competenza di chi lo ha prodotto. Solo questo permetterà di identificare tutti gli elementi singoli, atomici, che formerrano l'oggetto della codifica, e di formulare una tabella convenzionale di corrispondenza fra i codici, cioè i simboli della codifica, e quegli elementi. At any rate, whatever scope be proposed for the encoding of a text, encoding in magnetic form is not the encoding of the material text, but that of the virtual text, which is obtained by examining the material text in the light of the competence of the creator. Only the encoding of the virtual text will make it possible to identify all the individual, atomic elements which will form the object of encoding, and to formulate a conventional table of correspondences between the tags, i.e. the symbols of the encoding, and those elements. (my translation, take with grain of salt) This seems to me a perfectly acceptable approach, in many cases. But it does present some problems for those readers faced with material texts (MSS, inscriptions in the stone of ancient ruins, ...) which we do *not* wholly understand, and from which can reconstruct only partially the virtual text. Sometimes, we can understand nothing at all. In practice, it seems to me, we tend to do two things in such cases: * in editions, we record as much detail of the physical state of the original artefact as seems (a) economically feasible and (b) potentially significant -- by means of detailed transcription, or by images of the artefact, or both * we retain the original artefact in a museum, archive, or library, in order that it can be consulted in cases of need. If we can *partially* unravel the virtual text, then we need an electronic representation which will * allow us to express our understanding of the virtual text (such as it is, given the faulty state of the material text and our own faulty competence) as far as possible * allow us to record as much of the material manifestation of the text as we think *might be* significant. I believe Prof. Lancashire is concerned in part with such situations, and it is difficult to dismiss entirely the desire to record the material conditions of the text in such cases. Even in cases where we think we understand a (virtual) text satisfactorily, the historical vicissitudes of text transmission by print and manuscript do text to encourage the multiplication of text versions -- and oral tradition is even more prolific of variation. And the material transmission of the text is itself an object of study, even for those of us with an 'allographic' understanding of the text. And therefore it is necessary that scholarship possess a method of encoding which can record *both* the virtual text *and* its historically important material manifestations. In this sense, I have to agree that one of Prof. Lancashire's premises is correct, even while the other one (the claim that the TEI *requires* a focus on the virual text and *forbids* the encoding of the material text) is false. It is perhaps worth pointing out, however, that recording the material manifestation of a text when we do not understand it is fraught with risks: if we don't understand the text, then we cannot guarantee that our recording of the text's material manifestation will capture its every significant aspect. We are likely to lose something which later analysts will think bears meaning -- just as Thomas Johnson, the editor of Emily Dickinson, may possibly have lost significant distinctions in her punctuation despite his very conservative transcription policies. (At least one later scholar says the marks transcribed by Johnson as dashes are rhetorical marks for rising, sustained, or falling tones, and need to be transcribed as at least three distinct symbols.) Equally to the point, the risks of omission are not limited to texts we are conscious of not understanding. There are no detectable limits to the ingenuity of scholarship in drawing inferences from texts and the circumstances of their transmission, so there is no detectable limit to the set of features which *might* be significant in some context or other, or under some analytical microscope or other. From this I draw the inference that *any* representation of a text, like any representation of any object, is likely to lose some information: Representations are inevitably partial, never disinterested; inevitably they reveal their authors' conscious and unconscious judgments and biases. Representations obscure what they do not reveal, and without them nothing can be revealed at all. ("Text in the Electronic Age," L&LC 6.1 (1991): 34) This is one reason the notion of extensibility is built so deep into the TEI Guidelines. Under the circumstances, it is futile to expect any encoding of the physical manifestations of a text to be complete, just as it is futile to expect the physical manifestation to exhaust the significance of the virtual text, still less of the ideal text. All that can be expected by later users, and all that can be hoped for by encoders, is that an encoding capture without excessive distortion some of the features of a text the encoders believe they understand. As Orlandi says (in private correspondence): All in all: we can encode only what we understand; and what we do not understand, may be reproduced and communicated by means of analogical rather than digital devices, so photography, autopsy, etc. Or more precisely: by means of devices used analogically, including digital images etc. (Even this may be too optimistic: analogical reproductions lose information, too, because they choose some features of the original, rather than others, for reproduction.) Many thanks again for Tito Orlandi for this paper. Best regards, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen From: Paul Brians Subject: annual review in html Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 07:56:44 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 57 (57) Glenn Everett wrote: [deleted quotation] I don't know about you, but I'm pretty fluent in html and use various translation tools but it still takes me time to translate documents from Microsoft Word format to html. For someone less experienced it could be a truly daunting chore. I look forward to Microsoft Assistant for the Mac (the only thing that might persuade me to upgrade to Word 6.0). Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians From: "touched by the tangled love of poets." Subject: tact Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 14:35:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 58 (58) If I remember correctly, though TACT is freeware, the copyright for the manual is held by MLA. And they have taken their own sweet time in releasing it. However, last I heard, it is intended to come out very soon-- perhaps even this summer. -john drummond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- john garnett drummond................"Omar"*| drummojg@jmu.edu "a man is rich in proportion to the number *| help_john@jmu.edu of things he can afford to let alone" -hdt *| http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "C. Perry Willett" Subject: Re: 10.27 queries Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 08:08:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 59 (59) LETRS (The Library Electronic Text Resource Center) at Indiana University has a collection of guides to electronic texts and tools (including one for TACT) available on its web pages at: http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/text-tools/softwareoverview.html> Perry Willett Main Library Indiana University PWILLETT@indiana.edu From: Tom Walsh (92) Subject: Star Tribune Guest Editorial Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 60 (60) Star Tribune, May 12, 1996, p. A27 Killing tenure would be foolish Regent's plan sure to further damage U By Fennell Evans and Ellen Berscheid The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents is trying to change its employment contracts with the faculty. If it succeeds, it will do irreparable damage to the university, the state's economy, and the taxpayers. Regent Jean Keffeler claims that a change in faculty contracts to allow the dismissal of tenured faculty is necessary to give the regents greater "economic flexibility" and greater freedom to "shape" the university. The regents seem to view the university as a has-been and also-ran in the national sweepstakes the states are running to improve their research universities to fuel their economies. The attack on faculty already is "shaping" the university. Many first rate scholars have resigned, others are seeking employment elsewhere, and searches for new faculty are discovering that top scholars from other institutions are now reluctant to consider the University of Minnesota. The brain drain is a direct result of the regents' view of faculty as a financial liability-not as the economic asset most national universities believe their faculties to be. Repeated requests for detailed financial information supporting the regents' economic logic have been met with the glib statement that because personnel account for 80 percent of the university's budget, changing the standard faculty contract will help solve the university's financial problems. It is true that 80 percent of the university's budget involves personnel. But only 11 percent of personnel are faculty. Faculty not only have become few in number compared to other personnel, the faculty is significantly smaller than the faculties of comparable universities. Faculty compensation thus accounts for a relatively small portion of the university's budget. In 1994-95, the university's total budget was $1.6 billion. Total faculty compensation was $271 million, of which only $191 million came from state appropriations--the remainder was raised by the faculty themselves from research and other activities, a leveraging of faculty salaries typical of research universities. In sum, state-supported faculty compensation constitutes only 12 percent--not 80 percent--of the university's budget. In return for an investment of $191 million in their salaries, the faculty raised $350 million in external research funds alone. This money generated 10,000 Minnesota jobs and supported the university's graduate programs and other activities. It is also the faculty, of course, who bring in the lion's share of the tuition revenue and on whom the academic reputation of the university depends. This is why other national universities regard their faculties as revenue-generating engines. And it is just one reason why they make the retention and recruitment of top faculty their highest priority. The regents' careless disregard for the role of faculty in the financial survival of a national university is not only reflected in their effort to weaken tenure, but also in compensation policies that have ranked University of Minnesota faculty near the bottom of the national universities for many years. This year is typical. Community college and state university faculty are scheduled to receive a 4 percent salary increase. University civil service and other bargaining unit personnel (not Twin Cities faculty) will receive a 4.5 percent increase, resulting in a $17 million increased budgetary burden. Only a 2 percent increase has been proposed for University of Minnesota faculty, increasing the state's contribution to faculty salaries by $3.6 million. Contrast that $3.6 million to the $17 million for other personnel and to the $59 million the university spent last year on outside "consultants," including platoons of lawyers. Tougher to keep top faculty Meanwhile, the university's trajectory of decline in academic reputation has made it increasingly difficult to attract and retain top faculty. In 1975, the university was ranked 12th nationally as an academic institution. It had fallen to 16th by 1985, and, in 1995, careful analysis revealed that it had slipped into the third tier, to a rank of 21. Competitors such as the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin are sending resolutions of support for Minnesota faculty on the one hand while raiding Minnesota's faculty on the other. These universities have resisted tampering with freedom of inquiry. And they have read the forecasts showing that over the next 10 years, large numbers of faculty at all universities will retire and the fierce competition to attract top faculty will escalate. In the name of economizing, Keffeler and the regents' personnel sub-committee have lit a match to the already flammable faculty tinderbox. It has started the entire Board of Regents on a dangerous experiment to see whether a state that increasingly depends on high-technology manufacturing, value-added services and a highly educated work force can continue to prosper in the absence of a major national university. And it is inflicting another crippling blow to a once great university in its long and losing struggle against mediocrity and national oblivion. We appeal to the university's Alumni Association to rise once again to the defense of the university's future. We also appeal to the Legislature, the guardian of the state's almost 150 years of investment in the university, to protect that investment. And we appeal to the regents who have not yet formed an opinion to consider carefully the faculty's role in the financial dynamics of the university as well as the impact that a further decline in the university will have on the future of the state Fennell Evans is director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Interfacial Engineering. Ellen Berscheid is regents' professor ofpsychology in the university's College of Liberal Arts. From: Jim Marchand Subject: Affenschwanz, etc. Date: Fri, 17 May 96 14:20:25 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 61 (61) The names which we give to the squiggles we put on paper are often quite evanescent, even names of letters of the alphabet. Cf. E. S. Sheldon, "The Origin of the English Names of the Letters of the Alphabet," Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature 1 (1892), 66-87; _____, "Further Notes on the Names of the Letters," Studies, etc. II (1893), 155-171; Max Hermann Jellinek, "Der Aussprache des Lateinischen und deutsche Buchstabennamen," Wiener Sitzungsberichte, Phil.-hist. Kl. 212, vol. 2 (1932). Anyone who followed the name `haitch' for `aitch' (= h), or Harry Truman's `from a to izzard' would know this. Indeed, even today, there is little uniformity in names for such things as # (number, cross-hatch, cross-double-bar [as in Smith and Trager's `cross-double-bar-juncture']). The ampersand is in origin an etc ligature, the @ an a with a t over it (there was also an _ut_ sign for printers doing Latin). What to call ligatures was always a problem. As to @, when I worked as a clerk in Germany in the late 40's, we said Kreis-a, and I feel that Affenschwanz has a definite derogatory bent. In late 1940's German, BTW, anything preceded by Ammi- had a bad connotation, so we often called it Ammi-a (you could also spell it Ami-). Even attempts to give names to the signs of the phonetic alphabet are doomed to failure in some areas: Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw, _Phonetic Symbol Guide_ (U Chicago Press, 1986), 65, call the "Gothic" sign for [hw] `H-V Ligature', which it certainly is not, and which has a long and venerable tradition of being called `The Collitz Letter,' it having been invented by Hermann Collitz, of blessed memory. I note that they call # `Number Sign', in spite of Smith and Trager. Trema they call umlaut, though it is found above e, for example. It would be nice if we had some uniformity. Maybe ISO could take it up. At present, when asked `What is @ called in X?' answer `many things'. To those who want to have _period_ used only to mean `full stop', I say vsevo khoroshiva `luck to you'. Jim Marchand. From: Jim Campbell Subject: Re: 10.31 polyglot @ and the double-crossed octothorpe Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 18:56:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 62 (62) I've found the discussion of words for @ and other signs fascinating, but most of it has wandered away from the original poster's question. A few people have told us that "at" is a common way of speaking @ in an email address, but could some of the other respondents go back to the question and tell us how an e-mail address is spoken in their languages? That is, in American English I would say campbell@virginia.edu as campbell at virginia dot e d u How would you tell a colleague your email address in your language? - Jim Campbell (campbell@virginia.edu) From: "Iain D. Brown" <100131.3564@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Now available: "Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture and the Politics of Cyberspace" Date: 18 May 96 09:24:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 63 (63) PUBLICATION NOW AVAILABLE A while ago mention was made on SHARP of "Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture and the Politics of Cyberspace" (editors: Warren Chernaik, Marilyn Deegan and Andrew Gibson), to be published by the Centre for English Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication (Oxford) following a 1995 conference organised by the CES and OHC. I am pleased to inform you all that this book is now available for purchase. Looking through my copy which I picked up yesterday, I notice there are some excellent essays, including the following: Kathryn Sutherland, "Looking and knowing: textual encounters of a postponed kind" George Landow, "We are already beyond the book" John Pickering, "Hypermedia: when will they feel natural?" Michael Allen, "Re-viewing the film (studies) text" Laura Cherniak, "The Web, semiotics, and history: Samual Delany's imagined worlds" Andrew Gibson, "Interactive fiction and narrative space" Nina Wakeford, "Sexualized bodies in cyberspace" Copies of "Beyond the Book" may be ordered direct from the Centre for English Studies, Room 363, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK. Cost per copy is L7.50 plus postage (L1, UK; 2, Europe; L3 elsewhere). Cheques, drawn in pounds sterling, should be made payable to the University of London. Further enquiries to Rebecca Dawson at the CES. Tel. (+44) (0)171 636 8000 ext. 3054 Fax (+44) (0)171 436 4533 e-mail: r.dawson@sas.ac.uk ***Also available from the CES are details of the University of London's MA in the History of the Book. This message is being cross-posted to HUMANIST. From: LDC Office Subject: Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 08:24:24 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 64 (64) Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM Radio Broadcast News Continuous Speech Recognition Corpus (Hub-4) This set of CD-ROMs contains all of the speech data provided to sites participating in the DARPA CSR November 1995 Hub-4 (Radio) Broadcast News tests. The data consists of digitized waveforms of MarketPlace (tm) business news radio shows provided by KUSC through an agreement with the Linguistic Data Consortium, and detailed transcriptions of those broadcasts. The software NIST used to process and score the output of the test systems is also included. The data is organized as follows: CD26-1: Training Data-Ten complete half-hour broadcasts with minimally-verified transcripts. The transcripts are time aligned with the waveforms at the story-boundary level. CD26-2: Development-Test Data-Six complete half-hour broadcasts with verified transcripts. The transcripts are time aligned with the waveforms at the story-and turn-boundary level. Index files have been included which specify how the data may be partitioned into 2 test sets. CD26-6 Evaluation-Test Data-Five complete half-hour broadcasts with verified/adjudicated transcripts. The transcripts are time aligned with the waveforms at the story-, turn-, and music-boundary level. An index file has been included which specifies how the data was partitioned into the test set used in the CSR 1995 Hub-4 tests. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1996 Membership Year will be able to receive a copy of the Radio Broadcast News at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can receive a copy of this corpus for research purposes only for a fee of $2500. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password. From: Subject: conference announcement Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 65 (65) Institute for Social Research The University of Kent at Canterbury CONFERENCE MORALS OF LEGITIMACY - RESPONSIBILITY, AUTHORITY AND TRUST IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 18-19 September 1996 Convenor: Italo Pardo The aim of the conference is to address the difficulty in linking legal and political responsibility to authority and trust in the exercise of power. The basic assumption is that serious handling of this issue must be based on a constructive understanding of the micro-level, as opposed to abstract thinking per se. In this belief, the conference brings together ethnographic analysis from Europe and outside it to study the significance of the different morals of legitimacy that coexist in civil society to the interplay between the production (and practice) of law - intended as a contested metaphor of social order, the establishment of legal and political authority, and the dynamics of citizens' trust in the institutions and representatives of the state. Contributions Ray Abrahams (University of Cambridge) - State jurisdiction and community morality: crime control when the state fails. John Fitzpatrick (University of Kent) - The legalization of everyday life: an exploration of the implications of the policing of neighbour disputes. Peter Fitzpatrick (University of Kent) - Appropriating Law: Hybridity and the peasant corporation. Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge) - Ethics of mass 'business' in contemporary Russia. Italo Pardo (University of Kent) - Citizens, distrusted politicians, rampant magistrates: political and jurisprudential moralities in Italy. Jonathan Parry (London School of Economics) - The moral and the corrupt: a case-study from Central India. Giuliana Prato (University of Kent) - The cherries of the Mayor: degrees of morality and responsibility in local Italian administration. Michael Rowlands (University College London) - Borders and mistrust in relation to immigrants' status in Europe. Paul Stirling (University of Kent) - Law, moral authority and social control: parables from Turkey. Further particulars are available from Dr Italo Pardo, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Eliot College, The University, Kent CT2 7NS; Tel. 01227 764000 ext 3632; Fax 01227 827289; e-mail i.pardo@ukc.ac.uk Booking forms are available from Mrs Jan Horn, The Institute for Social Research, Eliot College, The University, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NS; Tel. 01227 764000; Fax 01227 827289; e-mail dossa-office@ukc.ac.uk From: Glenn Everett Subject: Re: html-ized annual reviews Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:51:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 66 (66) Paul Brians wrote, in answer to my question, 'Why would HTML "materially increase the labor for the person being reviewed"?' [deleted quotation] I have some reluctance to extend this discussion of a minor point further, but perhaps some clarification is warranted. If the sole purpose is to make the text of the review documents available on the 'net, ASCII versions of word-processed files can be posted either to a gopher or web site. True, special fonts will be lost, but the text and the basic formatting can be preserved. But perhaps plain ASCII files are not satisfactory. Glenn Everett Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow University of Tennessee at Martin aaff@utm.edu From: Russon Wooldridge Subject: Re: 10.17 conference on mad science (IVCMS'96) Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 08:25:10 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 67 (67) Willard McCarty asks "what would a mad humanist be like?" One suggestion (with at least local relevance): someone who tries to persuade the university's administration to add substance to its public rhetoric about "the importance of the Humanities". Russon Wooldridge ------------ Russon Wooldridge, Department of French, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Tel: 1-416-978-2885 -- Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/ From: Subject: Humanist messages numbering Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 68 (68) [In response to the following, I have changed my stubborn practice. Objections? --WM] Willard, it's trivial: could you set the Humanist messages numbering so that when ordering the messages by subject they'd go in the correct sequence? Now, numbering them with 10.1, 10.2, ..., 10.10, 10.11 the ascii ordering by subject gives 10.1, 10.10, 10.11, ... 10.2, ... that's obviously wrong. Ordering the messages by date doesn't help because of non sequential messages delivery. Before that, the numbering used the template x.yyyy with trailing zeroes as needed: it was more usable. Do you think it's possible to restart with the old template? Thanks. Maurizio Maurizio Lana -- lana@cisi.unito.it -- lana@tecnetdati.it <><> My opinions are mine. Le mie opinioni sono mie. =>CISI, Universita' di Torino Via S. Ottavio 20, 10124 Torino, Italy <> http://www.cisi.unito.it/arachne/arachne.html =>Tecnet Dati, Via Legnano 27, 10128 Torino, Italy <> http://www.espero.it/tecnetdati/chitecne.htm From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 10.29 annual review; TACT Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 10:23:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 69 (69) On learning TACT: While it is not a manual for TACT, users may want to try the online workbook for TACTweb. This was designed to teach students about text analysis and prepare them for TACT should they continue to a higher level course. The URL is: http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca/tactweb/home.htm If you want your students to use this you may want to set up your own TACTweb server rather than point them at ours. We do not watch it closely except when a course is using it. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Russon Wooldridge Subject: Re 10.29 TACT Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 08:24:42 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 70 (70) john drummond asks about the latest on TACT. An official memorandum dated 9 May 1996 from the CHASS Information Office (the CHASS Facility -- Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences -- replaced the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto on 1 May 1996 [N.B. "Centre" -> "Facility"!]) informs the reader that "CHASS no longer distributes the TACT program. However, the program may be downloaded via the Internet at: http:///www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/tact.html" Thus the information given by LETRS (The Library Electronic Text Resource Center) at Indiana University (Humanist 10.29) is accurate. The same CHASS memorandum adds: "You may also contact the MLA who publishes the manual: Modern Language Association of America 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003-6981, U.S.A. Tel: 1-212-475-9500; Sales: 1-800-955-8275 [this number presumably works only in North-America]; Technical Support: 1-212-614-6302; Fax: 1-919-515-2682" As far as I know (I am part-author of the manual), the manual has not yet appeared. Russon Wooldridge ------------ Russon Wooldridge, Department of French, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Tel: 1-416-978-2885 -- Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/ From: Subject: The emperor's clothes: item for debate? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 71 (71) MN DAILY 5/20/96 EDITORIAL/OPINIONS How U professors aren't pulling their weight By Jim Gardner Reporting on the Faculty Senate meeting last month, a writer for the Star Tribune noted that the regents want to change the tenure code at the University and cut salaries when "professors aren't pulling their weight" (Metro, April 19). Like many legislators, the regents are concerned that tenure is being abused to protect unproductive faculty at the University. How can the University clear away its dead wood without jeopardizing tenure? Quite simply, it can restore the high standards of its once-famous College of Liberal Arts. The phrase "dead wood" automatically calls an image of aged professors who drone on in the classroom for six hours a week and then retreat to lakefront cabins with four months of paid vacation. But, in fact, many professors turn into dead wood as soon as they get tenure, even though some of them continue to be popular in a classroom of undergraduates. Academics die professionally when they lose their motivation for creative scholarship. Minnesotans generally understand that a university must give its professors a light course load so they can devote 50 hours a week to the teaching that matters most: disseminating their knowledge and spreading the fame of their research institution. By imparting their scholarship to colleagues internationally, professors make the whole world their classroom. To this end, tenure is indispensable. Its defenders sometimes forget, however, that tenure does not relieve professors of responsibility for communicating their research. To put it bluntly, professors who do not publish deserve to perish. They aren't pulling their weight as scholars . In CLA, most faculty accept the responsibility that University status brings, but they are wary of letting administrators tell them what research they can do. Tenure protects a scholar from the arbitrary decisions by a regent like Jean Keffeler or a provost like William Brody, both of whom apparently want to turn the University into a technical school and run it as a business. In their view, the University's mission is to train students for the workplace; therefore, any course at the University that does not lead directly to a vocation is worthless, and one is supposed to study history or nursing or music for the same reason -- to get a job. This warped measure of CLA as a vocational institute will not be rectified so long as the administrators themselves are at a loss to explain what makes a productive scholar in history or in the humanities. Even some of the deans have trouble distinguishing cultural and historical scholarship in the humanities from quantifiable, scientific research -- for example, the CLA dean who was replaced in January. This dean, a professor from the clinical sciences, was smart and fair, but hadn't a clue about to how to evaluate published research in the humanities. In physics or statistics, research gets published in the form of articles, or in papers read at national conferences. Scientists and social scientists make their contributions to "knowledge" with these papers. Biologists or economists seldom write books unless they mean to popularize the subject. The situation is exactly reversed in the humanities and history. In these fields, the sole badge of professional research is a book or a scholarly edition (of a play by Shakespeare, for example). An article barely scratches the surface of the humanities, whose timeless contents are best illuminated by the sweep and power of an original monograph. New discoveries in the humanities are few and far between. Sometimes an unknown document or artifact turns up, and it can be reported in an article, just like any scientific finding. But normally, doing research in the humanities means piecing together facts that have long been known and giving them an original interpretation. To convince colleagues that a familiar ocument makes better sense when read in a new context, a humanities professor needs full command of the established facts and their traditional interpretation. This requires lengthy argument with other scholars, a dialogue that is possible only in a book. A scholar in the humanities is rightly suspicious of articles. Their brief scope will not accommodate "cutting-edge" research. Legislators point out that CLA has lost rank in the national standings. The problem is not the quantity of the CLA's scholarship, but its quality. What seems to have happened is a growing number of CLA's professors -- perhaps 20 percent of its 500 faculty -- have taken to mimicking their colleagues in the sciences by writing articles instead of books. Quality is hurt also when a CLA professor gathers together articles that are the work of somebody else and cobbles them into a loose "publication" to swell the professor's own resume. Collective scholarship in the humanities cannot hope to imitate the team projects of the sciences and social sciences. It fails because the goal of science -- to "discover" knowledge -- clashes with the aim of the humanities, which is to "interpret" it. Interpreting history and the humanities has always been a job for the individual. That is not likely to change. When a team of humanities professors try to combine their individual interpretations, they wind up generating truisms. In the humanities, a publication that has no author lacks authority. In the typical case, a humanities professor collects articles written by others and "piggybacks" them in an anthology with a preface. Such piggybacking, if it is up-to-date, can provide a kind of forum to highlight an unresolved problem. But it cannot provide a solution -- the authoritative" interpretation that gives integrity to the best research in the humanities. The deans neglect to distinguish between original research and piggyback scholarship when they apply a quantitative yardstick to publication in CLA. They appoint bean-counting Promotion and Tenure Committees who log piggyback work as "scholarly activity" and use it to justify promotions. As a consequence, piggyback scholarship has become a professional embarrassment to the University, and CLA's reputation in the academic world has plummeted. Piggyback scholarship thrives alongside true research in the largest departments of CLA. For example, the Department of English has on its roster (excluding the professors of creative writing) 32 tenured professors. The handbook of the department's Graduate Studies Office notes that over the past 14 years, those professors have among them published 42 book-length works. Three books a year sounds very respectable, until you examine the titles. Only half of them are authored books. Of the other publications, fully a dozen are piggyback scholarship: spineless anthologies, picayune bibliographies, interviews and diaries tricked out as patchwork research. The department's authored books, on the one hand, cover a wide range of subjects: from "Beowulf" to "Brave New World," from Shakespeare to Ira Gershwin, from Chaucer and 18th century philosophy to Freud and detective fiction. These monographs bring credit to one of the stronger research departments in the college. But the piggyback titles, ranging from a bibliography on writing with word processors to collections of incest narratives and status reports on feminists in academe, serve merely to advertise the dilettantism of CLA professors. Piggyback scholarship looks specialized and sounds new, but it should not pass for research in CLA. Minnesota deserves professors who are pulling their weight, and if the administration balks at restoring national standards to the University, the Legislature should act. While preserving tenure, they ought to insist that the publication of all tenured professors be reviewed and their salaries adjusted to reflect significant scholarship: not parochial activity, but the genuine research that alone brings a university national recognition. Jim Gardner is a former Ph.D. candidate in the College of Liberal Arts and has authored several communications manuals. From: Subject: Re: 10.040 change in Humanist message numbering? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 72 (72) [The following concerns the new (or, rather, return to the old) practice of numbering Humanist messages with leading zeroes to accommodate the failures of unintelligent sorting. --WM] On Mon, 20 May 1996 22:32:40 -0400 (EDT) you said: [deleted quotation] In order to prevent your receiving *only* objections, and falling prey to a fallacious inference, let me register not objection but approval. -Michael From: Subject: Posting Literature Texts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 73 (73) Dear Colleagues, A student of mine is just about to complete her master's thesis. This project includes a modern-spelling text of John Donne's prose satire _Ignatius His Conclave_. It occurred to me that it might be helpful to make this text accessible via the Web, especially since no other version of the text is currently available. However, I do not have a Web page myself and have little practical knowledge in posting anything to the Web. Ideally I would like to place the text on a page that features other texts from the English Renaissance, and ideally I would also like her to be mentioned in a line crediting her work. Does anyone have any suggestions about what to do next? The text is currently formatted in WORDPERFECT 5.1. Would conversion to HTML be difficult from this format? Please forgive questions that probably seem hopelessly naive to people who know much more about computing that I do. Thanks, though, for any assistance. Robert C. (Bob) Evans bobevans@strudel.aum.edu From: Brad Inwood Subject: Re: 10.036 more on tenure Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:39:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 74 (74) Jim Gardner's opinion piece on humanities scholarship is well-timed and welcome. But his views about the value of articles as opposed to books in the humanities seem extreme. Sure, scientists and social sciences publish more articles and virtually no books -- for some of the reasons he adduces. But I don't know anyone who thinks as he does that the article is an intrinsically inferior form of scholarship or that cutting edge research in the humanities cannot be accommodated in that form. In the fields I know well (Classics and History of Philosophy) such a view would be absurdly out of touch with reality, and in other areas where I am less in touch I doubt it is much different. This is an important issue: differences in disciplinary culture do distort incentives and evaluation in the humanities and do impair our standing in the modern university. But even in a newspaper opinion piece (or perhaps especially there) it is vital to present the humanities as they are. In many fields of the humanities the authoritative work is often done in articles; in many fields new evidence does come to light with regularity; and in many cases the big authoritative book builds on the foundations laid by a long series of articles which are all the better for having passed through the critical filter of peer-reviewed journals, which is often more rigorous than the appraisal and vetting to which book manuscripts are subjected. ---------------------------------------------------- Brad Inwood Department of Classics Toronto, Canada University of Toronto M5S 1A1 From: Paul Douglass Subject: Re: 10.036 more on tenure Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 09:03:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 75 (75) Thanks for the forwarded message about Minnesota. Are you aware that the story is opn the cover of the current CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION? PD. From: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: 10.036 more on tenure Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:57:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 76 (76) Oh Dear, oh dear. Jim Gardner protests that professors with a six hour teaching load are being accused by the Minn. press of "not pulling their weight." It is hard for those of us with 12 teaching loads, plus the same research expectation you guys have, to keep from agreeing with the bad guys (the ignorant public) in this. The Kraken===============end of file=================/;->?9 From: David Pinaula Subject: LEXA software opinions Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 02:14:39 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 77 (77) I am looking for opinions on the functionality and performance of the LEXA textual analysis software suite, particularly regarding handling multiple texts in producing lemmatized indexes. How does it compare to TACT's feature set? I'd like some informed commentary before I invest my kroners. David Pinaula English Dept. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill pinaula@email.unc.edu From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Re: 10.037 TACT Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 00:38:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 78 (78) As the one mainly responsible now for TACT and its manual, let me assure users that CHASS at Toronto continues to support TACT, even though CHASS no longer undertakes to send TACT diskettes and materials by post in reply to written inquiries. Several of the previous messages to Humanist have been unintentionally misleading. The only TACT manual authorized by the four authors of the software is being published by MLA early this fall. At about 370 pages, and with a donated CD-ROM having 250 Mb of software and electronic texts, this manual has been over three years in the making. The final corrections to the second and last page proofs were done early this month. This maturation time is not unusual for a peer-reviewed work of scholarship, especially one produced with the help of the MLA editorial department. Any delay in the publication schedule is my responsibility; MLA has kept up its end. I cannot praise highly enough the skill and dedication of the half dozen MLA staff members who have worked with me on the manual. They have helped transform an often wordy, obscure, ill-organized, and even wrong draft into a first-rate piece of reference prose. The book designer has done a wonderful job. I would also like to thank readers of Humanist for their interest in the TACT manual. Those wishing to buy the manual should order it from MLA in New York. The full reference is as follows: Using TACT with electronic texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools Version 2.1 for MS-DOS and PC DOS. Ian Lancashire in collaboration with John Bradley Willard McCarty Michael Stairs T. R. Wooldridge Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto The Modern Language Association of America New York 1996 (c) 1996 by The Modern Language Association of America ISBN 0-87352-569-8 (paper) 1. Text processing (Computer Science) 2. TACT. I. Title QA 76.9.T48L36 1996 Published by The Modern Language Association of America 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003-6981 By the way, all royalties to the five authors of the manual from its sales are being donated to help support future TACT work. Ian Lancashire Professor of English, New College University of Toronto E-mail: ian@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html From: "Joanne Woolway (Assoc. Editor, EMLS)" Subject: Re: EMLS Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 18:44:48 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 79 (79) EARLY MODERN LITERARY STUDIES UPDATE Dear Colleagues, You might already have seen the latest issue of EMLS (2.1) with its four articles on Shakespeare and numerous reviews. Since this issue we've added more materials to Interactive EMLS including: * An electronic post-print of John Spencer Hill's _John Milton: Poet, Priest, Prophet_ (London: Macmillan, 1979). * (With kind permission of Hardy Cook and various contributors) the SHAKSPER discussion archives, including many papers and reviews. * An electronic edition of Cawdrey's _Table Alphabeticall_ (1604) edited by Ray Siemens. * Spenser texts from Richard Bear (also at http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~rbear/index.html ). Coming shortly from iEMLS: * Conference details from "_The Faerie Queene_ in the World, 1596-1996" - a conference at the Yale Center for British Art, 26-28 September, 1996. * iEMLS is also happy to be supporting the _Milton Transcription Project_ - Watch the "current work" space! We hope that you will feel welcome to use iEMLS as a forum for work in progress and also to post papers, texts, conference details, and other resources that you think would be of use to the academic community or that you would like comment on before publishing elsewhere. If you'd like to know more about iEMLS or would like to send work for inclusion, please contact me at emls@sable.ox.ac.uk Thanks, Joanne Woolway Associate Editor, EMLS ------------------------------------------------------------------- ***ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION*** - EMLS's Oxford mirror site has a new URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~emls/emlshome.html Our UBC site is still at: http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlshome.html From: Chris Smith at Indiana University Subject: New URL for Altramar medieval music ensemble Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:19:18 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 80 (80) Of potential interest to readers of the list: The Home Pages for Altramar medieval music ensemble have moved, to: http://www.indiana.edu/~altramar You can reach us via email at: altramar@indiana.edu Here you can find information about the ensemble, their recordings, performances, calendar, group and individual biographies, and tons of graphical and scholarly information, as well as: * Information about medieval history and music on the Internet; * Angela Mariani's nationally-syndicated early music radio program "Harmonia" and Chris Smith's world music program "One World;" * Links to B.O.M.B., Amandla, the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, the Indiana University School of Music and Early Music Institute; and much more! If you maintain a Web site, and have already linked our pages, please do update to the above URL. If not, perhaps you would care to do so. Please feel free to visit us at the new URL. Either way, thank you! Altramar medieval music ensemble: Jann Cosart, Angela Mariani, David Stattelman, Chris Smith -- PO Box 2292, Bloomington, IN 47401-9998 (voice) 812/332-6402; (fax) 812/855-0729 http://www.indiana.edu/~altramar Recording for Dorian: "Nova Stella" (Italian Christmas music); "Francis and the Minstrels of God" (Italian laude spirituale); "Iberian Garden" (Jewish, Christian and Muslim Spain) From: Russon Wooldridge Subject: CH Working Papers: new postings Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:25:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 81 (81) CH Working Papers has recently published a number of postprints from the print series CCH Working Papers: [deleted quotation]vol. 4 "Early Dictionary Databases". Articles on TACT Design, applications of TACT to Shakespeare, Ovid and Simenon, on the dictionaries of Feraud (1787), Menage (1694), Le Ver (1440), Cawdrey (1604), Estienne and Nicot (1531-1628), and on 16th-c. French-English dictionaries. See http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/ Russon Wooldridge, Willard McCarty Editors, CHWP ------------ Russon Wooldridge, Department of French, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Tel: 1-416-978-2885 -- Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/ From: Subject: Re: 10.042 posting a text? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 82 (82) [deleted quotation] The text is currently formatted in [deleted quotation].... [deleted quotation] According to Laura Lemay, author of a 7-day HTML learning book, Wordperfect macros are available to automatically convert your document to HTML. WPTOHTML is listed as being available from URL: <gopher://black.ox.ac.uk/h0/ousu_dir/.html-stuff/wptohtml.html>. Also recommended is saving your document in Rich Text Format (RTF), and converting that to HTML. You didn't say you had DOS or Windows, but the RTFTOHTM filter is listed as being available from URL:<http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/RTFTOHTML.html>. Larry A. Taylor, . UCLA Computer Science Dept., Ph.D. candidate . Sometimes I do business as North Circle Software, 13104 Philadelphia St, suite 208, Whitter, CA 90601. Business phone, (310) 698-2739. Fax (310) 698-8164 if you absolutely have to. CIS 75176,1071. From: Subject: RE: 10.044 Humanist numbering scheme Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 83 (83) The leading zero idea is great except that if you happen to have more than 999 messages in this, the tenth year of the humanist, you fall back into the original problem. Why not yy.xxxx - more than 9999 messages seem improbable. Regards dennis -------------------------------------- dennis cintra leite dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br sao paulo business school (eaesp/fgv) snail mail:av.9 de julho 2029 sao paulo, sp 01313-902 brazil py2-etn -------------------------------------- From: Subject: job posting Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 84 (84) Princeton University Coordinator, Humanities and Social Sciences Information Technology Princeton University seeks an individual to help coordinate and enhance the use of information technology in the humanities and social sciences and to assist especially in the development of instructional applications. An earned doctorate in a humanities or social science field and teaching experience at the college or university level are preferred, as is familiarity with instructional uses of technology and successful use of the medium for teaching. A fundamentally technical background is not necessary for this position, but a knowledge of software useful in developing course material is desirable. Princeton enjoys an excellent technical infrastructure for computing and a number of special resources, in the areas, for example, of electronic texts and computer graphics. The successful candidate will interact well with faculty members at various levels of skill and experience with the technologies, enhancing campus-wide awareness of electronic resources at the university, assisting faculty to utilize existing capabilities effectively in their teaching and research, and also working with faculty to plan future development. This position will act as liaison between the faculty and the University departments which provide support and service related to information technologies, as well as working with faculty individually and in small groups to develop understanding and use of the resources for instruction. Especially valuable will be the ability to "translate" between current faculty needs and technical potential. The coordinator will also assist with strategic planning for the future of instructional technologies in the humanities and the social sciences, drawing on his or her creativity and vision, as well as practical experience. Salary: commensurate with experience and qualifications. Starting date: August 1, 1996 or as soon thereafter as possible. To apply, please send a cover letter and current resume to: S. Georgia Nugent Associate Provost 5 Nassau Hall Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Screening will begin immediately; to insure full consideration, materials should be received by July 1, 1996. Princeton is an equal opportunity employer. From: Subject: RE: 10.043 research and tenure Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 85 (85) Articles in the humanities are, to extend Brad Inwood's good point, not uncommonly *better* thought of than books. The dynamics of getting tenure, and the vanity of senior scholars and some presses, not uncommonly lead to bad books being made out of decent articles, in fact. What about this formulation: what would fit as an e-posting to the Classics List should never be blown up to article size; and what would fit as an article should never be blown up into a book? (I leave aside for now the question of the books that contain slightly recycled material from old articles, which are increasingly common.) Owen Cramer Classics/Comp. Lit. Colorado College OCRAMER@cc.colorado.edu From: Subject: London accomodations Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 86 (86) My wife and I plan to be in London late June-early July and have heard from a number of parties that the London House offers attractive accomodations for scholars. Does anyone on the 'Net have a telephone number for the London House that they might pass on to me?--privately, and not across the group, of course. Thanking you in advance, David Gants *** David L. Gants ** Electronic Text Center ** Alderman Library *** *** University of Virginia ** Charlottesville, Virginia ** 22903 *** *** dlg8x@virginia.edu *** etext@virginia.edu *** (804) 924-3230 *** *** http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html *** From: Jean Ve'ronis Subject: Soft: MtScript (Multilingual editor) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:45:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 87 (87) *** ANNOUNCING FREE SOFTWARE ALPHA RELEASE *** MtScript - The Multext multi-lingual text editor We are pleased to announce an alpha release of the multi-lingual text editor developed within the MULTEXT project, which provides facilities for creating and saving files in a wide variety of languages and corresponding character sets. MtScript provides the following main capabilities: o the use of several different writing systems (Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) in the same document; o interspersing left-to-right and right-to-left writing systems (e.g. : Arabic - French - Hebrew - English); o explicit association of portions of a text with a particular language; o the definition of user-modifiable writing rules for each language; o use of a standard keyboard for any language and character set; o co-mingling of one-byte and multiple-byte character sets (ISO 8859 series, GB_2312_80, BIG_5, JISX0208, KSC5601). MtScript is freely available for non-commercial, non-military purposes (see our User agreement). A compiled alpha version (v1.1) for Sun Sparc stations under Solaris 1.x or 2.x can be downloaded from the URL <http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multext/MtScript/> Note that MtScript is an alpha version with bugs and limitations It is being distributed "as is" in order to solicit feedback. We invite the user community to send comments and advice, provide additonal fonts, help write language rules, etc. Jean Ve'ronis Multext project Coordinator_______________veronis@univ-aix.fr From: Subject: RE: 10.042 posting a text? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 88 (88) [deleted quotation] A simple and effective solution would be to deposit the text with the Oxford Text Archive. The Archive has a high profile as a provider of on-line electronic texts to the academic community. The Archive also has a large collection of English Renaissance texts (including the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems) which would complement this prose satire. You can find out about the Archive's current policies and holdings from our web page at http://ota.ox.ac.uk/ota/ The Archive is not unacquainted with the problems of format conversion... Our policy is to make the text available in its original format where possible, but (for texts likely to be of permanent and general interest, such as this one) to convert the text to a TEI-conformant form which will guarantee its continued usability. While I have your virtual ear, this is probably a good opportunity to announce that (like HUMANIST) the Text Archive is currently celebrating a landmark birthday this year, its 20th! Long-time subscribers to HUMANIST will already be familiar with the working of the Archive, but it is obvious that a new generation of scholars is now emerging. For the new generation, digital resources are both basic requirement and the normal output of study. The next five years will be a testing ground to see how their expectations can be usefully met... In order to cope with these growing needs, an Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) has been established in the UK to provide information, advice and resources to the electronic user community. In recognition of the central role the Oxford Text Archive has played in electronic scholarship, it has been appointed 'text provider' for the AHDS. We have already taken some steps towards re-shaping the Archive to meet the growing demands of users. A new Head of the Oxford Text Archive has been appointed. Michael Popham, previously Centre Manager of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies in Oxford, will take up his position at the beginning of August. We also hope to have new technical and administrative staff in position by the start of the new academic year. The exact structure of the 'new' Archive has yet to be finalised, as we will be working closely with the other Service Providers (who will cover areas such as moving/still images, sound, historical and archaeological data) but we do hope to offer a much improved service. Lou Burnard, custodian of the Text Archive for the past 20 years, will still continue to oversee its work as Manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford and his input will remain as valuable as ever. There will be a formal announcement from the Archive once the preliminaries of the AHDS structure has been worked out. Current information about the Archive can still be found at http://info.ox.ac.uk/~archive/, at our new Web address http://ota.ox.ac.uk/ota/ and from the recently-announced mirror site in Michigan ftp://ftp.hti.umich.edu/pub/ota/public Alan Morrison Information Officer Oxford Text Archive archive@ota.ox.ac.uk From: Subject: May 23 -- Today in the Historical Sciences Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 89 (89) MAY 23 -- TODAY IN THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES 1617: ELIAS ASHMOLE is born at Lichfield, England. The child of humble parents, Ashmole will study at the Lichfield Grammar School and then move to London, where he will receive training in the law. As a result of several fortunate political and social connections he will make while in London, Ashmole will receive a royal appointment in the College of Arms, eventually becoming a leading authority on the history of heraldry, and a significant collector of antiquities. His expanding interests will lead him to the study of botany, medicine, alchemy, and astrology, and he will be one of the founding members of the Royal Society in 1660. Ashmole will offer his extensive personal collections of antiquities and natural history specimens to the University of Oxford in 1675, and the Ashmolean Museum, the first public museum in England, will open at Oxford in 1683. 1707: CARL LINNAEUS is born at Sodra, Smaland, Sweden. The son of a country parson, Linnaeus will rise to be one of the most prominent figures in the history of natural history. Following study in medicine and botany at the Universities of Lund and Uppsala, Linnaeus will first spend time travelling in Lapland, and then will move to Holland where he will receive his medical degree. While in Leiden he will publish the first edition of his masterwork, _Systema Naturae_ (1735), which he will revise and expand many times over the course of his life. In 1741 Linnaeus will be appointed professor of medicine at Uppsala, and through his many students and his voluminous writings on systematics and natural history, his influence will spread throughout Europe and the world. Today in the Historical Sciences is a feature of Darwin-L, an international network discussion group on the history and theory of the historical sciences. Send the message INFO DARWIN-L to listserv@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu or connect to the Darwin-L Web Server (http://rjohara.uncg.edu) for more information. From: Subject: SGML BeLux '96 : call for contributions Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 90 (90) SGML BeLux '96 Third annual conference on the practical use of SGML October 31, 1996 - Brussels, Belgium CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS SGML BeLux vzw/asbl, the Belgian-Luxembourgian Chapter of the International SGML Users' Group, is organising its third annual conference on the practical use of SGML. As the very successful SGML BeLux '94 and '95 conferences have shown, these conferences serve as an active forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences with the use of SGML for electronic document engineering and information delivery. SGML BeLux is again seeking presenters to talk about all aspects of the practical use of SGML. If you or your company have used SGML in innovative ways in a document application, learned about some SGML problems the hard way, have a clear opinion on how SGML should be used or have valuable advice for beginners, we invite you to share your knowledge and experience with us. MAJOR TOPICS OF INTEREST Contributions to the conference can consist of a full-length paper or a collection of overhead slides dealing with a topic of interest to the conference participants. These topics include (but are not limited to): Case studies of (un)successful document applications and implementations Experiences with support tools: conversion programs, editors, browsers, on-line delivery Design of modular, reusable DTDs: development approaches, useful tips and techniques Use of databases: storage and retrieval of document components, object-oriented vs. relational Experiences with related electronic document engineering standards: HyTime, DSSSL, SPDL Internet document publishing: HTML vs. SGML, SGML viewers, generating documents on the fly INSTRUCTIONS TO PRESENTERS Presenters are invited to submit an abstract in English of approximately 250 words. The abstract should include the title of the proposed contribution with presenter names, affiliations and complete addresses. After acceptance of the abstract, the final version of the contribution must be submitted in camera-ready form according to detailed specifications available upon acceptance. Both the abstract and final version of the contribution should be submitted (in either hard copy or preferably electronic form) to: Paul Hermans, Conference chairman , BC, Interleuvenlaan 62, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32 16 40 66 81, Fax: +32 16 40 66 91, E-mail: Paul_Hermans@protext.be IMPORTANT DATES Deadline submission of abstract August 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance of abstract September 1, 1996 Deadline for camera-ready copy of contribution October 1, 1996 SGML BeLux '96 conference October 31, 1996 Paul Hermans Pro Text Interleuvenlaan 62 3001 Leuven Belgium +32 16 40 66 81 +32 16 40 66 91 (fax) From: Susan Hockey Subject: Text Analysis Software for the Humanities Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:27:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 91 (91) For some time, those of us active in humanities computing have felt the need for better and/or more widely accessible text analysis software tools for the humanities. There have been informal discussions about this at a number of meetings, but so far no substantial long-term plan has emerged to clarify exactly what those needs are and to identify what could to be done to ensure that humanities scholars have readily-available text analysis tools to serve their computing needs into the next century. In order to get something moving on this topic, the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) convened a meeting on 17-19 May 1996 at which some developers of humanities text analysis software and a number of other interested humanities computing practitioners from several countries gathered to examine the matter in more detail. The invitation to the meeting outlined the following topics which might need to be addressed in any such effort: * determine the community of users (audience) for humanities text analysis software, in terms of who they are, what facilities they have access to, and what other factors will affect their computing needs in the future * clarify what functionality exists in current tools (TACT, OCP, TUSTEP, Monoconc, Opentext, SARA, LEXA etc) * specify what functionality future scholars might need * determine whether SGML should form the basic encoding scheme for any future text analysis software development efforts * review possible architectures for a set of text analysis tools * identify what other software used in humanities computing might need to interact with text analysis software The meeting came to a consensus that something does indeed need to be done and identified the following major topics on which work is needed: (1) Analysis of the needs of humanities scholars (2) More detailed study and analysis of existing software (3) Guidelines for the interoperability of a set of platform-independent tools that would be modular and extensible For this effort to succeed, it must involve the participation of the relevant user communities as much as possible. This announcement is the first step to inviting that participation. In the next few months a form must be found for organizing work in this area, and support found to co-ordinate it and keep it moving on an international basis. For the time being HUMANIST will be used to disseminate information and act as forum for discussion related to the effort. Susan Hockey Director Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities ------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Hockey, Director, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 phone (908) 932-1384; fax (908) 932-1386 E-mail: hockey@rci.rutgers.edu From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen Subject: text analysis software planning meeting Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:13:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 92 (92) Readers of Humanist whose interest is piqued by Susan Hockey's announcement of the meeting recently held at Princeton to discuss text analysis software, and who wish to know more about the meeting, may be interested in a trip report describing it, which can be retrieved from http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/trips/ceth9505.tei or http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/trips/ceth9505.html The former, if you have Panorama; the latter, if you don't. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen From: Subject: public opinion Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 93 (93) "Vox populi vox dei", "the voice of the populace is the voice of god", requires one of three things: a carefully chosen populace, one trained to agree with and support your point of view, or a less comfortable, more demanding god. In Canada and the United States at least, the populace as a whole has lost its superstitious reverence for the academy, and its emergent voice is asking uncomfortable questions about the nature and purpose of the privileged entity it supports. Numerous books have addressed the crisis in higher learning, but it is now spilling out into the public realm, in major academic gatherings. What the situation demands of us may be, as Margery Fee (Univ. of British Columbia) recently suggested at the Canadian Learned Societies Congress, "to learn the skill of producing effective oppositional sound bites". Dr. Fee's remarks are reported in today's Globe and Mail by John Allemang, in "Academe confronts the sound bite: Scholars need to get the public on the side of higher learning, but it's not easy for them to make contact" (section A, p. 7). Allemang notes the obvious: "for professors of the liberal arts, those subjects that profit the mind but don't necessarily turn a profit, it's a little more difficult to reach out to a wider public. First of all, a scholarly command of language and literature is not an easily identifiable commodity like knowledge of the tax laws. Second, these are people who have earned their stripes being discerning and hypercritical: they're not sure they want to make the compromises required to reach a broader public." This much we know, but as Allemang points out, there's also a profound difference in the kind of language and rhetoric required. "Academics, at least those in the humanities, prefer nuanced, involved, allusive speech", which to the unsympathetic often communicates only the speaker's detachment from the public sphere, perhaps even contempt for it. As Ursula Franklin, renouned scientist at Toronto, remarks in Allemang's article, "As students we were warned: Only the great dare touch the commonplace." The problem, then, does not exactly lie with an ignorant rabble; there is no solution in dismissing it by disparaging the vulgar. Rather, Franklin's remark suggests, we face the great challenge of learning to communicate with those who have no reason to listen. Arguably, if we cannot do this, we shouldn't be around -- and perhaps we won't all that much longer. Personally I reflect on two situations. From my childhood I recall my paternal aunt, who had quit school early to earn a living, had not the foggiest idea of what universities were about, yet believed with ferocious conviction that a university professorship was the highest of callings, worth whatever sacrifices might be required. From my daily life here in Toronto, I think about my local baker, who works 6 days a week from very early in the morning to the night, who looks on my life with utter incomprehension and clearly wonders why he should be supporting me and all the other privileged sorts at the university. At the recent annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, 28 delegates contributed their thoughts in writing on the topic, "The Academy and the Public: What Should Scholars Expect from the Public(s)?" For example, Martin Ostwald (Swarthmore; American Philological Association), noted that the most difficult problem of persuasion is on behalf of "scholarly research and education in the arts and humanities, 'useless' pursuits, in that they yield no immediate visible results." Arguing from application (e.g. that foreign languages are valuable in business) is dangerously beside the point; the real matter, he noted, is to take the training of the mind seriously, to make the case for that, to keep "before the eyes of the public the necessity (not merely desirability as relaxation and diversion) of maintaining and fostering" these 'useless pursuits', so as to "give shape and meaning to life". At the ACLS meeting we were treated to a luncheon address by a U.S. senator from Utah, who clarified much of the conflict between scholar and public. He took the U.S. academy to task for deconstructing the American myth, e.g. by attacking George Washington for his sins against the land, for slaveholding, etc. Do this, he said, and you bite the hand that feeds you. Later on I wondered out loud what had happened to the Socratic ideal of education, what will happen if we spend our time seeking to please from a position of weakness. How do we fulfill the role of Socrates but avoid the hemlock? For good or ill -- I think for good -- computing in the humanities engages us with the world. We may be few in number, but perhaps we are part of the solution rather than the problem. Comments? WM Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Subject: new project Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 94 (94) This is to announce a new project launched by the "Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare" of the "Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei" [via della Lungara, 10 - 00165 Roma] The project, named "Archivio Testuale Multimediale" (ARTEM), will pursue three main goals: 1) To build a repository of electronic texts in Italian language, selected on the basis of the best editorial reliability, and fully encoded according to the best standards available. The repository will be freely accessible in www network. 2) To link the repository to other similar ones, offering the same scientific reliability. 3) To build a catalogue of existing electronic texts in Italian language, providing a statement of their editorial reliability and encoding methodology, and stating if and how they are available. Special attention is devoted to the problems of encoding, following the SGML procedures, according to the standards proposed by TEI. The previous analysis of textual features, to obtain the full list of elements to encode, will be declared and discussed. Collaboration is evisaged with the Oxford Text Archive, Princeton's CETH, the Trsor de la Langue Franaise, the Institut fr deutsche Sprache of Mannheim, and all academic Institutions dealing with electronic texts and interested in this project. All those interested in the project, and especially those who can provide information on existing e-texts in Italian, may contact the following e-address: lincei@axcasp.caspur.it Tito Orlandi, Accademia dei Lincei, and Universit di Roma La Sapienza From: Subject: Stan Katz resigns Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 95 (95) Dear Colleagues: I pass the following press release along because it concerns a man who has been and, I hope, will continue to be important to humanities computing in the U.S. and elsewhere. Those of you who attended the Santa Barbara conference of the ACH/ALLC will recall Stan Katz's keynote address, in which he identified computing as a top priority of the academy for the next decade. It was with Stan's keen encouragement at the conference that I applied to the ACLS to designate Humanist as an adjunct publication. On behalf of Humanist, best wishes and deepest gratitude to Stan Katz for a job well done. Willard McCarty ----------------------------------------------------------------------- American Council of Learned Societies 228 East 45th Strict, New York, NY 10017-3398 PRESS RELEASE For Release: May 13, 1996 Contact: Douglas C. Bennett, Vice President 212-697-1505, ext. 124 Barbara Henning, Executive Assistant to the President 212-697-1505, ext. 123 STANLEY N. KATZ TO STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES NEW YORK, New York. Stanley N. Katz has indicated his intention to step down as President of the American Council of Learned Societies sometime in the latter half of 1997, dependent upon when a successor is named. "It is with the deepest regret and no little sadness," said Francis Oakley, Chair of the ACLS Board and President Emeritus of Williams College, "that I accept Stan Katz's decision to step down from the presidency of ACLS next year after what will have been eleven years of notable accomplishment in that position. These years have been very good ones for ACLS, not least of all because of Stan's dedication, imagination, entrepreneurial energy, thoughtfulness and forthrightness as an advocate for the humanities. He himself has every reason to be proud of his achievement, and we, who have been the beneficiaries of his efforts, have every reason to be grateful to him." Katz became President of ACLS in July, 1986. He has been a vigorous advocate for humanistic scholarship throughout his tenure. During his decade of leadership ACLS significantly expanded its range of program activities on behalf of scholars and scholarly societies. Katz added a concern with education at all levels to the traditional ACLS concerns with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. In 1991 the Council initiated a project working directly with K-12 teachers in the U.S. and Canada on curriculum and professional development. A succession of projects on comparative constitutionalism was a second major undertaking. Under his direction, ACLS also began work on a major new reference work, the American National Biography, which will be published in both paper and electronic forms beginning in 1999. As President, Katz also emphasized the role of ACLS as an international representative of U. S. scholarship. He promoted programs of international scholarly exchange and international studies research. He oversaw the affiliation of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars with ACLS and was deeply involved in defending and developing the Fulbright Program. Katz early identified the potential for digital, networked technology to restructure both scholarly communication and publishing. He drew ACLS into closer partnership with scholarly libraries and publishers to develop this new technology and explore its potential benefits. ACLS has recently joined with over two dozen other organizations to form the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). He refounded the ACLS publications program. The Council now publishes a newsletter, a series of Occasional Papers, and reports on scholarly issues. During his tenure he edited, with colleagues, two books which developed out of ACLS activities: Constitutionalism and Democracy, and A Life of Learning. Under Katz's leadership the number of learned societies affiliated with the Council increased from 45 to 58, and the value of the ACLS endowment increased from $15.8 million to $37.2 million. Katz will return to full-time teaching and research at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. During his presidency he has continued to teach one course each semester at Princeton. He also plans to continue his research on the role of philanthropy and non- governmental organizations in public policy. "My calling has always been that of a teacher. I have enjoyed the challenge of administering ACLS enormously, but I feel an obligation to return to my first love, the classroom," said Katz. Katz is a native of Chicago. He holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of Princeton University as the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty, and, concurrently, Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. The American Council of Learned Societies is the pre-eminent private humanities organization in the United States. A non-profit organization founded in 1919, it is a federation of 58 national learned societies in the humanities and social sciences. The purpose of the Council, as set forth in its constitution, is "the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and social sciences and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among national societies devoted to such studies." A search committee for Katz' s successor is currently being formed and will begin its work in the Fall. Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Subject: Francis Bacon and Shakespeare Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 96 (96) You may find the following site interesting: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/outline.html From: Todd Blayone Subject: Re: 10.0057 the academy & the world Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 21:30:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 97 (97) [deleted quotation] I'm not sure that "computing in the humanities" automatically "engages us with the world." On my left sits a copy of _Literary & Linguistic Computing_. On my right sits a slick brochure advertising CD-ROMs (with titles like "World History" and "Great Authors"). The former exists as a direct result of "computing in the humanities." The latter appears to have a more humble origin. Nevertheless, the products advertised in the brochure will show up on home computers all over North America. BTW, how many Internet sites (produced by humanities scholars) target non-academic readers? How might "we" exploit the new medium to "engage the world"? --Todd Todd Blayone ***http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/blayone/todd.html Coordinator, Chorus ***http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/chorus.html Co-Editor, HCR ***http://www.chorus.cycor.ca/hcr/hcr.html Ph.D. Cand., McGill ***http://www.mcgill.ca From: carlyle@cats.ucsc.edu Subject: Comment on "public opinion" Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 20:41:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 98 (98) [The following was sent to me privately for posting on Humanist by someone not a member of the group but who is sent bits of our conversations from time to time by a friend who is. It takes a rather unexpected approach to the question I posed, suggesting that we hide from the public eye. Would this work? Would we want to live and teach in such a world? Does it make any sense to speak about the "liberal arts" surviving if they can only do so in obscurity and isolation from society? --WM] The only hope for the liberal arts lies in the public's utter ignorance of what they are. As long as the public has no concept of what humanities professors do, it can be cowed into believing that it might be important. The public is sure that science is important; the public knows that it is completely ignorant about science; therefore the public is willing to support science as such and leave it to the scientists to decide who gets the grants. The public mostly doesn't know that the humanities exist at all, and therefore it has heretofore supported humanistic studies only because supporting science entails supporting universities and (so far) universities insist on including the humanities. If humanities professors try to "reach out" to the public to explain to it what they do, they are doomed. The only strategy that holds any hope is to increase as far as possible the public's ignorance of the true content--even, if possible, the very existence--of the liberal arts. Scholars ought to take the position that has worked so well for the mathematicians: "What we do is so complex and sophisticated that you'd have to study for years before we could even begin to explain to you what our questions are." If the science departments could be sold on the idea, the best protection for the humanities would be the abolition of disciplinary and divisional categories for organizing the faculty. The object should be to return to the good old days when, as far as people who hadn't been to college were concerned, a professor was a professor, i.e., a mysterious, polymathic, absent-minded, myopic genius, the purpose of whose existence is to relieve the public of the necessity of exercising its intelligence on any topic. Mark Engel carlyle@cats.ucsc.edu From: Subject: Call for Papers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 99 (99) CALL FOR PAPERS THE MIDWEST STUDY GROUP OF THE NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY FALL MEETING LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO November 2-3, 1996 The Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society is a group, formed to advance the discussion of Kant and to promote interaction among Kant scholars. Papers on any topic in Kantian studies are welcome. The term "Kantian studies" is broadly conceived to include not only contemporary "Kantian" approaches to philosophical problems, but also the discussion of the German Idealists. Reading time should be around 30-45 minutes, leaving time for discussion. Works in progress are encouraged. Please submit a summary of the proposed paper or presentation (by U.S. post or e-mail) to: Manfred Kuehn, Department of Philosophy, Liberal Arts and Education Building, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 47907 (E-Mail: kuehn@sage.cc.purdue.edu) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 7, 1996 The program committee of the meeting will be Pauline Kleingeld (Washington University), Manfred Kuehn (Purdue University) Fred Rauscher (Eastern Illinois University), and Hans Seigfried (Loyola University From: Subject: new members Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 100 (100) Dear Colleagues: In days of old I would periodically publish on Humanist the biographies of new members so as to introduce them to everyone else and promote collegial exchange. I have been meaning to take up the practice again, but surprisingly I have had much less time to spare than I did all those years ago. Thanks now to Gregory Murphy of CETH, I have an automatic means of collecting and formatting the information from the biographies, and so I propose once again to publish biographies. As an initial trial, I include below the two latest. Please let me know what you think of my proposal to make the publication of biographies a regular feature. Note that I edit them somewhat, removing the snail-mail address but retaining the electronic one. I would appreciate any advice. WM ----------------- 1. Elkins, James R. jelkins@prodigy.com Professor of Law University - faculty I received a JD from the University of Kentucky and studied at the Yale Law School. I am interested in lawyer ethics and presently teach a course called "Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers." I also teacher Lawyers and Literature and have written various papers drawing on the humanities. I edit an interdisciplinary journal called the Legal Studies Forum. 2. Suga, Hiroshi suga@harenet.or.jp a senior highschool teacher Secondary School I majored in French literature at Kansai Univ. in Japan. I have taught English at high schools for more than 20 years in Japan. I have formed my own corpus with 15 million words and made a reseach how often some English expressions taught in high schools in Japan are really used. I am looking forward to exchanging information in this forum. ------------------ From: Mark Steinacher Subject: Re: 10.0060 the academy and the world Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 01:15:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 101 (101) Friends, Mark Engel's comments to the effect that the liberal arts community's best survival strategy is to make like my children's chameleons and blend into the background may well be the best advice we get. As an historian, I often have people wondering while I don't do something more "useful". One colleague even expressed surprise when I went into church history, rather than New Testament, because, and I quote: "You're SMART ENOUGH to do New Testament!" Engel's comments also bring to mind a cartoon my brother clipped for me years ago. In it were three men sitting at a bar. The little man in the middle was explaining to the two burly, heavily-tattoed, biker-gang-types parked either side of him that, "Well, actually, I get paid to stare off into space and think." They looked ready to beat him to a pulp. Is the average non-academic not feeling somewhat the same urges toward the "non-productive" academic community (read: the liberal arts)? Mark Steinacher steinach@chass.utoronto.ca From: Richard Giordano Subject: Re: 10.0060 the academy and the world Date: Tue, 28 May 96 10:42:43 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 102 (102) Mark Engle's post implies that there are humanists, and there is 'the public.' Last time I looked, we were the public. As for the comment on mathematicians, an old roommate of mine from MIT, once explained to me the research he was doing on the passage of electrons across a cell membrane. It was one of the clearest explanations I ever heard, and I was a history major. I told him so, and his reply was that if you really *understand* your subject, you can explain it to anyone. I found in my own experience that my former roommate is right. /rich From: Mike Fraser Subject: CTI Publication: Computers & Teaching in the Humanities Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 17:18:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 103 (103) Computers & Teaching in the Humanities Edited by Michael Popham and Lorna Hughes Oxford: CTI Centre for Textual Studies, 1996. Pp. iv+88. ISBN 0-9523301-2-1 A selection of papers given at the CATH94 conference is now available as the second volume in the CTI Centre for Textual Studies' Occasional Series. The contents include: Perspectives on Computers in Education - The Promise, the Pain, the Prospect Design and Development of Courseware * Developing Educational Software: A Generic Approach * Developing Courseware in Archaeology * Courseware Development in Higher Education * Created Annotated Poetry Editions The Electronic Classroom: Courseware in Action * Multimedia in Language Learning, an Open or Closed Case? * Encountering Digital Media * Computer Modelling and Critical Thinking * From Modes to MIDI: Methodologies for Multimedia Music Courseware * Electronic Conferencing: Pedagogy Beyond the LAN * The Development and Implementation of Software for Vocabulary Acquisition * A Hypermedia Language Program for Telematic Dissemination Assessment and Implementation Issues * Ideals and Realities: Initiating and Evaluating the Use of Technology in the Curriculum * The Enriched Lecture: Courseware by Design * From IT Skill to Postmodernism: Implementing Degree-level Humanities Computing * Assessing CAMILLE * Exploiting Potentialities: the Hypermedia Dissertation at Southampton, 1992-94 * The Paperless Exam Electronic Resources for the Humanities * Information Skills - The Hypertext Approach * Internet Textual Resources at Oxford * SGML and the Internet Courseware in Action Case Study: The STELLA Project Computers & Teaching in the Humanities: GBP 10.00 per copy Postage & Packing per copy: UK GBP 1.00 Europe GBP 2.00 Rest of World GBP 3.00 All orders should be accompanied by a cheque made out to "Oxford University Computing Services". Please send name and address together with payment to Mari Gill, CTI Textual Studies, Oxford University Computing Services. 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK From: "Peter Graham, RUL" Subject: Preserving Digital Information: Final Report Available Date: Tue, 28 May 96 14:13:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 104 (104) The final report of the Digital Archiving Task Force is now available at http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/>. It was put up last week but announcements don't appear to have gone out. It is a very important report; following is some text describing it: "At the end of 1994 the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and RLG created a Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information charged with investigating and recommending means to ensure "continued access indefinitely into the future of records stored in digital electronic form." The 21-member task force, co-chaired with distinction by Donald Waters, Associate University Librarian, Yale University, and John Garrett, Chief Executive Officer of CyberVillages Corporation, recently completed their final report. RLG and CPA are making this widely available online and in print." *********************************************************************** --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)445-5908; fax (908)445-5888 http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/pghome.html> From: Subject: Re: 10.0048 converting to HTML Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 105 (105) A footnote to Larry's remarks about rtf2html: I've written a front-end for rtf2html which allows you to process files using the file upload feature in netscape 2.0 or better. Visit http://eee.oac.uci.edu/toolbox/ This script will join rtf2html's separate endnote files to the bottom of your paper, producing a single document with footnotes as inline hyperlinks. In the same directory you'll also find file upload interfaces to 1) makemark, my program for converting Netscape bookmark files into publishable html documents, complete with hyperlinked Table of Contents. (The file upload version reflects a single document with an in-line TofC; the command line version, available at the same location, generates multiple files with 'next,' 'prev,' and 'up' links.) 2) splitlines, a program which wraps lines in a text file at the blank space closest to a user-specified number of columns. In short, this is word wrap for text files you want to upload. All of the above is 'helloware,' which is to say that it would be nice to hear from anyone who happens to use it. Eric D. Friedman friedman@uci.edu [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Re: 10.0062 new members Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 106 (106) I'd like to suggest gathering and publishing (first on Humanist and then at the Humanist Web site) the URLs of those Humanist subscribers who maintain Web pages--perhaps with some brief indication of what can be found there. Michael Hancher --------------- Michael Hancher Professor of English University of Minnesota mh@maroon.tc.umn.edu http://umn.edu/home/mh From: Ken Tompkins Subject: Comparative Politics Project Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:10:32 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 107 (107) I am posting this for a colleague not on this list; it would be helpful if members of this list would share it with their colleagues: ========== Instructor of undergraduate comparative politics course seeks to put his students online with their German, Japanese, and Russian peers. Any overseas colleagues that might be interested in collaborating in such a project can find more information at: http://loki.stockton.edu/~sensibaw/cpproj.htm William Sensiba SOBL Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Pomona, NJ 08240 ========= Ken Tompkins From: Charles Ess Subject: terms? Date: Tue, 28 May 96 09:09:47 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 108 (108) A colleague (from an institution which, for reasons that will become obvious, must remain unnamed) and I are searching for terms that describe the following maneuvers: 1) The Thrasymachus maneuver: in Plato's _Republic_, Book I, the archtype Sophist Thrasymachus is pictured as a "bathman," who, "after having poured a great shower of speech into our ears all at once," (344d, Bloom translation) seeks to physically remove himself from further argument with Socrates. A little more carefully: Thrasymachus interrupts the dialogue with an opening insult (Socrates needs a wet nurse to wipe his nose - i.e., he's speaking childish nonsense: 343a); bombards Socrates with a longish speech (343b-344c), and then turns to go - i.e., to close off any further debate by physically walking out. I have observed some of my more agonistic (and, indeed, sophistic) colleagues exhibit precisely this maneauver. Surely there's a term for this effort to overpower one's dialogical partner through the equivalent of mass bombardment followed by hasty retreat? Perhaps rhetoricians have a name for it? 2) the administrative maneuver: an administrator who seeks to eliminate a program begins, say, by first forbidding adjunct faculty from teaching core courses. Since, as we know, students tend to cluster around requirements, the student enrollments in the adjuncts' course go down. But since this means the enrollments in the entire program go down - the administrator can then publically point to these enrollment drops as perfectly rational reasons for eliminating the program. In sum: an initial, more or less secret and difficult to contest maneauver (adjunct faculty have no basis for fighting senior administrators) leads, apparently by design, to a publically demonstrable sign of weakness or inadequacy - i.e., a reason or ground difficult to contest in ostensibly open discussion. Machiavelli must have this down somewhere. Any candidates for a term? My thanks in advance, Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiding won't work Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 21:23:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 109 (109) Perhaps no one will be surprised by my strenuous opposition to the idea that humanists will survive by staying out of the picture. I have no doubt that an increased public role will prove uncomfortable for many. My original title, "the academy and the world", was meant to echo the title of Satyajit Ray's film, "The Home and the World", and so to make that point faintly. Perhaps there remains too much American idealism in me, but I do not wish to be rid of this quality. It is one of the aspects of American culture that I find myself most glad to encounter when I return to my homeland. I don't mean primarily to be autobiographical, rather to reflect personally on the ideal that I first encountered as a young sprout in California. As I recall it is Jeffersonian, but perhaps someone closer to American studies than I am would care to correct me, or to fill in the picture. In any case, this is an international forum, or as international as we can make it speaking almost exclusively a single language mostly from a single continent. Presuming it makes sense to speak of "the humanities" in such a forum (give or take a discipline or two), can we really imagine that (a) the humanities can hide out and still get funded, and (b) that we would want to live in isolation? The many religious traditions of practice in isolation clearly show that great thought, if it can be called thought, prospers in silence, but the humanities I was trained to practice have engagement with the world at their core. For a long time we have not had to sing for our supper, because our worldly neighbours would leave bits of food on our doorstep, and lately we have somehow managed to live as well as the best of them. Now these neighbours have shed their superstitious ways and no longer think we bring good luck. If I hear my colleagues in the "pure" sciences clearly, they are suffering the same fate, or so they believe. Just whose banquet table are we going to hide beneath so as to catch the crumbs and scraps? More importantly, is this where we should be? It seems to me that if all we are worried about is our jobs then we don't deserve to have them, but that if we know enough to worry about our intellectual way of life, then we are essential and can prove it. Comments? WM Willard McCarty, Univ. of Toronto || Willard.McCarty@utoronto.ca http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~mccarty/wlm/ From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0063 student contacts? terms? Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 11:06:51 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 110 (110) I always thought that this was called the Mushroom Treatment. First they plant you, then they cover your with manure, and after a while they throw you out....you get the idea. Maybe we should call this the Machivellian treatment. Because the intention is to put you on the sideline where you can't do anything but watch. Which is what happened to Machivelli and what usually happens to people of action. I am afraid that I have a very idealistic attitude toward humanistic or scientific knowledge. I belive that if a person really wants to understand something that they can if they put some time and energy into doing that. I continually have arguments with people that the general public can understand anything about politics, history, science. All you have to do is explain it correctly. I feel that if I read the liturature for six months (That's how long it takes me to read the last 10 years of the published liturature) I can understand what is happening in a field. Perhaps I should say that I think that I can understand what the specialists are saying and doing. I often find that specialists go out of their way to be esoteric and obscure in writing about what they are doing or thinking. It appears occasionally they they are only talking to about 15 people in the entire world. From: Malvernart@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0060 the academy and the world Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:13:17 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 111 (111) I like your vision of the "good old days" and its description of the way the Professors were perceived by non graduate people. I do not know if you have ever been to England, but it certainly is still like this today! Best of luck in the pursuit of you art. Don Sergio. From: Fabrizio Pregadio Subject: Electronic format for non-roman script languages Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 22:04:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 112 (112) This message from the H-ASIA mailing list could be of interest to at least some subscribers of HUMANIST. Fabrizio Pregadio -- [deleted quotation] -- ============================================================ Calle Pasubio 10 | pregadio@unive.it 30132 Venezia | http://vega.unive.it/~pregadio/home.html ============================================================ From: John Saillant Subject: Editing position at Jefferson papers Date: Wed, 29 May 96 12:57:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 113 (113) [I send this on since you may want to post it on Humanist---J Saillant] Princeton University The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University, seeks an Assistant or Associate Editor specializing in early American history to 1815. An advanced degree in American history required, Ph.D. and previous experience on a historical editing project preferred. Candidates must be computer literate and a reading knowledge of French is highly desirable. Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications. Send letter, resume, and three letters of recommendation by June 30, 1996, to John Catanzariti, Editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey 08544. Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. From: Ted Parkinson Subject: Re: 10.0062 new members Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:09:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 114 (114) On Mon, 27 May 1996, Humanist wrote: [deleted quotation] I think the publication of (auto?)biographies straight to the list would take up too much bandwidth. Making them accessible in a database might be helpful. there is just toooo much information out there! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Parkinson Department of English McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Hamilton, Ontario From: "Dr. Pauline Kra" Subject: Re: 10.0062 new members Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:24:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 115 (115) Publishing the biographies is a good idea. The humanize the Humanist. Pauline From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: RE: 10.0066 publish URLs of members Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:09:04 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 116 (116) Good idea but how about including everyone's e-mail address? On Tuesday, 28 of May of 1996 22:17 Michael Hancher said: ---------- * From: mccarty[SMTP:mccarty@phoenix.Princeton.EDU] * Sent: Tuesday, 28 of May of 1996 22:17 * To: Humanist Discussion Group * * Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 66. * Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers) * Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/ * [1] From: Michael Hancher (60) * Subject: Re: 10.0062 new members * I'd like to suggest gathering and publishing (first on Humanist and then * at the Humanist Web site) the URLs of those Humanist subscribers who * maintain Web pages--perhaps with some brief indication of what can be * found there. * Michael Hancher * --------------- * Michael Hancher * Professor of English * University of Minnesota * mh@maroon.tc.umn.edu * http://umn.edu/home/mh -------------------------------------- dennis cintra leite dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br sao paulo business school (eaesp/fgv) snail mail:av.9 de julho 2029 sao paulo, sp 01313-902 brazil py2-etn -------------------------------------- From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 10.0054 text analysis software for the humanities Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 13:01:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 117 (117) At 17:31 24-05-96, Susan Hockey wrote: [deleted quotation] .... [deleted quotation] This initiative will be presented at the ALLC-ACH '96 conference in Bergen. A presentation is scheduled for Wednesday June 26 at 4PM. There are rooms available for BOF-sessions, and this might be a candidate. For further information about the ALLC-ACH '96 (and a registration form for those who have not yet registered), see: <http://www.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96.html> Espen Ore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Espen Ore Tel: + 47 55 58 28 65 Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Fax: + 47 55 58 94 70 Bergen, NORWAY Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no From: "H-CLC (BD)" Subject: COPAC: British Online Catalogue Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:14:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 118 (118) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Studentship Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 119 (119) SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND EUROPEAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON OPPORTUNITY FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDY IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE ENGINEERING The University of Wolverhampton invites applications for a PhD studentship from candidates interested in undertaking research in Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. The project ------------- The successful applicant is expected to work on Language Engineering approaches to anaphor resolution which will complement the ongoing research on this topic at the School. Prerequisites --------------- Applicants should possess a good honours degree (or an equivalent degree if not obtained in a UK university) and will be expected to register for a higher degree (MPhil/PhD). Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. Candidates should have a background of Computational Linguistics. A good knowledge of one or more programming languages is essential. Bursary --------- The current value of the bursary is # 5, 500. In addition, up to six teaching hours a week would be possible (in consultation with the supervisor and depending on the appropriateness of the various modules on offer). Application and deadline ---------------------------- Deadline for application is 25 June 1996. The following documents are requested: (i) Application form (to be obtained from Ms. Leslie Barlow Email L.Barlow@wlv.ac.uk, tel. 44-1902-323317, fax 44-1902-323316; please cite reference RS138). (ii) Curriculum Vitae (iii) covering letter in which research interests are outlined, previous (e.g. undergraduate) and/or current projects are summarised and background in both Computational Linguistics and programming is described. Applications should be sent to: Ms. Leslie Barlow The Research Support Unit University of Wolverhampton Dudley Campus Castle View Dudley, DY1 3HR United Kingdom Enquiries ---------- Those wishing to discuss this opportunity for postgraduate study in Computational Linguistics can contact Dr. R. Mitkov Email r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk, tel. (44-1902) 322471. The appointment of a research student is part of the expansion of the Division of Linguistics in the School of Languages and European Studies and is in line with the research policy of the School which has designated Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering as areas of research excellence. Topics of active research are anaphor resolution, automatic abstracting, neural networks, natural language interfaces. From: Marco Simionato Subject: quotations sought Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:36:22 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 120 (120) I have found somewhere that both T.S.Eliot and W.C.Williams in their writings expressed reservations of the sonnet as a viable 20th-century poetic form, but no source was given for these statements. Any pointers? Please reply directly, thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marco Simionato Technical Translator, Software Localiser Dorsoduro 2408/b tel/fax +39 41 5225570 30123 Venezia, ITALY email: simionat@mbox.vol.it From: "Peter D. Junger" Subject: Humanist Archives and Discussion of Encrypting Texts Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:55:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 121 (121) This message relates to particular form to text encoding: text encrypting so that the unwanted cannot read one texts. I recall that some years ago--many years ago as one calculates things in cybertime--during the original avatar of Humanist we had a fairly lengthy discussion of the ways by which one could preserve the confidentiality of electronic messages, including the possibility of using compression programs and UU[en/de]CODing and obscure foreign languages. (As I recall I suggested using _Schweinfurterisch_.) I doubt that I preserved any of that discussion, though I have not checked my ``archives'' from that period, which archives, if they exist, are sitting on the ZIP disks that contain when is left of the information I collected on my old office machine running MSDOS, before I converted to a Linux system. But even if I have actual copies of those messages--which, as I just mentioned, is doubtful--I would like to be able to locate them in a public archive, if one exists, for use in a law suit I propose to bring to enjoin the enforcement of the licensing scheme under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations that makes it a felony to publish or otherwise disclose to ``foreign persons''--a term that I fear applies to many members of this list--any software, or description of such software, that is capable of preserving the confidentiality of information, without first obtaining a license from the censors in the Office of Defense Trade Controls in the United States Department of State. So my question is: Do the old Humanist archives still exist, and where are they located if they do? And I would also like to know if there are any other archives where those old discussions might be preserved. I should add that if any of you have found that you have been constrained in communicating information about cryptography--or if others have been constrained in communicating such information to you--because of the ITAR's licensing scheme, I would be very interested in hearing about it. The subject is one that should be of considerable interest to Humanists, since most schemes that can be used to sign or certify a text to attest to its accuracy can also be used for encryption, and are thus subject to the ITAR's licensing provisions. Which means that the software used for such signatures or certifications cannot be transmitted outside the United States, or disclosed to ``foreign persons'' even within the United States, without first getting a license. As I read the ITAR, even the disclosure by one foreign person to another outside of the United States of a description of cryptogaphic software would constitute a felony under the law of the United States: foreign persons cannot obtain licenses under the ITAR. (Of course the regulations are as unconstitutional as they are ridiculous; that is why I will almost certainly win my suit.) -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu From: Subject: URL correction Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 122 (122) It is with considerable embarrassment that I must correct an error in my earlier post on the web side for Applied Ethics. The correct URL: http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/ethics.html My apologies, and thanks to S. Quigley for letting me know. Color me red... Charles Ess From: Subject: NINCH Newsletter on Web Site Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 123 (123) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT The NINCH Newsletter # 3 (October 23, 1996) can now be found on the NINCH Web site (http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/Newsletter3.html). From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 10.0360 books real and virtual Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:00:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 124 (124) Marta Steele writes: [deleted quotation] Yes, it does -- one major difference being that when you post _these_ marginal scrawls, others get to read them, including possibly the author of your pre-text. It's as if books were always the playground of the mind, but very much a sandbox for one until you were admitted into the company of the Big Kids and were allowed to publish. With the networked computer, anyone can join -- at least one game or another. It's true that you can write these notes on your PC and never post them, but unless the exercise is deliberately introspective (i.e. unless you drop the pretence that your words will ever reach out), such a practice gets to seem kind of idiotic (at least in a literal sense of a closed private world). (I say this not to censure, being prone to it myself.) Fundamentally, books meant that you could have your reactions, and they were privately yours. This can be great for those who work to sort things through on a personal level; but this kind of activity is also one which serves to let us indulge our prejudices without facing consequences. In e-text, we have a greater power to respond, i.e. to take responsibility -- and when we do, others tend to hold us to it. It's a moral exercise of a very different kind. -- Wendell Piez From: Francois Lachance Subject: book & crooks Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:22:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 125 (125) Willard, The following remarks will explain my question to you: how much influence does an editor/instigator have over the shaping of a debate? Some exerpts from my remarks prompted by a question from Robert Fowler There is a leap in here between periodization and comparison. Indeed an acquaintance with parallel time lines, their construction and reading, is at play in these remarks.... [deleted quotation] Answer to my own question: Only as much as you let them have. You might to cast out the question as to how the myopism of the techno-haves is aided and abetted by "codex fetischism" and its cousin "electronic reification". Francois From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 10.0360 books real and virtual Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:14:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 126 (126) Marta Steele says: [deleted quotation] Having been through the book versus computer discussion many times (Book: "I can take it to the beach, I can cuddle with it, I can read it more easily, it feels nice, it lasts, I don't have to plug it in or run it on a battery") and (PC: "I can create smart text, I can search it, I can manipulate text more easily, I can share text immediately, I can communicate quickly, I can include non-text more easily"), I wonder if we are worrying about the design of the front door when the whole house stands before us. We've grown up with futuristic visions being trotted out daily, always prefaced by "someday we will. . ." but now they are actually being created. Take a look at a group of students at MIT who have been wearing computers for several years (Steve Mann at http://www.wearcam.org/, the group at http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearable/) or for a lighter, more general idea see Negroponte's brief article on wearable computing at http://nicholas.www.media.mit.edu/people/nicholas/WIRED3-12.html. What happens to our consciousness and thinking, indeed, when putting on our shoes in the morning boots up our computer and powers it throughout the day, when our "screen" is hoovering in front of our glasses, when "networking" and passing data is done with a literal handshake, when the 'net is always there when you want it, when you can type your manuscript with a hand held device the size of a mouse and all these things interact with the computers built into the world around you? There are active prototypes for all these possibilities in use right now--not futuristic vaporware at all. So, when my 12 year old daughter goes off to college in a world where computing is more intimately bound up in what we do, when it is an ubiquitous part of our immediate environment and not an unwieldy box over there that is hard to read from, what will humanities computing be? Hmmm....I think I'll go invent the "new book," a fold out padded bit of cardboard in a variety of colors that I can focus my computer display glasses on so I have a nice calming surface to read from and that is emminently "cuddle-able." - Hope ------------ Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: TRIP10@aol.com Subject: DIGITAL CONTENT PROTECTION (long promo) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:04:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 127 (127) ******** NFAIS Special Session *********** Cosponsored with ASIS and the Washington, D.C. Chapter of SLA DIGITAL CONTENT PROTECTION: Protecting and Distributing Copyrighted Material-- Where Are We Now? Date/Time: Thursday, October 31, 1996, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: AARP Headquarters, 611 E. Street, NW., Washington, D.C. 20049 Price: NFAIS, SLA and ASIS Members $100 each. Lunch Included. Non-Members $125 each. Lunch Included. **** Special Session Moderator: BONNIE LAWLOR (UMI) The White Paper Legislation: Where Is It Going? Presented by JOE BREMNER, Attorney at Law and Author of Guide to Database Distribution. Whatever happened to the legislation that resulted from the President's Information Infrastructure Task Force on Intellectual Property in Digital Environments? Measures designed to extend copyright protection to electronic content met with resistance. But why? And what does it mean for our future as electronic information providers? *** Database Protection: New Rules in Europe (And How They Came To Be) Presented by BARRY MAHON, Executive Director, EUSIDIC. Over a five-year period, EUSIDIC was actively involved in efforts by the European Community to hammer out guidelines for new means of protecting electronic content--beyond copyright and licensing. Hear how the resulting "Database Directive" came to be. What issues were resolved? Which are left outstanding? *** The European Database Directive: What Is The Impact Here? Presented by STEVE METALITZ, Attorney at Law. Members of the European Union will enact new laws over the next several years to protect producers of factual compilations. But many publishers in the U.S. are exempt from protection under these rules, which apply only to publishers who reside in Europe. But efforts are afoot to mirror the European Directive here. Hear the details! **** Building on the White Paper and the EC Directive: The Database Investment and Intellectual Property Act of 1996 Presented by DAN DUNCAN, Information Industry Association. IIA has been working with Congress to draft and introduce legislation that would better protect electronic content. Dan will review these legislative efforts and give a prognosis on the likelihood that these bills will be passed soon. *** Maintaining the Balance--Updating the Copyright Act Presented by PRUE ADLER, Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Recent efforts to update the Copyright Act to the digital environment were not successful during this recent congressional session. Maintaining the balance between the interests of owners and users of copyrighted resources emerged as a key theme in the congressional discussions. Prue will share the library community's views on the recent legislative debates. *** Database Protection--The Possible Downside Presented by PETER JACCZI, Professor of Law, The American University. Critics of the European Database Directive and related legislation in the U.S., fear that proposed changes could be interpreted too broadly and maybe even upset the intellectual-property-protection apple cart. Peter will discuss his concerns about the proposed legislation as written. *** Potential New Legislation and Unresolved Issues-- What Could Happen Next? Presented by JOE BREMNER. What else is happening with copyright--both from a legislative and a case-law point of view? Last year, we saw shrinkwrap licenses come into question, before the courts reversed their decision. In recent years, courts have ruled against as well as in favor of "course-pack" photocopying. Where's it all headed? What could happen next? ________________________________________________ *** To register for this event: Contact. . . The National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut St., Suite 307 Philadelphia, PA 19102 215 893-1561 Fax: 215 893-1564 e-mail: chudie@aol.com or nfais@hslc.org From: "William R. Bowen" Subject: ITER Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:05:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 128 (128) A pre-release version of ITER, the online bibliography for the period 1300 to 1700, is now available to the public through the homepage www.library.utoronto.ca/www/iter. At present, the database has records for 50,000 journal articles. Please visit the site and let us know what you think. Bill Bowen Director, Iter ********************************************************************* William R. Bowen Scarborough College and Faculty of Music University of Toronto University of Toronto: bowen@chass.utoronto.ca Scarborough College: bowen@scar.utoronto.ca FICINO: editor@chass.utoronto.ca From: "William R. Bowen" Subject: RSA homepage Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:05:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 129 (129) Members of FICINO may be interested in visiting the homepage for the Renaissance Society of America at citd.scar.utoronto.ca/rsa/index.html. This release of web pages includes information about the society, its activities, publications, and membership. More will be added in the near future. ********************************************************************* William R. Bowen Scarborough College and Faculty of Music University of Toronto University of Toronto: bowen@chass.utoronto.ca Scarborough College: bowen@scar.utoronto.ca FICINO: editor@chass.utoronto.ca ********************************************************************* From: Subject: Re: 'Real' books Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 130 (130) Sorry for the delay in replying to the various postings: it's been one of those weeks. There are one or two points I'd like to clarify, and a distinction or two to make. Also, sorry for the length. To steal from Pascal, if I had more time, I'd make this shorter! 1. Technology/technology, Book/book It's probably important to distinguish two senses here. On the one hand there's big-t technology versus little-t technology, and on the other big-b book and little-b book. The first refers to the conceptual categorization of a set of tools, the second to a particular manifestation of these tools. So we can talk about the Technology of the Book, meaning sequentially bound sheets, and the technology of a book, meaning the particular stack of bound sheets in front of me just now.=20 Similarly, we can refer to the Technology of the Computer (meaning some input mechanism, some processing and some output) as well as to the particular technology of a particular computer (for example, a 486 100 Mhz machine running Windows95, with a .28 14" screen, etc.). So when Willard writes: Where I think the case for replacement is dubious is when the computer is being used to model an activity for which it is inherently unsuited, grossly overpowered, or both. If one is READING a text rather than consulting it, why use a computer, which at least now is too bulky to be very convenient, produces a low-resolution image, and costs money to run? Seems silly to me. he's talking sometimes about Technology and sometimes about technology. The same tension occurs in Marta Steele's reply: You can't pull an online publication off your shelf to show a friend the book you've just published, nor will it sport a custom-designed jacket with an artist's rendition of your theme. It will not last a hundred years or more if well tended to; maximum life of disks is at this point 25 years if you're lucky, but we're always warned to back things up, etc., so I'd be wary of that figure. When you publish something and have slaved years over it, do you want to call it up on a screen as flickering waves or admire something that is visually appealing and tangible? Yet it's crucial to keep the two senses distinct. Take the case of Book/book. The Book has an advantage over the Scroll by offering non- sequential access (compare Tape and CD). However, the Book has problems with reordering or textual manipulation. To test this, take Queneau's "Cent mille milliards de po=E8mes" out of your library. This is a book with slices of paper on each page, each of which contains a line of a poem. Different slices can be folded up giving the indicated number of total poems. This book pushes the limits of the Book; as a book, it's also likely to be torn and taped. As a Book, it manages to give some limited freedom, but doesn't allow, for example, reordering lines within the same poem. On the other hand, another Technology like hypertext does this easily, even if the technology (a six-pound laptop, for example) still has shortcomings. In short, we may have qualms about a technology, but we shouldn't let this distract us from considering the Technology it exemplifies and asking ourselves what its limits might be. 2. Reading Drawing on old work in lexicography, let's distinguish three perspectives on texts: consultative (looking up), discursive (reading sequences of text) and esthetic (textual pleasure). One doesn't exclude the others, but together, they allow us to characterize our ways of dealing with varieties of texts. Consider the following table: consult. discurs. esthet. library catalogue + - - dictionary + - - encyclopedia + + - journal article + + - scholarly book + + - novel - + + On the surface, this looks nicely clean. We consult library catalogues, but not novels. We treat novels as esthetic objects, but don't do the same for dictionaries. But wait: some people would claim that Diderot's Encyclop=E9die is an esthetic object. A number of authors of scholarly books would consider that their work has important esthetic facets. How about the numerous queries on HUMANIST itself asking which x said y, or where x said y? Is this not consulting? Or how about a collection of poetry? Do we ever consult it? So there appears to be some fuzziness here. Now, we all know that there is a technologizing wave moving along which has swallowed up library catalogues, most of dictionaries, most of encyclopedias, is working on journals, and starting on textbooks. Should we assume that this wave will be halted by the novel, or by books of poetry because they are FUNDAMENTALLY different from other sorts of text? My own expectation is that with the exception of books as art- form, as described by Matthew Kirschenbaum, novels, textbooks and scholarly works on paper will be essentially gone twenty years from now. (Ask me again in 2016!) There are already hints around. I recently stopped at a business supply store with a sideline in computing software and hardware. They were selling a CD-ROM containing 350 stories (the usual classics) for $24.95. I suspect that this will increase. 3. Attitudes Willard worries that by concentrating on the electronic book, we cater to only a fraction of the population. As he puts it: "Developed-nation myopia is a seriously debilitating condition!" I would reply that we can't change the world, but we can push or pull in one direction or another. I'm also reminded of the discussion which took place in Canada a number of years ago when the metric system was first proposed. There were three groups at least to be found: a) proponents of the new system who claimed that whatever its current shortcomings, it was essentially superior to the imperial system; b) opponents who resisted any change to a system which had worked reasonably well for a long time; c) the indifferent. Now that the metric system has been adopted, we find layers of generations. To grossly simplify, there are: - the young, who know only metric - the middle-aged, who know both metric and imperial - the old, who know only imperial I am struck by the analogy with the introduction of electronic technology in the humanities. What concerns me is that in the replies to date, I don't see much evidence of attitude a) when it comes to electronic books. Are we all too old (or at least middle-aged)? Or should we see it as our duty as computing humanists to push the limits of information Technology, which means trying it out every chance we get? After all, (1) it's fun, and (2) if we don't, who will? From: Subject: CFP: Culture and the Literary Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 131 (131) }} Call for Papers from Graduate Students in all Disciplines }} }} Culture and the Literary }} }} Annual Graduate English Conference at Radford University }} }} Saturday, March 22, 1997 }} }} }} }} What is the nature of the constant interactions between culture and the }} literary? How can academic disciplines engage the literary and still be }} mindful of culture? Through what processes have connections been made in }} the past between culture and the literary? How might we forge new }} correspondences between textual criticism and theories of culture? }} }} Papers are invited from all literary genres and periods. We especially }} invite submissions of essays which engage in current theories of gender, }} nationhood, and popular and material culture. Cross-disciplinary papers }} may involve the fields of Philosophy, Communications, History, Sociology, }} Biology, and Anthropology; other areas and perspectives are welcomed. }} Panels with representatives from diverse disciplines are strongly }} encouraged to submit. }} }} Inexpensive accomodations available for out-of-town graduate students. }} Registration fee of $20 includes a brown-bag lunch. }} }} Panel proposals and individual abstracts are due by November 22, 1996 }} }} Submissions and queries to: }} }} Rita Kranidis }} 540.831.5152. or 5614 }} English Department, Box 6935 }} Radford University }} Radford, VA 24142-6935 }} mkranidi@runet.edu }} }} Questions or concerns regarding general information about the conference: }} Libby Bradford }} 540.731.1944 }} English Department, Box 6935 }} Radford University }} Radford, VA 24142-6935 }} lbradfor@runet.edu } From: Subject: Request for information on extraction of content from Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 132 (132) email Hello, I am researching the automatic extraction of pragmatic and linguistic content of emails. I would appreciate it if anybody knows of any related work in this area. Thanks, Yours sincerely Hamid Khosravi From: Ron Tetreault Subject: Books real and virtual Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:54:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 133 (133) I admire Greg Lessard's chutzpah in speaking so forthrightly in favour of the computerized book, though I suspect he was pulling our virtual leg. Willard, however, has raised some serious issues about the distinction between real and virtual texts. Though a dedicated e-book maker, I'd give odds on the survival of print media. Books are portable, comparatively cheap, and usable by people all over the world. In these discussions, we always need to remind ourselves that we're not obliged to place books and e-texts in competition. Instead I prefer to emphasize the differing strengths of each. Yes, as Pamela Cohen points out, books and print are the medium of permanent record, and are likely to remain so. But it is precisely the infinite revisibility of a text in the electronic medium that gives it a capacity for growth and development that the book does not offer. Digital media only justify themselves when they do things that cannot be done any other way, so that if I make an e-text it is not to replace the book but to give the text a dimension it does not have in print. The stasis of print is valuable for some purposes, but the dynamism of electronic texts produces an almost living, organic effect whose consequences we are only beginning to realize. Even so basic a function as searching gives the e-text an aura of animation, and WWW hypertext links offer a glimpse of Ted Nelson's "docuverse" as a living organism, evolving and interdependent. Let me be so bold as to propose something I'll call the Tetreault test: If you can print out an e-text without losing something vital, it wasn't worth electrifying in the first place. --Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Ronald Tetreault Tel: (902) 494-3494 + + Department of English Fax: (902) 494-2176 + + Dalhousie University Home Fax: (902) 453-4786 + + Halifax, Nova Scotia e-mail: tetro@is.dal.ca + + B3H 3J5 CANADA or Ronald.Tetreault@Dal.Ca + + http://is.dal.ca/~tetro/home/welcome.html + + learning by the (cyber)sea + From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 10.0360 books real and virtual Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:05:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 134 (134) I wanted to mention something that I heard from a colleague. Their graduate students are printing them out of house and home, downloading so much information over the web and printing it out on their grants and contracts that it is costing their projects too much for the paper, toner, etc. I believe this is the tip of a new iceberg. The publishing world has at its disposal a new tool that permits them to pass the cost of printing on to the consumer. I believe the whole equation may change. Journals, as middlemen, never did pay their authors; in fact, I remember cases where they charged my company for the pages of my article that they were publishing. So, authors are distributing things without journals. How this will affect libraries is an interesting issue. On the one hand, libraries currently have the paper budget to buy books and journals for the whole university, so to speak. Departments may decide this isn't working out too well as they now have more things to acquire directly and they have to pay to print them; so they may want some of that budget back--then too, departments are notoriously bad at keeping their literature organized, so they may want to pass the printed Web pages off to the library for cataloguing, storage and access. Some departments might decide that the library should be the ones to download the materials directly--i.e., by recommending web sites the way they now recommend journals. Then the library would be the one to monitor the sites for new publications. Certainly the ephemeral nature of Web files, posted by research groups, directly by the authors, by organizations of all types, screams out for someone to capture and preserve these things before they are deleted by their owners and become irretrievable suddenly. The issue of paper vs. electronic storage is also there. So far, NOBODY has told me they like to read large documents on the Web. This tends to say that while students may be forced to read things online, they will want the option to print them out, and may even be willing to pay for that (if they can afford it). The question of what happens when professors assign students to do Web-based research for a project seem to come up. If a whole class full of students needed access at one time; or toward the end of semester entire sets of classes were trying to complete reports to turn in by accessing the Web for their research--the demands on numbers of terminals available at one time would be quite high. I.e. libraries started with the terminals being the INDEX, used for a time to get references which were then tracked down in the real library; then terminals became an augmentation to the library for newspaper and other short articles; but now the prospect looms of the Web as the SECOND LIBRARY--one in which students and faculty will want to download (i.e. borrow) much larger articles and documents--or, less likely, stay in front of the terminal for the whole time while they read them; i.e. terminals will have to be as plentiful as chairs in the library or as visitors to the library building. Libraries can blunt the cost of having ample printers, administering the cost of printing, etc. by offering downloading and pushing the cost of printing off to the student's home computer; OR go into the printing role more actively by providing bigger and less expensive per page printing equipment to try and keep printing costs down (though equipment and operational costs would go up). Universities faced with the Web as an essential part of education may have to resort to university web access facilities--far more extensive than existing computer labs, probably featuring less expensive Web computer terminals, intended largely just to provide access to Web pages, printing, etc. and no "computing" as we now use the term to refer to word processing, spreadsheets, database access, etc. These times they are a changing... Robert A. Amsler Computational Linguist From: Subject: computers and children's play Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 135 (135) [deleted quotation]two stories by Clare Garner that tell a story about how we perceive the consequences of technology. In "You can't play tag on a computer. Or hopskotch. Or skipping. So kids are getting lessons in forgotten playground games", the author describes a project at the Saracen Primary School, Hamilton Hill, Glasgow. The head teacher, Evelyn Gibson, explains that "With videos, computers, CDs, and other advances, children just have to plonk themselves down and be entertained.... At the moment children become bored in the playground, which leads to mischief or rough acts, and can end in tears." So she cut the lunch-break to 20 minutes, but is now attempting to resurrect traditional games, in essence to attempt to teach children how to play, to draw them away from imitating the characters they encounter on their computers at home. As the article notes, many child-psychologists object to the notion that play can be taught. Among them is Iona Opie, whom many Humanists will know from the many books about and collections of children's literature she wrote with her husband Peter. "Nobody knows more about children's games than Iona Opie. And nobody is more appalled by the Saracen project," writes Garner in "'I never played kiss-chase and I had quite a normal sex life'". "'Children have got the instinct for making fun,' she says. 'They always do it [play], I'm absolutely certain, unless someone has gone round injecting them with some deadly dope.'" So the problem lies, Mrs. Opie says, in our failure to recognise that all around us children are at play. She does not slam computers, as the Saracen teachers do, but sees them as "the Nineties equivalent of marbles and fivestones". 'Do not interfere!' is her message, even in the face of boredom. "You've got to experience boredom and getting out of boredom on your own initiative. You've got to get into mischief and out of mischief. This goes on all your life." Indeed.... If only "mischief" were as serious as it gets. If only computers were entirely to blame. Two reflections: how difficult it is to face problems squarely; what software truly adequate to a child's inventive genius for play might look like. The first is, I'd guess, an unsolvable problem coterminous with life, but the second is a fascinating problem for research. Does anyone know what is happening in that area, and how designers of scholarly software might benefit from its findings? WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu (12) Subject: Smithsonian Institution Fellowships (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 136 (136) *************************************************** Please forward to appropriate lists and individuals. Apologies for any cross-posting. *************************************************** The Smithsonian Institution encourages access to its collections, staff specialties, and reference resources by visiting scholars, scientists, and students. 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Hudson, Academic Programs Specialist Office of Fellowships and Grants Smithsonian Institution oasbb001@sivm.si.edu phone: (202) 287-3271 From: Attachment Research Center Subject: Re: 10.0366 computers and play Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 21:28:39 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 137 (137) Children who do not engage in active play have a serious problem with socialization. Anybody who has read Bowlby knows that children who fail to engage in social interactions are detached children. And they are detached because their parents, particularly their mothers, are absent. Physically and mentally absent. Offspring of detached parents fail to trust their caregivers and so cannot construct what Bowlby calls a "secure base", whereby the infant leaves his mother for longer and longer periods, returning from time to time, to check out whether their mother is still responding (to check out whether they can trust their mother is a reliable base). Excursions into the environment and socialization with other people, other children included, is antithetical to attachment behaviour whereby the infant would tend to be near his mother. Bowlby discovered that in order that children dare explore the environment around them, including having relationships with others than their mothers, they must construct a secure base, that is, they must have a reliable, responding, connected mother. Otherwise, children tend to become clingy, excessively demanding, crying all day and night when they are at home; when they leave home the daren't embark on adventurous excursions into the environment for fear they won't find their mothers if they want them or need them on their return. That constitutes a major drawback for socialization. Many become loners, and feel at a loss when faced with social occasions, at school or playing with other children. That is why they resort to television or computer games where they avoid having to interact with another human being, one of the most fearful actions they sometimes have to suffer. Attachment Research Center Juncal 1966 1116 BA, Argentina From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 10.0366 computers and play Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:12:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 138 (138) Play can't be taught, but games can. I find both the positions cited to be one-sided ("Teaching kids playground games is GOOD"; "Teaching kids playground games is BAD"). Lately I've been reading Seymour Papert's new book, THE CONNECTED FAMILY (Longstreet, just out) -- very enlightening on the general issue. He produced the LOGO programming language for kids and a package, MicroWorlds, which serves as a LOGO "development environment"; his perspectives are helping me open up whole vistas on my own scholarly activities, computing and otherwise (but just play after all). It's only a www site, but look at http://www.ConnectedFamily.com/ -- Wendell Piez **[Editorial note: In light of the discussion we are now having about books, publishing, and related matters, Seymour Papert's "companion web site" to his new book is highly significant. It suggests to me a paradigm for combining the virtues of both publishing media -- while not involving commercial publishers (and university presses that operate in the commercial style) in otherwise costly and uncertain experiments. --WM] From: Jim Campbell Subject: Re: 10.0369 real books (part 2 of 2) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:44:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 139 (139) A couple of general comments: 1. All of this discussion assumes that electronic texts are delivered in 20 years in much the same way they are delivered now. The technology has changed dramatically in the last five years and I suspect it will continue to change. We can't state what the advantages and disadvantages of electronic vs. paper access in 20 years will be. 2. It also assumes stability in the publishing industry, but there are very real problems there and the survival of the book may ultimately be an economic rather than a technological question. Certainly the book will be with us for a while, I hope a long while, but I wouldn't take bets outside of 20 years. Then a few comments from a librarian on Robert Amsler's posting. How this will affect libraries is an interesting issue. On the one hand, libraries currently have the paper budget to buy books and journals for the whole university, so to speak. Well, my main quarrel with this is the tense. It is affecting libraries. We have for many years now devoted a portion of our budget to electronic resources, mostly CD-ROMs, and now are purchasing access to Internet resources for our University, including access to electronic journals and books for departments. Departments may decide this isn't working out too well as they now have more things to acquire directly and they have to pay to print them; so they may want some of that budget back--then too, departments are notoriously bad at keeping their literature organized, so they may want to pass the printed Web pages off to the library for cataloguing, storage and access. Some departments might decide that the library should be the ones to download the materials directly--i.e., by recommending web sites the way they now recommend journals. Then the library would be the one to monitor the sites for new publications. Again, all this is happening now, though I'm unclear why it's said departments are now buying more things directly - most of them have always done some duplicating of essential materials. I suspect few libraries are going to want to store paper printouts of materials or to download websites. We'd rather set up a Web page of our own that connects to key research sites for the disciplines we serve and/or make links to the sites in our Web based catalogs. And there is more stability on the Web now as more and more organizations put up materials, it's the individual sites that have been the big problem. If there's heavy local use, we'd rather have an electronic copy and put it up on a server, copyright allowing. That's what we're doing for reserve materials now. Many journal publishers, when they negotiate contracts with libraries for electronic journals, now guarantee that the library owns the years for which it subscribes, so that if the journal ceases or the library drops its subscription, it can download those issues or get a tape of them and continue to make them available locally. A real problem, incidentally, is that many of these contracts don't allow interlibrary loan, so researchers at smaller institutions may have trouble getting needed materials without paying the document suppliers. The issue of paper vs. electronic storage is also there. So far, NOBODY has told me they like to read large documents on the Web. This tends to say that while students may be forced to read things online, they will want the option to print them out, and may even be willing to pay for that (if they can afford it). The question of what happens when professors assign students to do Web-based research for a project seem to come up. If a whole class full of students needed access at one time; or toward the end of semester entire sets of classes were trying to complete reports to turn in by accessing the Web for their research--the demands on numbers of terminals available at one time would be quite high. I.e. libraries started with the terminals being the INDEX, used for a time to get references which were then tracked down in the real library; then terminals became an augmentation to the library for newspaper and other short articles; but now the prospect looms of the Web as the SECOND LIBRARY--one in which students and faculty will want to download (i.e. borrow) much larger articles and documents--or, less likely, stay in front of the terminal for the whole time while they read them; i.e. terminals will have to be as plentiful as chairs in the library or as visitors to the library building. All of this assumes that this research will be done in the library. We have in fact added a lot more terminals, but our computing center is also putting ethernet in the dormitories. Libraries can blunt the cost of having ample printers, administering the cost of printing, etc. by offering downloading and pushing the cost of printing off to the student's home computer; OR go into the printing role more actively by providing bigger and less expensive per page printing equipment to try and keep printing costs down (though equipment and operational costs would go up). Most libraries and computing centers are or soon will be charging for printing in the same way they now charge for photocopying. Universities faced with the Web as an essential part of education may have to resort to university web access facilities--far more extensive than existing computer labs, probably featuring less expensive Web computer terminals, intended largely just to provide access to Web pages, printing, etc. and no "computing" as we now use the term to refer to word processing, spreadsheets, database access, etc. Most universities are very reluctant to make that kind of investment in technology that is so quickly obsolete and are trying to figure out ways to place the burden on the students. These times they are a changing... They have done changed, at least in some places. And as with so many other things in the 90s, the trend is for them to change in ways that will be most acceptable to those who can pay. - Jim Campbell =09Acting Director, Systems and Networked Information University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA campbell@virginia.edu * Tel: 804-924-4985 * Fax: 804-924-1431 From: Maarten van der Heijden Subject: Re: 10.0369 real books (part 2 of 2) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 06:33:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 140 (140) I am very glad with this ongoing discussion on the book. Though I am mainly a reader I would like to react on what Ron wrote. At 22:02 28-10-96 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation]f [deleted quotation]h [deleted quotation] This last is a very strong point I believe in the ongoing discussion about the Book and Etext. I would mak ea slight modification to your statement.= =20 If you can print out an E-text without losing something vital, the author didn't realise which capacities this technology offered.=20 This is not true though for Email, which exists by virtue of the speed and editabillity it offers. From=20the early years of the use of the book we see that authors are looki= ng for new ways to order and make accessible their books, using indexes, footnotes, tables of contents etc.The choice to publish electronically obliges us to think about that technology as much as the early makers and users of books did. Maarten van der Heijden From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0369 real books (part 2 of 2) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:06:51 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 141 (141) I am going to put in my own two cents worth on this. I think that everyone makes too much of a big deal about reading etext on a computer. If you compose your papers on a computer or edit your books on one you are reading long etext. If you have a big display and the proper word processor or browser you can make the characters larger or the text scroll if you want t= o. I carry around ebooks on zip disks and read them on my laptop. I have been reading thru the "classics" for the last few years. Reading whole boo= ks rather than the selections that I read in my undergrad days. I have also been reading the children's books that I missed when I was younger as well = as reading those that I liked with my children. nightly. I must admit that I do print up some chapters per week when I read with my children. But still it isn't a big deal. This Christmas I am putting together an anthology of my favorite poems and short stories that I have enjoyed and rediscovered. I am printing up 50 copies that I am giving to friends as well as clients.=20 A far bigger problem is that fewer and fewer people read much of anything at all. And the level of their reading ability has fallen to quite low levels. My children's friends come over all the time to get etext books from my collection. Books that they need to read for school. Their teachers don't seem to expect much and the kids don't give back very much either. From: Willard McCarty Subject: books, body and soul Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:25:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 142 (142) In Humanist 10.367, Greg Lessard makes the useful distinction between=20 Technology/technology and Book/book, that is, between the conceptual=20 entity and a particular manifestation of it. He says, quite rightly,=20 that it's important to keep these distinct, and notes that I mix them=20 up, sometimes talking about one, sometimes the other. "In short," he=20 concludes, "we may have qualms about a technology, but we shouldn't=20 let this distract us from considering the Technology it exemplifies=20 and asking ourselves what its limits might be." Indeed -- a nice=20 statement of what I think Humanist is for. Then, he goes on to=20 discuss reading, distinguishing "three perspectives on texts:=20 consultative (looking up), discursive (reading sequences of text) and=20 esthetic (textual pleasure)." He finds that although these kinds are=20 useful to distinguish, the categories break down, e.g. when an=20 essentially consultative work (such as Diderot's Encyclop=E9die)=20 is treated as an aesthetic object, or when a discursive text (such as=20 Ovid's Metamorphoses) is consulted. On closer inspection he finds,=20 again quite rightly, that to be more precise about these things, we=20 have to mix up what we have distinguished. A contradiction? Apparently so, but it is the contradiction inherent=20 in our historical circumstance -- indeed, the philosopher would say,=20 inherent in our contradictory existence (and if this philosopher were=20 given the chance he or she would probably bring out the old=20 body/soul problem and take enormous pleasure in contemplating our=20 eternal return to basics). As computing humanists -- permit me to be=20 quite emphatic here -- our task is to be awake while in the middle of=20 the muddle and attempt as best we can to sort it out.=20 The stubbornness I hang on to, my rock in the storm, is the question=20 of why we should waste our time any longer in imitative modes of=20 thought. The "electronic book" is an "iron horse" we should start=20 thinking of as a "train". Forget the horse! Start asking what the=20 train can do that a horse could not, what the consequences of its use=20 are, and so forth. Then we can ask about all those liberated horses,=20 and perhaps have something to do with keeping the nutters from=20 convincing the Mighty that we should slaughter them all, or some other such wicked foolishness. The forces at work are certainly more than we can control, but we're=20 not totally without influence, and even if it is of no avail against=20 the economic typhoon, we will have understood something important=20 about the acculturation of technology -- and have refurbished an old=20 philosophical debate for the nintendo generation? Comments? WM=20 =20 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Marta Steele Subject: real books Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:52:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 143 (143) Willard, There's a lot more to say than I, or probably anyone else, has time=20 to say on this vastly important subject. I will have more time later=20 (and hope I don't say too much then!) but right now I want to quickly=20 respond to Mr. Lessard's latest posting by saying, yes, well and=20 good, but in 2016 I hope they have figured out a way to make the=20 electronic medium far less ephemeral if it is fated to replace books.=20 I can envision electronic devices that imitate books in every way,=20 sit on our shelves, and besides that contain all the advantages we=20 currently enjoy on the bulkier, far less portable screens. It still=20 seems bizarre to me and far less esthetically pleasing than print on=20 a designed page, which, quite simply, won't flicker or fail. Just=20 yesterday I was reading from I a book I own that dates back to the late=20 1600s, an edition of Lucan's _Pharsalia_. The print on the page is=20 intact and thoroughly legible. As a matter of fact, the book shows=20 hardly a trace of wear. Of course, I haven't written in the margins=20 but they are filled with the marginalia that were current at that=20 time. I also have to add that I don't use the book every day but=20 neither do I need to encase it in glass or otherwise give it special=20 treatment. I don't mean to sound self-righteous but I consider that book my most prized and favorite material possession. I guess these paragraphs themselves place me in a specific era as a reactionary. So be it. People may read these in 100 years and laugh.=20 I reiterate, though, people are still very anxious to write books=20 rather than commit their publications to the internet. So my two=20 points are that publication on disk/screen has not yet superseded all the advantages we derive from books (longevity in addition to the "sentimental" perks) and the population is far from "sold" on the latter as a sure replacement. I'm still fascinated with the ultimate effects electronic publication=20 will have on (I'm admittedly inarticulate so early in my workday) the=20 intellectual directions our culture takes, but there are so many=20 other factors serving as roadblocks these days that perhaps the real=20 question must for its own sake put aside all these variables.=20 How will we evolve intellectually? =20 =20 From: PMC Subject: Postmodern Culture 7.1 (September, 1996) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:53:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 144 (144) POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Number 1 (September, 1996) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors: Eyal Amiran Lisa Brawley Graham Hammill, guest editor Stuart Moulthrop John Unsworth Review Editor: Paula Geyh Managing Editor: Sarah Wells List Manager: Jessamy Town Research Assistants: Anne Sussman Steven Wagner Editorial Board: Sharon Bassett Phil Novak Michael Berube Chimalum Nwankwo Nahum Chandler Patrick O'Donnell Marc Chenetier Elaine Orr Greg Dawes Marjorie Perloff Lisa Douglas Fred Pfeil Graham Hammill Peggy Phelan Phillip Brian Harper David Porush David Herman Mark Poster bell hooks Carl Raschke E. 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Foti, "Representation foti.996 Represented: Foucault, Velazquez, Descartes" Special Section--Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies: Graham Hammill, guest editor Allen Meek, "Guides to the Electropolis: meek.996 Toward a Spectral Critique of the Media" Angelika Rauch, "Saving Philosophy in rauch.996 Cultural Studies: The Case of Mother Wit" Vadim Linetski, "Poststructuralist linetski.996 Paraesthetics and the Phantasy of the Reversal of Generations" POPULAR CULTURE COLUMN: David Golumbia, "Hypertext" pop-cult.996 HYPERTEXT: Matthew Miller, "TRIP" [WWW Version only] REVIEWS: Carina Yervasi, "Confessions of a Net review-1.996 Surfer: _New Chick_ and Grrrls on the Web." Review of Carla Sinclair, _Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide to the Wired World_. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. Samuel Collins, "'Head Out On the Highway': review-2.996 Anthropological Encounters with the Supermodern." Review of Marc Auge, _Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity_. New York: Verso, 1995. Jon Ippolito, "Whose Opera Is This, Anyway?" review-3.996 Review of Tod Machover and MIT Media Lab's interactive _Brain Opera_, performed at Lincoln Center, NYC, July 23-August 3, 1996. Thomas Swiss, "Music and Noise: Marketing review-4.996 Hypertexts." Review of Eastgate Systems, Inc. Theresa Smalec, "(Re)Presenting the review-5.996 Renaissance on a Post-Modern Stage." Review of Susan Bennett, _Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past_. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Crystal Downing, "_Multiplicity_: %Una review-6.996 Vista de Nada%." Review of _Multiplicity_, directed by Harold Ramis, Columbia Pictures 1996. Brent Wood, "Resistance in Rhyme." Review review-7.996 of Russell Potter, _Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism_. Albany: Suny, 1995. LETTERS: Selected Letters from Readers letters.996 RELATED READINGS [WWW Version only] NOTICES: Announcements and Advertisements notices.996 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACTS Steven Helmling, "Jameson's Lacan" ABSTRACT: This essay surveys Fredric Jameson's engagement with the work of Jacques Lacan. Jameson is one of the few among commentators on Lacan to foreground Lacan's cryptic and enigmatic prose style: Jameson's earliest mention of Lacan in _The Prison-House of Language_ (1971) departs from the premise that Lacan's writing offers an "initiatory" experience rather than systematic exposition; and Jameson's 1977 essay, "Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan," climaxes with a celebration of Lacan's "discourse of the analyst" as an ethic for "cultural intellectuals"--a style of utterance closer to "listening" than speaking, more a speaking-with than a speaking-to or -of. The Lacanian scriptible (to borrow a term from Barthes that Jameson favors) enacts or performs Lacan's conviction of the irreducibility of particular speech acts to a paraphraseable "meaning," an %enonce% (or "letter") dissociable from the impulse (or "spirit") of the enunciation itself--a gesture that appeals to Jameson because just such irreducibility is what Jameson stipulates for "dialectical" writing as such. The success with which Lacan's writing resists what Jameson calls "thematization," the kind of commodification or reification to which written texts are specifically liable, exemplifies (Jameson hopes) a "utopian" resistance to ideology, or break-out from "ideological closure." But in _The Political Unconscious_ (1981), "ideological closure" is a premise of the argument to an extent that presupposes the impotence of any cultural production to break out of it. In this context, the book's subtitle, _Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act_, implies the question whether "socially symbolic" must not mean "ideological": whether a "socially symbolic" protest against "ideological closure" can escape functioning as a confirmation of it. In the book's third chapter, Lacan is mobilized in ways that test this sense of "symbolic" against the specifically Lacanian evocation of "the Symbolic" as contrasted with "the Imaginary." The "Imaginary/Symbolic" binary figures, on the one hand, a fated devolution of desire and the libidinal into the "ideological closure" of "the Symbolic," on the other a more familiar ("Enlightenment") narrative of passage from irrationalism to critical reason. "Imaginary/Symbolic" transcodes in one way as "utopia/ideology," in another as "ideology/critique." In the tension between these two possibilities, Jameson maintains (one version or enactment of) "the dialectic of utopia and ideology," in which cultural production remains ever subject to ideological deformation, yet also resists and preserves the promise of deliverance from the closure of the ideological condition.--sh Veronique M. Foti, "Representation Represented: Foucault, Velazquez, Descartes" ABSTRACT: I examine Foucault's analysis of the %episteme% of representation with respect to Descartes's understanding (in the _Regulae_) of a universal %mathesis%, and to the self-representation of representation that Foucault traces in Velazquez's painting _Las Meninas_. I call into question Foucault's analysis of the painting as well as the critical observations of Snyder and Cohen, who take it for granted that Velazquez adhered to a univocal Albertian system of perspective. As to Foucault, I argue that his understanding (and assimilation) of vision and painting remains essentially Cartesian, and that he is insufficiently attentive to the materiality of painting which resists discursive appropriation. Finally, I examine what a genuine attentiveness to painting's materiality and to its irreducibility to a theoretical exploration of vision would mean for grasping the relevance of its specific order of %poiesis% to postmodern thought.--vf Allen Meek, "Guides to the Electropolis: Toward a Spectral Critique of the Media" ABSTRACT: The range of critical practices that currently circulate in academic cultural studies has yet to acknowledge the full scope of Derridean deconstruction. Now Derrida has published for the first time an extensive meditation on Marx, inviting renewed speculation about the ways that deconstruction might comment on marxian theories of the media. The figure of the specter, or ghost, that Derrida "conjures" in his tribute to Marx guides a critique of the media toward earlier encounters between marxism and psychoanalysis. These include the writings of Andre Breton and Walter Benjamin, recently discussed by Margaret Cohen as belonging to an experimental tradition which she names "Gothic Marxism." Like Breton and Benjamin before him, Derrida pursues a poetics of haunting and mourning that pervades the texts of Marx and calls for a "politics of memory" arising out of a sense of responsibility toward the ghosts of our collective histories. For Breton and Benjamin these included the ghosts of a revolutionary tradition that haunted the emergent phantasmagoria of commodity capitalism in modern Paris. Derrida addresses the collapse of Soviet communism and the "revolution" in global telecommunications. When placed in the company of Derrida's specters, can the Surrealist experiments of the 20s and 30s serve as a guide for a spectral critique of electronic media? Such a critique would call into question the legitimacy of the dominant technologies and ideologies of representation by reconstructing, in ways that owe much to psychoanalysis, their repressed histories. Anne Friedberg's study of cinema and shopping malls in Los Angeles provides a contemporary context for considering the legacies of Gothic Marxism. Like Cohen, Friedberg looks back to Benjamin's Arcades Project as a model for cultural studies. What is striking about the juxtaposition of these two recent responses to Benjamin, however, is that in Friedberg's analysis of postmodern culture we witness the disappearance of those darker social forces which it would be the project of Gothic Marxism to make visible.--am Angelika Rauch, "Saving Philosophy for Cultural Studies" ABSTRACT: This paper establishes Kant's aesthetics as a postmodern project as it expands on Kant's distinction between representative image and figure. "Figure" is the crucial term because it operates according to unconscious law's contingent resonant with rhetorical structures. From a psychoanalytic and feminist perspective, Kant's discussion of "wit" and "motherwit" appeals to the formative and creative nature of judgments on aesthetic experience. The author's thesis is that in aesthetic judgments, imagination reveals a structure of re-membrance which recreates the bond with the mother's body in the contingent feeling of pleasure. Taste is inherently a bodily faculty that, in analogy to the power of genius, translates affect into cultural images. Judgment of taste is the product of hermeneutic (i.e. mental and historical) process in which wit engages the cultural past in and through language to produce non-mimetic linguistic representations of emotional experiences: "figures" not images.--ar Vadim Linetski, "Poststructuralist Paraesthetics and the Phantasy of the Reversal of Generations" ABSTRACT: In its critique of patriarchy and logocentrism, and in its attempts to replace these with a plurality of identifications, post-structuralist theory enacts the very fantasy of the reversal of generations which, Freud explains, underpins the Oedipus complex. By developing Freud's notion of sublimation alongside both Bakhtin's notions of dialogism and Ernest Jones's theory of aphanasis, this essay argues for a genuinely psychoanalytic narratology that lies outside logocentric thought. One important significance of this argument is that it allows for an engagement with constructions of feminine sexuality without recapitulating an Oedipal paradigm.--gh David Golumbia, "Hypercapital" ABSTRACT: As relatively egalitarian, pluralist theories of hypertext (largely focusing on the medium's formal and mechanical properties) have been written in the academy, corporations have been shaping hypertext into a premier tool of capitalist development. Like many such tools, the World Wide Web is skewed toward Western ways of understanding and the Western economic base. But unlike other tools of this sort, the interplay between hypertext on the web and the varied and burgeoning mechanisms for electronic transfer of capital and credit suggests a more sinister development. For the distinction between the transfer of information and the transfer of capital is becoming blurred in the creation of what I call "hypercapital" which in certain crucial respects constitute a new form of capital itself. The body of the paper discusses the consequences of this blurring for liberal visions of information access, for the Marxian notion of circulation, and for the politics of the subject. The paper follows the recent web convention of embedding links to a variety of web sites, whose contents help to demonstrate the imminence (and the gravity) of the developments I discuss. --dg ----------------------------------------------------------------- POSTMODERN CULTURE is published by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities three times a year (September, January, and May). 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Issues of Postmodern Culture may be archived for public use in electronic or other media, as long as each issue is archived in its entirety and no fee is charged to the user; any exception to this restriction requires the written consent of the editors and of the publisher. From: David Green Subject: Program Director, National Digital Library Federation Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:26:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 145 (145) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT ****************** [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax ============================================================== From: David Sisk Subject: Re: 10.0372 real books Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:58:44 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 146 (146) Perhaps I have missed the point somewhere along the line, but I'm having a hard time with the terms of the argument over books vs. e-texts being an argument about _reading_. E-texts offer several very real advantages in terms of preserving information in small amounts of space (say, rare or crumbling books), permitting rapid searching and indexing, and in making this material available more easily and quickly, copyright allowing. In my experience, the act of reading off of a computer screen "works" only for brief tidbits of information. The faculty and students I have worked with, here and at other institutions, print out nearly everything more than about three meaty paragraphs in length--including e-mail. This is especially true for those doing research, who plan to cite their sources and quote from them. The fundamental difference I see between texts in book form and texts in electronic form, as far as impact on the act of reading, is that any computer capable of receiving e-texts almost certainly has lots of other capabilities. Students and faculty tend to print material out for later perusal because there are other things to be done on the computer: other assignments or "fun" activities, such as games or e-mail. By contrast, there's not much beyond reading you can do with a book, other than making marginal comments, doodling on the endpapers and perhaps tearing out the pages to make paper sculptures . As long as computer technology continues to add more kinds of capability, I think computers will become _less_ likely to function as the primary vehicle for reading. _________________________________________________________________ David W. Sisk Assistant Director for Academic Computing Macalester College / 1600 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105-1899 sisk@macalester.edu / Voice: (612) 696-6745 / FAX: (612) 696-6778 From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Humanist reply Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:40:18 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 147 (147) Greg Lessard writes: <> WRT the question of whether we are too old (or at least middle-aged): I have a different perspective now from what I had only a few years ago. Not a philosophical consideration of the merits one way or the other, but a purely physical problem: I can't read a computer screen for very long without numerous strains -- eyes, neck, brain, . . . . I have difficulty maintaining my occupation (computer research consultant) because of these challenges despite numerous changes including special computer glasses, specially arranged furniture, larger fonts, and such. So my intellectual interest in the notion of electronic publication is tempered by my physical inability to deal with the medium. Another of the 'wise' guys viewing the elephant, I remain, Mary Dee Harris -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 202-387-0626 Language Technology, Inc. 202-387-0625 (fax) 2153 California St. NW mdharris@erols.com Washington, DC 20008 mdharris@aol.com From: Subject: Re: 10.0373 computers, play, and e-publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 148 (148) I was personally apalled by the posting from (presumably a person at) the "Attachment Research Center" emphasizing the need for an infant to have a stable attachment to "his mother." While most of the offense I take proceeds from the disjuncture between my own politics and the gender specificity of the posting with regards to the roles of parents and the ideal gender of and infant (male), I am moved to write to our group because of the effectively anonymous source of the posting. If we are to be a community discussing issues, including those which occasionaly stray from our common focus of electronic technologies and the humanities, let's be a community of people. _Who_ wrote from the "Attachment Research Center?" The issue of identification and anonymity is relevent beyond a tangential discussion of child-raising practices and so my request is that we be a community of people identifying ourselves by name and (but not or) institutional affiliation. John W. Marshall Princeton University jwm@princeton.edu [Editorial note. If at all possible, I publish everything sent by members of Humanist, and some things from elsewhere. So although the above might, in less generous company, provoke flaming war, my guess is that it won't here. Two points, if I may. (1) All politics make for interesting study, but in a multicultural, international setting it seems to me that one has to be willing to see one's own opinions and remarks as possibly less than universally true and so couch them in those terms. (2) Humanist usually does follow the convention that the author of a note should identify him- or herself by name. Mr. Marshall is quite right -- this is a community of individuals. I slipped up in not asking the author of the note in question for his or her identity, for which I apologise. Many current Humanists could hardly be expected to know this convention, which as far as I am aware has not been discussed in years, so the fault really is mine. Finally, allow me to return us to the reason for talking about children's play in the first place, which was to ask, what can we as computing humanists (rather than fond parents or child psychologists or whatever else) learn from studies of children's play? Can we, for example, say that all pieces of software might usefully be seen as analogous to one's mother, father, or other caring entity, and that our behaviour with software is analogous to a child's recursive process of separation from a secure base and return to it? --WM] From: Kay Broderick Subject: Thomas Hardy Computer Study Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:13:04 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 149 (149) Is anyone (or anyone you know) working on Thomas Hardy's fiction using computer analysis or other computer-related work? I am, and would like to talk with others who are. Dr. Kay Broderick Kobe College, Japan kay@gol.com From: Monique Jucquois-Delpierre Subject: rumanian html Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:04:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 150 (150) Dear humanist and computer specialist, We are searching a confortable possibility/ software/ alphabet for the rumanian writing internet via Html, especially : s cedil, t cedil, circumflexe special rumanian. Maybe you can help us Monique Jucquois-Delpierre Heinrich-Heine-Universit=E4t D=FCsseldorf Studiengang Informationswissenschaft Department of Information Science [deleted quotation] From: Subject: CFP for CALL Conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 151 (151) Language Teaching and Language Technology Groningen (The Netherlands) 28-29 April 1997 CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION Language Teaching and Language Technology 28-29 April 1997 University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands Call for Papers Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is enjoying a revival of interest after a disappointing first flurry of activity in the seventies. This is undoubtedly due to the broader range of tasks computers can now be put to, but it is also due to the practical success recent systems have been demonstrating. We hope that the conference may provide answers to some of the following questions: 1. How can language technology (speech recognition/synthesis, morphological and syntactic parsing/generation, semantic classification) be further harnessed in support of language learning? 2. How good is CALL compared to language learning without benefit of computer assistance? Can one measure improvements, and do these involve speed, proficiency or enthusiasm of CALL students? 3. Is computer-assisted learning always computer-assisted instruction? Isn't virtually all language-learning done under instruction? 4. What and where is the market for CALL products? How does one reach it? 5. What are the results of large-scale use of CALL in language education programs? When can it be effective? 6. What are the opportunities for long-distance learning? 7. What is the role in CALL for traditional support tools such as (analog) language labs, paper dictionaries, or hand-held grammars? 8. What are the pedagogical consequences of exploiting this technology? Are there mixed and/or partial options? 9. How may results of Corpus Linguistics be incorporated into CALL? 10. Are the different subfields of language instruction differently amenable to computer assistance--viz., reading, writing, speaking, listening, testing, translation? Although we solicit papers on all aspects of CALL, we are particularly interested in the question of matching technology to educational needs. The perspective of the program committee comes from language teaching and language technology. Language learning takes place primarily in classroom instruction, so that CALL therefore needs to convince language teachers of its value if it's to be used widely. The self-instruction market is relatively small, and CALL packages will need to allow language teachers a good deal of flexibility. On the other hand, language technology can automate irrelevant, tedious tasks in much the same way software for math education does, providing value to the language learner above drill and record-keeping. Invited Speakers (themes tentative) ---------------- Frank Borchardt, Executive Director, CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). On Current Didactic Issues in CALL Stephen Heppell, ULTRALAB/Anglia Polytechnic University, Essex. On Educational Policy and CALL Lauri Karttunnen, Rank Xerox, Grenoble. On the Technological Horizon. Joke van der Ven, Wolters-Noordhof, Groningen. On the Publisher's Perspective. Abstracts --------- We solicit papers of 20 min (plus 10 min discussion). Abstracts of not more than 8 pp. (A4) including figures and references should be marked "Attention: CALL Conf." and submitted by Jan 15, 1997 to: Arthur van Essen, Applied Linguistics Postbus 716 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen NL 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands Email submissions are likewise welcome. They must meet the same length requirement, must be either in plain ASCII or in postscript. Include "Attention: CALL Conf" in the subject line and send to call-conf@let.rug.nl Publication ----------- Proceedings will be published by CSLI press, Stanford University. Papers of not more than 12 pp. in length must be submitted (on paper and on disk) at the time of the conference. Demonstrations -------------- Proposals for demonstrations of existing work are likewise welcome. A demonstration time will be reserved. We suggest prepared demonstrations of ten minutes (which might be extended privately). Please be specific about hardware/software requirements. GLOSSER and HOLOGRAM, two Groningen programs, will be demonstrated. Program Committee (still tentative) ----------------- Paul Bogaards (Computer-Assisted Instruction, Leiden) Arthur van Essen (Applied Linguistics, Groningen, co-chair) Erhard Hinrichs (Computational Linguistics, Tuebingen) Sake Jager, (English & Computer Assisted Instruction, Groningen, co-chair) Franziska de Jong (Linguistics, Utrecht & Computer Science, Twente) Tibor Kiss (IBM, Heidelberg) John Nerbonne (Computational Linguistics, Groningen, co-chair) Local Arangements: Sake Jager, call-conf@let.rug.nl. From: "Dr. David Harrison" Subject: Re: 10.0377 books and reading Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:53:14 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 152 (152) One of the main problems with e-texts is the display technology. E-texts may well soon function more like books as most folk seem to find it easier to deal with the design of the book. Remember, the book was designed as a functional artefact over a long period. Monitor screens are rather new designs by comparison. In a few years flat white-screen LCD displays with very high definition and low white luminescence (books don't glow) will make reading an e-text a lot more like reading a book, perhaps using a Newton-like virtual book. In the meantime, it amazes me that so few people design workstations with the monitor built in to the desk, so you look down on to it. Although you can increase the font size in an e-text, they just don't have that nice book smell. :-) Dr. David Harrison. Roehampton Institute, London. http://www.pncl.co.uk/~prospero/ascpart.html From: Renee Landrum Subject: Re: 10.0377 books and reading Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:24:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 153 (153) [deleted quotation] Okay, so perhaps I'm an exception, then. I'm in the process of designing a website for credit (final project in an undergraduate special-studies). For me it's just as easy to cut-and-paste an article from Netscape into a notes file. I've got a database set up to handle things like this, so that I can go look up an electronic source just like I might consult an encyclopedia. Then, when I want to quote a source in my final work, I cut-and-paste again. Works for me, but then again I'm a techno-geek. To me, the *whole point* of having electronic references is that I don't have to generate excess paper, and that I can sort and search and catalog my notes easier on disk than on paper. Then again, I have a laptop... I think that as portable-computer technology advances (and gets cheaper), workstyles like mine will probably become more common... +O-Renee Landrum, Smith College, Northampton MA---slandrum@sophia.smith.edu-O+ "Don't resent your struggles; struggle is a victory. Through struggle, change occurs, and through change, liberation occurs." -Aishah Shahidah Simmons +O------------------------------------------http://cs.smith.edu/~slandrum---O+ From: Roger Brisson Subject: books and reading Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:59:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 154 (154) As I follow this interesting discussion on books and reading, I am continually reminded by many of the comments made thus far just how much this current revolution in transmitting the printed word resembles aspects of the Gutenberg Revolution of the late 15th century. In discussing electronic text, we naturally use the characteristics and values of the medium we are most familiar with-- the printed book. In the late 15th century the standard of comparison was of course the handwritten manuscript. Just as we are doing now, the point of comparison then was taken on many levels-- aesthetically, economically, technologically, and so on (Perhaps the exception is the theological: if I recall correctly, it was also questioned whether it was proper to print the Bible using the printing press). For contemporaries of Gutenberg, there was much debate as to the aesthetic qualities of the manuscript vs the printed book, and this drove the early printers to do all they could to reproduce as accurately as possible the characteristics of handrwritten manuscripts. In doing this it took some time to recognize that the printed book possessed aesthetic qualities that were arguably superior to manuscripts (not to mention the practical advantages, which were more readily recognized). Recently IBM introduced not a 6 pound, but rather a one-inch thin, 4 pound laptop with a strikingly sharp, vibrant color 12-inch screen. With its one gigabyte hard disk, it can hold several hundred books; indeed, with a cellular phone one can gain access to all the resources of the Internet. With this kind of technology I must admit that I have given up most of my (aesthetic) resistance to reading an electronic book in bed. Only the most expensive 'coffee-table' books could reproduce the rich colors that this IBM possesses, and the book of course is not in a position to infinitely transform its images as the IBM can. I suspect at in the 15th century there was also some question as to whether the manuscript or the printed book was easier to read. I'm sure it took some time getting used to reading the increasingly smaller fonts of the printed book, and many with poorer eyesight (and without reading glasses) had problems with this. I'm confident that as text display continues to improve in laptops the still common view that one does not read more than a few paragraphs with a computer will quickly disappear. As an aside, I find it interesting how many Web pages now available are using 'parchment' wallpaper backgrounds, reproducing the vellum qualities of the manuscript, to add to the richness of their sites. As digital technology continues its breathtaking development, it seems inevitable that we will come to view the printed book (at least those without high-acid paper) much like how those in the Renaissance came to regard the handwritten manuscript. While we are using the printed book to structure our thoughts regarding digital text, we are in danger of not recognizing the radical nature of the revolution in electronic text. A couple of years ago I published an article that was first made available via anonymous ftp. After announcing its availability on an electronic list, within a week the article was downloaded over 400 times by individuals around the world. This kind of rapid dissemination of ideas is now a commonplace on the Internet, and it is having a profound effect on how we do research (which in turn has had a noticable influence in many areas of society). The theme has been touched on in several postings already, but when viewing the printed book strictly as a 'container,' or vessel, of the the written word, I think it is possible to recognize the liberating impulse that electronic text possesses vis a vis the written word, and hence in transmitting ideas. Seen historically, the printed book was a pragmatic, technological achievement that allowed us to disseminate our ideas more efficiently, economically, and much faster than the handwritten manuscript, and the same forces are driving the revolution in the digital realm. The interesting exercise here, of course, is to speculate how the 'vessel' of electronic text will shape our ideas (with its dynamic, hypertext qualities), for it will certainly be much different than how the vessel of the printed book has shaped our ideas. Roger Brisson Penn State University From: Ron Tetreault Subject: re: books, body and soul Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:10:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 155 (155) Willard's analogy of the iron horse vs. the train is very appropriate to where we are now in defining the nature of the e-text medium. I'd like to add another: when it became possible to make moving pictures, early directors were content to set their cameras up and film a play just as it might unfold on the stage. But when someone decided the camera could move, scenes could be edited, and close-ups had punch, the cinema was born. What can we do in the new medium that we can't in print, and that is worth all our trouble and effort? --Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Ronald Tetreault Tel: (902) 494-3494 + + Department of English Fax: (902) 494-2176 + + Dalhousie University Home Fax: (902) 453-4786 + + Halifax, Nova Scotia e-mail: tetro@is.dal.ca + + B3H 3J5 CANADA or Ronald.Tetreault@Dal.Ca + + http://is.dal.ca/~tetro/home/welcome.html + + learning by the (cyber)sea + From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Future of the book, of humanities Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:45:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 156 (156) Hoorah! Greg has voiced here one aspect of the book versus computer debate that has always bothered me: [deleted quotation] Who will control your scholarly future? Computer science nerds? Bill Gates? While humanists are fiddling Rome is burning apace. Well, let's not be needlessly alarmist. But I do a slow burn when I think of the time spent arguing about whether there will be books in the future. That will probably be determined by the likes of Harlequin and (fill in your favorite multi-national publishing conglomerate here) rather than by humanities scholars. Computing is providing more and more possibilities for humanist scholars. What can we do to encourage that and see it grow. Let's put a saddle on this beast and have some control over where it takes us instead of simply getting dragged in the dust behind it. Oops...sorry, clumsy metaphorical soap box mode off...back to the main thesis: Scholars who avoid or do not embrace information technology have no opportunity to shape that technology to their current or future needs, and they shut the door for their descendants. A sad prospect, indeed. - Hope ---------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Francois Lachance Subject: play and economics Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:45:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 157 (157) Willard, The play-game distinction is one of the most difficult terms to translate accurately. Its semantic field ressonates with a lot of cultural specificity even across the Indo-European group. Try it in Armenian, Latin, Greek, French, Italian and German and Irish. The tension between freedom and rule following is articulated in very many different ways on very many different occasions. Of course that tension is translated in computing and humanities terms as that between convention and creativity. .................................. Games and children and computers -- the topic reminds me of the agony of choosing teams or being chosen. It also reminds me of trading hockey cards (I grew up in Canada) and marbles. What I recall is as much actual trading of objects and forming of teams, as thinking through or dreaming about possible arrangements. I claim a good dose of modeling (play) in game behaviour be it of children or adults and especially in games that were cross-generational. Writing about agents in an economy, Deborah Vakas Duong writes in a 1995 a project report on "Computational Modeling of Social Learning" that The fuel behind this self organisation is not natural selection but symbolic interactionism. The report is available at http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Bionomics/TraderNetworkPaper Her modeling of economic behaviour of traders describes "emergent interplay of conformity and utility" In her discussion she points to the work of Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores who challenge the foundation of Artifical Intelligence in logic. She traces an analogy with the way children acquire language skills. Children invent the rules of lanuage for themselves, creating their language through experience. The agents of my simulation do the same: they make their world all together, not by an entrepreneur that is copied. They are all entrepreneurs in a changing world where utility and conformity are dynamically intertwined. Only that which is ever being created can ever change. She goes on to claim that the principles of the emergence of symbols have much to offer social science simulation and AI. What I believe may be of interest to Humanist readers is the conclusion she draws. To translate from an evolutionary program to a rational one, all that is needed is an observer. As fuzzy ideal types linearize, crisp objects could be defined to document their existence, if not to modify it. In the future, programming could become a mixture of reasoning and evolution, with simcity like environments to work with. What I want to export from this specialized discourse on genetic alogrithms is the role of the observer. This is the point where I believe logic and rhetoric converge to enhance our understanding of not only the processes of social organisation but also the interpretative moves of symbol users that inform theses processes. By the way a colleague in media studies reported that she and a high school chum when called upon to act as team captains always chose their teams starting with the poorest players. Easy to do with a finite pool of players. I want to finesse your question especially since there seems to be an assumption that child behaviour in games and play can model adult behaviour in the face of novelty. What happens in a play group when a stranger comes to play? Or in a less I-thou formulation: what happens to the activity of play when the number of players changes? I think this takes up some threads related to intellectual property, the nature of reading and modeling. What it weaves, I'm not sure. But the very basic question comes back: who gets to play (work/trade/interact) with whom and for how long. And then there is the question of who gets to refuse to play (and be spared the judgement of being anti-social or the play of name calling). observantly obediant to the call to contribute, -- Francois [Editorial note: For related material, see the superordinate page, http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Bionomics/ -- WM] From: Willard McCarty Subject: video games &c. Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:37:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 158 (158) Dr. Juan Carlos Garelli, in Humanist 10.373, comments that children who are deprived of a secure home will "resort to television or computer games where they avoid having to interact with another human being, one of the most fearful actions they sometimes have to suffer." His finding seems to confirm an early fear that computers would in general lead to increased social isolation. As I recall Sherry Turkle, in her popular book on the sociology of computer use, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), argues that computer-use often leads in precisely the opposite direction. (I am aware that at least some professional sociologists do not think much of this book, but it's all I have to hand or mind.) I observe that through Humanist and other such things we tend rather intensely to socialise, although arguably the interactions are safer than "real" ones. I say "arguably" because I know that these interactions can be as dangerous, or rewarding, as any in some senses. My question is, are we once again talking about the manner in which computers are used, rather than some inherent property of mediated communication? In our own sphere, this becomes the question of where instruction by computer is safer than in a face-to-face classroom, and therefore better for some students, where it is but a pale imitation of the Real Thing. The jury is still out on that one, yes? It seems to me that the answer depends very much on the circumstance. In an intelligent essay I just finished reading (as referee, so I cannot say who wrote it, &c.) the authors begin by describing the situation university teachers now face in the typical commuter-institution, with students who have jobs, families, and other strong commitments. This, they point out, is what we face, not the cloistered ideal in which there is a real choice between sustained tutorial instruction and the glowing screen. Under these circumstances, "what can we do with what we've got?" seems the right question to me. Answers? Comments? WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 10.0366 computers and play Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:59:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 159 (159) [deleted quotation] Apple is betting that what adults want kids to learn is problem solving, and what kids want to do is create games. At least that seems to be the general idea behind their soon-to-be-released program named Cocoa. Cocoa lets kids (or anyone!) program, problem solve, play, or create systems (pick your favorite buzzword) without learning complex syntax, indeed, without reading at all. It lets kids create characters (here's Wacko), animate them (make Wacko run), give them tasks (make Wacko jump a wall), extrapolate and generalize "if-then" situations (make Wacko jump a wall that grows and shrinks), all by example. You can model dynamic systems, try out "what if" situations, or just "play." You can then share your games with other Cocoa creators across the Internet. What has this got to do with humanities computing? Well, when I get my copy I'll let you know! But for right now it simply serves to reinforce the idea that computers are not television. We cannot assume that they will have the same impact (or lack of it) on the scholaraly world. That is, the joy of computing is not in the consuming, it's in the doing. - Hope ----------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Subject: Lady of May/presentation of texts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 160 (160) There is now a lightly annotated text of The Lady of May, designed for use with frames-capable browsers (Netscape 2.0+, etc.), located: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/may/mayframe.html It's currently in use in a class project comparing various print editions (1598-1962) with the three online versions that I've done, in an effort to locate and delineate some of the rhetorical issues of text presentation online. I'm interested in reactions to the *design* of the page, and to feelings about reading online, thoughts about whether this presentation would be useful as a teaching edition, etc. Though I've heard before about the limited usefulness of not working in full TEI sgml, I want to hear about that as well, and any thoughts you may have on what is considered authoritative in e-text development, who is doing the considering in the preceding clause, and thoughts on whether teaching editions will be able to happily co-exist with scholarly editions on the relatively level playing field of the WWW. Also: I have heard that some 32 research institutions are talking of developing an Internet II, where they will be able to carry on their academic work in relative peace and quiet, so to speak, far from the busy streets of the bustling megalopolis of "Internet I." If this occurs, will there be a cultural division in publishing realms, with a TEI Shakespeare in Internet II, and Project Gutenberg's Shakespeare in Internet I? To what extent is academic discourse about the social class of those discoursing, and how does class affect the presentation of texts, on paper or on electronic media? Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0469 English textual database =3D LOB corpus? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 161 (161) For the LOB have a look at: http://www.hd.uib.no/cd_info.html Information of how to get the corpora archived at ICAME can be found at: http://www.hd.uib.no/corpora.html Regards Elisabeth Burr At 19:23 26.11.96 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 162 (162) [deleted quotation]h [deleted quotation]--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik/Gerhard-Mercator Universitaet Duisburg GH Lotharstrasse 65/47048 Duisburg +49 203 3792605/Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de From: Subject: Re: Copyright Threat! Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 163 (163) The following message went out to the member societies of the Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada. It seems that the threat outlined below is very real - our librarians are taking it VERY seriously, and the AUCC (Assn. of Universities and Colleges of Canada) has requested all Presidents of Canadian post-secondary institutions to make their concerns felt. I think the issue is serious enough to warrant international exposure, and a similar invitation to colleagues elsewhere to respond to those listed below. Peter URGENT - URGENT- URGENT The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has finished hearing witnesses with respect to Bill C-32 on Copyright and will proceed with a clause by clause examination this week and next week. The Federal government has repeatedly assured the educational and library communities that Phase II of te Copyright legislation would include at minimum a number of exemptions for educational and library purposes in order to provide the necessary balance between the interests of the user and the creators. We have just learned that the long awaited exemptions for educational and library purposes included in the legislation risk being eliminated. If this happens a reasonable and balanced compromise between the needs of creators and those of users of copyright material in educational and library settings will disappear. The AUCC in a letter dated November 22 to Sheila Copps states that "the government has come under enormous pressure from some creator groups to make major [last minute] changes to Bill C-32 which would either limit the applicability of exceptions to instances where no collective licensing is available, or substantially circumscribe the exceptions that are currently in the bill... [Those] changes would be totally at odds with the letter and the spirit of the commitments made to the [academic community]." Moreover, the letter also indicates that "the amendment advocated by various creator groups to limit the applicability of exceptions to instances where no collective licensing is available would constitute a fundamental change [...] and would render the exceptions in the bill virtually meaningless. ... Collective licensing complements statutory exceptions, but is not a substitute for them. " We urge you to write immediately to John Manley, Minister of Industry, and Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage, both sponsoring the bill, and the members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to ask that C-32 not be amended to exclude the educational and library exceptions. We would appreciate receiving a copy of your correspondence. You can E-mail it to Therese De Groote at degroote@hssfc.ca or fax it to (613) 238-6114. We thank you in advance for your quick response to this campaign. The addresses of the above-mentioned ministers and members of the Canadian Heritage Committee are the following Hon. Sheila Copps Minister of Canadian Heritage 12th fl., 15 Eddy St Ottawa-Hull K1A 0M5 Canada Fax (613) 994-5987 coppss@parl.gc.ca Hon. 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Arsenault, Lib 995-0581 996-9736 Mauril Belanger, Lib 992-4766 992-6448 Pierre de Savoye, BQ 992-2798 995-1637 Hugh Hanrahan, Reform 995-7325 995-5342 Raymond Lavigne, Lib 995-6403 995-6404 Pat O'Brien, Lib 995-2901 943-8717 Janko Peric, Lib 996-1307 996-8340 Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada 151 Slater Street, Suite 415, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5H3 Tel: (613) 238-6112; Fax: (613) 238-6114 Email: fedcan@hssfc.ca From: Joseph Wilson Subject: Re: 10.0470 wordplay (Marchand's humor) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:43:44 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 164 (164) Jim Marchand was joking when he wrote the following: [deleted quotation] joe wilson From: Jim Marchand Subject: etymologies Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 09:43:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 165 (165) I was surprised to find that my Isidorian (lucus a non lucendo) etymologies were not universally accepted. I am sure that avis `bird' comes from `a via' (no path), because the bird flieth the untrammeled pathways of the sky. Seriously, not to press too hard upon a point, discussions such as those about ticked off, etc. show how hard it is to nail down an `etymology' in these / those ephemeral times. Ask a friend the origin of `on the Q.T.' (meaning `on the sly'), or read what's his name in the Sunday Times, or try to make sense out of `mind your P's and Q's'. Again in a serious vein, since you cannot always use humor on the net, even if you are into those little emoticons (e.g. (|-); doesn't look humorous to me), I should be surprised if any of the Isidorian etymologies of the Middle Ages turned out to be `true', but they killed people and cats because of them, so they were serious. As to the origin of Nazi, you had to be very close and sensitive to understand what was going on, and there are few alive who lived through it. I think I could probably make a fair case for the following scenario. German had a few words in it like Schatzi `boy friend, lover' (not a real bad word), Schmutzi `dirty boy', Butzi `no-account boy'. In fact, in his review of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (a kind of sort of poem/song book), Voss wrote that Arnim and Brentano had filled it with _Allerlei schmutzige, butzige, nichtsnutzige Gassenhauer_ `all kinds of dirty, lascivious, useless street songs,' so you can see where Schmutzi and Butzi came from. When the NSDAP began to get started, it's biggest supporters were street gangs who roughed up the opposing party gatherings. They were called Nazis (Short for `national,' spelled `nazional', or perhaps for NAtional SoZIalist, etc. etc. Anyway, as often happens, the Nazis adopted the opprobrious name as their own. Voltaire is said to have said (though as far as we know he didn't): `Etymology is a field of study (une science) in which the consonants count for very little and the vowels for nothing at all.' And to trace popular expressions and abbreviations you have to have been there; even then you can argue. In the Middle Ages, where you could be censured for giving the attributes of God in the ablative rather than the nominative case, etymology was important, but how many of you watched the OJ case when Marcia censured Johnny for being a male chauvinist oinker when he called her hysterical, using the etymology of the word as her proof? Notice how many of the TV people approvingly picked up on this. Etymology is a grand tool; if Derrida can use annominatio, we all ought to be able to. Jim Marchand. From: Steve Taylor Subject: Re: 10.0470 wordplay Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:50:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 166 (166) Don't know if this was already mentioned, but no collection of acronym-derived words could exclude "radar," derived from "RAdio Detecting And Ranging" equipment. Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University (404)727-8931 http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/ From: "Sarah L. Higley" Subject: Re: 10.0470 wordplay Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:01:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 167 (167) Just an addendum to David Goldsteen and Pamela Cohen-- whose posting I found very amusing: I have students who swear that our most common four- letter obscenity derives from an army term: "for unlawful carnal knowledge," and other variants of that. What you've told me about cadaver and flos would help put this in perspective for them. Sarah Higley From: David Green Subject: CONFU MEETING Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:51:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 168 (168) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 27, 1996 CONFERENCE ON FAIR USE MEETING - November 25, 1996 I am re-distributing Page Miller's account of the CONFU Meeting of November 25. This was expected to be the final meeting of this group, which has been meeting for two years, preparing guidelines for the fair use of digital materials in educational settings. However, to give participants time to distribute the proposed gudelines deeply into their constituencies, for discussion and endorsement (or not), the period for consideration of the guidelines was extended to May 19, 1997, when the final meeting of CONFU will be held. NINCH will be posting Peter Fowler's "Interim Report," the proposals and other contextual material on its Web Site (www-ninch.cni.org). A further announcement will be made when all materials are assembled. David Green =========== NCC Washington Update, vol. 2, #40, November 26, 1996 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History On November 25 the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), which has for the past two years been exploring issues related to the application of fair use in the digital environment, met for what many thought would be the final meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to review the draft of a interim report on CONFU's work. Peter Fowler of the Patent and Trademark Office had prepared the draft report which summarizes the work of the last two years and which, when it is finalized, will be forwarded to Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Bruce A. Lehman. And it is envisioned that Lehman will be transmitting the report to Congress to become a part of the legislative record. An important part of the interim report is the appendices which contain not only background material, such as the participants in CONFU, but also drafts of proposed guidelines for using copyrighted material for educational and library purposes in the digital environment. The interim report includes three proposed guidelines -- educational fair use for digital images, educational fair use for distance learning, and fair use for educational multimedia use. Four issues surfaced for considerable debate at the November 25 meeting. First, the consensus of the participants was that the period for review and endorsement of the proposed fair use guidelines should be extended from the draft's date of March 31, 1997 to May 19, 1997. This will allow for more substantial consideration by interested parties. Related to this was the decision that CONFU should have one more meeting to review the endorsements and to determine if the individual proposed guidelines had received strong and broad based enough support to merit their being called a CONFU guideline. Second, there was a lengthy debate on the degree to which the educational multimedia fair use guidelines have been, under the leadership of the Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC), moving on a different track from the other CONFU guidelines. There was particular concern that CCUMC had, prior to going through the CONFU endorsement process, taken the multimedia guidelines to the House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Judiciary Committee and received the subcommittee's endorsement. Since a number of organizations that represent user interests have expressed problems with these guidelines, there is a question as to whether they will in fact gain the broad based support of CONFU. The determination of this will be left until May when all the endorsements can be evaluated. A third topic of extended discussion was on the interim draft report's omission of the electronic reserve system guidelines, which deal with a library's creation at the request of faculty members of electronic reserves that provide supplemental material for specific courses in nonprofit educational institutions. The draft report summarized the working group's deliberations on these guidelines and stated that at the September 6, 1996 meeting there was general consensus that the electronic reserve system guidelines had not received widespread acceptance even though some organizations had indicated that they would endorse them. At a number of CONFU meetings various representatives of publishers and authors had stated firmly that they did not believe that any electronic reserve system should be permitted under fair use. Because of this impasse, Fowler had decided to omit these proposed guidelines from the appendix. Some people argued that they were part of CONFU's work and should be in the appendix. Others felt that it would be confusing to include proposed guidelines were clearly not going to achieve broad support. Thus Peter Fowler decided to uphold the decision to leave them out of the appendix. However, it should be noted that several library and educational organizations as well as the Association of American University Presses had indicated support for the electronic reserve guidelines. Finally, there was the decision to change the wording in the interim report from guidelines to proposals. The final report will include the word "guidelines" for those proposals that attain sufficient support. What comprises "consensus" or "endorsement" was an issue that reemerged throughout the day with some general agreement that it meant broad based support from all of the groups -- publishers, authors, educators, librarians, and scholars -- that have had a vested interest in CONFU. The revised interim report will soon be available on the WEB page of the Office of Patents and Trademarks with instructions for sending endorsement letters. NCC Updates will provide the specific WED page address once the report it posted. *********************************************************** NCC invites you to redistribute the NCC Washington Updates. A complete backfile of these reports is maintained by H-Net See World Wide Web: http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/ *********************************************************** From: David Green Subject: CNI Interim Exec. Director Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:13:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 169 (169) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT November 27, 1996 JOAN LIPPINCOTT APPOINTED INTERIM DIRECTOR OF CNI [deleted quotation] From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: Re: 10.0472 evidence and argument? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:25:37 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 170 (170) I'm not sure how this will be relevant to humanities computing but here are three textbooks you might want to look at Ronald Giere, Understanding Scientific Reasoning. Now in its 4th ed. Colin Howson and Peter Urbach, Scientific Reasoning The Bayesian Approach. (These guys are at LSE in the philosophy department.) Davis Baird, Inductive Logic Probability and Statistics Leslie Burkholder From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 10.0472 evidence and argument? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 19:18:31 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 171 (171) Willard: I see that you've already gotten some good responses to your query. Allow me to add a couple more. Drury College has been using a slim volume by Anthony Weston, _A Rulebook for Arguments_, 2nd edition, from Hackett, as an accompanying text in both our freshman-level writing/literature classes and in our sophomore-level Values Analysis classes (the latter being devoted largely to ethics and philosophical arguments there-about (?)); the Weston text is a minimal introduction to logic and argument, with a good glossary of elementary fallacies, and a series of chapters devoted to writing effective argumentative essays. The issues of argument and evidence receive good, if introductory treatment. Some instructors beyond the philosophy department do well with it - but not all find themselves prepared to use it effectively. If you want something more substantial, there are any number of critical thinking texts out there that offer good discussions. For the general undergraduate student, though, my favorite remains the very reliable Howard Kahane, _Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric_, now in its seventh edition. Kahane does nothing with sentential logic in this text (though he does have such a text under a different title) - but focuses instead almost entirely on informal fallacies and their ubiquitous presence in the media, textbooks, advertising, and political discussion. The course I've taught wrapped around this text I've characterized as a defensive thinking course - analogous to a defensive driving course: if you don't think for yourself, someone else will - and to their advantage. If you're interested in other critical thinking titles, I can come up with a few next week - they're sitting in my office, and Thanksgiving is upon us. As well, Stephen Toulmin has had considerable influence in reshaping how philosophers and others think about argument - focusing more on notions of warrant and evidence than traditional logical discussion of structure. I suspect there's an introductory text out there based on Toulmin's work - perhaps other Humanist readers know of one off the top of their heads? I'd have to check. Hope this helps. Cheers -- Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA From: "Mark Battersby (x2412)" Subject: Re: 10.0477 evidence and argument Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:52:38 PST8PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 172 (172) Willard, I was interested to note that no philosophers replied to your question. Are there none lurking around out there? I suspect that the limited participation of philosophers in this group reflects that ancient and regrettable split between rhetoric and philosophy. A split that ironically critical thinking and argumentation theory is tending to heal. Critical thinking and informal argumentation has become a minor industry in philosophy almost comparable to the status of English composition classes in English Departments. I have been teaching critical thinking/informal argument for about 20 years and would recommend Ralph Johnson's and Tony Blair's book "Logical Self Defense" as a good an intro as any. On the other hand, the classic text which is used by both philosophers and rhetoricians in Stephen Toulmin's "The Uses of the Argument". Unfortunately I could not tell from your note exactly what kind of argument/evidence you were concerned with. I suspect that you were concerned with statistical reasoning--evaluating studies on computer use etc.. If so, I think you are right that the social science folk probably have better basic texts. One I know of is Evaluating information : a guide for users of social science research / Jeffrey Katzer, Kenneth H. Cook, Wayne W. Crouch. But there may be better and newer texts. Another interesting text with the right title is Kathleen Moore's "A Field Guide to Inductive Arguments" though she covers a lot more than statistical/empirical arguments (e.g. she has an excellent section on the evaluation of arguments by analogy). Hope that helps. ****************************** Mark Battersby Dept. of Philosophy Capilano College 2055 Purcell Way North Vancouver, B.C. Canada V7J 3H5 PH 604 986 1911 L. 2412 FAX 604 983 7520 From: Subject: The Reading Experience Database (RED) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 173 (173) ************************************************************** THE READING EXPERIENCE DATABASE (RED) Laudant illa sed ista legunt - Martial (They praise those but read these) RED's Web address: http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Arts/RED/ ************************************************************** RED launched on 23 November 1996 The Reading Experience Database (RED), run jointly by the Open University, UK and the British Library's Centre for the Book, was launched on 23 November 1996. RED will record evidence of every type of reading experience over the period 1450-1914. Initially it will be restricted to reading experience in the British Isles and reading experience of those born in the British Isles (so the reading of British travellers abroad and first generation British and Irish emigrants will be included) but later we hope to expand the range. Printed forms on which a reading experience can be recorded will be available from RED. At the same time RED will be launched on the Internet with a home page which will include an electronic version of the form (so that it will also be possible to send examples of reading experience to RED electronically). Anyone interested in a particular individual who lived at any time in Britain during the period 1450-1914 (and who left letters, diaries, annotated books, etc. which contain evidence of reading experience) should get in touch with one of RED directors listed below. RED is looking for volunteers to work their way systematically through such materials in order to record evidence of reading. We aim to keep everybody informed of developments in RED by issuing regular reports on its progress. Within a few years we hope to make the growing contents of RED available to all those who have contributed to it. Somewhat later RED will be made accessible to all interested parties. Further information and copies of the RED record form are available from either Simon Eliot or Mike Crump. Dr Simon Eliot, RED, The Open University, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol BS1 6ND. Email address: s.j.eliot@open.ac.uk Mr Mike Crump, RED, Centre for the Book, The British Library, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. RED's Web address: http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Arts/RED/ Cheers Simon _________________________________________________________________________ Simon Rae : S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK Academic Computing Service : The Open University, Walton Hall : phone: (01908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom : fax: (01908) 653744 The URL for the OU's WWW home page is : http://www.open.ac.uk/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0479 wordplay Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 174 (174) [deleted quotation] And, of course, SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. I wonder if this string has not, perhaps, reached its rather frayed conclusion.... --------------------------- Matthew C. Hansen University College - Oxford Oxford OX1 4BH univ0280@sable.ox.ac.uk From: Subject: Argumentation, debate, etc. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 175 (175) According to what angle you are taking, there are many good books on the subject. My favorite textbook was always Austin J. Freeley, _Argumentation and Debate_ (San Francisco: Wadsworth, 1961), undoubtedly now out of print and date, though such things rarely change. For a philosophical approach, try C. Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, _Traite de l'argumentation_, 2 vols. (Paris: PUF, 1958). Dense but rewarding. Back when I was in the teaching business, I used to give the students a list of the medieval _argumenta_ (argumentum ad verecundiam, ad hominem, ad captandum, etc.) and let them take apart political speeches, books, others' articles, etc. This approach works fairly well, though the last election would have furnished them with information overload. There is even a netsite devoted to argumenta somewhere out there, and I posted somewhere a list of about 50 medieval argumenta. It is even useful to invent them; e.g., the argumentum more Luciae: Linus and Lucy are walking along the sidewalk and he sees something lying there. "Gack! What's that?" Lucy: "It's one of those butterflies which fly up here each year from Brazil, etc." Linus picks it up: "It's only a potatoe chip." Lucy: "How in the world did that get all the way up here from Brazil?" Never give up your presuppositions. Jim Marchand. From: Olaf Pluta Subject: Abbreviationes for Windows Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:04:50 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 176 (176) It may be interesting for you to know that Abbreviationes, the first electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations, which has been originally developed for the Mac OS, can now be run on all major OS platforms including DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, and NeXTstep. For detailed information on the system requirements please refer to the Abbreviationes web page which can be found at: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/projects/abbrev.htm Best wishes, Olaf Pluta pluta@scriptorium.ping.de From: Claire Smith Subject: Brepols Publishers on Web Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:40:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 177 (177) Brepols Publishers now has a complete catalogue on the Web at: http://www.brepols.com/publishers There is information on series, periodicals and CD-ROM. Recent titles are listed as well as works in print. Claire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Claire Smith / Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences (CHASS Facility) University of Toronto/ Robarts Library, 14th Floor / 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A5 / Phone: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 Internet: csmith@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~csmith/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: University Affairs survey Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:35:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 178 (178) Humanists may be interested in the results from a recent survey conducted jointly by University Affairs, a publication of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada / Association des Universite/s et Colle/ges du Canada (AUCC), and the AUCC/CARL Task Force on Scholarly Communications. A summary is to be found online, at the URL http://www.aucc.ca/english/university/carl-sum.htm (English) and http://www.aucc.ca/francais/university/carl-sum.htm (French). As Web wizards will suspect, the AUCC site itself is at the URL http://www.aucc.ca/. A nice piece of work. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: lbeltran@servidor.unam.mx Subject: Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:23:22 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 179 (179) [Unfortunately I received the following in a rather poor state; my attempt to repair it may have obscured important parts of an address or two. Apologies if anyone or anything is misled. --WM] International Meeting Logic and Mathematical Reasoning Mexico City, September 30th - October 2nd, 1997 Organized by Departamento de Matematicas de la Univ. Nac. Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico) Departamento de Filosofia de la Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana (Mexico) Centre Francois Viete dHistoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Univ. de Nantes (France) Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) Scientific Committee Carlos Alvarez (UNAM), Jean Dhombres (C. F. Viete), Marco Panza Daniele C. Struppa (G. Mason Univ.), Guillermo Zambrana (UAM) Our meeting will be dealing with the following general question: What makes of a reasoning a mathematical reasoning? This question might be formulated in one of the two following ways: 1) As a normative question. It would be then necessary to provide an answer, stating how a reasoning should be in order to be classified as mathematical. 2) As a historical question. The answer should then be given by stating the particular attributes of mathematical reasoning as they occur in history. A closer look at these two approaches seems to show that neither one is completely satisfactory. The first is based on the assumption that mathematical reasoning should satisfy certain conditions that finally appear as completely arbitrary. The second one requires that we should trust history as being able to provide by itself the object of our reflection. It is our belief that the two approaches should work together: the object of the epistemological research on the nature of mathematical reasoning comes out along with this same research through the possibility of finding an intrinsic characteristic which is common to all ways of reasoning displayed in texts and books considered as mathematical. This is why we think that no philosophy of mathematics is possible if it is conceived independently of the history of mathematics, and, in the same vein, no history is possible without philosophy. Therefore, the problem we address is how to recognize an intrinsic characteristic which is common to those ways of reasoning occurring in mathematical literature. It seems to us that this characteristic can be expressed as a logical structure, even if the term logic used here has to be embedded into a broader sense and refered not only to meaning it has in formal modern logic. Above all, our concern is not history of logic, nor history of the formalization of mathematical reasoning. Rather we want to study the forms of certain arguments, inferences, or discourse recognized as mathematical and investigate their differences or similarities. Participation in this meeting is open to every scholar who wishes to give a 40 minutes talk. Please send a one page abstract before April 30, 1997, with the included Registration Form. The acceptance of the manuscript will be decided by the scientific committee within a month after reception of the abstract. The abstract and the registration form should be sent to one of the following addresses: - Carlos Alvarez, Departamento de Matematicas, Fac. Ciencias, UNAM. Mexico D.F., c.p. 04510 M=E9xico; e-mail alvarji@servidor.unam.mx - Marco Panza, Centre F. Viete, Univ. Nantes, Fac. des Sciences, 2 rue de la Houssiniere, 44072 Nantes 03, France; e-mail = panza@unantes.univ-nantes.fr It is possible to send a one sheet abstract, together with the following information: Name, Institution, Adress (including electronic adress) to the conference adress: logical@hardy.fciencias.unam.mx It is also possible to connect to the meeting home page at http://hardy.fciencias.unam.mx:80/logical and submit the abstract and the registration form by using the relative links Admission fee is fixed at $50.00 U.S. ($15.00 US for students). This fee should be paid in Mexico City just before the conference. The meeting will take place in Mexico City. Participants may lodge in one of the several hotels in the city with prices ranging between $30.00 and $70.00 US A list of hotels close to the meeting center will be sent with the acceptance of the talk. The organizing committee will be in charge of reservations. It is possible to eat in Mexico City at a good restaurant, prices range between $15.00-25.00 US At the present moment, confirmed speakers for plenary lectures are: Jean Dhombres (Universite de Nantes) Solomon Feferman (Stanford University) Michel Otte (University of Bielefeld) Hourya Sinaceur (CNRS Paris) Jean Michel Salanskis (Universite de Lille) Daniele Struppa (Georg Mason University) From: Pamela Cohen Subject: call for papers Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 11:04:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 180 (180) [deleted quotation]__________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu From: Yorick Wilks Subject: 1st International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:57:54 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 181 (181) --2nd posting CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Bellagio, Italy, 14-16 July, 1997 http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/ We have received many expressions of interest in this workshop, both from the commercial sector and from academia. As a result we are now pleased to announce that the workshop will definitely go ahead on the above dates. Registration details soon via next mailing and on the WWW page. For the benefit of those who may have missed the earlier announcement, this workshop will survey and demonstrate techniques for practical, plausible, human-computer conversation. The workshop will be in the spirit of the Loebner Competition meetings, but will not constitute any kind of "Turing" competition under controlled deception conditions. It will, however, provide an opportunity for extensive demonstrations of working conversational systems, preferably those without domain restrictions. The meeting is not intended to be yet another get together on linguistic methods for dialogue modelling or human-computer interaction, but rather based on the assumption that, in many places, great strides are being made in real conversation simulations from a range of practical techniques and points of view, and that everyone working in this field would benefit from face-to-face interaction, as well as exploring the industrial/commercial applications of these technologies in HCI/WWW environments. In addition to the formal papers and the demonstrations of working systems there will also be panel discussions on the state of the art. CONFERENCE VENUE: The conference venue is the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, in Bellagio, Italy, on Lake Como, the legendary site of Pliny's villa where the two arms of the lake meet. Bellagio is one of the most beautiful spots in the world and is easily reached from Milan. The date, 14-16 July 1997, immediately follows the EACL/ACL in Madrid. WORKSHOP PAPERS: This announcement is the first call for papers. We are also inviting applications from those who wish to demonstrate working systems. Papers may be submitted on any aspect of human-computer conversation, ranging from "How-to-do-it" to something far more abstract. The emphasis should be on the software techniques for communication in natural language and NOT on speech recognition or speech synthesis as such, although descriptions of systems capable of intelligent speech communication would be welcomed. SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS: Contributions are invited from authors who have new ideas, results or ongoing work to report on any aspect of human-computer conversation. Papers should ideally be 3,000 to 4,000 words in length and will be refereed within 8 weeks. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions (3 hard copies or one e-mail copy) should be sent to Yorick Wilks at the address below, to arrive no later than March 29th 1997. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by May 27th 1997. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to make their contribution available in machine-readable form (Word Perfect, MS Word or ASCII formats are acceptable), to be received by June 17th 1997. DEMONSTRATIONS OF WORKING SYSTEMS Demonstrations of, and discussions about, working systems will form the mail emphasis of the workshop. Statements of intent are solicited to demonstrate working systems which permit a user to converse with a program, either in a single subject domain or on a less restricted basis. Such statements should consist of a system description in 1,000 words or less, together with a specification of what hardware will be required to demonstrate the system. (The hardware spec is not necessary for those who plan to bring their own computer.) A sample of a conversation actually conducted by the system would be helpful but is not essential. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: The workshop is being organized by Intelligent Research Ltd of London, who will assist participants with room reservations at hotels in all price categories, as well as with transportation (if required) from the nearest airports. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK Bruno Alabiso, Microsoft, US Ken Colby, UCLA, US Louise Guthrie, Lockheed Martin, US Koiti Hasida, ETL, Japan David Levy, Intelligent Research, UK Livia Polanyi CSLI, Stanford University, US Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento, Italy Marilyn Walker, AT&T Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, US ********************************* Professor Yorick Wilks AI and NN Research Group, Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 282 5561 fax: (44) 114 278 0972 email: yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/People/Y.Wilks ********************************* From: Subject: Re: 10.0425 Potter's Cold & al. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 182 (182) At 18:34 15-11-96 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation]If BBC didn't prove successfull: Cold Lazarus was just on TV in Holland try email www@vpro.nl best of luck Maarten van der Heijden From: Subject: pragmatics of programming Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 183 (183) Um, this is really dumb but...will all those inclined to submit useful URLs to the list please *not* put them at the end of a sentence, followed by a full stop. The point-and-click routine in Eudora 1.5.4 persists in reading the full stop as part of the URL whereupon most http servers give an error message. E.g. (just the latest): http://www.maa.org/t_and_l/ would succeed, but I got an error because it was written http://www.maa.org/t_and_l/. By the way, COBOL always struck me as aesthetically designed for bankers who were nervous about computer code. Those responsible for creating the language either were insane or had some such ulterior motive. How else to explain source code syntax like (to take a random example from my old textbook) "MULTIPLY GROSS BY .0585 GIVING FICA ROUNDED." -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan From: Subject: Re: 10.0476 copyright threat Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 184 (184) Certainly efforts should be made to preserve fair use for education as exceptions in the proposed Canadian copyright legislation, but if that effort fails, librarians and individual scholars should be prepared for more direct action. Most publishers of academic and scholarly books rely on library subscription sales for their fundamental market. Scholars and academics, including course adoptions, account for the bulk of remaining copies sold. If the publishers, through their influence over legislation, insist on making new works unusable for scholarly purposes by overly restrictive copyright laws, an appropriate response would be a boycott. The day this law goes into effect, all library subscriptions should be cancelled and individuals should refuse to either purchase new works or adopt them for classes until the law is changed. As end users, scholars do have some power if only we will use it. If we don't, then how much sympathy do we deserve? William E. Grant Bowling Green State University [deleted quotation] From: Richard Caccavale Subject: The Marriage of Writers and Critics Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:05:17 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 185 (185) Please post the following Call for Papers to Humanist. Although it may not seem relevant at first, one of our considerations is the effect of hypertext on the author and reader. This is explained below. ------------------------------------------- Please reply to Cridifferences@du.edu for more information on this post. Reconcilable (In)Differences: The Marriage of Writers and Critics In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Writing Program at the University of Denver, the Creative Writing Program, in conjunction with the Academic Literature Program, is sponsoring a conference to explore the growing schism between writers and critics. Mission Statement Pressures of professionalization for writers have led to an increase in the number of degree-granting institutions for poets, essayists, dramatists, and fiction writers hoping to work in the Academy. As a result, writers in the Academy are engaging, often for the first time, with literary and philosophical theoretics sometimes at odds with their own position as would-be craftspeople. Likewise, professional critics, theorists, and academics find themselves in the position of being surrounded in the university setting by individuals who challenge much of contemporary critical perspective in favor of a return to a craft-oriented reading of a work. What does all this mean, then, for the writer, the critical theorists, and the process of hermeneutics in particular? The re-emergence of the writer/critic and the critic/writer highlights the late twentieth-century schism that seems to have widened steadily between the two disciplines. As graduate writers increasingly mix with graduate theorists, academia must turn its attention back to the roots of critical inquiry in an effort to reverse, somehow, the resulting fragmentation of its departments into scattered and often highly specialized camps. This conference will allow a continuation of recent attempts to reconcile both halves of contemporary literary thinking--affording both academics and writers an opportunity to speak to the future of textual concerns in this thickening climate of professional and pre-professional integration. The current academy, in that it plays host to both critical and creative endeavors--often originating from the same individual(s)--has become a hotbed of this type of theoretical debate. Yet as visiting writer Amitav Ghosh noted recently, "creative writers and literary critics have never been farther apart than they are today." The purpose of this conference will be to provide a forum for both critical and "creative" theoretics. The new millennium promises sweeping changes in the Academy with concomitant changes in literary theory and practice. What we are looking for are ideas which engage and further this debate, and which will illuminate, perhaps, a common ground upon which the problems of textual studies can be collectively identified and discussed. Topics for Investigation * The Role of the Writer / The Role of the Theorist in Textual Studies * Limiting or Delimiting Interpretation: Hermeneutics, Philosophy, and the Elusive Text * Narratology in the Post-Colonial and New Historical Climate * New-Formalism, Re-Formalism, and Contemporary Theoretical Investigation * Professionalization in Writing and Critical Theory * Hypertext and the Authority of the Author / Critic * Creative Works for Open Reading * Undergraduate Submissions are Encouraged Plenary Speakers and Associate Writers Confirmed Plenary Speakers: * Gerald Graff: the George M. Pullman Professor of English and Education at The University of Chicago and author of Literature Against Itself, Beyond Culture Wars, Professing Literature, and The Myth of Cultural Decline * Marjorie Perloff: the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities at Stanford University and author of Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, and The Poetics of Indeterminacy among others. University of Denver Associated Writers: * Brian Kiteley: Director of DU Writing Program and author of: I Know Many Songs, but I Can't Sing, and Still Life with Insects * Rikki Ducornet: author of Phosphor, Dreamland, Jade Cabinet, Fountains of Neptune, Entering Fire: The Stain, and Complete Butcher's Tales * Beth Nugent: author of Live Girls!, and City of Boys * Bin Ramke: editor of Denver Quarterly and author of, Difference Between Night and Day, Erotic Light of Gardens, Language Student, Massacre of Innocents, and White Monkey * Cole Swensen: It's Alive She Says, Park, and translator of Allures Naturelles by Pierre Alferi Conference Logistics The conference will be held at the University of Denver from Friday, April 4th until Sunday, April 6th, 1997. There will be cocktail party and a banquet dinner. Registration Information Registration Fees: Thru 3/1/97, $50 faculty; $35 grad/undergrad. After 3/1/97, $75 faculty; $50 grad/undergrad. Please visit our web site at: http://www.du.edu/~rcaccava/conference.html for registration information. Call For Papers Panels will consist of a series of twenty minute papers. The Denver Quarterly has agreed to publish selected papers and creative works. Please submit one-page abstracts by January 20, 1997. Submissions should be mailed to: Department. of English Attn: Reconcilable (In)differences Pioneer Hall, Room 414 2140 S. Race, Denver CO 80208 or emailed to: critdifferences@du.edu Organizers and Advisors Faculty Sponsor: Brian Kiteley Faculty Advisory Committee: *Elenor McNees *Diana Wilson *Jan Gorak *Elizabeth Wolf *Eric Gould *Bin Ramke Contact Information For more information email: critdifferences@du.edu or write to the address above From: Peter Liddell Subject: FLEAT III Call for Participation Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:04:21 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 186 (186) INTERNATIONAL C.A.L.L. CONFERENCE The following is a short version of the Call for Participation for FLEAT III Dates: August 12 -16th 1997. Place: University of Victoria, BC Canada. The full version of this announcement, with descriptions of presentation criteria and other useful information, is available on-line at the following URL: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3 We will also be pleased to email the full version to anyone who wants a copy. Just send email to fleat3@uvic.ca and ask for the Call for Participation. On-line Registration will be available in the New Year. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FLEAT III - Languages, Resources, Cultures August 12 - 16, 1997 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada CALL FOR PARTICIPATION In 1997 the conference on Foreign Language Education and Technology (FLEAT) will be held in North America for the first time. Based on the success of the first two events - both of which were held in Japan in 1981 and 1993 - the Learning Laboratories Association (LLA) of Japan and the International Association for Learning Laboratories (IALL) decided to jointly sponsor FLEAT III in Victoria, B.C. Canada. The conference theme of Languages, Resources and Cultures echoes the role of the Language Resource Centre as provider of language learning resources, technology for language learning, and, increasingly, as centres for cultural studies. The LRC theme also revolves around people - those members of our community who teach, create and provide resources, work with technology, and keep our Centres going throughout the year. The goal of FLEAT III is to provide an international forum where we can all meet, share our professional experiences, learn from one another and extend our knowledge of technology as it relates to language learning. Topics for papers at FLEAT III may be on any aspect of Technology and Second Language Learning, such as: * management issues; * facility design; * selection of hardware and software; * distance education; * integrating software into courses; * software assessment; * authoring software; * staff training and professional development; * relations within the institution; * technology and the theory of Second Language Acquisition; * international legal issues (copyright for example); * professional development; * courseware development The FLEAT III Program Committee is looking for proposals to present workshops, roundtable discussions, demonstration/poster sessions, lectures, and panel discussions. DEADLINE: All proposals must be postmarked no later than January 31, 1997. and (except those from Japan, which go to LLA) sent to: Program Committee, FLEATIII, Language Centre, Clearihue B 045, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3045, VICTORIA, BC, Canada V8W 3P4 For more information or to request a full email version of the Call for Participation, please email fleat3@uvic.ca or point your favourite browser at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3 See you in Victoria in '97 From: Subject: Project Gutenberg Newsletter Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 187 (187) This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December, 1996 This is probabaly the last Newsletter that is going to the OLD server; at gutnberg@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu. . .if you want to delete yourself ... . .there is probably no need, but you should ask me about" listproc@ prairienet.org if you haven't changes your subscription. *** Well, my link to uiarchive is finally back up, so the November Etexts should be on all our major sites, as below, by the time you see this. I am not sure when the international sites do their mirroring but the US sites should all be ready to go. My apologies, many of our links, drive, and computers have been down, all week long. My apologies, also, for the fact that the CBC told me my interview would be on the air on Thanksgiving [Canadien OR American]. . .but they JUST called and told me it would be on the CBC and PRI tonite at 7:00 PM. . .we get PRI on PBS. . .Tuesday. . .December 3, 1996. [Canadian Broadcasting Company/Corporation] [Public Radio International] [Public Broadcasting Service/System] We shall see/hear. Wired also called today, they now say we are in the February Wired which should go on the stands in early January. Around page 90. *** In response to last month's Newsletter, we have received a moderate amount of good wishes, and offers of several more computer sites on which to post these Project Gutenberg Etexts, and hopefully enough legal support to get us into a "Project Gutenberg, Inc." phase of existence, something I definintely have an approach/avoidance thing about. However, it seems that getting any actual financial assistance to keep a roof over the head of this particular computer, and its cousins, along with myself ... . .might be on the order of having a snowball fight in the nether regions. We received about enough money to keep us running for a week. Please put us on your Holiday gift list. . .information appended. If you have ANY hope of contacting ANYone at ANY institution that could be an eventual financial supporter, please let us know. The roof is paid for, this would only pay for the power, phone, taxes and other utilities. Once again we have managed to present 32 files we hope will be of interest to the general population. We have two more months scheduled for 32 per month-- then we hope to once again double our production, this time to 64 per month-- for each of the 12 months of 1997. While this may appear as an incredible amount of work, the truth is that your volunteers at Project Gutenberg have already spend several months doing books at the rate of 64 per month, during the Spring of 1996 just to insure that in 1997 we would be capable of accomplishing our goals. However, Etexts and copyright clearances are only barely coming in for the 32 Etexts per month scheduled for 1996, and usually we would be posting the ones for December right now, rather than for November, so unless we manage more of getting volunteers, or increasing their efficiency, we might have to send out only 32 books per month in 1997. . .maybe change our name to "The Book Of The Day Project." Michael Stern Hart Executive Director Project Gutenberg Here are the 32 Project Gutenberg Etexts for November, 1996. Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. 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Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg We need your donations desperately. Please send what you can to: Project Gutenberg P.O. Box 2782 Champaign, IL 61825-2782 [Check should be made out to "Project Gutenberg/BU"] Thanks! Happy Holidays!! Michael From: Subject: Re: humanities computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 188 (188) A group here is considering what a possible "graduate certificate in humanities computing" might entail, and are very interested to hear about courses actual or imagined which readers think might figure in such a program. The mainstay of our beginning conception is a course on markup, but we foresee possible courses on legal issues, pertinent history, and unix editing. If "humanities computing" is to be any sort of discipline--itself a debateable proposition, as has already been noted on this list--what is the subject matter? [Please post any replies to Humanist. It would be extremely useful to all of us if anyone associated with a graduate programme in humanities computing, or indeed contemplating a programme, would share his or her thoughts, curricula, or other kinds of information. While at Toronto I began an ftp'able, then gopher'd repository of materials, but this is quite old and has not been maintained for some time. I know that the Association for History and Computing, and various members thereof, have been working away on curricula for some time. Although these would be of great interest, "history and computing" is only one variety and has, for computing humanists as such, the wrong emphasis, or at least a rather old and outdated emphasis. Might there be an historical sequence in "computing and the humanities", "computing in the humanities", "humanities computing"? But I digress. Please send news of and thoughts on graduate programmes. --WM] From: Subject: Re: schloendorff's "man on horseback" Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 189 (189) I would be extremely grateful if anyone can tell me how to get hold of the film "Man on horseback", V. Schloendorff's English version of "Michael Kohlhaas - Rebell" (preferrably on video). I have also tried to get hold of "Mother Courage" (with Glenda Jackson), performed by the National Theatre London and apparently filmed by BBC London. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! Christiane R. From: Subject: Re: 10.0486 programming: pragmatics, with a request Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 190 (190) [deleted quotation] FWIW, I *believe* the accepted spec is to enclose URLs in angle brackets. On the Mac, the popular InternetConfig extension (and its accompanying IceTe) will correctly interpret the brackets- I assume Eudora does as well. So the example becomes <http://www.maa.org/t_andl/>. The period doesn't matter as it falls outside the brackets. John _______________________________________________________________________ John Eckman Interdisciplinary Writing Program <http://weber.u.washington.edu/~eckman> Dept. of English; Box 35-4330 University of Washington Seattle, WA 91895 _______________________________________________________________________ From: Subject: esthetics? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 191 (191) When it comes to aesthetics and the computer, there are more things there, Horatio, than one can imagine. I popped in my handy ComputerSelect CD-ROM, for example, and found that esthetics had only four hits; changing to aesthetics, however, led to more than forty. Few of them had to do with esthetics; most were on feeding ones prejudices as to platform, layout, look and feel, etc., and one was on having to give up C++ (did not live up to its promise, is clunky) in favor of JAVA. We need to break up our discussion into 1. the computer as esthetic object (I love the new curved keyboards; why don't we get rid of those ugly function keys, etc.; many of these are on ergonomics rather than esthetics). 2. The esthetics of the computer per se and the philosophy of bi-valued systems, bayesian probabilities, the whole nine yards. 3. The esthetics of the computer language one is fondest of, always better than the others; Marchandian BASIC just feels good, has a certain je ne sais quoi, etc. 4. The esthetics of the art object produced by the computer itself (I cannot stand sans-serif, it's so gauche; what an ugly screen; why don't they provide for more colors and better fonts?). 5. The esthetics of programming (I cannot abide go-to's, can you? C++ inhibits your creative instincts. 6. The esthetics of the program (BASIC, with all those numbers? Yech! Once you do one of those C++ things, even if you document (computerese for annotate) well, you can never read it again). I go back to the days before languages, even to the days when one had to slap switches, so I remember the good old days (of Eliza and the like) when esthetics in programming meant parsimony or at best elegance. If my program required less space than yours and did roughly the same thing, mine was better than yours. Then came the days in which one could get a program which would `pretty print' your program. If you wrote in BASIC, the indentation did not usually reflect your hierarchy (programs were and still are hierarchical). There was an insistence from some quarters on having all your declarations, even in BASIC, first in the program. There were a number of books and articles written on `programming style', mostly on avoiding go-to's and loops and being economical. When I program nowadays, and I do a good deal of it, all that is out the window. With the monsters we have nowadays, memory/storage presents no problem. If I need something to do something, I just steal a module from somewhere; I am even encouraged to do so. As Weizenbaum pointed out lo those many years ago, I half the time do not know what goes on in the black box of the module, but what the hey? No need to reinvent the wheel. Since I am using someone else's art object, I cannot be accused of bad esthetics. Programming nowadays in folk art. I just had an article published entitled: "The Computer in the Humanities -- Friend or Foe?" I am still not sure which it is, but I am committed. ! Jim Marchand. From: Subject: TUCOWS URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 192 (192) [For your edification. By the way, if you do not know about TUCOWS, you should check it out, at <http://www.tucows.com> and many mirrors worldwide. -- WM] Over the last 3 weeks, TUCOWS has been inundated with hundreds of letters inquiring about rumors of conflict between TUCOWS Limited and Gateway 2000, Inc. In order to try and reduce the overwhelming amount of email we are getting on this subject, and stem the wild conjecture that is being thrown about the 'net, we are releasing full disclosure of the issue as it has evolved thus far. As it stands currently, Gateway has had very little official contact with TUCOWS. In fact, our only correspondance to date is the registered letter transcribed below. We sincerely wish that we could pass on further details at this point, however, we simply just don't have any further information in our possession at this time. Gateway has not commented further on the issue. For further information as it happens, please refer to http://www.tucows.com, or keep an eye on T-MILK, our internation TUCOWS newsletter. ---- Registered Mail From Gateway 2000, Inc. ---- October 22, 1996 CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Scott Swedorski, President TUCOWS 5415 Dundas Street West Suite 301 Etobicoke, Ontario M9B 1B5 CANADA RE: Use of Holstein Cow by TUCOWS Dear Mr. Swedorski: It has come to our attention that your company is infringing on a valuable trademark of Gateway 2000, Inc. Specifically, we note that you are depicting Holstein cows on your web site to promote your company. Please be advised that Gateway 2000, Inc. owns the valid and subsisting federal Reg No. 1,725,231, marks consisting of a stylized design representing cow spots. This trademark and the Holstein cow are widely associated with Gateway 2000 and represent valuable goodwill and company assets. Gateway 2000, Inc. has promoted the Holstein cow and cow spots extensively to the consuming public and the trade, including the display of its cow spots trademark on boxes in which its products are shipped, which in 1995 amounted to almost 3.7 billion in sales. Your company's use of the Holstein cow and cow spots in connection with services relating to products of Gateway 2000 is likely to confuse and deceive the consuming public. We therefore call upon TUCOWS to cease all use of trademarks of Gateway 2000 immediately. Please contact us within ten (10) days of receipt of this letter with written assurances that TUCOWS has undertaken to cease its infringement of our registered trademarks. Absent a satisfactory response from you, we will take whatever legal action we deem appropriate without further notice to you. Sincerely, William M. Elliott Senior Vice President and General Counsel 610 Gateway Drive P.O. Box 2000 North Sioux City, South Dakota 57049-2000 Telephone 605-232-2000 Fax 605-232-2023 Toll Free 800-846-2000 From: Subject: esthetics Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 193 (193) I failed to mention that the word `intuitive' is often used for `(a)esthetically satisfying'. There are GUI freaks among us, who love to use icons and the like to enter their commands. I, on the other hand, am a Command Line Freak and like to boss the computer around. This religious difference is larger than that between those who are fond of various `platforms', e.g. DOS, WINDOWS, MAC, PC, UNIX, etc. All my GUI friends assure me that the use of a rodent with attendant mouse elbow is `intuitive', whereas use of words is not, not to mention the use of function keys, sometimes labeled as cavemannish. `Look and feel', `intuitive', `ergonomically satisfying', `elegant' are all used for `aesthetically pleasing'. I forgot also to mention `structural programming', `up/down programming' and all the others. Since aesthetics, whatever it is, is important to human beings, those involved in the man-machine dialogue ought to think about it. Jim Marchand. From: Subject: Re: 10.0496 humanities computing graduate programmes? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 194 (194) [I pass along the following message although the userid is less than informative and the message itself seems to have lost its signature. Would the sender please identify him- or herself? It looks as if the Internet provider in question has a less than fail-proof menu system... --WM] [deleted quotation] Coming from the commercial world, I approach this question from what is perhaps an academically unorthodox point of view -- first consider real world issues, then determine if and how humanities computing can fulfill a need, and finally craft / develop a course. My conclusion is that Humanities Computing may be part of the solution to one of the most pervasive problems our society faces, e.g. boredom / apathy / lack of success in the classroom. There are approximately 5 million computers installed in K-12 schools in the United States alone. By and large, these machines are used as expensive typewriters -- their potential as "teaching technology" has not yet been reached. Is it possible that searchable electronic texts, multi-media materials, the internet, etc. can be combined with a pedagogical approach that: * More effectively engages the attention of the student ... * Shows students how to construct and pursue discovery strategies of their own design ... * Imparts both knowledge and skills that are useful in life and career ... Before going further along this avenue, might I ask whether this line of thinking merits further discussion, is of interest to other members of the list, etc.? Best, From: Subject: T. Carlyle Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 195 (195) I need to find out how many times the word "Fact" is used in Carlyle's life of Fredrick II. Can anyone recommend an archive, or do a quick search. Thanks. K.Soheil@kcl.ac.uk From: Subject: Re: 10.0435 Juvenal in Ren. humanists? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 196 (196) SALVE! I would like to thank my fellow humanists who responded to my inquiry; every response has helped the research process move inexorably forward! I will email a copy of the finished paper to all those who contributed when the project is finished in a few weeks (hopefully!) AVE ET PAX VOBISCUM Mark Gardner From: Ed Hackett, NSF Subject: New NSF Interdisciplinary Program Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 197 (197) To: Members of the Science and Technology Studies Community ***NEW NSF PROGRAM IN LEARNING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS*** There is a new NSF initiative in learning and intelligent systems: understanding and enhancing the ability to learn and create. It is a foundation-wide initiative to fund interdisciplinary, collaborative research on that topic, particularly research that would not be funded by any existing program. Basically, the research must span large areas of science--biology and computing, for example--so as to fall outside the scope of a single NSF directorate. Unfortunately, the deadlines on proposals are close. The program announcement may be found at: www.nsf.gov/lis. via George Gale/ www.umkc.edu/sci-stud. 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( / ) / / / / __. /_ __. _ / o ./__,(_/|_/ /_(_/|_\/ \/ / Dr. Tzvee Zahavy Internet email: zahavy@andromeda.rutgers.edu http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/tzvee.html From: Subject: Re: 10.0496 humanities computing graduate Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 199 (199) Hello, I wonder why everybody is persistently trying to view the positive side of humanities computing, ignoring or depreciating the negative side effects such endeavour might entail. For instance, MOO technology which is used in some Universities to create virtual worlds where one is encouraged to let one's fantasy go unrestraintedly in full fledge has turned out to be an an adverse instrument for pupils' performances. Many youngsters neglect their lessons because they spend endless long hours at the Telnet site. Since this resource is particularly directed to children or teenagers -because of its very nature: I doubt that adults would be willing to engage in such a naive entertainment- the amount and quality of damage this can cause to our next generation is unpredictable. (Some Universities have forbidden its use). Please do not misunderstand me. I am not asserting that humanities computing should be dispensed with altogether, or anything of the sort. I am merely laying emphasis on the fact that we should consider its pros and cons. Most especially nowadays where Postmodernist concept of "creativity" has gained the upper hand. I would say that the pomo movement repels anything that has to do with rigour. To their minds, "rigour" stands for "enemy of creativity". An astonishing contention. Famous counterexamples of both extreme rigour and startling creativity immediately burst into mind: Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Sir Isaac Newton, Leibnitz, Beethoven, Einstein, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Faraday, Medelejeff, JS Bach, and so on. To delve into the depths of an inkling that might shed light on this strange phenomenon at the end of the second millennium exceeds the purposes set out for this posting. To make matters worse, the pomo movement views anything remotely resembling any of those qualities that we, the representatives of the sixties, enhanced as a valuable badge, as attacks to their basic doctrine: that of boundless creativity. The word "creativity" is in fact rather ambiguous: for to be creative may mean merely using one's imagination, devoid of any positive connotations. The way now is used and abused, arbitrarily stands for "imaginative cleverness in making or designing". Thanks for your attention, JC Garelli In a message 5 Dec 96 at 21:18, a propos of 10.0498 humanities computing viewed, Nelson Hilton says: [deleted quotation] Undoubtedly, yes, it is of my interest, at least. I think its importance cannot possibly overemphasized. Juan Carlos Garelli, MD, PhD Attachment Resarch Center Department of Early Development Mailto:garelli@attach.edu.ar From: Subject: a notable online publication Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 200 (200) In these incunabular days of e-publishing, I keep a list of anything on the Web that strikes me as significant, even when I don't quite know what it may signify. I could call these items curiosities, but that appellation might seem dismissive, and I don't mean it to be. Perhaps when we know enough, we can begin to dismiss things with impunity. In any case, I submit for your consideration the "Salt made the world go round" homepage, at <http://www.geocities.com/~salt/> It seems to me that for us observers of online activity, the mere fact that such a thing could exist so easily is the significant fact. How wonderful, especially for us old salts of the e-world (that had to come out, sorry). Allow me to suggest that you might send the URLs of your own "notable online publications" to Humanist whenever you see one. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: A new Fawcett Library : a request for support Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 201 (201) The FAWCETT LIBRARY Some members of the Humanist circle may be aware of=20 the Fawcett Libary. The Fawcett, as it is often=20 referred to, is the National Research Library for=20 Women's history. It is the oldest and most=20 comprehensive libary on all aspects of women in=20 society in the UK and is also regarded as one of the=20 best of its kind in the world. The Library is=20 primarily a research collection and includes=20 collections on feminism, work, education, health, the=20 family, law, arts, science, language, sexuality,=20 fashion and the home. The emphasis is on Britain, but=20 there are good collections from the Commonwealth and=20 the Third World and an increasing US section. =20 The Library includes the Josephine Butler Collection on=20 prostitution, sexuality and related topics, the Cavendish Bentick collection of old and rare items, over 60,000 books=20 and pamphlets, many of them first editions, dating back to=20 1600,a large audio visual collection and a fine collection=20 of suffragette banners and memorabilia, including the=20 personal effects of Emily Davidson who died for the cause=20 of women's suffrage in the famous Derby Day protest of=20 1913. =20 The Fawcett Library was established in 1926 as the Library of the London Society for Women^=D2s Service(formerly=20 Suffrage), a non-militant organisation led by Dame=20 Millicent Fawcett. In 1953 the Society was renamed=20 after her and the library became the Fawcett Library. In 1977 it was moved to its present location at =20 London Guildhall University, one of the new=20 universities in the UK, where it remains.=20 It has been an ambition of the University to develop a=20 proper home for the Library. At present, it is=20 located in a well-equipped basement with room for=20 around 15 readers and a range of appropriate facilities. =20 Nevertheless, there is little room for expansion or=20 development and no facilities for presentation and display.=20 An opportunity has now arisen to transform the=20 Library. The University has acquired an old=20 Public Washhouse, dating to the mid-19th century, with a=20 complete facade. It adjoins the main humanities and social=20 science departments and is located within a few yards of=20 Aldgate East underground station and very near to the=20 mainline Liverpool Street Station. =20 It is proposed to construct a purpose built library,=20 with 45 research places, a comprehensive range of=20 facilties for conservation and repair, an exhibition=20 gallery, seminar and conference space, an educational=20 project area and a shop and cafe. This will be an=20 imaginative building, incorporating the facade of the=20 washouse, and is has been designed by Clare Wright, a=20 celebrated architect in the UK. This will make it one of=20 the finest libraries of its kind anywhere in the world. We will be raising 5.2 million for this purpose and a=20 fundraising team has been formed with the Speaker of=20 the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd, as patron.=20 The purpose of this message however is to solicit=20 support for our application to the Heritage Lottery=20 Board.=20 Quite simply, I am asking Humanist members to email me=20 their support for the principle of this project so=20 that it can be included in the section of our=20 application relating to "public support". This is=20 pretty crucial because however good the project, there=20 must be public support for it to gain financial grant=20 from the Lottery. =20 If you are prepared to support us, simply email me on=20 hopkin@lgu.ac.uk If you want to know more, contact the Library on=20 0171 320 1189 international (+44)71 320 1189 =20 or fax 0171 320 1188 Many thanks for your help ********************************* Deian R Hopkin Vice Provost London Guildhall University 31 Jewry Street London EC3N 2EY Tel 0171 320 1129 fax 0171 320 3018 hopkin@lgu.ac.uk From: Subject: fwd:Bad Writing Contest Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 202 (202) [deleted quotation] FORWARD END -------------------------- ---------- Internet: c.koellerer@magnet.at FIDO: 2:315/3.22 Fax: ++43 662 420236 (24h) From: Subject: New additions to the American Verse Project Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 203 (203) The Humanities Text Initiative is pleased to announce the addition of 13 new texts to the American Verse Project. Works by significant African-American authors not contained in other electronic text collections have been added, including: Magnolia leaves / Mary Weston Fordham Dreams of life : miscellaneous poems / Timothy Thomas Fortune Dis, dat an' tutter : poems / Elliot Blaine Henderson Soliloquy of Satan and other poems / Elliott Blaine Henderson Ethiope lays / Priscilla Jane Thompson Gleanings of quiet hours / Priscilla Jane Thompson Other works added include: Poems. Volume I & II / H.F. Gould Idyl of work / Lucy Larcom Anarchiad : a New England poem, 1786-1787 / Humphreys, Barlow, Trumbull and Hopkins Miriam : a dramatic poem / Louisa Jane Hall Nineveh and other poems / George Sylvester Viereck Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses / Robert William Service (contributed to American Verse Project by Alan Light; encoded by HTI) The HyperBibliography of American Poetry now contains more than 1000 entries; ca. 500 major updates and revisions are to be included next semester. Christina Powell Humanities Text Intiative http://www.hti.umich.edu From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 10.0504 dark side of humanities computing? Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 22:37:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 204 (204) [deleted quotation] This criticism is, obviously, blissfully uninformed by experience with educational uses of MOOs and MUDs. MOOs do have the capacity to enthrall students, but that capacity can be used for good *or* ill, depending on the imagination, creativity, and discipline of the instructor. [deleted quotation] I know of no one except the author of this post who opposes rigor and creativity. Examples of rigor in postmodernism might burst into mind as well, if the author of this post had read any. Forgive the tone, but both of these criticisms are intellectually irresponsible. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Sharon Cogdill Subject: Re: 10.0504 dark side of humanities computing? Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 19:25:02 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 205 (205) Among other things, JC Garelli wrote, [deleted quotation] well, um, actually, people working in the field of, to pick one example, computers and writing/rhetoric have been working for more than a decade to think clearly about the semiotics of computer interfaces, the values inherent in the language and processes of computing, and the impact of computers and word processing on writing and on classroom practice. The large number of studies that tried for ten years to find out *if* students wrote better on computers than with pen and paper all attest to attempts not to view computers positively *or* negatively a priori, but to test our hypotheses. I can help you construct a bibliography on this, if you like, but the bibliographic overview of an established discipline like computers and writing would get you quite a long list of things to read. More instructive, perhaps, would be for you to see for yourself just how much work has been done. There's lots of stuff that *is* uncritical, of course, but lots and lots that's not. [deleted quotation] Well, as somebody who uses MOO technology with adults in educational settings, and have done so now for several years, I need to address the members of this list about what seem to me to be misconceptions and unsubstantiated claims made in Mr Garelli's posting. Like many other responsible faculty in literature and writing classes, I use MOOs to turn the discussions in some of my classes from oral activities to meetings in which we all *write* to each other, in real time, about what we think and have thought about the subject for the day. Some work has been done on MOOing (or, more precisely, MUDding) in education. The online journals _Computer-Mediated Communication_ and _Kairos_, for example, have both published articles about the use of synchronous communication software in classes. The number of conference papers presented about MOOing and MUDding increases every year. I have published in _Kairos_ on the community of computers and writing teachers who get together most Tuesday nights (on a MOO in the Media Lab at MIT) to talk about the use of computers in our classes. That is, we all telnet to MIT's computer from our own servers; most of us are from the U.S., but there are also members of the group from Australia, England, and Norway. We telnet to MIT, and then we talk about/write about issues in computers and writing. This regular Tuesday meeting is part of the Netoric Project, codirected by Tari Fanderclai and Greg Siering. (I don't have the urls here at home, so I'll suggest you begin looking at Tari's homepage - <http://ucet.ufl.edu/~tari>, and she's got links to spots that can give you more information about the Netoric Project and MUDding in education as well. I'm sure that other subscribers to Humanist also have experience, including publishing history, with MUDs, but if any of you would like to know more, please let me know and I'll be happy to construct a small list of urls, telnet addresses, and articles and email you back or post it to Humanist if there's enough interest.) (For those of you who may not have seen it yet, "MOO" is a technical acronym for something like Multi-user Object-Oriented, the last which describes a kind of programming language, of course, and the first which hints at the origins of MOO software, a certain kind of role-playing gaming software called MUD.) MUD software is communications software; email and listserv are *a*synchronous communication; MUDding (and MOOing) is synchronous - real time. While it certainly can be used for dungeons-and-dragons-type games, MUD software can also be used to facilitate real-time *written* discussion among a number of people at the same time. When a writer in a MUD finishes writing a thought and hits Return, the software sends it out to everybody else in the same "room" in the MUD. Those people then read the statement as soon as it is written and can respond to it immediately, or think about it, or ignore it and write something of their own. Many of my students find MUDding to be liberating in a classroom. Students who do not have good literacy skills - or at least literacy skills comparable to those of the rest of the class - will be silenced by MUDding, but many students who are uncomfortable speaking in class find themselves very active in a CMC classroom. Women tell me that they never worry about interrupting anyone and how much freer they feel to speak for that reason; students who are accustomed to dominating a classroom find themselves on a more level playing field. Those of us who use MUDs in class really do not prefer that our students "let [their] fantasy go unrestrainedly in full fledge," though I'd suggest that the line between fun and education may be less clear than it sometimes seems. In fact, I like my MUDding students to be thoughtful and deliberate and creative and rigorous and all those things I expect them to be in class when they address an idea orally or in a quiz. MUDs can be particularly useful when a teacher would like to make the classroom discussion a *text* in the class - that's exactly what MUD does. Students can see very clearly how a particular rhetorical strategy can have effects they did or did not intend; they can learn to distinguish intention from effect; they can see evidence and associations as material things - words on a screen or page - and not abstract things that disappear when the sound dies away. Language itself becomes something they can look at, analyze, remember (more or less) calmly, and evaluate, as can argumentation, evidence, analysis itself, and so on. Beyond mere classroom dialogue, though, MUD software can help us get at the ways in which our verbal environments become a part of our discourse, and sometimes, if we're lucky and things are very clear, we might begin to get glimmerings about the cause-and-effect relations between environment as it is verbally constructed and the discourse we use to live by. (If there are such clear-cut cause-and-effect relations; I'm still thinking about that one.) Also, I'm aware of some MOOs where faculty teaching French and Spanish to native speakers of English; and a graduate student working with me is using MOO in her English as a Second Language class. Not for fantasy and role playing, but to help the students work on their writing, their spontaneous language, and the construction of a linguistic community for them to belong to as they work on their language skills. A faculty member in German here and I have been talking about setting up a space where students working on German can meet to talk with/write with other learners of German or other speakers of German. Writing centers across the United States use MOO software to enable students to "visit" the writing center virtually. One such space, at the University of Missouri, has it set up so that the meeting (synchronous communication, MUDding) occurs in one window, the paper being discussed shows up in another, and a hypertext writing-center help sheet can show up in another. I think I won't pick at the rest of Mr Garelli's statements; my arguments and descriptions will have to stand on their own. Comments, anyone? Sharon Cogdill English Department, St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.A. scogdill@tigger.scloud.msus.edu http://condor.stcloud.msus.edu/~scogdill From: "Randall L. Jones" Subject: Walter & Sally Sedlow? Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:43:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 206 (206) I received a phone call from someone today who is trying to make contact with Walter and Sally Sedlow. I remember that they used to come regularly to meetings having to do with humanities and computing, but I have not seen them for a long time. If anyone knows anything about would they please send me a message? Thanks. Randall Jones From: BOES HENRIK L Subject: Religion and Internet Technology Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:43:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 207 (207) Greetings y'all! I am looking for information on courses, programs, texts (online and printed) dealing with the study of religion in the Internet age. I know there's quite a bit oiut there, but don't have time to do a lot of browsing/researching at the moment: I need the info for an ad hoc faculty meeting Tuesday. Any information you might have would be helpful, I'm sure. Thanks! Henrik Boes Dept. of Religious Studies University of Colorado at Boulder From: WILLARD MCCARTY Subject: prosopography? Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 18:53:14 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 208 (208) On behalf of colleagues here at King's I'd like to gather up news about any current (and computer-using) prosopography projects. Please send references and contact information to me. Thanks. Yours, WM From: Subject: CAAH Digest - 6 Dec 1996 to 7 Dec 1996 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 209 (209) [Forwarded from the CONSORTIUM OF ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS , Kelly Woestman , originally from James B. Schick _History Computer>Review_ (xpost H-Survey)] [deleted quotation]__________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu From: Subject: Prosopographical Projects Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 210 (210) In response to your posting about current prosopographical projects, let me mention a project that NEH funded in 1992, in case it is not in your list. Professor Ralph Mathisen of the History Department at the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) received a grant to prepare a prosopographical database based upon the _Corpus Incriptionun Latinarum_. It covers some 12,000 individuals who lived in the Mediterranean world from 260 CE to 640 CE. Best wishes for the holidays. Helen Aguera National Endowment for the Humanities From: Subject: Re: 10.0504 dark side of humanities computing? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 211 (211) One of our correspondents wrote: [deleted quotation]Good. [...but in what sense? --WM] From: dennism@quasar.ispace.com (Dennis Merritt) Subject: Basque translators Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 11:26:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 212 (212) The Language Bank, Inc. is looking for qualified translators and interpreters to work with our company on a part time basis. Please forward this information to those interested in a part time money making oportunity. Thank You, Dennis Merritt - --- To learn more about The Language Bank, Inc. we cordially invite you to visit us at: http://www.language-bank.com/ !!! or call us toll-free at: 1-888-TLB-1444 From: Ellen Leenarts Subject: Re: 10.0509 Sedlows? religion & Internet? prosopography? Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:39:26 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 213 (213) There are many pages on Shia Islam, two pages to start with are: http://www-leland.staford.edu/~yusufali/islam/index.html http://www.icon-stl.net/~shia Greetings, Ellen Leenarts (Leenarts@Rullet.LeidenUniv.nl) Dept. of History Leiden University The Netherlands From: "Robert M. Fowler" Subject: Religion and Internet Technology Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:34:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 214 (214) The very best thing at the moment is the new Scholars Press book by Patrick Durusau, _High Places in Cyberspace: A Guide to Biblical and Religious Studies, Classics, and Archaeological Resources on the Internet_. The printed book will be kept up to date at the accompanying web site, <http://scholar.cc.emory.edu/scripts/highplaces.html>. *************************************************************** * Robert M. Fowler * * Professor and Chairperson, Department of Religion * * Baldwin-Wallace College, 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 * * rfowler@baldwinw.edu http://www2.baldwinw.edu/~rfowler * * 216-826-2173 (office) 216-826-3264 (fax) * * NOTE NEW AREA CODE (440) EFFECTIVE JULY 1997 * *************************************************************** From: Subject: Project Gutenberg #750 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 215 (215) As has been the case for several years now, I try to publish something of particular interest on the anniversary of the death of my father. I have received permission to dedicate Project Gutenberg Etext #750 to Professory H. H. Hart, today, December 10, 1996 on the 7th anniversary of his death. He was instrumental in bringing Project Gutenberg to an even wider audience than I could have. Thanks Dad! The High History of the Holy Graal is for you. . . . Michael *** Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. Dec 1996 The High History of the Holy Graal, Author Unknown[hhohgxxx.xxx] 750 Dec 1996 Barlaam and Ioasaph, by St. John of Damascus [bioasxxx.xxx] 749 Dec 1996 The Brother of Daphne, by Dornford Yates [bdaphxxx.xxx] 748 Dec 1996 Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, Gould/Pyle [aacomxxx.xxx] 747 Dec 1996 Burning Daylight, by Jack London [Jack London #5] [bdlitxxx.xxx] 746 Dec 1996 One Divided by Pi, To A Million Digits [math #17] [onepixxx.xxx] 745 Dec 1996 The Golden Mean, To A Million Digits [math #16] [gmeanxxx.xxx] 744 Dec 1996 Thoughts on Man, His Nature, etc, by Wm Godwin [tmnwgxxx.xxx] 743 Dec 1996 Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Brisbane [ehnabxxx.xxx] 742 Dec 1996 Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate THB#1] [thbrsxxx.xxx] 741 Dec 1996 John C. Calhoun's Remarks in the Senate[Calhoun1#][jccrsxxx.xxx] 740 Dec 1996 Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate [Clay #1][hcrhsxxx.xxx] 739 Dec 1996 The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot by Andrew Lang#5[pldlpxxx.xxx] 738 Dec 1996 The Bobbsey Twins at School, by Laura Lee Hope #2?[tbtasxxx.xxx] 737 From: Subject: Re: text analysis program Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 216 (216) [The following from DARWIN-L, recommending Perl for text-analysis applications, with a list of useful sources. --WM] I recommend that you use the Perl scripting language because of its "simplicity" in comparison with other languages. Accordingly, I have listed the essential sites and cites for you below: (1) Mac internet software http://www.msilink.com/~browning/index.html (2) MacPerl http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/perl/nixnix.html (3) Word counting program "Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (First Edition)" one of the few accessible books for newbies NOT brutally criticized by Perl (UNIX) gurus who (usually) love only the O'Reilly books on Perl (see http://www.perl.org/). In "Teach Yourself...", see "Day 5", page 160 "Splitting a Sting into a list" for a simple word counting program and see "Day 6", page 198 "Using Command-Line Arguments as Values" for a word search and counting program (for "counting by type"). Please note that the page numbers and "chapters" that I have given you are from the first edition; the second edition on Perl5 is currently being sold in book stores and may or may not have the same pagination. (4) Parts of speech program This is not simple (i.e., few will take the time to write this program for you) and you probably want to put your question to a more specialized list (where someone has already written it and will share it with you). For this you can write to: Subscription Address: almanac@ruby.oce.orst.edu - comp.lang.perl Submission Address: PERL-USERS@ruby.oce.orst.edu Dan Gold, Brain Link Inc., brainlink@huskynet.com ================ At 09:42 AM 12/10/96 -0500, witkowski wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Conference Announcement: please post Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 217 (217) ****************************** DRH97 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ****************************** D R H '97 St Annes College Oxford 14-17 September 1997 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97 Bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Humanities. Mission: DRH97 aims to become a new forum for all those affected by the digitization of our common cultural heritage: the scholar producing or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital media in the seminar room; the publisher finding new ways to reach new markets; the librarian, curator, art historian, or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship. Format : The conference will take up three intensive days of academic papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, held this year in a comfortable Oxford college. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage a lot of energetic discussion, both formal and informal. Leading practitioners of the application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities, from the worlds of scholarship, librarianship, and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise, experience, and opinions. Sponsors: The conference is sponsored by the British Library, the Office for Humanities Communication, the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities of Kings College London, the International Institute for Electronic Library Research of de Montfort University, the Library of University College London, and the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University. Timetable: Proposals are invited for academic papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress. Extended abstracts (1500 to two thousand words) should be submitted by April 7th 1997. All proposals will be reviewed by an independent panel. Full versions (2 to 4 thousand words) of accepted papers will be required by July 7th 1997 for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Themes: creation of digital resources, textual, visual, and time-based; integration of digital resources as multimedia; policies and strategies for electronic delivery, both commercial and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery; pedagogic implications of digital resources and electronic delivery; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. Cost and accommodation: We hope to hold the conference fee at last year's level (225 pounds, covering lunches, dinners, and the whole academic programme). For accommodation, delegates can choose between ensuite rooms at 45 pounds/day or study/bedrooms with shared bathroom at 30 pounds/day for B & B. All accommodation is on campus in modern purpose-built blocks adjoining the quadrangle and within a few minutes walk of all conference facilities. The conference banquet will cost an additional 40 pounds. Further information: The conference web site at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97 will be regularly updated, and will include full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now! From: jr19 Subject: Proceedings: Biological Nomenclature in 21st Century Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:22:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 218 (218) [I pass the following along from the excellent DARWIN-L primarily because of the action taken by the Univ. of Maryland, described below. If anyone knows more about Maryland's new policy, I am sure Humanists would like to know as well. --WM] Proceedings of A Mini-Symposium on BIOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE IN THE 21st CENTURY http://www.life.umd.edu/bees/96sym.html Edited by James L. Reveal We are pleased to announce the above electronic publication. Introduction In the fall of 1995 the University of Maryland adopted a policy on electronic publications, treating them as equivalent to printed matter. This, coupled with the importance of the subject, combined to produce these Proceedings (http://www.life.umd.edu/bees/96sym.html) of a mini-symposium on biological nomenclature in the 21st century held at the University of Maryland on 4 November 1996 under the sponsorship of the BEES faculty and the College of Life Sciences (http://www.life.umd.edu/). With the assistance of seminar coordinators, Dr. Kenneth P. Sebens and Dr. Charles B. Fenster, I was permitted to invite Dr. Dan H. Nicolson, Dr. John McNeill, Dr. Richard K. Brummitt and Dr. Kevin de Queiroz to examine the importance of codes of scientific nomenclature in the 21st century. In September, abstracts of the four invited speakers were published electronically and requests were made for commentaries. Prompt publication was made possible by the timely submission of contributions from the four speakers and three individuals who sent commentaries. To the numerous biologists who took time to review each of the manuscripts rapidly, and each of the contributors who responded to the reviewer's remarks promptly - all done electronically - I am most grateful. This is particularly noteworthy because the usual payment for such labor, a copy of the final published work, is not the same in this case. The future of archieving electronic publications is uncertain. Therefore, individuals are encouraged to make hardcopies of each paper and place them in libraries for future reference. Furthermore, an electronic version is being archived by the University of Maryland, and others wishing to do so are herein granted permission. With the formal publication of the Proceedings, others wishing to present comments are urge to do so through TAXACOM. The effort has been a learning exercise. The product is not entirely satisfactory, but the task has been interesting and the technology is improving rapidly. The future of the electronic world, like nomenclature in the next century, will be intriguing even if it all seems uncertain. The included papers: *Introduction ---Opening Remarks by James L. Reveal ---Original Abstracts *Chapters ---Chapter 1. Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? by Dan H. Nicolson ---Chapter 2. The BioCode: Integrated biological nomenclature in the 21st century? by John McNeill ---Chapter 3. Quite Happy with the Present Code, Thank You by R. K. Brummitt ---Chapter 4. A Phylogenetic Approach to Biological Nomenclature as an Alternative to the Linnaean Systems in Current Use by Kevin de Queiroz *Chapter 5. Commentaries: -----Commentary 1. Biological Nomenclature by Piero Delprete -----Commentary 2. Biological Nomenclature by David Frodin -----Commentary 3. Two Codes in a Dual System? No Thanks by Gea Zijlstra ---Chapter 6. Solutions for Biological Nomenclature by James L. Reveal Papers presented here should be cited in the following manner: de Queiroz, K. 1996. "A phylogenetic approach to biological nomenclature as an alternative to the Linnean systems in current use." In: J.L. Reveal, ed. Proceedings of a mini- symposium on biological nomenclature in the 21st century. University of Maryland: www.life.umd.edu/bees/96sym.html. James L. Reveal Department of Plant Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-5815, U.S.A. 2 December 1996 jr19@umail.umd.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: an online lexicon of the humanities Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:29:20 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 219 (219) Humanists will likely appreciate knowing about a site attached to the homepage of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (www.sil.org), itself worthy of attention. This is "In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities", <http://www.sil.org/humanities/>, which at the moment contains material for Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Linguistics, and something called Identity Politics. The aim is "to provide a way for scholars to cross over from one discipline to another in their studies". Contributions are solicited. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Omar Subject: Re: 10.0513 dark is good Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:41:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 220 (220) On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] Not entirely off the subject, but close: For anyone who would like to see a great example of the interesting social phenomena that occur on (the more mature and society-based) MOOs, I highly recommend the essay "A Rape in Cyberspace" by Julian Dibbell. The essay is printed in _Flame_Wars:_the_Discourse_of_Cyberculture_ (Mark Dery, Ed. Duke UP) and discusses a socio-political revolution that occurred on a MOO the author frequented at the time. It's well written and enjoyable. In fact, I'd recommend the whole book. -john drummond http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/ 'on the thin side of evil and trying not to break through' --Toni Morrison From: Subject: HUMANIST 10.509 - Prosopography Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 221 (221) I know of a project on the prosopography of the priests in ancient Rome. A short report can be found in LLC 9 (1995) 4, pp. 320-323. They have also a web page (http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/klassphilol/srrind.htm). A further project, "Prosopographia Imperii Romani", is located at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (postal address: Jaegerstr. 22/23, D-10117 Berlin, phone: +4930-20370-256); project leader: Prof. Dr. Werner Eck; I had contact with Dr. Matthaeus Heil at the mentioned address. They planned at least to use computers; I am however not informed on the current state of computerization of their work. Best wishes, Wilhelm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott phone: +49-7071-2972933 Universitaet Tuebingen fax: +49-7071-295912 Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung e-mail: ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Brunnenstrasse 27 D-72074 Tuebingen From: Subject: Re: 10.0516 e-publishing: aspects and artefacts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 222 (222) [deleted quotation] I wouldn't want to appear to quibble with trivial details in relation with the great significance of the publication itself or of how it demonstrates the growing acceptability of the medium for scolarship, but three points occur to me concerning the URL. 1) The access method ("http:") ought to be mentionned. 2) Since the URL is not delimited, the trailing full-stop (period) could be taken as belonging to it. 3) Because of this, the custom has grown of bracketting URLs with "greater-than" and "less-than" pointed brackets. This is so well established that my mail program identifies URLs in mail messages and lets me double-click on them to open up the site with Netscape. It isn't unique in allowing this, so do several others. So, I suggest that the recommended form of citation read: | de Queiroz, K. 1996. "A phylogenetic approach to biological | nomenclature as an alternative to the Linnean systems in | current use." In: J.L. Reveal, ed. Proceedings of a mini- | symposium on biological nomenclature in the 21st century. | University of Maryland: <http://www.life.umd.edu/bees/96sym.html>. Francois Crompton-Roberts From: Subject: Call For Papers: SIGIR '97 hapax8r8f2l8kj Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 223 (223) [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this.] CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR '97 20th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval DoubleTree Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA July 27 -- July 31, 1997 In co-operation with: BCS-IRSG (UK), GI (Germany), IPSJ (Japan), (others pending) ABOUT THE CONFERENCE SIGIR '97 is the twentieth conference in the premier series of research conferences on information retrieval. SIGIR is the major forum for the presentation of new research results, and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in information retrieval. The conference attracts a broad range of professionals including theoreticians, developers, publishers, researchers, educators, and designers of systems, interfaces, information bases, and related applications. In 1997, SIGIR is collocated with DL '97, the Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, which will be held July 23-26, 1997 in Philadelphia. We anticipate substantial synergy between these two meetings. CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR '97 seeks original contributions (i.e. never before published) in the broad field of information storage and retrieval, covering the handling of all types of information, people's behavior in information systems, and theories, models and implementations of information retrieval systems. We encourage discussions of experimental studies, tests of usability, explorations of information retrieval behavior, reports on the performance of large scale systems, and demonstrations of advanced approaches. We prefer theoretical contributions to have sufficient proof of utility to demonstrate their applicability to information retrieval problems. Similarly, reports on small scale experiments should include convincing arguments or simulations to show their likelihood of generalization. TOPICS Topics include, but are not limited to: --Information Retrieval Theory, e.g.: Statistical and Logical Retrieval Models, Data Fusion, Human-Centered Information Retrieval Systems. --User Interaction and Behavior, e.g.: Models of Information Seeking, Interface Design and Experiment, Visualization. --Multimedia Information Retrieval, e.g.: Audio, Video, and Image Retrieval, Links, Composite Documents. --Experimentation, e.g.: Test Collections, Evaluation Measures. --Natural Language Processing, e.g.: Multilingual Retrieval Systems, Summarization, Dialogue Management, Use of Linguistic Resources for Information Retrieval. --Systems and Implementation Issues, e.g.: Integration with Database Systems, Networked Systems and the Internet, Compression, Efficient Query Evaluation. --Applications, e.g.: Task-Embedded Information Retrieval, Electronic Publishing, Digital Libraries. INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS Submissions to SIGIR '97 may be completed papers, or can be proposals for posters, panels, demonstrations, tutorials, or workshops. With the exception of papers and posters, submissions may be made via e-mail (plain ASCII text). All submissions should include complete contact information including mail address, telephone, fax, and e-mail. PAPERS Papers (4 copies) should be submitted in English to the Program Co-Chair responsible for the geographic region of the first author, as indicated below. Papers should contain at most 5000 words. The first page must contain the title of the paper and an abstract of not more than 150 words, but no indication as to the author(s) or their affiliation(s). In addition, authors must provide a separate cover page with the title, the author name(s), and the author affiliation(s), plus complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) for the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Please indicate if the paper is to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. This Award requires that the first and primary author be a fulltime student at time of submission. There will also be a Best Non-Student Paper Award presented. TUTORIALS SIGIR '97 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which should cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks). Submissions should be made to the Tutorials Chair and should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should specify (1) the length of the tutorial; (2) the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced); (3) complete contact information for the contact person and other presenters; and (4) brief biographies (max. 2 paragraphs) of the presenters. The extended abstract should be 3 to 5 pages, and should include an outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course objectives and course materials. PANELS Proposals for panel sessions should be sent to the Panels Chair by prospective moderators. Panels should address issues of interest to the general information retrieval community, and should be designed to stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience. Panel proposals (2-3 pages) must include: (1) complete contact information for the moderator; (2) the rationale for addressing this topic as a panel; (3) the names and affiliations of the panel members; and (4) a description of how the panel will be structured, with emphasis on how general participation will be encouraged. Abstracts of panel presentations will appear in the proceedings. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations provide an opportunity for first-hand experience with information retrieval systems, whether advanced operational systems or research prototypes. Proposals (up to 3 pages) should be submitted to the Demonstrations Chair. The proposal should indicate how the demonstration will illustrate new ideas, and should describe the technical specifications of the system. The hardware, software, and network requirements for the demonstration, including the electrical requirements of the equipment, should be indicated. A list of demonstrations will be published in the proceedings. POSTERS SIGIR '97 poster presentations offer researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings, and there will be a Best Poster Award. Three copies of an extended abstract (roughly 3-4 pages) should be submitted to the Posters Chair. The abstract should emphasize the research problem and the methods being used, and be headed only by the title of the poster. In addition, a separate cover page is required containing the title of the poster, along with the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete contact information for the author to whom correspondence should be sent. WORKSHOPS Proposals are solicited from individuals and groups for one-day workshops to be held July 31, 1997. Submissions of up to 3 pages should be made to the {\bf Conference Chair}. They should include the theme and goal of the workshop, the planned activities, the maximum number of participants and the selection process, and a list of potential participants. Also include a CV for each organizer detailing relevant qualifications and experience. After the workshop, organizers are to provide an article summarizing the workshop for SIGIR Forum. IMPORTANT DATES IMMEDIATELY: Subscribe to SIGIR '97 mailing list by writing to sigir97@potomac.ncsl.nist.gov. Information on SIGIR '97 will periodically be sent to the mailing list as well as posted at http://www.acm.org/sigir/conferences/sigir97/index.html. January 10, 1997: Submission of PAPERS to the relevant Program Co-Chair. February 14, 1997: Submission of proposals for POSTERS, PANELS, DEMONSTRATIONS, TUTORIALS and WORKSHOPS to the relevant Chair. March 11, 1997: Notification to ALL authors. April 30, 1997: Final manuscripts for PAPERS, POSTERS and PANELS due in camera-ready and electronic forms. CONTACTS Conference Chair: Ellen Voorhees NIST Building 225 Room A-216 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA Email: ellen@potomac.ncsl.nist.gov Phone: +1 301 975-3761 Fax: +1 301 840-1357 Tutorials & Panels Chair: Susan Dumais Bellcore 445 South St. Room 1A-348B Morristown, NJ 07960 USA Email: std@bellcore.com Phone: +1 201 829-4253 Fax: +1 201 829-2645 Posters Chair: K. L. Kwok Computer Science Dept. Queens College CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367 USA Email: kwok@post.cs.qc.edu Phone: +1 718 997-3482 Fax: +1 718 997-3513 Demonstrations Chair: Chris Buckley Sabir Research, Inc. 26 Triple Crown Ct. Gaithersburg, MD 20878 USA Email: chrisb@sabir.com Phone: +1 301 947-3740 Fax: +1 301 947-3684 Treasurer: Paul B. Kantor SCILS Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 USA Email: kantorp@cs.rutgers.edu Phone: +1 908 932-1359 Fax: +1 908 932-1504 Publicity Chair: David D. Lewis AT\&T Labs 600 Mountain Ave., 2A-410 Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 USA Email: lewis@research.att.com Phone: +1 908-582-3976 Fax: +1 908-582-7550 PROGRAM CHAIRS For North and South America: Nicholas J. Belkin SCILS Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 USA Email: belkin@scils.rutgers.edu Phone: +1 908 932-8585 Fax: +1 908 932-6916 For Europe and Africa: Peter Willett Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN United Kingdom Email: p.willett@sheffield.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 114-2825083 Fax: +44 (0) 114-2780300 For Asia and the Pacific: Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 0511 Republic of Singapore Email: desai@iss.nus.sg Phone: +65 7722002 Fax: + 65 7744990 PROGRAM COMMITTEE IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Phillips, The Netherlands Maristella Agosti, Univ. of Padua, Italy Micheline Beaulieu, City Univ., UK Peter Bruza, QUT, Australia Chris Buckley, Cornell Univ., USA Forbes Burkowski, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada James Callan, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA Raman Chandrasekar, NCST, India Yves Chiaramella, CLIPS-IMAG, France Hsinchun Chen, Univ. of Arizona, USA Mark Chignell, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Ken Church, AT\&T, USA W. Bruce Croft, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA Susan Dumais, Bellcore, USA Leo Egghe, Limburgs Univ. Centrum, Belgium David Ellis, Univ. of Sheffield, UK Jim French, Univ. of Virginia, USA Hans-Peter Frei, UBILAB, Switzerland Norbert Fuhr, Univ. Dortmund, Germany Gregory Grefenstette, Rank Xerox, France Donna Harman, NIST, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon Univ., UK Marti Hearst, Xerox, USA Bill Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences Univ., USA Haym Hirsh, Rutgers Univ., USA David Hull, Rank Xerox, France Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark Tetsuya Ishikawa, Univ. of Library and Info. Sci., Japan Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland Haruo Kimoto, NTT, Japan Judith Klavans, Columbia University ,USA Shmuel Klein, Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel Robert Korfhage, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA K. L. Kwok, Queens College, CUNY, USA Dik Lee, HKUST, Hong Kong Joon Ho Lee, KRDIC, Korea David Lewis, AT\&T, USA Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse Univ., USA Dario Lucarella, CRA-ENEL, Italy Kathy McKeowan, Columbia Univ., USA Elke Mittendorf, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland Alistair Moffat, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia Sung Hyun Myaeng, Chungnam National Univ., Korea Jan Pedersen, Verity, USA Annelise Pejtersen, National Laboratory, Denmark Keith van Rijsbergen, Glasgow University, UK Ellen Riloff, Univ. of Utah, USA Stephen Robertson, City Univ., UK Airi Salminen, Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers Univ., USA Peter Schauble, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland Fabrizio Sebastiani, IEI-CHR, Italy Alan Smeaton, Dublin City Univ., Ireland Phil Smith, Ohio State Univ., USA Craig Stanfill, Ab Initio, USA Ulrich Thiel, GMD IPSI, Germany Richard Tong, Sageware, USA Howard Turtle, West Info. Pub. Gp., USA Ross Wilkinson, RMIT, Australia Mei-Mei Wu, National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taiwan Emannuel Yannakoudakis, Athens Univ. of Economics, Greece From: Subject: holiday book donation? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 224 (224) The following message was forwarded to me. I am not certain whether it is genuine or a hoax. I sent a message, but received no response. Perhaps a fellow humanist could confirm or deny its validity? If it is true it is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. [deleted quotation]__________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu __________________________________ From: schubert@fhf-tue.com (Klaus Schubert) Subject: job announcement Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 09:49:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 225 (225) Die Fachhochschule Flensburg stellt, zeitlich befristet vom 1.2.1997 bis 31.7.1998 (Beschaeftigungsfoerderungsgesetz), eine LEHRKRAFT FUER BESONDERE AUFGABEN fuer den Studiengang Technikuebersetzen zur Unterstuetzung des wiedergewaehlten Prorektors im Bereich der Lehre ein. Die Lehrgebiete umfassen Sprachkompetenz Englisch, Landeskunde, Technisches Uebersetzen (Deutsch-Englisch), Uebersetzungslehre. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich ausschliesslich an englische Muttersprachler/innen mit wissenschaftlichem Abschluss in einem sprachwissenschaftlichen Fach. Verguetung: BAT II a. Schwerbehinderte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber werden bei entsprechender Eignung bevorzugt beruecksichtigt. Die Fachhochschule Flensburg ist bestrebt, den Anteil von Wissenschaftlerinnen in Forschung Lehre zu erhoehen und fordert deshalb entsprechend qualifizierte Frauen ausdruecklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Bewerbungen mit den ueblichen Unterlagen werden bis zum 9. Januar 1997 (Eingang) erbeten an den: Kanzler der Fachhochschule Flensburg, Kanzleistr. 91-93, D-24943 Flensburg, Deutschland Klaus Schubert schubert@fhf-tue.com Studiengang Technikuebersetzen Fachhochschule Flensburg Am Bundesbahnhof 1 Tel +49 (461) 144 97-12 D-24937 Flensburg Fax +49 (461) 2 11 25 Deutschland/Germanio/Tyskland/Duitsland/Germany From: Subject: Re: 10.0518 prosopography Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 226 (226) There is a major project going on at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, which is constructing a database of, among other things, prosopographical material from Byzantine sources. I saw a demonstration of it recently: it combines full, accessible texts of the sources (mostly hagiographical) with a search engine for names, places, themes and lots else. It is already available for purchase for the pilot period (10th-11th centuries?) and will continue to be expanded chronologically. I don't have contact information right in front of me but can supply it if asked. I think the project deserves being included in any list of current prosopographical research projects. Larry Poos Department of History Catholic University POOS@CUA.EDU From: Willard McCarty Subject: bibliography of MUD; AltaVista in Europe Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:04:52 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 227 (227) Apropos the recent discussion of MUDs and the like, I have stumbled upon an online bibliography: Daniel Pargman, "The MUD literature reference list", at <http://miamimoo.mcs.muohio.edu/mudlit.html>. Unfortunately it appears to have last been modified on 16 Apr 1995. More recent information would be welcome, I am sure. Humanists in Europe may also like to try out the new Swedish mirror of AltaVista, at <http://www.altavista.telia.com>. You get to choose the language in which the engine speaks back to you. WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer / Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: Danilo Curci Subject: Re: 10.0507 new in American Verse Project Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:21:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 228 (228) Thank you. I and my friend Terenzio Formenti, a poet, are collecting sites and... poems on http://www.aspide.it/freeweb/librarsi/ in italian but also in several other languages. Danilo (Italy) At 14.12 11/12/96 EST, you wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Editing conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 229 (229) [Cross-posted from Ficino, with thanks. --WM] Can I just remind anyone interested in participating in the 'Future(s) of Editing' session at the ESSE 4 conference in Debrecen, Hungary in September that the closing date for receipt of abstracts in 31 January 1997. Proposals should relate to any issues in contemporary editorial thinking (eg, the sociology of texts; revisionism; the electronic text; editing and poststructuralism; gender and editing) and can treat of texts from any period. Proposals should be sent to the address indicated below. Please feel free to contact me if you require further details or have any queries. Dr. Andrew Murphy English Department University of Hertfordshire Watford Campus Aldenham Watford Herts AL1 3BD UK Email: litradm@herts.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 1727 864117 From: Subject: Re: 10.0525 job at Flensburg Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 230 (230) I maintain the Related Readings page, which contains a section called "Job Opporunities," for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at UVA. I would love to post Jeff Allen's recent job anouncement [10.0525 job at Flensburg] in this section, but I do not speak or read German. Could Mr. Allen please briefly describe the job in question, so that I may categorize it correctly? Thanks, Jennifer Hoyt From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: electronic dissertations news and updates -- for Humanist Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 17:08:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 231 (231) If you haven't been by the electronic theses and dissertations site lately, you might want to take a look; there have been a number of recent additions to the ETD projects directory, and I have also just added a link to the ETD submission guidelines which UMI has recently released. In addition, I have placed on-line a draft of a paper entitled "Electronic Publishing and Doctoral Dissertations in the Humanities," which I will be presenting at the upcoming MLA. Commentary would be most appreciated. All of this is at: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/ETD.html (The essay and the link to UMI are off of the "about ETDs" section.) --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k Electronic Text Center From: Stefania Spina Subject: New web page on italian linguistics Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 14:22:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 232 (232) [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this.] I'm pleased to announce a new Web Page concerning italian linguistics, whose name is Linguaggio e Comunicazione. You can visit it at the URL http://www.umbrars.com/lingua Its main resource is my HTML version of 1872-73 linguistics unpublished lessons of italian linguist Giovanni Flechia (1811-1892). I've been working on the original manuscript (226 pages written by a student of the University of Torino) since 1992 (I first converted it in electronic format, then I decided to put it on the Internet and offer it to all the interested linguists). The subject of these lessons (in italian) deals with latin and italian morphology, with many digressions on italian dialects. The linguistic relevance of the text is great, because Flechia was probably, in those years well known as fundamental for the birth of italian language science, the only linguist who can be "compared" to G.I. Ascoli, the father of italian linguistics. My pages are (for the moment) only in italian and contain also: a) a small archive on language-concerning articles published by italian newspapers; b) information and data on my paper about the feminine names of job in italian literature. Any comments and suggestions are welcomed. ----------------------------- Stefania Spina Perugia - Italy sspina@mbox.vol.it http://www.umbrars.com/lingua From: H-TEACH Subject: suspicious minds, or to catch a thief Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 21:45:56 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 233 (233) A post-script to yesterday's message about plagiarism from the schoolsucks.com website: The student who handed in a paper straight off of schoolsucks handed in a paper to my graduate student's class that seemed suspicious. The paper wasn't listed on schoolsucks, so I took an unusual phrase from the paper ("predetermined preference") and entered it on Alta Vista's search engine. The search took about 10 seconds. Out of 8 million web documents containing 16 billion words catalogued by Alta Vista, that phrase showed up on 2 documents. One of the two was an alternative site for term papers, and contained the precise paper this student had handed in. So, if you come across any suspicious papers as the semester runs down, you may want to pay a visit to http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/alta-vista.html One hint for search engine newbies: A search on "predetermined preference" with the quotation marks in Alta Vista brings up just two sites, both of which have that exact phrase. A search on predetermined preference without the quotation marks brings up 60,000 sites, which includes all sites that have either phrase. Sincerely, Jeffrey Segal Department of Political Science SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-4392 (516) 632-7662 fax: (516) 632-9023 From: mkreid@PLANET.EON.NET (Mary-Karen Reid) Subject: Re: 10.0522 holiday book donation? Date: 96-12-14 23:27:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 234 (234) Reply-to: mkreid@PLANET.EON.NET (Mary-Karen Reid) To: SOCWORK@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU (Multiple recipients of list SOCWORK) More on the books for hospitals message I forwarded earlier - the following just received. m-k [deleted quotation] From: Emily Rose Subject: Re: A Mitzvah (fwd) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:14:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 235 (235) This is the response I received from my brother about the Houghton Mifflin contribution (which I duly forwarded to him).... Lessee...I have, as of last count, received 37 copies of that message from well-meaning friends, relatives and employees. While the spirit behind it was noble, in practice the people at Hougton Mifflin ought to be taken out and shot. I sent them a lengthy note berating them for this stupid stunt last week, after about the 17th copy I received. Meanwhile, don't bother sending them any mail. Their target was was 50,000 notes (that relate to their Polar Express web site, not that you would realize that from the netspam that is circulating) by December 31st, and they have long since surpassed that number (by starting a chain that will never die, rather like the send-a-card-to-Craig-Shergold UL). But Happy Holidays anyway. [sigh] -David [Grinch] Rose At 01:18 PM 12/13/96 -0500, Emily Rose wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: NINCH Announce: Paul Peters' Radio Symposium Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 236 (236) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT Tuesday Dec 17 BROADCAST OF RECORDING OF SYMPOSIUM WITH PAUL EVAN PETERS [deleted quotation] From: PMC Subject: PMC call for peers Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:23:34 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 237 (237) PMC: Essays Currently Available for Peer Review Self-nominated peer-reviewers regularly participate in the editorial process of _Postmodern Culture_. All submissions distributed for review have been screened by the editors and will receive two other readings from members of the journal's permanent editorial board; _Postmodern Culture_ preserves the anonymity of both authors and reviewers in this process, but the comments of reviewers will be forwarded to the author. If you would like to review one of the submissions described below, and if you think you can complete that review within two weeks of receiving the essay, please send a note to the editors at pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu outlining your qualifications as a reviewer of the work in question (experience in the subject area, publications, interest), identifying the MS by number as listed below, and specifying the manner in which you would like to receive the essay (electronic mail or World-Wide Web). We will select one self-nominated reviewer for each of the works listed below, and we will notify reviewers within two weeks. Information gathered during this process about potential reviewers will be kept on file at PMC for future reference, and may be made available for online searching by PMC subscribers seeking expertise in a particular field. Please note: members of the journal's permanent editorial board should not nominate themselves in response to this call. Manuscripts for review: MS#1: An examination of a Salman Rushdie's short book on the film version of _The Wizard of Oz_, published in 1992 as part of the British Film Institute's Film Classics series. Rushdie's concluding note about the film offers an intriguing re-interpretation of the famous line, "there's no place like home," and the author takes this point as an opening to an intersection of pschoanalysis, marxism, and postcolonial studies. References include Freud and Langley. MS#2: A look at Lenny Bruce's 1962 obscenity trial, and at Bruce's role as a Jewish entertainer and lightning rod mediating San Francisco's civic structure, countercultures, and entertainment substratum. The author also looks at issues of censorship, which are equally relevant in the modern's struggle over cultural expression. References include Gates, Fischer, and Crenshaw. MS #3: This essay examines the intense yet distant humanity in Sylvia Plath's poems, using Emmanual Levinas's metaethical emphasis on the _affect_ of the other to consider the "pathos of aethetics." The author proposes that Plath's poetry provokes feeling and empathy, but not compassion or sympathy. References include Young, Rose, and Ramazani. MS #4: An examination of the relationship of truth and media, and the importance of an exterior-centered language: lies are easily pointed out but truth is identified by its absence rather than by its presence. This identification, moreover, is done by the power that controls discourse. But, the author feels, the power that tries to control this discourse between truth and lie, life and death, transforms a democracy into dictatorship. References include Couillard, Rorty, and Vattimo. MS #5: An examination of the "logic in the secret" of Deleuze-Guattari's theory of literary forms, particularly in _A Thousand Plateaux_ where the concept of the secret is placed in the classification of the tale and the novella. This is illustrated in analyses of Maupassant and Duras. References include Levinas, Hegel, and Foucault. MS #6: An essay looking at %Geschlecht% in Derrida's readings of Heidegger, in "%Geschlecht% II: Heidegger's Hand" and in his other discussions of Heidegger. The author looks at the import of the "frighteningly polysemic and practically untranslatable word" in these works and in the works in the "yet-to-come." References include Krell, McNeill, and Ulmer. MS #7: A look at interactive multilinear narrative and the possiblities for authorial collaboration in internet texts and internet textuality. It considers the problems of maintaining both coherence and the identity of a text as text on the interactive internet. References include Lyotard, Simon, and Keep. MS #8: A look at a 1966 Derrida comment on Einstein ("The Einsteinian constant is not a constant, not a center...") and its role in the recent "Science Wars." The author argues that this recent prominence reveals a deeper cluster of problems in the relationship between postmodernism and science, and seeks to examine the context of the remark and find a path for a more constructive scientific response to Derrida's work. MS #9: This essay looks at Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_, and tensions between high unities and low popular genres on the novel, and the resulting centralized and marginialized discourses. References include Bahktin, Jameson, Stallybrass, and White. MS #10: A hypertext essay on social media and self-exchange. MS #11: A essay looking at the list, which straddles the coherent and the incoherent and which groups together elements which may or may not predict the future but whose existence predicts the present. Lists also use the concept of exchange, which works across boundaries that must both limit and separate. The list is a familiar rhetorical device of postmodern writing. The author follows this path to look at postmodernism in terms of the external and internal limits of conceptualism amd to discuss the act of and concept of exchange. References include Vattimo, Marx, and Saussure, From: jager@let.rug.nl Subject: 2nd CFP - Language Teaching and Language Technology Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:25:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 238 (238) Language Teaching and Language Technology 28-29 April 1997 University of Groningen The Netherlands Second call for papers The prospects for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) today are better than ever before. This is undoubtedly due to the broader range of tasks computers can now be put to, but also to the recent success of applying language technological research (e.g. in morphological and syntactic parsing and generation, speech recognition and synthesis, semantic classification, and corpus linguistics) to practical tasks in language learning and teaching. At the same time, the new technology calls into question traditional didactic insights, asking for new learning and teaching strategies. We hope that the conference may provide answers to some of the following questions: 1.How can language technology (speech recognition/synthesis, morphological and syntactic parsing/generation, semantic classification) be further harnessed in support of language learning? 2.How may results of corpus linguistics be incorporated into CALL? 3.How good is CALL compared to language learning without benefit of computer assistance? Can one measure improvements, and do these involve speed, proficiency or enthusiasm of CALL students? 4.Are the different subfields of language instruction differently amenable to computer assistance--viz., reading, writing, speaking, listening, testing, translation? 5.What is the role in CALL for traditional support tools such as (analog) language labs, paper dictionaries, or hand-held grammars? 6.What are the pedagogical consequences of exploiting this technology? Are there mixed and/or partial options? 7.Is computer-assisted learning always computer-assisted instruction? Isn't virtually all language-learning done under instruction? 8.What are the results of large-scale use of CALL in language education programs? When can it be effective? 9.What are the opportunities for long-distance learning? 10.What and where is the market for CALL products? How does one reach it? Although we solicit papers on all aspects of CALL, we are particularly interested in the question of matching language technology to educational needs. The perspective of the program committee comes from language teaching and language technology. Invited Speakers: -Frank Borchardt, Executive Director, CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). On Current Didactic Issues in CALL -Stephen Heppell, ULTRALAB/Anglia Polytechnic University, Essex. On Educational Policy and CALL -Lauri Karttunnen, Rank Xerox, Grenoble. On the Technological Horizon. -Joke van der Ven, Wolters-Noordhoff Publishers. On the Publisher's Perspective. Abstracts We solicit papers of 20 min (plus 10 min discussion). Abstracts of not more than 8 pp. (A4) including figures and references should be marked "Attention: CALL Conf." and submitted by Jan 15, 1997 to: Arthur van Essen, Applied Linguistics Postbus 716 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen NL 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands Email submissions are likewise welcome. They must meet the same length requirement, must be either in plain ASCII or in postscript. Include "Attention: CALL Conf" in the subject line and send to call-conf@let.rug.nl. Software demonstrations are also invited. Programme committee: -Paul Bogaards (Computer-Assisted Instruction, Leiden) -Arthur van Essen (Applied Linguistics, Groningen, co-chair) -Erhard Hinrichs (Computational Linguistics, Tuebingen) -Sake Jager, (English & Computer Assisted Instruction, Groningen, co-chair) -Franciska de Jong (Linguistics, Utrecht & Computer Science, Twente) -Tibor Kiss (IBM, Heidelberg) John Nerbonne (Computational Linguistics, Groningen, co-chair) For further details and registration information, please visit the conference site at http://www.let.rug.nl/~call97 or send an e-mail message to call-conf@let.rug.nl. From: Subject: Re: 10.523 citations in e-publications Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 239 (239) One more point on citations to add to what Francois Crompton-Roberts said: given the ephemeral quality of many URLs, I have seen many citations that give the exact date of download as well. Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: Deian Hopkin Subject: Fawcett Library Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:37:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 240 (240) FAWCETT LIBRARY APPEAL Just as an interim "thank you", I thought I ought to tell you that the response to the message you put out on my behalf on Humanist has elicited the most astonishing response. I have received, to date, 126 messages from all over the world, from Budapest to Adelaide, Oslo to Tokyo. Many of the messages are fullsome, which all goes to prove that everything we believed about the reputation and role of the Fawcett in the international scholarly community is borne out. It is immensely gratifying that so many people have taken time to write. But even the simple lines of support show that people really are supporting this venture, and this helps us enormously. Beyond this, the message has been passed on to other bulletin boards and this is now cascading a new wave of messages. So, coincidentally, we have demonstrated something of the proselytising power of the internet. A nice of piece of empirical evidence for the piece I am sure one of us will write about new paradigms for scholarly exchange ! A simple diagramatic representation of the networks through which this particular message travelled would be fascinating. Still, another time.... I propose to issue a bulletin from time to time,informing our friends of progress on the venture. In the meantime, may I thank you for your help With very best wishes for Christmas Deian ********************************* Deian Hopkin Vice Provost London Guildhall University hopkin@lgu.ac.uk 0171 320 1129 From: "Paul [not Brian] Brians" Subject: Houghton Mifflin campaign over Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:15:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 241 (241) [deleted quotation] **MISSION ACCOMPLISHED** With Your Help The Campaign has Reached its Goal Over 2,000 Hospitalized Children Receive Books! Thanks to you, the Internet community, we have reached our goal of 50,000 messages and HMI is currently distributing 2,000 books to hospitalized children who can't be home for the holidays. In recognition of the amazing and voluminous show of support from people all over the world, Houghton Mifflin plans to donate an additional 500 books to these children. During the campaign, we encouraged people to share messages of favorite holiday thoughts and memories with the internet community. Now that we have reached our goal, we still welcome you to post messages here by clicking the button above. However we are no longer accepting email messages at "share@hmco.com". Many thanks to all who have participated. We appreciate your support. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians From: "[ISO-8859-1] Kivim=E4ki Arto J" Subject: Advent Calendar in Latin Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 03:28:36 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 242 (242) Dies natalis Christi advenit. Quid agitur in fabrica Patris Natalis? What happens in the house of Father Christmas? Vide: http://www.yle.fi/ylenykko/natalis/index.html Arto -- LABOR FATIGAT -- Arto Kivim{ki Pitknsillanranta 7-9 b 72 00530 Helsinki Finland tel. (90) 766 350 From: James O'Donnell Subject: help with Xmas cards Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:22:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 243 (243) A glitch in a systems upgrade -- I let somebody else upgrade my machine and I'll never do that again -- lost my "address" directory, so Christmas cards looked pretty intimidating, until I remembered Yahoo's People Search: =09http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/ I had about twenty addresses I couldn't get any other way, and I got 19 of them from Yahoo. The one exception was the man with a *really* common first-name/last-name combination and all I remember is that he lives in a north shore Chicago suburb: about 20 people match that description, so I had to work at it by calling his office. Otherwise, it's amazingly effective and quick. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Sara Vandenberg Subject: Re: 10.0527 e-diss; Italian linguistics; plagarism Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:22:03 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 244 (244) I just checked the Shakespeare papers included on the "schoolsucks.com" list. No one I know in any university, college, or high school would give any of those papers a passing grade. Sara van den Berg University of Washington From: shlomo Subject: Windows Fonts for transliterated Hebrew Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:23:29 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 245 (245) Hi there! I am trying to find Windows fonts for transliterating Hebrew and other Semitic languages. Specifically, I am looking for fonts with underdotted h, z, and macrons over vowels. If you know where I could obtain such fonts, please let me know. Thank you very much for your consideration. Shlomo Sela Computer Center, Bar Ilan University. Ramat Gan, Israel From: "Jerome V. Brown" Subject: Identification of a Poem for a Former Student. Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:16:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 246 (246) Can anyone help me with this poem? The request for the author and a source for the complete text came to me a couple of months ago from a student I taught here at the University of Windsor some 30 years ago. She wrote me not because I taught her English (my field is philosophy), but because I'm still alive and still here. So far I've drawn a blank. I gather she's had some kind of difficulty in her life and is trying to pick up the pieces and get them back together, though she didn't go into much detail on that. She seemed to think that the poem was important for her recovery. "The verse of the poem which I remember," she writes, "is, You will be what you will be, Let failure find its false content With that poor work environment, But spirit scorns it, and is free." "And a subsequent verse," she continues, "goes something like, It masters Time, it conquers space, And cows that boastful Trickster, chance, ...be not impatient with delay, but wait as one who understands - When Spirit rises and commands, The gods are willing to obey." I've copied it exacly as she sent it to me. Any help will be appreciated. Jerry Brown From: Subject: Re: Prosopography Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 247 (247) Dear Willard McCarty last Saturday I was at a meeting where Anna Carolina Strasky presented her prosopographical database of all students of the Basle "Predigerschule" (1875-1915). For more informations, you can write to: Anna Carolina Strasky, lic. phil., Nonnenweg 66, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland. Best regards, Rainer Henrich Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. Bullinger-Briefwechsel-Edition Phone: xx41 1 257 67 54 Kirchgasse 9 Fax: xx41 1 262 14 12 CH-8001 Zuerich e-mail: henrich@theol.unizh.ch Switzerland http://www.unizh.ch/irg/henrich.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: Sokal's hoax Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:27:50 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 248 (248) Northrop Frye used to say, noting its lack in literary studies, that an academic field could properly be called a discipline if a coherent theory could be constructed for it. I have argued that if humanities computing has such a theory, it must be based on the idea of modeling, which is to say, the question of how we know what we know as this may be illuminated by computational methods of investigating humanities data. The difference between evidence and what we know when we think about that evidence cannot wholly or even principally be attributed to an insufficient amount of data, or to insufficiently sophisticated algorithms, as can be shown when one looks closely at a properly delimited study. There is always a gap, I would argue, between mechanical precision, no matter how fine, and the imaginative precision of language (to take just one of the natural media we have). At base this is not a particularly new argument, though its application to humanities data may be. If, then, we are defined by the discrepancy between evidence and knowledge, the ontological status of evidence is an important matter. It seems to me that as computing humanists we need to posit that objectively true conclusions about the artefacts we study are possible while at the same time realising that a computational model of them will by nature always be defective. If I am not mistaken, the postmodern argument works fundamentally against the idea that such objectively true conclusions are possible. Humanists may, therefore, be particularly interested in a piece by Paul Boghossian (Philosophy, New York Univ), "What the Sokal hoax ought to teach us", in the latest Times Literary Supplement, No. 4889 (13 December 1996), pp. 14-15. Boghossian's article is in reference to a deliberate hoax staged by Alan Sokal, a theoretical physicist at New York University. Sokal simultaneously published a bogus article about the postmodern implications of 20th-century physical theories in the premier journal Social Text and in Lingua Franca an expose of this article, a "farrago of deliberate solecisms, howlers, and non-sequiturs, sitched together so as to look good and to flatter the ideological preconceptions of the editors" of ST. Boghossian argues that at the heart of the issue raised by Sokal's hoax is "not the mere existence of incompetence within the academy, but rather that specific form of it that arises from allowing ideological criteria to displace standards of scholarship so completely that not even considerations of intelligibility are seen as relevant to an argument's acceptability." What Boghossian sees as "simple-minded relativistic views about truth and evidence that are commonly identified as 'postmodernist'" lead, he argues, to a state of mind, exemplified by the editors of ST, for which scholarly standards become irrelevant, and thus deliberate nonsense acceptable. The basic texts are on the Web. See 1. "Sokal and Social Text", <http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jwalsh/sokal/> 2. "The Sokal Affair", <http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/stt/sokal.htm> 3. The online publication, Upstream, at <http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/>, "a home for the intellectually heterodox, the politically incorrect and other independent thinkers"; use the Search mechanism to find the items on "Sokal". Comments? WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: Francois Lachance Subject: possible def'n of hum.being Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:09:19 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 249 (249) Willard, As usual, your editorial asides often provoke some reflection. To be human & humane is to listen to the tale of extenuating circumstances. But a machine can select from a stock of tales... Austin somewhere has a paper on excuses where there is distinction between "accident" and "mistake". Would be interesting to apply to computer-human interaction... -- Francois From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Subject: Re: 10.0537 fonts for Hebrew? identify a poem? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:43:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 250 (250) Instead of looking for a special font for hebrew transliteration I suggest choosing a typesetting system which can apply arbitrary accents to any base letter. Of course, I have TeX in mind here, which is freely available for almost every operating system you can imagine. You can ask questions about TeX in the newsgroup comp.text.tex or in the mailing lists info-tex@shsu.edu (to subscribe: send mail to LISTSERV@SHSU.EDU containing the one line subscribe info-tex "Your full name" and ivritex@taunivm.bitnet (subscription to LISTSERV@TAUNIVM.BITNET) Yours, J"org Knappen. From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0537 fonts for Hebrew? identify a poem? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:24:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 251 (251) Corel wordperfect for system 7 has several hebrew fonts. In fact Corel system 7 has a number of fonts packaged with it. I would check some of the shareware collections on the web. I know that Simtel has hebrew fonts but that is for Dos. From: "Gregory L. Glover" Subject: Re: 10.0537 fonts for Hebrew Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:02:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 252 (252) There is a series of free fonts (Hebrew and transliteration) for Windows available via ftp from Scholars Press: ftp://scholar.cc.emory.edu/pub/fonts/windows/ --Greg From: Roger Brisson Subject: Sokal's hoax Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 08:56:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 253 (253) For Humanist: Willard, unless I misunderstand you, I'm not sure who, except the strongest critics of postmodernism, would accept your contention that postmodernists would deny that such objective truths as you mention are possible. Like that other mud-slinging epithet 'liberalism,' critics have dumped just about every intellectual evil imaginable on postmodernism, so that, just like Zelig in that classic Woody Allen film, postmodernism can take on a bewildering variety of forms. The computational model you postulate-- that data, artefacts, or conclusions we come up with can be assessed based on criteria (the model) that we ourselves devise-- is a simple construct of 'objectivity' that even the slave in Plato's Meno would have little problem accepting as valid. In truth, Sokal's hoax ought to teach us that all is not well in the world of scholarly communication. Clearly, what failed and failed miserably with the Sokal article is critical peer and editorial review. Anyone who has read his article, anyone reasonably grounded in the humanities and the social sciences, should have little problem recognizing the humorously silly intent of much of what he writes. In our assembly line, crank-those-articles-out mentality to contemporary scholarship, the standards of good journal editing and review have fallen to dangerous levels. I don't know what kind of critical review submitted manuscripts receive for the journal that published the Sokal article, but it is evident the reviewers did not carefully read the Sokal text. Because of the lack of time to carefully read submitted manuscripts, editors-in-chief typically rely heavily on the reputations of authors in assessing the quality of a work. In reality, a significant amount of trust forms the basis for keeping the edifice of contemporary scholarly publishing erect. In my opinion, it was Sokal's breach of this trust that should deserve much more public scrutiny than it has received, certainly more than his belittling postmodernism (again, I would argue that current fashion is the reason for this). Sokal's essay was published in great part because of his reputation. I'm convinced that if, say, a Carl Sagan published a carefully written 'hoax' essay for an astronomy or physics journal, filled with bogus conclusions and questionable data, the potential for it 'slipping' through and being published would be very high. Unlike Sokal, however, if Sagan were to do this astronomy or physics would not be taken to task, but rather Sagan's academic integrity. Roger Brisson Penn State University From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 10.0533 Sokal's hoax & human beings Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:35:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 254 (254) Well there are two sides to every story, and while I haven't seen the Boghossian piece, these brief quotations from Willard: [deleted quotation] and [deleted quotation] basically restate Sokal's own position and polemic. The best thing I've read on the whole mess is Joe Amato's "sokal text: another funny thing happened on the way to the forum" in the _electronic book review_, which argues that the exchange between Sokal and the editors of _Social Text_ should have been on-line from the outset (as was much of its fallout). I'd add though that the "effectiveness" of Sokal's actions depended precisely on the publishing conventions associated with the material properties of print media. Amato's article is at: http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr3/amsokal.html --Matt ================================================================= Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Bornstein Subject: Re: 10.0533 Sokal's hoax & human beings Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:00:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 255 (255) Hi, Willard I agree that the Sokal Affair raises interesting questions for all humanists, and perhaps especially so for those of us interested in computing in the humanities. You and the list members might want to know that Sokal maintains his own website, with the original articles and lots of related info. Here's the address: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/physics/faculty/sokal/index.html Best wishes to all for the holidays. --George ********************************************************************* George Bornstein Department of English C.A. Patrides Professor of Literature University of Michigan email: georgeb@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109-1045 office phone: (313) 764-6330 office fax: (313) 763-3128 From: Subject: Re: 10.0537 fonts for Hebrew? identify a poem? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 256 (256) WILL. (by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler) 1 You will be what you will to be; 2 Let failure find its false content 3 In that poor word "environment," 4 But spirit scorns it, and is free. 5 It masters time, it conquers space, 6 It cowes that boastful trickster Chance, 7 And bids the tyrant Circumstance 8 Uncrown and fill a servant's place. 9 The human Will, that force unseen, 10 The offspring of a deathless Soul, 11 Can hew the way to any goal, 12 Though walls of granite intervene. 13 Be not impatient in delay, 14 But wait as one who understands; 15 When spirit rises and commands, 16 The gods are ready to obey. 17 The river seeking for the sea 18 Confronts the dam and precipice, 19 Yet knows it cannot fail or miss; 20 You will be what you will to be! Courtesy of Chadwyck-Healey's Literature Online service From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu Subject: Internet Latin course (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 257 (257) NOTICE! The departament of classics (Federal University of Parana, Brazil) and the departament of Sciences of Antiquity (Zaragoza University, Spain), have organizated an introductive course of latin via internet. The course starts the 9th jannuary 1996. Subscribtions are opened to 1st jannuary. Informations about this course: http://www.humanas.ufpr.br/delin/classic/latim/esp/interlat.htm clssics home-page: http://www.humanas.ufpr.br/delin/classic/classic.htm alessandro@coruja.humanas.ufpr.br pilar@coruja.humanas.ufpr.br (to 18/12/96) pilar.rivero@msf.unizar.es (from 20/12/96) Please, help us to distrubute this notice. Thanks. M. Pilar Rivero pilar@coruja.humanas.ufpr.br pilar.rivero@msf.unizar.es From: David Green Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: 2 WIPO Treaties Pass Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 258 (258) Today in Geneva two of the three WIPO treaties were approved. The database treaty (No. 3) failed, but the treaties on Internet Copyright (Treaty No. 1, for "the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works") and the so-called the "new instrument" for the "Protection of The Rights of Performers And Producers of Phonograms" (Treaty 2) were passed. The treaties were changed from the August 30, 1996 drafts which had been published on the Internet. We haven't had the opportunity to see the new language yet, but reportedly there have been a few concessions to the treaty critics. I have been told that the controversial Article 7 of Treaty No. 1, which concerns the "Right of Reproduction," was dropped at the last minute. This was the Article which deals with "direct and indirect reproduction of their works, whether permanent or temporary, in any manner or form." If this is true, this is a significant victory for the critics of the treaty. In general, we are gratified that the database treaty was rejected -- in our judgment this was the worst of the three treaties, by far. We are also deeply disappointed that Treaties 1 and 2 were approved. These both involved matters of first impression, and should not have been legislated by government employees at a meeting of a United Nations Agency before any national legislature (including our own) had addressed the most important and controversial issues. The Librarian of Congress and many others have expressed similar views. The WIPO meetings are further evidence that in a wide range of important areas, the relevant legislative body is often an International body, like WIPO or the World Trade Organization (WTO), and it is increasingly important for citizens to think AND act globally. Much of the commentary about the WIPO proceedings is available from the Union for the Public Domain (UPD) web page at http://www.public-domain.org CPT held a press conference in Geneva, and the briefing document for that press conferenc is at: http://www.public-domain.org/copyright/briefing.html CPT also joined with several groups to send an open letter to the WIPO delegates, which is at: http://www.public-domain.org/copyright/signon.html More later. jamie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Love / love@tap.org / P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 Voice: 202/387-8030; Fax 202/234-5176 Center for Study of Responsive Law Consumer Project on Technology; http://www.essential.org/cpt Taxpayer Assets Project; http://www.tap.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Willard McCarty Subject: OPSIS: interdisciplinary conference on perception Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 10:50:07 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 259 (259) The following, from the Classical Association of Canada Bulletin, should be of interest to some Humanists: b) OPSIS: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference April 4-6, 1997 Department of Classics, SUNY at Buffalo Under the theme OPSIS, the graduate students at the State University of New York at Buffalo are planning an interdisciplinary conference dealing with issues of PERCEPTION. Papers are encouraged from graduate students in a variety of disciplines: Classics, Art History, Philosophy, Anthropology, Classical Archaeology, English, Comparative Literature, Media Studies, Political Science, et alia. One of our main goals is to continue the precedent begun with last year's successful conference, TRANSLATIO (translation or transformation). This year we have chosen the theme of OPSIS, for which papers should address questions of perception relating to the ancient world - id est, interpretations of the archaeological record, women and gender, race, the individual within the collective, theatrical performance and audience, the source material for aesthetic writing in modern literature, the portrayal of ancient archetypes in popular cinema.... Papers should be 15-20 minutes in presentation. All submissions should be one-page abstracts of approximately 300 words (no full-length papers, please). Mail submissions to: OPSIS Conference c/o Department of Classics 712 Clemens Hall SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 DEADLINE: February 7, 1997 Notifications are scheduled for early March. For more information, contact: Holly An' Oyster or Melissa Considine (716) 885-3788 oyster@acsu.buffalo.edu or: Allison Glazebrook amg5@acsu.buffalo.edu Conference Co-sponsored by: Graduate Student Association, Sub Board I, Inc., Raymond Chair, Department of Classics, and Classics Graduate Student Association ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Gabriel Pereira Lopes Subject: cfp- IBERAMIA98 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:51:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 260 (260) Could you please forward this announcement to those you think may be interested in applying? IBERAMIA-98 SIXTH IBEROAMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Lisbon, Portugal, October 5-9, 1998 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence) The age of AI atlantic discoveries "The portuguese dared to engage the great oceanic sea. They entered it fearlessly. They discovered new islands, new lands, new seas, new peoples, and what is more important, new heavens and new stars ... Now it is clear that these discoveries ... were not achieved through guesswork: our seamen set off well trained and provided with instruments and rules of astronomy and geometry." from Pedro Nunes, 1537 The Sixth IberoAmerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held at Lisbon, Portugal, on October 5-9, 1998, under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), in a unique cultural environment, precisely the headquarters of Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (two museums, one for Modern Art and another for Classical Art, covering also the private collection of the founder, a library, permanent expositions, and a beautiful garden). At the same time the World Exposition (Expo'98), around the main topic of Oceans and commemorating the portuguese sea discovery of India (1498), will be open in the oriental side of Lisbon, creating a historic context for discussing the cooperation within the sciences of the artificial among the countries of the Atlantic rein, and under the theme of AI atlantic discoveries. Established in 1988 (Barcelona) by three Iberoamerican Associations of AI (AEPIA, SMIA and APPIA), after a first meeting in Morelia (Mexico) in 1986 of SMIA and AEPIA, the event was organized every two-years since then in Morelia (1990), La Habana (1992), Caracas (1994) and Cholula (1996), taking Portuguese and Spanish as oficial languages and with the aim to promote and difuse the research and development carried out in the countries associated with those two latin languages and connected by strong historical links from XVI century. Along the years, the Executive Committee of IBERAMIA was enlarged with the inclusion of AVINTA (Venezuela), SMC (Cuba) and SBC (Brazil). IBERAMIA-98 will run for the first time in a decade with a paper track in English (for submission and presentation) in order to close the links now with other AI communities where AI is more developed and explored. Structure The scientific program will be structured along two main modules, the open discussion and the paper track. October 5, a bank holiday in Portugal, may be dedicated to see the World Fair Expo'98. The first day of the Conference (tuesday) is organized with tutorials directed to informatics professionals, the formal opening, the IBERAMIA lecture delivered by a distinguished iberoamerican researcher, and the declaration of the prize Jose Negrete awarded by the Scientific Committee to the best paper submitted. Also, and in parallel, working groups will be organized in order to discuss general topics (eg. scientific and industrial joint cooperation). The open discussion track (wednesday) will be composed by working sessions devoted to the most important areas of research in iberoamerican countries, the AI Education Symposium dedicated to confront ideas about the best ways to teach AI, a session to present the best M. Sc. or Ph. D. thesis of the whole region, and a video conference panel to establish bridges between Europe and America (involving those unable to attend this panel). The paper track (thursday and friday) will be composed by invited talks and paper presentations from all over the world on the full range of AI research and covering both theoretical and foundational issues, and applications as well. Some Workshops will be organized the week before, namely one on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (following the first one in Xalapa (Mexico) in 1996, before IBERAMIA-96, and on any other topics to be proposed by those interested in activating the current research. During the Conference there will be an exposition of books written by iberoamerican researchers and academics, access to the WWW pages of the AI associations sponsering the event, and demonstrations of AI industrial products designed in eberoamerican countries. The portuguese association (APPIA) will organize the week before the Sixth Advanced School on AI (EAIA-98) adopting English as the official language. Paper presentations The first track will be held mainly in latin languages (Portuguese and Spanish), but also in English (depending on the preference of the authors). The papers may be written in English. The second track will be conducted only in English. Publication The invited lecture and the papers of the open discussion track will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference. The organizers intend to arrange the publication of the contributions to the paper track by some international publishing house. Submission Submissions are namely requested in the following topics: Agent-oriented programming Case-based reasoning Computer vision Constraint programming Database mining tools and aplications Explanation mechanisms Foundations issues Genetic algorithms Hypothetical reasoning Intelligent information retrieval Intelligent tutoring and learning environments Knowledge acquisition Knowledge representation Knowledge-based systems validation Model-based reasoning Multi-agent and distributed problem-solving Natural language processing Neural nets Robotics Temporal and spatial reasoning Symbolic learning Important Dates Deadline for submission of papers (Open Discussion and Full International tracks): February, 1, 1998 Deadline for submission of tutorials, working groups and workshops proposals: April 2, 1998 Deadline for submission of proposals for the concurse of the best thesis (M. Sc. or Ph. D.): April 2, 1998 (Chair: Dr. Jaime Sichman, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Av. Professor Luciano Gualberto, no 158, travessa 3, CEPO 5508-900 Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil, jaime@pcs.usp.br) Notification of acceptance of papers: May 15, 1998 Notification of acceptance of tutorials, working groups, and workshops: June 1, 1998 Deadline for receipt of paper's final version: June 15, 1998 Conference site The Conference takes place in Lisbon within the installations of Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian. President and Local Chairman: prof. Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P) Departamento de Informatica Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre 2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal Phone: (351 1) 294 85 36 Fax: (351 1) 294 85 41 gpl@di.fct.unl.pt Program and Scientific Chairman: prof. Helder Coelho (P) Departamento de Informatica Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa Bloco C5, Piso 1, Campo Grande 1700 Lisboa, Portugal Phone: (351 1) 7500087 Fax: (351 1) 7500084 hcoelho@di.fc.ul.pt 2nd DAI IBERAMIA Workshop Chair Dr. Francisco Garijo Telefonica I+D Emilio Vargas 6 28043 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34 1 337 4518 Fax: +34 1 337 4602 fgarijo@tid.es Scientific Committee: Alexis Drogoul (F) Alfred Kobsa (G) Alvaro del Val (S) Angel Puerta (S) Antonio Sanchez (M) Carlos Pinto Ferreira (P) Christian Lemaitre (M) Cristiano Castelfranchi (I) Ernesto Costa (P) Felisa Verdejo (S) Francisco Cantu (M) Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P) Guillermo Simari (A) Hector Geffner (V) Hermann Steffen (U) Jaime Sichman (B) Javier Pinto (Ch) John Self (UK) Jorge Villalobos (C) Jose Cuena (S) Jose Felix Costa (P) Jose Moreno (V) Jose Ramirez (V) Juan Carlos Santamaria (V) Leopoldo Bertossi (Ch) Luciano Garcia (Cu) Olga Padron (Cu) Pedro Barahona Fonseca (P) Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (S) Raul Carnota (A) Rosa Viccari (B) Suresh Manandhar (UK) Tarcisio Pequeno (B) Veronica Dahl (C) Werner Nutt (G) Werner DePauli-Schimanovich (A) Wilmer Pereira (V) Sponsored by: APPIA (Associacao Portuguesa para a Inteligencia Artificial), AEPIA (Asociacion Espanola para la Inteligencia Artificial), SMIA (Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial), AVINTA (Asociacion Venezolana de Inteligencia Artificial), SMCC (Sociedad de Matematica y Computacion de Cuba) and SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao). ****************************************************************************** Prof. Helder Coelho Departamento de Informatica Faculdade de Ciencias Universidade de Lisboa Bloco C5, Piso 1, Campo Grande 1700 Lisboa, Portugal telephone: 351.1.7573141 ext.2562 Telefax:351.1.7500084 **************************************************************************** ** From: Subject: Update on ACH (and other) sessions at 1996 MLA Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 261 (261) There's been some reshuffling of the ACH sessions at the 1996 Modern Language Association Convention (in Washington, DC from December 27 through 30), and new information on some other sessions as well. For the latest details, see: on the ACH sessions: http://www.ach.org/mla96/ on all computer-related sessions: http://www.ach.org/mla96/guide.html John Lavagnino Women Writers Project, Brown University From: Germaine Warkentin Subject: Keyboard problem Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 08:21:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 262 (262) This is a ridiculous problem, but in the genial spirit of the season, I submit it to HUMANIST. The letters rub off my keyboard! Since I am not a touch typist, this is a big problem. In the past I have tried replacing them: by drawing new ones with nailpolish (too thick), and by sticking on labels with the letters drawn in felt-pen (they wear off). I am deeply attached to my keyboard, which has the function keys on the left -- the only mechanical apparatus I have ever encountered which was suited to left-handers like me. I am also a rather old-fashioned person; "make it do" is my motto, and when I am told "hell, throw it out and get another," I resist. Perhaps, out there in the vast world of computer supplies there is a solution to this ludicrous dilemma, but as I prepare yet another set of labels to paste on over the ones I put on in October, I wonder, what solution, and where? Merry Christmas to all, and do please advise. ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@chass.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto ******************************************************************************* From: Emily Rose Subject: Re: 10.0540 poem found, thanks to Chadwyck-Healey Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 22:57:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 263 (263) Could you please tell us more about the literature on-line service, and how a friend can acquire reprint rights for the poem ? From: Subject: Solstice 1996 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 264 (264) Dear Humanists, Today is the Solstice, the depth of the solar year that many of us make into a great height of celebrations and so illuminate the gloom that follows. Since moving to London I understand a bit better what northern gloom is like, though not a few Humanists will think me light-headed to be saying that southern England has a dark winter. (After all, the sun doesn't set until after 4 p.m.!) On Thursday, due to the great kindness of a good friend, my wife and I saw a production of Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" at the National -- a wonderful performance -- so now, perhaps, I am a bit better informed about what I miss by living so far to the south. (Forgive me, northern friends, I know it was a play and not a transcription of ordinary life.) Nevertheless, we will make the most of the contrast between the bright tree in the warm house and the dark, chilly streets. My daughter and son will soon be here to help (first time in England for both of them), filling this cosy Victorian pile with noise, curiosity, and demands of all sorts. It is, nevertheless, a meditative time, and so my habit as editor of Humanist to reflect a bit on the world we share, the profession some of us practice and to which others contribute from the vantage point of related disciplines. Personally this year has been momentous for me, of course, with cultural shock-waves of quite astonishing subtlety and extent. The trivial differences, e.g. of language and social organisation, take little time to understand and assimilate except insofar as they come to represent the more profound differences in ways of thinking. As is commonly noted, learning how to understand what people do not say is the hard part. The transition from North America to England, it seems, is from a society that tends toward the explicit to one that depends more on an unspoken context. Jane Walmsley's entertaining Brit-think Ameri-think (Harrap) hardly scratches the surface, but it gives some indication. After less than four months here I can hardly claim to understand the differences that matter, and so offer any kind of guide to those who are fascinated by questions of perspective in an international seminar such as this one. Those of us in humanities computing itself are constantly dealing with (or, alas, avoiding) the discrepancy between claims for the new medium and what we can see of the realities, if they are that, emerging from the fog. What are the cultural inflections of the disembodied, contextually attenuated voices that come through Humanist and other such groups? Does this attenuation favour those who tend to be more explicit, and so work toward the N. Americanization of the world? How are our lives affected, profesionally and personally, by living a portion of them in such conversation with colleagues all over the world? It's easy to assume that space is transcended and time foreshortened, but experience quickly shows that this is not so. How our perceptions of both are changed we can, however, make some attempt to describe. Much work here for sociologists. Pointers to current research would, I'm sure, be welcome. It's 3:30 in the afternoon, most parts of the house are too dark to see well enough to do anything by. So one puts lights on, and since electricity is expensive, learns to turn them off when not needed. Like almost everywhere else in the world except N. America, local telephone calls are charged per unit time, which has to have a profound effect on the way people use the Internet from home. Consider, for example, how one's e-mail writing style is affected by the economic pressure to write offline or write only very short notes online. Consider also how the same pressure affects one's browsing of the Web, most of whose sites, I expect, are N. American, and therefore in fact expensive for a European to access from home. Might there then be a stronger tendency than we expected for cultural myopia in Internet communications as they currently exist? All this is very gloomy and melancholic, isn't it? Can't have that, not now. Time to pull out the Monte Python, switch on the lights on the tree, or light candles, or something similar, perhaps find a good bottle of something or other, or warm one's self with the satisfaction of not doing that, and enjoy the warmth and brightness of human fellowship. May Humanist give you good fellowship, as much as may be, along with the useful information, and I hope, from time to time, challenging thoughts that will help us all push the field along. Allow me to leave you with some lines of poetry, which I wish I knew in the original, but which even in translation say what I think but haven't the wit to express. "As I think of rhymes and verses, my beloved says, Think only of my form. I answer: Will you not sit beside me and rejoice, O Rhyme of my thought?... Then what are these letters that they should absorb your mind, what are they? Why, they are the thorns that surround the vine. Yes, I shall annul the letter by means of voice and language, And I shall hold with you a converse beyond all letters, Beyond all voice and language." Jalal al-Din Rumi Merry Christmas! WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: new on WWW Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 265 (265) [deleted quotation]19 December, new or newly noted on the Web: (1) Global Internet Project, <http://www.gip.org/>, "an international group of senior executives committed to spurring the growth of the Internet worldwide". Consists of representatives from 16 major companies, "primarily from the software and telecommunications segments of the Internet industry". A history of the Internet, plans for its future, etc. (2) U.S. National Information Infrastructure awards for 1996, at <http://www.gii-awards.com.>. "Sponsored by more than 60 industry, government and community leaders, the National Information Infrastructure (NII) Awards recognizes and honors superior accomplishment in applications of the Internet and information highway. The Awards program seeks out, celebrates and showcases those projects that show the world the power and potential of networked, interactive communications." 10 winning sites listed, finalists, and semi-finalists. (3) Live music webcast using RealAudio at 8 p.m. GMT each evening until Christmas. Details at <http://www.liveconcerts.com/>. Hmm. I think of an early use of the telephone, when various people were trying to figure out what it was good for: to transmit music from the concert hall into people's homes. The invention of the radio quickly made it clear that the telephone had another destiny. People are now arguing for the idea of "digital radio", which offers randomly selectable programmes. I keep wondering why we need to mess with something that does its job brilliantly already. Perhaps someone would care to explain. (4) Historical Speech Archive, at <http://www.webcorp.com/sounds/>. Chamberlain, Churchill, Martin Luther King, Ruchard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy.... (5) Telematics for Research, invitation for proposals by the European Commission, at <http://www.scimitar.terena.nl>. (6) CNet, Newsmakers, with interviews of Bill Gates and Jean-Louis Gasse/e (formerly of Apple, now developer of the Be operating system, at <http://www.news.com/Newsmakers/>. Enjoy. Like contributions welcome. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: a Windows 95 problem Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 266 (266) This is a highly technical query, but I am hoping that some Humanist may have experienced the same problem I am having and found a solution. Sometime after installing a new hard disk, and transferring Windows 95 to it from an older hard disk, I began to have problems saving and sometimes opening files in certain packages (e.g. NetScape, Programmer's File Editor), though not all. For example, after running Netscape for a while, I click on an item to download, get the dialogue box asking me what I want to do, and when I click on Save As the program quickly reports that the operation has been done -- but it hasn't. Sometimes when I attempt to open a file, nothing happens at all. The problem is always cured temporarily by exiting and reloading the program, but then recurs soon after. The fact that the problem turns up in various programs seems to point to the operating system. Any clues or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: December 25 -- Today in the Historical Sciences Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 267 (267) DECEMBER 25 -- TODAY IN THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES 1642: ISAAC NEWTON is born at Woolsthorpe, England. Following study at Cambridge University, from which he will graduate in 1665, Newton will make revolutionary breakthroughs in astronomy and mathematics, and after his death in 1727 he will be remembered as the principal founder of modern physical science. Newton's work in physics, however, will constitute only a fraction of his output, and he will devote almost as much time to studies of Biblical chronology as to mathematics. Believing that the ancient Temple of Solomon was a divinely-inspired model of the cosmos as a whole, Newton will teach himself Hebrew and attempt to calculate the exact length of the ancient cubit so that he can reconstruct the Temple's plan from Ezekiel's description of it in the Bible. Among Newton's many historical writings will be _The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended: To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great_ (London, 1728), and also _The Original of Monarchies_: "Now all nations before they began to keep exact accompts of time have been prone to raise their antiquities & make the lives of their first fathers longer than they really were. And this humour has been promoted by the ancient contention between several nations about their antiquity. For this made the Egyptians & Chaldeans raise their antiquities higher than the truth by many thousands of years. And the seventy have added to the ages of the Patriarchs. And Ctesias has made the Assyrian Monarchy above 1400 years older than the truth. The Greeks & Latins are more modest in their own originals but yet have exceeded the truth." Today in the Historical Sciences is a feature of Darwin-L, an international network discussion group on the history and theory of the historical sciences. Send the message INFO DARWIN-L to listserv@raven.cc.ukans.edu or connect to the Darwin-L Web Server (http://rjohara.uncg.edu) for more information. From: LS54@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0547 new on WWW Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:47:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 268 (268) A suggestion for your 'new on WWW' recommendations: A beautiful new site devoted to both historical and contemporary Visual/Concrete Poetry: UbuWeb ViSuAL & COncReTE PoEtRy http://www.ubuweb.com/vp There are sound recordings (RealAudio needed) from various artists and the entire site is a visual delight. Browser with 'frames' capability needed. Thanks! And have a wonderful holiday! From: Stephen Pocock Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem; on-line lit service? Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:03:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 269 (269) I've replied directly to the enquiry for more info on Literature Online. For any other interested users you could put up the addresses of the Lion servers if you think it appropriate, they are: http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk http://lion.chadwyck.com Literature Online is a commercial service but you can get trial access. Full details are at the home page. From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu Subject: CFP: Conference on time and literary criticism (fwd) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 02:03:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 270 (270) THE CRITICISM OF THE FUTURE JULY 11-12, 1997, UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY An international conference seeks participants to debate the temporalities of criticism. Confirmed Speakers: Professor Geoffrey Bennington (University of Sussex) Professor Thomas Docherty (University of Kent at Canterbury) 'Every conception of history is invariably accompanied by a certain experience of time which is implicit in it, conditions it, and thereby has to be elucidated. Similarly, every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is never merely to "change the world", but also - and above all - to "change time". (Giorgio Agamben) 'Time is everything, man is nothing; he is at most the carcass of time.' (Karl Marx) In an essay entitled "Time Today", Jean-Frangois Lyotard argues that modernity is in part predicated on a conception of time in which the "future" is always already given. The subject of modernity operates in the manner of the Leibnizian God, the "consummate archivist" who "conserves in complete retention the totality of information constituting the world". The future, for this subject, is already known, already mapped according to a narrative of progress and a project of emancipation. What is lost in this project, argues Lyotard, is precisely time itself, the openness to an *event* which has not already been anticipated and recorded in the "archive" which constitutes, for this kind of thought, the only possible future (that is, no future at all). For theory in its institutionalized forms, time is essentially an empty and homogeneous continuum which proceeds toward a future which, given the static, "archival" conception of temporality with which it operates is already a knowable and quantifiable datum. In this sense, modern criticism is "the criticism of the future", a criticism which posits and appeals to a future conceived as the final term in the static continuum: past-present-future. Time, for Western philosophical thinking, is persistently the object of a certain conserving and stockpiling impulse; it is that which must be saved or gained in the name of a posited emancipatory future. This conception of temporality informs the modern theoretical project, in terms of an impulse toward *speed*. Speed is the defining characteristic of those discourses which we have come to call theoretical, and of the criticism to which they give rise. This conference seeks to address the question of how we might begin to rethink our conceptions of theory in the light of an altered understanding of the temporality of thought and criticism, to *slow down* the critical process precisely in order that we might open ourselves to the "criticism of the future" (in the other sense of the genitive). Possible topics include: The Time of Criticism The Criticism of Time Time and History Time and Narrative Criticism and Tradition Criticism as Avant-Garde The Speed of Criticism Paul Virilio The Futures of Criticism Criticism and the Contemporary Critical Moments, Critical Events Allegory The Sublime Cinematic Time Criticism and Apocalypse Now Then Send abstracts (300-350 words) by Friday 11 April 1997, to: Brian Dillon, School of English, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, UK. E-mail: bgd1@ukc.ac.uk Dialling code for Canterbury: 01227 (UK) or +44 1227 (international) Tel: 764000 switchboard Fax: 827001 From: Michael Scordilis Subject: EUROSPEECH'97 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 11:48:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 271 (271) Please Post or Distribute EUROSPEECH'97 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY RHODES, GREECE 22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AIMS The Fifth biennial European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH'97, of the European Speech Communication Association (ESCA), will be held on the island of Rhodes, Greece, organized by the University of Patras, Wire Communications Laboratory. Rhodes is situated in the southern Aegean Sea, in the Mediterranean and it is famous for its natural beauty, its archeological treasures and its highly developed tourism. ESCA is the European organization that promotes research, development and applications in SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY. Host cities of the previous conferences were Paris (1989), Genova (1991), Berlin (1993) and Madrid (1995). The upcoming conference will include the latest developments in this field of major international importance, presented in oral and poster sessions . Furthermore it will include several keynote addresses by distinguished scientists. All presentations and printed material will be in English, which is the official language of the conference. In addition to the technical program, an exhibition of products, services and prototypes related to Speech and Language Communication and Technology will be held during the conference. Prospective authors are invited to propose papers in any of the listed technical areas. TECHNICAL AREAS A. Speech production and perception B. Phonetics and phonology C. Prosody D. Neurophysiology, psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics of speech E. Auditory modeling F. Speech analysis and modeling G. Neural networks for speech and language processing H. Robust speech processing, signal enhancement and noise reduction I. Text-to-speech synthesis J. Speech and audio coding and transmission K. Speech recognition and understanding L. Language modeling M. Spoken dialogue systems design N. Speaker and language recognition O. Spoken language resources, assessment, standards and human factors P. Multimodal speech and language processing Q. Technology for speech and language acquisition and learning R. Applications for speech, language and hearing disorders and aids for the communication impaired S. Speech and language engineering for the telecommunications T. Systems, hardware and architectures for speech processing U. Applications of speech technology V. Other related areas or emerging techniques and applications .... [For more information, write to EUROSPEECH'97 E-mail: Eurospeech97@wcl.ee.upatras.gr WEB-SITE The Call for Papers, Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors, all necessary forms, and continuously updated information about the Conference, as well as about Greece and Rhodes, can be found at our web site at: http://www.cti.gr/~ee-www/] From: David Hoover Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem; on-line lit service? Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:43:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 272 (272) On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] As one who agrees that IBM's decision to move the function keys to the top is one of the most perverse ideas to torment computer users, I, too, love my left-hand function keys and refuse to buy a keyboard without them. Gatewqy 2000 still sells, I believe, the "Anykey" keyboard with function keys on the left and the top. Try <http://www.gw2k.com/product/product.htm>. David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: "Craig A. Berry" Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 23:53:15 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 273 (273) You might be able to order replacement keys, although replacing all of them might cost more than replacing the keyboard. If you are worried about the letters rubbing off new keys, try different colors. Although, I don't have any information handy, I know there are companies who make many colors of keys for turnkey solutions, e.g. for cases where an operator presses the bright yellow key to process an order, red to cancel, etc. You might also try a web search for the company that made the keyboard you have and see if they still make a lefty version. Good luck. _____________________________________________________________________ Craig A. Berry Humanities Computing Academic Technologies Northwestern University phone: 847/491-4088 Evanston, IL 60208-2850 fax: 847/491-3824 USA email: craig-berry@nwu.edu From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: RE: 10.0543 keyboard problem Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 21:43:09 -0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 274 (274) solution: How about learning touch typing? From: Ed Haupt Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem; on-line lit service? Date: Sat, 21 Dec 96 17:45:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 275 (275) Dear Ms. Warkentin Somewhere out there, there should be transfer letters. In a stationery store, perhaps. Whole sheets of letters that will stick to a surface if you rub the back side of the sheet to which they are attached. They are a bit old-fashioned in the days of CAD-CAM, but likely they are still around. Ed Haupt From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 276 (276) Dear Humanists: Our interconnecting mechanism is alive but my local machine appears not to be. Messages may still be sent to Humanist but will not appear until the problem is solved. Best wishes for the New Year from your wandering (now in Manhattan and loving it) editor. WM From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: Computers and the Humanities Vol 30 No 3 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 97 16:25:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 277 (277) JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 30 No. 3 1996 The third number of Volume 30 (1996) of Computers and the Humanities (CHum) has just been published by Kluwer Academic Press. This issue introduces a new feature of the journal entitled "Debates in Humanities Computing". This first debate in the series treats the controversial topic of statistical methods for authorship attribution, which has recently received unprecedented coverage in the international press: first, concerning the controversy over Richard Abrams' and Donald Foster's assertion of Shakespearean authorship of an obscure elegy, and later (and even more spectacularly), concerning Foster's subsequent attempt to identify the author of "Primary Colors" (Random House, 1996). To satisfy the obsession of the White House staff and the Washington and New York press corps to find out who wrote the book, Foster created an e-text archive of the principal candidates and used statistical methods to identify CBS correspondent Joe Klein as the author. After repeated denials on numerous international television shows and in the press, Klein finally admitted writing "Primary Colors", leading to unprecedented media interest in methods that have been a mainstay of humanities computing for decades. The debate presented in this number of Computers and the Humanities includes an attack by Elliot and Valenza on statistical methods used in Shakepearean authorship studies, and Donald Foster's detailed rebuttal of their claims. The regular articles in the issue also report on results of computer-assisted stylistic studies. The articles in this number of CHum are sure to fuel the continued debate over statistical methods, and is of interest to all those involved in authorship and stylistic studies as well as statistical methods for language analysis generally. --------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 30 No. 3 1996 Table of Contents ----------------- DEBATES IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING: Methodology in Authorship Studies And Then There Were None: Winnowing the Shakespeare Claimants Ward E. Y. Elliot and Robert J. Valenza Response to Elliot and Valenza "And Then There were None" Donald W. Foster REGULAR PAPERS Traditional and Emotional Stylometric Analysis of the Songs of Beatles Paul McCartney and John Lennon Cynthia Whissell Tamburlaine Stalks in Henry VI Thomas Merriam *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* INFORMATION ABOUT COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Computers and the Humanities The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Executive, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, please consult http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ or contact: Dieke van Wijnen Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl From: MICHAEL NEUMAN Subject: Humanist in JASIS Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 16:41:39 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 278 (278) Willard, Greetings and a Happy New Year to you in your new home. Just a quick note that Humanist was the subject for a study reported in the January 1997 issue of the Journal for the American Society for Information Science 48 (1) 32-39: Andrew May (UNC, Chapel Hill), Automatic Classification of E-Mail Messages by Message Type. The article is based on an unpublished Master's thesis, and it's interesting to see the text strings the author used to categorize the message texts into four different groups. Cheers, Mike [The Web site of JASIS, at <http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/jasis.html> does not yet reflect the contents of the January issue. Nevertheless, those Humanists unaware of JASIS will want to know about it and will be, I suspect, strongly motivated to find the paper journal by looking at the abstracts online. One could hope for a fully online version, but publishers do somehow need to make a living, until such time as we can figure out how to beat our swords into plowshares. --WM] From: Subject: in touch again Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 279 (279) Dear Colleagues: The failure of a major router, a communications device on the Internet somewhere outside of King's College but in this country, put us out of regular touch from 27 December until about noon yesterday. Thus the problem I complained about in my improperly dressed note from the APA conference site in New York has apparently been fixed. We are reminded meanwhile that we have a long way to go until our shared virtual nervous system can reliably sustain our virtual life even in those small patches of the world to which it extends. Meanwhile as well the birthday of HAL has been celebrated, and according to yesterday's Guardian, in the useful Online section, a commemorative volume is being issued with contributions from the likes of Marvin Minsky and Roger Shank, as I recall. The article about all this announces that the AI folks have given up on attempting to realise the more difficult parts of HAL, which I hope is not true because we can continue to learn important things about ourselves from the continuing failure of AI. I was greatly encouraged by the observation of the author of the Guardian piece that the primary contribution of AI has been precisely this sort of increased self-knowledge. Forgive me for a brief ride on my favourite hobby-horse, but it does seem to me that humanities computing needs to absorb this lesson of the enlightening failures of applied computing. Which is not to say that even in retrospect I am happy about the failure of that router. If our toys don't work we cannot make them fail in interesting ways! Happy New Year. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr.Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: W Schipper Subject: Call for Paper Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 22:31:14 -0330 (NST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 280 (280) Call for Papers The Canadian Society of Medievalists is issuing a second call for papers on any topic in medieval studies for the next meeting of the society to be held during the Learned Societies Congress (4-6 June, 1997), at Memorial University, St John's, Nfld. Send proposals for papers or sessions to the President of the society, Dr Joanne Norman, Dept of English, Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec Or email to: jnorman@hera.ubishops.ca Deadline: 15 January 1997. -- Dr. W. Schipper Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4528 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 From: Paul Richard Blum <106233.1104@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Call for papers Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 03:06:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 281 (281) Der Beitrag der Orden zur Aufklaerungsphilosophie in Mittel- und Osteuropa Call for papers (*English version below*) Die Philosophie der Aufklaerung verstand sich weitgehend als Emanzipation wissenschaftlicher Forschung von religioesen und theologischen Vorgaben. Sie vollzog damit die z.B. im Westfaelischen Frieden von 1648 ausgedrueckte Unterordnung religioeser Belange unter die Interessen des Staates und der Oeffentlichen Ordnung. Die Katholische Kirche hatte im 17. Jahrhundert die Ordensgemeinschaften, allen voran die Jesuiten, zur Rekatholisierung der von der Reformation erfassten Laender eingesetzt. Dies betraf vor allem die Gebiete der damaligen Oesterreichischen Provinz des Jesuitenordens, die von Vilnius im Norden ueber Polen, Boehmen und Ungarn bis nach Ljubljana (Laibach) und Alba Julia (Karlsburg) reichte. Die Orden waren sowohl an der wissenschaftlichen Ausbildung und Forschung an Universitaeten, als auch mit Allgemeinbildung betraut. Mit der Konsolidierung des jeweiligen Staaten eruebrigte sich das gegenreformatorische Programm, andererseits verstaerkten viele Orden ihre Bildungsarbeit. Beispielsweise Benediktiner, Franziskaner, Piaristen beteiligten sich an der philosophischen Diskussion in Universitaeten, Ordenskollegien und Akademien. In Ungarn hatten die katholischen Orden bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts weitgehend ein Monopol auf die allgemeine und wissenschaftliche Bildung. Sie verstanden ihre Aufgabe doppelt: Einerseits galt es die inzwischen veraltete scholastische Philosophie auf den neuen Stand zu bringen, wie er in der Philosophie Christian Wolffs repraesentiert war, andererseits beanspruchten sie die moderne Wissenschaft aus wissenschaftlich-theologischer Sicht kritisch zu befragen, etwa in der Frage der Eucharistie im Zusammenhang mit der Mechanik und dem Atomismus, oder in der Einschraenkung des Anspruchs rationalistischer Philosophie auf natuerliche Theologie. Mehr als jemals in der Zeit der Konfessionalisierung standen die katholischen Philosophen etwa ab der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts mit Denkern aller Laender jenseits der Konfessionsschranken in Kontakt (die Korrespondenzen Mersennes und Leibniz' belegen das). Die Frage stellt sich, worin der spezifische Beitrag katholischer Gelehrter zur Philosophie in allen Verzweigungen bestanden hat. Rudjer Boscovic und Benedikt Stattler, die Benediktiner-Akademie in Bayern sind relativ gut erforschte Themen, wenig bekannt ist dagegen das Geschehen in den Laendern Mittel- und Osteuropas, also in etwa der Einflussbereich Polens und der Habsburger. Willkommen sind Beitraege zur Philosophie im engeren Sinne, zu einzelnen Autoren, zur Institutionengeschichte und zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Der Schwerpunkt sollte auf dem genannten geographischen und politischen Raum liegen, aber repraesentative Beispiele aus anderen Laendern Europas sind moeglich. Die Konferenz soll Ende 1997 stattfinden, und zwar an der Katholischen Peter Pazmany Universitaet Budapest, sie wird von dieser Universitaet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut fuer Philosophie der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und voraussichtlich mit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung organisiert. Fuer weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an: Dr. Paul Richard Blum Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem Egyetem u. 1 H-2081 Piliscsaba Hungary Tel. (0036) 26-375375 e-mail: 106233.1104@compuserve.com ************************************************************** The Contribution of Religious Orders to Enlightenment Philosophy in Central and Eastern Europe Call for papers The Philosophy of Enlightenment intended to emancipate science and scholarship from religious and theological presuppositions, acting thus according to the political rules established in the Peace of Westphalia (1648) which submitted religious affairs to the interest of States and political order. The Catholic Church, however, had committed the religious orders, above all the Jesuits, to 're-catholizing' protestant countries during the 17th century. This was especially effective in the former Austrian Province of the Jesuit Order extending from Vilnius in the North through Poland and Bohemia south to Ljubljana (Laibach) and Alba Julia (Karlsburg). Religious Orders were engaged in education and research at universities as well as schools. After the different States had established their relationship to the denominations, the counterreformation programme was no more needed. On the other hand Benedictines, Franciscans, Piarists and others took part in philosophical debates in universities, colleges and academies. In Hungary e.g. catholic religious orders kept almost a monopoly in general and scholarly education up to the beginning of the 20th century. They had two aims: on the one hand they wanted to renovate the outdated scholastic philosophy according to the new standards set by Christian Wolff, on the other hand they claimed to raise critical questions to modern science, as regards e.g. the Eucharist face to mechanicism and atomism, or against the impact of rationalist thought on natural theology. Much more then during the age of the establishment of the denominations catholic philosophers communicated with intelectuals of all countries with no barrier of denomination (as can be seen in the corresspondances of Leibnitz and Mersenne respectivly). Now the question is: what was the specific contribution of catholic scholars to philosophy and its various branches. Rudjer Boscovic and Benedikt Stattler are rather well known, as well as the Benedictine Academy in Bavaria, little is known about the developement in Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. in the areas of Polish and Habsburg influence. Papers on philosophy in a stricter sense, as well as on individual authors, intitutions and on history of sciences are welcome. Emphasis should be laid on the geographical and political area as described, but useful examples from other European countries are also possible. The conference will be held by the end of 1997 at Peter Pazmany University Budapest, it will be organized by this University, in cooperation with the Philosophy Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and probably with Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Further information can be obtained from: Dr. Paul Richard Blum Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem Egyetem u. 1 H-2081 Piliscsaba Hungary Tel. (0036) 26-375375 e-mail: 106233.1104@compuserve.com _________ From: Subject: Early days of electronic text Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 282 (282) Dear Willard I have just started the writing of my Diss on the application of TEI to historical text, but I find I know very little about the early days of e-text processing. I know that e-text has been around since the sixties, but what could be done with it? ie. how much could it be analysed, using what software etc? I have heard some whispers about SNOBOL, perhaps someone could help me out and tell me what it was and how it worked? I would be also interested to know if HUMANISTS agree with my idea that one of the primary reasons for creating browsable texts today is a desire to make difficult-to-obtain texts more accessible. It is only following this that issues such as retrieval, navigation, viewing and analysis, come into play. This in turn may change how we teach and learn. Do people have other views on this? Happy New Year! Mavis Cournane From: Subject: Re: 10.0543 keyboard problem; on-line lit service? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 283 (283) As one who agrees that IBM's decision to move the function keys to the top is one of the most perverse ideas to torment computer users, I, too, love my left-hand function keys and refuse to buy a keyboard without them. Gatewqy 2000 still sells, I believe, the "Anykey" keyboard with function keys on the left and the top. Try <http://www.gw2k.com/product/product.htm>. David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: Subject: Vewe Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 284 (284) An etext of Edmund Spenser's _A View on the Present Condition of Ireland_ may be found at <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/veue1.html>. It is in three files, to speed loading. Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0557 CHum 30.3; Humanist in JASIS Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 285 (285) Nancy Ide's welcome announcement about the latest issue of "Computers and the Humanities" mentions that CHum is the official journal of the Association of Computers and the Humanities, but tactfully leaves out the detail that members of ACH receive the journal at a substantial discount over the standard subscription rate. I say "tactfully" because it's TOO LATE NOW--those of you who procrastinated joining ACH for 1996 are out of luck. But it's not too late for 1997. Annual membership is $65 US ($55 for students and retirees), including a subscription to CHum for 1997. ACH also sponsors HUMANIST and co-sponsors an international conference on Computers and the Humanities with the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). See the ACH WWWeb page <http://www.ach.org> or contact me for details. Chuck Bush, Treasurer Association for Computers and the Humanities ---------- Charles D. Bush EMail: Chuck_Bush@BYU.EDU Humanities Research Center Chuck@JKHBHRC.BYU.EDU 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Phone: 801-378-7439 Provo, Utah 84602 Fax: 801-378-7313 From: Subject: WVLC-5 CALL FOR PAPERS Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 286 (286) The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5) WHEN: August 18-20, 1997 WHERE: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (August 18, 1997) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (August 20, 1997) WVLC5 will immediately precede ROCLING '97 (Aug 22-24, Taiwan) and IJCAI '97 (Aug 24-29, Nagoya, Japan). This workshop will take place in two consecutive sessions sharing a common program committee and proceedings. Authors may specify at which session(s) they wish to present their papers. SPONSORED BY: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) LEXIS-NEXIS, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer a general international forum for the presentation of new advances and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural language processing. The fifth workshop will focus on the theme of: Innovative and practical uses of large corpora in real-world applications Gigabytes and terabytes of on-line unrestricted natural language text have become commonplace today. How are these resources actually being used in commercial as well as research applications? What robust and efficient techniques exist for analyzing and organizing these resources? The workshop encourages contributions that demonstrate innovative applications of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical commercial importance. The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer a focus for discussion and debate between academic researchers and industrial practitioners. We also expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including (but not limited to) Text Analysis Techniques: - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - morphological analysis - robust parsing - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - sense disambiguation - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure Applications: - information retrieval - information extraction - text categorization and summarization - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction - recognition: speech, OCR, handwriting, etc. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Huang Changning - Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) Ken Church - AT&T Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ, USA) Joe Zhou - LEXIS-NEXIS (Dayton, OH, USA) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "WVLC5@lexis-nexis.com" and must either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or (c) a single latex file following the ACL-97 stylesheet (no separate figures or .bib files). Hard copy submissions should be mailed to Ken Church (address below), and should include four (4) copies of the paper. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission. SCHEDULE: Submission Deadline: April 7, 1997 Notification Date: May 20, 1997 Camera ready copy due: July 1, 1997 CONTACT: Ken Church Joe Zhou Room 2B-421 LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier AT&T Laboratories 9555 Springboro Pike Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA Dayton, OH 45342 USA e-mail: kwc@research.att.com email: joez@lexis-nexis.com From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: RE: 10.0555 early days of e-text? Date: 3 Jan 1997 17:06:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 287 (287) Responding to Mavis Cournane about the Early days of electronic text ... [deleted quotation] A book that I was recently looking at might be of some help (in that it is now - in computing terms - quite old having been published in 1980). 'A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities' by Susan Hockey published by Duckworth in 1980. ISBN 07156 13154 (Cloth), ISBN 07156 13103 (Paper) lists many of the early applications of computing which were then contemporary but which may now be too old-fashioned for today's books. [deleted quotation] Another book to try: 'Computer Programming for the Humanities in SNOBOL4' by Eric Johnson published by Dakota State University Press. Prof. Johnson teaches a course (essentially of the same name) via the Internet - I did it one year, earned 3 credits, and learned enough about SNOBOL to wish for time and the facilities to do more with it. I also have a URL bookmarked in my browser that points to a source of information about SNOBOL (or its SPITBOL variant): http://lands.let.kun.nl/TSpublic/coppen/SNOBOL.html and lastly, figure 4.2.2 in the book 'The Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4' by Ralph E. Griswold (the creator of SNOBOL) is, to my eyes, one of the most aesthetically pleasing diagrams that I know of (just to return to an earlier topic of Humanist discussion!). Cheers Simon _________________________________________________________________________ Simon Rae : S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK Academic Computing Service : The Open University, Walton Hall : phone: (01908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom : fax: (01908) 653744 The URL for the OU's WWW home page is : http://www.open.ac.uk/ From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Snobol Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 08:00:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 288 (288) Dear Willard, I thought the following information might be of interest to members of the list as well as Mavis Courname. Mavis Cournane wrote: [deleted quotation] The SNOBOL/SPITBOL languages were very rich pattern matching languages that allow humanists to write simple yet powerful text processing programs. The SNOBOL/SPITBOL bibliography which I found at: http://feustel.mixi.net/computer/spitbol/spitbol_bib.html may be helpful. SNOBOL was succeeded by the ICON programming language, also by Griswold, and is available free of charge. For more information on ICON, see its homepage http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ . Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu (from http://feustel.mixi.net/computer/spitbol/spitbol_bib.html) Brief SNOBOL/SPITBOL Bibliography Gimpel, Algorithms in SNOBOL4 Griswold & Griswold, SNOBOL4 Primer Griswold, Poage, Polonsky, The SNOBOL4 Programming Language, 2nd Ed. Hockey, SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities Books and papers are available from Catspaw. There is a free public domain version of Macro Snobol for Dos available from the University of Arizona or from Catspaw for $10 + shipping. From: Hans Christophersen Subject: Vademecum in opus Saxonis compendium ex indice verborum Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 03:22:30 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 289 (289) Latin dictionary of Saxonian Latin Vademecum in opus Saxonis compendium ex indice verborum to be found at URL: http://www2.dk-online.dk/users/Christ_H/Latin/saxo.html Founded by Professor Franz Blatt, revised by Reimer Hemmingsen. Saxo Grammaticus (+ ca. 1220) wrote Gesta Danorum in middle age Latin. This dictionary explains middle age words in classical Latin. Feel free to make links to this site. Hans Christophersen From: Willard McCarty Subject: Athenian prosopography Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:56:24 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 290 (290) Prosopographers and classicists will be interested to know about the Web page of the Athenians Project, at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/attica/>. The work of the Project is being published on paper, but the Web site offers the ability to search the growing database. An excellent example of online publishing where it is needed. WM ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 0171 873-2784 / Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: The old ctrl-key position! Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 291 (291) Let me add my two cents to David Hoover's remarks about the function keys on keyboards, which I hate at the top as well! Since I use notabene, so many of my commands require the combined use of ctrl/alt/shift with the f-keys, and I will never give up my keyboard until it's collapsed. But the following is my biggest gripe, and I wonder if anybody else shares it with me: I absolutely hate the decision on the part of keyboard makers to transpose the control key and the caps lock key. I grew up on "Wordstar," believe it or not, and the very handy method it taught me of combining ctrl and a letter character for the arrow functions is with me to this day: I've customized my NB to treat ctrl/e as up one line, ctrl/x as down one line, ctrl/f as forward one word, and so forth. This means that I can type at lightening speed, correcting as I go, never taking my hands off the keyboard or my eyes off the screen to use the arrow keys. Whenever I have to use a wordprocessor that is not notabene, I feel dizzy and clumsy, shifting my hands off the board, looking around for the arrow keys. For this reason I've never been able to get a laptop. Laptops don't allow you to customize the major function keys. Will that ever change? I've been using this system for over twenty years, now, and I suppose I could try to recustomize my keyboard to use the alt key or the ctrl key in its new position, but it's like asking someone to change from qwerty to another system of typing. How many other people are griped by this switch? I use the caps lock key so seldom; I don't know why it should be in this privileged position, but the control key is like my stick shift. Will they ever allow one to customize laptop keyboards? I have been repeatedly told that this is impossible. I was hot to buy the last of the 1019 Toshiba Satellites two years ago, because it was the only laptop I knew of that had the control key in the old position. Alas, it didn't work out. Sarah Higley Associate Professor of English The University of Rochester From: Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS (RIAO97) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 292 (292) (Apologies if you receive this call more than once) ********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada *********************************************************** Brief Description and Themes: Every third year the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes the RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 in Cambridge, MA, USA (MIT); RIAO91 in Barcelona, Spain; and RIAO97 in New York City (Rockefeller University). RIAO conferences, all of which have had printed proceedings, have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. While commercial displays, as such, are not promulgated, the mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both with the potential for advances in product development and sponsorship as well as the initiation of lines for further, critical research investigations. RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, we seek to bring together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of a proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses. Toward these ends the following topics are among those sought for inclusion in conference papers and demonstrations: A: Rapid indexing and retrieval engines; automatic abstracting B: Linguistic tools in information retrieval C: Information retrieval from heterogeneous formats - Identifcation of the same document in different contexts (different languages, structures, versions, etc.) - Unification of documents from heterogeneous formats; data-wharehousing - Data-mining and knowledge discovery in large databases - Search strategies in heterogenous contexts D: Strategies for technology watch on the Web; content addressable electronic mail, newsgroups, and other WWW systems E: Architecture - How to exploit large bandwidth for information retrieval - Distributed multi-agent architectures F: Imaging - Content characterization; manual and automatic description methods - Search strategies G: Sound - Sound content characterization - Automatic indentification of sound type: speech, music, ... - Spoken language recognition; word (boundary) identification H: Multimedia Web interfaces: Iconic, navigational, and speech interfaces I: Content-based compression techniques J: Data security problems: copyright protection, internet crime K: Web-related international conventions and policies ---------------------------- PROGRAM CHAIRS : C. Chrisment (French Chair), L. Devroye (Canadian chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE : =================== J. ARAMBERRI (SP) J.C. BASSANO (F) P. BRUZA (AUS) R. CENCIONI (EEC) D.G. ELLIMAN (UK) C. FLUHR (F) G. GREFENSTETTE (F) J.C. GUEDON (CAN) J. HAN (CAN) D. HARMAN (USA) J.P. HATON (F) U. HEID (D) C. JACQUEMIN (F) G. KIKUI (J) J. KLAVANS (USA) R.R. KORFHAGE (USA) J. H. LEE (KOR) P. LOPISTEGUY (SP) R. MARCUS (USA) B. MERIALDO (F) A. MOFFAT (AUS) J. MOTHE (F) S. H. MYAENG (Kor) T. PRABHAKAR (Ind) S. ROBERTSON (UK) T. SARACEVIC (USA) P. SCHAUBLE (Switz) F. SEBASTIANI (I) A. SEFFAH (CAN) V. SEMENOVA (RUS) S. TOHME (F) R. WILKINSON (Aus) RIAO97 SUBMISSIONS AND CONTACTS: ---------------------------------- Papers should be submitted electronically as attached Postscript or ASCII (maximum 20 pages) files to: riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr or in manuscript form to: RIAO97 C.I.D. 36 bis, rue Ballu F-75009 Paris, France or to: RIAO97 C.A.S.I.S C/O Leon Constantin 25th floor 575 Madison Ave New York, NY 10022 USA Closing date for submission: January 20, 1997 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 1997 Camera-ready copy: May 10, 1997 Conference start date: June 25, 1997 Questions, comments, and intents to attend conference or submit paper or demonstration proposals may also be sent to above addresses. Additional information will be found at conference web page at URL: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS] From: Subject: Early humanities computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 293 (293) In reply to the inquiry from Mavis Cournane regarding early humanities (text) computing, I would like to suggest (as humbly as possible) the article that I wrote for the Encylopedia of Library and Information Science Volume 51, Supplement 14, pp. 151-189. The executive Editor was Allen Kent, and the publisher is Marcel Dekker, New York. Although the copyright is 1993, the article was actually written in the late 1980s (the latest reference is 1988 and I listed Joe Rudman as the contact person for ACH). Only some of the material pertains to text applications, but there is an extensive list of references that may be helpful historically. Bob Robert S. Tannenbaum, Ed.D. 606 / 257 - 2900 office Director, Academic Computing Services 606 / 323 - 1978 fax 128 McVey Hall rst@pop.uky.edu University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0045 From: Germaine Warkentin Subject: keyboard thanks Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:36:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 294 (294) Warmest thanks to all those who sent information about keyboards, even including those who told me to get a mouse! Germaine. ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@chass.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto From: David Hoover Subject: Re: 10.0560 planctus tabulae clavum Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 17:08:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 295 (295) The laptop problem may be intractable, though old DOS users have long reassigned keys using "ANSI.SYS". Unfortunately, Windows doesn't recognize the reassignments. My current Gateway keyboard has the configuration below: F1 F2 ~ ! @ # ......etc. F3 F4 Tab Q W E R T Y.... F5 F6 Caps A S D F.... Lock F7 F8 Shift Z X C V.... F9 F10 Ctrl * Alt Surely only a very strange mind could have thought this up. Fortunately, the keyboard is programmable, so I've been able to switch Ctrl to where Caps Lock was, Alt to where Ctrl was, and Caps Lock to where Alt was. Now my fingers are happy. The key is flexibility. David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: Subject: disciplined training & wild-siding Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 296 (296) "For better or for worse," writes John Van Maanen in Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography, we lack a formal apprenticeship in the trade and perhaps the proper respect for our ancestors and the comfort their representational devices might provide. Without mentors or cohorts, our appreciation and understanding of ethnography comes like a mist that creeps slowly over us while in the library and lingers with us while in the field" (p. xii). How true that last sentence rings for our own practice. One question uppermost in my mind these days is how one might define the next generation of computing humanists, whom we very much need to train, by setting forth the curriculum for a graduate programme and fitting it into the already tightly-populated space occupied by older disciplines. What do we want our successors to have under their belts, subject areas we have acquired by accident and now know the utility of, or those we failed to pick up and regret that we did not? A very useful discussion could be started by our listing the fields with which we think a *properly trained* computing humanist should have passing acquaintance. A few pages further on Van Maanen remarks on the state of anthropology and sociology. I take his remarks to be a useful caution that we understand the socially constructed nature of disciplines. "I recognize," he says, "that both fields are now so thoroughly balkanized into esoteric theory and method groups that to think of either as a single discipline in confident possession of some grail-like paradigm is at best a passing fancy or at worst a power play. The paradigm myth, however, dies more slowly than the post-paradigm reality, for there remain those fieldworkers who still salute a tattered disciplinary flag and rarely venture beyond their traditional campsites" (p. xiv). He goes on to say that to him ethnography is a project that may help unite the severely fragmented fields. Could humanities computing do the same? Another view, less interested in a unification of the disciplines, is articulated in "Semiotics on line", an editorial by Paul Bouissac (French, Toronto) in his Semiotic Review of Books, recently manifested in a well-designed Web site, at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/srb/>. Musing on the suitability of electronic publication for semiotics, he writes, "Psychologists, linguists, philosophers, anthropologists, computer scientists, etc., have... put forward [in SRB] their arguments in favor of increased communication across the artificial boundaries of the twentieth century mapping of human knowledge. ... Some lament the fact that semiotics has not succeeded in establishing itself as a regular discipline. Some proclaim the end of the semiotic venture. But the fact that semiotics remains a vast construction site, haunted by nomads of the mind, should on the contrary be celebrated as the best possible omen for its future. Even if some models, which once were considered the beacons of a new era, lie on the ground like the discarded intellectual toys of another age, the fundamental questions which semiotics has been formulating all along this century have kept all their epistemological vigor and scientific urgency. "[In the context of the narrowly defined disciplines] the relentless curiosity of semioticians, who never felt bound by disciplinary fences, remains a precious commodity of the human mind's quest for understanding and meaning. Most semioticians were wont to 'surf' over epistemological boundaries well before the world wide web became affordable. Their multidisciplinary personal libraries and eclectic bibliographical references, their multiple cross-appointments in various academic territories, their sense of estrangement in any departmental enclosures, bear witness to this consubstantial affinity with a new mode of electronic interaction which ignores gatekeepers and protectionists in the monopolistic transmission, circulation and exchange of ideas. The sclerotic administration of knowledge, the bureaucratization of research and the intellectual confinement which often characterize modern institutions of higher learning may try to harness the resources of the electronic web by posting their complacent self-descriptions. But a click of the mouse can always send these spectres back to the carpeted offices where they have been bred over several centuries of obsessive domestication and discipline. Semiotics has grown on the wild side of the mind, in the interstices and margins of authority. The 'web' frontier provides semiotics with an ideal medium to which the characteristics of its strategies of inquiry seems to be pre-adapted and in which it will undoubtedly thrive." The whole of SRB is well worth keeping an eye on. Specifically, however, I draw much encouragement for our life of agitation on the fringe of established society, in the academic demi-monde, from Bouissac's oration to the "wild side of the mind". Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0567 Call: Internet searching Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 297 (297) UNIVERSITY OF EXETER FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS September 21 - 23 1997 Conference on Theory and Practice of MultiMedia in CALL This will be the seventh conference to be held in Exeter on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. The proceedings have been published and bear witness to the important discoveries and research into this important area of modern education. If we are to work together and share our knowledge, an occasion such as the next conference provides a wonderful forum for us to do so. The estimated cost, with en-suite accommodation in the new Postgraduate Centre, centrally situated on the University campus, for full board and Conference fee is 125 pounds sterling- 80 pounds for non-residents. Proposals are invited by February 28 1997 for papers (25 mins) on any aspect of CALL, but, in particular, topics dealing with the theory and use of MultiMedia in CALL. The papers will be considered for eventual publication in the journal, Computer Assisted Language Learning. For further information, please return the form below to : Mrs Daphne Morton, CALL'97 Conference, Department of French,, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK). Tel/FAX: (0)1392 264222 e/mail D.Morton@exeter.ac.uk CALL '97, Exeter, Theory and Practice of MultiMedia in CALL NAME...................................... .......................................... ADDRESS................................... .......................................... .......................................... .......................................... *I wish to attend the CALL conference September 21-23 1997 *Please invoice me *I wish to propose a paper on: *Please send further particulars about the conference ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies, Editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning. An international Journal, (http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html) Exeter French Texts, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm) Exeter Tapes, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html) EUROPA-on line & European Studies Series, (http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm) Elm Bank Modern Language Series (http://www.intellect-net.com/elm-bank) Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, G.B. WWW (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/) Tel: 01392 264221 / + 44 1392 264221 Fax: 01392 264222 / + 44 (19) 1392 264222 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk From: Subject: emblems Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 298 (298) Some Humanists may not know about the fine work with emblems going on at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. William Barker, Mark Feltham, and Jean Guthrie have put online Andrea Alciato's Emblematum liber (Book of Emblems), text in Latin with English translation, and give useful links to related sites. See <http://www.mun.ca/alciato/>. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: E-texts for Russian students Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 299 (299) Yuri Tombatsev, who has been struggling mightily during the current upheaval in Russia to both find work to support his family and to maintain contact with humanists abroad, has asked me to circulate a request for audio tapes with American English to help his students. Anyone who wishes to contribute should address him Aeroport Street 55, Apt. 57, 630021 Novosibirsk 21, Russia (tel. 383.2.28.36.75). Joseph Raben From: Subject: Windows 95 problem Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 300 (300) I express my thanks to the several people who suggested various fixes or work-arounds for my Windows 95 problem: in some applications, selecting options for opening and saving of files will after a time result in no action at all. Unfortunately, some of these suggestions were not relevant, the others have not fixed the problem. The Microsoft site does not help, and the charmingly named "Windows 95 Annoyances", at <http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/> contains no clue. So I am clueless. Those who read my earlier complaint will recall my hypothesis that my troubles have come from moving Win95 from one hard disk to another -- apparently something you're not supposed to do. Actually I like Windows 95 quite a bit, but I do think that forcing you to reinstall the operating system -- AND ALL APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE -- on the new disk is outrageous. Further ideas will be greatly appreciated. I note that as operating systems get more and more sophisticated, their problems come to resemble human psychoses. Sometimes I think my computer needs to see a psychoanalyst. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: disciplined training Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 301 (301) Re "disciplined training & wild-siding" [10.0565, MacCarty], It happens that just in these days I am trying to configure a curriculum for hum. computing in my Faculty (Roma La Sapienza, Lettere). Of course the problems in Italy are different from, say, UK or Canada, but sharing them may prove useful for others. First, we have to be independent form engineers and mathematicians, who try to monopolize the field [e.g. "analysis of literal (sic) texts" in one engineering curriculum...]; thus I avoid the term "computing" [informatica] and I prefer "multimedia", admittedly inflated but with a humanistic flavor. Multimedia means after all any kind of communication (and what is humanities if not communication with the past etc.?) _not on paper and print or ... manuscripture_. I think we also should distinguish between a hum. scholar who employs the new media and somebody whose job is to help him to use them in the best way. This latter is the target of our teaching. For what concerns us, the essential feature of the new media is _automation_. So a first group of disciplines should teach our pupils what really is automation, and how it interacts with traditional methods: one cannot avoid formal logic, Turing machines, formal languages, and all that. Then the pupil should be taught the essential methodologies in the different fields, viz. how a hum. scholar accesses and manipulates sources: texts, artifacts, paintings, etc. He should understand how to formalize such methods, therefore automatize what can be automatized. In this field he will learn encoding problems, use of corpora, DBMS, statistics, etc.; but I would insist in the principles of all this, rather than existing packages, which vary with the day, and are always outdated. Well, this is that for now. Anybody interested? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39.6.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39.6.4991-3945 00185 Roma ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Fraser Subject: CTI Workshop: Strategies for Studying Textual Sources Date: 7th February 1997 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 302 (302) Venue: Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford. Cost: Thirty-Five Pounds (lunch not included) TITLE: FIRST NAME: SURNAME: POSITION: DEPARTMENT: INSTITUTION: ADDRESS: POSTCODE: TELEPHONE: FAX: EMAIL: BRIEFLY DESCRIBE ANY USE YOU HAVE MADE OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS: TOTAL PAYABLE= PAYMENT BY CHEQUE ONLY. PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO "Oxford University Computing Services". WORKSHOPS ARE RESTRICTED TO 20 PLACES. EARLY BOOKING RECOMMENDED. 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For General Information on Project Gutenberg Please send us email at: dircompg@pobox.com From: LDC Office Subject: Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:56:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 305 (305) Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM European Language Newspaper Text The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) announces the availability of a European language text corpus. This corpus includes roughly 100 million words of French, 90 million words of German and 15 million words of Portuguese. The European Language Newspaper Text corpus is composed of news text that has been marked using SGML. The text is taken from the following sources: 1) Approximately 60 million words of text in French and German have been made available from the Associated Press (AP) World Stream. AP World Stream is a compilation of AP news reports produced in 86 bureaus in 68 countries. The Associated Press Worldstream newswire service provides articles in six languages, interleaved on a single data stream. 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It is quite distinct from the AP and AFP materials in its markup approach, because it has been prepared in compliance with the conventions of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), rather than having been based on the model of the TIPSTER collections, which were originally developed prior to the establishment of the TEI conventions. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders of much of the news text, this corpus is available to 1995 and 1996 LDC members only. Members who wish to receive this corpus must sign the European Language News Corpus User agreement. This agreement is available on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. From: Subject: Re: Renaissance fonts Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 306 (306) [The following taken with thanks from FICINO. The font may be downloaded from <http://orathost.cfa.ilstu.edu/shakespeare/ISFfont.html>; it appears to work, although not all ligatures one might expect are there. A curiosity. --WM] Last spring, I downloaded a font based on the Shakespeare First Folio from the Illinois Shakespeare Festival site: http://orathost.cfa.ilstu.edu/isf.html Don't want to be an ingrate, but it wasn't working perfectly at the time (a few problems with ligatures and capitals, I recall); maybe these have been ironed out by now. In any case, it was free... Lawrence Manley Yale University From: Subject: Call for Papers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 307 (307) The Department of Art History at USC is pleased to announce: Expanding the Visual Field A Graduate Student Conference How has recent work on mass culture, sexuality and gender, psychoanalysis, performance, technology, consumerism, race, and colonialism shifted the terms of visual study? "Expanding the Visual Field," a one-day conference at USC, will pursue this question through a series of twenty-minute presentations. The conference will provide a forum for graduate students in art history and related disciplines (e.g. film studies, history, cultural studies, comparative literature, architecture, anthropology, etc.) to present scholarly research and engage in intellectual dialogue with colleagues at other institutions and departments. Students throughout the humanities and social sciences are invited to apply. "Expanding the Visual Field" will be held at the University of Southern California on Friday, April 4, 1997. There will be a respondent for each paper and a panel discussion following the presentations. Abstracts will be printed and available at the symposium. To apply, please submit a 500-word abstract along with a CV or brief professional bio to: Symposium Committee Department of Art History College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences University of Southern California Watt Hall 104 Los Angeles, California 90089-0293 Abstracts must be received by February 7, 1997. Partial funding for travel expenses will be available. For further information, contact: Maite Alvarez: phone (310) 230-7161, fax (310) 230-7213, e mail: MAlvarez@Getty.Edu Prof. Richard Meyer or Andrew Perchuk: phone (213) 740-9571, fax (213) 740-8971. From: David Hoover Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:10:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 308 (308) I believe that your supposition about the movement of Win95 being the source of difficulty is correct. I made the same sort of mistake trying to upgrade from a 1gig to a 1.6gig hard disk. I foolishly thought that I could just install both disks in my computer, copy the smaller one to the bigger one, change which one was the slave and be finished. But I got the same sorts of nasty surprises as you did. What seems to happen if one copies Win95 from one hard disk to another is that it removes itself from the first disk at the same time, leaving information on how to find various programs and documents behind. Naturally, when I removed my old hard disk, the computer would not even boot. Worse yet, it refused to recognize the CD-ROM drive, so it was not a simple matter of reinstalling from the CD-ROM. If I recall correctly, I eventually reworked CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT so that I could access the CD-ROM and reinstalled Win95 on the old disk and the new disk. The programs worked fine without reinstallation because I had duplicated all of them on both systems. Calls to Dell (which was to handle Win95 support) were unproductive. Their advice was to reinstall. It does seem exceptionally perverse (even for Microsoft, and that's saying something!) for there to be no way of adding or replacing a hard disk without completely reinstalling and reconfiguring. Best of luck, David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:03:16 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 309 (309) Maybe we should start a thread of W95 spells and curses. I use it and find it unstable and neurotic (and I'm an ex-clinical psych person). My system rebels 'cause I play games on it--SPQR and Orion II distressed it this Winter Solstice period. Anyhow McCarty, sympathies. DON'T re-install W95; run FirstAid and ScanDisk and Uninstall 4, and when you get tired of that move to NT4. From: "Paul R. Falzer" Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 21:27:58 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 310 (310) Perhaps others made the same recommendation. I hope you received my email message, which contained this suggestion as well. The reinstallation hassle is mitigated considerably by installing applications from a CD ROM. Principally, what seems to be happening is that the line between hardware and software is getting fuzzy -- not by the assertion of something variously called "firmware" or "middleware," but rather by software having specific hardware requirements. So, for instance, Windows 95 wants to know what kind of hard disk you have, how much memory, what kind of video card, etc. This is part and parcel of what's called "plug and play." One underlying message is: don't be installing software that your system can't run. How many people have you heard to complain about the poor performance of Windows applications -- and when you ask them what kind of system they are using, you are amazed that they can run at all? The other message, advanced (ironically) by IBM in its OS/2 version 3.0, is that if you want smooth performance, you must match hardware with software. Microsoft, which by the way is always following someone else's lead, is doing with Windows 95 exactly what IBM tried to do with WARP and, of course, what MacIntosh has been doing for many years. What is Windows 97? It is Windows 95 plus two service packs, available only to OEM's whose hardware complies with MS's specifications. [deleted quotation]Willard, I'd say that your computer's owner needs a course of new age treatment in order to cope with a Microsoft shaped world. See you in group therapy. Paul From: Neil Randall Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 16:27:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 311 (311) Sorry I didn't see the original problem... I agree with your last point, but in my experience the best thing is to reinstall. The reason is Win95's registry: all the paths and variables are stored in the registry for Win95 and the apps. Installing Win95 initially, and the apps afterwards, builds the registry fine. To see the registry, go Start/Run and type regedit - it's pretty opaque. Note that, while it's best to reinstall most of the apps (not all of them - Eudora and PaintShop Pro are fine, for instance), you can install right over top the existing versions of the apps. In other words, you don't need additional disk space, you simply have to reinstall for the sake of creating the registry items. Some programs have a resinstall feature that leaves the existing files as they are and just updates what's missing, including the registry. Unfortunately, most don't, and they laboriously recopy all the files, even though they're simply copying them over top the existing ones. Neil Randall From: David Hoover Subject: Re: 10.0568 chronic Win95 pain Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:44:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 312 (312) I believe that your supposition about the movement of Win95 being the source of difficulty is correct. I made the same sort of mistake trying to upgrade from a 1gig to a 1.6gig hard disk. I foolishly thought that I could just install both disks in my computer, copy the smaller one to the bigger one, change which one was the slave and be finished. But I got the same sorts of nasty surprises as you did. What seems to happen if one copies Win95 from one hard disk to another is that it removes itself from the first disk at the same time, leaving information on how to find various programs and documents behind. Naturally, when I removed my old hard disk, the computer would not even boot. Worse yet, it refused to recognize the CD-ROM drive, so it was not a simple matter of reinstalling from the CD-ROM. If I recall correctly, I eventually reworked CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT so that I could access the CD-ROM and reinstalled Win95 on the old disk and the new disk. The programs worked fine without reinstallation because I had duplicated all of them on both systems. Calls to Dell (which was to handle Win95 support) were unproductive. Their advice was to reinstall. It does seem exceptionally perverse (even for Microsoft, and that's saying something!) for there to be no way of adding or replacing a hard disk without completely reinstalling and reconfiguring. Best of luck, David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: Jim Marchand Subject: History of humanities computing Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 09:52:22 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 313 (313) My favorite history of computing is Stan Augarten, _Bit by Bit. An Illustrated History of Computers_ (NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1984). If Ballantine ever gets on the ball, my forthcoming book, _The Use of the Computer in the Humanities_, has a chapter on the subject. If I mistake not, Bob Kraft was writing on the subject; at least, he was gathering material. I feel that Martin Joos' dissertation (U of Wisconsin, ca. 1940) offers the first real use of the computer. He typed all of Gothic (he borrowed some from Zipf), 54000 words, onto Hollerith punch-cards and counted Gothic words and letters and even syllables by electronic means (if you are old enough, you will remember the old newsreels with the picture of the FBI cards being run through). Programming those things, done by means of a breadboard, was not easy. Next would be Father Busa with the St. Thomas project, etc. etc. How many remember those cute stories of ca. 1948/49 vintage? There was a machine translating the Bible and it translated "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" as "The booze is good, but the meat's gone bad." Or, one translating Russian translated "hydraulic ram" as "water goat". Plus ca change. Jim Marchand. From: Giovanni Adamo Subject: Re: 10.0555 Early days of e-text Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 10:48:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 314 (314) Re: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 555. Dear Willard, I would like to remind that in such cases may prove useful my Bibliografia di Informatica umanistica, (vol. 5 of "Informatica e discipline umanistiche"), Roma, Bulzoni Editore, 1994, xv-420 p. There are many references to the text analysis, from the very beginning of what we call today "humanities computing"; there are moreover several references to the history and computing, including the treatment of the historical sources. Best greetings, Giovanni Adamo ***************************************************************** Dott. Giovanni ADAMO Lessico Intellettuale Europeo - CNR Via Nomentana, 118 00161 ROMA (Italia) Tel. +39-6-86.32.05.27 Fax +39-6-49.91.72.15 adamo@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it http://www.cnr.it/CSLIE/ ***************************************************************** From: David Green Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on Copyright Management Sys= Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:55:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 315 (315) tems NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 10, 1997 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Inter-operable Electronic Copyright Management Systems Friday 21 - Saturday 22 March 1997 Florence, Italy The future of IPR management in networks is currently both under discussion and under development. In Europe and the United States, as well as in Japan and the rest of the world, project groups and technology vendors is busy discussing, developing and refining systems for managing copyright transactions. Unfortunately, this vast amount of activity is largely uncoordinated, with vendors and project groups individually promoting systems that may conflict which will not be in the interests of either right holders or consumers. Specifically, right holders could find themselves dependent on technology vendors and network operators offering non-interoperable systems for the dissemination of copyright material. For the users, a multiplicity of black boxes and associated hard and software to access systems running non-interoperable copyright management systems would be an unreasonable expense. It is therefore proposed, by the COPEARMS, EVA, IESERV and IMPRIMATUR projects, that a major event be held on March 21 and 22, 1997 to address this problem. The present proposal is for an event* with two different components. WHO SHOULD COME? These meetings will be valuable to anyone interested in the technical or operational aspects of electronic copyright management systems should apply to come to these meetings. In particular, technology developers, ECMS project partners, IPR-related technology vendors and of potential users of ECMS systems are particularly encouraged to apply for registration. 1. THE OPEN CONFERENCE - SECURITY & ACCESS FOR MULTIMEDIA SERVICES This event is sponsored by the Information Engineering Programme (DGXIII) as an open concertation meeting held in conjunction with the IMPRIMATUR and COPEARMS Projects (DGIII). It is designed to be of general interest to organisations embarking on the development of multimedia information services and is intended to provide a forum for debate of key business issues in the emerging information society. Attendance is open to any interested party, not only participants in EC sponsored projects, but also the European multimedia industry in general and representatives from the US or Japan. The objective of the event is to provide a series of sessions with specific focus on security, access, and EC sponsored initiatives. Each session will be based around brief presentations and ase study examples followed by a panel discussion and questions. The whole day will be conducted in Plenary session to ensure attendees have an opportunity to gain maximum benefit from attendance. The provisional agenda for the day is as follows: 08:30 - 09:30Registration 09:30-10:30 PLENARY - Chairman Mr. G. Stephenson Chairs welcome: Keynote address: The importance of IPR & Security Case Study: 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 PLENARY - Security 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:30-15:45 PLENARY - Access: Copyright, Licensing 15:45-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-17:00 PLENARY - EC Sponsored Initiatives 17:00 CLOSE 2. SIG ON ECMS INTEROPERABILITY This will be a by invitation only workshop. It will be for any group that has IPR hardware or software under development. This would include both participants in EC sponsored projects, the US and Japanese developers and commercial technology vendors, from Europe, the USA and Japan. The object of the workshop will be to discuss interoperability, to enable information exchange and finally to facilitate software tool trading. It is proposed that the meeting last an entire day, conducted through presentations and parallel workshops, each on specific issue (see below). The meeting should be conducted on a basis of some confidentiality to encourage developers to share information in a more liberal fashion. The SIG will in particular address issues related to data interchange between Electronic Copyright Management Systems and the real world. Indeed, the objective is to facilitate the access of the user of ECMS to different services in an open environment, while preserving security. The following issues will be dealt with: * Interoperability between ECMSs developed independently from each other on the basis of specific business models which trade off security level against cost * A standard format for describing electronic contracts. Such a format would form a common ground of clauses of electronic contracts and be valuable for any ECMS * The need for gateways for exchanging data with external payment services (e.g. e-cash) and with TTP servers (proofs of transaction, directory of names, management of public encrypting keys). To discuss this issue, organisations concerned with Standard for Electronic Transactions - SET - should be involved such as banks, credit cards companies, manufacturers of smart cards. Gateways should give access to existing or foreseeable services such as certification infrastructures. * A standard classification and codification of data tattooing techniques to be processed by an ECMS (recognition of watermarks, recognition of labels, computation of digital signatures, etc.). This would interest many vendors as a lot of products are coming to the market. The SIG agenda is as follows: 8.30-9.30 Registration 9.30-10.00 Plenary session with a keynote speaker on the interoperability topic 10.00-10.30 Coffee break 10.30-12.30 Parallel sessions - Interoperability between ECMS - Standard format for electronic contracts - Need for gateways with services and TTP - Standard classification of data tattooing techniques 12.30-14.00 Lunch 14.30-15.30 Parallel sessions (continued) 15.30-16.00 Coffee break 16.00-16.50 Plenary session: reports from parallel sessions 17.00-17.30 Plenary session: conclusion of the SIG and public presentation of EVA EC supported projects REGISTRATION DETAILS Both Days - 125 ECUs (160 US Dollars) Day 1 only - 80 ECUs (110 US Dollars) Day 2 only - 60 ECUs (80 US Dollars) DISCOUNT FOR CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Both Days - 65 ECUs (85 US Dollars) Day 1 only - 40 ECUs ( 50 Dollars) Day 2 only - 30 ECUs (40 US Dollars) (Conversion date for ECU to National Currencies - January 1 1997) DISCOUNT FOR INFORMATION ENGINEERING PROJECTS as for cultural and educational institutions Registrations forms should be sent to: Vasari Enterprises Ltd. Alexander House 50 Station Road Aldershot GU11 1BG UK Phone : 44 1252 350780 Fax : 44 1252 342039 Email :jamesrhemsley@cix.compulink.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM FLORENCE CONFERENCE ON INTER-OPERABLE ECMS Title ____________________________________________________ Surname ____________________First Name __________________ Name ____________________________________________________ Organisation _____________________________________________ Job Title __________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Post Code _______________________ Country _________________ Phone ____________________________________________________ Fax ______________________________________________________ Email ____________________________________________________ Principal activity of your organisation (Please tick one) Commercial/Government ______________ Cultural/Educational __________________ METHODS OF PAYMENT N.B. Payments must be made in full and received by 14th March Type of Registration (Ordinary or Discount) ___________________ Both Days _________________ Day One Only _____________ Day Two Only _____________ Total Payable ______________ Cheque/Bank Draft enclosed : ________________________to VASARI ltd. Please charge my Credit Card (delete as necessary) Visa/Mastercard/American Express/ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Card Holders Name _____________________________________ Expiry Date _____________________________________ Signature _____________________________________ Card Bill Address if different from above Amount _____________________________________ *This event forms part of EVA Florence. From: David Green Subject: NINCH Newsletter #5 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:53:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 316 (316) N I N C H Networked Cultural Heritage Newsletter No. 5 January 3, 1997 www-ninch.cni.org/news/news.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D A news and information digest for those working to preserve and provide access to cultural heritage resources through networked digital technology. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This newsletter is published through the NINCH-Announce listserv of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. You are welcome to distribute it freely, with due acknowledgments. It is also available in a hyperlinked version on the NINCH web site, within two days of publication. S U M M A R Y 1. WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PASSES TWO COPYRIGHT TREATIES GOVERNING PROTECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Of three copyright treaties considered by WIPO, a controversial database treaty was rejected, while the other two passed, with some language changes. Library and education delegates had mixed feelings about the results while still strongly objecting to the U.S. Government's strategy of bringing digital copyright issues before a world body before domestic consensus on these issues has been reached. 2. PAUL EVAN PETERS MEMORIAL SERVICE A memorial service for Paul Evan Peters will be held in Washington D.C. on February 18, 1997. Details are forthcoming. 3. BODLEIAN LIBRARY/TOYOTA IMAGING PROJECT Oxford University's Bodleian Library has released its first digital imaging project, a collection of 8,000 images of transport and motoring material from its John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. 4. MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ENCODING A recent conference examined possible routes for developing a scheme to successfully encode medieval manuscripts. 5. NEW STANDARDS FOR WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL Educom's new Instructional Management System will ensure that instructional software developers will have a technical standard that allows modules to be shared among institutions and across a wide range of technical environments. 6. NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AWARDS The Winners of the 1996 NII Awards can be seen at the Awards Web Site. Next year's awards will be global in scope. 7. MUSEUMS ON THE WEB The January/February issue of Museum News, the magazine of the American Association of Museums, has as its lead article a review by experts in the field of the best Museum Web sites. 8. CONFERENCES NINCH now has a community calendar listing conferences and other events at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/calendar.html>. Two conferences recently noted: * Digital Resources in the Humanities: Oxford, September 14-17. * Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM97): Paris, September 1-5 ----------------------------- WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PASSES TWO COPYRIGHT TREATIES GOVERNING PROTECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES Library and other nonprofit cultural heritage representatives returned with mixed feelings from the recent WIPO Meeting that concluded in Geneva on December 20. Most were immediately relieved that a proposed treaty for a new system of database protection (beyond copyright) was defeated. This had an extremely loose and broad definition of what a database was and was seen by many as a potential major obstacle to future free access to public domain material. The proposed protection was over and beyond copyright protection for "compilations of data or other material, in any form, which by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual creations," included in the new Copyright Treaty under Article 5. Although the two other treaties passed (for "the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works" and for the "Protection of The Rights of Performers and Producers of Phonograms") there was sufficient emendation of the treaty language to make library representatives feel there was an acceptable movement towards a fair balance of interests. A press release issued December 24 by the American Library Association cited legal counsel Adam Eisgrau's sense that the treaties recognized the necessity of the extension of limits on copyright, including fair use, into the digital environment. Although Article 10 of the Copyright Treaty allows nations signing the treaty to include limitations to copyright (e.g. the US "Fair Use" understanding), this does not change the essential objection of many groups to the strategy of considering international copyright protection of digital material before there has been any widespread discussion and successful domestic legislation of such protection. The treaties now face ratification by the United States Senate before they could be applied in the U.S. Meanwhile the domestic NII Copyright Protection Act will also be under consideration. Full text of the treaties is available on the NINCH Web site <http://www-ninch.cni.org/NEWS/NEWS.HTML#WIPO>. ----------------------- PAUL EVAN PETERS MEMORIAL SERVICE Plans are underway for a Washington D.C. memorial service for Paul Evan Peters. The service will be held on February 18, 1997, during the period when many in the field will be in Washington for the ALA Midwinter meeting. The time and location have not yet been finalized, but this newsletter will bring you details when available. ----------------------- BODLEIAN LIBRARY/TOYOTA IMAGING PROJECT Oxford University's Bodleian Library has released its first digital imaging project, a collection of 8,000 images of transport and motoring material from its John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. The Collection as a whole is one of the largest and most important collections of printed ephemera anywhere in the world, containing over a million items in 700 subject headings, from 1508 to the present. The Bodleian Library/Toyota Imaging Project <http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/toyota/> focuses on 15 boxes of Motor Car material, but much other transportation imagery is included. Bibliographic material has been encoded using SGML and is conformant to the Text Encoding Initiative's scheme; the SGML records are converted to HTML for display on the Web. Visitors can browse the material by topics as well as search by key words. ----------------------- MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ENCODING Issues and problems surrounding the question of how to encode medieval manuscripts (through the Text Encoding Initiative, the Encoding Archival Description or a combination of both?) led Peter Robinson and Hope Mayo to organize a conference this fall to consider what next to do. Lou Burnard, of the Oxford University's Computing Services, has posted an interim, personal account of the weekend conference held at Studley Priory, in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside. His account is available at <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/reports/9611stud.htm>. Briefly, the meeting moved from reports of current practices through demonstrations of related digital projects and presentations on MARC, TEI, EAD and the Dublin Core to a collaborative identification of a key set of descriptive categories that could be used in an SGML markup of medieval manuscripts. Next steps will involve considering whether to map these categories against MARC, TEI and EAD, for example, or to produce a new set of guidelines. Details about an official report on the meeting will be forthcoming. ----------------------- NEW STANDARDS FOR WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL As part of its National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), Educom recently announced a new project, the Instructional Management System (IMS). It will provide a set of higher-order standards and tools to enable software developers, teachers and learners, to create, manage and access the use of Web-based instructional software. The project will ensure that instructional software developers will have a technical standard that allows modules to be shared among institutions and across a wide range of technical environments. For more information see <http://www.iat.unc.edu/nlii/dcms/techmtng>. ----------------------- NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AWARDS The National Information Infrastructure Awards for 1996 can be seen at <http://www.gii-awards.com>. The awards are sponsored by government, industry and community organizations and leaders and recognize "superior accomplishment in applications of the Internet and information highway." The winning sites are: * Arts & Entertainment: CitySpace: Network Social Space of the Future <http://cityspace.org> * Business: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition <http://wsj.com> Children: Faces of Adoption: America's Waiting Children <http://www.adopt.org/adopt> * Community: Charlotte's Web <http://www.charweb.org> * Education: The Jason VII Project Undersea Internet Site <http://aquarius.eds.com> * Government: NSF Fastlane Project <http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov> * Health: Applied Informatics--Using the NII to Coordinate Healthcare <http://www.cpmc.columbia.edu/appldinf * Next Generation: Starbright World <http://starbright.org> * ATT NII Telecollaboration: Electronic Cafe International <http://www.ecafe.com> * USPS NII Public Access: EPA.NET--East Palo Alto Gets Plugged In In 1997 this awards program will go global to recognize achievements worldw= ide. ----------------------- MUSEUMS ON THE WEB In its January/February issue, Museum News, the magazine of the American Association of Museums, gathers seven experts in the field to describe the qualities that make for an outstanding museum Web site. Maxwell Anderson, Ann Mintz, Diane Zorich, Stephen Borysewicz, Scott Sayre, Katherine Jones-Garmil and Steve Dietz describe their top five choices that exemplify those qualities. The best first call for those interested in seeing Museums on the Web is the Art Museum Network <http://www.amn.org> produced by the Association of Art Museum Directors. ----------------------- CONFERENCES Please note that NINCH now has a Calendar of relevant conferences available on its web site <http://www-ninch.cni.org/calendar.html>. Please consult the Calendar and email David Green (david@cni.org) with any additions. These two conferences are of particular note: 1. DRH'97 (Oxford, England; Sept. 14-17, 1997) Following the successful DRH'96, Digital Resources in the Humanities '97 <http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97> will be held at St. Anne's College, Oxford, Sept.14-17, under the rubric of "bringing together the creators, users, distributors and custodians of digital resources in the humanities." This year it widens its catchment area by inviting not only scholars and teachers but also publishers, archivists, librarians, curators, art historians and others "wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship." Proposals are invited for papers, panels and reports on work in progress. Abstracts (1500-2,000 words) are due April 7; final versions (2-4,000 words) will be required by July 7. Themes will include: the creation and integration of digital resources; policies and strategies for commercial and non-commercial electronic delivery; cataloging and metadata aspects of resource discovery; pedagogic implications of digital resources and electronic delivery; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. The conference costs =A3225, which includes lunches and dinners. On-campus accommodation will be available at =A345 for ensuite rooms and =A330 for study/bedrooms with shared bathrooms. See the website for further details and updates. 2. ICHIM97 @ LOUVRE.FR. Sept. 1-5, 1997 The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums (ICHIM97) will be held at the Louvre in Paris, September 1-5, 1997. The focus will be on ways in which hypermedia and interactive experiences can enhance museum visits and museum publications as well as serve as the foundation for enhanced curatorship and scientific research. Proposals for papers, sessions (1.5 or 3 hours) are due January 30, 1997. Final versions are due May 15, in either French or English. Papers will be published in an edited trade paperback edition. Themes will include: Museum Content; Hypermedia Design; Interactive Publications; Installations; Museum Applications; Evaluation; Collaboration; Legal and Societal Impacts, including copyright, visual literacy & mediacy, the concept of museums, economic models, training, etc. A web site with conference details will be available in January 1997 at www.archimuse.com/ichim97. Contact David Bearman, Conference Organizer, dbear@archimuse.com ----------------------- From: Subject: Computers & Texts 13 Online & Call for Articles Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 317 (317) I am pleased to announce that Computers & Texts 13 is now available online. Computers & Texts is the journal/newsletter of CTI Textual Studies. The URL is: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/ TABLE OF CONTENTS Alan Ford & Barbara Watson, Using Hypertext to Teach the New Testament Peter Stokes & Willim Stokes, Pedagogy, Power, Politics Joel English, Metacognition in the Computer-Mediated Classroom: A New Advantage Dan Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Service Toby Burrows, Using DynaWeb to Deliver Large Full-Text Databases in the Humanities Sarah Porter, CommonSpace: A Collaborative Working Environment Stuart Lee, Unreal City: A Hypertext Guide to T. S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland' Geoff Ridden, The BookWorm Student Library: Romeo & Juliet Michael Fraser, Greek and Hebrew Tutors on CD-ROM Sioban Dillon, A Field Guide to 21st Century Writing COMPUTERS & TEXTS 14: Call for Articles and Reviews Articles and reviews are invited for the next issue of Computers & Texts, the newsletter of CTI Textual Studies. Articles may concern any aspect of the use of computers in the teaching of the disciplines we support (literature in all languages, linguistics, theology, classics, philosophy, film studies, theatre arts and drama). We especially welcome reviews and case studies of computer resources currently being used in the classroom. Reviews of relevant books and conference reports are also welcome. All contributions for Computers & Texts 14 should reach the Centre by February 28th 1997. Submissions may be made by electronic mail to ctitext@oucs.ox.ac.uk or mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk. Submissions on paper should be sent to the Centre together with an electronic version of the document (and any image files) on a 3.5" disk. Articles should not normally exceed 2,500 words and reviews should be between 500-1000 words. If you feel it necessary to exceed these limits please contact the Centre prior to submitting your work. Please note that we reserve the right to shorten contributions where necessary. Contributions will appear in both the print and electronic editions of Computers & Texts. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk CTI Centre for Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/ Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: early computing, etc. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 318 (318) I feel as though I may be speaking too soon, again, before the thought is fully formulated, but it is consistent with others that have occurred to me recently, common theme being clutteration engendered by two many different ingenious techniques contrived to accomplish the same function: in this case, to set Greek down on the computer screen. Way back in the earlier seventies, as a research assistant I keypunched the _Medea_ onto computer cards while down the coast a ways UCI hit the news with the million-dollar grant they received to begin work on TLG. Even then I was elated by the idea of being able to search through all of Greek (and Latin) literature by means of simple pressing a few keys. It's still so complicated, though, and expensive, twenty-odd years later. Perhaps because there is not enough money to invest in the research. As usual, there are other priorities and people don't understand the importance of this facility. I don't understand why it should still be so difficult to type Greek onto a computer screen, read Greek on a screen from someone else's disks, access the literature and search it (pace TLG and Perseus, etc., I'm delighted they exist). I think we need one Greek font that will work with all programs, both at the input and reception levels. If this exists, great, but why is it not in universal use? I have a feeling it would be quite easy to create, even something applicable to both PC and MAC programs. I would like to see TLG and Perseus, etc., in more accessible, less expensive forms adaptible to any PC or MAC. Just wishful thinking. With all that we've accomplished technologically, I wish we were farther along in these areas. We have progressed from the most complex programming simply to word-process a page of regular text (remember the old Tandy processing programs of the early eighties?); so it's possible in ancient Greek also. And if the work is already being done, bravo; I just haven't heard about it. Marta Steele Comments and opinions expressed are strictly my own and do not reflect the opinions, attitudes, or viewpoints of my employers. From: "Robert L. Maxwell" Subject: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:51:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 319 (319) [deleted quotation] Actually, I only just had a chance to read the "other" Barker article in the New Yorker about the San Francisco PL's extraordiary (to say the least) weeding program. It looks as though if anyone pulls the plug not only will there not be any catalogue, but no books to look at either. Someone called exlibris's attention to the Barker New Yorker article a month or so ago, but there was little discussion of it that I can remember. I understand that Barker's activities in San Francisco have been controversial and possibly his article was one-sided; however, this question of how to deal with technocrats who feel that the book is obsolete and existing examples are junk that are just cluttering up the space in libraries is a real one whatever the actual facts of the SF case (surely we have all met such people), and one which I think needs very much to be addressed and thought about by the exlibris community. I understand we had problems getting funding for an expansion of our library because "why do they need more space? everything's electronic now anyway ..." (I actually overheard this exact conversation on campus one morning. Thankfully, the much-needed space is coming, anyway.) In moments of deep paranoia I fear that future ages may look at our own time as a dark ages because (a) we junked the physical evidence of our civilization, and (b) by then the electrons will have either disappeared or will be unreadable. A professor of mine used to like to say "The only thing dark about the "Dark Ages" is your knowledge of it." Will our age appear dark because no one knows anything about it--through our own destruction of the evidence? Does anyone have any thoughts? Also, can anyone tell us more about the situation at the SF PL? Bob Maxwell =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Robert L. Maxwell Special Collections and Ancient Languages cataloger 6428 Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 (801) 378-5568 robert_maxwell@byu.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: "Peter C. Herman" Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:25:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 320 (320) I think that Roger Kuin is absoloutely right that we need to take this problem very seriously, and in light of my recent experience with Emory University, I doubt that his article is very much off the mark. Emory, like so many other libraries, has thrown out its card catalogue and now has everything on-line. While doing the revisions to my book, I needed to look at a copy of Tyndale's response to More that his republished in the Parker Society series. Now, I knew that Emory had this book (along with the rest of this series) as I had taken it out before. How had I found the original reference: the card catalogue. But, when I looked this up in the on-line catalogue, no such reference. So, I went up to the stacks, pulled the book out, and immediately informed the relevant authorities. I have to say that they were duly appreciative and contrite, but they also mentioned that they expected the online catalogue to miss 1% of the books (1% of two million is still alot of books) and they were relying on library patrons to find the lost books. What scares me is that if I didn't know that Emory had this book, I would have just assumed that they didn't and proceeded accordingly. What also scares me is that the people running our libraries have no committment to the preservation and increase of the written word, and furthermore, assume that on-line is the panacea to everything. One wonders if they have ever tried to read a dense, 35 p. article on-line. Further furthermore, we are increasingly reliant on a system that is anything but reliable. I don't know about anybody else, but the servers at my institution crash with alarming regularity. Peter C. Herman From: David M Levy Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:42:40 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 321 (321) Fortunately, the library reference people at the Library of Congress are *very* fond of the physical card catalog. In the last few months, technical questions about 19th c publications have been answered with "have you looked at the card catalog?" The physical card catalog is easy to access and it has information which has not been moved to the computer. Indeed, if you read the electronic catalog -- locis.loc.gov -- you'll see that PREMARC -- the e-version of the physical cards -- is not warranted to be bug free. Don Knuth pays $1 for each bug report for *Art of Computer Programming*. If LC had that policy on PREMARK I wouldn't have to pack my lunch. David M. Levy Center for Study of Public Choice George Mason University Fairfax VA 22030 703-993-2319 (fax) 703-993-2323 From: Thomas Izbicki Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:52:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 322 (322) As a professional librarian, I want to say a few things about the San Francisco PL doings. 1. Catalogues Frankly, I have no great use for card catalogues as such, since they involve running around the cabinets following leads; but I was really annoyed when we threw ours out - since it is the only backup which does not depend on electricity. 2. Weeding A public library may find itself forced to weed, but too often the books of enduring value get weeded to make way for pulp fiction, which is not kept long either. The public needs access to solid information & works of enduring value. One of our students started worrying about academic libraries doing the same, but most of our institutions deal with space problems by going to off-site shelving, not casually discarding volumes. 3. The future of paper I think paper is likely to stay long term, but delivery of text is likely to change - printing being done at point of use, rather than at a remote site. Tom Izbicki From: BGECKLE@UBMAIL.UBALT.EDU Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:04:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 323 (323) As a library employee I feel I must respond to Peter Herman's statement: [deleted quotation] It should be noted that there are different points of view within the library world concerning card catalogs and online systems. I actually am an advocate in the library where I work of maintaining a backup (shelflist cards) for our online system and have questioned other libraries who have discarded all of their printed records of their holdings. However, I believe Dr. Herman's statements are a bit extreme and feel I must defend the on-line system and library personel. I believe most of those working in this field are committed to the written word and are actually working to maintain access to it. The on-line format provides much more flexibility for patrons to find what they are looking for (e.g. word searches) and information about the items status (shelf status) as well. It is unfortunate that some holdings are not found on an online system. However, no system is perfect, including card catalogs. In addition, the use of on-line catalogs and online full-text documents are very different topics. I agree that reading on-line is difficult and I prefer text on paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Beverly J. Geckle "...thought's the slave Technical Services of life, and life time's University of Baltimore Law Library fool." bgeckle@ubmail.ubalt.edu Henry IV, part i From: "Peter C. Herman" Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) (fwd) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:48:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 324 (324) At 03:04 PM 1/9/97 -0500, you wrote: [deleted quotation] I apologize for the over-statement. I should have written, "alot of the people running our libraries . . .," and added that much of the impetus for this comes from many within administration. Peter C. Herman From: "Heinrich C. Kuhn" Subject: Re: Technocrats (was Re: Libraries in The Economist) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 08:36:51 -0800 in the message X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 325 (325) [deleted quotation] When starting my job here, I came accross views like that as well. Heartily agreeing in principle that yes..., of course..., nobody who gets his views on developments in the world of publishing and libraries from certain daylies and weeklies would object to this..., the crystall ball looked into certainly shows the right picture..., electronic publishing *is* the future, ... and then adding some lines on the time that was necessary for the transition of the mode of difussion of texts from manuscripts to printed texts, seems to help ... . At least sometimes ... . Heinrich C. Kuhn +--------------------------------------------------------- ! Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn (coordinator libraries &c.) ! Max-Planck-Gesellschaft / Generalverwaltung IIb3 ! Postfach 10 10 62 / D-80084 Muenchen ! T: +49-89-2108 1565 / F: +49-89-2108 1565 ! eMail: hck@ipp-garching.mpg.de, kuhn@mpg-gv.mpg.de From: David Green Subject: Re: 10.0492 Schloenforff's Man on Horseback? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:20:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 326 (326) I would suggest as a first stop New York's Museum of Television and Radio <http://www.mtr.org./research.htm> (212) 621-6662, which has a remarkable collection of British material. They also have a co-equal institution in Los Angeles: (310) 786-1036. [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax From: "Robert M. Fowler" Subject: chronic pain Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:41:47 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 327 (327) [deleted quotation] I don't know whether to laugh or cry. What a nightmare! And to think that 90% of the computer world is willing to put up with such nonsense! It must be pointed out that the nightmare scenario described here is all but non-existent for Mac users. With a Macintosh, you _can_ just plug an extra harddrive into your Mac and merrily copy files from one drive to the other. I'd be a little nervous about copying operating system files in this manner---I think it's best to install an OS from scratch on any computer or on any hard drive---but in general, with the Mac, you can just 'plug and play' additional harddrives, CD drives, printers, scanners, etc. Why anyone puts up with with an OS that requires editing AUTOEXEC.BAT files is beyond me. Mac users don't have to give a moment's thought to such arcane matters! I weep when people suffer chronic pain needlessly. I also weep when I awake from my own, personal nightmare, in which my beloved Mac has been taken away, and a wretched Windows machine has usurped its place. Bob Fowler *************************************************************** * Robert M. Fowler * * Professor and Chairperson, Department of Religion * * Baldwin-Wallace College, 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 * * rfowler@baldwinw.edu http://www2.baldwinw.edu/~rfowler * * 216-826-2173 (office) 216-826-3264 (fax) * * NOTE NEW AREA CODE (440) EFFECTIVE JULY 1997 * *************************************************************** From: Subject: a Web miscellany Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 328 (328) Items noted in today's Guardian newspaper, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Online section, <http://online.guardian.co.uk>, that may be of interest to Humanists. Most of the following in fact is well presented at the Guardian site, so a simple bookmark to this is sufficient. Humane applications of computing (1) "The smart spec enterprise" (p. 5), about a prosthetic device now under development to help the partially sighted. It consists of a computer worn on the belt and connected to a virtual-reality headset. If the only argument we had for computing was that it extended the abilities of physically impaired individuals, it would be enough, yes? Politics and human rights (1) Arm the Spirit, an anti-imperialist group from Toronto, Canada (!), has created a Solidarity Page for the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), which is holding hostages in Peru, at <http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/mrta.htm>. See also the news links by Mario Profaca, Zagreb, Croatia, at <http://www.hr/mprofaca/news086.html>. I think of various political events in the late 1960s and how strenuous were the efforts to distribute and to suppress information of this kind. The world will never be the same again -- unless someone very clever can figure out how to clamp down on the Internet. Technical matters (1) New security for the Web. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) has developed a tool that removes information smuggled onto a surfer's computer by a Web site the person has visited. The tool is "PGPcookie.cutter, a browser plug-in that provides greater anonymity to individuals while browsing the World Wide Web by selectively blocking Web "Cookies." Cookies are data files created by Web servers and stored on a user's computer to record the trail of Web sites visited, online purchases, electronic transactions and private information." See <http://www.pgp.com/>. (2) An attempt to address the problem of "spamming" by e-mail, described at <http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/spam-filter.html">. Curiosities (1) A cinnamon bun that looks like Mother Teresa can be viewed at <http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/>. It was found by chance at the Bongo Java Coffee Shop in Nashville, Tennessee, US. (2) A great Shockwave-enhanced Web site to promote the drinking of milk, at <http://www.whymilk.com/>. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Cultural Production of Bodily Technology Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 329 (329) The following was sent to me by Scott Jordan, apparently an historian of science and technology. It raises some interesting points that at least a few Humanists will find amusing. WM ----- The Cultural Production of Bodily Technology Recent work in cultural studies has thoroughly discredited the notion that scientific and technological knowledge has an essentialist character to it. This is best expressed in the words of the French theoretician, Jacques Deraison, who recently noted, and I quote, that "the displacement of the self from the center to the periphery is actually a replacement (or "remplacement") of the decultured, and so denatured, Aristotelian essence by the Western cyborg, as exemplified by Julien Offray de Lamettrie's L'homme machine. Put another way, it is precisely the absence of the essentialist presence that transforms circumferences of techno-imaginaries into cultural perimeters." This, of course - and I need not elaborate the point for an audience such as this one - is exactly why the Greek logos is not, indeed for that very reason cannot be, an engine for the hegemonic empowerment of culturally-situated knowledges, such as the mechanically embodied powers (or "puissances") of science itself. However, and here I hope to make my own contribution to this conversazione, we have yet fully to understand that the body is in itself a construction. My aim, in the few moments available, is to rip open this partly-healed scar, to give voice to the stifled screams of an early post-modernity, to empty the effulgent chamber-pots of Western bodily denial and rejection - in short, I intend nothing less than to shake apart the cloying residues of Platonic logo-centrism in the realm of the body. In the words of the great southwestern shaman, Borna Bird, "to understand the worm you must first crawl in the dirt". I turn now to the past - to a place we can never visit, but where we all must forever live. To, in fact, London at the dawn of modernity itself, to a time when the Western body was first constructed. There, late in the 17th century, certain members of the Royal Society (itself of course a construction which embodied and transformed contemporary cultural notions of truth-telling) gave general credence to the maxim that breathing is a desideratum for social propriety. In this setting, for reasons that as yet remain unclear, but which are likely connected to the emergence of novel forms of life in Restoration society, it was widely believed that respectable existence required the provision of air. Of course, as we know from the many studies which have graced the field of cultural studies in recent years, all maxims are matters of social negotation. And so we should naturally expect that the counter-maxim must certainly have been held by some cultural groups. I have spent many years in British archives looking for textual traces of these vanished groups. Although I did uncover a set of coffee-house pamphlets, printed during a very brief period - in fact, there are indications that the pamphlets were all written during a single afternoon - for as yet unknown reasons these groups do not appear to have had a continuing influence upon Restoration culture. One naturally suspects the work here of hegemonic interests who, exercising the prerogatives of power and patronage, deprived the silenced of their voices, and may indeed actually have resorted to physical violence, since there are indications that many of the "anti-breathers", as they were pejoratively denominated, met a swift and unpleasant end. One might indeed even say that "the breath" had become, like Boyle's air pump, an actant on the agonistic field of emergent experimental discourse. Naturally, with breath activated, the body became decentered, as its existential character, qua object (or "objet"), was displaced by its functionalist behavior, qua breather. This, of course, is entirely of a piece with what Michel Foucault so wisely spoke of as "the colligation of bodily modalities in the origins of modernity". To continue, the "breather's maxim" was actually incorporated into a much broader experimental culture. As with Newton's prisms, belief in what one might call the "power of breath" colonized Europe, far beyond the confines of the Royal Society, as English "breathers" carried their skilled practices with them on "grand tours" of the Continent. Indeed, by the end of the 18th century nearly all members of the university-trained classes in England, Scotland and Northern Europe had incorporated breathing-facilitating technologies into their daily social practices and cultural beliefs. By that time, fear of tightly-closed spaces had become widespread, and Scottish fairy-tales, among others, often had cautionary sentences about securing breathing spaces in culturally contested circumstances. Whether this holds true as well for Italy and the Balkans awaits further study, to which I shall devote the remainder of my scholarly career. ----- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: John Unsworth Subject: IATH welcomes Daniel Pitti Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:08:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 330 (330) The Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Virginia(http://www.iath.virginia.edu/) is very pleased to announce that Daniel Pitti will join the IATH staff as Project Director on April 1, 1997. Most recently, Daniel has been the Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley where he was the author or joint author of several Department of Education and National Endowment for the Humanities grant projects working towards providing standardized access to primary resource materials in libraries and archives. In the SGML community, Daniel is well known and highly regarded for his work as coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative, an international collaborative effort to develop a standard Document Type Definition for archival finding aids. He has also supervised the NEH-funded California Heritage Digital Image Access Project, digitizing, describing, and indexing over 25,000 images documenting California history and culture. Daniel is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the American Library Association. The Institute for Advanced Technology supports humanities research projects at the University of Virginia and elsewhere; its work includes substantial applications and innovations in SGML, as well as digital imaging, three-dimensional modeling, database development, and the development and distribution of software for humanities research. Daniel will be a key member of the IATH team, and we look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Ann Okerson Subject: Web Licensing Site Announcement Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:08:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 331 (331) This message has been posted to several relevant lists. 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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION about this work: Ann Okerson Ann.Okerson@yale.edu Fax: 203-432-8527 Ann.Okerson@yale.edu http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/alo.html From: Subject: Research Positions Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 332 (332) TWO RESEARCH POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON ==================================================== The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a dedicated research department whose current programme focuses on 3 areas: computational linguistics and language engineering, computer supported collaborative design, and multimedia and multimodal interfaces. We are looking for well qualified researchers to join our programme. Funding for these positions is available for 3 years. RESEARCH FELLOW IN HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES (HCI) #17,474 - #21,838 Ref: IT914 This post involves research on document design environments which include some of the advanced technologies being developed in the Institute. Examples of these include (multilingual) natural language generation, collaborative writing, guided composition of technical texts and control over constraints on document style and layout. The research fellow will collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams working in these areas and should have a masters degree, a PhD or equivalent experience in HCI. An important aspect of the job will be to help develop a research group on interface design within the Institute, and to seek external funding for continuing this work beyond the initial 3-year period and attracting more staff. RESEARCH OFFICER IN LANGUAGE ENGINEERING #13,834 - #16,739 Ref: IT915 The Research Officer will work on the ICONOCLAST project, which aims to develop a system that generates instructions on how to use software applications. This work extends previous language generation projects within the ITRI by aiming to support constraints on the layout and style of the documents generated. The main responsibility involves collecting and analysing an on-line corpus of software manuals, and meeting with professional technical authors to identify the relevant constraints on document design. A secondary activity will be the design and implementation of the user-interface to the system and possibly the implementation of the constraints. Applicants should have a good honours degree, a masters degree or equivalent experience in linguistics or computer science. This project is funded through a research grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Opportunities for undertaking an MPhil or PhD are available. More information on the work of the ITRI can be obtained on our web site at http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk Further details, including important information about the content of your CV, and application forms are available from the Personnel Department, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4AT, or from our web site at http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/, or on our 24 hour answerphone: (01273) 642849. Please quote the reference number. Closing date: 31 January 1997 From: Subject: Re: 10.0583 reflections on progress Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 333 (333) In response to 10.0583, posted by Marta Steele: [deleted quotation] As in all things, it is a matter of demand; were there a few million native speakers of ancient Greek.... There is a universal character encoding scheme which includes ancient Greek (as well as just about every letter or glyph for all known languages, alive and dead); it's called Unicode, it is an international standard (ISO 10646-1), and there is some impetus, at least in Europe, to implement it. Software developers in the US will probably adopt Unicode if there is enough demand, which, in this increasingly global marketplace, is not a too far remote possibility. I hope. - Gregory Murphy, CETH From: Subject: Museums and the Web - Conference Program Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 334 (334) [deleted quotation] From: Fred Levy Subject: Re: 10.0584 Cultural Production Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:14:13 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 335 (335) Willard: This quite takes my breath away. Fritz Levy On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] ....[remainder deleted]... From: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: 10.0584 Cultural Production Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 18:56:21 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 336 (336) Huh? The Kraken===============end of file=================/;->? From: Subject: Multi HCI Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 337 (337) Willard, The design of space intrigues me because of its import for the interactions made possible and also hindered in the built environment. I recently sat in on a computer applications workshop and I was struck by the layout of the room. A language lab had been equipped with terminials all lined in up in rows. My own subjective opinion rated the quality of the interaction in this milieu as low. My comparator was the memory of settings where the terminals were placed against the walls allowing participants to form a semi-circle to face the larger screen for instruction. I have also sat in lecture halls equipped with e-presentation devices but, of course, without terminals at each place in the audience. I believe the transformed language lab given its poor site lines blocked contact between participants and workshop leader as well as between particpants themselves. I observed less interaction between participants than I did in spaces where the hands-on portion of a workshop was clearly demarcated by an actual turning of the body from the lecture or instruction session. I would like to dub this the "horseshore hypothesis". I suspect there may exist some literature on human-computer interaction in multi-user and multi machine settings. I am sure there are anecdotes to swap. You yourself have introduced many different audiences to computers in many different settings. Any insight as to the most propitious physical setting. -- Francois From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 10.0585 progress & Unicode Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:07:29 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 338 (338) George Murphy's response on progress in the area of fonts that: [deleted quotation] is correct, but fails to indicate what he means by "just about every letter or glyph for all known languages, alive and dead...." Interested humanists might want to visit: http://www.cm.spyglass.com/unicode/standard/unsupported.html for a listing of presently unsupported modern and archaic scripts. Under "archaic and obsolete scripts" the some forty-five languages appear: Ahom, Akkadian Cuneiform, Aramaic, Babylonian Cuneiform, Balinese, Balti, Batak, Brahmi, Buginese, Chola, Cypro-Minoan, Etruscan, Glagolitic, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, Hieroglyphic Hittite, Javanese, Kaithi, Kawi, Khamti, Kharoshthi, Kirat (Limbu), Lahnda, Linear B, Mandaic, Mangyan, Manipuri (Meithei), Meroitic (Kush), Modi, Numidian, Ogham (proposal pending), Pahlavi (Avestan), Phags-pa, Pyu, Old Persian Cuneiform, Phoenician, Northern Runes, Satavahana, Siddham, South Arabian, Sumerian Cuneiform, Syriac, Tagalog, Tagbanuwa, Tircul, and, Ugaritic Cuneiform. While the usefulness of the Unicode standard versus ASCII cannot be disputed, it is also a uniform display standard that may not reflect the nuances of the script in which an ancient text was written. When encoding non-modern texts, I think the better practice is to use defined entity sets (for definition guidelines see the TEI Guidelines implementation of SGML) which are then mapped to Unicode code points where they exist. This preserves the information represented in the original text while using the convenience of Unicode for display. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu From: Jim Marchand Subject: Unicode, etc. Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 10:02:20 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 339 (339) As Pogo put it, "We have met the enemy and he is us." There is absolutely no reason why you cannot type Greek on your computer and see it on your screen; I do it all the time, using WordPerfect 5.1 on an old 386. If you use Windows NT (not Windows 95), you will find that it is Unicode compatible. Gamma Productions, 12625 High Bluff Drive, Suite 218, San Diego, CA 92130, USA, Tel. 619-794-6399, Fax: 619-794-7294, will render your Win95 Unicode (they call theirs UniType) compatile. With Unicode, you can type anything (even Dingbats) on your screen and even send to compatible machines. If you want to know more, see _The Unicode Standard_ 2 vols. The Unicode Consortium (Addison-Wesley, 1991) [I have misplaced vol. 2 temporarily]. There are some good references out there: Peter Kahrel, _Working with Foreign Languages and Characters in WordPerfect (5.1 and WP for Windows)_ (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1992); Nadine Kano, _Developing Interational Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT_ (Microsoft Press, 1995). The problem is that there are so many platforms, programs, etc. which are incompatible each with the other, and there is no standard. If we all adopted Unicode, we could write any writing system in the world; if one is missing, we can add it. This would not be difficult to accomplish, since Unicode is in principle an addressing system. As a bunch, we are too lazy and often indifferent to the needs of other members of our community. Jim Marchand. From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 10.0585 progress & Unicode Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:42:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 340 (340) Some relevant news: IATH has (for some time now) been working on software tentatively called Babble, to display and manipulate Unicode text. Recent developments in the Java programming language have made it possible take what had been a Unix prototype and turn it into working Java software. Babble will *not* be a Unicode editor: instead, its purpose will be to display, search, and manipulate texts which have already been created in Unicode. Babble will provide linked scrolling, linked searching, multiple text display, and some SGML awareness (basically, it will know the difference between what's inside a tag and what's between tags, and it will be able to hide or display tags). As a java application, Babble should run on Macs, Windows95, and Unix platforms. It will use system fonts, so if you don't have a particular font installed, you'll need to get it--but at least for texts distributed from IATH, we will make the necessary fonts available. If you're wondering how to create Unicode texts in the first place, I can offer a couple of pointers. The Duke foreign language computing folks provide a software package called Wincalis, that runs on Windows machines and is a Unicode text editor. More info is at http://www.lang.duke.edu/nogfx/index.htm --but if it's ancient greek that you're interested in, you'll be frustrated by its apparent inability to deal with accented Greek. Wincalis does handle lots of languages, though, and it is reasonably priced. Another software company with Unicode software is Gamma Productions (more info at http://www.gammapro.com/). Right now, the only relevant software they ship is Unitype, which is essentially an overlay for typing alternate character sets into existing Windows word-processing software. Due out soon (watch the web site) though, is a stand-alone Unicode editor called Universe. If you're interested in being apprised of developments in Babble, and/or acting as a beta tester, send email (to me, not to Humanist) and I'll put you on the list. I expect a testable version of Java Babble some time later this semester. IATH has nothing to do with Wincalis or any GammaPro software, so I can't answer questions about Wincalis or Uni*, and the information above is purely that--not an endorsement, just information. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0565 disciplined training & wild-siding Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 341 (341) Willard remarks: [deleted quotation] Text-encoding; digital image preparation and manipulation; fundamentals of library science and information retrieval; theory and practice of textual editing, both electronic and print; principles of graphic design; interface theory and design; electronic poetry and fiction; cyberpunk and edge culture; digital music, the digital arts; introduction to critical/theoretical debates on such matters as cyberspace/virtual reality/multimedia/hypertext/on-line communities; the history of writing; history of the book; history of media forms; history of computing, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications networks; chaos theory and fuzzy logic; practical introduction to Javascript, Java, VRML, Shockwave, and other networked multimedia standards; electronic publishing, in both commercial and academic settings; systems administration and exposure to a programming/scripting language; fundamentals of linguistics and symbolic logic; project management skills; intellectual property and copyright issues; computer-assisted pedagogies. Curriculum for the second semester to follow. --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Subject: Re: The Ethics of Research in Virtual Communities Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 342 (342) (fwd) I thought those on this list might be interested. Ian -- Ian Graham ................................. ian.graham@utoronto.ca Information Commons Tel: 416-978-4548 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-7705 ................. http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/ ..................... [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Fawcett Library update Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 343 (343) FAWCETT LIBRARY - NEWS Many thanks for all the support we have received. Over 350 emails have arrived and we are gradually answering them. They will be edited into a continuous volume. At the same time, some 30 MPs so far have replied and only 2 have expressed no interest. The others have been amazingly supportive with some classic, highly publishable, letters of support from leading women (and men) politicians. This is all very encouraging, and we are extremely grateful to the very many correspondents who have said such wonderful things about the project. However, clouds still gather. On 13 January, as the snows melted in the UK, there was another small flood in the Fawcett. This time, it was caused by a burst water main along the street. There was nothing we could do to stop it because the water came in under the floor of the Library. The Disaster Plan worked immediately and there was absolutely no damage to the books, archives etc. But as the attached notice shows, there was disruption and the Library is, we regret, closed for at least a couple of weeks while damage to the floors are assessed and the books and other collections protected. The issue of humidity is important here, as I am sure Humanist subscribers will know. So, the Library is still intact but the service has been suspended for no longer, we hope, than the end of the month. All this strengthens the case for the new Fawcett library. I will keep you informed of further developments, but also let you know when we have arranged a special internet site for news of the development. With best wishes for 1997 Deian ********************************* Deian R Hopkin Vice Provost London Guildhall University 31 Jewry Street London EC3N 2EY Tel 0171 320 1129 fax 0171 320 3018 hopkin@lgu.ac.uk (home) hopkin@btinternet.com *********************** NOTICE REGARDING THE FAWCETT LIBRARY. The Fawcett Library has been temporarily closed to personal visitors, due to flooding caused by a burst water main in Tyne Street, the street adjacent to the Library. There has been no damage to library materials, but repairs and refurbishments to the fabric of the building will have to be carried out before we can re-open again to personal visitors. We will let you know as soon as possible when the Library will re-open. In the meantime, our enquiry service is operating normally. Please contact us as follows: The Fawcett Library London Guildhall University Calcutta House Old Castle Street London E1 7NT Telephone 0171-320 1189 Fax 0171-320 1188 Email doughan@lgu.ac.uk From: Subject: Re: 10.0392 Project Gutenberg news Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 344 (344) [The following is from a man who recently asked to be taken off Humanist. When I enquired whether there was something wrong with us, he sent this response. I pass it on to you, because I think the "you" in his message should be read as 2nd person plural. --WM] Thank you for your generous commitment of time and effort to this project. It is much appreciated. I am terribly sorry I cannot keep up. Best wishes for the near year. Don Cress ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Donald A. Cress (815)-753-1066 office voice Professor, Department of Philosophy (815)-753-7950 office fax Associate Dean, Coll. of Lib. Arts & Sci. (630)-584-5804 home voice/fax Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: "Alan B. Howard" Subject: Training computing Humanists Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:22:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 345 (345) In response to Matthew Krschenbaum's question about how we train the next generation of computing humanists: Since Matthew is a colleague of mine here at the University of Virginia and since we have plenty of opportunities to discuss this important question face to face, I'm just taking advantage of his posting to point to what I think is a small, preliminary answer to his question, AS@UVA, the virtual space for the American Studies Programs at UVA. http://xroads.virginia.edu This space reflects the attempt over the past two years to integrate learning in the humanities and the new technologies for both undergraduate and graduate (M.A.) students. For a brief history/rationale of the program linked to samples of its products go to: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~AS@UVA/virtreal.html This program certainly doesn't accomplish all of the tasks on Matthew's very long list of things that need to be done by a comprehensive training regimen, but I think it is succeeding in teaching students how to think about the humanities through the technology, student satisfaction is very high, and students are being hired as information managers, online editors, webmasters, etc. at some very respectable places -- including museums, universities, governmental agencies and not-for-profits. Alan From: Willard McCarty Subject: disciplined training Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:20:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 346 (346) In Humanist 10.592, Matt Kirschenbaum helpfully lists the subject areas with which a well-trained computing humanist should have more than passing acquaintance, to wit: 1 text-encoding; digital image preparation and manipulation; 2 fundamentals of library science and information retrieval; 3 theory and practice of textual editing, both electronic and print; 4 principles of graphic design; 5 interface theory and design; 6 electronic poetry and fiction; 7 cyberpunk and edge culture; 8 digital music, the digital arts; 9 introduction to critical/theoretical debates on such matters as cyberspace/virtual reality/multimedia/hypertext/on-line communities; 10 the history of writing; 11 history of the book; 12 history of media forms; 13 history of computing, artificial intelligence, and telecommunications networks; 14 chaos theory and fuzzy logic; 15 practical introduction to Javascript, Java, VRML, Shockwave, and other networked multimedia standards; 16 electronic publishing, in both commercial and academic settings; 17 systems administration and exposure to a programming/scripting language; 18 fundamentals of linguistics and symbolic logic; 19 project management skills; 20 intellectual property and copyright issues; 21 computer-assisted pedagogies He promises a "curriculum for second semester" with, I assume, tongue firmly in cheek. He is dreaming (aren't you, Matt?) of such students and circumstances for learning that we all dream of, or at least those of us worth our salt. I'm afraid I'm trying to be practical, and so to select from this or a longer list a subset of topics that could form a reasonable MA programme, on the assumption that most of the incoming students would have little more than wordprocessing. I'm asking, what would your selection be, and how would you organise the topics into 3-5 courses a student could complete in a year? I haven't yet asked the question of whether a PhD programme in humanities computing is a good idea and what it might look like. Let's get the MA clear first. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0589 design of space Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 347 (347) At 10:24 PM +0000 1/14/97, Francois Lachance wrote: [deleted quotation] There is a classroom at Stanford furnished with nothing but ethernet ports and beanbag chairs. Students come in, check out a laptop, and invent their own layout, which can of course be changed at will. _________________________________________________________________________ Craig A. Berry craig-berry@nwu.edu From: Subject: Lingua Multilingual Parallel Concordancer Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 348 (348) [I received this update because of a link on one of my pages to the project described on the Web page mentioned below. Those Humanists involved in language teaching and in concordancing will be interested. --WM] Update The major development work and the product in use by the partners of the consortium is the Windows 3.1 program called MultiConcord. This proogram has been in use under trial around Europe for the last 18 months and is about to be commercialised. Your current link to CRIN in France is not inaccurate in that it contains a link to Birmingham, but it gives a misleading impression of the nature of the work which has actually been undertaken by the partners in the consortium in the past two years. In particular, the view of the interface given at the French site is nothing like that which is actually in use. The searching, sorting and testing facilities are now quite extensive and the alignment is done on-the-fly using a custom-built algorithm. The link to Birmingham is http//sun1.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/lingua.htm The program has been trialled in a number of European universities and has been used for high school teaching, second language teaching at university level and for translation studies. The research corpus now stands at around 100 texts covering 7 languages and about 23 different texts. Up to date details are regularly added to the Birmingham site. The project has just received approval for a fourth year of development which will extend coverage to Spanish, Portuguese, Scnadinavian languages and Finnish. We have also experimented with other languages, Afrikaans and Zulu among them, giving us A - Z coverage! Thanks David Woolls CFL Software Development (Programmer of Windows software to partners of consortium) From: jserventi@neh.fed.us Subject: NEH Education Program Grant Opportunities Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 16:34:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 349 (349) 1997 DEADLINE DATES FOR NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION GRANTS The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities. TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY is a special NEH initiative to support projects that use today's rapidly evolving information technologies to improve teaching and learning in the humanities. Proposals may be submitted for all categories and deadlines. The Education Development and Demonstration Program offers the following programs: *Humanities Focus Grants* Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with colleagues from your school building, school district, college or university. Work with humanities scholars. Application deadlines: April 18, 1997 and September 15, 1997 Funding available: up to $25,000 *Materials Development Projects* Develop educational materials for national dissemination. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Curricular Development and Demonstration Projects* Design a humanities study project for teachers or college faculty. Join with scholars from nearby colleges, universities, museums, and other cultural organizations to promote an ongoing academic partnership. Prepare model courses or curricula. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Dissemination and Diffusion Projects* Share information on exemplary projects in humanities education through national conferences, workshops, and networks. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please write or call: Education Development and Demonstration Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: education@neh.fed.us TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282 Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web site: <http://www.neh.fed.us> From: David Green Subject: The January issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available! Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:48:06 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 350 (350) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January Issue of D-Lib Magazine [deleted quotation] From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: Re: 10.0594 disciplined training Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:57:51 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 351 (351) [deleted quotation] Yes, tongue was in cheek, though I kicked myself moments after sending the post for not adding "public relations" as a final item. The list comes out of my own experiences at Virginia, where there is no official humanities computing program (other than the American Studies M.A. Alan Howard described) but where I've the good fortune to be surrounded by colleagues with whom I can discuss both the minutiae of TEI and the metaphysics of cyberspace. That combination of theory and practice (to vulgarize the terms of what's at issue) is, I believe, vital to any humanities computing program, whatever the actual structure of its coursework might be. --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Richard Giordano Subject: Disciplined training Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:10:47 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 352 (352) Willard, You write, [deleted quotation] I think that you're being a little old fashioned in thinking that the delivery ofan MA program should be organized in 3-5 courses over the course of a year. I've organized a Masters course at the University of Manchester, and our students went through a series of short intensive courses during the first semester. That is, we covered a lot of material intensively. Then, still during the first semester, we took a couple of weeks in seminars so that students can *begin* to reflect on what they were taught. In the second semester, again students took intensive courses, but longer in duration, and these built upon what they got in the first semester. That is, students could begin to specialize in an area (or areas) that were of most interest or importance to them. Then, as will all masters in the UK, the students wrote a thesis that was the outcome of a project. This allows them to do something individual, and to show not only that they know the material, but also that they can put it all together creatively, and to do something new. There are three aspects that concerned me when putting the program together (other than getting it through various committees at the University): (1) being true to the discipline; (2) being true to the student; (3) being true to the economy (broadly defined). That is, will the material be delivered and understood in enough depth that we are not trivializing the subject? Can a student learn both the fundamentals and then concentrate on aspects of the work that is of most interest and relevance to him or her? Finally, will my students get a job at the end of this and will their employers think, "Geeze, they do some good work at Manchester"? I found through my experience that it's not simply a list of courses or topics that makes a degree program or even a rigid notion of what my students need to know. Instead, I needed (1) an overarching philosophy of what I want to achieve with the program and (2) a creative, sensitive and flexible way of putting the pieces togethe in order to get there. I think that the list provided to us from UVa makes a lot of sense (at least to me), but what helps decide the order and structure and timing of the material is the overarching philosophy or principle of what you want the program to achieve and a means of getting there. This will come from your close analysis of the state of the discipline (or, the state of play) now, what is should be, what's missing, and a choice of means of getting to where you want to be. This is a hard decision, believe me, and there is no single answer to that question. (There shouldn't be, because if there were, all degree programs would look alike.) It goes beyond a choice of topocs that you want to cover. For instance, the delivery of the material in itself helps to shape a student's awareness of the field as well as his or her place within it. It also helps a student understand his or her strengths and weaknesses. Maybe one approach you can take is to think about who owns problems and who owns solutions. You might say something like our information, teaching and research needs are *not* our problems, and the ownership of the solutions does *not* rest with us. We should have computer scientists come in and work-up solutions for us. Give the problems to librarians and let them worry about it. If a humanities student shows an interest in building textual resources, tell him or her to go to library school. Well, what's wrong with this picture? That should give you a start, at least in describing a push. But that is not enough. You need to describe a pull, as well. Where does it appear that research and teaching in the humanities are heading? What do we need, as far as information technology is concerned--its design, deployment, configuration, evaluation of use--to get there? How does this relate to the push that I outlined already? But this, too, is not enough. Then you have to decide if what you're describing is a goosed-up vocational program or something that is built upon theory and research, and if the program you come up with has research potential. This is important for a number of reasons. First, on the ground will not have masters essays worth reading unless there is an alement of research there. Second, without a research base, your program will fall into a steady state and not move forward. Finally, I think anyone would find it hard to get an MA program approved by a faculty unless it had a research potential. How do you see if there is a research potential? One approach may be to ask yourself, "what don't we know, why don't we know it, and who cares anyway?" So, as you can see, the appeal for courses and then trying to fit them in a rigid course structure is not, in my opinion, the way to put together a graduate level program. It demands more systemic thinking that takes into account the discipline, the student and the economy. From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: Re: 10.0594 disciplined training // computing humanists Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:53:55 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 353 (353) While I've been shamefully lurking for much of this discussion, thoughts towards how we might consider training the next generation of computing humanists lead me to considerations of how this generation of computing humanists was trained. Specifically, I think of people at various stages of their careers or educations, and from various disciplines within what we define as the 'humanities', looking to the computer as a tool -- one which could assist in various parts of their teaching, research, or other aspects of their professional/educational life. What I find stunning, and positively so, about this group of individuals is that each person took from HC (in whatever incarnation they found it, depending when over the past 30 or so years they first encountered it) that which they could make use of, or that which they had the suspicion or inking they could employ gainfully; once done, it has been my experience that they have contributed back the results of their efforts -- be such results work that on the surface does not betray a debt to computing humanism or that which makes a special point of such display, perhaps pushing the boundaries of what we consider the work of the computing humanist to be. It is the work of such individuals, combined with general societal and institutional trends towards computerization, that allow us today to consider even the idea of HC as a field; many of these people, I know, are subscribers to this list, or have been involved with it even more directly. This understanding of mine, wrong though it may be (and yet I hope this is not the case), leads me to respond to Matthew Kirschenbaum's earlier post . .. . and I do so via the two posts of message 10.0594 on HUMANIST. The 'virtual space' of which Alan B. Howard speaks sounds to be an excellent example not only of what computing humanists can do towards integrating "learning in the humanities and the new technologies" but also of what such an implementation can return to HC as a discipline, by way of exemplifying tangible service (assisting educational processes, giving students marketable skills, &c.) and by way of the very process of "technologizing" the other disciplines HC serves (in this case, American Studies). Given what I see as [a] a history of computing humanists, from a variety of disciplines, who have looked to HC for what it could bring to their own discipline, [b] these same people, returning from their own individual experiences results, tools, and the like that could be added to HC itself, and [c] the 'traditional' operation of HC in relation to humanities disciplines, as exemplified in Alan B. Howard's posting, as one 'serving' the other (though I do not mean in the least to imply servitude), I wonder if it is not improper to suggest that the curriculum for an advanced degree in HC should involve also a significant grounding in one of, or a general grounding in all, the fields to which HC has relevance. While Matthew Kirschenbaum's list is indeed quite useful in its quantification of the computing skills, and others, necessary for a well-rounded computing humanist, I believe that, to it, should be added the skills expected in a _humanist_ as well. The ideal computing humanist, in my mind, who might be 'shaped' (if you will) by a program such as that suggested earlier by Willard is this: a humanist who brings to his or her specific discipline an understanding and application of the computing tools which are relevant to it, and an open mind to explore others which may be so as well. Before selecting, then, from a list such as that which has been proposed, I propose that we add to that list also the skills necessary to all humanities disciplines; and, from that larger list, a reasonable MA program might be best formed -- though, in application, this would require a significant integration of an HC program into a larger humanities curriculum. (This does not help, I know, the immediate concern that the original list be fashioned into topics that could be gathered in a manageable number of courses for a one year program; this in itself is an admirable goal, and one worthy of much support as well.) ____ R.G. Siemens siemens@unixg.ubc.ca, http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm English, University of British Columbia Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies, http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: Re: 10.0594 disciplined training Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:47:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 354 (354) [deleted quotation] ....[the remainder omitted]... This is a fine list! Tastes much like what's on the menu at San Francisco State University's *Multimedia Studies Program.* See: http://www.cel.sfsu.edu/msp/msp2.html IMHO, Matt's list wisely pushes the prospective humanities-computing expert well beyond "humanities computing" (as usually defined and practiced). I think this is a very good thing! There is not a great demand for the "traditional" computing humanist. However, one who can master a vast array of multimedia design/publishing skills (1, 4, 5, 8, 15, 16, 17 and 19) opens many windows of opportunity both inside and outside academia. (O.k., mostly outside-- but is this a bad thing?) Two related comments: 1) I would like to see this discussion include a frank analysis of potential (academic and non-academic) employment opportunities. (Significantly, Alan Howard recognizes that a graduate program should prepare students for something in addition to a tenured, academic position.) 2) I think we must broaden our perspective of education to include home/distance/online learning. For example, what current, online resources could help someone, who already has significant humanities training, acquire some of the new-media skills listed by Matt? Best, Todd Todd J. B. Blayone / webRhetor todd@cyberjunkie.com / webrhetor@bitsmart.com http://www.netforward.com/bitsmart/?webrhetor 757 Victoria Park Ave. #1609 - Toronto, ON - Canada - M4C 5N8 From: Subject: Celebrating Democracy Inaugural Site (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 355 (355) Our national cultural institutions have partnered to create a Web site, Celebrating Democracy (http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html) in conjunction with the Inauguration. Jointly developed by The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Archives, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Celebrating Democracy features online presentations of presidential memorabilia, photographs and documents from past inaugurations and inaugural balls, and up-to-the-minute photographs of the 1997 inaugural festivities. The goal of the Web site is to encourage teachers, students, and lifelong learners to connect current events with American history by tapping into the vast resources now available online from Washington's national cultural institutions. From: Subject: unknown genre? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 356 (356) Here is the sort of query that, I suppose, would be utterly elusive to an algorithm. Since there are several learned and non-algorithmic entities here, I hope for some helpful answers. I am looking for any examples of writing that start out with or are shaped by an explanation for why the author cannot say anything useful about an assigned topic but which nevertheless succeed in contributing to this topic or are otherwise worthy. For my purposes it doesn't matter whether the author is being coy; all that matters is the genre (or would it be trope?), however genuine. If this genre has a name, I'd be grateful to know it. Thanks. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: ACL'97 / EACL'97 workshop on anaphora Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 357 (357) CALL FOR PAPERS ACL'97 / EACL'97 Workshop Madrid, Spain OPERATIONAL FACTORS IN PRACTICAL, ROBUST, ANAPHORA RESOLUTION FOR UNRESTRICTED TEXTS _____________________________________________________________________ After considerable initial research in algorithmic approaches to anaphora resolution in the seventies and after years of relative silence in the early eighties, this problem has again attracted the attention of many researchers in the last 10 years, with much new and promising work reported recently. Inspired by the increasing volume of such work, this workshop calls for submissions describing recent advances in the field and focusing on "robust", "parser-free", "corpus-driven", "empirically-based", and/or other practical approaches to resolving anaphora in unrestricted texts. Strategies for algorithmic anaphora resolution---arguably among the toughest problems in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing---so far have exploited predominantly traditional linguistic approaches. A disadvantage, however, of implementing such approaches stems from the need for representation and manipulation of the variegated types of linguistic and domain knowledge, with the concomitant expense of human input and computational processing. Even so, effectiveness still tends to depend on imposing suitable restrictions to the domain. While various new alternatives have been proposed, e.g. making use of a situation semantics framework or principles of reasoning with uncertainty, there is still a strong need for the development of robust and effective methods to meet the demand of practical NLP systems (with tasks ranging from content analysis to machine translation to discourse and dialogue processing), and to enhance further the automatic processing of growing language resources (e.g. by automatically annotating corpora with anaphor-antecedent links). This need for inexpensive, practical and, possibly, corpus-related approaches suitable for unrestricted texts has fuelled renewed research efforts in the field. Several proposals have already addressed the anaphora resolution problem by deliberately limiting the extent to which they rely on domain and/or linguistic knowledge, and by moving away from the traditional domain/sublanguage restriction. Observing a very clear trend towards inexpensive, knowledge-poor, corpus-based methods---which remain robust and scale well---it is clear that there is scope for much more to be done in this direction. A core issue here is that of optimal use of a set of contributing factors: these include, for instance, gender and number agreement, c-command constraints, semantic consistency, syntactic parallelism, semantic parallelism, salience, proximity and so forth. It is possible to impose an ordering on such factors, with respect to both their overall utility to the resolution process, and the expense associated with their computation in a particular linguistic framework and processing environment. The computational linguistics literature uses diverse terminology for these, reflecting their different operational status and, hence, contributing weight in the resolution process: for instance, "constraints" tend to be absolute, and therefore "eliminating"; "preferences", on the other hand, tend to be relative, and therefore require the use of additional criteria. One of the major difficulties with scaling up the strong, linguistically derived procedures to real data stems from the lack of systematic understanding of the interactions between, and limitations of, the plethora of factors posited by the different methods under names such as "constraints", "preferences", "attributes", "symptoms", and so forth. This workshop, therefore, has a dual focus. It solicits submissions describing work which addresses the practical requirements of operational and robust anaphora resolution components. It also seeks to investigate the role of, and interactions among, the various factors in anaphora resolution: in particular those that scale well, or that translate easily to knowledge-poor environments. The following questions are for illustrative purposes only: = Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora resolution? Are there factors that we are not fully aware of? Which of these are better suited for robust approaches, and what is their dependence upon strategies? = When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? What is the case for languages other than English? = What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential" factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data can be brought to bear on this? = What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting the antecedent? = Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? = Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? = Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular type(s) of input text? WORKSHOP ORGANISERS Dr. Ruslan Mitkov Dr. Branimir K. Boguraev, School of Languages and European Studies Apple Research Laboratories University of Wolverhampton Apple Computer, Inc. Stafford St. One Infinite Loop, MS: 301-3S Wolverhampton WV1 1SB Cupertino, CA 95014 United Kingdom USA Tel (44-1902) 322471 Tel: (1-408) 974 1048 Email r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk Email: bkb@research.apple.com WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania) Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) David Carter (SRI, Cambridge) Megumi Kameyama (SRI, Menlo Park) Christopher Kennedy (University of California, Santa Cruz) Shalom Lappin (University of London) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Celia Rico Perez (University Alfonso X el Sabio, Madrid) Frederique Segond (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble) Sandra Williams (BT Research Labs, Ipswich) SUBMISSIONS Authors are asked to submit previously unpublished papers; all submissions should be sent to Ruslan Mitkov. A limited number of position papers could also be considered. Each submission will undergo multiple reviews. The papers should be full length (not exceeding 3200 words, exclusive of references), also including a descriptive abstract of about 200 words. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, either in self-contained LaTeX format (using the ACL-97 submission style; see: ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/, as well as the submission guidelines for the main conference, at http://www.ieec.uned.es/cl97/), or as a PostScript file. In exceptional circumstances, Microsoft Word files will also be accepted as electronic submissions, provided they follow the same formating guidelines. Hard copy submissions should include eight copies of the paper. A separate title page should include the title of the paper, names, addresses (postal and e-mail), telephone and fax number of all authors. Any correspondence will be addressed to the first author (unless otherwise specified). Authors will be responsible for preparation of camera-ready copies of final versions of accepted papers, conforming to a uniform format, with guidelines and a style file to be supplied by the organisers. ORGANISATION OF SESSIONS Presentations will be allocated 30 minutes slots each, distributed over a morning and an afternoon sessions, including an invited talk and a (closing) general discussion. WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION Due to space constraints, workshop attendance will be limited to about 40 participants. Priority will be given to authors of submissions; the rest of the participants will be registered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Details about registration will be included in the second announcement. Please note that according to the ACL/EACL workshop guidelines, all workshop participants must register for the ACL/EACL main conference as well. SCHEDULE Submission deadline: 14 March 1997 Notification of acceptance: 14 April 1997 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due: 05 May 1997 Workshop: 11 or 12 July 1997 FURTHER INFORMATION For further information concerning the workshop, please contact the organisers. For information about the main ACL'97/EACL'97 conference, see http://horacio.ieec.uned.es/cl97/. From: EVELYN EHRLICH Subject: Job Posting Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:02:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 358 (358) Title: Reference and Collection Development Librarian for Western European Languages and Literatures Description: Subject specialist for French, Italian and German languages and literatures assigned to the General and Humanities Reference Center, Bobst Library. Selects and evaluates resources in all formats including electronic texts; and participates in the preservation efforts of the library. Responsibilities include faculty liaison; reference assistance with materials in all formats, including electronic; library instruction covering traditional, online and Internet resources. Librarians serve as partners in the educational mission of NYU by establishing strong relationships with the faculty and students, building appropriate subject collections, and acting as intermediaries to the world of information. New York University Libraries: Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 50,000 students and faculty and contain more than 3.5 million volumes. The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library houses 2.5 million of these volumes and serves as the University's principal research resource. New York University is a member of the Research Libraries Group and serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium which includes three academic institutions in Greenwich Village. Qualifications: ALA accredited MLS, subject Master's degree required for tenure. Two years of successful public service and/or collection development experience in an academic library. Advanced degree in French or Italian preferred. Proficiency in French and Italian required. Knowledge of German desirable. Experience with electronic information retrieval, electronic texts in the humanities, Internet and other networked resources. Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong service orientation. Familiarity with bibliographic instruction recommended. Salary/Benefits: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. Minimum: $34,000. Apply: To ensure consideration, send resume and letter of application, including the name, address and telephone number of three references by February 28, 1997, to: Jeffrey Slemmer, Personnel Director, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS Evelyn Ehrlich Humanities Bibliographer, Head of General & Humanities Reference New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South New York, New York 10012 (212) 998-2568 ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: EVELYN EHRLICH Subject: Job Opening Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:53:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 359 (359) Title: Librarian for Digital Collections and Services (Search Extended) Description: Coordinates the design, production and delivery of multimedia image databases, digital collections and finding aids, electronic texts, and online exhibits; recommends imaging software, hardware and access tools, delivery and distribution mechanisms. Provides development assistance and support for digital projects to all library units. Serves on the reference desk. Works closely with the Electronic and Media Resources Librarian, Electronic Text Coordinator, Preservation Librarian, Electronic Publishing Manager, Special Collections Head and Automated Services Director. New York University Libraries: Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 50,000 students and faculty and contain more than 3.5 million volumes. The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library houses 2.5 million of these volumes and serves as the University's principal research resource. New York University is a member of the Research Libraries Group and serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium which includes three academic institutions in Greenwich Village. Qualifications: ALA accredited MLS, subject Master's degree required for tenure. Two years experience with electronic information resources and services, information technology and project management. Working knowledge of programming languages, graphics and imaging technologies, digital collections design and production, HTML, SGML, EAD, TEI Guidelines and PDF. Experience working in a networked client/server and web environment. Familiarity with MAC, PC (DOS and Windows), and UNIX operating systems, multimedia applications, web development software applications and video applications over the net. Public service and/or systems experience in an academic library or comparable institution. Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills. Familiarity with digital library trends. Ability to lead in an emerging specialty. Salary/Benefits: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. Minimum: $38,000. Apply: To ensure consideration, send resume and letter of application, including the name, address and telephone number of three references by February 28, 1997 to: Mr. Jeffrey Slemmer, Personnel Director, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Preliminary interviews at ALA Midwinter Meeting. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS Evelyn Ehrlich Humanities Bibliographer, Head of General & Humanities Reference New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South New York, New York 10012 (212) 998-2568 ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: Subject: Re: 10.0600 disciplined training Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 360 (360) This recent discussion of what would and should constitute a curriculum in humanities computing makes me wonder if we might not be moving too quickly toward programmatizing training in humanities computing. Shouldn't we be training humanists first who can then, or along the way, be trained in computing technology? "R.G. Siemens" responded earlier in this thread with a consideration of where today's generation of computing humanists received their training. In that retrospective, Siemens suggests the following about what such programs might "shape": [deleted quotation] This description seems to presume that the prospective computing humanist already possesses training and expertise in a discipline and brings that knowledge and perspective to their use of technology. If we offer programs in humanities computing to students who are just beginning, realistically, to become experts in their disciplines aren't we running the risk of churning out excellent cart-builders who have only rudimentary understanding of horseflesh? I suggest we examine the value of advanced training in humanities computing at the M.A. or even Ph.D. level largely from my own observations of technologists, humanists, and that hybrid creature, computing humanists. This semester I have the good fortune of working with Dr. Joseph Viscomi in a seminar studying Blake and Hypertext. One of the observations I can make about Dr. Viscomi's approach to humanities computing is that he is first a well-trained humanist and scholar who has, as R.G. Siemens suggests, approached technology to find its connections with his scholarship and not vice versa. (I'll CC Dr. Viscomi so his ears don't burn in ignorance of the invocation.) Perhaps the curriculum being suggested by Howard, Kirschenbaum, Giardano, McCarty and others might be better suited to a post-doctoral program rather than an M.A. or Ph.D. program. In this way the next generation of computing humanists will be able to bring to the table the same strong disciplined training that the current generation appears to have brought. --chad kearsley -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chad D. Kearsley Dept. of English, UNC-Chapel Hill chad_kearsley@unc.edu Institute for Academic Technology www.unc.edu/~chadk/ www.unc.edu/depts/english www.iat.unc.edu/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Claire Smith Subject: 10 Downing Street Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:39:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 361 (361) 10 Downing Street http://www.number-10.gov.uk/ Text only: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/to/index.html The British Prime Minister's Office has recently opened a web site, 10 Downing Street. Although it does contain selected Prime Minister's speeches, transcripts, and interviews, Prime Minister's biographies (back to Harold Macmillan at present), and a tour of #10, its greatest utility is as an entry point to British executive department government sites. The Cabinet Ministers' Biography section contains information on 23 ministers and links to cabinet web sites. There is also a page of government department pointers. [JS] Claire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Claire Smith / Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences (CHASS Facility) University of Toronto/ Robarts Library, 14th Floor / 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A5 / Phone: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 Internet: csmith@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~csmith/ From: "Irving D. Goldfein" Subject: Encyclopaedia Judaica CD-ROM Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:39:55 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 362 (362) I am pleased to announce the forthcoming release of the CD-ROM version of the _Encyclopaedia Judaica_ (March '97.) Please contact me directly for detailed content information and/or the special pre-release sale price, ordering information, etc. *************************************************************** Irving D. Goldfein, M.Ed., Ph.D., InfoMedia Judaica, Ltd. Voice: 810-354-6415 Fax: 810-352-2665 E-mail: goldfein@ix.netcom.com Orders: 800-303-3365 *************************************************************** From: Willard McCarty Subject: not modesty Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:14:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 363 (363) My thanks to all the replies to my query in Humanist 10.602 about naming a kind of writing that seeks to explain why an author cannot address a given topic. Most of the suggestions point to the "affected modesty" topic, described for example by Curtius in European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages 5.3 (pp. 83-5). The objective, Curtius notes, is to put the listener in a favourable state of mind through a modest presence, which the orator must draw attention to, thus rendering any such modesty affected. The topic extends to writing in which the author claims that his or her language is artless, unaffected, or unschooled or assures us that the work is undertaken in fear and trembling. It can be confused with the "devotional formula", in which the author abases himself, so that submission and incapacity are identified. The author may claim, truthfully or otherwise, that the work was commanded, and so its composition or performance is compelled, merely an act of obedience. What I have in mind verges on "affected modesty" where it is a declaration of submission and incapacity, as for example when a speaker or writer agrees to undertake a topic (i.e. submits to a request and so is bound by obligation), then finds that he or she cannot comply (discovers incapacity). What is crucial to the form I am seeking to name is that the explanation of incapacity itself becomes a significant contribution to the topic. The author does not dismiss the assigned topic as nonsense but cogently studies why a satisfactory response is not possible. Any further ideas? Thanks to Michel Lenoble for the reference to Berbard Dupriez, "Gradus"; Eric Lerner for suggesting the Preface to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, Ned Muhovich for Tristram Shandy, and Marta Steele for bits from Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Met.; Craig Berry, Tom Dillingham, Sarah Higley, Fred Levy, Ted Parkinson, Gary Shawver, and Michael Sperberg-McQueen for the pointer to "affected modesty" (occupatio, praeteritio). It's been too long since I last read Tristram Shandy for me to recall how well it might fit; Wittgenstein's Preface comes close. All the replies mentioned here are included below. Thanks again. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Eric Lerner Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:02:05 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 364 (364) Willard -- Your query brings to mind the Preface to Ludwig Wittgenstein's _Philosophical Investigations_, surely one of the seminal works of 20th century philosophy, which concludes, "I make [these remarks] public with doubtful feelings. It is not impossible that it should fall to the lot of this work, in its poverty and in the darkness of this time, to bring light into one brain or another--but, of course, it is not likely ... I should have liked to produce a good book. This has not come about, but the time is past in which I could improve it." I hope this helps. Eric Lerner *********************************************************** Eric J. Lerner Extension Associate Cornell Community & Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) 48 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 voice: (607) 255-2833 email: EJL11@cornell.edu URL: <http://www.cals.cornell.edu/dept/cardi/> From: Ted Parkinson Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:18:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 365 (365) The "trope" sounds close to the medieval modesty topos. For example, at the beginning of his tale the Franklin says, "colours of rhetoric have I none" (or something like that). Explorers also use this, but they tend to say that they are not very good at writing, and not that they don't have anything useful to say. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Parkinson Department of English McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Hamilton, Ontario From: Gary Shawver Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: 17 Jan 97 09:11:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 366 (366) Willard, Are we really talking genre here, or a particular type of prologue? Curtius discusses what he calls modesty topoi in Chapter 5, Section 3 of _European Lit. and the Latin Middle Ages_, but that doesn't quite seem to fit. Sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------- Gary W. Shawver E-Mail W3 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/> From: "Craig A. Berry" Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:41:37 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 367 (367) Sounds like you are looking for the trope of occupatio, also known as praeteritio. One of my favorite examples is the opening of _The House of Fame_, where Chaucer claims not to know what causes the various kinds of dreams, but in enumerating all of the different kinds of dreams whose cause he is utterly incapable of stating, he underhandedly demonstrates that he knows a great deal about dream theory and the possible causes of every kind of dream there is. A modern example would be a politician saying, "I do not know whether the charges others have made against my opponent are true, nor do I consider it appropriate for me to speculate about such shocking and disturbing allegations." Basically, it's a way to get credit for keeping one's mouth shut while still presenting something to the reader/listener. _________________________________________________________________________ Craig A. Berry craig-berry@nwu.edu From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 20:41:26 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 368 (368) On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:53:27 +0000 (GMT) you said: [deleted quotation] Why? It's true that no obvious algorithm leaps to my mind; this is far from being an argument that no algorithm can exist ... Surely you are trying to mess with our minds. [deleted quotation] Do you mean other than praeteritio (which lacks the notion of contribution to a topic)? Michael From: TOM DILLINGHAM Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:36:45 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 369 (369) There is the "trope of affected modesty" which was common both in public oratory and in certain nonfiction prose--as well as pervasive in epistles dedicatory. Could that be what you mean? Tom Dillingham From: "Sarah L. Higley" Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:53:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 370 (370) It's called _occupatio_ in medieval rhetoric, which of course is a rhetorical term for a device or a trope, not a genre. SH From: Ned Muhovich Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:09:46 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 371 (371) Willard-- Would _Tristam Shandy_ fit that category? It's been awhile since I read it. Ned ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ned Muhovich University of Denver emuhovic@du.edu (303)871-2455 From: Fred Levy Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:03:22 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 372 (372) Willard: Is this a version of the "modesty topos"? (so-called) If so, there is (I believe) information on it in E. Auerbach. I'm sorry I can't be more specific -- I'm not near my books at the moment. Fritz Levy From: Lenoble Michel Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:36:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 373 (373) Willard, Have a look at Berbard Dupriez's book called "Gradus". It is about tropes, or even better, contact him directly. M.L. =================================================================== Michel LENOBLE | Tel. et fax: (514) 485-1799 From: Marta Steele Subject: the elegant "useless"? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:36:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 374 (374) Willard, Try _Aeneid_ 22.10-13 and its prototype _Od._ 7.241-43 to start with; for these I owe credit to a lecture on Virgil I attended yesterday. Beyond that, what about all of Cicero's disclaimers (I will not discuss this...) which he proceeds in his oratory to contract with long diatribes. Is that what you were after? The topic sentence contradicted by rest of "paragraph"; words contradicted by actions taken in narrative; what is the deep structure of the logic and the ultimate gestalt? Perhaps we can translate this structure into art forms as well? Where? Marta Steele (imaginative on a foggy cold afternoon) From: Loretta S Lobes Subject: American Memory Fellow Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 375 (375) January 10, 1997 Dear Colleague, The Library of Congress' National Digital Library and the EDC Center for Children and Technology are pleased to announce the American Memory Fellows Program, an exciting opportunity for outstanding teachers, librarians and media specialists to improve the teaching of American history and culture in their school, region and nationally. Fellows will participate in the National Digital Library Educators Institute, July 28 - August 1, 1997, and will develop model teaching materials around the American Memory collections, the Library's renowned primary source archives in American history and culture, now available on the World Wide Web at www.loc.gov. The Library is seeking applications from 2-member teams of master teachers, librarians, media specialists and other education professionals who: * Have frequent access to and a high level of comfort using the web, e-mail and other technologies; * Have experience using primary sources to motivate students, promote critical thinking, and help students connect history to their own lives; * Are active leaders in their fields, with the ability to disseminate their expertise to teachers and/or librarians in their community and region. If you meet these requirements, please read the enclosed materials carefully and fill out and return your application by March 1, 1997. (No e-mail, fax or disk-based applications, please.) In addition, we encourage you to copy and/or pass these materials on to appropriate colleagues in your school, organization or elsewhere. If you have any questions, please contact Bill Tally (212.807.4206 / btally@edc.org) or Nancy Rosenbaum (212.807.4216 / nrosenbaum@edc.org). The 50 educators chosen to become Fellows in 1997-98 will shape the way that the Library's uniquely rich primary source collections are used by teachers and students across the country. We look forward to receiving an application from you. Martha Dexter Bill Tally National Digital Library Center for Children & Technology The Library of Congress Education Development Center The American Memory Fellows Program Application Form and Guidelines Application must be postmarked by MARCH 1, 1997 E-mail, fax or disk-based applications will NOT be accepted. Introduction With support from the Kellogg Foundation, the Library of Congress' National Digital Library is sponsoring The American Memory Fellows Program, the first in a series of institutes to help schools make powerful educational use of the American Memory collections. Helping facilitate the institute is the EDC Center for Children and Technology, a non-profit education development firm. The American Memory collections are digitized primary source documents in American history and culture now available on the World Wide Web at www.loc.gov. The 17 collections now on-line include: BROADSIDES FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA MATTHEW BRADY'S CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS AFRICAN AMERICAN PAMPHLETS FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY EARLY FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF URBAN AMERICA ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE DEPRESSION ERA These rich primary resources offer great potential for strengthening humanities instruction, by helping students actively engage in the study of history, develop critical thinking skills, and connect history to their own lives. The American Memory Fellows Program will gather teams of middle and high school humanities teachers and library/media specialists from across the country to learn about these unique resources and to create exemplary teaching units that can be shared with other educators. Fellows will enjoy a lively professional development experience with outstanding colleagues and will shape the way the Library's unique primary source collections are used in schools across the country. American Memory Fellows Will Spend a week in Washington, DC at the Library of Congress, learning about current American Memory collections, and those that are upcoming; Learn strategies for integrating web-based archival material into classroom teaching and learning; Work with colleagues to create and publish an on-line teaching unit based on primary documents from the collections; Learn from Library staff and scholars about the historical and cultural issues surrounding the primary source collections. American Memory Fellows Are Required To Form a 2-person team with a fellow teacher, librarian, curriculum coordinator, media specialist or other educatorional professional and define a shared teaching objective in American history, English or social studies; Attend the National Digital Library Educators Institute, a 5-day summer institute in Washington DC, from July 28 to August 1, 1997; Create, test and revise a teaching unit based on the collections to be used with students in the 1997-98 academic year; Participate in weekly on-line discussions (up to 2 hours per week) during an Orientation Seminar in Spring 1997, and participate for at least 6 months in the NDL Teacher Network following the Institute; Disseminate their expertise with the American Memory materials in one or more professional forums during the spring or summer of 1997. American Memory Fellows Will Receive Transportation to Washington, DC, and a stipend of $1000 to cover lodging and dinners, with the remainder as an honorarium; Professional development in the use of web-based archival resources and the creation of model teaching materials; Opportunities to publish high-quality work on-line, as part of the American Memory Learning Page. SELECTION CRITERIA Mandatory Requirements A team of two colleagues must be proposed, one of whom has past or current classroom experience as a K-12 humanities teacher. (Humanities means primarily history, social studies and language arts, but can include art, geography or interdisciplinary subjects if these are taught so that American history and culture are prominent). Both applicants must have their own e-mail accounts, and easy access to the World Wide Web for 2-4 hours per week. The application must be complete and postmarked by March 1, 1997. An independent review panel will read and evaluate all applications meeting the mandatory requirements. The panel includes a K-12 teacher and historian, a librarian, and a curriculum and technology specialist. Applications will be evaluated on the strength of both individual and team sections. Notification letters will be mailed to all applicants during the week of April 14, 1997. Additional requirements Both Team Members: Significant involvement in professional activities (workshops, conferences, meetings, publications) as leaders who have impact on colleagues and the field, and who will be able to disseminate their work as American Memory Fellows. Either Or Both Team Members: Familiarity with and comfort using a variety of educational technology applications that may include the Internet, multimedia databases, and presentation software. Familiarity with teaching approaches that accord with recent standards in history, social studies or language arts; and in particular, strategies for using primary sources to motivate students, develop critical thinking skills, and help students connect history to their own lives. Further Guidelines Selecting a Partner -- The Team Concept Helping students use on-line historical archives for learning requires knowledge of curriculum, experience with new technologies, strategies for searching large databases and skill guiding students to understand primary sources. Teams should be formed in order to a) provide a complementary range of these skills, and b) increase the potential for disseminating project activities in your district, state or region. The team will be especially strong if both partners are active in professional networks and are able to share their work as Fellows with teachers, librarians and others throughout their region. One of the team members must have past or current classroom experience as a K-12 humanities teacher. (Humanities means primarily history, social studies and language arts, but can include art, geography or interdisciplinary subjects if these are taught so that American history and culture are prominent). School library/ media specialists are also strongly encouraged to apply, since they can play a pivotal role in helping teachers and students use new resources well. However, successful teams may include people from a variety of backgrounds: curriculum coordinators, media and technology specialists, curriculum developers and instructors in nearby colleges or universities, or other education professionals. Teams need not be based in a single school. Most important are a desire to work together, a range of complementary skills, and capacity to have ongoing impact in your district, state or region. Technology Access And Use Significant Institute work will take place on-line, both before and after the 5-day meeting in Washington. Frequent access to your own e-mail account and to the World Wide Web is therefore a strict requirement for participation. Access may be from a school lab or library, from a principal's office, or from home, but it needs to be reliable. You must be able to read and reply to e-mail at least 3 times a week, and you must be able to access the Web, using a popular browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, at least twice a week, for 2 to 4 hours total. (Educators who do not currently have this level of technology access are encouraged to keep in touch with the Library and register for future institutes.) Teaching Approaches Primary sources do not tell the story of history by themselves. They require active reading, questioning and further research on the part of students. Team members should be familiar with teaching strategies that encourage students to read critically, pose their own questions, locate and interpret a variety of source materials, discuss and debate issues, engage in analytical and imaginative writing, and work collaboratively with peers. INQUIRIES Inquiries About The Fellows Program: Martha Dexter, National Digital Library (202) 707-0805 mdex@loc.gov Bill Tally, EDC Center for Children and Technology (212) 807-4206 btally@edc.org Inquiries About The Application Process: Nancy Rosenbaum, EDC/Center for Children and Technology (212) 807-4216 nrosenbaum@edc.org Inquiries About The American Memory Collections: National Digital Library On-line Reference Librarian ndlpedu@loc.gov SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION Please send your completed application by March 1, 1997 to: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS National Digital Library 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, DC 20540-1320 E-mail, fax or disk-based applications will NOT be accepted. The American Memory Fellows Program Application Cover Sheet & Checklist Please Type or Print Legibly Applicant A Contact Information Applicant B Contact Information Name: ____________________ Name: ____________________ Title: ____________________ Title: ____________________ Institution: ____________________ Institution: ____________________ Address: ____________________ Address: ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Phone: (h) ____________________ Phone: (h) ____________________ (w) ____________________ (w) ____________________ Fax: ____________________ Fax: ____________________ E-Mail: ____________________ E-Mail: ____________________ SS# ____________________ SS# ____________________ (for compensation purposes) (for compensation purposes) Does Your Application Include The Following? (Please Check) ( ) APPLICATION COVER SHEET & CHECKLIST ( ) APPLICANT A INFORMATION SHEET ( ) APPLICANT B INFORMATION SHEET ( ) APPLICANT A INDIVIDUAL ESSAY ( ) APPLICANT B INDIVIDUAL ESSAY ( ) A TEAM ESSAY, COMPLETED BY BOTH APPLICANTS JOINTLY ( ) POSTMARKED BY MARCH 1, 1997 The American Memory Fellows Program APPLICANT A INFORMATION SHEET Please Type or Print Legibly Name: Home Address: City/State/Zip: Phone (home): (work): E-mail: Race/Ethnicity (Optional): ( )Asian ( )Black ( )Caucasian ( )Hispanic ( )Other: Please Indicate Whether You Are: ( ) K-12 humanities teacher Grade level(s): ___________ Subject(s): ( ) School library/media specialist Grade levels served: ( ) Other (please specify): School Or Other Institution Where Currently Employed: Institution: Address: City/State/Zip: Phone: ____________________ Principal or Supervisor: If school, please indicate: ( Public ( Private ( Parochial Years of experience as teacher/librarian/educator: __________ The American Memory Fellows Program APPLICANT B INFORMATION SHEET Please Type or Print Legibly Name: Home Address: City/State/Zip: Phone (home): (work): E-mail: Race/Ethnicity (Optional): ( )Asian ( )Black ( )Caucasian ( )Hispanic ( )Other: Please Indicate Whether You Are: ( ) K-12 humanities teacher Grade level(s): ___________ Subject(s): ( ) School library/media specialist Grade levels served: ( )Other (please specify): School Or Other Institution Where Currently Employed: Institution: Address: City/State/Zip: Phone: ____________________ Principal or Supervisor: If school, please indicate: ( Public ( Private ( Parochial Years of experience as teacher/librarian/educator: __________ GUIDELINES FOR INDIVIDUAL ESSAYS Each proposed team member should respond to the following questions in a maximum of 3 typed single-spaced pages. Please put "Individual Essay" and your name at the top, and number your responses as shown below. 1. Personal And Professional Interests Please briefly describe the personal and professional interests you will bring to the American Memory Fellows Program. Include any particular interests in American history and culture, primary sources, and new technologies. 2. Technology Access Please describe your current access to technology. Specifically, explain where, how often, and through what software and/or service provider you have access to: a) your own e-mail account; and b) the World Wide Web. Note: Minimum e-mail access required is 3x/week; minimum web access required is 2x/week for 2-4 hours total, using a popular browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. 3. Technology Use Please describe yourself as a user of new technologies. Discuss how you use them a) in relation to humanities teaching and learning; and b) in your day-to-day personal and professional activities. Include any significant use of e-mail, the Internet, newsgroups and bulletin boards, multimedia programs, databases, presentation tools, etc. Indicate with examples the purposes for which you have used the technologies, and your level of proficiency with them (e.g., novice, proficient, advanced). 4. Use Of Primary Resources For Teaching & Learning Please describe a curriculum activity you have designed and conducted with students of which you are particularly proud, especially one involving primary sources of some kind. (If you are not a classroom teacher or librarian, describe an occasion in which you used primary sources to help students or colleagues discover something new.) Indicate your goal in the activity, the materials you used, the teaching and learning methods you employed, and what you learned from students' (or your own) responses. 5. Leadership And Dissemination Please describe your current involvement in professional networks, and the ways in which you have impact on colleagues and in your field. Include any relevant publications, conference presentations, staff development workshops, district-wide activities and professional meetings you help organize or lead. Do not simply list your professional affiliations or the conferences you attend. Explain how you strive to influence education practitioners or policy-makers through these activities. Attach a resume or vita if appropriate. Guidelines For Team Essay Team members should respond to the following questions jointly, in a maximum of 2 typed single-spaced pages. Explain the strengths of your team and how you will work together. Please put "Team Essay" and your names at the top, and number your responses to correspond with the questions below. 1. Shared Interests And Skills What shared interests do you bring to the project? Discuss areas of overlap, and also, areas of divergence. What skills does each team member bring? 2. Project Ideas Please describe a student project or curriculum activity you want to develop together around primary sources using the American Memory collections. What will the curriculum context be? What materials will students use, and how will they work with them? What will be the goal of the activities? 3. Collaboration Please describe how you have worked together in the past, and/or how you will work together after the Institute. What opportunities for joint work do you have? What practical challenges will you need to address in order to work together? How will you deal with these challenges? What administrative support will you have (i.e., from superintendents, school administrators, etc.)? 4. Dissemination Please describe the environments and activities through which your team will disseminate your work as American Memory Fellows in your district, state or region, both jointly and individually. (i.e., a school district? State curriculum committee? Professional organization meetings?) What audiences will you target? What partners or administrative support will you involve? ******************************** Paul Filio, Teacher, Social Studies, Hughes Center Cincinnati Public Schools email: pfilio@iac.net Home Page: http://www.iac.net/~pfilio/ ******************************** Excerpts from mail: 10-Jan-97 H-HIGH-S Digest - 8 Jan 199.. by Automatic processor@msu. [deleted quotation] From: "Peter D. Junger" Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:19:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 376 (376) Would not an example of your genre be Wittgenstein's Tractatus, with its famous conclusion---rather than beginning---``Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, davon muss man schweigen''? From: Francois Lachance Subject: most humble genre Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:52:37 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 377 (377) Willard, The genre you descibe sound like "sermo humilis" in the Christian tradition. Eric Auerbach offers in Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages a paper on the subject. There maybe something similar in the Taoist tradition... -- Francois From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 10.0602 unknown genre? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:43:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 378 (378) "start out with or are shaped by an explanation for why the author cannot say anything useful about an assigned topic but which nevertheless succeed in contributing to this topic or are otherwise worthy." Doesn't this fall under the so-called (because usually ironic) modesty topos? Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities computing Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 16:55:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 379 (379) Chad Kearsley's message in Humanist 10.600 is indeed very helpful in thinking about how to take humanities computing seriously in the institutional sense, i.e. as an academic subject. To teach it in the form of a postdoctoral programme is a cogent proposal worth some thought; such a programme need not exclude teaching the subject earlier in a person's career. Perhaps we can take up the subject of a postdoctoral programme later, or now as a related thread. Ideally a computing humanist is someone entirely competent both in a non-technical field and in applied computing. Such competence is rarely going to be achieved at the MA level, so we should design a programme as a serious introduction to the tools and methods at the point where the student has a coherent idea about some field of application but not mastery of it. I would assume that such a programme should aim at training two kinds of students: those who plan on a non-academic career, and those who subsequently take up more advanced graduate work. I conclude from those who work or have worked outside the academy that serious training in applied computing in fact constitutes very good preparation for jobs in the business world, and that students with this training tend to be attractive to employers. I would assume that we cannot afford to ignore them in the design of an MA programme, and it seems to me that accommodating them should not be difficult at all nor should it in any way diminish its value for the other kind. For the career academic an MA programme would aim at giving students a serious methodological introduction so that they have the range of possibilities in mind as their specialised interests come into focus. In my experience over the last 6 years such introductions work best before students have done any significant amount of work on their dissertations. (Once the dissertation is underway, few students want to hear about such possibilities, or should; finishing is their chief desire.) With this training, once they settle into an area of advanced work they tend quickly to grasp where computing methods will help; they have an idea of how their research will be affected and so have a much better chance of choosing intelligently what to do. Adding applied computing into existing graduate programmes without otherwise altering them is problematic, it seems to me, because the students already have enough to do. Interest is so great that they will nevertheless attend informal courses and workshops, but they tend not to stay because the pressures on them from their home departments are considerable. If we postpone training altogether until after the PhD, how are we properly to serve the academy or how to attract sufficient students? At that point they are very busy attempting to find gainful employment and so produce the rather conventional kind of published work that they must have to their credit. Large amounts of money for postdoctoral fellowships would of course help, but we don't have this money. So, I would argue, an MA programme is a very good idea, I would think for a significant proportion of the student population. Not for all of them. To some extent, I'd suppose, computing has or will become a universal feature of scholarly work, but I cannot see that every kind of research will ever demand a consciously deep involvement. Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: Re: 10.0606 disciplined training Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 17:53:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 380 (380) I don't think I'd ever want to argue that a humanities computing program should exist in a disciplinary vacuum, but Chad Kearsley's recent post tempts me to play devil's advocate and ask why in this thread we (all) seem reluctant to imagine the computer as anything more than a supplement to fields already established in the humanities; is it not possible to conceive of the computer as an inherently humanistic instrument? Similarly, if we take "humanities computing" as a rubric for such things as the "history of writing" or the underground electronic music scene (as well as TEI and TACT), doesn't this inevitably lead on to inquiry in areas recognizable to us on their own terms? Or, to reverse the question, are not courses and curricula in the humanities -- the daily grind -- sometimes susceptible to the institutionalized abstractions which lead to what the poet and critic Don Byrd calls "statistical reality"? I'm reminded of a passage near the end of Norbert Wiener's _The Human Use of Human Beings_: "I have spoken of machines, but not only machines having brains of brass and thews of iron. When human atoms are knit into an organization in which they are used, not for their full right as responsible humans beings, but as cogs and levers and rods, it matters little that their raw material is flesh and blood. _What is used as an element in a machine, is in fact an element in the machine_. Whether we entrust our decisions to machines of metal, or to those machines of flesh and blood which are bureaus and vast laboratories and armies and corporations, we shall never receive the right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions" (emphasis in original). Which of course begs the question of what the right questions are. --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: "Alan B. Howard" Subject: Re: 10.0606 disciplined training Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:15:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 381 (381) In response to Chad Kearsley: I heartily agree that the problem is to integrate learning and teaching in the humanities. I also agree also that one danger we face is the temptation to substitute training in the technology for improved training in the disciplines; the technology will allow us to do it faster, to distribute it more widely, to reach audiences outside our normal orbits, and to do all of this with the extraordinary impacet that this technology delivers right now. But, as Thoreau remarked on the introduction of the telegraph, faster and farther reaching communication amounts to little if no one has anything worth saying. And so I'd like, again, to invite Chad and others to take a serious look at http://xroads.virginia.edu This site is dedicated to learning THROUGH the technology, not under it or beside it or in addition to it. The technology provides a new and very powerful way of doing interdisciplinary studies, not simply a novel delivery system for disseminating the same old product. It is focused on undergraduates and Masters-level students -- not on post doctoral candidates. And, while it does not yield the kind of perfect blend of Humanities Scholar and Systems Engineer some think desirable and necessary, it does yield students who go on to Ph.D. programs in the Humanities (including the American Studies Program at Chad's own UNC) as well as writers and information managers at Humanities related locations like The Chronicle of Higher Education, PoliticsUSA, Edmark, and Harper Collins. In short, I believe that the real challenge is to integrate the technology into teaching at every level. I believe that that won't be easy because it will require re-thinking how andwhy we teach on adiscipline-by-discipline basis. And this will require great imagination and courage not alone because these qualities are no more widely dispersed in academia than in the population at large, but also because the technology offers the comfortable illusion of progress that is, at bottom, little more than more attractive packaging. Alan From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 10.0606 disciplined training Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:58:27 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 382 (382) In this discussion, where I already tried to take part, if "humanities curriculum" means curriculum in the British university, then disregard what follows. Otherwise, Siemens' opinion [deleted quotation] misses the point, because it is NOT computing tools which matter, but the principles of computing. If you do not understand them, you will never be able to utilize the "tools" sensibly. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39.6.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39.6.4991-3945 00185 Roma From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: Re: 10.0606 disciplined training Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 00:38:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 383 (383) [deleted quotation] Your comments seem to presuppose that "the humanities" transcends particular communications technologies. Matt's program appears to recognize that cultural production and research is always bound up with particular communications technologies. In this way, his program is not an add-on, but a reconceptualization of the humanities (as traditionally understood). A student of this program would study/practice the production/mediazation, transmediazation, transmission, and reception of (traditional and non-traditional) cultural phenomena in computer media. Such a program would be wildly interdisciplinary (by current humanist standards) and would be taught by a variety of academics and other specialists (traditional literature/language scholars, new-media artists/authors, media critics, Web designers, programmers, business people, etc.) Perhaps Matt can correct me if I am simply reading my prejudices into his proposed program of study. --Todd Todd J. B. Blayone / webRhetor todd@cyberjunkie.com / webrhetor@bitsmart.com http://www.netforward.com/bitsmart/?webrhetor 757 Victoria Park Ave. #1609 - Toronto, ON - Canada - M4C 5N8 From: Subject: 10.0580 technocrats, libraries, preservation Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 384 (384) I too wish to comment on the statement made by Dr. Peter Herman about the people running our libraries. The pressure for tossing out printed materials is not from librarians, it's the technocrats and many upper level administrators who neither understand scholarly communications nor the need to preserve original works. On the contrary, librarians are the most concerned about this "head long" plunge into technocracy. Even with electronic formats preservation is a major concern for libraries and the nation. Librarians are not the culprit here! Ruth M. Jackson, Ph.D. From: Francois Lachance Subject: discipline Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:20:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 385 (385) Willard, It was Matt's almost throwaway comment about PR... Not to invoke the image of the scholar-entrepreneur but professors do profess and do promote arefacts and approaches. These activities represent a set of skills that have a place in the formation of any graduant of a programme in humanities computing. These skills are not always acquired by osmosis. It is for this reason I believe that a programme in humanities computing might profitably open some space for issues of pedagogy, ie. theorizing about the teaching of skills related to either or both computing and humanities scholarship. I say this with an eye on the job market. New postings outside the academy are asking for skill sets that marry design (desktop publishing and Web applications) and programming (running networks, servers, writing CGI scripts etc.) Very soon a third component will be added to these: the ability to teach others and even the experience of teaching teachers. Leadership & management skills development such as grant writing, project appraisal, report writing, interpersonal savoir-faire could be components integrated across the curriculum or they might be reflected in entrance requirements. They would benefit disciples. -- Francois From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: Re: 10.0608 disciplined training Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:38:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 386 (386) [deleted quotation] IMHO, the time is coming (for some, is here) when every kind of research will assume an *un*consciously deep involvement with electronic media. Moreover, the conscious struggle of the computing humanist to incorporate computers into humanistic research will give way to the "post-humanist's" struggle to incorporate traditional humanistic research into computer-mediated culture. BTW, Donald Theall has something to say about this in chapter 6 of _Beyond the word_ (University of Toronto Press, 1995). Best, Todd Todd J. B. Blayone / webRhetor todd@cyberjunkie.com / webrhetor@bitsmart.com http://www.netforward.com/bitsmart/?webrhetor 757 Victoria Park Ave. #1609 - Toronto, ON - Canada - M4C 5N8 From: Subject: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 387 (387) [deleted quotation] A rough, yet working version of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is now up and running. It can be found at: <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs> Comments, suggestions, ideas, and contributions are welcome. The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, RCCS seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field, to foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers, and builders of cyberculture, and to showcase various models, works-in-progress, and on-line projects. In the future, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies hopes to sponsor a number of collaborative projects, colloquia, symposia, and workshops. Presently, the site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including university-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, and related links. Further, the site features an extensive annotated bibliography devoted to the topic of cyberculture. David Silver American Studies University of Maryland From: "Galen K. Pletcher" Subject: 1/21/97 Daily Report from ACADEME TODAY Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:13:59 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 388 (388) [Editorial note. Galen Pletcher sent this to me with a query about the legality of circulating it. I would be grateful for advice on the extent to which direct quotation like the following is tolerated. It seems to me to be an instance of "fair use". If anyone from the Chronicle is listening, his or her word would be especially welcome. --WM] [deleted quotation] Galen K. Pletcher, Dean School of Arts and Sciences "Prayer is the contemplation Professor of Philosophy of the facts of life SUNY Potsdam from the highest 44 Pierrepont Avenue point of view." Potsdam, NY 13676-2294 (315)267-2231 Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841) FAX (315)267-3140 E-mail: pletchgk@potsdam.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: Latin forum Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 20:10:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 389 (389) Humanists (some might even be tempted to say REAL humanists, but I won't) will likely be interested in the following items from the American Philological Association Newsletter v. 19 no. 6 (December 1996): The VRoma Project, <http://hippokrene.colleges.org/~vroma/>, a "virtual community for the teaching of classics", which just received $190,000 from the Teaching with Technology Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.). It is further described as "an on-line "place" where Latin students and teachers can interact live, hold courses and lectures, and share resources. At the same time, it will serve as a filter and repository for internet-based teaching resources, which will be accessible in a variety of formats. These extendible and customizable resources will include texts, commentaries, images, maps and other materials." De imperatoribus Romanis, <http://www.salve.edu/~dimaiom/DEimprom.html>, "a web site which is an online encyclopedia of the rulers of Rome". It in turn makes reference to On-Line Text Materials for Medieval Studies, <http://orb.rhodes.edu/>. Classicists should note that in both cases the addresses given in the APA Newsletter were incorrectly written. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Job for posting on Humanist Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 390 (390) Dear Professor McCarty, At the Mississippi Department of Archives and History we are staffing for an electronic records research grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. I don't know if it's considered kosher to post job ads on Humanist, but given the recent discussions on training I thought Humanist might be a very good place to attract the kinds of staff members we need. Anyway, I enclose the notice below, and if it is possible to post it I would like to have it posted. Many thanks, Patricia Galloway Special Projects Officer Mississippi Department of Archives and History ***************************************************** ELECTRONIC RECORDS: TWO PERMANENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE. To be assigned initially to a two-year NHPRC research grant on the retention and long-term preservation of state government electronic records at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, applying data warehousing, intranetworking, and intelligent agent technologies to management and access tasks. DP-Technical Specialist II: This is technical work, involving relational databases in a UNIX environment. The staff member will use data processing systems and electronic records management applications to prepare descriptions of electronic data in order to assist state agencies in the management and preservation of electronic records. Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree with specialized training in history, library science, archives and records management, public administration, or a related field, plus two years' experience using electronic data processing systems to collect, compile, and/or analyze data. DP-Systems Analyst II: This staff member will conduct systems analysis, assisting in the preparation of documentation of information systems; gather information concerning emerging technologies affecting recordkeeping in state government; assist in developing strategies for the transfer and preservation of electronic records using TCP/IP and other Internet protocols; and help to design and maintain a computer intranetwork and website. Minimum education and experience required: BS in computer science or a directly related field with coursework in a programming language and in systems analysis AND two years of experience in programming and systems analysis; OR one year's experience as a DP-Systems Analyst I. Other substitutions for directly related education and experience may be possible. Experience with UNIX, TCP/IP internetwork communications standards, and relational databases required. Application must clearly indicate UNIX and TCP/IP experience. Both positions are available now. Persons with archives, records management, or library experience are especially encouraged to apply; specific rank and salary within job classifications will be dependent upon qualifications and experience. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is an Equal Opportunity employer. Anyone interested in applying for these positions should contact Patricia Galloway (galloway@mdah.state.ms.us; 601-359-6863) or Linda Culberson (lculber@mdah.state.ms.us; 601-359-6873) for further information about the jobs themselves or the state job application process. From: Subject: Re: 10.0611 libraries not the culprit Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 391 (391) I do not see libraries rushing to throw out the printed page. I think that they (for the most part) are very stuck in the mud of the past. Almost every time I go looking for a particular book or a journal article I find that I have to request a interlibrary loan. And the libraries that have them are fewer in number each year. Every year the journals that are available are fewer in number. No budget they keep saying to me. We can only have the essential books and journals. And the ones that you want are not "essential". But they don't seem to be putting the money into electronic media or computers. I have a policy of donating CDROMS to the libraries that I use. So that others may share in the resources that are available. But I find that they go unused much to often. From: H-CLC BD Subject: Call for Papers: Webgeist Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:55:44 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 392 (392) NEW CALL FOR WEBGEIST SUBMISSIONS Webgeist, an electronic magazine for the erudite websurfer, announces its third Forum issue to be published in April 15, 1997. Manuscripts of any length will be accepted until APRIL 1, 1997, which may focus on, from both pragmatic and theoretical perspectives, the present and future state of American education. Much has been written/discussed--on the Net, on teevee, in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals and anthologies--about the present and future state of American education. What are your thoughts on this topic? We hope to compile multiple perspectives into our Forum3 issue. To view WEBGEIST and submission guidelines go to: http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgist.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We also invite responses to any of the previous Forum essays, and will publish your responses on an ongoing basis. Please make your responses of sufficient magnitude in order to encourage continuing dialogue on the chosen topic. Also, we continue to make our ongoing general call for stories and poems, book, music, video, film, and CD reviews. Graphic artists are encouraged to submit small (30-50K) JPG or GIF files of artwork. We accept and publish fiction, poetry, and reviews on an ongoing basis. Thanks for your interest! --patrickB Patrick Bjork, Ph.D. Dept. of English Bismarck State College ******************************************************** http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/fallsp.html * http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgeist.html * ******************************************************** "Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice." --Wislawa Szymborska "Nothing Twice" (1957) From: minghao@cae.wisc.edu Subject: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:05:18 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 393 (393) CALL FOR PAPERS First World Conference on Network Assurance of Computer and Communication (NACC1) May 29 - June 1, 1997 NACC1 Conference University of Wisconsin, Madison, WISCONSIN, USA ********************************************************** Sponsored by: LMH International. ********************************************************** Brief Description and Themes: The security problem of computer-communication networks has attracted some attention in past few years. The human fact of security is almost always ignored in such consideration. Due to current needs, we have to consider in the situation when computer people work in an environment where their own activity and privacy are not secured. In such case, we have to consider the security problem along with some extra networks which are created by that environment. A Star Net is one of such nets where one of the person's security is not guaranteed, or everyone else can read that person's mind any time. We are interested in the resolution of how well that computer person could possibly protect his/her intellectual property. A Galaxy Net is one of such nets where more than one person is not secured, or everyone else can read these people's minds any time. We are interested in the resolution of how well these computer people could possibly protect their intellectual properties. Generally, A Di-graph Net is one of such nets where everyone's security of mind or mind readability by others are specified by a di-graph or a reading relation. We are interested in the resolution of how well these computer people could possibly protect their intellectual properties. In particular, A Chaos Net is Di-graph Net whose corresponding di-graph is a complete di-graph. Similar resolution is in interests. In above cases, the computer nets are arbitrary and need to do case studies. Linguistic and game theory could put into consideration. ************************************************************ Submission: A copy of extend abstract (maximum 1000 words) of high quality should be send to: Minghao Lee 424 W. Wilson Madison, WI 53703 ************************************************************ ************************************************************ Tel. (608)284-1510 E-mail. minghao@cae.wisc.edu ************************************************************ ************************************************************ Groups interested in co-sponsorship are invited to send inquiry to LMH International 424 West Wilson Madison, WI 53703, USA ************************************************************ From: Subject: Story Grammar Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 394 (394) Story Grammar. I was wondering if someone of the Humanist could help me out on the following: Is there is a similarity between syntactical structures and narratology? I've heard that there have been studies and programs to this thesis (story-grammar), but I'd like to know more about it. Are there standard works? Is there literature available? And what about research projects and results? Is there a paradigma? Which programs are used to analyse texts (in both narratologic and syntactic way) and why do people prefer this program above another program? I would like to graduate on such a thesis, although I know this has a much too wide setting for a graduation. If there's anyone who could help me out on literature, websites, etcetera I'd be very thankful. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Nico. Nico Weenink Utrecht University, The Netherlands Department of Literature Department of Linguistics noki@worldonline.nl From: Ian Graham Subject: 3rd annual Women's Studies on the Net Seminar (CFP) (fwd) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:42:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 395 (395) Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] -- Ian Graham ................................. ian.graham@utoronto.ca Information Commons Tel: 416-978-4548 University of Toronto Fax: 416-978-7705 ................. http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/ ..................... From: Patrick Bjork Subject: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:02:14 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 396 (396) In the recent post for Webgeist's call for Forum3 submissions, I provided an incorrect address; it should be: http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgeist.html Sorry!! Patrick Bjork Dept. of English Bismarck State College Patrick Bjork, Ph.D Dept. of English Bismarck State College http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgeist.html "An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining" --Anonymous From: Subject: The Wizard of Menlo Park (was: cybercultural studies) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 397 (397) Help! I saw the Discovery Channel program on Thomas Edison some months ago, and I also had in my hands, in the summer of 1995, a book which featured the self-same caricature of the famous inventor--but now I can't seem to recover it: "The Wizard of Menlo Park" shows Edison in his laboratory, his head huge, and crowned with a pointed sorceror's cap. If any of you humanists with "cyberculture" interests, or interests in history of science or popular culture know of this caricature and where it's published, how I could get permissions to reproduce it, etc., I would be indebted. I'm working on the popular demonizations of famous inventors/scientists, but my study does take me into more recognizably cybercultural areas. Meanwhile, how to get this picture? Frustrated at my slippery fingers... Yours sincerely, Sarah L. Higley slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu From: Subject: Re: 10.0615 report from Academe; new Roman stuff Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 398 (398) The first item in Humanist 10.0165 quotes an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which Francis Morrone is cited saying [deleted quotation] The second item announces yet another new on-line development, the VRoma Project: [deleted quotation] The juxtaposition was interesting and canny. Where's the disjunction? None of the great classicists of the past, I suspect, would fail to gasp at the prospect of having all the great reference works at their fingertips, without having to weigh folios and turn pages, or of being able to communicate directly with students and colleagues in different cities through a _written_ (self-recording) medium in "real time." VRoma is wise enough to say "a variety of formats." The book will not disappear, even when the long sleep of print is over. Francis Morrone is correct to point out that a computer display is not well suited for "sustained and consecutive reading." Does that make a project like VRoma necessarily misconceived? I doubt it, although I expect VRoma, like many other such projects, will be engaged in an exciting, challenging discovery of what on-line media are really good for. Maybe not sustained and consecutive reading. But the equation between this and "research and learning" is too simplistic, and any decent scholar knows there's plenty of opportunistic, non-consecutive work as well. This is old news to readers of HUMANIST. Research and learning involves sustained and consecutive attention, as it involves contact with the insights and passions of others, as it does the creative labor of assembling bits, scraps and chunks into a coherent, personal whole which not even the wisest of teachers can make for the readiest of students (or anyone but her- or himself). The point is well taken that the automaton will fail at the task the wise teacher knows not to usurp. Will we, likewise, be able to refrain from identifying the education with the medium, either of network or bound volume? Wendell Piez Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities piez@rci.rutgers.edu ___&&__&_&___&_&__&&&__&____&__&&____&&&&___&__&_&&_____&__&__&&_____&_&&___ From: Norm Holland Subject: Re: 10.0616 story grammar? Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 11:03:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 399 (399) The theory that people usually use for story-grammar is Vladimir Propp's (based on a phrase-structure grammar). It is not widely known that there is a much superior story-grammar by George Lakoff (based on transformational grammar). The only print reference I have is "Structural Complexity in Fairy Tales," _The Study of Man_ 1 (1972): 128-50. The essay was Lakoff's M.A. thesis at Indiana U. in 1964. To get a copy, you might ewrite to Lakoff at lakoff@cogsci.berkeley.edu Good luck, Norm Holland +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Norman N. Holland Department of English / P. O. Box 117310 | | University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611-7310 | | Tel: (352) 377-0096 Fax: (352) 392-0860 | | (352) 392-7332 INTERNET: nnh@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu | | World Wide Web: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: Gary Shawver Subject: Re: 10.0616 story grammar? Date: 22 Jan 97 18:12:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 400 (400) Gerald Prince in _A Dictionary of Narratology_ defines "story grammar" as "A grammar or series of statements and formulas interrelated by an ordered set or [sic] rules and accounting for (the structure of) a set of STORIES; a grammar specifying the "natural" constituents of (a set of) stories and characterizing their relations." His latest bibliographical entry for this is Black, John G. and Gordon H. Bower. "Story Understanding as Problem-Solving." _Poetics_ 9:223-50 1980. I'm sure there has been other work done since then. Sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------- Gary W. Shawver E-Mail W3 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/> --------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Apollon Subject: EUROLIT - INVITATION TO PARTNERSHIP - SEMIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:53:00 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 401 (401) U R G E N T Dear colleagues and and semiotic association, As some of you already know, we are launching a new Socrates project as a spin-off of Humanities II. Our new project is codde-named EUROLIT. Already, several universities have committed themselves to this new project. We are asking you to respond urgently to the following call to participate in a new SOCRATES ODL project with application deadline 01-02-1997 (NB !). I am asking you to react immediately to this invitation an fax me a letter of intent (FAX +47 55 58 48 52). Annex below: 1.Example of letter of intent 2.Project Abstract. Do not hesitate to contact me, Yours sincerely, Daniel Apollon 1996 Humanities Task Force Literature ============================================================================ Fax to: Dr.Daniel Apollon +47 55 58 52 On institution's letterhead signed by a senior official: Institution paper Name of official Adress Phone Fax Email Date LETTER OF INTENTION - PARTICIPATION IN THE EUROLIT SOCRATES APPLICATION We have contributed to and agree to this proposal. We will take part in this project subject to satisfactory negotiations and we intend to continue working with the consortium after the project completion. The above partner agree to actively collaborate with the University of Bergen and Coimbra Group, through the project coordinator. and the rest of the partners in the project called EUROLIT to be applied under the SOCRATES program,ODL Action 01-02-1997 As partner we accept the responsibility to disseminate and transfer the results of the project.The partners will be responsible for planning, coordinating and monitoring and acting as focal point for contact with partners in other countries. On behalf of Place and date Sign. and Stamp ============================================================================ NAME: EUROLIT (until we find something better) European Network for Literary Studies in a Multimedia Environment in Higher Education PROGRAMME: SOCRATES ODL Action DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 1.2.1997 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH,GERMAN, SPANISH MAIN POINTS: 1. To carry on successful cooperation between partner initiated within the Humanities project.To capitalize on practical experiences acquired during this project and integrate further Open and Distance Learning activities, virtual mobility aspect in the day-to-day practice of students, tutors and teachers. The partners will initiate transeuropean literature workshops offered to students and teachers from member universities using state-of-the-art information technology and telematics. Teaching and learnings activities will be focused at two -levels: 1) UNDERGRADUATEs studies: partners will seek to develop a common course/workshop aimed at new beginners in literary studies. The rationale is the following: in many departments a large amount of resources are concentrated on introductory activities, each department reinventing the wheel. Activities at an undergraduate level will seek to offer partners pedagogical products that can be integrated readily at a local level at that represent reday-to-use solutions to existing challenges. 2) POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP: Thesis guidance, teaching and research practice is hampered in many universities by limited expert resources. By creating a PhD level network of experts, PhD students and resources EUROLIT will encourage "thesis guidance brokerage" and develop practical solutions (pedagogical, human,and economical). Activity within this field will concentrate on the exploitation of ODL solutions to boost the development of a European PhD among partners. 2. Special efforts will be made to progress further towards more explicit collaborative schemes emphasizing learning environments. Didactic activities will therefore seek to capitalize on the evolution within the Humanities II project from pure "teaching" approaches to "learner-centered" approaches. As part of this effort towards learner-centeredness EUROLIT will initiate a transnational survey among students of literature in Europe in order to gain among other things comparative knowledge of recruitment patterns, professional expectations, attitudes towards European cooperation, learning styles, technological skills and cultural approaches to their field of studies. Thus, matching the "mapping" of the field of literary studies as seen and defined by teachers to the "mapping" of the field by learners will be a primary goal for this project. 3. EUROLIT will initiate activities intending to produce a systematic on-line description of the state of literary studies in a representative number of European institutions and produce an "atlas" of curricula, research programmes, human resources thus offered our users a structured description of the diversity of professional and academic approaches to the field. 4. EUROLIT will give special attention to the new challenges posed to teachers in literary studies in Higher Education by the following developments in Europe: 1) the shift from a book-based culture to a media culture, 2) the shift from a mass media culture to a personal media 3) the "spread" of literariness to larger areas and the convergence of literature and "media" in diverse fields. 4) Regional specializations and alternative understanding of our common field of study 5) The diversity of origanizational treatments given to literary studies within European Academia 5. EUROLIT will develop a concerted pedagogical approach to teaching and learning issues in literary studies integrating new technologies (virtual classrooms, telematics, Internet) in dayly teaching and learning practice. To foster developments EUROLIT will "network" students and teachers in a durable and professional acceptable way to partners. 6. EUROLIT will seek to anchor in a more robust way previous initiatives within departments, faculties and centres and develop permanent institutional links encompassing curriculum development,credit recognition and exchange of teaching resources. As part of this excercise the partners will initiate a cooperation aiming at interfacing in a more visible way existing ICP within Erasmus to this activities (linking physical to virtual mobility in a more explicit way), but all the time with a stress on Open and Distance Learning approaches. 7.Several association of comparative literature and semiotic studies will be invited as partners. 8. Invited US partners in our reflection. STRUCTURE: EUROLIT will be composed of 3 groups: 1) A coordinating institution: the University of Bergen, in close cooperation with the Coimbra Group 2) University partners organized in Task Forces, having the responsability to produce several work-packages. Each Task Force will be allocated a own budget. Each partner University will be given special responsibilities to head well-defined activities. 3) A logistic and pedagogical support structure represented by the Coimbra Group of Universities 4) Technical partners assisting Task Forces in their activities BUDGET: Roughly 400.000-600.000 ECU. SOCRATES Grant 200000-3000 ECU COORDINATING INSTITUTION: University of Bergen, Norway. From: David Green Subject: CCUMC Teleconference on Fair Use Guidelines (fwd) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:12:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 402 (402) Below is the forwarded announcement of a teleconference on Proposed Multimedia Guidelines on the Fair Use of multi-media material, organized by the Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC) and the PBS Adult Learning Service. Although these Proposed Guidelines, and the process by which they were achieved, remain controversial within the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), I thought this event might interest many subscribers. Because of the controversy, NINCH has not included these proposed guidelines on its CONFU Resources page on the NINCH Web site. However, the proposal is available at <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/avs/fairuse/default.html> [deleted quotation] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VIDEOCONFERENCE TO DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF FAIR USE GUIDELINES FOR EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA February 20, 1997, 1-3 pm ET Produced by the Consortium of College and University Media Centers and PBS Adult Learning Service License Fees: By January 23, 1997 Standard Fee: $350 CCUMC/ALSS/TBC Associates: $250 After January 23, 1997 Standard Fee: $375 CCUMC/ALSS/TBC Associates: $275 Questions? Call PBS Customer Support Center: 1-800-257-2578 FAX PBS Customer Support Center: 703-739-8495 or 703-739-0775 Visit the PBS/ALSS Web site: http://www.pbs.org/als/programs/vc/fairuse2.html PBS Adult Learning Service, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698 What will be covered? The Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia were adopted in September, 1996, in a non-legislative report by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property. Prior to these guidelines, an instructor who wanted to include excerpts from multiple sources and multiple formats as part of a multimedia teaching project risked being sued by one or more copyright holders. Although the guidelines do not have the force of law, they provide guidance to educational users and encourage the creation of multimedia teaching projects while protecting the rights of copyright holders. This live satellite videoconference will explain what the final fair use guidelines for educational multimedia permit and what they prohibit by clarifying and interpreting how the guidelines can be used in real-world situations. Two panels will be available for this discussion and to answer your questions. Panel one will include six members of the Fair Use Guidelines Working Committee who, over a period of two years, met regularly to develop guidelines that balanced the interests of educators and copyright owners. Members of this panel will interpret and clarify the guidelines, shed light upon the development process, discuss the congressional validation process and the committee's relationship with CONFU (Conference on Fair Use), and field questions from the audience. Panelists: --Mary Levering, Associate Register for National Copyright Programs, US Copyright Office; --Lisa Livingston, Director of Instructional Media, City College/City University of New York, and Chair Government Regulation and Public Policy Committee, Consortium of College and University Media Centers; --Carol Risher, Vice President for Copyright and New Technology, Association of American Publishers; --Judith Saffer, Assistant General Counsel, Broadcast Music Inc., and President, Copyright Society of the United States; --Bernard Sorkin, Senior Counsel, Time Warner, Inc. ; --Joann Stevens, Vice President for Communications, Association of American Colleges and Universities; --Moderator: Paul Anthony. Panel two will include six educators and other "fair users" who will offer insight into the importance of the guidelines to the educational community, provide practical advice on implementation, and respond to call-in questions and to comments by the first panel. Panelists: --Jerri Linke, Director of Media, Willmar Senior High School, Willmar, Minnesota; --Rose Marino, Associate General Counsel, University of Kansas; --Dr. Mary Lou Mosley, Associate Dean of Instruction, Paradise Valley Community College, Maricopa Community College District, Phoenix, Arizona; --Dr. Donald Rieck, Executive Director, Consortium of College and University Media Centers; --Larry Vice, President-Elect, National Association of Regional Media Centers; --Stanley Zenor, Executive Director, Association for Educational Communications and Technology; --Moderator: Pat Boddy. Complete text of the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia may be found at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/avs/fairuse/default.html ### -- David Green Executive Director National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) 21 Dupont Circle, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 (202) 296-5346 Internet: david@cni.org From: David Green Subject: PORT: Navigating Digital Culture Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:19:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 403 (403) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 22 WHILE IN CAMBRIDGE........ I haven't seen announcement of this event in connection with the ECOMONICS OF DIGITAL INFORMATION conference in Cambridge, but for those on this list who will be in Cambridge, Mass, this weekend (for the conference or not) you may be interested in the Saturday Opening and Friday Reception of PORT: NAVIGATING DIGITAL CULTURE, an exhibition at MIT. Also see the Web Site: <http://artnetweb.com/port/> David Green [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Recent advances in NLP Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 404 (404) _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ ************************************************************* * * * CFP: Second International Conference * * "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" * * * * 11-13 September 1997 * * Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria * * * * http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html * * * ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The first International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Languages Processing (RANLP) was held in 1995. Given the high quality of the presented papers and the overall success of the event, we now plan to organise the conference biennially. Selected papers from the proceedings of the conference are published as a book by John Benjamins as part of their Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT) series. TOPICS OF INTEREST Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Language Processing are invited, including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; electronic dictionaries; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; terminology; text summarisation; message routing, text classification; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. The conference also welcomes new results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches. In general, the conference especially welcomes any contribution to the area of language processing in view of the imminent developments in information technology. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: RANLP'97 Elisabeth Andre (DFKI, Saarbruecken) Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) Chris Brew (University of Edinburgh) John Carroll (University of Sussex) Robert Dale (Microsoft Research Institute, Australia) Rodolfo Delmonte (Universira Ca' Foscari, Venice) Steve Finch (Thomson Technology, Rockville) Guenter Goerz (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg) Eva Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) Ed Hovy (ISI/University of Southern California) Pierre Isabelle (CITI, Laval) Richard Kittredge (University de Montreal) Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg) Karen Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown) Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University) Susann LuperFoy (MITRE Corporation, McLean) Carlos Martin Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona) Yusi Matsumoto (Nara Inst of Science & Technology) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex) Stephen Pullman (SRI, Cambridge) James Pustejovsky (University of Brandeis) Allan Ramsay (UMIST, Manchester) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento) Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon) Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI, Vienna) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest) Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo/UMIST) Atro Voutalainen (University of Helsinki) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) Zaharin Yusoff (University of Science Malaysia, Penang) Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS) PAPER SUBMISSION FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Papers should not exceed 3500 words and should be less than 10 pages. Format specifications and a LaTeX style sheet are available though the RANLP web site. HARD COPIES: Four hard copies should be sent to: Ruslan Mitkov School of Languages and European Studies University of Wolverhampton Stafford Street Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: UNIX PS files should be sent to: Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk) INFO EMAIL: Authors should send an info email to Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk) filing in the form below: # NAME : Name of first author # TITLE: Title of the paper # PAGES: Number of pages # FILES: Name of file (if also submitted electronically) # NOTE : Anything you'd like to add # KEYS : Keywords # EMAIL: Email of the first author # ABSTR: # Abstract of the paper # . . . . . . IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline 2 May 1997 (Hard Copy/Electronic) Paper Notification 25 Jun 1997 Camera-Ready Papers Due 15 Jul 1997 RANLP Conference 11-13 Sep 1997 INVITED SPEAKERS The invited speakers of the conference are outstanding academics including Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield). Others are expected to confirm their participation soon. LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. ORGANISING COMMITTEE GENERAL Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex) - Vice-Chair Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg) Michael Zock (LIMSI CNRS) REGISTRATION, TRAVEL, ON-SITE ARRANGEMENTS Victoria Arranz (UMIST, Manchester) Malgorzata Stys (University of Cambridge) LOCAL ORGANISATION Nikolai Nikolov (Incoma, Shumen) - Treasurer & Coordinator Iliana Raeva (Technical University, Russe) Jordan Tabov (Institute of Mathematics, Sofia) CONFERENCE INFORMATION Visit RANLP'97 home page at: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html If you need additional information contact: Nicolas Nicolov Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH, UK Tel: +44-1273 678408 Fax: +44-1273 671320 Email: nicolas@cogs.sussex.ac.uk RELATED EVENTS Conference participants are also invited to take part in the International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in the same location. Further information on the summer school can be obtained from Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk) and Malgorzata Stys (m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk). INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS/ PUBLISHING COMPANIES/ DEMOS/EXHIBITS Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books on NLP. Company representatives should inform Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.sussex.ac.uk) of their intention. Likewise for people from academia who wish to make demos. Publishers wishing to exhibit/ promote books please contact Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk). ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on 7 hills 75 km away from Tzigov Chark. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS A second call for papers, including more information on invited talks, conference location and accommodation, registration fees and bank accounts, will come out in due course. The information on the web will be kept updated: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html From: Subject: address needed Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 405 (405) Can anyone help me with an address; I need an e-mail address for this person: Monsieur Michel Becquet Directeur CPTAH/Centre de Formation des Techniciens Agricoles et Horticoles, Convention du Conseil Regional "Le Plessis" 37360 St-Antoine du Rocher France I haven't been able to find one in conventional indices, but my colleague thinks there is surely an e-mail address. Please answer off the list. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Patrick W. Conner o phone:(304) 293-3107 Department of English | P.O. BOX 6296 x e-mail: U47C2@wvnvm.wvnet.edu West Virginia University | Morgantown, WV 26506-6296 o fax:(304) 293-5380 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Jim Marchand Subject: unknown genre/modesty Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 09:56:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 406 (406) Brevity is the soul of wit and I will be brief: A friend of mine kept this thread, which I had ignored, and used it to upbraid me for not having written about it out of ignorance. Not so, I should think that all the examples cited fit quite well under the term apophasis, or so I was taught as a Tennessee schoolboy, where debating was about the only good subject we had. But this leads to a twofold problem. 1. Obviously, we moderns would rather cite examples or go to Curtius or (horresco referens) Auerbach for our rhetoric. This leads to a kind of skewed view which Merton called `the palimpsestic syndrome', as if the last person one heard it from was the inventor of the concept. One even hears `Curtius' Unsagbarkeitstopos' or `Curtius' Affektierte Bescheidenheit', and, whereas Curtius is one of my heroes also, he for the most part is just trying to echo ancient rhetoric. 2. Let us suppose me to be right in calling this sort of thing apophasis or one of its subcategories. Would it do any good for me to speak of `apophasis in Hamlet'? You cannot use vocabulary which is not commonly understood in the scholarly community. As classical upbringing slowly fades from the scene, this becomes more painfully obvious. Anyone who writes on `Acyrologia in the Poems of Ausias March' is blowing bubbles at the wind. Que faire? Aegritudo senectutis garrulitas Jim Marchand. From: Steve McCarty Subject: Unknown genre or communication style? Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:56:29 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 407 (407) Dear Professor McCarty, Though the following occurs in the Japanese language, could it be a case of the unknown genre or trope you were concerned with? If not, please do not subject the list to my ingenuousness, as it may appear nepotistic when I am at best your distant relative ; - ) I had been reporting on my in situ research findings in a series for the regional vernacular newspaper. Among my surprising findings was that, over a thousand years ago in the Heian Period, pilgrims perceived a mountain range as a mandala with Buddhist divinities riding the mountaintops and the mountains themselves the bodies of gods harking back to the proto-Shintoism of over two thousand years ago. A very famous Shinto shrine was little known to have been a Buddhist temple before the Meiji Restoration of 1868. It had practiced Buddhist-Shinto syncretism, identifying folk Chinese divinities as well with the Buddhist and Shinto ones. Many readers were apparently amused by the article and the illustration I had a local artist do of the mountains over the town of Kotohira as an international intersection of the gods. But soon I received a letter from the head priest of the temple in question. He disagreed with one point I made about the history of his temple, since he should have known if it were so. But he prefaced this by saying that he had not studied enough. This is typical of the Japanese communication style, such as starting a speech with an apology where Americans often do so with a joke. Deliberately poor speaking at first also establishes rapport with the audience through sympathy or compensation. Humbling oneself and one's group while exalting the audience is embedded in the very register of the language, which constitutes a nearly ironclad protocol. Indeed, almost the only way out of it is via the ambiguity that is an equally customary part of this communication style. For more on this, see my _Webgeist_ column installment at URL http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/rim3.html Ambiguity gives them the maneuvering room that would not be afforded by enumerating all the reasons that their thesis does not make a sufficient contribution. When the priest said "not studied enough," with the subject omitted in Japanese when it is understood from the context, it also carried the subtle criticism that I had studied even less. (Anyone care to quantify the high-context languages of East Asia when nothing less than a pragmatic/cultural dictionary is necessary but not forthcoming?). Anyway, I wrote back to the priest telling him that his father had been my informant about the temple's history. Most of the elderly priests I interviewed over a decade ago are no longer with us and have taken precious lore with them, forgotten along with much else of no utility in Japan's headlong rush to modernize. In retrospect, more than the anecdote this letter itself may be partly a case of the unknown genre you are exploring. To the East-West bicultural in me this communication style has become natural. It also suggests a 'pluriculturalization' of the monocultural Western paradigm that has dominated academic discourse up to now. Yours truly, Steve McCarty steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc_conf/bios/mccarty.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: imaging Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:08:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 408 (408) Many Humanists will be glad to know that the fine and beautifully produced booklet by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant, Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database, published by the Getty, has been made available on the Getty Information Institute web site, at the URL: <http://www.ahip.getty.edu/intro_imaging/0-Cover.html>. The whole site is well worth a look. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Jim Campbell Subject: The MOST - A virtual exhibit Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:08:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 409 (409) What? THE MOST OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS! An exhibit of rare books, manuscripts, and other objects in the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library. 21 categories of the most rare, important, peculiar, or deplorable items in the collections are on display, some of them for the first time. Categories include the Most Beautiful, the Rarest, the Oldest, the Most Royal, the Naughtiest, the Most Controversial, and more. Among the items on exhibit are: -the most beautiful book ever printed -the original manuscript of a great American masterpiece written by a 22-year-old -Columbus's letter announcing the discovery of America -a naughty _Huckleberry Finn_ -special collections in cyberspace! -hair from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee's horse, and Queen Victoria's cat -first editions of six great books that were censored -the Cowardly Lion's copy of _The Wizard of Oz_, and Walt Disney's original drawing of Snow White and the Witch -a complete book small enough to fit in a thimble -the most famous cigar in history Why? "The exhibit is intended to display the unexpected breadth and depth of our holdings, and also to attract college and high school students who do not normally encounter rare books and manuscripts." --Karin Wittenborg, University Librarian Where? http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/most/ When? Now! Questions? Contact the Special Collections Department at mssbks@virginia.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: (you may leave this blank) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:20:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 410 (410) join ScotLangLit.c19-c20 Mary Smith stop ----------------------- _______________________________________________________ Jean Anderson STELLA, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK email: j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 fax: +44 (0)141 330 4537 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:19:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 411 (411) [deleted quotation] We have set up an experimental email server for annotating English text with grammatical Part-of-Speech tags. 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If you do have any problems accessing this tagger or have any bugs to report, please email: sean@scs.leeds.ac.uk. Please also let us know if you find this tagger useful. (If you wish to see this help file only, please type 'help' as the subject of a blank message.) From: Joanne Woolway (Assoc. Editor, EMLS) Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies - New Issue Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:41:55 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 412 (412) The December issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (2.3) is now available at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html and at our Oxford mirror site at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/UK/emlshome.html The new issue contains material listed in the contents page below as well as links to electronic resources, interactive EMLS (including calls for papers, conference programs, work in progress and electronic papers), and to several other projects. Submissions and enquiries should be directed to Joanne Woolway Oriel College, Oxford emls@english.ox.ac.uk Raymond G. Siemens Joanne Woolway Editor Co-Editor Articles: * Popular Hermeneutics: Monstrous Children in English Renaissance Broadside Ballads. Helaine Razovsky, Northwestern State University. * Production Resources at the Whitefriars Playhouse, 1609-1612. Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta. * "Ay me": Selfishness and Empathy in "Lycidas." Jean E.Graham, The College of New Jersey. Note: * Reflections on Milton and Ariosto. Roy Flannagan, Ohio University. Reviews: * Robert Weimann. Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse. Ed. David Hillman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,1995. Anthony Johnson, Abo Akademi University. * Thomas H. Luxon. Literal Figures Puritan Allegory & the Reformation Crisis in Representation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. David Gay, University of Alberta. * Rebecca W. Bushnell. A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. Charles David Jago, University of British Columbia. * Graham Parry. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of The Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. F. J. Levy, University of Washington. * Simon Jarvis. Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria. * Susan Bennett. Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past. New York: Routledge, 1996. Robert Grant Williams, Nipissing University. * Garry Wills. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP / NY Public Library, 1995. Michael T. Siconolfi, Gonzaga University. * Naomi Conn Liebler. Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Rituals Foundations of Genre. New York: Routledge, 1995. Jeffrey Kahan. * Gordon Williams. A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature. 3 vols. London and New Jersey: Athlone P, 1994. Douglas Bruster,University of Texas, San Antonio. * W. S. "A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter." Compact disk recording read by Harry Hill. Dir. Paul Hawkins. Text Ed. Donald W. Foster. Montreal: Concordia University, 1996.Sean Lawrence, University of British Columbia. * Sir Thomas More. Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Eds. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams and Clarence Miller.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Romuald I. Lakowski. From: "Judith S. Sparrow" Subject: 1997 TIIAP Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:23:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 413 (413) From: Gerald Harnett Subject: The Perpetual Aristotle: Spring, 1997 Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:17:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 414 (414) THE PERPETUAL ARISTOTLE The Perpetual Aristotle is a series of 4 on-line seminars in Aristotelian logic commencing this spring under the sponsorship of the Aldine Press, a nonprofit organization. All 4 seminars will be repeated every year in two semesters in tandem with the normal university academic year. The Perpetual Aristotle also hosts a library of on-line information of use to students of Aristotle, including bibliographies and downloadable texts. Two seminars are currently scheduled to begin next Wednesday, Jan 27: Posterior Analytics I, moderated by James South, and Posterior Analytics II, moderated by Scott Carson. Other seminars will be scheduled if we have sufficient expression of interest by subscribers. There is a fee of $100 for participation in each seminar. This fee can be reduced if a subscriber shows evidence of financial need. It is hoped that persons who can afford to do so will contribute more generously to support the mission of the Perpetual Aristotle. To receive a copy of the mission statement of the Perpetual Aristotle and a description of the seminar in which you are interested, send an email message to: postmaster@aldinepress.com with one sentence in the body of the message. This sentence should consist of the word "info" followed by the abbreviation of the seminar in which you are interested. For example, if you are interested in information about Posterior Analytics I, the sentence should read: info anpo1 The director of the Perpetual Aristotle is Gerald Harnett, whom you may contact directly at: harnett@aldinepress.com Below is a list of the seminars: THE FOUR SEMINARS Each of the four seminars is divided into two parts, the first conducted between September and December, the second between January and May, of each year. They are listed below followed by their email addresses: CATEGORIES I categ1@aldinepress.com CATEGORIES II categ2@aldinepress.com PRIOR ANALYTICS I anpr1@aldinepress.com PRIOR ANALYTICS II anpr2@aldinepress.com POSTERIOR ANALYTICS I anpo1@aldinepress.com POSTERIOR ANALYTICS II anpo2@aldinepress.com TOPICS I topics1@aldinepress.com TOPICS II topics2@aldinepress.com *De Interpretione* will be included with either CATEGORIES or PRIOR ANALYTICS. The seminars are organized in one or the other of two formats: the survey and the thematically-oriented discussion. The former is appropriate for both intermediate and advanced students of Aristotle; the latter, for advanced students. _________________________________ The Perpetual Aristotle Gerald Harnett, Dir. The Aldine Press, Ltd. 304 South Tyson Ave. Glenside, PA 19038 EMAIL: harnett@aldinepress.com WWW: http://www.aldinepress.com Tel.: 215-884-1086 Fax: 215-884-3304 From: H-Editor Moderator Peter Knupfer Subject: Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:12:31 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 415 (415) 1997 DEADLINE DATES FOR NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION GRANTS The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities. TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY is a special NEH initiative to support projects that use today's rapidly evolving information technologies to improve teaching and learning in the humanities. Proposals may be submitted for all categories and deadlines. The Education Development and Demonstration Program offers the following programs: *Humanities Focus Grants* Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with colleagues from your school building, school district, college or university. Work with humanities scholars. Application deadlines: April 18, 1997 and September 15, 1997 Funding available: up to $25,000 *Materials Development Projects* Develop educational materials for national dissemination. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Curricular Development and Demonstration Projects* Design a humanities study project for teachers or college faculty. Join with scholars from nearby colleges, universities, museums, and other cultural organizations to promote an ongoing academic partnership. Prepare model courses or curricula. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Dissemination and Diffusion Projects* Share information on exemplary projects in humanities education through national conferences, workshops, and networks. Application deadline: October 1, 1997 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please write or call: Education Development and Demonstration Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: education@neh.fed.us TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282 Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web site: <http://www.neh.fed.us> From: vogel@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Graduate Study in Text/Speech Processing Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:56:28 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 416 (416) UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, TRINITY COLLEGE M.PHIL. COURSE IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING [Note: this is a reminder about a taught course which has existed for a few years now; it is also possible to register for a Ph.D. in computational linguistics at Trinity College, however that is managed through application to the participarting departments (Computer Science or the Center for Language and Communication Studies) rather than application to a taught course.] This course, which shares a common core with M.Phil. courses in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, is offered by the Centre for Language and Communication Studies. AIMS 1. To introduce students to central concepts in linguistics and to techniques of linguistic description and analysis. 2. To proceed from this basis to more advanced study of major topics in computational linguistics and speech science. 3. Via the dissertation component, to introduce students to research in computational linguistics or speech science. ADMISSION Applicants are normally required to possess a good primary degree or equivalent qualification. Previous knowledge of linguistics is not a requirement. Application for admission should be made to the Dean of Graduate Studies before 30 April 1997. DURATION The course is taken full-time in one calendar year (October to September) or part-time in two calendar years. Only the part-time option is available to students who require to remain in employment while taking their course. PROGRAMME OF STUDY The content of the course is expressed in two bands, A and B, each comprising six hours' teaching per week in Michaelmas (Fall) and Hilary (Winter) terms and four hours' teaching per week in Trinity (Spring) term. BAND A: Introduction to syntax; introduction to semantics/ pragmatics; introduction to logic and Prolog; syntax in generative grammar; semantic theory; computational linguistics; current issues in syntactic theory; linguistic pragmatics. BAND B: Introduction to phonetics and phonemics; descriptive and practical phonetics; introduction to morphology; processing of speech signals; instrumental phonetics; speech technology and applications; phonology; current issues in speech science. As well as following the above programme of study, students write a dissertation of not more than 20,000 words in computational linguistics or speech science ASSESSMENT Students are assessed on the basis of their performance in (i) six assignments of not more than 2,500 words each, related to the principal components of the course, and (ii) their dissertation. Assignments must be submitted not later than two weeks after the end of the term in which they are set; dissertations must be submitted not later than 30 September in the year in which the course is completed. Candidates who satisfy the examiners in everything but the dissertation may be awarded a diploma in Speech and Language Processing; alternatively, on payment of the prescribed fee they may be allowed to register for a further year, revise their dissertation, and re-submit it at the end of that year. FEES (1996-7 level, in Irish Pounds) EU non-EU Annual fee (first year) 1,962 5,624 Annual fee (second year, part-time) 638 1,769 FURTHER INFORMATION Further information is ). See also CLCS's pages at Trinity College's Web site (http://www.tcd.ie/CLCS) for information about staff and research interests. Informal inquiries can be made via e-mail to the CLCS secretary, Philomena McQuaid at pmcquaid@tcd.ie. From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: FW: Post Colonial Literatures Group. Date: 28 Jan 1997 09:36:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 417 (417) The Open University Post Colonial Literatures Group announces a seminar on Friday 31st, January. Speaker: Professor Jeanne Colleran, Head of English Dept., John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. "Theatre and Technological Colonization" This talk addresses the implications for theatre of working in a public space already colonized by the spectacular images of information technology. Taking the war in the Persian Gulf as the historical starting point for the phenomena of "total television" that dominated media practices in the West, the discussion will then move to what strategic aesthetic practices are available to a political theatre forced to reside and operate within a visual culture where the accessibility, immediacy, and ubiquity of media images allow little room for alternate practices. Prof. Colleran is well known for her writings on Modern Drama, and addressed our recent conference on SA Theatre in London. Venue: 30 Russell Square, London ... meet in the foyer for room number etc. Time: I.00pm For information, please contact Dr. Marcia Blumberg - Email to: M.Blumberg@open.ac.uk phone: 0171-834-7587 From: Patrick Bjork Subject: Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 15:20:48 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 418 (418) TRENDS AND ISSUES IN ONLINE INSTRUCTION Second Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference April 1-3, 1997 The entire conference will be conducted online. Participants will "attend" presentations via the WWW, and they'll interact with presenters via email and live chat (MOO). They'll also have an opportunity to take multimedia WWW tours of Hawaii, mingle with other participants in the virtual Coconut Cafe (MOO), and discuss presentations on the special conference email list, CFORUM-L. Featured keynote speakers will be Jay Wootten, Kent State University-Salem, and Crawford Kilian, Capilano College. To register for the Second Annual TCC-L Online Conference: Trends and Issues in Online Instruction, April 1-3, 1997, sponsored by the Teaching in the Community Colleges List (TCC-L) and Kapiolani Community College, send the following one-line message: sub TCON-L YourFirstName YourLastName to: listproc@hawaii.edu There is no fee for participation, but all will be required to complete a registration form, which will be emailed when the subscription request is received. For further information, please write to Jim Shimabukuro . Patrick Bjork, Ph.D. Dept. of English Bismarck State College ******************************************************** http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/fallsp.html * http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/~bjork/webgeist/webgeist.html * ******************************************************** "Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice." --Wislawa Szymborska "Nothing Twice" (1957) From: Subject: hiatus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 419 (419) Dear Colleagues, Do not adjust your set. Humanist has in effect been offline for the last few days due to technical problems at this end. These have made it impossible for me to dial in from home and so to turn to Humanist at the accustomed hour. The same problem has interfered with distribution of timely information, for which I apologise -- again on behalf of inanimate equipment that knows no better because it knows not at all. Yours, WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: Subject: unknown genre Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 420 (420) Secondary literature on the unknown genre: Tore Janson, _Latin Prose Prefaces. Studies in Literary Convention_. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Studia Latina Stockholmiensia, 13 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell), 120 ff. We might call this the inadequacy (Unzulaenglichkeits=) topos, plied well by the ancients and Sam Irwin (sp?; "I'm just an old country lawyer"). Janson, p. 124, calls it "incompetence". Sometimes one can get God to help him out. A well known treatment is: Julius Schwietering, Die Demutsformel mittelhochdeutscher Dichter (Goettingen, 1921), if one is just looking for examples of the modesty topos. If you are really interested in digging deep, look at Gertrud Simon, "Untersuchungen zur Topik der Widmungsbriefe mittelalterlicher Geschichtsschreiber," _Archiv fuer Diplomatik, etc._ 4 (1958), 52-119, passim, and especially 5 (1959), 98 ff. and passim. Of course, there are the old standbys such as Norden, to whom she and Janson refer. Perhaps self-deprecation is a better term, though it is not always ones own insufficiency. Sometimes tongue cannot utter, even for Wordsworth. Jim Marchand. From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 10.0621 story grammar Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 15:58:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 421 (421) It may be no help at all, but in my dissertation I constructed a story=20 grammar based on both the Russian formalists and Chomsky back in 1973.=20 It's called "Transaction Units: An Approach to the Structural Study of=20 Narrative..." University of North Carolina, Comparative Literature,=20 1973. I actually later constructed a parser implementing some of it=20 (partly reported in "Testing a Theory of Narrative Analysis by=20 Computer," in Ager, Knowles, and Smith, Advances in Computer-Aided=20 Literary and Linguistic Research, 53-57, published by the University=20 of Birmingham in 1979). Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Subject: e-publishing conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 422 (422) ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING CONFERENCE This is to announce a conference entitled "Electronic Publishing", to take place this Friday at the Centre for English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London. Complete information for the conference is on the Web, URL: <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/9701-conference.html>. The conference is sponsored in part by the Office for Humanities Communication, recently moved to King's College London. The OHC has a new, not yet graphically sophisticated Web page with a listing of its publications, at the URL: <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/>. WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: "Judith S. Sparrow" Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: TIIAP Outreach Workshops Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:09:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 423 (423) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 30, 1997 TIIAP GRANT APPLICATION WORKSHOPS Following the announcement earlier this week of the latest round of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP) grants, the Dept. of Commerce has released a list of its application workshops to be held between February 14 and March 6 in Alexandria, VA, Nashua, NH, Chicago, IL, New Orleans and Phoenix, AZ ****************************************************************** NTIA announces a series of regional Outreach Workshops on the 1997 TIIAP Grant Round. The following is information on the Workshops. Call 202-482-2048 for more information and a registration form. Online registration is available on NTIA's web site: http://www.ntia.doc.gov The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the 1997 Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP) grant competition in the Federal Register on January 27, 1997. TIIAP is a highly competitive, merit-based grant program that provides assistance to public and nonprofit sector organizations with creative approaches to applying information and telecommunications technologies to solve community problems and meet community needs. NTIA received a $21.49 million appropriation for the 1997 TIIAP program. The deadline for submitting applications is March 27, 1997. TIIAP has organized a series of Outreach Workshops to discuss the TIIAP program, introduce the 1997 TIIAP grant round and discuss program funding priorities and application requirements, as well as afford an opportunity to meet TIIAP Program Officers and potential TIIAP applicants in your region of the country. In addition, recipients of previous TIIAP grants will speak at the Workshops to offer insights into developing a successful TIIAP proposal. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to breakout sessions that expand on topics introduced during the morning session. This is a key opportunity for interested parties to understand the TIIAP goals and process and meet representatives of other organizations interested in the TIIAP program. The information you find at the Workshops and the relationships you form can help you build critical alliances, explore new programs, and plan your technology strategy. The Outreach Workshops will be held on: Friday, February 14, Alexandria, Virginia, Crystal Gateway Marriott, (703) 920-3230 or (800)228-9290 Wednesday, February 19, Nashua, New Hampshire, Sheraton Tara Hotel, (603) 888-9970 or (800) 843-8272 Wednesday, February 26, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Marriott, (312) 836-0100 or (800) 228-0265 Tuesday, March 4, New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans Marriott, (504) 581-1000 or (800) 228-9290 Thursday, March 6, Phoenix, Arizona, Crowne Plaza Phoenix, (602) 257-1525 or (800) 359-7253 Registration will be held from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. The workshop will be held from 9:00-5:00 p.m. Seating is limited to approximately 500 persons at each event. Registration for each workshop is strongly advised. Fax the completed registration form to (202) 501-5136 or (202) 501-8009 or email the information to tiiap@ntia.doc.gov, or visit NTIA's web site at http://www.ntia.doc.gov for online registration. Attendance at the workshops is encouraged. However, if you are unable to attend a workshop you may contact the TIIAP office with any questions you may have about the 1997 grant round. Please contact hotel and airlines or travel agent directly to make travel arrangements. Attendees are financially responsible for travel and hotel accommodations. From: "Theodore F. Brunner" Subject: TLG Survey Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:47:23 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 424 (424) In conjunction with its most recent Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Newsletter, the TLG disseminated a survey form inquiring about the field's attitudes vis-a-vis the project's CD ROM licensing and fees policies. Responses to the survey are now in hand, have been collated, and have been posted on the TLG Web site (http://www.uci.edu/~tlg/) in summary form. The TLG is currently reviewing its policies in consequence of the survey results. In the meantime, reaction is invited to the survey summary. Post you comments here, or address them to Maria Pantelia (mcpantel@uci.edu). Theodore F. Brunner, Director Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-5550 Phone: (714) 824-6404 FAX: (714) 824-8434 E-mail: tbrunner@uci.edu TLG Home Page: http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: real-time to large amounts Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:12:47 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 425 (425) Humanists may wish to know about Idea 97, a conference to be held 7-8 July 1997 in Bath, England, on "the need for real time access to large domains of information in a distributed environment, which is triggering a wide range of new needs in organisations of all types and sizes." Additional information: <http://infonortics.com/idea97.html>. WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: OrfeO Subject: Re: SCIE97 1^announcement Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:37:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 426 (426) [deleted quotation] From: Yorick Wilks Subject: First International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation (Bellagio) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:37:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 427 (427) FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Bellagio, Italy, July 14th-16th 1997 ******************************************************************************** Usual apologies if you get this more than once! ******************************************************************************** This message contains details about registration and hotels. Its content along with previous messages about the purpose of the workshop, its program committee and how to submit papers (deadline March 29th) appear at URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/ ABOUT BELLAGIO - HOW TO GET THERE, REGISTRATION AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATION Bellagio is one of the most beautiful places we have visited in the entire world. It is located on the shores of Lake Como, the loveliest of all the Italian lakes, at the point where the three arms of the lake meet. Looking to the west, a journey of only 10 minutes by boat, one can see the small towns of Menaggio and Cadenabbia, as well as the Villa Carlotta with its famous gardens and sculpture collection. On the eastern shore lie many pretty villages, including Varenna which is also only a 10-minute boat ride away. Whatever direction one looks from Bellagio the views are exquisite. Bellagio was the summer residence of the Roman patricians and thereafter of the noble families of the region of Lombardy, who built many stupendous villas here. Poets and writers from every part of the world have visited and found inspiration in Bellagio: Pliny the younger, Longfellow, Mark Twain, Shelley, Stendhal, Flaubert, Faure, Liszt and Toscanini. The area around lake Como is famous for the production of beautiful silks. In addition local artisans offer carved olive wood, blown and decorated glass, handmade shoes and other leather goods. Among the delightful tourist sights in and around Bellagio are: VILLA SERBELLONI, which offers splendid views from its 8th century gardens; VILLA MELZI D'ERIL, a park full of azaleas and rhododendrons, as well as many interesting sculptures; VILLA CARLOTTA, built in 1747 and one of the gems of Lake Como; VILLA MONASTERO in Varenna, originally a 12th century Cistercian monastery; and the ISOLA COMACINA, a 12th century fortress which has beautiful views and a wonderful restaurant. There is also a golf course only 20-minutes away. Bellagio is an ideal place to visit as part of a vacation. The town of Como has excellent rail connections and within a few hours one can be in the Swiss alps, in Austria, in Southern Germany, or in any of the principal cities of northern Italy: Venice, Milan or Verona (where the opera festival will be in full swing before and after the workshop). Those of you who enjoy touring areas of great scenic beauty may like to visit the other Italian lakes: Garda, Maggiore and tiny Lake Orta. We have more than 40 years experience of travelling in this area and will be happy to advise anyone who needs assistance in planning their visit. HOW TO REACH BELLAGIO The best way for you to reach Bellagio will depend partly on how you intend to arrive in Northern Italy. The following information will give you the main options, but please do not hesitate to ask if you would like further advice or information. Arriving by air: The nearest useful airports to Bellagio are the two airports serving Milan. LINATE AIRPORT is mainly served by European scheduled services and is the closest to the city of Milan. From Linate one can travel into the centre of Milan (the airport bus arrives at the main railway station) from where it takes less than 1 hour by train to the city of Como. Once in Como take a taxi (a 5- minute ride) to Piazza Cavour from where the boats leave for Bellagio. The summer timetable for the boat service is not yet available but will be sent to everyone nearer the time. There are two types of boat - the Aliscarfi (express boat) which takes about 45 minutes and makes very few stops, and the slower boat which takes around 1 hour 15 minutes. My own preference is the slower boat because the journey on the lake is so beautiful it seems a pity to shorten it! MALPENSA AIRPORT is further from the centre of Milan and is served mainly by intercontinental flights and by charter airlines. From Malpensa one can also take the airport bus into Milan and then proceed as described above. We can also arrange to have a taxi or mini-bus meet you on arrival at Linate or Malpensa and drive you to Como (or to Bellagio if you do not wish to complete your journey by boat). Once we know the flight numbers and arrival times for all the delegates we will work out a taxipool schedule to minimize the cost. LUGANO AIRPORT (Switzerland) is a lesser used alternative. It is not a busy airport but if you can get a direct flight there it would be a convenient way to arrive. Travel from Lugano by taxi to Menaggio, on the western shore of Lake Como, and then take the boat across the lake. (10-minute journey, frequent sailings.) The boat from Menaggio will drop you a few feet from most of the hotels. Arriving by rail and boat: Como is about 1 hour north of Milan by rail. Or you can arrive from the north via Zurich (approx 4 hours), Geneva, etc. Once in Como we suggest that you take the boat as described above, though taxis will be happy to drive you to Bellagio. HOTEL ACCOMMODATION Bellagio offers a wide range of hotel accommodation from de-luxe 5-star down to 1-star. We are making arrangements with the following hotels but we would also try to help anyone who would prefer 2-star or 1-star accommodation. (There are no 4-star hotels in Bellagio but we have inspected the 3-star hotels listed below and believe them to offer very good value.) Below we give the rates per day for: [a] Room with breakfast; and [b] Half- board (room with breakfast and one meal). Room rates are given in Italian lira, together with the equivalent in $US calculated at today's exchange rate. All rates include tax and service. There are many pleasant restaurants in Bellagio, the best of which is at the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni. Even if you are not staying at this hotel you will certainly enjoy taking advantage of the opportunity to eat there. All of the other hotels mentioned have their own restaurants and there are many smaller restaurants spread around Bellagio. GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI (de-luxe 5-star) The hotel was opened in 1872 and has long been regarded as one of the leading hotels of the world. Among the many famous guests who have stayed there are English Lords, Russian Princes, European royalty, and the American Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. The hotel boasts a large swimming pool, a health and beauty centre (squash courts, sauna, Turkish baths, hydromassage, etc.) It has beautiful gardens and is located a 1-minute walk from the landing piers where the lake steamers arrive. Standard Double room: Single or double occupancy, Lira 479,000 per night ($299), including breakfast. For half board add L. 95,000 ($59) per person - this is for an excellent 4-course meal. De-luxe room with lake view: Single or double occupancy, Lira 651,000 per night ($407), including breakfast. For half board add L. 95,000 ($59) per person. It is possible to have a third person in a room. The supplements for room and breakfast only are approximately: $24 for a baby cot (up to 2 years); $35 (for children from 2-8 years of age); $53 (age 9-14); and $76 for 15 years and over. Supplements for half-board are approximately $59 (2-8 years); $87 (age 9-14); and $125 (15 years and over). For those of you interested in a longer stay but at a reduced cost, The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni also offers 13 self-contained apartments, all with 1 bedroom, 1 sitting room, kitchenette and bathroom. The apartments are located in a private park about 1-minute's walk from the hotel and are fitted with air conditioning, satellite TV and direct dial telephones. Apartments are available only by the week, with arrival and departure on Saturdays. Rates for a small apartment are approximately $900 per week, for medium sized apartments $1,075 per week and for large apartments $1,580 per week. An extra bed in one of these apartments is approximately $97 per week. HOTEL FLORENCE (3-star) This hotel has no swimming pool but the food is outstanding. The hotel overlooks the edge of the lake and is next door to the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni. Satellite TV and telephone in every room. Double room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 210,000 ($131); [b] Half-board L. 320,000 ($200). Single room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 155,000 ($97); [b] Half-board L. 200,000 ($125). HOTEL BELVEDERE (3-star) Situated on a gentle hill less than 10-minutes' walk from the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, with its own gardens, terrace, solarium, private parking area and garage, and swimming pool. It has a superb view of the lake. All rooms have satellite TV, radio, mini-bar, safe, hair dryer and telephone. Double room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 218,000 ($136); [b] Half-board L. 310,000 ($194). Single room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 135,000 ($84); [b] Half-board L. 160,000 ($100). HOTEL METROPOLE (3-star) Situated at the edge of the lake, 1-minute's walk from the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, but with no swimming pool. The hotel has satellite TV and telephone in each room. Double room: [a] Room and breakfast L. 82,000 ($51) per person; [b] Half- board L. 112,000 ($70) per person. For single occupancy add L. 20,000 ($13). For a room with a balcony and view of the lake add L. 5,000 per person ($3). A third person in the room will be given a 10% discount off the above rates. Children from 0-4 years are free. Children from 5-10 years receive a 50% discount off the above rates. OTHER HOTELS Some of the hotels in Bellagio are closed during the winter so we are unable to give room rates at the present time. BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS Mid-July is the height of the holiday season so rooms get booked up well in advance. We advise everyone to reserve their rooms as soon as possible but we will make every possible effort to find suitable accommodation for late bookers. In order to register for the workshop and to reserve your hotel rooms please fill in the following information and return it, together with payment of the workshop registration fee of 180 pounds ($300) plus the cost of 1-night's hotel accommodation to: David Levy, Intelligent Research Ltd., 89, Constantine Road, London NW3 2LP, England. Tel: +44 171 485 9146 Fax: +44 171 482 0672 e-mail: DavidL@intrsrch.demon.co.uk Please note that a no-show will not receive a refund for the hotel accommodation unless we are able to reassign the booking to another delegate. If paying by cheque please make your cheque payable to Intelligent Research Ltd. If using a currency other than pounds sterling please convert at the current rate used when selling that currency for pounds sterling. REGISTRATION AND HOTEL BOOKING INFORMATION Mr / Mrs / Ms:.......... Last name:........................................................... First name:............................................ Address:................................................................................................................ ...................................................... ................................................................................... Postcode / Zip:.......................... Country:............................... Home telephone number: .................................... Work telephone number: .................................... Fax number:....................... e-mail address:.................. PLEASE INDICATE BELOW YOUR HOTEL REQUIREMENTS: 1st choice: ................................. 2nd choice: ................................. Any other comments or requirements: .......................................... Single or double occupancy:............................................. Room and breakfast only or half-board:...................................... Arrival date in Bellagio: .......................................... Departure date (note that the workshop will finish on July 16th in time for delegates to reach Milan in the evening):.................... HOW TO PAY You may pay by credit or debit card; or by check or postal order (preferably in pounds sterling or US$). Credit Card Payment: Name:................................ Credit Card Address (if different from above):.................................................................................................................. ............................................................................................................................ Please debit my Mastercard / VISA / American Express / Diners / Switch account (delete as appropriate): Card number:......................................... Expiry Date:............................ Issue No (Switch):....................... Signature:..................................................... Check / Postal Order payment (pounds sterling): I enclose full payment by cheque/postal order for............. made payable to Intelligent Research Ltd. Please send to: David Levy, Intelligent Research Ltd., 89 Constantine Road, London NW3 2LP, England. From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: TWO ACL/EACL-97 Workshop CFPs Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:52:03 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 428 (428) Below are to Calls for Papers for ACL-97/EACL-97 associated workshops: _____________________________________________________________________ 1) CALL FOR PAPERS ACL'97 / EACL'97 Workshop 11 July, 1997 Madrid, Spain OPERATIONAL FACTORS IN PRACTICAL, ROBUST, ANAPHORA RESOLUTION FOR UNRESTRICTED TEXTS _____________________________________________________________________ After considerable initial research in algorithmic approaches to anaphora resolution in the seventies and after years of relative silence in the early eighties, this problem has again attracted the attention of many researchers in the last 10 years, with much new and promising work reported recently. Inspired by the increasing volume of such work, this workshop calls for submissions describing recent advances in the field and focusing on "robust", "parser-free", "corpus-driven", "empirically-based", and/or other practical approaches to resolving anaphora in unrestricted texts. Strategies for algorithmic anaphora resolution---arguably among the toughest problems in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing---so far have exploited predominantly traditional linguistic approaches. A disadvantage, however, of implementing such approaches stems from the need for representation and manipulation of the variegated types of linguistic and domain knowledge, with the concomitant expense of human input and computational processing. Even so, effectiveness still tends to depend on imposing suitable restrictions to the domain. While various new alternatives have been proposed, e.g. making use of a situation semantics framework or principles of reasoning with uncertainty, there is still a strong need for the development of robust and effective methods to meet the demand of practical NLP systems (with tasks ranging from content analysis to machine translation to discourse and dialogue processing), and to enhance further the automatic processing of growing language resources (e.g. by automatically annotating corpora with anaphor-antecedent links). This need for inexpensive, practical and, possibly, corpus-related approaches suitable for unrestricted texts has fuelled renewed research efforts in the field. Several proposals have already addressed the anaphora resolution problem by deliberately limiting the extent to which they rely on domain and/or linguistic knowledge, and by moving away from the traditional domain/sublanguage restriction. Observing a very clear trend towards inexpensive, knowledge-poor, corpus-based methods---which remain robust and scale well---it is clear that there is scope for much more to be done in this direction. A core issue here is that of optimal use of a set of contributing factors: these include, for instance, gender and number agreement, c-command constraints, semantic consistency, syntactic parallelism, semantic parallelism, salience, proximity and so forth. It is possible to impose an ordering on such factors, with respect to both their overall utility to the resolution process, and the expense associated with their computation in a particular linguistic framework and processing environment. The computational linguistics literature uses diverse terminology for these, reflecting their different operational status and, hence, contributing weight in the resolution process: for instance, "constraints" tend to be absolute, and therefore "eliminating"; "preferences", on the other hand, tend to be relative, and therefore require the use of additional criteria. One of the major difficulties with scaling up the strong, linguistically derived procedures to real data stems from the lack of systematic understanding of the interactions between, and limitations of, the plethora of factors posited by the different methods under names such as "constraints", "preferences", "attributes", "symptoms", and so forth. This workshop, therefore, has a dual focus. It solicits submissions describing work which addresses the practical requirements of operational and robust anaphora resolution components. It also seeks to investigate the role of, and interactions among, the various factors in anaphora resolution: in particular those that scale well, or that translate easily to knowledge-poor environments. The following questions are for illustrative purposes only: = Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora resolution? Are there factors that we are not fully aware of? Which of these are better suited for robust approaches, and what is their dependence upon strategies? = When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? What is the case for languages other than English? = What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential" factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data can be brought to bear on this? = What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting the antecedent? = Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? = Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? = Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular type(s) of input text? WORKSHOP ORGANISERS Dr. Ruslan Mitkov Dr. Branimir K. Boguraev, School of Languages and European Studies Apple Research Laboratories University of Wolverhampton Apple Computer, Inc. Stafford St. One Infinite Loop, MS: 301-3S Wolverhampton WV1 1SB Cupertino, CA 95014 United Kingdom USA Tel (44-1902) 322471 Tel: (1-408) 974 1048 Email r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk Email: bkb@research.apple.com WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania) Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) David Carter (SRI, Cambridge) Megumi Kameyama (SRI, Menlo Park) Christopher Kennedy (University of California, Santa Cruz) Shalom Lappin (University of London) Susan LuperFoy (MITRE Corporation, McLean) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Celia Rico Perez (Universidad Europea de Madrid) Frederique Segond (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble) Sandra Williams (BT Research Labs, Ipswich) SUBMISSIONS Authors are asked to submit previously unpublished papers; all submissions should be sent to Ruslan Mitkov. A limited number of position papers could also be considered. Each submission will undergo multiple reviews. The papers should be full length (not exceeding 3200 words, exclusive of references), also including a descriptive abstract of about 200 words. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, either in self-contained LaTeX format (using the ACL-97 submission style; see: ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/, as well as the submission guidelines for the main conference, at http://www.ieec.uned.es/cl97/), or as a PostScript file. In exceptional circumstances, Microsoft Word files will also be accepted as electronic submissions, provided they follow the same formating guidelines. Hard copy submissions should include eight copies of the paper. A separate title page should include the title of the paper, names, addresses (postal and e-mail), telephone and fax number of all authors. Any correspondence will be addressed to the first author (unless otherwise specified). Authors will be responsible for preparation of camera-ready copies of final versions of accepted papers, conforming to a uniform format, with guidelines and a style file to be supplied by the organisers. ORGANISATION OF SESSIONS Presentations will be allocated 30 minutes slots each, distributed over a morning and an afternoon sessions, including an invited talk and a (closing) general discussion. WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION Due to space constraints, workshop attendance will be limited to about 40 participants. Priority will be given to authors of submissions; the rest of the participants will be registered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Details about registration will be included in the second announcement. Please note that according to the ACL/EACL workshop guidelines, all workshop participants must register for the ACL/EACL main conference as well. SCHEDULE Submission deadline: 14 March 1997 Notification of acceptance: 14 April 1997 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due: 05 May 1997 Workshop: 11 July 1997 FURTHER INFORMATION For further information concerning the workshop, please contact the organisers. For information about the main ACL'97/EACL'97 conference, see http://horacio.ieec.uned.es/cl97/. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 2) Call for ACL/EACL Workshop Submissions/Participation Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications Organized under the auspices of the Language Engineering section of the European Commission, Directorale General XIII Luxembourg, by three recently launched projects: EuroWordNet(LE2 4003), Sparkle (LE1 2111) and Ecran Madrid, July 12th 1997 (in conjunction with ACL-97/EACL-97) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Information * What the Workshop is About * Submission Details * Workshop Participation * Important Dates * Organizing Committee * Program Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What the Workshop is About In the past years the development of high-quality and overall language resources has been the focus of many research groups. More recently also the corpus-based extraction of such resources has gained a wider interest. EuroWordNet, Sparkle and Ecran try to package some of this know-how and expertise into state- of-the-art tools and resources that can directly be applied in NLP-based services. In the EuroWordNet project a multilingual database is developed with wordnets for four European Languages linked to the existing Princeton WordNet (version 1.5). Such a database can be used in multilingual retrieval applications but it can also be seen as a starting point for automatic-translation aids, inferencing systems, and information extraction systems. Sparkle and Ecran both address the creation of language resources and technologies for real-world NLP applications in parallel. This objective is carried out through the development of software tools in the areas of shallow parsing and lexical acquisition. These tools are used to induce linguistic knowledge from text corpora and are progressively enriched by the information acquired. In all three projects the current limits of Linguistic Technology are being explored for their practical benefits. Whereas EuroWordNet aims at the broadening and extension of the Princeton WordNet to a generic multilingual resource which is the first in its kind, Sparkle and Ecran aim at the dynamic anchoring of resources and information to the data and corpora that are of a user=92s interest. The availability of these resources and tools is essential for the new generation of applications and products dealing with information in electronic form. The projects have finished their specification phase and are in the process of generating the results. In this workshop we want to discuss the scope and formats of semantic resources and information acquisition tools with scholars in the field and researchers from commercial R&D departments who have experience in developing and using them. We therefore specifically welcome papers on the following topics: 1. compatibility and standards of multilingual semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools. 2. the validation of multilingual semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools. 3. performances of semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools in NLP tasks. 4. partial or phrasal parsing of text. 5. linking text with lexical databases: sense-differentiation, sense-tagging and sense-disambiguation tasks, domain-differentiation of text and lexical resources. The workshop will be a full-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations (about 30 minutes each) and discussions. At the end of day there will be room for demos. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS: Full papers should be submitted in electronic format: either RTF or postscript. Papers should not exceed 8 pages or 4000 words. The deadline for submission is the 17th of March. The formatting should be as follows: --text follows this line-- title: authors: <authors as they appear on the title page> word count: <n> email: <email address of author to whom correspondence should be directed> ------------------- <Body of submission> Submissions should be sent to: Piek Vossen Computer Centrum Letteren University of Amsterdam Spuistraat 134 1012 VB Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 20 525 4669 Fax: +31 20 525 4429 Email: Piek.Vossen@let.uva.nl. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION: The number of participants is limited and is restricted on a first come basis.. As the workshop takes place in conjunction with the ACL/EACL-97 conference, presenters and participants of the workshop are obliged to register for the main conference as well. Conference registration details can be obtained via WWW from the ACL/EACL-97 home page <a href="http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/">http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: 17th of March 1997: Deadline for receipt of submissions 4th of April 1997: Notification of acceptance/rejection 1st of May 1997: Final versions due for proceedings 12th July 1997: 1-Day Workshop --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * Piek Vossen, The Netherlands, email: Piek.Vossen@let.uva.nl * Cintha Harjadi, The Netherlands, email: Cintha.Harjadi@let.uva.nl * Horacio Rodriquez, Spain, email: Horacio@lsi.upc.es PROGAM COMMITTEE: * Piek Vossen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. * Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto Linguistics del Computazionella del CNR, Italy, glottolo@vm.cnuce.cnr.it * Antonio Sanfilippo, Sharp Laboratories, UK, Antonio.Sanfilippo@sharp.co.uk * Geert Adriaens, Novell Linguistic Development, Belgium, Geert_Adriaens@novell.com * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK, yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk From: Abdellatif Saoudi <Abdellatif.Saoudi@irin.univ-nantes.fr> Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION (RIAO97) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:44:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 429 (429) =========================================================================== ! DEADLINE EXTENSION: ! ! The deadline for submissions for RIAO'97 (McGill University, Montreal, ! Canada,June 25-27, 1997) has been extended to February 8, 1997. ! ! <a href="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97</a> [note: RIAO in CAPS] ! =========================================================================== (Apologies if you receive this call more than once) ********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada *********************************************************** Brief Description and Themes: Every third year the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes the RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 in Cambridge, MA, USA (MIT); RIAO91 in Barcelona, Spain; and RIAO97 in New York City (Rockefeller University). RIAO conferences, all of which have had printed proceedings, have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. While commercial displays, as such, are not promulgated, the mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both with the potential for advances in product development and sponsorship as well as the initiation of lines for further, critical research investigations. RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, we seek to bring together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of a proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses. Toward these ends the following topics are among those sought for inclusion in conference papers and demonstrations: A: Rapid indexing and retrieval engines; automatic abstracting B: Linguistic tools in information retrieval C: Information retrieval from heterogeneous formats - Identifcation of the same document in different contexts (different languages, structures, versions, etc.) - Unification of documents from heterogeneous formats; data-wharehousing - Data-mining and knowledge discovery in large databases - Search strategies in heterogenous contexts D: Strategies for technology watch on the Web; content addressable electronic mail, newsgroups, and other WWW systems E: Architecture - How to exploit large bandwidth for information retrieval - Distributed multi-agent architectures F: Imaging - Content characterization; manual and automatic description methods - Search strategies G: Sound - Sound content characterization - Automatic indentification of sound type: speech, music, ... - Spoken language recognition; word (boundary) identification H: Multimedia Web interfaces: Iconic, navigational, and speech interfaces I: Content-based compression techniques J: Data security problems: copyright protection, internet crime K: Web-related international conventions and policies ---------------------------- RIAO97 SUBMISSIONS AND CONTACTS: ---------------------------------- Papers should be submitted electronically as attached Postscript or ASCII (maximum 20 pages) files to: riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr or in manuscript form to: RIAO97 C.I.D. 36 bis, rue Ballu F-75009 Paris, France or to: RIAO97 C.A.S.I.S C/O Leon Constantin 25th floor 575 Madison Ave New York, NY 10022 USA Questions, comments, and intents to attend conference or submit paper or demonstration proposals may also be sent to above addresses. Additional information will be found at conference web page at URL: <a href="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97</a> [note: RIAO in CAPS] From: Subject: Copyright in Canada update (long) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 430 (430) Here, with the permission of the original poster - the CARL-list* moderator - is the latest salvo in our ongoing effort to achieve an equitable copyright law in Canada. PL [CARL - Can. Assn. of Research Libraries] [deleted quotation] From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Love on the Net Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:41:34 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 431 (431) I received the enclosed this morning. It says for immediate release so I'm releasing it. Some of you may know that Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey has occasionally drawn comparisons between the industry of Chadwyck-Healey and the industry of abbe Jacques-Paul Migne, best known for the Patrologia Latina and the Patrologia Graeca. I can't help feeling that there must be a parallel between the enclosed and a similar style of marketing undertaken by Migne. No doubt R. Howard Bloch's "God's Plagiarist" would be the place to find it. Michael Fraser CTI Textual Studies (mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk) PRESS INFORMATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ROMANCING THE NET: 1,000 LOVE POEMS ON THE INTERNET - FOR SWEET NOTHING <a href="http://valentine.chadwyck.co.uk">http://valentine.chadwyck.co.uk</a> The information superhighway takes a romantic turn in February with the publication on the Internet of a thousand love poems for 1997's Valentines. For the two weeks up to 14 February, One Thousand Valentine Poems will make this year's loving a lyrical experience. The service is offered for free by Cambridge-based electronic publishers Chadwyck-Healey. No Valentine need be lost for words. Prospective lovers will be able to search tens of thousands of lines of romantic verse for the perfect expression of their feelings. Just key in a name, word or phrase and the Internet - and One Thousand Valentine Poems - will provide the inspiration. Poems can be downloaded, printed out, e-mailed or adapted to suit the recipient still better, so even the tongue-tied will a-wooing go. However, this is far more than just a two-week affair. The poems which make up One Thousand Valentine Poems are all selected from Chadwyck-Healey's vast Literature Online (Lion) service, comprising more than 210,000 poems, plays and novels - one of the largest and most ambitious services yet offered on the Intemet. One Thousand Valentine Poems costs nothing to access and is available from 1 to 14 February. It can be found on the World Wide Web at: <a href="http://valentine.chadwyck.co.uk">http://valentine.chadwyck.co.uk</a> For more information, please contact Emma Rintoul on Tel: 01223 215512 Fax: 01223 215514 E-mail: rintoul@chadwyck.co.uk From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Online teaching with OTPSEUD Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:36:09 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 432 (432) I am forwarding the enclosed because a) I was asked to circulate it and b) because I think the proposal to use a combination of email forum and WWW site for teaching in a similar style to Jim O'Donnell's Augustine course might be of interest to some on the list. Of course, there might be OT Pseudipigraphers on Humanist who haven't seen this before... Mike [deleted quotation] Announcing a new discussion list on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: OTPSEUD@st-andrews.ac.uk sponsored by the Divinity School of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The list will be active during the spring semester of 1997 (approximately February through the end of May) and will be tied directly to a course module offered at St. Andrews. This course, DI3216, "The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha," will examine the OT Pseudepigrapha, a loose collection of ancient, quasi-biblical writings that were excluded from the canons of both normative Judaism and Christianity. We shall explore the reasons for the rejection of these documents by the major canons, the problems of the mixed Jewish and Christian strata in the texts, their intertextual connections with biblical literature, and their influence after antiquity. All texts will be read in English translation. Some of the texts we will read and discuss include the Book of Jubilees, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, Pseudo-Philo, the Odes of Solomon, 3 Enoch, plus other liturgical, sapiential, magical, and apocalyptic documents. There will be special "cyberlectures" on the Enoch literature, by Professor James VanderKam of the University of Notre Dame, and on the survival of the Pseudepigrapha after antiquity, by Professor John Reeves of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This list will be a virtual classroom, so it will be subject to something rather like classroom etiquette. The realtime course is set up as a seminar, with a mixture of lectures by the instructor and sessions devoted to discussion of student seminar papers. Summaries of the lectures and abstracts of student papers will be posted on the list to stimulate further discussion by the listmembers. The focus will be scholarly analysis of the texts we will be reading, of related texts of the same period (such as the Dead Sea Scrolls or other documents from the Pseudepigrapha), and of the historical background of the texts in Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and the Greco-Roman world to late antiquity. Discussion should be courteous, well-informed (i.e., familiar with the assigned materials for the realtime class and the scholarly literature in general), and to the point. Further guidelines on list etiquette and approaches will be distributed to subscribers. The content of the course will be oriented toward specialists, but nonspecialists are welcome too. I reserve the right to decide in individual cases whether a potential subscriber should be added to the list and whether a current subscriber should continue on the list. The sending of a subscription request (instructions below) indicates acceptance of the conditions given in this paragraph. To subscribe to OTPSEUD send an email message to majordomo@st-andrews.ac.uk The message text should contain the single line subscribe otpseud Futher details on the list and the course will be provided in the introductory message to new subscribers. You can also find the OT Pseud web page at <a href="http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/otpseud.html">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/otpseud.html</a> Jim Davila University of St. Andrews Scotland jrd4@st-andrews.ac.uk From: Mick Doherty <doherm@rpi.edu> Subject: Campus Diversity site Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:51:05 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 433 (433) The following may be of interest to readers of this list. Electronic resourcing in diversity and university life is the main theme of this group, to which I belong. Mick Doherty --- Forwarded mail from Laura Blasi <blasi@aacu.nw.dc.us> Thank you for visiting the DiversityWeb site (<a href="http://www.inform.umd.edu/diversityweb">http://www.inform.umd.edu/diversityweb</a>) (Some of you visited it at AAC&U's Annual Meeting in Atlanta, others of you have been highlighted as people who would make valuable contributions to these conversations and/or have expressed interest in letters and via e-mail) You probably have colleagues who would be interested in participating in on-line work rooms focused on campus diversity issues. Please forward their names (and your own if you would like to participate), e-mail addresses, title (if needed) and mailing addresses to: d-web@aacu.nw.dc.us (We will make sure you and your colleagues receive an invitation based upon your response) Feel free to forward this message to others who may be interested. Please read below for a description of the rooms, the announcement of the recent free registration drawing winner, and, for more information on AAC&U's "Diversity and Institutional Change" April meeting in Ann Arbor. Diversity Web: Work Rooms The Work Rooms are organized around the topical priorities which also structure Diversity Digest, The Leader's Guide, and the Institutional Profiles. These priorities are: *Institutional Vision, Leadership and Systemic Change *Recruitment, Retention and Affirmative Action *Curriculum Transformation *Faculty and Staff Involvement *Student Experience and Development *Campus-Community Connections *Diversity Research, Evaluation, and Impact *Political, Legislative, and Judicial Issues The Work Rooms will provide spaces in which practitioners from all parts of the U.S. can come together around these priorities to hold discussions and share resources and information. Each Work Room will allow participants to post information, and resources, as well as engage in discussions and queries. Moderators can send out monthly announcement of dates and times discussions will be held (around specific problems/ issues) or when particular ?guest? participants will join the workroom for a topic discussion (or to meet specific participants? needs). "Real time" interaction in a work room is different from listserv exchanges (which are asynchronous). The workspace is "open" 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- just as a listserv is available those times -- but, while interaction can happen anytime, in a work room it can also be scheduled in advance by the moderators. ****** We wish to extend our congratulations to Lincoln University, where Dr. Dalmas A. Taylor filled out the winning entry and will receive one free registration to AAC&U's April meeting. AAC&U's April Network meeting will be held 17th to the 20th in Ann Arbor -- titled "Diversity, Learning, and Institutional Change." You can e-mail MEETINGS@aacu.nw.dc.us for more information. Hope to see you and your colleagues there... From: "Joanne Woolway (Assoc. Editor, EMLS)" <emls@english.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies - New Issue Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:42:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 434 (434) The December issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (2.3) is now available at <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html</a> and at our Oxford mirror site at <a href="http://purl.oclc.org/emls/UK/emlshome.html">http://purl.oclc.org/emls/UK/emlshome.html</a> The new issue contains material listed in the contents page below as well as links to electronic resources, interactive EMLS (including calls for papers, conference programs, work in progress and electronic papers), and to several other projects. Submissions and enquiries should be directed to Joanne Woolway Oriel College, Oxford emls@english.ox.ac.uk Raymond G. Siemens Joanne Woolway Editor Co-Editor Articles: * Popular Hermeneutics: Monstrous Children in English Renaissance Broadside Ballads. Helaine Razovsky, Northwestern State University. * Production Resources at the Whitefriars Playhouse, 1609-1612. Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta. * "Ay me": Selfishness and Empathy in "Lycidas." Jean E.Graham, The College of New Jersey. Note: * Reflections on Milton and Ariosto. Roy Flannagan, Ohio University. Reviews: * Robert Weimann. Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse. Ed. David Hillman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,1995. Anthony Johnson, Abo Akademi University. * Thomas H. Luxon. Literal Figures Puritan Allegory & the Reformation Crisis in Representation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. David Gay, University of Alberta. * Rebecca W. Bushnell. A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. Charles David Jago, University of British Columbia. * Graham Parry. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of The Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. F. J. Levy, University of Washington. * Simon Jarvis. Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearean Textual Criticism and Representations of Scholarly Labour, 1725-1765. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria. * Susan Bennett. Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past. New York: Routledge, 1996. Robert Grant Williams, Nipissing University. * Garry Wills. Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP / NY Public Library, 1995. Michael T. Siconolfi, Gonzaga University. * Naomi Conn Liebler. Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Rituals Foundations of Genre. New York: Routledge, 1995. Jeffrey Kahan. * Gordon Williams. A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature. 3 vols. London and New Jersey: Athlone P, 1994. Douglas Bruster,University of Texas, San Antonio. * W. S. "A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter." Compact disk recording read by Harry Hill. Dir. Paul Hawkins. Text Ed. Donald W. Foster. Montreal: Concordia University, 1996.Sean Lawrence, University of British Columbia. * Sir Thomas More. Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Eds. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams and Clarence Miller.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Romuald I. Lakowski. From: Nico Weenink <noki@worldonline.nl> Subject: Existentialism and Borchert Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 05:33:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 435 (435) Dear collegues, I'm posting this message for a friend who is very interested in existentialism. She is studying German Literature and wants to write a dissertation on Borchert and Extentialism. Was there a existentialistic movement in Germany? Can anyone help her on this topic? Especially those who are familiar with Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre are asked to respond. Thanks in advance. Nico. Nico Weenink Utrecht University The Netherlands noki@worldonline.nl From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: Electronic conferences Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:10:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 436 (436) Hello, I would be very grateful to anybody who could tell me about their experiences with electronic conferences. The graduate students here at the department of French at Queen's University in Kingston will be hosting an electronic conference on "L'informatique dans les =E9tudes fran=E7aises" in mid March. I'm familiar with various technologies (textual based multi-user shared environments, communications programs such as Cool Talk and Netmeeting, certain CGI and Java packages), but I'd like to hear first had accounts of what seems to work and what doesn't. To be a bit more specific about our needs, I'm looking for readily available, platform flexible, and preferably free software that would assure at least textual communication, and, if possible, some options for visual exchange. If people wish to answer me directly, I'll summarize the responses for the others on the list. Thanks in advance. ------------------------ St=E9fan Sinclair Address: =C9tudes fran=E7aises 4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca Queen's University <a href="http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/">http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/</a> Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6 From: Mavis Cournane <cournane@curia.ucc.ie> Subject: Busa Date: 28 Jan 1997 14:29:43 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 437 (437) Dear Willard I was wondering if any HUMANISTS could tell me where I could find some accounts/reports of Busa's Index Thomisticus. Thanks Mavis Cournane From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Seminar in Humanities Computing Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:40:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 438 (438) I am happy to announce the Spring 1997 calendar for the Seminar in Humanities Computing, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. The entire schedule of events is available at the URL <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/seminars.html">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/seminars.html</a>>. Allow me, however, to alert you to the first seminar, by Professor John Unsworth (IATH, English, Virginia), "Copyright restrictions and freedom of speech on-line: the current debate", to be held Monday 3 February at 6pm in Room 18, South-West Block, King's, Strand. All within reach of the College are most welcome. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Good Language Software <languagesoftware@access.ch> Subject: <a href="http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/">http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/</a> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 06:51:24 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 439 (439) Good Language Software. languagesoftware@access.ch Information release: Software for evaluation. Dear colleague We have displayed for use and evaluation the following Natural Language Processing, Educational, Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching software for IBM and compatible, DOS or WINDOWS: Text Processing Software. - SYNTPARSE, for parsing (grammatical analysis of the sentence on the level Parts of the Sentence, incl. display of the Verbal Tense, Voice, Mood) of English texts. - SYNTCHECK, English orthographical and grammatical spellchecker designed to benefit both the student and the professional. Displays statistics of the orthographical and of the grammatical (concord, usage, verb related) errors. Displays the total number of errors, their percentage and the number of words and sentences spellchecked. Suggests corrections for the grammatical errors. Collects the unknown words in the text. - SYNTCHECK, German orthographical and grammatical spell-checker. This program has all the features described above, plus the new German spelling reform. The umlaut is used as: ae, oe, ue. Thesauri: - SOFTHESAURUS, English Electronic Thesaurus based on concepts, displays up to 18 types of word and word-group relationships to the entry word, provides a definition of the word's meaning, displays the prepositions with which the word is used and gives text examples, with an option to add translation of the word into another language and self-update the electronic dictionary. - LINGUATERM, Multilingual (English, German, French and Spanish) Electronic Thesaurus of Linguistic Terminology. Displays up to 22 types of word and word-group relationships to the entry word, incl. definitions, text examples and an option to update it and include more languages. - GEOATLAS, Multilingual (English, German, French and Italian) Electronic Lexicon of related place names. Includes all major geographical names in the world and their relationship(s), language and political information (at high-school level), with an option to expand and update it. - ENGLISH-RUSSIAN Machine Translation software program. You can download compressed (*.exe) versions of the programs at: <a href="http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/welcome.html">http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/welcome.html</a> The performance of the Evaluation versions matches that of the commercial versions. There is no charge for the Evaluation versions, the user is free to copy and distribute them. The Evaluation versions will be available for a limited period only. Send E-mail to: languagesoftware@access.ch P.S. If you get an error message while trying to connect to our homepage, please, try again. This happens often to everybody at busy sites and this is a busy site. If your downloading "freezes", please, try again. That could happen sometimes to anyone of us, anywhere on the net. We have no versions for other platforms. Those with Mac, who would be willing to purchase the commercial software, can send us a message, so that we see if we should develop Mac versions or not. Please, pass on this information to those who might be interested. From: Subject: Re: 10.0638 Borchert? e-conferences? Busa? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 440 (440) [On Roberta Busa's work] For a historical account, go to the volume entitled The Puzzle Master in the Time-Life series Understanding Computers (ISBN 0-8094-5741-5). The chapter entitled The Language Machine provides quite a bit of information about early computing in the humanities. Busa is dicussed in pp. 53-59. Ted Brunner =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theodore F. Brunner, Director Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-5550 Phone: (714) 824-6404 FAX: (714) 824-8434 E-mail: tbrunner@uci.edu TLG Home Page: <a href="http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/">http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/</a> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Subject: Re: your guide Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 441 (441) ***************************************** CFP: THE HUMOROUS RENAISSANCE ***************************************** 1997 MLA Convention December 27 - 30, 1997 Toronto, Canada A. S. Weber Abstracts Due: March 1, 1997 Dear Colleagues: I am organizing a session for the 1997 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada on the literary and scientific discourses of humor pathology from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (circa 1400 - 1750). Suggested topics of enquiry may include: the language of specific texts such as Jonson's humor plays or Burton's ANATOMY, humoralism in literature, anti-humoral discourses (Paracelsianism), the diffusion of the Hippocratic and Galenic textual tradition and its cultural impact, the cross-cultural textual transmission of medical knowledge, astrological medicine, rhetorical aspects of humor pathology texts, etc. Please send 500 word abstract and description of research interests via regular mail or email (aweber@binghamton.edu) by March 1, 1997 to: A. S. Weber English Department SUNY Binghamton Binghamton, NY 13902. Best Regards, Alan S. Weber Assistant Professor of English English Department SUNY Binghamton, NY 13902 aweber@binghamton.edu 607 - 734 - 1659 (H) 607 - 777 - 2168 (O) 607 - 735 - 1913 (O) 607 - 777 - 2408 (FAX) From: Carol Anne Germain <CG7781@cnsvax.albany.edu> Subject: URL Citations Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:26:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 442 (442) Hello! I am a student at the State University of New York at Albany, working on a masters in library science. Currently, I am gathering information to write my final paper. This includes articles that are from print journals that contain reference citations that are Internet links. This includes http; ftp or gopher sites. I have tried citation indices but have found that they only list the homepage title rather than location. Also, I have tried to randomly browse through journals to find these. It will take me all semester if I keep that up! So, if anyone comes across any articles with URLs in the reference section, I would be most grateful if would email them to me. I will need both the article citation that cites it as well as the reference citation. My email address is as follows: cg7781@cnsvax.albany.edu Thank you, Carol Anne Germain From: pat gudridge <pgudridg@law.miami.edu> Subject: textual analysis program Date: 30 Jan 97 21:39:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 443 (443) [The following came as a private enquiry, but since I did not know the answer and one or more of you might, I pass it on. Allow me in passing to mention another text-analysis program, Tatoe, soon to be demonstrated at King's London, for which see our Seminar, announced elsewhere in this evening's Humanist. --WM] I am a Humanist subscriber, and I very much appreciate your work. At the moment I am teaching a seminar on computer analysis of legal texts, not so much because I possess any particular expertise, but because it is clear that law schools and legal academics need to do more of this work. The ultimate point of the seminar is to explore ways of bringing to bear techniques developed in humanities computing in analyzing legal texts, especially large bodies of material (decades of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, for example) which -- as such -- usually fall outside the scope of ordinary forms of legal reading. We will begin work with TACT, for example, starting next week. I have noticed a few references to a program called Alceste, apparently of French origin, used for some form of statistics-driven text analysis. None of these references, however, provides much information. Would you know of any source I might check? [...] Thank you. Pat Gudridge From: Subject: Re: 10.0527 e-diss; Italian linguistics; plagarism Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 444 (444) Dear Humanists, in Germany universities have come to the point of evaluation. This new phase has started a short while ago and we notice now that we are bare of any experience. Autonomy of the university is another problem, i.e. efficency based distribution of resources. As I know that English, British and US universities, above all, are already quite used to evaluation and therefore must be familiar with evaluating the Humanities in opposition to natural and technical sciences, I would really appreciate your help. The things I am interested are: what criteria do you think best for evaluation? Which have been used in your case? How do you cope with the financial problem? Which ways are you going to get money in? Are there experiences in the field of cooperation between industry and the humanities? Have you started new innovative courses during the process of evaluation or on the basis of the results and what are your experiences with these new courses? Are you facing the problem that pupils are less interested in universitie nowadays and that student numbers are going down? How do you cope with this? I know that my questions call for very complex answers but it would already be very helpful, if you just could enumerate some of the points which seem important to you. Thank you very much in advance Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik/Gerhard-Mercator Universitaet Duisburg GH Lotharstrasse 65/47048 Duisburg +49 203 3792605/Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de From: Subject: unjust sex-change Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 445 (445) My apologies to everyone, and to that great scholar Roberto Busa especially, for altering the final vowel in his first name and so changing the indication of sex. I cannot plead a slight error in keystroke, as on my QWERTY keyboard the "o" and "a" are quite far apart, nor can I plead total ignorance of Italian and its naming conventions, nor anything else I can reasonably imagine. Mea maxima culpa (which, yes, is feminine in grammatical gender throughout). I am especially embarrassed because I might seem to have attributed the error to Ted Brunner, who knows better than I, having met Busa, which cruel fortune has denied me. Perhaps years spent reading Ovid has so affected me that subconsciously in nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora..... Yikes! WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: computers and writing style Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 446 (446) I have received a query from a Montreal journalist, Patricia Bergeron, <pbergero@aei.ca>, asking about the impact of computers in contemporary litterature. She's writing a paper about the impact of the computer on the writing style of contemporary authors, the fascination and dangers of the computer for them as they see it, their experiences with e-mail and how it may have changed their writing. I could not be very helpful, but I would suppose that a number of Humanists could. May I suggest, then, that anyone with something to say on the subject write to Ms. Bergeron, with a copy to Humanist? She is not a member at the moment. Thanks. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: research assessment in the U.K. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 447 (447) In Humanist 10.643 Elisabeth Burr asks for information on academic assessment, in light of events in Germany. As I have just recently discovered, academic institutions in the U.K. are the subject of a Research Assessment Exercise, the results of which have recently been published for 1996. See <<a href="http://back.niss.ac.uk/education/hefc/">http://back.niss.ac.uk/education/hefc/</a>>, which contains information about the Higher Education Funding Councils of the U.K. in general with links to various assessments. Informed commentary on the RAE in this country, or similar exercises elsewhere, would be welcome to many, I'm sure. Here humanities computing has, I think, not yet figured into an RAE because the field is so new. Has it anywhere else? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: (Xpost) Milton Transcription Project Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 448 (448) THE MILTON TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT (MTP) is dedicated to making all of John Milton's poetry and prose available for public access on the Internet. Although most of Milton's poetry is available in modernized forms, the MTP is preparing more accurate electronic facsimiles of the early editions of Milton's poems. In addition, most of the English and Latin prose--along with a great deal of fascinating Miltoniana--remains to be done. We invite you to join us in providing accurate scholarly transcriptions of these texts. Volunteers may transcribe as much or as little as they wish; each transcription will be proofread, formatted, checked, and refereed. We shall acknowledge any significant contribution, and all accepted transcriptions will be credited by name. The MTP, currently supported by Milton-L, _Milton Quarterly_, the Department of English at Texas Tech University, the Computer Writing and Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Richmond's web-server, is the joint creation of volunteers from more than 24 colleges and universities in half a dozen countries. In order to volunteer or to receive more information, please contact either Professor Hugh Wilson (MTP Editor; dithw@ttacs.ttu.edu) or Professor A.E.B. Coldiron, (MTP Internet Liaison; coldiron@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu). The only requirements are diligence, concern for accuracy, and the ability to type with one or more fingers. Volunteer: earn the intangible reward of "those whose publisht labours advance the good of mankind" (_Areopagitica_, 1644). From: Subject: Re: 10.0646 research assessment Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 449 (449) It's a question of some discussion as to what extent the RAE by the HEFCE actually took into account humanities computing. Although the guidance issued by the HEFCE made allowance for the electronic medium, it is probable that many involved in the medium felt that the subject panels did not give sufficient appreciation. There has been some correspondence recently in _The Times Higher_ (_Times Higher Educational Supplement_). If I might hazard a further, personal feeling -- perhaps purely intuitive -- the composition of some panels in the humanities suggests that there was either little interest in or little knowledge of humanities computing (whether for research or teaching, the latter not being within the remit of the RAE, of course). Moreover, there was virtually no allowance for elucidating the nature of the involvement in electronic research, since overall departmental activities (including those of individuals) had to be described within six sides of A4. My own experience was that there was no space to explain the activity in lay terms. My own rather tangential involvement in H-Albion and H-Net was reduced to about six words, so the problem for people with deep interests in this sort of work must have been compounded. I can fully understand that some people may feel that the RAE has not fully valued this sort of work, especially since there has been no feedback apart from a letter to _The Times Higher_ from an officer of the HEFCE re-stating that the groundrules allowed for the electronic medium. -- Dave Postles Dept of English Local History, University of Leicester pot@le.ac.uk <a href="http://snowwhite.it.bton.ac.uk/proj-cgi/alt/members/DPO656">http://snowwhite.it.bton.ac.uk/proj-cgi/alt/members/DPO656</a> (under construction) From: Subject: Re: 10.0644 Busa's work Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 450 (450) There are also some interesting articles by and about Busa in the pages of "Computers and the Humanities". You might want to look at a series of articles on automated concordances and word indexes written by Delores Burton which appeared in 1981-1982. Also there's an article by Busa himself in the same journal titled "The Annals of Humanities Computing : The Index Thomisticus" (Busa 1980). This last goes over some of his motivations for undertaking the "IT" including the following: "Each writer expresses his conceptual system in and through his verbal system, with the consequence that the reader who masters this verbal system, using his own conceptual system, has to get an insight into the writer's conceptual system." p. 83. LEO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein 70 Washington Square South Reference Associate New York, NY. 10012 General & Humanities Reference Tel.: (212) 998-2500 Elmer Holmes Bobst Library Fax: (212) 995-4383 New York University Email: kleinl@is2.nyu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (ABES) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 451 (451) Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (ABES) A Demo Disk containing a selection of records is now available. The official first release will be April 1997 and will be followed by six-monthly updates. Please order your free Demo from the undersigned or visit the ABES website: <a href="http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/abes/abeshome.html">http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/abes/abeshome.html</a> *********************************************************** MARTIN SCRIVENER Publisher Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers Heereweg 347B 2161 CA LISSE The Netherlands Tel: +31-252-435101 l Fax: +31-252-415888 E-mail: scrivy@swets.nl <a href="http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html">http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html</a> ********************************************************* [deleted quotation] From: Domenico Fiormonte <ITADFP@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk> Subject: computers & writing style Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 22:33:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 452 (452) [The following is a copy to Humanist of a note sent to the Montreal journalist who enquired about the effects of the computer on writing style. I have not passed on to Humanist Dr. Fiormonte's additional material, which I presume he would be willing to share with anyone who might write to him directly. --WM] I have been studying the influence of computer on literary writing since 1990, and I wrote my "laurea" thesis at the University of Rome on this subject. ("The Influence of Computer on Literary Writing: Case Studies of Three Italian Authors", Rome, April 19 1994). Unfortunately, all my 4 publications are written in Italian --though I studied the phenomenon of computer writing broadly, interviewing authors from Italy, Spain, USA, and now UK. I spent last year at Michigan Tech University, where I focused on the rhetoric of the electronic text (Cindy Selfe), the history of literary production and literary tools (Bill Powers), etc. This summer I won a Spanish government scholarship on Computers, Linguistics and Literature, and I had the unique opportuniy to interview some of the best Spanish contemporary authors. Currently, my PhD project at U. of Edinburgh consists in building a digital archive of textual variants from contemporary Spanish and Italian writers. I'll do two things for you: 1) I'll e-mail you my latest Italian paper (whose significant title is "The Electronic Writing Anthology (and Archeology): Three Stages of a Work in Progress") In spite of the fact that it is written in Italian, there are a number of long quotes in English (Kurt Vonnegut, etc.), Spanish, French, etc. and an International bibliography which could be helpful. 2) I'll send you a DRAFT of an English version of my first published piece "Case Studies of Computerized Writers" (be pitiful with this, it's just a draft!) IMPORTANT: BOTH files are written in Winword 2, and I am sending them through Basic-Mime encoding -- let me know if this works. Besides, you can visit my home page, where you can find also an ENGLISH (feeew!) abstract of my thesis: <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm</a> <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/case_st.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/case_st.htm</a> [this the abstract] Best wishes ****************************************************** Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh, Dept. of Italian David Hume Tower, George Square EH8 9JX -- United Kingdom Fax: 131-650-6536 E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm">http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm</a> <<Si Dios no fuese Dios, seria el Rey de las Espanas, y el Rey de Francia su cocinero>> From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> Subject: Re: 10.0645 computers & writing style? Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:48:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 453 (453) Some fifteen years ago I had the opportunity to wire Barry Hannah as he made the transition from typewriter to word processor, with the idea of capturing every keystroke and watching to see if his style changed. Alas, nobody was interested in funding such a project, and now it's too late. But wouldn't the literature on the teaching of composition with computers be relevant to this question? Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Emily Rose <erose@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Subject: Re: 10.0645 computers & writing style? Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:29:32 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 454 (454) I recall reading an article years ago in the Wall Street Journal about exactly the issue of writing style and computers (I think it even addressed the question of MAcs versus PCs) I clipped it, but then lost it. It dealt with students and the stylistic changes of first drafts composed on a word processor rather than longhand - not email. From: "Dr. Joel Goldfield" <joel@funrsc.fairfield.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0645 computers & writing style? Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 11:28:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 455 (455) Perhaps Ms. Bergerson could contact Donald Ross since he has a specialty area in composition & computers as does Cynthia Selfe, who just won an MLA/EDUCOM award. I don't have my MLA directory handy to check on Prof. Selfe's e-mail address. The last e-address I have for Donald Ross (U. of Minnesota) is: umcomp@ux.acs.umn.edu. She might also check with John F. Burrows who probably has the fullest database and set of studies on gender and national differences among woman writers of English. He may have also looked at the impact of word-processing and the like on writing. His address is: LCJFB@cc.newcastle.edu.au. Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University Fairfield, CT USA From: "H-CLC (BD)" <bdiederi@ucsd.edu> Subject: Computers and the changing fashions of literary criticism? Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 22:37:45 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 456 (456) In his article about computers and literary criticism (_L'Ordinateur et la critique litteraire: du golem a la textualite cybernetique_ in _Litterature_ 96 (1994) pp. 6-18), Paul Delany links the use of computers in literary studies to the development of the computer, of course, but mainly to the changing fashions in literary criticism. I have been wondering about this before: why are there no recent new studies by many researchers who have published very interesting work using computer methods in the 1970s and 1980s? More generally: why do people get into literary computing, and why do they give it up? Is it the fashions of literary criticism; is literary computing just a methodology to answer one specific question, and when that question is answered, there is no further use for the methodology; or is it university politics; is it frustration with the methodology; or ...? Of course, it would also be great to hear the opposite perspective: why do people continue working in the field of literary computing, how did the computer keep up with your evolving views of literary theory, and how do you combine both in your teaching? Barbara Diederichs bdiederi@ucsd.edu From: Frances Rasmussen <frasmuss@calvin.linfield.edu> Subject: Question for HUMANIST members Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:26:09 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 457 (457) I am a recent subscriber and a graduate student in a MLIS program. I am working on a project which is focused on the impact of electronic publishing on academic scholars in the humanities. If anyone would like to respond, I would greatly appreciate it. I am trying to review the changes, concerns, advantages/disadvantages of the "information era" upon the humanist scholars and disciplines. Thank you for any information you can provide. ***************************************** * * * Frances Rasmussen * * Director of Resource Sharing * * Linfield College Library * * McMinnville, OR 97128 * * voice: 503-434-2534 * * fax: 503-434-2566 * * frasmuss@linfield.edu * * * ***************************************** From: Gloria McMillan <gmcmillan@east.pima.edu> Subject: My project on _Dracula_ (TEI-tagged etext) Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 13:15:35 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 458 (458) For a Grad. level class on rhetoric, I plan to run some computer comparisons over the speeches of various characters in _Dracula_. Other than Burrows' fine _Computation into Criticism_ (studies of Jane Austen) and some papers online by Eric Johnson, I have few pointers to others doing literary or rhetorical analysis on the computer. Would anyone care to enlighten me so that I can enlarge my 'works cited' page? Thanks! Gloria McMillan *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* gmcmillan@east.pima.edu <a href="http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/index.html">http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/index.html</a> VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: Diversity University MOO TELNET>mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu 8888 WELCOME SCREEN> Type: du login as: co guest Type: @go #2673 *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: agonizing Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 08:11:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 459 (459) Barbara Diederich's question in Humanist 10.651, in which she asks "why do people get into literary computing, and why do they give it up?", varies a theme prominently articulated by Mark Olsen in CHum and elsewhere and before him by Yaacov Choueka, who asked in 1988, "The tools are here, where are the results?" Mark pointed to a supposed lack of results from the application of computing to the study of literature, concluding (grossly to oversimplify) that if we were all studying literary history, as he does, we would get somewhere. At the Oxford ALLC/ACH conference John Burrows (who has published many a real result) answered Mark, saying gently that we should all be patient, that these things take time. Time, of course, is also an enemy and may suggest part of an answer to Barbara's question: people get old, they get tired; their interests change; they move past the stage of quickly obtained results, burrow into longer-term projects, and have the wisdom not to be publishing all the time. The work of humanists is like a great boulder near the top of a cliff, and the researcher like a person slowly pushing that boulder to the edge. The people below notice, chatter about it for a while, then the person above and his or her boulder become familiar and are gradually forgotten -- until one day their effects are suddenly felt. The great work has arrived. So if you see a computing humanist rubbing his or her shoulder and complaining how heavy some things are.... Is it correct to say that masses (such as they are) of computing humanists in literary studies have given up? Or is it more accurate to posit a second phase of our work, a quieter time when these masses have burrowed into their projects, heeding the widespread call for fewer promises and more results? Or should we look to some fundamental misconception, such as the pernicious notion that our research is about building bridges rather than learning from their collapse? Have we been utterly seduced by mistaking production for research? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: rgpotter@iastate.edu (Rosanne G. Potter) Subject: Date: Mon, 03 Feb 97 14:56:23 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 460 (460) Dear Barbara, I can only answer for myself. Literary computing is extremely demanding: 1. it takes a great deal of foresight to design projects so that they will lead to reportable results; 2. it creates piles of data and opens so many paths that one can easily become overwhelmed by choices; and (possibly less important, but also problematic), 3. questions about what is worth looking at, what constitutes proof, what kinds of assertions can be defended from a theoretical standpoint mean that the ground under one's feet keeps shifting. I have spent more time collecting data on reader responses to plays and designing concordances of the dialogue in those plays than I have been able to spend on writing the articles and books that should some day come out of those projects. I suspect I am not alone in spending so much time creating a dataset that is worth investigating that I have not had the time to investigate it. The early issues of _Computers and the Humanities_ are full of the relics of huge projects that were started and never completed. Computers seem, from the beginning, to have lured critics into having eyes bigger than their stomachs. I'll be interested in hearing what other people think about your very interesting question. Rosanne G. Potter Professor of English Iowa State University From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu> Subject: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 12:01:57 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 461 (461) Some of Barbara's questions are discussed in my published article that is now available online at <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/etextand.html">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/etextand.html</a> --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/</a> From: Austin Meredith <rchow@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu> Subject: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 08:23:44 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 462 (462) Every once in awhile some scholar who has not taken the trouble to view our materials offers to dismiss our project out of hand by presuming that this Computational Linguistics approach from the 1970s and 1980s _must_ be the sort of thing that we presently do at this project -- they typically consider that they don't need to look at our work product since we are after all merely _using computers_, and since those number-cruncher people also were _using computers_, and since computers are _only useful for number crunching, tabulation, that sort of thing_. That's very frustrating, as nothing which we are doing in any way resembles the Computational Linguistics approach (we are employing hypertext and transclusion techniques), and since I have checked around from time to time and, bad news, have never sighted any piece of scholarship which I would consider has actually benefited from that sort of mindset. Various people have aimed me in the direction of various pieces of scholarship, as proof texts, but to date whenever I have actually looked at these proferred pieces of scholarship, the questions I have had to ask myself have been:"What the hey is the question they are posing?" "What the hey is the demonstrated finding which they have produced?" Where's the evidence to show that Computational Linguistics was ever anything more than an agenda, a proposal, a pronouncement, a false start? Where are their results? Where is _any_ result? At this point I have to consider it to have been merely an embarrassment, something which is sadly interfering with our own acceptance as a viable scholarly enterprise. \s\ Austin Meredith <r2chow@uci.edu>, "Stack of the Artist of Kouroo" Project From: Bornstein <georgeb@umich.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0651 queries Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 19:56:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 463 (463) In reply to Barbara Diederich's recent query about studies in computing and literary criticism, I would like to mention the new collection THE LITERARY TEXT IN THE DIGITAL AGE, edited by Richard Finneran and published recently by University of Michigan Press, which brings together some outstanding essays. ********************************************************************* George Bornstein Department of English C.A. Patrides Professor of Literature University of Michigan email: georgeb@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109-1045 office phone: (313) 764-6330 office fax: (313) 763-3128 From: Subject: Project Gutenberg #800. . . Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 464 (464) This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for February 4, 1997 It is going to be short because we want to get it out quickly, to get help on our start on French Etexts. If you can tell why the Stendahl and Verne are not coming out the same to many of our readers, when the look the same on my binary readers here, please let me know. It will take a few tries to get it into shape, so we are starting with low version numbers, such as xxxxx07. Those of you who can help, please do. . .our apologies while other wait to see the finished products. Those of you who think we should have done it right the first time. . .boy do you have the wrong number. . .if we waited until we could do it right a first time. . .we would never have gotten started. Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Director Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work. Feb 1997 This Side of Paradise, by F. 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Badger, Jr. [loctyxxx.xxx] 783 Jan 1997 The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Author Unknown[tosjmxxx.xxx] 782 Jan 1997 Sinking of the Titanic, et al, by Logal Marhsall [ttnicxxx.xxx] 781 12 Jan 1997 The War in the Air by H.G. Wells [H.G. Wells #8] [wrairxxx.xxx] 780 Jan 1997 Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe [Footnotes] [drfstxxx.xxx] 779 Jan 1997 Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe [No Footnotes][drfstxxa.xxx] 779 Jan 1997 Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit [E. Nesbit #2] [fivitxxx.xxx] 778 Jan 1997 The Mastery of the Air, by William J. Claxton [tmotaxxx.xxx] 777 8 Jan 1997 Hermione's Group of Thinkers, by Don Marquis DM#4 [hlgstxxx.xxx] 776 Jan 1997 When the Sleeper Wakes, by H.G. Wells [Wells #7] [wtslwxxx.xxx] 775 Jan 1997 Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde [Wilde #4] [sandlxxx.xxx] 774 Jan 1997 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime etc, by Oscar Wilde #3 [ldascxxx.xxx] 773 4 Jan 1997 Moral Emblems, by Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS#35] [moremxxx.xxx] 772 Jan 1997 Biog Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells, C. Bronte #3[brntexxx.xxx] 771 Jan 1997 The Story of the Treasure Seekers, by E. Nesbit #1[tsotsxxx.xxx] 770 Jan 1997 The Book of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura [tboftxxx.xxx] 769 Feb 1997 This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald [#1][tsoprxxx.xxx] 805 Both of these are version 09 and are not on uiarchive, our link is down Feb 1997 A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne [senjrxxx.xxx] 804 From: Subject: Re: 10.0653 research assessment (U.K.) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 465 (465) Responding to the way RAE panels regarded humanities computing, I think the problems are more potential than actual. I was a member of the European Studies panel, which had a number of computing issues to consider. I'd distinguish between those concerning the computing-related activities reported in the contextual documents (RA5&6), and those concerning the evaluation of 'published' material declared in the RA2 list of each person's best four publications. The RA5/6 is essentially supporting material giving an impression of the general environment for research, and though it might be frustrating to have only a small space to describe computing activities, the same difficulty affects all research activities, many of which might also wish to have more opportunity to set out their achievements. It is up to the submission writer to decide how much relative prominence to give to any given area. The RA2 report does pose several problems, but like all other publications, it can be accessed and evaluated by competent panel members or by expert advisors. The problems are bound up with how to do the evaluating, and involve questions such as: - who has done the work submitted? - especially since so much IT related work is highly collaborative, and frequently has several layers of material nested into each other; - at what stage is the work considered to be completed, or alternatively, what state was it in on the census date? - especially with Web-based materials which are in a constant state of updating. - where or in what hard/soft-ware environment should the work be evaluated..... Computing based materials were a very small proportion of what my panel had to look at, but it may well be that they will assume more importance in future, and the related issues will require more elaboration. Mike Kelly ------------------------------ Prof. Michael Kelly School of Modern Languages University of Southampton, U.K. E-mail: mhk@lang.soton.ac.uk Fax: +44 1703 593288 Tel: +44 1703 592191 (direct) From: Mavis Cournane <cournane@curia.ucc.ie> Subject: COCOA/OCP Date: 04 Feb 1997 14:52:16 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 466 (466) Dear Willard I want to know more about OCP, Micro-OCP and COCOA. When were they developed, and what is the relationship between OCP and COCOA. I am a bit confused. I thought that COCOA was a concordance program but it is also a markup language. What are the implications of COCOA for OCP. thanks Mavis From: Ami Regier <aregier@bethelks.edu> Subject: Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:28:41 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 467 (467) What are the possibilities for an undergraduate course in computer literacy that is keyed to the discipline of literary studies? I'm looking into the possibilities of such a course for my college and wondering what components others have considered. Ami Regier From: "Gary S. Karpinski" <garykarp@music.umass.edu> Subject: Duck-Rabbit Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:33:20 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 468 (468) I'm looking for the first appearance of the "Duck-Rabbit" in the literature. Is it by Wittgenstein? Is it in Scheidemann's _Experiments in General Psychology_? An authoritative reference to its originator would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. --Gary .............................................................................. : : : Gary S. Karpinski voice (413) 545-4229 : : Department of Music & Dance fax (413) 545-2092 : : University of Massachusetts : : Amherst, MA 01003 USA garykarp@music.umass.edu : :..........................................................................: From: Subject: Computers & contemp. authors Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 469 (469) No trends come to mind, necessarily, but one example does. A couple of years ago, a writer named Paul Kafka (a distant relation of Franz) wrote a first novel called _Love [Enter]_. It's an epistolary novel with the hook being that some of the letters are email. Hope that's of some help. Ned ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ned Muhovich University of Denver emuhovic@du.edu (303)871-2455 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Subject: Father Busa Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 470 (470) There is much written on Father Busa and his work. The fruits of his labors have been reduced to one CD-ROM, available from Editoria Elettronica Editel, Milano: Thomae Aquinatis Opera Omnia, cum hypertextibus in CD-ROM, auctore RobertoBusa, S. J. The engine is clunky, but it is all there + some extras: "The 118 writings of Thomas Aquinas, as well as 61 writings of other medieval writers belonging to the same cultural milieu". On Busa, you might like to look at his _Fondamenti di Informatica Linguistica (Milan, 1987). Jim Marchand. From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ANLP-97 Registration Brochure Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:52:12 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 471 (471) ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS FIFTH APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CONFERENCE 31 March - 3 April, 1997 Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington D.C. INVITED TALK Government Perspectives on the Future of Language Technologies (tentative title) Ruth A. 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A ride through the thick of the cherry blossoms will begin a three-hour cruise down the legendary Potomac river, from which you will see the Washington Monument, National Cathedral, and the lights of Old Town Alexandria. Music of the river and the region will accompany the tour. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Specific inquiries regarding local arrangements may be directed to John White, (white_john@prc.com), +1-703-556-1899. For questions regarding accommodations, special needs or assistance, please contact the Washington Marriott Hotel, +1-202-872-1500. EXHIBITS AND DEMONSTRATIONS: A number of publisher exhibits and computer demonstrations have been scheduled. For information on arranging demonstrations and exhibits mail white_john@prc.com or call +1-703-556-1899. For exhibits of research systems, the charge is a nominal $40. The fee for exhibiting a commercial system (intended for sale as a product) is $250. SPONSORS: The organizers are most grateful to the following organizations for their generous offer of monetary and technical support: AT&T Labs - Research SRA International Isoquest Inc. Logos Development Corporation PRC Inc. Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory The Association is seeking additional sponsors for the conference. Please contact John White if you are interested in serving as a sponsor and to discuss types of recognition your generosity will receive. RECREATION: The Washington Marriott provides a variety of modern recreational facilities, including indoor pool, sauna, jacuzzi, exercise room with universal equipment, free weight, Stairmaster and other workout facilities. These facilities are free to hotel guests. CLIMATE AND DRESS: Early April is cherry blossom time in Washington. The temperature can vary from rather raw (highs of 50F / 10C) to quite pleasant (highs of 75F / 24C). Light rain is quite possible at some point during the conference, and it is often breezy during this time. The visitor should be prepared for all of these contingencies, to fully enjoy Washington's most beautiful time of year. SIGHTSEEING: Washington presents an intriguing blend of the driven pace of a Northeastern metropolis with the charm of a Southern coastal town. The city is, of course, legendary for the monuments and museums, of which most are near the conference site. However, it is a treat just to walk around in the urban neighborhoods in the vicinity of the Washington Marriott -- Washington Circle, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom, George Washington University. A similarly interesting walk is the de facto financial district, along K street (NW) from about 23rd to 14th. You will find Reiter's Scientific Books just down the street, around 20th and K, which will gain your interest, time, and your book-buying dollars. The area restaurants cover an extraordinary range of culinary types, from various regions of India, to very good barbecue, to stunning vegetarian collard greens. Like most areas these days, there are several notable local breweries, including Old Heurich (D.C.) and Old Dominion (Virginia), along with many brew-pubs, mostly excellent. Virginia produces a credible wine collection, abundantly available in the DC area. There will be several events associated with the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival underway during and after the conference period, including concerts, parades, races, art exhibitions, etc. The conference site is roughly 10 blocks from the portion of the Mall that contains the Vietnam and Korean Veterans Memorials, and the Lincoln Memorial. Further toward the omnipresent Capitol dome you will pass the Washington Monument on your way to the Smithsonian, a gigantic cluster of buildings on both sides of the Mall that will capture your attention forever if you let it. Some of the best museums in the world, all free. About 8 blocks in a slightly different direction will bring you to the front of the White House at (you guessed it) 16th and Pennsylvania. Yet another trek in the opposite direction, 10 or so blocks will take you to the heart of Georgetown, a bustling, youthful area, both intellectual and outrageous. DIRECTIONS: BY AIR: Three airports serve the Washington / Baltimore area. The two most convenient for the Washington Marriott are Washington National (just across the Potomac) and Dulles International (about 20 miles inland). [deleted quotation]Parkway westbound}. Cross over the Memorial bridge. Bear to the left at the end of the bridge, and take your first left onto 23rd Street. Follow 23rd Street to I (eye) Street and make a right turn. Make your first left onto 22nd street. The hotel will be five blocks up on the right hand side. [deleted quotation]Make a left turn onto 18th Street. Make a left onto M Street. Proceed on M to 22nd Street and make a right turn. The hotel will be on the right hand side. BY CAR: From the North, follow I-95 South to I-495 West toward Silver Spring. If you are astonished by some architecture about 5 miles later, you are going the right way. Exit I-495 at the Connecticut Avenue / Chevy Chase exit. Continue on Connecticut Avenue for nine miles and make a right turn on M Street. Proceed five blocks to 22nd Street and make a right turn. The hotel is on the right. [deleted quotation]Memorial Bridge. Then follow the National Airport directions. BY METRO: The Washington Metro is a subway/bus transit system that has two stops near the hotel: Foggy Bottom / GWU (23rd near Washington Circle) on the Orange and Blue Lines; and Farragut North (K and 17th streets) on the Red Line. PARKING: Parking at the Marriott is $15 per night for hotel guests. Parking garages are available nearby for comparable prices. Street parking is hard to find. FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE: For most currencies, exchanges can be made readily either at the airports or at banks in the vicinity of the hotel. ACCOMMODATION Accommodations are made available at a special conference rate at the Washington Marriott, the site of the conference. A block of rooms has been designated for the conference at special rates, including a small number of rooms that may be reserved at the prevailing U.S. Government per diem rate. In addition, the Marriott will allow students to share rooms up to four persons, at reduced rates. Unfortunately, during the academic year, no dormitory housing is available. To make a reservation, contact the Washington Marriott Hotel, +1-800-344-4445 or +1-202-872-1500. All reservations must be guaranteed either by credit card or by a first night room deposit. Inform the hotel that you are attending the Association for Computational Linguistics Applied Natural Language Processing Conference. In order to receive conference rates, reservations must be received by March 7, 1997. Rates: Singles: $135.00 per night (plus applicable taxes of approximately 13%). Doubles-to-Quads: $140.00 per night (plus taxes). Ask about U.S. government rates, if applicable, ($124.00 inclusive -- a limited number are available). FIFTH APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CONFERENCE 31 March - 3 April, 1997 Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington D.C. PROGRAM AT A GLANCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last revised January 27, 1997 Time schedule subject to revision. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ralph Grishman (Chair), New York University. Members: Chinatsu Aone, SRA Corporation, Rusty Bobrow, BBN, Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Boyan Onyshkevych, U. S. Dept. of Defense, Tomek Strzalkowski, General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Henry Thompson, University of Edinburgh, Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, Marc Vilain, MITRE Corporation. Sunday, March 30 6:00-8:00 Tutorial Registration, 2nd Floor 6:00-8:00 Tutorial Reception, 2nd Floor Monday, March 31 Tutorials 8:00- 3:00 Tutorial Registration, 2nd Floor 9:00-12:30 Creating and Using Automatic Linguistic Annotation Software 9:00-12:30 Building Applied Natural Language Generation Systems 2:00- 5:30 Using Speech Recognition 2:00- 5:30 Building Information Extraction Systems 6:00- 9:00 Conference Registration, 2nd Floor 7:00-10:00 Conference Reception Tuesday, April 1 8:00- 5:30 Conference Registration, 2nd Floor 9:00- 9:15 Introductions 9:15-10:00 Invited Talk Government Perspectives on Ruth A. David the Future of Language (tentative title) 10:00-10:30 BREAK Track A: Track B: 10:30- 5:00 Spoken Language and Dialog Syntax and Morphology Wednesday, April 2 Track A: Track B: 9:00-11:10 Computer-Aided Language Information Extraction Learning 11:10-12:00 Text Checking and other Continued Applications 2:00- 3:30 Continued Document Management 3:30- 5:00 Demonstrations Thursday, April 3 Track A: Track B: 9:00-11:00 Text Generation Multilingual Systems 11:00- 1:30 Information Retrieval and Acquisition of Lexical Summarization Information from Corpora 1:30- 4:00 Continued Continued ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM IN DETAIL 8:30- 5:30 Conference Registration, 2nd Floor (Tues.-Thurs.) Tuesday, April 1: Track A SPOKEN LANGUAGE and DIALOG 10:30 CommandTalk: A Robert Moore, John Dowding, Spoken-Language Interface for Harry Bratt, J. Mark Gawron, Battlefield Simulations and Adam Cheyer 11:00 Natural Language in Four Kenneth Wauchope, Stephanie Everett, Spatial Interfaces Dennis Perzanowski, and Elaine Marsh 11:20 High Performance Marsal Gavalda, Klaus Zechner, and Segmentation of Spontaneous Gregory Aist Speech Using Part of Speech and Trigram Word Information A Maximum Entropy Approach 11:40 Identifying Sentence Jeffrey Reynar and Adwait Ratnaparkhi Boundaries 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 Unification-based Michael Johnston, Phil Cohen, Liang Multimodal Integration for Chen, Joshua Clow, David McGee, Distributed Simulation James Pittman, and Ira Smith 2:00 Natural Language Dialog Stephen Busemann, Thierry Declerck, Service for Appointment Luca Dini, Judith Klein, and Scheduling Agents Sven Schmeier 2:30 Insights into the Dialog Jan Alexandersson, Norbert Reithinger, Processing of Verbmobil and Elisabeth Maier 3:00 B r e a k 3:30 An Evaluation of Strategies Ronnie Smith for Selective Utterance Verification for Spoken Natural Language Dialog 4:00 Name Pronunciation in Bernd Mobius and Stefanie Jannedy German Text-to-speech Synthesis 4:30 Applying Repair Processing Yue-Shi Lee and Hsin-Hsi Chen 4:30 in Chinese Homophone Distinction Tuesday, April 1: Track B SYNTAX and MORPHOLOGY 10:30 A Non-projective Dependency Pasi Tapanainen and Timo Jarvinen Parser 11:00 Incremental Finite-State Salah Ait-Mokhtar and Parsing Jean-Pierre Chanod 11:30 Developing a Hybrid NP Atro Voutilainen and Lluis Padro Parser 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 An Annotation Scheme for Wojciech Skut, Brigitte Krenn, and Free Word Order Languages Thorsten Brants 2:00 The Domain Dependence of Satoshi Sekine Parsing 2:30 Automatic Acquisition of Pieter Theron and Ian Cloete Two-level Morphological Rules 3:00 B r e a k 3:30 Probabilistic and Rule-based Barbora Hladka and Jan Hajic Tagger of an Inflective Language 4:00 Cseg&Tag1.0: A Practical Sun Maosong, Shen Dayang, and Word Segmenter and POS Huang Changning Tagger for Chinese Texts Wednesday, April 2: Track A COMPUTER-AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING 9:00 The NLP Role in Animated Michael Schoelles and Henry Conversation for CALL Hamburger 9:30 Reading more into Foreign John Nerbonne, Lauri Karttunen. Languages Elena Paskaleva, Gabor Proszeky, 10:00 Large-Scale Acquisition Bonnie Dorr of LCS-Based Lexicons for Foreign Language Tutoring 10:30 B r e a k TEXT CHECKING & other applications 11:10 A prototype of Grammar Tomas Holan, Vladimir Kubon, Checker for Czech and Martin Platek 11:40 Techniques for Karel Oliva Accelerating a Grammar Checker 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 EasyEnglish: A Tool for Arendse Bernth Improving Document Quality 2:00 Contextual Spelling Michael Jones and James Martin Correction Using Latent Semantic Analysis 2:30 An Automatic Scoring Jill Burstein System for Advanced Placement Biology Exams 3:00 Dutch Sublanguage Peter Spyns, Eric Baert, Semantic Tagging combined Georges De Moor, Ngo Thanh Nhan, with Mark-Up Technology and Naomi Sager Wednesday, April 2: Track B INFORMATION EXTRACTION 9:00 A Statistical Profile of the David Palmer and David Day Named Entity Task 9:20 Nymble: a High-Performance Daniel Bikel, Scott Miller, Learning Name Finder Richard Schwartz, and Ralph Weischedel 9:50 Disambiguation of Proper Nina Wacholder and Yael Ravin Names in Text 10:20 B r e a k 11:10 An Information Extraction Guenter Neumann, Rolf Backoven, Core System for Real World Judith Baur, Markus Becker, and German Text Processing Christian Braun 11:40 Layout & Language: Matthew Hurst and Shona Douglas Preliminary experiments in assigning logical structure to table cells 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 Building a Generation Dragomir Radev and Kathleen Knowledge Source using McKeown Internet-Accessible Newswire DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT 2:00 Using SGML as a Basis for David McKelvie, Chris Brew, and Data-Intensive NLP Henry Thompson 2:30 Software Infrastructure for Hamish Cunningham, Kevin Humphreys, Natural Language Processing Robert Gaizauskas, and Yorick Wilks 3:00 An Open Distributed Remi Zajac Architecture for Reuse an Integration of Heterogenous NLP Components Thursday, April 3: Track A TEXT GENERATION 9:00 Customizable Descriptions Benoit Lavoie, Owen Rambow, of Object-Oriented Models and Ehud Reite 9:30 CogentHelp: NLG meets SE Michael White and Ted Caldwell in a tool for authoring dynamically generated on-line help 10:00 A Fast and Portable Benoit Lavoie and Owen Rambow Realizer for Text Generation Systems 10:30 B r e a k 11:00 Multilingual Generation and Harold Somers, Alex Rogers, Joaki Summarization of Job Adverts: Nivre, Annarosa Multari, Torbjorn the TREE Project Lager, Luca Gilardoni, Jeremy Ellman, and Bill Black 11:30 Language Generation for Kathleen R. McKeown, Shimei Pan, Multimedia Healthcare James Shaw, Desmond Jordan, and Briefings Barry A. Allen 12:00 L u n c h INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND SUMMARIZATION 1:30 Identifying Topics by Position Chin-Yew Lin and Eduard Hovy 2:00 An Automatic Extraction Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi of Key Paragraph Based Suzuki, and Jun'ichi Fukumoto On Context Dependency Building Effective 2:30 Queries in Natural Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Language Information Jose Perez-Carballo, and Retrieval Jin Wang 3:00 B r e a k 3:30 Construction and Joe Zhou and Troy Tanner Visualization of Key Term Hierarchies 4:00 Fast Statistical Checgxiang Zhai Parsing of Noun Phrases for Document Indexing Thursday, April 3: Track B MULTILINGUAL SYSTEMS 9:00 An English to Turkish Cigdem Turhan Machine Translation System Using Structural Mapping 9:30 An Interactive Translation Kiyoshi Yamabana, Kazunori Muraki, Support Facility for Shin-ichiro Kamei, Kenji Satoh, Non-Professional Users Shinichi Doi, and Shinko Tamura 10:00 An Intelligent Multilingual Chinatsu Aone, Nicholas Charocopos, Information Browsing and and James Gorlinsky Retrieval System Using Information Extraction 10:30 B r e a k ACQUISITION of LEXICAL INFORMATION from CORPORA 11:00 Semi-automatic Acquisition Philip Resnik and I. Dan Melamed of Domain-specific Bilingual Translation Lexicons 11:30 Mixed-Initiative Development David Day, John Aberdeen, Lynette of Language Processing Hirschman, Robyn Kozierok, Systems Patricia Robinson, and Marc Vilain 12:00 L u n c h 1:30 Automatic Extraction of Ted Briscoe and John Carroll Subcategorization from Corpus 2:00 Learning Subcategorization Takehito Utsuro and Yuji Matsumoto Preferences with a Hidden Variable: Coping with Case Dependencies and Noun Class Generalizations 2:30 A Workbench for Finding Andrei Mikheev and Steven Finch Structure in Texts 3:00 B r e a k 3:30 Automatic Selection of Class Paola Velardi and Clessandro Labels from a Thesaurus for Cucchiarelli an Effective Semantic Tagging of Corpora 4:00 Sequential Model Selection Ted Pedersen, Rebecca Bruce, for Word Sense and Janyce Wiebe Disambiguation FIFTH APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CONFERENCE TUTORIAL PROGRAM March 31, 1997 Creating and Using Automatic Linguistic Annotation Software 9:00-12:30 Eric Brill, Department of Computer Science and Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University In order to perform any sophisticated natural language processing task, it is necessary to first discover the underlying linguistic structure of the input. Depending on the task, this might include information such as parts of speech, word senses, phrase structure, different types of names, etc. Recently a number of approaches have been developed for automatically training programs to provide such annotations. We will survey these approaches and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. The most accurate automatically trained systems typically require large manually-annotated corpora for training, thereby making them expensive to port across domains or languages for which such corpora are not readily available. We will describe methods that allow rapid porting, including: learning without an annotated corpus, adapting an already-trained program to a new domain with minimal resources, and methods for combining human intuitions with automatic acquisition. Building Applied Natural Language Generation Systems 9:00-12:30 Ehud Reiter, Computer Science Department, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Robert Dale, Microsoft Institute, Macquarie University, Australia Natural language generation systems produce understandable texts in English or other human languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. NLG systems combine knowledge about language and the application domain to automatically produce documents, reports, explanations, help messages, and other kinds of texts. The late 1990s is an exciting time for applied NLG. 10 years ago NLG was purely a research activity, but in 1997 there are several fielded NLG systems in everyday use, and many more systems under development. In this tutorial, we will describe some of the techniques that are being used to build practical working applications today; we will also provide pointers to leading-edge research developments in the field. The material is based around a popular architectural model of NLG that encompasses the three stages of text planning, sentence planning and linguistic realisation. We will include a case study showing how to construct an NLG system which produces textual meteorological summaries from underlying numeric data sets. The tutorial should be useful for managers, implementors, and researchers. For managers, it will provide a broad overview of the field and what is possible today; for implementors, it will provide a realistic assessment of available techniques; and for researchers, it will highlight the issues that are important in current applied NLG projects. Using Speech Recognition 2:00-5:30 Judith Markowitz, J. Markowitz Consultants Talking is a fundamental and ubiquitous mode of communication between humans. The idea of extending speech to verbal interaction with machines has produced powerful icons, such as Arthur Clark's Hal; Kit, the futuristic car; and StarTrek computers. Researchers and developers have been designing speech recognition systems for almost 50 years, and the fruit of their labor is a growing number of diverse speech-controlled systems, including speech-to-text dictation products, voice-activated dialing systems, and telephone messaging tools. The presentation addresses three major questions about speech recognition: What is speech recognition? How does it work? What is it used for? Answers to these questions include examination of speaker modeling, vocabulary creation, grammar, and input channels. The presentation will be accompanied by videotaped examples of existing systems and products. Building Information Extraction Systems 2:00-5:30 Douglas E. Appelt and David Israel, Artifical Intelligence Center, SRI International This tutorial will cover the what and the how of Information Extraction (IE) systems. First we characterize the range of tasks usually intended for IE techniques, and then describe the various approaches to implementing these techniques, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each. Most IE systems process texts in sequential steps ("phases") ranging from lexical and morphological processing, recognition and typing of proper names, parsing of larger syntactic constituents, and resolution of anaphora and coreference. Finally, IE systems have a domain phase that recognizes events and relationships relevant to the specific IE task. We shall discuss various approaches to each of these phases in turn, and examine their suitability for different types of IE problems. We will discuss the problems and advantages of incorporating various external resources into extraction systems, including large lexicons, gazetteers, and part-of-speech taggers, and conclude with a discussion of template design principles that can have a significant impact on the difficulty of the IE task. POSTCONFERENCE WORKSHOP on TAGGING TEXT WITH LEXICAL SEMANTICS: WHY, WHAT, AND HOW? SIGLEX 97 -- 4th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon Friday and Saturday, April 4-5, 1997 Friday: HAND TAGGING Invited talk Hwee Tou Ng (Defence Science Organisation, Singapore) Experience in WordNet sense tagging in the Wall Street Journal. J. Wiebe, J. Maples, L. Duan, and R. Bruce (New Mexico State U., USA and S. Methodist U., USA) Desiderata for tagging with WordNet synsets or MCCA categories. K.C. Litkowski (CL Research, USA) A frame-semantic approach to semantic annotation. J.B. Lowe, C.F. Baker, and C.J. Fillmore (U. of California, USA) A lexicon for underspecified semantic tagging. P. Buitelaar (Brandeis U., USA) LUNCH Invited talk Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton U. and Rider U.) Afternoon working sessions Saturday: AUTOMATED METHODS Measuring semantic entropy. I.D. Melamed (U. of Pennsylvania, USA) Sense tagging: semantic tagging with a lexicon. Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson (U. of Sheffield, UK) Selectional preference and sense disambiguation. P. Resnik (U. of Maryland, USA) Investigating complementary methods for verb sense pruning. H. Jing, V. Hatzivassiloglou, R. Passonneau, and K. McKeown (Columbia U., USA) Semantic bootstrapping from corpora. R. Basili, M. Della Rocca, and M. T. Pazienza (U. Tor Vergata Roma, Italy) Sense tagging in Action. A. Harley and G. Glennon (Cambridge Language Services, UK) LUNCH A perspective on word sense disambiguation methods and their evaluation. P. Resnik and D. Yarowsky (U. of Maryland, USA and John Hopkins U., USA) Afternoon working sessions PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marc Light (chair), Martha Evens, Helmut Feldweg, Michael Johnston, Doug Jones, Kevin Knight, Boyan A. Onyshkevych, Martha Palmer, Philip Resnik, Evelyne Viegas, David Yarowsky, Annie Zaenen. REGISTRATION: Registrations via email to light@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de with the Subject line "SIGLEX 96 Registration" are strongly preferred. The registration fee is US$55. Acceptable forms of payment are checks in US dollars payable to ``Marc Light'', credit card (VISA/Mastercard) payment, bank transfer in US dollars to Marc Light (account num. 19857012), Volksbank T"ubingen (routing num. 64190110) with message ``SIGLEX-97''. Please submit the following form (see also <a href="http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~light/semtag_ws.html">http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~light/semtag_ws.html</a>) regardless of payment option used: Name: Institution: <for name tag> Address: <postal address> Email: Phone and Fax: Payment: <specify check, credit card, or bank transfer> Credit card type: <Visa/Mastercard> only if paying by credit card Credit card info: <name on card, card number, expire date> Dietary requirements: <vegetarian, etc.> Please send to: Marc Light SfS-Computerlinguistik Wilhelmstrasse 113 D-72074 T"ubingen Germany email: light@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL/EACL-97 Workshop Call For Papers Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:51:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 472 (472) ------------------------------------ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY Third Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology (SIGPHON 97) In conjunction with ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference Madrid, Spain, 11th [or 12th?] July 1997 ------------------------------------ A. Description of the workshop The workshop will be devoted to all areas of computation, as applied to contemporary phonology. Papers will be on substantial, original, and unpublished research on any aspect of computational phonology, including (but not limited to) finite-state, connectionist and logical techniques; formalisms, implementations and complexity results; computational, mathematical and psychological models; and the integration of phonology with grammar and speech. Theoretical and applied studies are equally welcome. The workshop will occupy the whole day, with c. 10-12 papers, and a general discussion to conclude. B. Organizing committee and program committee. The organizing committee will consist of the following members of the SIGPHON executive: John Coleman (University of Oxford) Steven Bird (University of Edinburgh) Bob Berwick (MIT) Andras Kornai (IBM Almaden Research Center) The program committee will consist of the executive plus other members whom the executive may invite to strengthen the referee pool in particular areas. External referees will be invited for any paper submitted by a member of the program committee. C. Primary contact All correspondence should be sent to: John Coleman Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory 41 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JF, UK Tel. +44 (1865) 270444 Fax. +44 (1865) 270445 email: john.coleman@phonetics.oxford.ac.uk D. Submission of papers Papers should describe unique work; completed work is preferable to intended work, but in any event the paper should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Papers must not exceed 10 printed A4 pages. The entire process from initial submission, to reviewing and final submission will be handled electronically. The initial submission may either be in plain ascii, compressed postscript, or else should follow the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) which requires TeX 3.14 or LaTeX 2.09. (La)TeX submissions that include (possibly) separate postscript figure files must be packaged using the aclpkg.script (also available from the LISTSERV). ASCII or postscript is preferred, however. Final accepted versions MUST be (la)tex files following aclsub.sty, if necessary packaged using aclpkg.script. A title page containing the title, a short abstract, author names and addresses, should be attached to the submission. Postscript figures following psfig.sty may be included. Submissions should be sent via email to: john.coleman@phonetics.oxford.ac.uk Acknowledgment of receipt will be sent to the first author of the paper. IMPORTANT DATES MARCH 31, 1997 Initial submissions due APRIL 25, 1997. Notification of acceptance MAY 25, 1997. Receipt of final accepted papers E. Registration As the costs of the workshop have not yet been finalized, registration information will be sent out later. Note that all participants must register for the main ACL/EACL conference. Information about the main conference is available from the URL <a href="http://horacio.ieec.uned.ed/cl97/">http://horacio.ieec.uned.ed/cl97/</a> There will be an additional registration fee for the workshop of approximately US $35, which will include a copy of the workshop proceedings. ACL/EACL reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the number of participants is below 25 persons. F. AUDIO-VISUAL NEEDS. An overhead projector will be available. Requests for other A/V equipment should be directed to sigphon96@research.att.com G. ACL LISTSERV LISTSERV is a facility set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. Requests for files from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to: listserv@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request com- mand. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index ACL96" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get ACL96 <file>" to get a particular file named <file> from the archive. For example, to get the ACL96 modelsub.tex file, send a message with the following body: get ACL96 modelsub.tex Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take awhile (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP: $ ftp cs.columbia.edu Name(cs.columbia.edu:trisha): anonymous Password:trisha@cis.upenn.edu < not echoed > ftp> cd ACL96 ftp> get modelsub.tex.Z ftp> quit $ uncompress modelsub.tex.Z From: Remi Zajac <rzajac@crl.nmsu.edu> Subject: IJCAI-97 Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 09:45:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 473 (473) ********************************************************************** Call for Submissions Please Distribute Widely ********************************************************************** IJCAI-97 Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP Nagoya, Japan, August 23-25, 1997 (Web page: <a ref="<a href="http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/IJCAI/">http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/IJCAI/</a>"> Workshop on Ontologies and Multilingual NLP</a>) Background ========== A number of ontology-related workshops have been held in the past years (e.g., 1993 in Padua, 1995 IJCAI, 1996 ECAI, 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium, etc.). However, none of them concentrated centrally on applications of world modeling to multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP). Ontologies for knowledge-based computing and especially for Natural Language Processing are steadily reaching a level of sophistication and size which make them increasingly useful to the resolution of problems in real-world NLP applications. The recent creation of an ad hoc ANSI working group on standardization of ontologies is an indication of the maturity of the field. More and more ontology-based systems are being built for multilingual applications (e.g., multilingual machine translation, multilingual information retrieval). However, most of the language-processing oriented ontologies that have been built so far have English or another language (e.g., Japanese or Spanish) as the basis (e.g., WordNet, EDR, Pangloss, etc.). Since there is a growing need for multilingual applications of these ontologies, it is natural to ask the following questions: Are any of these ontologies actually used in a multilingual setting? Can we characterize the degree of independence of an ontology from the natural language it is based on? What are the necessary properties of a truly multilingual (or universal) ontology? Is it possible to obtain a language-neutral ontology from a language-dependent ontology? What applications truly need multilingual (or language-neutral) ontologies? How do we separate language-specific (or lexical) information from ontological knowledge? How can the depth of knowledge in the ontology be balanced with the needs of an application? What are the prospects of automating ontology acquisition? What is the relationship between an ontology as the repository of general knowledge about the world and knowledge about particular individuals - people, places, organizations, events, etc.? These and many more questions must be discussed much more widely than they have been till now. Many of the previous workshops were devoted to more formal issues in ontology building, such as the knowledge representation schemata, closures, formal properties of ontologies, and so on. Moreover, they included the discussion of small ontologies that cover a very narrow domain of problem solving; NLP typically requires a broad-coverage ontology. The hypothesis of using interlingual representations based on an ontology is at least 50 years old. It was originally formulated in the framework of machine translation. However, few systems to date have tested this hypothesis, for MT or other applications, by implementing a large-scale interlingua-based system using a language-independent ontology. This workshop will debate the benefits, costs and competitiveness of such an approach to solving semantic and cross-language problems for MT, IR, and other NLP applications. Audience ======== The workshop is open to all members of the AI and NLP community. The workshop is intended for researchers and practitioners in knowledge-based NLP, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics who have been working on large scale knowledge-based resources, ontologies, multilingual lexical semantics, interlinguas, and their applications. Reports of actual work including problems and solutions in the design, construction and use of ontologies are strongly encouraged but more theoretical work (grounded on actual work on ontologies) aimed at defining the limits, constraints and directions for large-scale practical language-neutral ontologies is welcome as well. Issues ====== Issues to be addressed include but are not limited to: - Design of language-neutral ontologies. - Acquisition problems in multilingual ontologies. - Multilingual applications of ontologies. - Multilingual ontologies and terminological knowledge bases. - Ontologies and interlinguas. - Standardization of ontologies: issues of multilinguality. - Ontologies and Lexicons. - Sharing and standardization of language-independent ontologies for NLP. - Costs and competitiveness of ontology-based solutions vis-a-vis corpus-based and transfer-based methods for multilingual NLP. Format of the Workshop ====================== The workshop will include twelve presentation periods which will be divided into ten-minute presentations of positions followed by 20-minute discussions. The attendance will be limited to 20 active participants. Papers will be circulated among participants several weeks before the workshop. Presentation will be short, under 15 minutes (10 minutes preferably) with 20 minutes reserved for exchanges. We encourage the authors to focus on the salient points of their presentation and identify possible controversial positions. We encourage authors not to repeat as is what has been already written in the paper. There will be ample time set aside for informal and panel discussions and audience participation. Please note that workshop participants are required to register at the main IJCAI-97 conference. Submission Information ====================== Timetable --------- - March 15, 1997: Deadline for reception of submissions. - May 1, 1997: Notification of acceptance. - July 1, 1997: Deadline for reception of camera-ready copy. Format ------ Submissions must not exceed 6 pages in camera-ready format. Submissions in electronic form are prefered. Authors should follow the IJCAI format. <<a href="http://www.ijcai.org/ijcai-97/CfX/cfp.html">http://www.ijcai.org/ijcai-97/CfX/cfp.html</a>> Review Process -------------- Papers will be subject to peer review. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program Committee, taking into consideration the individual reviews, will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. Submission ---------- Electronic submission should be sent at zajac@crl.nmsu.edu. The subject line should contain "IJCAI97 workshop submission". Papers should be sent at the following address: Rimi Zajac / IJCAI-97 Computing Research Laboratory New-Mexico State University PO Box 30001 / 3CRL Las Cruces NM 88003 USA Fax: +1-505-646-6218 Schedule ======== - March 15, 1997: Deadline for reception of submissions. - May 1, 1997: Notification of acceptance. - July 1, 1997: Deadline for reception of camera-ready copy. - July 21, 1997: Publication of final list of workshop participants. - August 23-25, 1997: IJCAI-97 Workshop. Organizing Committee ==================== Rimi Zajac, CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA (Chair): zajac@crl.nmsu.edu Lynn Carlson, US Department of Defense: lmcarls@afterlife.ncsc.mil Kavi Mahesh, CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA: mahesh@crl.nmsu.edu Kazunori Muraki, NEC, Japan: k-muraki@hum.cl.nec.co.jp Nicholas Ostler, Linguacubun, Ltd., UK: nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: FAIR USE TOWN MEETING Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:46:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 474 (474) [Editorial note. The issues surrounding "fair use" of material in electronic form are extremely important for the future of much if not everything we do as computing humanists. Further announcements on this subject are forthcoming on Humanist, and any and all discussion most strongly encouraged. --WM] NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 5, 1997 FIRST IN SERIES OF COMMUNITY TOWN MEETINGS ON FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES Following is a press release and program for the first in a series of Town Meetings to educate and engage the community in debate about Fair Use, the ramifications of new technology and copyright legislation and new voluntary "Guidelines," especially regarding the educational use of digital images. NINCH will be a partner in the production, recording and management of resources resulting from these meetings. * * * * * * * * * * * * IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: (212) 691-1051 February 4, 1997 Katie Hollander, ext.206 Craig Houser, ext. 208 Mary-Beth Shine, ext. 210 nyoffice@collegeart.org TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE OF DIGITAL IMAGES The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Sunday, February 16, 1997, 9:30 to 4:30 Fair Use of Digital Images, the first in a series of town meetings co- sponsored by the College Art Association and the American Council of Learned Societies, will take place on Sunday, February 16, from 9:30 to 4:30 at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 1 Cooper Square. This first town meeting follows the 85th annual College Art Association conference at the New York Hilton, February 12- 15, 1997. What can artists, curators, librarians, and scholars do with digital images? Although technologies of digital networks open the door to many new possibilities, copyright law will also play a critical role in shaping what we can do. The purpose of this first town meeting is to allow wide discussion of what is "fair use" of digital images. Digital networks pose many new challenges for copyright law. This is particularly so with regard to images, which may now be easily digitized and accessed from remote locations. Who will hold the rights? What will be "fair use" (a key concept in copyright law) of such images? Who will have to pay for what? This town meeting will explore these issues, putting a particular focus on guidelines recently drafted by the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), which are proposed for wide endorsement by organizations and will have implications for all users, creators, and rights holders. In short, how can we all live together? In addition to CAA and ACLS, The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is participating in sponsoring what will be a series of town meetings around the country, which are made possible by a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PROGRAM Town Meeting: Fair Use of Digital Images The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Sunday, February 16, 1997, 9:30 to 4:30 Great Hall Morning Session 9:30 a.m. To 12:30 p.m. Welcoming Remarks: Susan Ball, Executive Director, College Art Association Introduction to the Issues: Pat Williams and David Green, Moderators Legal Introduction to Copyright: Speaker TBA Presentation of Predicaments: Leila Kinney, Art Historian, MIT Lyndel King, Director, Weisman Art Museum Nancy Macko, Artist, Scripps College Outline of Proposed CONFU Guidelines for Fair Use of Digital Images: Cameron Kitchin, American Association of Museums Lunch - 12:30-1:30 p.m. (on your own) Afternoon Session 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Exploring the Issues: Susan Ball and Pat Williams, Moderators General Issues/Topics Copyright Education - Kenneth Crews, Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis Liability - Adam Eisgrau, American Library Association Artists' Rights - Ted Feder, Artists Rights Society Copy Photography - Macie Hall, Johns Hopkins University Site Licensing - Geoffrey Samuels, MLC Development Practical Use of Web Sites Annette Weintraub, Artist, City University of New York Elizabeth Schmidt, Colonial Williamsburg Kathy Cohen, Art Historian, San Jose State University * * * * * From: John D Schaeffer <tb0jds1@corn.cso.niu.edu> Subject: Position Announcement Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:37:06 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 475 (475) NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Coordinator-Computer Assisted Instruction Full-time position to coordinate department's Networked Writing and Research Lab. Responsible for maintaining and upgrding computer lab, web site, faculty development in computer based instruction in writing courses, and working with other university ffices to coordinate delivery of computer services to the department's Freshman English Program. Salary: $30,000 for 10 months. Send application letter, vita, and dossier with at least three letters of recommendation to John D. Schaeffer, Director of Freshman English, English Department, NIU, DeKalb IL 60115-2863. Application deadline: March 1, 1997. AA/EEO. From: Subject: Re: 10.0654 research assessment (U.K.) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 476 (476) In response to Mike Kelly, whom I thank for elucidating the activity of the European Studies panel, the declared difference between RA2 (four nominated publications) and RA5-6 ('supporting evidence') is appreciated, but panels were, admittedly within the guidelines, allowed to set their own briefs. Some of those panels seem, from their briefs, to have been operating more on a peer review system than actually on the RA2 -- of course, that's a personal impression, but one which may be borne out from the results of some panels. In this case, if the panel had a predilection for traditional publication, can we be assured that _all_ panels did actually access the material and evaluate as fully as it might a traditional publication? Moreover, in how many submissions was e-development placed in RA5-6 rather than in RA2? Finally -- and this has more to do with departmental cultures, as may the last point -- in RA5-6 might there have been a tendency to squeeze out e-developments in favour of expanding all those traditional materials which might also have wanted more space? Such faults -- if such they were -- might have originated in the departments (or units of assessment), but they were probably based on expectations and perceptions of how some panels might assess the different media -- traditional and electronic. My own feeling is that some units of assessment and the new universities have a real grievance here in some subject areas and that that issue can only be overcome by more feedback of a detailed nature. * By peer review, I should declare that I mean personal reputations rather than assessment of the actual output. -- Dave Postles Dept of English Local History, University of Leicester pot@le.ac.uk <a href="http://snowwhite.it.bton.ac.uk/proj-cgi/alt/members/DPO656">http://snowwhite.it.bton.ac.uk/proj-cgi/alt/members/DPO656</a> (under construction) From: Subject: Internet Archaeology Update 1 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 477 (477) [Editorial note. I pass along the following message, addressed to registered users of Internet Archaeology, <<a href="http://intarch.york.ac.uk/">http://intarch.york.ac.uk/</a>>, to encourage all Humanists to take a close look at this new online journal. Well worth the mouse-clicks and (if you live in Europe) also the connect charges for the local call. --WM] Dear Internet Archaeology Registered User, Thank you very much for taking the time to fill in our registration form and, since you are reading this message, putting in your email address. I am writing to you to let you know how the journal is doing at present and to give you details of the next issue. You are one of nearly 1800 people who have registered to use the journal. 8300 people have visited our web site (excluding those who have only come to browse at the Antiquity and Archaeology Data Service pages, which we host here in York). Our first issue has caused a lot of interest and there are now over 70 links to our journal from other Web sites. We are particularly pleased to have been awarded a NetGuide Platinum Site award, as one of the top 5000 web sites. Have a look at <a href="http://www.netguide.com/">http://www.netguide.com/</a> to see what they say about us. In summary, we scored five stars for overall rating, content and personality and four stars for design. One aspect of the design which has aroused adverse comment is our navigation button bars where we have links back to the main Home Page and to the particular paper's summary or table of contents. A team of graphics design students are looking at this to see if we can make the system more intuitive. Issue Two is now in preparation and we hope to have the issue published on the Web by the end of March. We have prepared four papers for publication which are now awaiting the online refereeing process and feedback from their authors. These are by David Dungworth, Roger Grace, the Heslerton Parish Project team (Dominic Powlesland, James Lyall and Daniel Donoghue) and Robert Daniels. A further paper, by Robert Mason, is well on the way and if not in Issue Two will be a certainty for Issue Three. We have decided to move our mail list from majordomo (which I found very complex to set up) to mailbase. If you want to be notified as and when papers are published and to be told of any news, forthcoming papers or reaction to those already published then please join the list. Joining intarch-interest To join intarch-interest send the command: Join intarch-interest firstname(s) lastname (substituting appropriately) as the only text in the body of a message addressed to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk For any queries relating to the list, contact the owner at: intarch-interest-request@mailbase.ac.uk If you are already a member of intarch-interest your membership will be transferred to the mailbase list automatically. Thank you once again for your support. We are always looking for innovative projects which fully utilise the new medium so if you are involved in a project that you think fits the bill then please contact the editorial staff. In addition to papers like those in Issue One we are particularly keen to have excavation reports (on sites of international importance) and catalogues of major collections of artefacts. Publication of both of these, we think, could be greatly enhanced by use of the Web. Yours, Alan Vince Alan Vince, Managing Editor, Internet Archaeology <a href="http://intarch.york.ac.uk/index.html">http://intarch.york.ac.uk/index.html</a> Email: alan@intarch.york.ac.uk From: Subject: agonizing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 478 (478) I would remind those who worry about where computing humanists have gone of Don Ross's prediction in the 70s (in the context of comments on the need for a "computing" section in the Modern Language Association) that the need for emphasis on computing in the humanities would go away as computing tools became as naturalized in the disciplines as were typewriters and printed books. It may be that less visibility simply means that computing has been much more integrated into practice and has become much less self-conscious. Certainly this is true in archivy, history, and qualitative anthropology, the areas where I have been most active over that time. Nobody in the agency where I work could do their daily tasks, which include research and analysis, without computers, which I, alas, am in charge of: maybe the computing humanists of old have become overburdened computing infrastructure providers for their modern counterparts! It seems to me I've heard that sentiment recently from Lou Burnard... Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Subject: "Reading" web pages Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 479 (479) hello all: given the escalating popularity of the web -- and the notoriously *uneven* quality of information available in cyberspace, wouldn't it be helpful to articulate some explicit suggestions or principles for critically evaluating and using web-based information? (for my purposes i'm thinking specifically about information by or about religious groups that students are likely to find and use from the web.) do some of you provide students with suggestions on how critically to "read" the web? i'd love to hear what others have developed formally or otherwise. thanks, joel =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joel Elliott Department of Religious Studies / CB #3225 University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill, NC 27599 EMAIL: elliott@email.unc.edu URL: <a href="http://www.unc.edu/~elliott">http://www.unc.edu/~elliott</a> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Subject: Computer fiction Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 480 (480) David Foster Wallace's *Infinite Jest* (NY 1996) doesn't feature computers in its plot, except in a charming set-piece about the likely future of video phone technology and some other odds and ends. But--as I think most of its reviewers have pointed out--the book's astounding length and extensive discursive endnotes (100+ pages) seem to owe a lot to online composition and editing, in a way that other very big books (Gibbon, Proust, Musil) do not. (That said, I do like Wallace's work very much.) It seems to me many literary writers still use form in a way that was a necessary economy when one had to handwrite or manually type every word and syntax needed to be planned far in advance. Of course, I'd welcome contradiction. Kristine Haugen Department of English Princeton University klhaugen@princeton.edu From: Subject: COCOA/OCP Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 481 (481) Mavis is looking for information on COCOA and OCP. You are right that COCOA is a concordance program; the acronym is "word COunt and COncordance on Atlas"; the Atlas computer having been one of the biggies in the UK. In the late 50s and 60s, everybody wrote routines (we called the finished product a package) to count words, do concordances and the like. I remember I wrote a concordance routine which was widely (well, somebody else used it) used before Kernigan and Plauger. COCOA was the "brainchild" of D. B. Russell. Get his _COCOA Manual_ (Chilton: Atlas Computer Laboratory, November, 1967). It was a suite of programs doing all kinds of things. The idea of it as a markup language came from the fact that its divisions (sort of like WordCruncher), e.g. <A Goethe> (the author is Goethe); <T Faust> (the title of the work is Faust); <S 3> (the stanza is no. 3; oops, Faust is not really in stanzas, but you get the picture) came to be used as "markup" in OCP, Tact and a number of other places. OCP is the "baby" of Susan Hockey, and she would have been stupid to have ignored COCOA, in which she was steeped (no pun intended). In fact, OCP seems to be sort of a porting of COCOA to other venues, e.g. IBM mainframe. OCP was used on mainframes everywhere; when the PC revolution came about, it got ported to the desktop under the name Micro-OCP. Voila\! If it is important, you could get in touch with Susan Hockey, who could give you more information. She is Director of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities at Princeton. ! Jim Marchand. From: Subject: BISFAI-97 Conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 482 (482) ****** Call for Papers ****** ****** NOTE EXTENDED DEADLINE: Feb 20 ******** BISFAI '97 The Fifth Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence June 16-18, 1997 Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel in cooperation with Israel Association for Artificial Intelligence Israeli Society for Theoretical Computer Science Gelbart Institute for Mathematical Sciences The Association for Mathematics of Language The Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science The focus of BISFAI '97 will be on Intelligent Agents. The Symposium will, however, retain its broad scope, and welcomes high quality research papers in various areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, automated reasoning, knowledge representation, neural nets, natural language processing, etc. The concept of an agent has become important in both artificial intelligence and mainstream computer science. An agent is a hardware or software system that is automonous, interactive with and reactive to its environment and other agents. An agent can also be pro-active in taking the initiative in goal-directed behaviour. We solicit papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, and in particular in the area of Intelligent Agents. Agents have a clear and growing importance, both practical and theoretical. Because of their commercial relevance, we encourage practitioners from industry to submit papers dealing with various practical aspects. Distinguished Invited Speakers (tentative): C. Boutilier (U. of British Columbia) V. Lesser (U. of Massachusetts) J. Rosenschein (Hebrew U.) G. Shafer (Rutgers U.) Y. Shoham (Stanford U.) P. Struss (Technical University of Munich) W. Wahlster (DFKI GmbH) THE 1997 ISRAELI FEDERATED COMPUTING CONFERENCE: The Symposium will be part of the new Israeli Federated Computing Conference (IFCC). For contact points on this conference, see below). The IFCC will also include the Eighth Israeli Conference on Computer-Based Systems and Software Engineering (CBSE), which will take place on June 18-19, 1997, and the Fifth Israeli Symposium on Theory of Computing and Systems (ISTCS'97), which will take place on June 17-19, 1997. Paper Submission: Submit three hard copies of an extended abstract (4-10 pages), or full paper, by February 20nd 1997, to Leo Joskowicz Institute of Computer Science The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel E-mail: josko@cs.huji.ac.il Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20th March 1997. A final version of the accepted will appear in the conference preprints, which will be distributed to participants at the symposium. Selected refereed full length papers will be published in a special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence as a permanent record of the Symposium. These should be submitted shortly after the conclusion of the Symposium. Information on registration, accommodations, etc., will appear in future announcements, or contact: bisfai@cs.biu.ac.il. The web page site is: <a href="http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~schwart/bisfai97.html">http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~schwart/bisfai97.html</a> Symposium Chair S. Kraus (Bar-Ilan U.) Program Co-Chairs D. Lehmann (Hebrew U.) L. Joskowicz (Hebrew U.) Program Committee (tentative, in alphabetical order) Y. Choueka (Bar-Ilan U.) I. Dagan (Bar-Ilan U.) R. Dechter (UC-Irvine) R. Feldman (Bar-Ilan U.) M. Golumbic (Bar-Ilan U.) B. Grosz (Harvard U.) H. Hel-Or (Bar-Ilan U.) J. Hendler (U. of Maryland) L. Joskowicz (Hebrew U.) D. Lehmann (Hebrew U.) J-J.Meyer (Utrech U.) L. Morgenstern (IBM TJ Watson Research) J. Pearl (UCLA) S. Sagiv (Hebrew U.) E. Shamir (Hebrew U.) K. Sycara (Carnegie Mellon U.) M. Tennenholtz (Technion) IFCC CONTACT LIST: CSBE -- Ron Pinter (pinter@haifasc3.vnet.ibm.com) IFCC -- Michael Rodeh (rodeh@haifasc3.vnet.ibm.com) ISTCS -- Yishay Mansour (mansour@cs.tau.ac.il) and Baruch Schieber (sbar@watson.research.ibm.com) BISFAI -- Sarit Kraus (sarit@cs.biu.ac.il) Daniel Lehmann (lehmann@cs.huji.ac.il) From: Subject: Re: 10.0655 COCOA? course? duck-rabbit? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 483 (483) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 484 (484) [deleted quotation] In the area of Greek literature, I have team-taught such a course in the past and am always looking for an opportunity to do it again. You can probably do as much or as little as you like; one approach is just to use a good word processor for finding data and a stats program for evaluating it. What I would most like to do is a fairly demanding course that would include programming skills focused on text processing; on the light side (in the Mac world), something like Hypercard, on the heavy side C/C++. I think such an approach would not only be useful for humanities computing, but would also assist students in learning or further developing a more "marketable" skill. But I fear such a course or cluster of courses would be very hard to sell to department chairs and deans. Don Wilkins UC Riverside Don Wilkins UC Riverside From: Subject: withering away of the state? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 485 (485) Thoughts stimulated by Patricia Galloway's recent note. With all due respect to Don Ross, elder (but not old) statesman of the field, it seems to me highly unlikely that humanities computing will disappear after the older disciplines have assimilated computing into the core of what they do. This is close to the argument, advanced at Oxford (as I recall) when English was first being pushed as a discipline: since everyone reads that stuff anyhow, why should we grant a degree for reading English literature? Those who teach English, like those who teach humanities computing, know better -- unless of course they get tired and overburdened, as I very much hope my friend Lou Burnard isn't. "He or she who is sick of London is sick of life." Less eliptically, since all disciplines are centres from which to study all knowledge, humanities computing is apt to seem nothing more to a specialist in, say, French linguistics than the set of computing techniques which he or she happens to know about. Philosophy and history are examples of disciplines that devour everything and from which nothing seems much more than raw material for their particular concerns. No objection, but to understand humanities computing one has to make it one's centre. I suppose this could be done momentarily, in the imagination, but a professional commitment is certainly a powerful stimulus. Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Re: 10.0664 computers and writing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 486 (486) A favorite of mine, though perhaps off-base in the current topic, is John Updike's "Roger's Version," which apeared, I believe, in the mid- to late '80's. (Remember when we were still _anticipating_ the "real" 1984? Gee ....) Best regards to all, Michael Metzger, Buffalo From: Subject: technological improvement Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 487 (487) [The following was extracted, at his suggestion, from a much longer message sent along to Humanist by Wendell Piez. --WM] [deleted quotation] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- [deleted quotation] NETFUTURE Technology and Human Responsibility -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue #40 Copyright O'Reilly & Associates February 5, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opinions expressed here belong to the authors, not O'Reilly & Associates. Editor: Stephen L. Talbott NETFUTURE on the Web: <a href="http://www.ora.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/">http://www.ora.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/</a> You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes. CONTENTS: *** Editor's Note *** Quotes and Provocations Chinese Cookies Looking up to Government Businesses That Grow Unprincipled David Kline on SLT on David Kline *** Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2) (Steve Talbott) The Worm Was Already in the APL *** About this newsletter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [...material deleted...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Is Technological Improvement What We Want? (Part 2) (129 lines) [deleted quotation] In Part 1 (NF #38) of this series I tried to show how technical improvements in the intelligent machinery around us tend to represent a deepened threat in the very areas we began by trying to improve. This, so long as we do not recognize it, is the Great Deceit of intelligent machinery. The opportunity to make software more friendly is also an opportunity to make it unfriendly at a more decisive level. I illustrated this by citing: * telephone answering systems (improved voice recognition software will remove some of the present klutziness, but will enable a company to turn more of its callers' important business over to software agents); * speed and memory improvements (the accelerated obsolescence resulting from these improvements suggests that our frustrations in dealing with equipment that is too slow, dated, and awkward will deepen in direct proportion to the rates of improvement. Call this, if you like, Talbott's Law, and add it as a footnote to Moore's Law. Then remember that all the human significance is in the footnote); * information management tools (the technological arms race between information generators and information managers is an endless one, and the more it heats up, the harder we must work to preserve threads of meaning amid the churning data and the proliferating tools that are doing the churning). The underlying problem, I suggested, was a mismatch between the technically conceived improvements and the level at which our real problems occur. There are many other places to look in order to illustrate this mismatch. But in this installment, I have chosen to inquire whether the problem is reflected in programming languages themselves. IS TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT WHAT WE WANT? The Worm Was Already in the APL My point has been that a technical advance typically sharpens the challenge that was presented to us by the original technical limitation. It is not that our situation *must* worsen. But our predilections toward abuse of the technology, as expressed in the earlier problem, must now be reversed in the face of much greater temptation. Where we were failing with the easier challenge, we must succeed with a harder one. The company in possession of a new generation of telephone-answering software must look to its mission statement with redoubled seriousness. But the best intentions are difficult to execute when the Great Deceit is built into the software itself. We need to recognize the deceit, not only in the various software applications, but in the essence of the software enterprise. Software, of course, is what drives all intelligent machinery, and it is created through the use of programming languages. Perhaps the greatest single advance in programming occurred with the switch from low-level to high-level languages. Did this switch amount to progress, pure and simple, or can we recognize the Deceit here at the very root of the modern technological thrust? The lowest-level machine language consists of numbers, representing immediate instructions to the computer: "carry out such-and-such an internal operation." It's not easy, of course, for programmers to look at thousands of numbers on a page and get much of a conceptual grip on what's going down. But through a series of steps, higher-level languages were created, finally allowing program code that looks like this: do myexit(1) unless $password; if (crypt($password, $salt) ne $oldpassword) { print "Sorry."; do myexit(1); } Each line of such code typically represents -- and finally gets translated into -- a large mass of machine code. These more powerful lines may still look like Greek to you, but to the programmer who has struggled with low- level languages, they convey, with read-my-lips clarity, assurance of a drastic slash in the mental taxation of program writing. Obviously, high-level languages enhance the programmer's technical power. It is far easier to write code when you can employ the concepts and terminology of the human domain within which the program will function. But this heightened technical power dramatically increases the risks. The more easily we can verbally leap from a human domain to a set of computational techniques, the more easily we fall into the now more effectively camouflaged gap between the two. The telephone company programmer who writes a block of code under the label, "answer_inquiry", is all too ready to assume that the customer's concern has been answered, even if the likelihood is that it has not even been addressed. The risk here is far from obvious in all its forms. It derailed the entire discipline of cognitive science, whose whole purpose is to understand the relation between the human and the computational. The derailment finally produced one of the classic papers of the discipline, entitled "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity." In it Drew McDermott bemoaned the use of "wishful mnemonics" like UNDERSTAND and GOAL in computer programs. It would be better, he suggested, to revert to names more reminiscent of machine code -- say, G0034. Then the programmer might be forced to consider the actual relationship between the human being and the logical structures of the code. As AI progresses (at least in terms of money spent), this malady gets worse. We have lived so long with the conviction that robots are possible, even just around the corner, that we can't help hastening their arrival with magic incantations. Winograd...explored some of the complexity of language in sophisticated detail; and now everyone takes "natural-language interfaces" for granted, though none has been written. Charniak...pointed out some approaches to understanding stories, and now the OWL interpreter includes a "story-understanding module." (And, God help us, a top-level "ego loop.") McDermott wrote those words in 1976. But while the problem is now almost universally acknowledged, it remains endemic to the discipline, subtly eluding even the efforts by more philosophically minded practitioners to impose conceptual rigor upon the field. There is no question that high-level languages represent technical progress. The programmer gains vastly greater power to *program*. But this power arises from an ever more illusory match-up between the routine "speech" of the programmer and the terms of real life. As I have begun to suggest already and will argue further, more and more of human existence disappears into the abyss hidden beneath the illusion. As we adapt to the programmatic structuring of our phone calls, we get better at reconceiving our business according to the predefined categories of the answering system; at the same time, we learn not to bother with nonconforming calls. Our world shapes itself to the software. Eventually, the programmer's "answer_inquiry" becomes what it *means* to answer an inquiry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** About this newsletter (29 lines) NETFUTURE is a newsletter concerning technology and human responsibility. 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To unsubscribe, the second line shown above should read instead: unsubscribe netfuture To submit material to the editor for publication in the forum, place the material in an email message and address it to: netfuture@online.ora.com Send general inquiries to netfuture-owner@online.ora.com. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: citations of electronic resources Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 488 (488) This question on behalf of Theresa Wilson <thwilson@pitt.edu>, who wrote to me asking how to cite electronic resources. Her query is as follows. [deleted quotation] Is there any consensus on bibliographic format? If not, where does one go to find the possibilities? Please address your replies both to Humanist and to Ms. Wilson. I have had, I now think, good luck with replying to her directly, to the address given above, although the one she supplied (@cis.vms.pitt.edu) definitely did not work. Thanks very much. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Re: 10.0667 citing e-resources? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 489 (489) Quite a lot has been written about citing e-sources and there is a website that includes materials for MLA evolving style. Also, textbook publishers are leaping on this one. (I am *not* related to any publishers, so the following are not plugs.) Norton has published Martin Irvine's _Web Works_ which is focused primarily, as the title indicates, on using the Web and includes some guidance about citation and bibliography formats. St. Martin's has a more broadly presented text, Harnack and Kleppinger's _Online!: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources_; this has more detailed coverage of citation/bibliography styles and help with various net usages. There was a very helpful article on the subject in _Internet World_ (Sept. 1996) There are various discussions of the problems in specific disciplines on bulletin boards devoted to those disciplines; the MLA website (this may be out of date by now) is <<a href="http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/janice.html">http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/janice.html</a>> I believe that is not the only one, but its the url I have handy. Hope this helps. Tom Dillingham From: Pamela Cohen <pac@rci.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0668 COCOA/OCP Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 10:06:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 490 (490) A correction: The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities is jointly sponsored by Rutgers and Princeton Universities. [deleted quotation]__________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 <a href="http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu">http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu</a> pac@rci.rutgers.edu From: Lou Burnard <lou@vax.ox.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 10.0668 COCOA/OCP Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 11:08:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 491 (491) Jim Marchand writes | OCP is the "baby" of Susan Hockey, and she would have been stupid to have |ignored COCOA, in which she was steeped (no pun intended). In fact, OCP |seems to be sort of a porting of COCOA to other venues, e.g. IBM mainframe. |OCP was used on mainframes everywhere; when the PC revolution came about, it |got ported to the desktop under the name Micro-OCP. Voila\! There are quite a few articles in the literature (e.g. back issues of Literary and Linguistic Computing) about the genesis of the Oxford Concordance Program and its design goals. As one of those involved with the design, I would like to put right the imputation -- attributable I am sure to a lapse of memory only -- that OCP was a "porting of COCOA to other venues". On the contrary, its design and implementation were a conscious attempt at synthesizing the best of what had been done before, in the light of what were then beginning to emerge as the requirements of "computing humanists". So, yes, OCP implemented the same style of markup as COCOA had required, but it also supported styles of markup favoured by other programs, such as the free-standing tags used by the Cambridge suite of concordancing tools, and the fixed field references used by dozens of programs still wedded to the cardpunch metaphor. (It didn't understand SGML, but if that had been invented in the 1970s, it would have!). It plundered features from several other programs as well as from COCOA, notably one called CLOC, which was produced at Birmingham University to do collocations. Its command language owes something to COBOL. As features were thrown together by the designers' imaginations, they were also validated by some exhaustive and exhausting field trials and surveys of the potential user community. However, as we all know memories are unreliable and prone to reinterpretation. There is a large written record not just about OCP, but about a large number of the other programs around at that time. May I suggest a visit to a library? (A good one to choose is in Tuebingen, if your travel funds will stretch to it, where Wilhelm Ott's centre has a very impressive collections of Humanities Computing related materials) Lou Burnard From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: centres and hearts Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:48:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 492 (492) Willard, In your enticingly entitled commentary you wrote "to understand humanities computing one has to make it one's centre. I suppose this could be done momentarily, in the imagination, but a professional commitment is certainly a powerful stimulus." I was wondering if there were other stimuli such as transdisciplinary solidarity? I say this because although I do not consider myself as professionally committed to the field of humanities computing I found myself signalling to a private sector handler of large quantity of digital speech files stemming from its interactive voice response operations the possibility of making a gift of its archivable materials to a holder of large linguistic corpra in a publicly funded institution. The next step would be for the firm or a group of firms from the same economic sector to consider seriously funding conferences and long term research projects. I know this smacks of spreading an entrepreneurial model and directly captitulating to market driven forces. However what I want the anecdote I report to do is to transcode in your statement is the metaphorics of "centre". Upon first reading I equated centre with heart, no doubt due to the locus of that word indicating intense excitement ("stimulus" at the end of a sentence). Heart, brains and courage are the three desiderata of a well-known film classic. Their synergism may have much to do with professional commitment. They can and often do exist in combinations outside of a profession or discipline and far from a yellow brick road. It is a generalized passion for intellectual activity that traverses the paradoxical centre that acts as a node of power on the perimeter of many circles. Of course this geometry of touching tangents is far less conducive to a calculus of gain/loss than the alimentary tract analogy, one discipline devouring materials produced by others to produce something of little use value. Of course the digestive metaphor and its products can be recouped in an ecological view of intellectual production and consumption. I was wondering if the roles of farmer, grocer and restauranteur are peripheral or central to the institutional dynamics you are modeling. A moment in the imagination can be a long time... You've indirectly piqued my curiousity. I've got to go see if anyone has put a comparative study of Virgil's <cite>Georgics</cite> and Ovid's <cite>Metamorphoses</cite> online and what role, if any, these classics played in the biographies of artists in support of land reform in colonial... [deleted quotation] Francois From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> Subject: Re: 10.0671 withering away? Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 10:28:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 493 (493) Professor McCarty wrote: "to understand humanities computing one has to make it one's centre." In anthropological terms, this suggests that one must have an "emic" or "ethnomethodological" perspective, and while I would agree that there are very significant ways in which computing tools developed for humanities applications embody important new heuristics and do not at all simply replicate old paper-and-pencil methods of analysis, I would also suggest that it is therefore all the more important to apply some reflexivity and to question the assumptions and implications of these tools, just as the sciences must do when they objectify their means of perception through computational methods. Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: "Robert S. Tannenbaum" <rst@service1.uky.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0671 withering away? Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 08:24:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 494 (494) Willard, I agree with you entirely that as a field humanities computing will not wither away. I would offer just two arguments (of many that I can imagine) in suport of my agreement. First, computing in general is by no means a mature science. Many significant changes and (hopefully) improvements are to be expected. These will have as yet unimagined possibilities for supporting the activities of humanists. It will (continue to) require humanists with a deep concern for computing to help us all learn how to use the new computing -- to lead the way in humanities computing as they persue their humanities studies. Second, if other disciplines that are even more totally dependant on computers in their research have not outgrown the need for discipline-specific computing specialists, why should we expect that the humanities will do so? In my position, I and my group must provide support for instructional and research computing for the entire university, including all disciplines. I have at least as much need to provide support for the natural and the social sciences as for the humanities. For example, I have a Ph.D. physicist in my group who spends half of his time assisting other scientists with numerically-intensive computing problems. I also have a Ph.D. statistician who works with (primarily) social scientists on statistical *computing* (as opposed to statistical methodology) questions. The natural and social scientists still require specialists to assist them, to develop new techniques, and to implement the latest innovations, after their disciplines have been employing computing extensively for forty years or more. Why not the humanities? Bob Robert S. Tannenbaum, Ed.D. 606 / 257 - 2900 office Director, Academic Computing Services 606 / 323 - 1978 fax 128 McVey Hall rst@pop.uky.edu University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0045 From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" <todd@cyberjunkie.com> Subject: Re: 10.0671 withering away? Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 00:52:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 495 (495) .... [deleted quotation] Inasmuch as "humanities computing" and "the older disciplines" share a common commitment to a particular technoculture, I believe this is true. IMHO, however, "humanities computing" will become less and less relevant as a younger generation of thinkers-- products of cyberculture --- begin to reinvent the humanistic disciplines. [deleted quotation] There is little doubt in my mind that the few individuals who get paid to practice/teach "humanities computing" (however this is defined by the institution that writes the cheques) possess an unsurpassed understanding of what it is they practice/teach. One might be foolish enough to suggest, however, that the multitude of amateurs outside the centre are, at least on rare occasions, less likely to miss the forest for the trees. Best, Todd From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: going beyond the field of vision Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 19:50:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 496 (496) Perhaps it's just me, but I do have the impression now that online publishing, because of its extent, variety, and constant change, has dilated far beyond anyone's capacity to grasp. This is certainly the conclusion reached by Zygmunt Bauman, who in a recent review of Claus Offe's <cite>Modernity and the State</cite> (Times Literary Supplement 4895 24/1/97 pp. 4-5), suggests that it mirrors life at the end of the millenium, in "that bizarre formulation" known as modernity. He quotes Cornelius Castoriadis, "valiant Greek insurgent turned French political philosopher", on modernity: "a state of permanent revolution, a society that puts itself continually in question, refutes all 'pre-given meanings' (including the meanings it accorded itself the day before) and guards its 'freedom to create ever new significations'." Such a society "'lives in chaos, it itself is the chaos which strives to give itself a form, but a form never fixed for all time'." "As in the boundless, uncharted and unchartable expanses of the Internet virtual reality," Bauman notes, "in the increasingly patchwork-like space of society made up and unmade again by an indeterminate number of small and very small units, constantly changing in size, density and cohesion, no one is in control, and no one is truly capable of scanning the whole territory and the set of issues which would have to be the subjects of such control." Now, perhaps, maintaining that *definitive and comprehensive* list of Internet resources for Classics, or Anthropology, or whatever seems a lighter task, because we know it's impossible and are let off the hook. To me the signs are quite clear that many of us, thinking like consumers, have been misconstruing it all along, as if it were some great if unstable reference work. Giles Foden, Deputy Literary Editor of the Guardian (see <<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/">http://www.guardian.co.uk/</a>>), in the latest TLS quotes Brewster Kahl, who wrote last year in Wired that "Information retrieval is not about finding out how much tannin there is in an apple. It's about letting everyone publish." Thus in his article, "Surfing is for fun: The true purposes of the Internet and its limitations as a reference tool" (TLS 4897 7 Feb 1997, pp. 11-12), Foden writes that "...in fact, it is a mistake to think of the Net as an easy-access encyclopedia. It is really a huge pool of knowledge <i>as it is being made</i>." Although Foden or the TLS, or both, cannot seem to spot syntax errors in a URL or be very precise in referring to a resource hidden away on a commercial server, the article is worth reading and, like Bauman's piece, shows how seriously the Internet is being taken, even when it is not treated as a serious tool. He suggests -- a fine topic for a PhD dissertation, perhaps -- that "It would be a useful research project for somebody to see how the political implications of the world of electronic reference relate to those of print reference", pointing to Diderot's translation of Chambers's Cyclopaedia and to the political implications of open access, freedom from censorship, etc. He notes that "the Internet is vastly weighted towards the United States, in terms of both production and reception", and that because those who post and those who read overlap so much, "the Net may not be thought a medium at all, except in reverse feedback terms". "And whatever we are searching for, however long it takes, we may in our hearts wish that the Net does remain unstructured and wildly unpredictable. Its natural mode is epiphanic rather than taxonomic. As such it is a handmaiden to the creative imagination, bring strangeness and beauty to birth; not the key to mythology then, but mythogenesis itself." Finally, Mary Beard (Classics, Cambridge) reports in the latest Guardian Online, "on the modern approach to studying an ancient world", in "Go Greece enlightening", which is available at <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/one.html">http://online.guardian.co.uk/one.html</a>> until the next issue, and thereafter at <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/computing/855151904-percy.html">http://online.guardian.co.uk/computing/855151904-percy.html</a>>. The second half of the article focuses on the Perseus Project, about which she has reservations. She notes the popularity of computing technology among classicists, attributing it partly to the training they get in creating "a virtual reality Ancient Rome in our heads", partly on the passion for systematising and accessing all knowledge in their ken, partly on the need to survive in an age of declining enrolments in classics programmes. She appears not to see the irony in the attraction of the Internet for systematisers of knowledge, although it seems to me that a culture which in some sense produced Ovid, and he the Metamorphoses, has to have a fundamental affinity with the metamorphic, metempsychotic Internet. How interesting: the Web coming into focus as an important cultural artefact and, of course, mirror of ourselves. Just what humanities computing is about, yes? Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: "T.Matthew Ciolek" <tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: 10.0665 how to read the Web? Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 18:41:11 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 497 (497) The Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (ASVL) [<a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html">http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html</a>] was established in March 1994 by the Coombs Computing Unit at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. The ASVL provides an authoritative, continuously updated hypertext guide and access tool to scholarly information resources on the Internet. It deals with the Asian continent as a whole, as well as individual Asian regions, countries, and territories. In this multinational collaborative project, 25 editors are in charge of cataloging and evaluating potential links: ten in the United States, six in Australia, two in the Netherlands, and one each in Argentina, Austria, Macau, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, and Thailand. These 'virtual librarians' are either scholars, postgraduate students, or networked-information specialists employed by universities, libraries, and research institutes. Their task is to maintain accurate, comprehensive, current, and annotated catalogs of online resources selected on the strength of their reliability, authority and usefulness to inquiry and analysis regarding Asian societies, politics, economies, histories, and cultures. Together this team manages 55 subdivisions organized by country and region offering over 6,500 Internet resources from around the globe, including archives, library catalogs, documents, bibliographies, electronic-journal registers and mailing lists. The ASVL's collaborative philosophy enables individual editors to focus on his or her area of specialization, to build on colleagues' expertise, and to avoid redundant web monitoring and web cataloging. Unlike general purpose Web searching tools such as Yahoo, InfoSeek, or AltaVista, the ASVL allows scholars to easily locate and access researcher-oriented online publications. The ASVL is a decentralized, distributed online resource catalog which consciously avoids "infotainment," aiming instead at the narrow and selected audience of academics, librarians, journalists, and graduate students. ****** Additional details on the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library project are available from <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLAbout.html">http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLAbout.html</a> Dr T. Matthew CIOLEK tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au Head, Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html">http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html</a> <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html">http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html</a> The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200 ph +61 (0)6 249 0110 fax: +61 (0)6 257 1893 ================================================================= From: Pamela Cohen <pac@rci.rutgers.edu> Subject: look for expert (fwd) Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 12:08:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 498 (498) Perhaps someone on Humanist can advise this person.=20 [deleted quotation]__________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities =20 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 <a href="http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu">http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu</a> pac@rci.rutgers.edu From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: frames? Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 16:29:52 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 499 (499) I need to know if it is now considered prudent to design a set of web=20 pages that use frames but do not offer a "noframes" option. For=20 design of web pages, it is an interesting question in general when=20 one avoids the most advanced features in consideration of those whose=20 browsers are not capable of them. Any wisdom about these matters=20 would be most welcome. WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer=20 Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 500 (500) add HUMANIST humanepw ken@clres.com Ken Litkowski From: Subject: NINCH NEWSLETTER #5 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 501 (501) N I N C H Networked Cultural Heritage Newsletter No. 6 February 7, 1997 www-ninch.cni.org/news/news.html ==================================================================== A news and information digest for those working to preserve and provide access to cultural heritage resources through networked digital technology. ==================================================================== This newsletter is published through the NINCH-Announce listserv of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. You are welcome to distribute it freely, with due acknowledgments. It is also available in a hyperlinked version on the NINCH web site, within two days of publication. S U M M A R Y 1. ACLS AND VIACOM SETTLE SUIT INVOLVING ELECTRONIC RIGHTS Macmillan's claims that its rights to publish the ACLS "Dictionary of American Biography" (DAB) "in any form" included electronic publication, and that it could publish its own additions to the DAB under that name, were dropped in a recent settlement. Under the settlement, ACLS grants Macmillan the license to publish an electronic version of the unaltered DAB (until the year 2000). In 1998, ACLS and Oxford University Press will publish a brand new "American National Biography." 2. CORPORATE DIGITAL ARCHIVE Simon and Schuster's new Corporate Digital Archive can access its 40,000 archived images for re-use by the company and for direct sale on the Internet. 3. COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION: NEXT STEPS UNCLEAR Whether the WIPO Copyright Treaty will be ratified by the Senate with implementing legislation, or not, and whether last year's NII Copyright Protection Act will be re-introduced are all unclear. However, worrying database protection legislation will be introduced. 4. FCC UPDATES: [deleted quotation]FCC has made available 300 MHz of spectrum for Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices, which could provide a means for educational institutions, libraries, and health care providers in rural areas to connect to basic and advanced telecommunications services, as envisioned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. [deleted quotation]A marketing plan outline to guarantee that eligible recipients of universal service support are informed of their eligibility has been filed with the FCC by the Benton Foundation and the Center for Strategic Communications 5. NEW DOMAIN NAMES The International Ad Hoc Committee announced new domains on the Internet including .arts for cultural and entertainment organizations. 6. GETTY PROVENANCE INDEX NOW AVAILABLE The Getty Provenance Index is now available on CD-ROM. It holds over 330,000 records on 16th-19th century art. 7. GLOBAL RESOURCES PROGRAM A new collaborative program will improve access by US research libraries to foreign-language resources through distributed collections and expanded electronic delivery of material. The Global Resources Program will grow beyond pilot projects in Japan, Germany and Latin America to include Southeast Asia and Africa. 8. AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE PRESENTS FULL-LENGTH MOVIES OVER INTERNET On January 22, the American Film Institute, using new compression technology, opened its new series, AFI OnLine Cinema, in which it will broadcast a different classic Hollywood movie each month over the Internet. 9. UNICODE BABBLE The Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities at the University of Virginia is developing Babble, a software program that will enable researchers to display and manipulate Unicode texts (non-standard character sets). 10. SOFTWARE FOR TEACHING OVER THE NET/VIRTUAL LEARNING SUPERIOR? A popular software program designed at the University of British Columbia enabling teachers to develop online courses may soon be commercially available. Meanwhile a California statistics professor claims that students learning in a virtual classroom tested 20% better than their counterparts who learned the material in a traditional classroom. 11. MOVEMENTS Doug Bennett, Peter Grenquist, Susan Hockey, Roger Kennedy, Daniel Pitti, Scott Stoner, and Jennifer Trant have announced significant movements in the field. 12. PAUL EVAN PETERS MEMORIAL SERVICE The memorial service for Paul Evan Peters will be held on February 18, 1997,February 18 at 4pm at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel. 13. CONFERENCES, PUBLICATIONS, WEB RESOURCES AND AWARDS ----------------------------- ACLS AND VIACOM SETTLE SUIT INVOLVING ELECTRONIC RIGHTS The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced that it reached settlement in its suit against the Macmillan publishing company to prevent publication of an unauthorized edition of the "Dictionary of American Biography" (DAB). The venerable DAB goes back to the 1920s when ACLS licensed Scribners to publish a 20-volume work. Over the years, the original was updated with ten supplements. With changing historiography and new scholarship, however, there was a great need for a revised work, while preserving the historic DAB in its original form. Macmillan, which had taken over Scribners only then to be acquired by Viacom, declined the invitation to publish the new work and Oxford University Press was chosen by ACLS to publish the new American National Biography, which will be published in print and electronic forms in 1998. In 1990, ACLS agreed to allow Macmillan to publish one final Supplement to cover the years 1976 through 1980, but then Macmillan summarily announced its plans to publish an electronic, CD-ROM version of the DAB (claiming right to publish "in any form") and add to this authoritative work new and revised biographies under the DAB name. ACLS filed suit in May to stop publication of the CD and the additional supplements, believing, according to its press release, that this was its only vehicle "for maintaining its rightful control over the DAB and its ability to preserve that work as an irreplaceable -- but unaltered -- monument to the great historians of the first half of the twentieth century." The Settlement provides for ACLS to grant Macmillan an exclusive license to publish (until January 1, 2000) the existing DAB as a CD- ROM with no new text, unless approved by ACLS (which will receive royalties from the electronic version). For its part Macmillan will ensure that none of its new works are perceived as revisions of the existing DAB, that it will not alter the DAB in its electronic version, and that any supplements published on Americans who died after 1980 must be distinguished from the DAB itself and cannot be described or sold as extensions of it. ----------------------- CORPORATE DIGITAL ARCHIVE Simon and Schuster's new Corporate Digital Archive, reported recently by Business Week, is an indication of how one commercial publisher is realizing the benefits of digitizing older material. Initially, the archive will be used for searching and accessing the publisher's archive of 40,000 images for re-use in its own publications. However, with a goal of generating half of its revenues from electronic publishing by the year 2000, the company plans on direct sales of its images. The new system can add a digital watermark, calculate royalty payments and track the use of an image throughout the Internet. (See Business Week 23 Dec. 96 p80/Edupage Dec. 17, 1996) ----------------------- COPYRIGHT AND DATABASE LEGISLATION: NEXT STEPS UNCLEAR Currently there is no clear indication of the next steps forward with copyright legislation. The WIPO Treaty has to be ratified by the Senate but whether any substantial implementation legislation will be required is uncertain. Such legislation could provide the opportunity for clarifying domestic positions on the Treaty (and its Agreed Statements), including the extension of fair use and other limitations and liability by service providers for online copyright infringements. There is currently some jockeying within government agencies and committees as to where the lead and main interest will come from: the Patents and Trademarks Office, the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress, the Commerce Department, the National Economic Council, the White House itself, individual House and Senate members, the Senate Judiciary Committee or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It is quite clear however that a form of the deferred WIPO database treaty (last year's domestic HR3531--see <<a href="http://www-">http://www-</a> ninch.cni.org/News/Newsletter2.html#New Database Bill>) will not only be discussed at other WIPO meetings in the next few months but will be introduced as legislation. There is also the possibility that a version of last year's NII Copyright Protection Act will be re-introduced. ----------------------- FCC UPDATES SPECTRUM AVAILABLE FOR NEW UNLICENSED EQUIPMENT In response to a proposal made by Apple Computer and the Wireless Information Networks Forum, the FCC recently made available 300 MHz of spectrum for Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices. These wireless devices are planned to provide short-range, high speed wireless digital communications, to support the creation of new wireless local area networks (LANs) and to facilitate access to the information highway. U-NII devices may also provide a means for educational institutions, libraries, and health care providers in rural areas, to connect to basic and advanced telecommunications services, as envisioned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. According to an FCC press release, educational institutions could form inexpensive wireless computer networks between classrooms, thereby providing cost-effective access to an array of multimedia services on the Internet. Similarly libraries could use this spectrum to provide wireless links within buildings, among branches or connect to other institutions. See FCC news release on ET Docket No. 96-102 at <<a href="http://www.fcc.gov/">http://www.fcc.gov/</a>>. UNIVERSAL SERVICE PROPOSALS: BENTON CALLS FOR MARKETING PLAN Following up on our earlier reports on FCC Universal Service proposals <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/Newsletter4.html#JOINT">http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/Newsletter4.html#JOINT</a> BOARD>, we report that the Benton Foundation and the Center for Strategic Communications filed the outline of a plan to guarantee that eligible recipients of universal service support are informed of their eligibility. The administrator of the new universal service fund would be charged with developing and implementing universal service marketing campaigns to make eligible individuals and institutions aware of the resulting support mechanisms. Benton's plan calls for a collaborative effort between representatives from consumer groups, public interest advocates, state consumer advocates, as well as experienced marketing executives from the telecommunications industry. For details see <<a href="http://www.benton.org/Policy/96act/reccomments.html">http://www.benton.org/Policy/96act/reccomments.html</a>>. ACCESS NOTE: The New York Times reported the announcement by New York City's Mayor Giuliani of a $150 million plan to provide access to computers for every child in NYC's schools and to connect the city's schools to the Internet. New York's ration of one computer for 16 students is far below the national average of one per 10.5 students. The Mayor is asking the business community to contribute to the plan. ----------------------- GETTY PROVENANCE INDEX NOW AVAILABLE Sixteen years in the making, the Getty Provenance Index CD-ROM has recently been published. The Index's databases hold more than 330,000 records from auction catalogs and historical inventories of some of Europe's most prominent collectors, from the 16th to the 19th centuries An invaluable research tool for art curators, scholars, professors, dealers and collectors, it can be used by anyone who is interested in the history of collecting, the evolution of artistic taste and the art market. Gathering material for the Index was a collaborative effort involving 13 partner organizations in eight countries. Information: (800) 223-3431. <<a href="http://www.gii.getty.edu/gii/prov.html">http://www.gii.getty.edu/gii/prov.html</a>> ----------------------- NEW DOMAIN NAMES The International Ad Hoc Committee has announced the availability of seven new top level domains on the Internet under which users may register. They include: .arts for entities emphasizing cultural and entertainment activities .firm for businesses, or firms .store for businesses offering goods to purchase .web for entities emphasizing activities related to the WWW .rec for entities emphasizing recreation/entertainment activities .info for entities providing information services .nom for those wishing individual or personal nomenclature. For more information visit the web site of the International Ad Hoc Committee <<a href="http://www.iahc.org/press-final.html">http://www.iahc.org/press-final.html</a>> ----------------------- GLOBAL RESOURCES PROGRAM The Global Resources Program of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of American Universities (AAU) will be expanded through a Mellon Foundation grant to increase current access to foreign-language research materials. It will do this by developing distributed collections and expanding electronic document delivery. The program currently includes three pilot areas (in Japan, Germany and Latin America) and will now add Southeast Asia and Africa. The expanded program will also identify "lead institutions" for acquisitions from particular regions and electronic distribution of publications from each region; establish a Web-based clearinghouse to disseminate information on projects; create links between projects; and organize symposia for faculty, both on-campus and at meetings of learned societies. For further information on the program, contact Deborah Jakubs (<jakubs@acpub.duke.edu>; 919/660-5846). <<a href="http://arl.cni.org/arl/activities/aauarl.html#global">http://arl.cni.org/arl/activities/aauarl.html#global</a>> ----------------------- AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE PRESENTS FULL-LENGTH MOVIES OVER INTERNET Using a new form of compression technology developed by VDOnet, the American Film Institute opened its new series, AFI OnLine Cinema, in which it will broadcast a different classic Hollywood movie each month over the Internet. The series was launched January 22 with Charlie Chaplin's 1916 "The Rink." February's feature will be Buster Keaton's "The Boat" (1921). AFI OnLine Cinema can be found at <www.afionline.org/cinema>. Viewers need to download free VDOnet software and the full- length film is delivered on a small screen, with piano accompaniment. ----------------------- UNICODE BABBLE Unicode is a universal character encoding scheme for displaying non-standard character sets for "just about every letter or glyph for all known languages, alive and dead"--from Ahom and Akkadian Cuneiform to Tircul and Ugaritic Cuneiform. Following discussion about Unicode on the Humanist listserv, John Unsworth spoke of the early version of software being developed at Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities called Babble. Once a UNIX prototype, Babble is now being developed as Java software. Babble will display, search, and manipulate texts which have already been created in Unicode. "Babble will provide linked scrolling, linked searching, multiple text display, and some SGML awareness." John offers pointers to programs one can use to create Unicode texts in the first place and offers to keep anyone interested apprised of Babble developments. Contact him at <jmu2m@virginia.edu>. ----------------------- SOFTWARE FOR TEACHING OVER THE NET VIRTUAL LEARNING SUPERIOR? The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 24, p. A23) reported on a British Columbia computer scientist's software tools called WebCT (for Web Course Tools) that allows instructors to design online courses, create Web sites, hold interactive discussions and administer exams on the Internet. Instructors can enter their material into pre-prepared forms, and the virtual classroom takes shape. WebCT is currently being used in more than 70 courses at the University of British Columbia, and the program is available for testing to faculty members outside the university. After beta-testing, there will be a fee for the programs. <<a href="http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/">http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/</a> > Meanwhile Edupage (January 19) relays a report on News.Com that Jerald Schutte, an applied statistics professor at the California State University at Northridge, claims that students learning in a virtual classroom (using text posted online, email, newsgroups, chat, and electronic homework assignments) tested 20% better than their students who learned the material in a traditional classroom. ----------------------- MOVEMENTS Over the past few months too many significant movements have occurred in the field to be ignored. Here are those that have come to our attention. Douglas Bennett, Vice President of the American Council of Learned Societies will leave ACLS this June to become President of Earlham College. Meanwhile the successor to Stan Katz, who will be retiring this summer as President of ACLS after 11 years, will be announced very shortly. Peter Grenquist, executive director of the Association of American University Presses, will be leaving that post this summer. Susan Hockey, founding executive director of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities is taking up a new position as Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. develop a graduate program in humanities computing and direct a new Institute for Research in Humanities Computing. Roger Kennedy has resigned as Director of the National Park Service. His resignation will not take effect until a successor has been confirmed by the Senate. Daniel Pitti, Librarian for Advanced Technologies Projects at the University of California at Berkeley is moving to the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities (IATH) at the end of April. Scott Stoner, Director of ArtsEdge and of Online Services at the Kennedy Center is leaving after ten years. Jennifer Trant, formerly Policies and Standards Manager for Britain's Arts and Humanities Data Service, is now based in Pittsburgh, working as a private consultant specializing in the application of technology to museums, cultural heritage and the arts and as managing editor of Archives & Museum Informatics: a cultural heritage quarterly. ----------------------- PAUL EVAN PETERS MEMORIAL SERVICE The memorial service for Paul Evan Peters will be held on February 18, 1997,February 18 at 4pm at Georgetown University's Dahlgren Chapel. A reception will follow at 5 pm at the Georgetown University Conference Center, salons D and E. Duane Webster, Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries, will serve as convener. Stan Katz, President of the American Council of Learned Societies, Eleanor Jo Rodger, President of the Urban Libraries Council and Scott Armstrong, Executive Director of Information Trust will share remarks about Peters. ----------------------- CONFERENCES Conferences added to the NINCH Community Calendar <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org/calendar.html">http://www-ninch.cni.org/calendar.html</a>> include: February 23-26: The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services Annual Conference. "Publishing in the New Millennium II: Managing the Transition. Speakers include: Dr. Toni Carbo, Robert Massie, Clifford Lynch, and Harry Collier. <<a href="http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais_cnf97.html">http://www.pa.utulsa.edu/nfais_cnf97.html</a> > Philadelphia. March 1-2: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR): 6th DIAC ("Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing") conference. <<a href="http://www.scn.org/tech/diac-97">http://www.scn.org/tech/diac-97</a>>. The theme is "Community Space and Cyberspace: What's the Connection?" and the key-note speaker will be Howard Rheingold, author of "The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier." University of Washington, Seattle, March 16-19: Museums and the Web (full program now available at <www.archimuse.com>. Los Angeles March 21-22: Inter-operable Electronic Copyright Management Systems (sponsored by COPEARMS, EVA, IESERV and IMPRIMATUR). Florence, Italy April 28-29: Electronic Commerce for Content II--A Forum on Technology-Based Intellectual Property Management <<a href="http://www.ima.org/ip-ga/forum.html">http://www.ima.org/ip-ga/forum.html</a>> Bringing together creator, industry, and user perspectives on requirements, standards, and implementation. Deadline for papers: March 15, 1997. Library of Congress, Washington, DC July 3-6: ARLIS/UK and Ireland Annual Conference. "Art libraries in the Cyber-Age." The latest issues in electronic library provision including funding and digitization initiatives, problems of copyright and archiving, electronic publishing of primary and secondary sources, access to the Internet, navigational tools and developing projects, netskills training and user perspectives. Contact: Sonia French <sfrench@arlis.demon.co.uk>. University of Canterbury, Kent, England October 30-November 2: Society for Literature and Science. Instructions for submitting abstracts and proposals are available at <<a href="http://mickey.la.psu.edu/~hquamen/SLS_97.htm">http://mickey.la.psu.edu/~hquamen/SLS_97.htm</a>> Deadline: February 28. Pittsburgh. ----------------------- PUBLICATIONS * The latest issue of "Computers & Texts," the newsletter of Oxford University's Center for Textual Studies is available at <<a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/</a>>. Among the articles can be found "Using Hypertext to Teach the New Testament," a description of "CommonSpace: A Collaborative Working Environment," and "A Field Guide to 21st Century Writing." Articles and reviews are invited on any aspect of the use of computers in the teaching of literature in all languages, linguistics, theology, classics, philosophy, film studies, theater arts and drama. * The January issue of "D-Lib Magazine" is available at <<a href="http://www.dlib.org">http://www.dlib.org</a>>. Among the many articles are an account of the September CNI/OCLC "Image Metadata" workshop held in Dublin, Ohio, an "Intellectual Property Practitioner's Perspective" on the JSTOR project and a report on the UCLA-NSF Workshop on "Social Aspects of Digital Libraries". * The January issue of "Access," newsletter of the new Institute of Museum and Library Services is available at <<a href="http://www.ims.fed.us/">http://www.ims.fed.us/</a>>. ----------------------- WEB RESOURCES * LIBLICENSE <<a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/~Llicense/index.shtml">http://www.library.yale.edu/~Llicense/index.shtml</a>> is a new Web resource for academic and research libraries as they attempt to negotiate licenses with providers of digital information, both networked and on CD. Currently, readers will see an annotated resource presented as an actual electronic content license, with samples of language and commentary on the suitability of that language for libraries. This is in beta version with some links not yet completed. Users comments are being solicited on the site, which is provided by Yale University Library, with support from the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library Resources. For further information contact Ann Okerson at <Ann.Okerson@yale.edu>. * CELEBRATING DEMOCRACY <<a href="http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html">http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/celeb/celeb.html</a>>, a Web site doing just that, was produced on the occasion of the recent Presidential Inauguration by The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Archives, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The site features online presentations of presidential memorabilia, photographs and documents from past inaugurations and inaugural balls, and photographs of the 1997 inaugural festivities. The goal of the Web site was to "encourage teachers, students, and lifelong learners to connect current events with American history by tapping into the vast resources now available online from Washington's national cultural institutions." * The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies <<a href="http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs">http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs</a>> has been organized to "research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture." Currently presenting scholarly resources and listing events, the Resource Center plans to foster conversations about cyberculture and to showcase model projects and works-in-progress. Contact: David Silver <ds207@umail.umd.edu>. * ALN Web, dedicated to topics in the field of Asynchronous Learning Networks, consists of a journal, a magazine, conference proceedings and other resources, opened in late 1996 and is now accepting papers for the magazine and journal. <<a href="http://www.aln.org/">http://www.aln.org/</a>> ----------------------- AWARDS * NANCY DELAURIER WRITING AWARDS: The Visual Resources Association announced the second annual Nancy DeLaurier Writing Awards in honor of a VRA founding member. Two $200 awards will be made; one each to a student and a professional submitting a paper (in print or electronic form, 10-20 pages in length, on a topic significantly relevant to the field of visual resources by May 15. Papers might address the effects of new technologies on visual resources; new methods of organization and accessing visual information; historical overviews of early visual technology; theoretical analysis of the Internet and web sites and their impact on visual resources; critiques of controversial issues effecting visual resource institutions; or issues effecting the profession. For further information contact Leigh Gates, <lgates@artic.edu>. ----------------------- From: Subject: Re: 10.0677 citing e-resources Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 502 (502) Williard, For the record, the MLA does not yet have a web site, although it is currently in development. The sites mentioned in Dillingham's piece do indeed discuss MLA style, but there is no official MLA site as yet. Thanks, and I enjoy reading the humanist discussions a great deal. Judith Altreuter --------------------------------------------------------------- Judith Altreuter Production Director and Supervisor of Inhouse Typesetting Modern Language Association, NY, NY altreuter@mla.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: computer writing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 503 (503) Kristine L. Haugen's discussion concerning David Foster Wallace's *Infinite Jest* brings to mind a book of essays by Michael Joyce on hypertext *Of Two Minds.* These essays, some culled from on-line discussions, others from hypertext documents, suggest to me the increasing role of computers in producing texts. Joyce comments that he now speaks "polyvocally," ie in a hypertext-like discourse. Is this a step toward computer-mediated consciousness in communication? One might then read Donna Haraway's notion of cyborg writing in this context. I have not yet read Wallace's book (I have read his earlier work *Broom of the System*), but he is clearly influenced by Thomas Pynchon. Pynchon's books, such as *Crying of Lot 49* are groundbreaking in their exploration of the effects of electronic media on our awareness of the world. Perhaps his new book, which should be out soon, will address how global computer networks--such as the Web--further alter our perception. John Bruni Department of English University of Kansas jbrun@eagle.cc.ukans.edu From: Subject: Re: 10.0669 undergrad course in literary computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 504 (504) Why don't you send this to Humanist? Or send it to Willard McCarty direct if you're not a subscriber. It seems a valid point to me. PL [deleted quotation] From: Joel Elliott <elliott@email.unc.edu> Subject: Re: how to read the Web? Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 00:06:25 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 505 (505) hello all: i've thrown together some links of potentially useful sites related to this issue of evaluating web resources. kathy's right -- there's a lot of interesting material "out (t)here"! i set up a page of links at: URL:<a href="http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/evaluate.html">http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/evaluate.html</a> it's not pretty, but it'll give those interested a start. thanks to Chad Kearsley, Kathy Gill and others who contributed. FYI, joel =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joel Elliott Dept of Religious Studies / 101 Saunders Hall, CB #3225 University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill, NC 27599 EMAIL: elliott@email.unc.edu URL: <a href="http://www.unc.edu/~elliott">http://www.unc.edu/~elliott</a> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: "Kathy E. Gill" <kegill@halcyon.com> Subject: Re: 10.0665 how to read the Web? (fwd) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 17:43:32 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 506 (506) Joel Elliott <elliott@email.unc.edu> wrote: [deleted quotation] Joel: There are many resources 'out there' for critiquing web sites --- my philosophy of design and ease-of-use can be found at <a href="http://www.enetdigest.com/design/design.html">http://www.enetdigest.com/design/design.html</a> -- I publish a weekly guide/critique to web sites. I have links to other resources as well -- more at <a href="http://www.dotparagon.com/design.html">http://www.dotparagon.com/design.html</a> Kathy =============================== Kathy E. Gill, publisher eNetDigest - <a href="http://www.enetdigest.com/">http://www.enetdigest.com/</a> MacFacts - <a href="http://www.halcyon.com/kegill/mac/">http://www.halcyon.com/kegill/mac/</a> mailto:kegill@enetdigest.com "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." - Albert Einstein From: Richard Bear <RBEAR@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Subject: Re: 10.0676 capturing text? frames? Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 15:32:29 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 507 (507) Frames (and *tables*) represent problems for those who, regardless of computing power, purchasing power, and modem speed are stuck with a browser (generally LYNX) that can read to them aloud. In this country, pages produced by public intstitutions that do not provide descriptive text-only versions, let alone non-frames versions, are probably in violation of the American with Disabilities Act. My own pages are not yet up to the standards that they should meet in this regard. Richard Bear <a href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/">http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/</a> From: "Dr. David Harrison" <prospero@pncl.co.uk> Subject: Frames. Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:58:25 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 508 (508) WM, Re: Frames. Frames can be useful, and "state of the art, never-mind-the-bandwidth, I've got a Power PC and all of Kai's graphics software" web sites are using them, but...and it's a big but, get it right. If frames are not 100% properly implemented we are talking dog's dinner. I'd regard it as netiquette to *always* offer an alternative text only (or text with small and not-important logo) version of any page. And that means no huge gifs, image maps, real audio, frames, javascript, nor Active-X on an alternate site. This is kind to people with slower modems, dodgy phone lines, local call charges etc. Logging on to CompuServe in some countries (for example) can cost over a pound a minute for the phone line and time charges together. Many people still access the net via Telnet, which can cope with straight text OK but may well choke on Javascript. The latest browsers for Acorn RISC PCs may not deal with the latest tech. either, as they are not supported by Netscape or that other company whose name I forget. :-) There are browser options to block image downloads, but if those images are required to make sense of the page, with no 'text' alternative in the image description, you are holding Joe Punter to ransom and making BT very happy. In most UK net mag. discussion, and in my own personal experience, frames are currently regarded as a pain in the parts one ought not mention for fear of castigation from the nether regions of the academic world. They also reduce the working screen size for those of us with 14" monitors. It is always nice to have a choice. Just having a frames version may leave someone who is interested in what you are saying with a blank screen and an error message that may be deconstructed as 'I'm not interested in you, you are poor and have out of date kit; go spend some money or go to hell' which I'm sure you wouldn't intend. :-) Regards, DH. From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: frames versus tables Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 16:15:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 509 (509) Willard, What are the design elements that you can gain using frames that you cannot with tables? What advantage is there to frames versus a use of multiple copies of a browswer in a windows environment? My last question targets the assumption that interactivity is "built-in". On certain projects I do not specify a background colour so as to allow users to set their own preferences. On other projects I attempt to control the appearance more. Frames in my opinion is a freedom limiting aspect of browser applications. Furthermore, consider scale. A frames intensive site tends require totally screen space to look acceptable. Why frames? -- Francois From: "Gary W. Shawver" <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 10.0676 capturing text? frames? Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 16:09:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 510 (510) Dear Willard, The frames issue can be a really hot one. Many people find them as annoying as the <blink> tag and some e-zines have had to redesign their site without frames because so many people found them objectionable (probably because they were used as billboards). Check out Hotwireds' Webmonkey <<a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/html/96/53/index3a.html">http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/html/96/53/index3a.html</a>> for a discussion of "degradable html." Do you really want to exclude people surfing with frames-impaired browsers from using a site? From: Subject: ActiveX Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 511 (511) [Opinions on the following scary piece would be welcome. --WM] Willard, While I've got you reading HotWired, why not check out this article? <a href="http://www.packet.com/packet/garfinkel/96/47/index2a.html">http://www.packet.com/packet/garfinkel/96/47/index2a.html</a> Remember the security scare about Java over a year ago? Looks like Microsoft's ActiveX poses an even bigger security threat. Sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------- Gary W. Shawver E-Mail <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> W3 <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/</a>> --------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Re: 10.0675 withering away & the heart Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 512 (512) [Warning: this post is overlong, and I offer my apology!] While we are still on the subject of Willard's provocative comments about humanities computing, I would like to second Robert Tannenbaum's remarks and respond to Todd Blayone's. As a classicist using a Macintosh, I was stuck with Pandora (a program to process the TLG CD) and quickly developed a love/hate relationship with it. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I wanted and needed a better program, and that I also needed to learn a serious programming language after years of using HyperCard to write CAI programs for Greek. This has proved to be a very demanding, on-going commitment after several years of work and I continue to spend most of my extra time programming or learning more about programming with the advent of HTML and Java. Among the many lessons I have learned (including "Everything takes longer than you think" and "There is always one more bug") is the fact that computing is so huge and diverse a discipline that to be good at working in any one area you probably have to become a specialist at it. I now know a good deal about the programming languages and the idiosyncracies of Mac's, and I realize that relatively few professional progammers have a lot of interest in or knowledge of the kind of text processing with which I deal; conversely, it would take me a lot more work to become proficient in any of the countless other areas of academics or business that rely heavily on computers. So I think it is unrealistic for classicists, and perhaps other academicians as well, to think that they can get the program they really want by simply calling in a support-staff programmer (at those universities which can afford such staff) and telling him/her that they would like a program that will do thus and so. Even when you have a good program, there is the constant need to upgrade it; and in my case I encounter research problems that I need the computer to solve, but the code that I would write into the program is too esoteric and elaborate to make it a permanent part of the program. As to Todd's remarks, I don't think I understand what he means by "IMHO, however, 'humanities computing' will become less and less relevant as a younger generation of thinkers-- products of cyberculture--- begin to reinvent the humanistic disciplines." It seems to me that younger generations will most likely use computing routinely in the humanities, so if Todd's meaning is that computing will cease to be an issue of discussion and debate and simply become an integral part of humanities, then I would agree with him. I think I do understand his comment, "One might be foolish enough to suggest, however, that the multitude of amateurs outside the centre are, at least on rare occasions, less likely to miss the forest for the trees." However, I would suggest IMHO that computing properly used will aid in providing a more accurate view of both trees and forest. Too much of what we teach or assert seems to be based on conjecture or general impressions. Obviously the computer can serve to track down the evidence that we need to confirm or refute hypotheses, but I also see it as a device to help us think through the quantifiable aspects of our hypotheses, and in fact to expose various aspects as quantifiable when we might mistakenly assume otherwise. Without getting into more detail on this last point, let me just say that it is a good exercise to ask oneself, given a little knowledge of programming, if and how the computer can be programmed to solve a particular problem. Very often I discover that the problem is at least theoretically computable, whether I would actually want to write the program or not, and this realization itself proves to be valuable. Don Wilkins UC Riverside From: Subject: This page left intentionally blank Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 513 (513) It is always pleasant to adduce new evidence in support of the idea that even our most casual customs have long histories. I've just learned from John Carter's *ABC for Book Collectors* (seventh edition, revised by Nicolas Barker, published by the Oak Knoll Press in New Castle, Delaware, 1995) that "This page left intentionally blank" goes way back before the founding of IBM. In his entry for "Blank leaves", Carter comments on the preference of "the fastidious collector" for copies containing all blank leaves that were part of a book as originally printed; and he continues: Mere readers will prefer to remember the note printed, in Greek and Latin, on the otherwise blank leaf A9 of the Aldine Isocrates of 1513, which, freely translated, reads: `This leaf is an integral part of the book, but cut it out if it bothers your reading, for it is nothing.' John Lavagnino From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 10.0667 citing e-resources? Date: 7 Feb 1997 11:49:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 514 (514) This question has come up on the DEOS-L list recently ... one response to it cited the following URL: <a href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/lists/epub.html#citing">http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/lists/epub.html#citing</a> as a place to find some information. Cheers Simon From: Mick Doherty <doherm@rpi.edu> Subject: web-cite website Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:05:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 515 (515) The Summer 1996 issue of _Kairos_ published an early version of the Harnack/Kleppinger styleguide, along with commentary from Janice Walker and a link to her MLA-endorsed guide. The publication does not constiute an endorsement by _Kairos_ or by the Alliance for Computers and Writing, but the resource is available for consultation at the following URL: <a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/inbox/mla.html">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/inbox/mla.html</a> Mick Doherty Editor, _Kairos_ mick@rpi.edu _Kairos_ 2.1 is due to hit the web on March 11. Watch this space for further details. From: Subject: Research in Computer Science at Sheffield. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 516 (516) ************************************************ * University of Sheffield * * Department of Computer Science * * RESEARCH IN COMPUTER SCIENCE * ************************************************ Sheffield Computer Science Department is a HEFCE Grade 4 rated research department, within one of the UK's major Engineering Faculties. The department seeks to recruit postgraduate students to start in September 1997 in its principal areas of research, conventionally divide into three large research groups. Successful applicants will work towards an M.Phil or Ph.D within research teams working in the following areas: Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (AINN) Natural Language Processing, Knowledge and belief representation, Computer Graphics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer Argumentation, Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction, Robotics, Connectionist Natural language processing, Neural Nets: Theory, analysis and applications. Speech and Hearing (SpandH) Computational Models of Hearing, Speech Technology. Correct Systems (CSRG) Theory of Computer Science, Software and systems engineering, Communication Networks, Object-Oriented Programming. Safety Critical Systems, Parallel Databases, CASE Tools for Parallel Systems, Neural Networks and Parallel Hardware, Transport management systems. There will be some scholarships available: EPRSC studentships and Sheffield University Research Bursaries. Candidates for admission for these awards should have a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or should attain such a degree by October 1997. EPSRC awards are available only to EU citizens. Our Graduate Studies booklet, application forms and further particulars are available from: The Graduate Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP, England. Email: j.martin@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Dr. M.Cooke , Director of Research Admissions, Phone +44 (0) 114-222 1822, Email m.cooke@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk, or Prof. Noel Sharkey, Director of Research, Phone +44 (0) 114-222 1803, Email n.sharkey@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Prof. Yorick Wilks, Head of AINN Group, Phone +44 (0) 114-222 1804, Email yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk Dr. P. Green, Head of SpandH Group, Phone +44 (0) 114-222-21828 Email pdg@dcs.shef.ac.uk Prof. W.M.Holcombe, Head of Correct Systems Group, Phone +33 (0) 114-222 1802, Email wmlh@dcs.shef.ac.uk Our research is set out in detail at: <a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/</a> ******************************* From: Steve Taylor <ussjt@emory.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep? Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:42:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 517 (517) [deleted quotation] I believe that the word processor Nisus provides searching with GREP. Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University (404)727-8931 <a href="http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/">http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/</a> From: Don Wilkins <dwilkins@ucr.campus.mci.net> Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep? Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 14:07:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 518 (518) Since the original comment about using a word processor was mine, let me respond. My own approach would not be merely to use a word processor because of the search limitations and the need (as noted) to open documents for viewing. However, I have a colleague who has done just this in the classroom, and I think that the person who originally asked about using computers for this purpose was thinking of instructional possibilities. One could probably automate a search process for multiple documents using macros at the system and application levels and sleep on it (literally), allowing the computer to grind away. Accessing the internet with word processors is not difficult to do theoretically (I already do it with the TLG Greek processor I'm writing, as does another downloadable processor at the Perseus site), and if no word processors have yet been programmed to do this, I would be surprised if this is not done in the near future. Don Wilkins UC Riverside From: omar <drummojg@jmu.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0676 capturing text? frames? Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 22:35:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 519 (519) On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] At this point in the history of the Web, I'd have to say no. The rate of progress in the computing market has led to an inevitable variety of computers out there; people browsing the Web are using everything from the newest release of Netscape 4.0/Communicator to Lynx (text only). I don't even think we're at the point where it's OK to have images without an ALT text supplied. I often use a text-only browser for speed. And if you use frames, please set the sizes -- nothing in the world annoys me like having to scroll from side to side. But then, that's off topic. (And yes, lynx /does/ have frames support now, but it's a real pain.) -John Drummond James Madison University English Department GA -- computing assistance x7074 ILR Computing Support HelpDesk consultant x3555 From: "P.B.Cox -Peter Cox" <P.B.Cox@open.ac.uk> Subject: frames Date: 10 February 1997 11:39 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 520 (520) [The following was passed on to Humanist by Peter Cox, but the header was rather badly munched by my digesting software, so details of its origin have been lost. --WM] Thank you to everyone who replied to the brief survey I conducted on the LIS-LINK and LIS-UKOLUG discussions lists on the use of frames on a Web page. Please find here the summarised results from the 26 responses. [Please note: the opinions expressed in the survey results are not necessarily those of the compiler William Hann] 1) What browser do you use and what version is it? (e.g. Netscape 2.02) Netscape 1.x = 0 percent Netscape 2.x = 35 percent Netscape 3.x = 45 percent MIE 3.x = 15 percent Other = 5 percent One person uses Mosaic 2.7b at work and Lynx(80x24 screen) at home. Another uses Fresco version 1.32 for Acorn Risc PC. A number of respondents said that the machines on their campus run Netscape 2 or even Netscape 1.x. Some also run Lynx on public workstations as well, and use it for accessing text-based databases (BIDS, FirstSearch etc.). One person uses a non-frames browser (Netscape 1.12) because they are evaluating sites (and want to see if that site offers a no-frames alternative), and also because it takes up less memory when various applications are running on their computer. 2) At what resolution does your screen run?(e.g. VGA, 640 x 480, 16 colours) 65 percent have SVGA (higher than 640 x 480), whilst 35 percent have VGA (640 x 480). 17 percent use the 16 colour setting, and 83 percent use 256 colours or more. [Please note: If the respondent said "I do not know, but its high" then I put SVGA and 256 colours. If they replied just "VGA" then I put down 16 colours. One person is running SVGA at 16 colours.] The libraries that people work in have a wide variation from monochrome through to SVGA 640 x 480 or more. 3) What do you think the majority of users of business information on the Internet are running? Five people said that they thought that users would have at least Netscape 2.0, or Internet Explorer 3.0. One person said that they thought that users would have Netscape 2.x at best. Another said that it depends on how influential the "techies" are in their organisation! An organisation may also have a policy to use an old version of a browser, and have severe penalties if people download software (such as the latest version of a browser) from the Net. Also, small business users may stick with the version that came when they signed up with an Internet Service Provider as they are daunted by the thought of upgrading (or too busy). Someone pointed out that it would be better to ask a sample of business users, but they hoped that they mainly use 486 machines or above. Another person mentioned that many business users are unaware that they have the capability of running higher resolutions. This may be because PCs are quite difficult to set up for a novice, or some people think 640x480 is easier on the eye. Also, a number of users use the Web "on the move" using monochrome notebook / laptop with Netscape 1.2 and low resolution screens. A few people thought that business users would have quite a sophisticated set up, and that users in the academic world would be "dragged" up to the current level ultimately, but soon left behind again. Four others said that they did not know, or do not consider themselves qualified to answer the question. A couple of sites were mentioned which are helpful for statistics and for what features each browser has available: <a href="http://.browserwatch.iworld.com/stat.html">http://.browserwatch.iworld.com/stat.html</a> <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/browserkit/">http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/browserkit/</a> 4) Do you have any other thoughts or suggestions on the matter? There was a lot of negative feeling about frames. A number of people said categorically "Do not use frames" and "They are a waste of time and space". They say that they have yet to see a site where they added anything useful, and that it may alienate possible clients. An institution has moved away from frames because employees disliked the time taken to load them, and that they clutter the screen. On the issue of text only browsers (like Lynx), there was a lot of concern about newer browsers making "a large portion of people 'disabled' just so 'power' users can have bells and whistles". A lot of respondents highlighted concern about "people with visual impairment, who use text for preference, and people with limited hand movement, where a mouse pointing at a small icon can be almost impossible to control." Lots of respondents have had difficulties with frames. They find frames difficult to use as the Print and Back buttons in the browser don't always do what they expect. They find frames are slower to access and frustrating if not really necessary. A couple of people commented that sites with frames have crashed their PC a number of times. One person was in favour of frames and said that "you can include pointers for download sites for MS Internet Explorer (which is free, but exists only for MS windows) and downloads for Netscape (this is available for all platforms, but requires a license - except for schools, universities). This can be done using the <NOFRAMES> tag.". Another said that you could probably get away with a frames-only environment aimed at a purely professional market. On the subject of screen resolution, one response pointed out that it is dangerous to assume users have a particular resolution, and you should test you pages at all resolutions: "you'd be amazed by the differences that are possible". Other points Someone advised against using activeX as it only works with MS browsers, and that although you can use Java, Javascript and Quicktime movies, these should be tested on multiple platforms with multiple browsers to ensure compatibility. Users with Windows 3.11 will not see Java. Someone said that you can only get educational licenses up to Netscape 2.0 at the moment. Another warned against the over-use of CGI and query- URLs. These "defeat web caches, and good cache performance is essential otherwise people just give up and read someone else's pages that load faster." One person said that often the messages at frames-only sites are "insulting, or at best curt - The least people can do is sound apologetic if they don't want to do business with you.". They mentioned that these messages also assume that the users know what frames are. A lot of users do not really understand what browsers actually "do" (without having to know the differences between them). They say that there should at least be something accessible and that there must be some of the frame content could be re-used in a non-frames environment. The quality and speed of the connection can have a large impact on the usability of a site. Ideal The following is a summary of some of the respondents "ideals": If you are going to have frames, have a non-frames alternative. Two people mentioned that you would not need two sets of pages as long as each page has a couple of navigational facilities (e.g. BACK, and HOME). You would also use the <NOFRAMES> tag on the first page, and in this way only have to maintain one set of pages. For more information on good (and bad) Web page design, a respondent recommends a look at <a href="http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/">http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/</a> ------ William Hann Willco - consultancy and training in online information and the Internet Tel / Fax: +44 (0)171 681 1653 Email: enquiries@willco.demon.co.uk WWW: <a href="http://www.willco.demon.co.uk/">http://www.willco.demon.co.uk/</a> From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 10.0679 Web style and courtesy: frames &c. Date: 9 Feb 97 11:50:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 521 (521) On Sun, Feb 9, 1997 4:13a, Francois wrote: [deleted quotation] Perhaps, and I think we are all agreed that every site should have a frames-Java-graphics-free alternative, but there are plenty of sites where frames are properly implemented to overcome the limitations of browsers. As a navigational aid, frames are hard to beat. Unfortunately, many use them simply because they are there, or to ensure that their annoying ads never leave our sight. Sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------- Gary W. Shawver E-Mail <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> W3 <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/</a>> Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum (Cicero _De divinatione_) --------------------------------------------------------- From: Robin Kornman <rkornman@csd.uwm.edu> Subject: Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 03:44:11 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 522 (522) Responding to a request for info from people teaching courses specifically directed towards computers and literature. Well, I taught a course something like that as part of our introductory Honors Program seminar. The organizing principle was supposed to be the notion of expanding English Composition into multimedia. We read a series of classics on a specific subject, but did a lot of our research on Internet and I required that students not simply learn to write papers using word-processors, but that they expand this ability into authoring in other media. The course still exists, but the authoring part has not gone as far as I wanted, because to teach a thing like that takes incredible access to tools. The students at our school simply do not have practicable access to networked computers on the scale needed to do the homework for such a program. And for a classroom we would need a room full of networked computers, not just one computer at the front with a big screen. Also, I find that the authoring technology is changing so fast that I couldn't communicate a stable competency. I kept on tripping over my own learning curve. In short, it's going to take me years to learn how to teach a course like this---- a course in which the students write in images and sound as well as words. Our last problem was inadequate support from the university computer services people. I could configure my own office's Macintosh until it worked just right for the course. But the computers in the classrooms were configured by the university and could not possibly keep up with my needs. I don't know if these problems are endemic or just there because of the cutbacks at my school. Still, the notion of the course is quite clear in my mind, even if I don't yet have access to tools to put it inot action. Robin Kornman From: "Eric S. Rabkin" <esrabkin@umich.edu> Subject: RTH (was "course in literary computing literacy") Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 16:58:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 523 (523) For those who may be interested, I should mention that here at the University of Michigan I've been team-teaching a course at the senior/grad level called Research and Technology in the Humanities (RTH). It involves three overlapping components. First, the students learn a common minimal suite of computer applications widely useful for information acquisition, collaboration, information manipulation, and information presentation. Second, the students take up "study cases" exploring the humanistic implications of diverse technologies. Third, the students work in teams to generate their own treatment of humanities issues. This last is the heart of the course. The students begin work on learning to collaborate early; they collaborate in defining their projects soon; they learn more advanced computer applications as their projects demand; they finish the course by presenting the (generally splendid) fruits of their labor. The course has been very successful. Those wanting to see the latest version of the syllabus, should look at <a href="http://www.umich.edu/~lsarth/RTHf96/415f96syl.htm">http://www.umich.edu/~lsarth/RTHf96/415f96syl.htm</a> and those wanting to see the most recent overview PowerPoint presentatin that we used to induct the students into the class should see <a href="http://www.umich.edu/~lsarth/RTHf96/index.htm">http://www.umich.edu/~lsarth/RTHf96/index.htm</a> Comments on- or off-list are welcome. Eric -- Eric S. Rabkin 313-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 313-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 313-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin@umich.edu <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/</a> -- Eric S. Rabkin 313-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 313-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 313-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin@umich.edu <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/</a> From: David Wilson-Okamura <david@WILSONINET.COM> Subject: updated Virgil bibliography Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:37:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 524 (524) X-POSTED TO Mantovano, MEDTEXTL, ANSAXNET, FICINO I had a spare hour this evening, and thought it would be nice to update the Rough Virgil Bibliography: <a href="http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/dswilson/virglbib.html">http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/dswilson/virglbib.html</a> I've added some entries (the file has about doubled in size) and some new categories: - Landino - Renaissance Translations - Renaissance Imitations - Secondary Works on Renaissance Imitations There are some big lacunae, and the old caveat about accuracy still applies. Many of these entries have now been checked against WorldCat, as well as the work itself when I've had it in hand, but there are still many entries that are either incomplete or simply erroneous. I hope listmembers find it useful. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura david@wilsoninet.com University of Chicago <a href="http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/dswilson/">http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/dswilson/</a> From: "P.B.Cox -Peter Cox" <P.B.Cox@open.ac.uk> Subject: Studying 19th-century London on CD-Rom conference Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 11:35:00 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 525 (525) STUDYING 19TH - CENTURY LONDON ON CD ROM CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION: SATURDAY 12TH APRIL 1997 THE LECTURE THEATRE, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND 9.30 - 10: Registration Morning Session: Exhibition (in Airport Lounge). 10am: Opening discussion by John Stevenson: The current state of researching and teaching the history of nineteenth-century London 11.00 - 11-30: Coffee 11-30 - 12-45: Rosemary O Day: Teaching and researching with multimedia: learning about the East End of London, 1886-1900 12.45 -2.00: Lunch Afternoon Session: 2.00 - 3.00: Matthew Stratfold: The role of narrative in multimedia 3.00 - 4.00: Speaker to be arranged 4-00 - 4- 30: Tea 4-30 - 6-15: Workshops. We hope to run two sessions of each workshop. Please select one or two workshop(s) you are interested in attending. [ ] 1. Ifan Shepherd: Geographical referencing systems and historical research and teaching [ ] 2. Diana Rau - Census based study of London [ ] 3. Peter Cox - Making your own CD-Rom for research and teaching [ ] 4. Rosemary O Day and David Englander displaying "The A427 CD Rom" (in Airport Lounge) 7pm: Dinner (optional) in the Beale Suite at the Open University. To register please complete the attached form: NAME:....................................................................... ADDRESS:.................................................................... .............................................................................. .............................................................................. .............................................................................. TEL:........................................................................ e-mail:..................................................................... CONFERENCE FEE 20 pounds sterling (includes coffee, buffet lunch & tea). FEE FOR STUDENTS/UNWAGED: 10.50 pounds sterling (includes coffee, buffet lunch & tea) WILL YOU REQUIRE EVENING DINNER? 13.25 pounds sterling per head Y/N (VEGETARIAN?) Y/N PLEASE SEND THIS FORM, TOGETHER WITH YOUR WORKSHOP CHOICES AND A CHEQUE FOR CONFERENCE FEE/COST OF EVENING MEAL (PAYABLE TO THE OPEN UNIVERSITY) TO: Judith Ford, Charles Booth Centre, Arts Faculty, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. MK7 6AA England Please mark your envelope "Conference". For further details, contact Judith Ford at the above address or e-mail: j.a.ford@open.ac.uk From: Subject: RE: 10.0670 computers and writing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 526 (526) One commercially successful author active in computing (word processing and on the Net etc.) is Terry Pratchett ... I quote from one of the two web pages referenced below: "Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 and is still not dead. In 1965 he started to work as a journalist. Then he became press officer for four nuclear power stations but, 1987 he quit since it was much more enjoyable to write the Discworld series. He also writes books for younger people. Terry lives in Wiltshire, UK, with his wife Lyn and daughter Rhianna. His mail-address is: TerryP@unseen.demon.co.uk .." His books leap out at you from EVERY bookshop in the UK ... and probably out of all bedrooms of schoolboys who read. <a href="http://www-pp.kdt.net/tati.ryberg/terryp.html">http://www-pp.kdt.net/tati.ryberg/terryp.html</a> <a href="http://www.ac.uk.lspace.org/lspace/">http://www.ac.uk.lspace.org/lspace/</a> Cheers Simon From: Subject: Text Parser + Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 527 (527) A colleague is teaching a course in the fall called "Voice in Fiction and Nonfiction." He is interested in letting students try to use computer tools that could analyze texts by features and then work to see how these features might correlate with voice. The ideal program would return information about tense, aspect of verbs, abstract nouns, concrete nouns, and length. Again, ideally, it would be sensitive to register (formal, informal), and even (if possible) region (southern, hillbilly, elite). His class will be using Mac's. Thanks in advance for any help. Joe Rudman From: Subject: correction Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 528 (528) a bit of a brain-cramp on my part, and i apologize: the Walker citation guide i mentioned is not *MLA* endorsed, but *ACW* endorsed. and the "publication does not consitute endorsement" cavveat referred specifically to the Harnack/Kleppinger model. mea maxima culpa. mick doherty From: Subject: Re: 10.0691 courses in literary computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 529 (529) The University of Texas at Austin now offers a Ph.D. concentration in Computers and English Studies. A brief description follows. The graduate program in Computers & English Studies seeks to develop and sustain a dialogue between traditional print-based culture and the emergent culture(s) of electronic information. Students will develop both theoretical and practical understanding of the ways in which electronic textuality (as represented, for example, in hypertext and multimedia) diverges from and converges with print textuality; they will also develop expertise in applying contemporary technology to more traditional problems in literary scholarship. Students will bring to the critical examination of electronic textuality a perspective informed by an understanding of contemporary theoretical concerns as well as familiarity with literary forms and their cultural contexts; they will also explore new modes of scholarship made possible by contemporary technology, and will explore new outlets for publication such as electronic journals. Thus students specializing in Computers and English Studies will carry out scholarly investigations using the most recent available technology, and will address the impact of the technologies they use upon the construction of their objects of study and, finally, of the field of inquiry itself. Coursework and Other Requirements Requirements for the Ph.D. concentration in Computers and English Studies will be filled by a combination of courses under the rubric Computers and English (388M) as well as other English courses with a substantial emphasis on theoretical and/or practical applications of information technology to an area of literary, rhetorical, or linguistic study. The English Department's requirements for the Ph.D. involve a total of 24-33 hours beyond the Master's, including: 6 hours Qualifying Exam 3 hours Supervised Teaching 9 additional hours in the area of concentration beyond the MA 3 hours conference course to revise or develop a paper 3 hours conference course for 3 area exam 3 additional hours in the minor field 1 foreign language at or beyond 3d-year proficiency, or 2 languages at or beyond 2d-year proficiency A Ph.D. candidate in Computers & English Studies might offer something like the following: 18 hours in Computers and English Studies: Introduction to Electronic Discourse; Introduction to Multimedia; Texts, Minds, and Machines (all 388M, taken to fulfill Master's requirements, as above); Postmodern Rhetorics (387M); Textual Studies (384K); Modern Drama (392M) 9 hours in a minor field: Design (Virtual Environments) and Radio-Television-Film (The Challenge of Multimedia); Library & Information Science (Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems)etc.. Areas for the 3-Area Exam might include: (a) Electronic Textuality, Renaissance Drama, and Shakespeare; or (b) 20th-century Rhetorics, Computer-Mediated Communications, and the World Wide Web; or (c) Theories of Drama, Interactive Environments, Brecht; etc. Proficiency in a European language such as Spanish or French, plus 4 or more semesters programming language such as Pascal, C, C++, Visual Basic, Java, HyperTalk, etc., including an introductory computer science course such as CS 304P. (Satisfies the 2-language option for Ph.D.). Please send requests for application forms to: The Graduate Adviser Department of English University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 John Slatin, Professor Director, Institute for Technology and Learning PCL 1.128, Mail code S5471, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712 phone (512)495-4288, fax (512)495-4524, email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu <a href="http://www.ital.utexas.edu">http://www.ital.utexas.edu</a> From: Subject: ACL 97/EACL 97 Workshop **Second Call for Papers** Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 530 (530) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ACL'97/EACL'97 Workshop July 12, 1997 Madrid, Spain -------------------------------------------------------- "From Research to Commercial Applications: Making NLP Technology Work in Practice" Success in the marketplace is one form of validation for NLP techniques and underlying theories. The broad vision of this workshop is to bring together researchers to discuss commercial or commercial-bound systems that use NLP for either text or speech. We are interested in learning about systems that show promise in re-using NLP techniques, and in the process of technology transfer for NLP applications. Another topic of interest in this workshop is industry-based practical considerations involving NLP technology. The workshop should invoke discussion about experiences and problems -- technical, logistic, or cultural -- among people working on operational and commercial NLP applications. The workshop will begin a dialogue among researchers to explore issues in technology transfer and the re-use of domain-specific systems. New applications could get leverage from using successful existing NLP technologies. The ability to re-use NLP technology for diverse applications should not only give the application a solid grounding, but should also save time and money. For example, text generation techniques are being used to build prototypes for essay analysis by Educational Testing Service. Other types of NLP technology re-use need to be identified for different applications. Closely related to the re-use of domain-specific technology is the issue of constructing general purpose tools that can be shared by the community, e.g., for tokenization, proper-noun detection, tagging, NP-identification, etc. Another purpose of the workshop is to explore industry-based practicalities that often guide the design of NLP technology. General practicalities that might be discussed are customization and trade-offs between accuracy and other requirements, such as speed, and ease of use. For example, determining the appropriate balance between reporting false positives and false negatives in information retrieval; what depth/breadth of coverage is "enough" in grammar checking; and how can adaptive systems, such as speaker-dependent speech recognizers, train themselves to the user without becoming obtrusive. Discussion of the issues above would help to create connections between both academic and industry-based research efforts to build a solid infrastructure for NLP technology re-use and lead to a deeper understanding of commercial NLP potential. WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION: Presentations will last for 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion period. Papers will be organized around themes. Ideally, we would like to include the following sessions: 1. Commercial/commercial-bound systems using NLP 2. Software re-use 3. Technology transfer SUBMISSIONS: Authors should submit a full length paper (not exceeding 3,200 words, exclusive of references) and must include a descriptive abstract of about 200 words. Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be submitted as described below. The title page should include title of the paper,names, addresses, e-mail address, telephone and fax number of all authors. Any correspondence will be addressed to the first author. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Papers should be original work. Papers may be submitted either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic or hard-copy submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server via anonymous ftp: ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name: anonymous Password: <your email address> cd acl-l/ACL97 get aclsub.sty Electronic submissions should be mailed to jburstein@ets.org or ftp to: ftp clarity.princeton.edu Name: anonymous Password: <your e-mail address> cd incoming/workshop97 put <name of your paper*> Electronic submissions must either be a) plain ascii text, b) a single postscript file, or c) a single latex file following the ACL-97 submission style sheet (see ftp site above). * Please use the following naming conventions. The filename is the last name of the first author: smith.ps the .ps version of the paper smith.ascii the .ascii version of the paper (if postscript not available) smith.author the .ascii file of the title page (title, authors names, addresses, abstract) Hard copy submissions must be received by March 10. Send to: Jill Burstein ETS, MS 11-R Rosedale Road Princeton, NJ 08541 USA Tel: (609)734-5823 REQUIREMENTS: A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Please indicate in your submission if you have submitted your paper to another conference. SCHEDULE: Submissions Deadline: March 10, 1997 Notification Date: April 16, 1997 Camera ready copy due: April 28, 1997 PROGRAM CHAIRS: Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service Claudia Leacock, Princeton University ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Andrew Golding, Mitsubishi Electric Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology, Inc. Kevin Knight, USC/ISI Karen Kukich, Bellcore Lisa Rau, SRA International Yael Ravin, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center Susanne Wolff, Educational Testing Service Wlodek Zadrozny, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center From: "P.B.Cox -Peter Cox" <P.B.Cox@open.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 10.0686 frames &c. Date: Wed, 12 Feb 97 13:25:00 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 531 (531) On 10th February 1997 I posted a reply to WM's request for information regarding the use of frames. The message started: [deleted quotation] The message originated from a survey undertaken on the LIS-LINK and LIS-UKOLUG (two lists at the Mailbase server mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk) over the preceding few weeks and was posted to these lists on 10th February 1997. The survey was carried out by William Hann (EMail survey@willco.demon.co.uk). Peter Cox From: Laurel Bowman <lbowman@uvic.ca> Subject: Re: browser survey Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:17:19 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 532 (532) That was a very useful survey on browser use and preferences! A couple of minor common beliefs need correction: - Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.1 is in fact available for Macintosh, with a couple of bells and whistles that aren't available for the PC version - I use it in preference to Netscape on my Mac, because it takes up less than 1/2 the memory of Netscape. - An ActiveX plugin for non-Explorer browsers is available on the Explorer site. Laurel Bowman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Laurel M. Bowman lbowman@uvic.ca Greek and Roman Studies <a href="http://web.uvic.ca/athena/bowman">http://web.uvic.ca/athena/bowman</a> University of Victoria ph: (250) 721-8517 fax: (250) 721-8516 From: Ed Haupt <haupt@email.njin.net> Subject: Re: 10.0689 wordprocessor with grep Date: Tue, 11 Feb 97 12:57:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 533 (533) The find command under the directory manager [F5] of Word Perfect 5.1 has a lot of Grep-like properties. For instance you can search all the documents in the directory for files which have a particular word. I am slowly learning about 6.0, so I don't know if it has more features. Ed Haupt Montclair State Univ. From: "John G. Drummond" <drummojg@jmu.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:47:26 -0500 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 534 (534) Office '97 for Windows is going to have (has? I'm not sure if it's out yet) some sort of user-transparent internet access; one will be able to do a "Save As" to an FTP site or a shell account that has FTP capabilities, etc. It appears that the future of cumputing is in this vein -- the user will eventually have no reason to distinguish between local and remote files. Great for some users, I suppose, but I don't think it's going to be fun for us tech support folks. :) I know that most word processors have a "find" or "find & replace" function, but I doubt any have a utility that can do everything that grep can do (especially not grep foo.* blah | sort > filename). However (and believe me, normally I wouldn't go 'round touting Microsoft), Word 7 supports Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) -- so, if you have no luck finding another solution, you can write one. -john drummond -=-=-=- John G. Drummond James Madison University drummojg@jmu.edu English Department x7074 <a href="http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/">http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/</a> ILR HelpDesk x3555 From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: 10.0685 wordprocessor with grep? Date: 11 Feb 97 09:53:16 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 535 (535) Sounds like you need a text editor, not a word processor. On the Mac side there's BBEdit which allows you to run GREP searches on directories within you hard drive and can download and edit files directly from an ftp server. I don't think that it can search files on a remote directory. Check out the BareBones web site at <<a href="http://www.barebones.com/">http://www.barebones.com/</a>> for more info on this text editor. I'll let others speak for other platforms, though EMACS on the Unix side strikes me as possibly fitting the bill. Sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------- Gary W. Shawver E-Mail <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> W3 <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/</a>> From: Kathleen Margaret Lant <klant@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu> Subject: grep Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 06:40:12 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 536 (536) I am not sure whether this will help with the grep problem or not, but there is a very easy way to achieve the effect of a Unix grep search in Windows 95: 1. Open Windows Explorer. 2. Select "Find" from the "Tools" dropdown menu. 3. From the Find menu, select "Files or Folders." 4. Click the "Advanced" tab. 5. Select the file type in which you want the system to search for the selected text (Word for Window, for example). You can search all files if you like. 6. Indicate the text you want the system to search for. And you have a grep search on your documents. # Kathleen Margaret Lant/English Department # # California Polytechnic State University # # San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 # # klant@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu # # <a href="http://www.calpoly.edu/~klant">http://www.calpoly.edu/~klant</a> # From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu> Subject: GREP in Word Processing Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:35:16 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 537 (537) Not a full-fledged word processor, but a marvelous text processor, BBEdit for the Mac includes GREP searching capabilities as well as the most elaborate and flexible search-and-replace capabilities I know of--and it's lightning-fast. The freeware version, BBEdit Lite, has GREP but lacks some of the other bells and whistles. It's the preferred tool of advanced HTML-smiths and is well worth the modest price (site licenses available at deep discounts from Bare Bones Software). It is particularly handy for managing large Web sites. However, if you need to retain advanced word processing features while using GREP you may find it won't work. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu <a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians</a> From: Christine Jewell <cjewell@library.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: ETD questionnaire Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:36:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 538 (538) Dear fellow Humanist members, I'm forwarding to you an announcement of a Web-based questionnaire concerning ETDs -- electronic theses and dissertations. The questionnaire was designed by a project team at the University of Waterloo. If you are familiar with an ETD project at your institution, it'd be great if you would contribute to the survey. If not, perhaps you could forward this announcement to someone you know who would be interested in submitting a response. Team members are finding that some ETD issues are quite tricky. Various institutions are handling the issues differently. Our first step is to try to gather as much information as we can. Your help would be much appreciated! Christine Jewell Electronic Thesis Project Team University of Waterloo ************************************************************************* University of Waterloo Ontario, Canada February 12, 1997 ETD Questionnaire The Electronic Thesis Project Team at the University of Waterloo is investigating governance issues and technical feasibility of submission, storage and distribution of ETDs at our institution. The initial phase of this project is concerned with information gathering; to this end, the team has developed an Electronic Theses and Dissertations questionnaire. The purpose of the survey is to collect information about Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). Specifically, this questionnaire is designed to query the state of implementation of information technology at universities in support of the electronic submission, distribution and storage of theses and dissertations and to explore associated issues. The survey is directed toward individuals at post-secondary institutions (e.g. in the Graduate Office or the Library) who have knowledge of current and/or planned practice for submission, storage, preservation, and distribution of theses and dissertations at their institution. If you are such a person please take the time to complete the questionnaire. If you know of someone that you think would provide useful input to this survey, please let them know about it. The questionnaire is located at the URL: <a href="http://library.uwaterloo.ca/~uw-etpt/survey.html">http://library.uwaterloo.ca/~uw-etpt/survey.html</a> Thank you, UW Electronic Thesis Project Team (ETPT) uw-etpt@library.uwaterloo.ca <a href="http://library.uwaterloo.ca/~uw-etpt/etpt.htm">http://library.uwaterloo.ca/~uw-etpt/etpt.htm</a> From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu> Subject: Worn-down place names Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:37:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 539 (539) In Walter M. Miller's _A Canticle for Leibwitz_ the name of the village of Saint Leibowitz evolves through oral tradition into the nonsensical "Sanly Bowitts." I know there are parallel instances of hidden etymologies in place names, but when I need an example to give my students I somehow can't think of much. "Bethlehem Hospital" to "Bedlam" is one example. Can anyone think of an example incorporating the word "Saint"? And another query. Miller uses the term "Thon" as a formal address for religious leaders/scholars in his neo-medieval setting. I'm pretty sure he didn't have in mind the French word for tuna, and a contraction of "theologian" seems too simple. Anyone have any ideas? If you want to visit my online notes to this novel, point your Web browser at: <<a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/canticle.html">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/canticle.html</a>> Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu <a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians</a> From: Subject: Re: 10.0681 withering away & the overload Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 540 (540) This is partially a response to Don Wilkins' post and partially my general feeling on the role of programming in humanistic endeavors. There's text, there's imaging, and increasingly, there's multimedia. All these the computer can do. I don't want to reinvent the wheel--not until I've worn it out nor do I think I'd be wisely allocating my time--humanistically speaking--if I dumped Director in favor of C++. I'll never be able to top, code-wise, even the worst application that's been inflicted on me but I have a suspicion I could turn out a few passible CD-ROM's. Either way, it takes a lifetime. LEO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein 70 Washington Square South Reference Associate New York, NY. 10012 General & Humanities Reference Tel.: (212) 998-2500 Elmer Holmes Bobst Library Fax: (212) 995-4383 New York University Email: kleinl@is2.nyu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Davies <mdavies@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Subject: Possible items for Humanist Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:41:20 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 541 (541) For those who are interested, I have placed online three separate polyglot bibles containing texts from different stages of both English and Spanish. In each case, the text contains verse-by-verse parallel passages of the different stages of the languages, which enables users to compare the languages at different stages of their development. The texts are the following. 1) <a href="http://138.87.135.33/bibl-eng/bible.htm">http://138.87.135.33/bibl-eng/bible.htm</a> The Gospel of Luke in Old English (Anglo-Saxon bible, c1000 AD), Middle English (Wycliffe bible, c1380), Early Modern English (King James Version, 1611), and Present Day English (the New International Version, 1973). 2) <a href="http://138.87.135.33/bibl-span/luke.htm">http://138.87.135.33/bibl-span/luke.htm</a> The Gospel of Luke in Latin (Vulgate), Old Spanish (E8 manuscript, c1250), and Modern Spanish (Reina-Valera). 3) <a href="http://138.87.135.33/bibl-span/samuel.htm">http://138.87.135.33/bibl-span/samuel.htm</a> The book of 1 Samuel in Latin (Vulgate), Old Spanish (E8 manuscript, c1250), and Modern Spanish (Reina-Valera). For both the polyglot English and Spanish versions of the Gospel of Luke, there is also a Word document that can be downloaded, which contains the entire text in table format. ================================================================== Mark Davies, Assistant Professor, Spanish Linguistics Dept. of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-4300 Voice:309/438-7975 email:mdavies@ilstu.edu Fax:309/438-8038 <a href="http://138.87.135.33/personal/welcome.htm">http://138.87.135.33/personal/welcome.htm</a> From: Russon Wooldridge <wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Announcing an Early Dictionaries Centre Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:38:03 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 542 (542) [version francaise ci-dessous] Announcing the creation of EDICTA the Early Dictionaries centre <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/edicta/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/edicta/</a> EDICTA's goals: to publish electronic and computer-assisted editions of early dictionaries of English, French and Latin; to publish peer-reviewed research on early dictionaries in general; to convene workshops and conferences on research uses of early dictionaries; to disseminate information about international research on early dictionaries; to teach graduate-level courses on lexicography and the history of the language. Currently on-line at EDICTA are the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database, samples of three medieval Latin-French dictionaries -- Glossarium Gallico-latinum, Montpellier-Stockholm Catholicon and Vocabularius familiaris et compendiosus -- and sample databases of Nicot's Thresor and of the 8 complete editions of the Dictionnaire de l'Academie francaise. Russon Wooldridge University of Toronto --------------- On annonce la creation de EDICTA le centre des Dictionnaires Anciens <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/edicta/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/edicta/</a> Les objectifs d'EDICTA: la publication d'editions electroniques et editions assistees par ordinateur de dictionnaires anglais, francais et latins anciens; la publication, avec comite de lecture, de monographies et articles sur les dictionnaires anciens en general; l'organisation d'ateliers et de colloques; la diffusion d'informations sur les projets de recherche internationaux portant sur les dictionnaires anciens; l'enseignement de cours de 2e et 3e cycles sur la lexicographie et l'histoire de la langue. EDICTA a actuellement en ligne la Early Modern English Dictionaries Database, des echantillons de trois dictionnaires latin-francais medievaux -- Glossarium Gallico-latinum, Montpellier-Stockholm Catholicon et Vocabularius familiaris et compendiosus -- et des bases echantillons du Thresor de Nicot et des huit editions completes du Dictionnaire de l'Academie francaise. Russon Wooldridge University of Toronto ------------------- Russon Wooldridge, Department of French, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Tel: 1-416-978-2885 -- Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/</a> From: "Mary S. Carroll" <mcarroll@ALPHA.NSULA.EDU> Subject: FW: 1997 PTTGrants: Spring Call for Proposals Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:48:11 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 543 (543) NCPTT announces a 1997 Spring call for Preservation Technology and Training Grants proposals in four project types: conferences, publications, technology transfer and environmental research. Details for the Spring call are available via fax-on-demand (318/357-3214), NCPTT's gopher (gopher.ncptt.nps.gov), WWWeb (<a href="http://www.cr.nps.gov/ncptt/">http://www.cr.nps.gov/ncptt/</a>), and details will be mailed to NCPTT's newsletter mail list. As a real innovation for the 1997 Spring call, details are available via return e-mail: Send a blank message to pttgrants@alpha.nsula.edu, and the full announcement will return automatically. Please distribute this message as widely as possible among your colleagues towards encouraging broad participation in the 1997 PTTGrants Spring Call for Proposals. Mary S. Carroll Information Management Coordinator National Center for Preservation Technology and Training NSU Box 5682, Natchitoches, LA 71497 mcarroll@alpha.nsula.edu 318/357-6421 (fax) 318/357-6464 (voice) 318/357-3214 (fax-on-demand) <a href="http://www.cr.nps.gov/ncptt/">http://www.cr.nps.gov/ncptt/</a> <a href="gopher://gopher.ncptt.nps.gov">gopher://gopher.ncptt.nps.gov</a> From: Subject: Leibowitz Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 544 (544) I just noticed that in my recent query about Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) I absent-mindedly left out the "o" in Leibowitz, which might have caused trouble for people trying to look the novel up. Sorry--slip of the finger. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu <a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians</a> From: Subject: Grep Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 545 (545) Vedit plus has a lot of grep-like features. See their homepage <a href="http://www.vedit.com">http://www.vedit.com</a>. emacs: an emacs - like editor for DOS is JED; it can be found in the CTAN archive. Fritz Heberlein Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, AkadDir Dept. of Classics KU Eichstaett Ostenstr. 26-28 D-85071 Eichstaett From: Subject: Frames used well Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 546 (546) Since we've all registered our feelings about frames, thought I'd post some URLs of sites which do frames well, or at least point in the right direction. I'd be interested to see other HUMANISTs suggestions for examples of good frames style. HotWired's Cocktail page <<a href="http://www.hotwired.com/cocktail/">http://www.hotwired.com/cocktail/</a>>, Richard Bear's E-Edition of Sir Philip Sidney's "The Lady of May"<<a href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/may/mayframe.html">http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/may/mayframe.html</a>>, Willard's _Onomasticon_ CD-ROM simulation <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/Onomasticon/cdsim.html">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/Onomasticon/cdsim.html</a>>, and finally, my own use of frames in a Web paper at <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/espaper/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/espaper/</a>> (sorry, I couldn't resist). Hope Willard and Richard don't mind me citing their sites. Any other suggestions? Sincerely, --------------------------------------------------------- Gary W. Shawver E-Mail <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> W3 <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~gshawver/</a>> --------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Announcement of NEH Fellowships Deadline Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 547 (547) Announcement: NEH Fellowships, 1998-99 Deadline: May 1, 1997 The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the 1998-99 competition for NEH Fellowships. These Fellowships provide opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced research in the humanities. Applicants may be faculty members of colleges and universities, staff members of colleges and universities, or faculty and staff members of primary and secondary schools. Scholars and writers working independently or in institutions such as museums, libraries, and historical associations or in institutions with no connection to the humanities also are eligible to apply. Projects supported by NEH Fellowships may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Such work might eventually produce scholarly articles; a monograph on a specialized subject; a book-length treatment of a broad topic; an archaeological site report; a translation, an edition, or another scholarly tool. Citizenship: Applicants should be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the U.S. or its jurisdictions for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Eligibility: Scholars affiliated with institutions granting the Ph.D. in the subject area of the project should apply to the Fellowships for University Teachers Program. Scholars affiliated with institutions not granting the Ph.D. in the subject are of the project, scholars affiliated with other types of organizations, and independent scholars should apply to the Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars Program. Applicants who professional training includes a degree program must have received their degrees or completed all official requirements for them by the application deadline. Persons seeking support for work leading toward a degree are not eligible to apply, nor are active candidates for degrees. Further information on the two programs is available in the printed guidelines. Stipends and tenure: Tenure must cover an uninterrupted period of from six to twelve whole months. The earliest date that fellows may begin tenure is January 1, 1998, and the latest is the start of the spring term of the 1998-99 academic year, or April 1, 1999 for those who are not teachers. Tenure periods for teachers must include at least one complete term of the academic year. The maximum stipend is $30,000. Actual stipends will be based on the academic or annual salary, other support provided during tenure, and the length of tenure. Submission of applications: All applications must be postmarked on or before May 1, 1997. Please note that the Endowment does not accept applications submitted by fax or e-mail. Applicants will be notified of the decisions on their applications by mid-December 1997. Application materials and information: Web: <<a href="http://www.neh.fed.us/html/guidelin/fellowsh.html">http://www.neh.fed.us/html/guidelin/fellowsh.html</a>> Fellowships for University Teachers E-mail: fellowsuniv@neh.fed.us Phone: 202-606-8466 Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars E-mail: fellowscollind@neh.fed.us Phone: 202-606-8467 Mail inquiries: NEH Fellowships, Room 318 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 From: Subject: Call for Proposals - Guides to Good Practice <fwd> Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 548 (548) [I've been asked to circulate the following call for proposals from the Arts and Humanities Data Service (U.K.). --WM] [deleted quotation] ********************************************* Drs. Astrid M. Wissenburg User Services Development Officer Arts and Humanities Data Service, Executive King's College London, Strand London WC2R 2LS GREAT BRITAIN phone: +44 (0)171 873 5074 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 email: astrid.wissenburg@ahds.ac.uk ************************************************* From: Subject: times they are a'changin Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 549 (549) "In periods like the present, when knowledge is every day extending, and the habits and thoughts of mankind are perpetually changing under the influence of new discoveries, it is no easy matter to throw ourselves back into a time in which for centuries the European world grew upon a single type.... So absolutely has change become the law of our present condition, that it is identified with energy and moral health; to cease to change is to lose place in the great race; and to pass away from off the earth with the same convictions which we found when we entered it, is to have missed the best object for which we now seem to exist." So begins James Anthony Froude's 12-volume <cite>History of England</cite> (1865-70). Of course we can say that people in the dim past of which he spoke were so S L O W that even to a Victorian his own age appeared dizzyingly metamorphic by contrast. Such a response, however, seems to me a cheap escape from a much more interesting and difficult possibility: that the vision of continual change is not our property, not uniquely linked to the age of the computer, but is a realisation independent of historical period. Of course this vision is much easier to have if we look at our own present, about which we have abundant data and from which we are insufficiently distant to see the unchanging patterns. It is also easier to get, I suppose, at certain historical moments, e.g. our own, or the spectacularly energetic Victorian period. But only easier. I wonder about Heraclitus and Chuang Tzu, great masters of change. Consider Ovid also. We've all had enough, I'm sure, of the bug-eyed prophets who insist that with the computer the heavens have rolled back as a scroll and the divine light has made all things new. Ok, it has, but the newness of all things is not new, nor is the proclaiming of it. If this is so, then what is? Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0691 courses in literary computing Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:45:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 550 (550) In the discussion about "computers in the humanities" as an academic subject, most of the focus regarding a degree in this field has been at the graduate level. Are there programs for undergraduates that folks know about? What would the kinds of core courses and the kinds of electives that would be offered? I suppose too more basically what would be the career opporutnities for a person with a bachelor's in this field. That is, could the undergraduates realistically be invited into this field with the promise of future employment? I confess that I do not read the ListServer religiously and may have missed some citings in this regard. Thank You, M. Daniel Price, Ph.D. The Center for Distant Learning The Union Institute 440 E. McMillan Cincinnati OH 45206 dprice @tui.edu From: ellen@ling.ed.ac.uk Subject: MSc in Speech and Language Processing Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:42:38 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 551 (551) SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING MSC PROGRAMME in the Department of Linguistics at The UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH Speech, Language, and Computation . . . including basic computing skills, PROLOG, phonetics, phonology, syntax, formal language theory, formal semantics, neural computing, psycholinguistics, statistics and experimental design, speech signal analysis and processing, automatic speech recognition and synthesis, computational linguistics, machine translation . . . Academic teaching staff include: R. Cann (formal semantics of natural languages, functional categories in syntax; Indo-European languages), E. G. Bard (psycholinguistics, perception and production of speech in dialogue), J. R. Hurford (evolution of language, syntax and semantics in automatic speech recognition; Arabic), S. D. Isard (dialogue structure, intonation, automatic speech synthesis and recognition), L. Kelly (psycholinguistics, acquired language disorders; Spanish), D. R. Ladd (prosody, phonological theory, intonation in speech synthesis; Romanian), J. E. Miller (spoken and written language, non-standard English tense aspect, case; Russian, Bulgarian) A one year course assessed by essays and dissertation, the M.Sc is taught within the Department of Linguistics and its Centre for Speech Technology Research, which have extensive computing and laboratory facilities. The Department maintains close ties with the Human Communication Research Centre, and shares some teaching with the Centre for Cognitive Science. Application has been made to EPSRC to continue a quota of Advanced Course Studentships, for which EC residents with Honours degrees or equivalent experience are eligible. Applications deadline: 10th March for October entry Contact: Postgraduate Admissions Committee, Department of Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, UK; For further information: tel. (+44) 131 650 3961, fax (+44) 131 650 3962, email ethel@ling.ed.ac.uk or see the Linguistics home page <a href="http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/">http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/</a> From: Subject: FIRST ANNUAL QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY CONF Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 552 (552) Announcing the First Annual Qualitative Methodology Conference Reclaiming Voice: Ethnographic Inquiry and Qualitative Research in a Postmodern Age June 20-22, 1997 University of Southern California University of California at Los Angeles University of California at Irvine At a time when the pressure for change in the academy is increasingly linked to the resurgence of conservative and neo-liberal educational discourses and practices, researchers need to be more direct in countering the attacks in the public space against alternative research methodologies. While the need for research to be theoretically rigorous and ethically accountable is vital, we must be clear that rigor and accountability are not the sole provinces of conservative and neo-liberal educational discourses and practices. Good qualitative research helps establish the importance and validity of human experiences, and improve the human condition. Reclaiming Voice, the first annual qualitative methodology conference sponsored by the University of Southern California, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of California at Irvine, acknowledges differences in inquiry and promotes a verisimilitude of (re)presentations and analyses. The conference is intended for those of us concerned about working with alternative methodological and theoretical frameworks. By joining in rigorous, lively interchanges, participants will better understand how to utilize ethnographic and qualitative research, as well as how to (re)claim and (re)present the voice of ourselves and those with whom we engage in research. Keynote Speakers Michele Foster Insider Research: What Counts as Critical Yvonna Lincoln From Understanding to Action: New Imperatives, New Criteria, New Methods in Qualitative Research Peter McLaren The New Critical Ethnography William Tierney Life History's History: Subjects Foretold Guidelines for Proposals We seek proposals including, but not limited to, the following topics: 1. Afrocentric, critical, feminist, gay/lesbian, and/or postmodern research 2. Creative use of the internet and film 3. Urban ethnography 4. Comparative/international approaches, and/or concern for indigenous cultures and topics 5. Issues related to narrative, life history, and the role of the author 6. Meta-theorization of research methodology All proposals will be peer reviewed. Formats for Presentations: ^P Paper sessions provide each author with an opportunity to present his/her paper, followed by audience critique and/or discussion. ^P Panel presentations examine a specific problem, issue, or theme from a variety of perspectives. ^P Interactive sessions allow maximum interaction through focussed dialogue. ^P Performance research allows for an illustration of some aspect of the presentation through a live performance, such as film, role play, or a multimedia approach. Please note audio/visual equipment needs and/or special time requirements in proposals. Format for Proposals: Cover sheets for proposals must include the following information in this format: Title of Presentation: Name of Authors: Affiliation(s) and Mailing Address(es): Telephone number(s): Fax number(s): E-mail address(es): Abstract (50 to 60 words): A proposal summary (1 to 2 pages) of goals, perspectives/theoretical framework, research methods, and findings is also required. The deadline for proposals is April 1, 1997. Mail three copies of proposal cover sheet and proposal summary, and two self-addressed, stamped business envelopes, to: Patrick Dilley Conference Proposals Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis University of Southern California Waite Phillips Hall #701 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031 Registration Reclaiming Voice: Ethnographic Inquiry and Qualitative Research Methods Los Angeles, CA June 20-22, 1997 Name:_____________________________________________________ Institution:_________________________________________________ Address:___________________________________________________ City:___________________________ State:______________ ZIP:______ Phone:_________________________ Fax:__________________________ Email:_______________________________________________________ Please send me graduate student housing information: Yes No Registration Fees: Please submit a check for $50 ($25 for students), made payable to the University of Southern California. Please mail your check and this form by June 13, 1997 to: Patrick Dilley, Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, 701 Waite Phillips Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031. Reclaiming Voice: Ethnographic Inquiry and Qualitative Research in a Postmodern Age Advisory Board Michelle Fine, City University of New York Michele Foster, Claremont Graduate School of Education Doug Kellner, University of California at Los Angeles Patti Lather, Ohio State University Yvonna Lincoln, Texas A&M University Jeannie Oakes, University of California at Los Angeles Donald Polkinghorne, University of Southern California Nelly Stromquist, University of Southern California Henry Trueba, Harvard University Conference Co-Chairs Patrick Dilley, USC Michelle Knight, UCLA Peter McLaren, UCLA Louis Miron, UCI William G. Tierney, USC Registration Information All participants and attendees of Reclaiming Voice should register by June 13, 1997. After June 13, 1997, registration will be limited due to space availability. Registration cost for Reclaiming Voice is $50. Students attending the conference receive a discounted rate of $25. Checks and money orders should be made payable to University of Southern California. Sorry, no cash or credit cards can be accepted. Accommodations Reclaiming Voice will be held at the University of Southern California, in exciting downtown Los Angeles. Conference rates are available at two hotels. Directly across from the USC campus is the Sheraton Crowne Plaza, with single rooms at $73.00 per night, doubles at $78.00, plus 14% tax. Closer to the heart of downtown is the four star, four diamond Wyndham Checkers Hotel, a five-minute cab ride from the USC campus; rooms at the Wyndham Checkers are $105.00 per night (plus 14% tax), single or double. Reservations for the Crowne Plaza can be made at 800/872-1104 (or in California, 800/244-7331); be sure to mention the Reclaiming Voice conference, and code 2-REC. Reservations must be made at the Crowne Plaza by May 19, 1997, for this discounted rate. Reservations for the Wyndham Checkers can be made at 213/644-0000, extension 400, or 800/WYNDHAM. Be sure to tell the reservationist that you are with the USC Reclaiming Voice conference. Students attending Reclaiming Voice have the option of accommodations on the USC campus. Prices vary according to the number of persons and type of accommodation. Residence hall rooms start at approximately $38 per night. Indicate your interest in graduate student housing in your Conference Registration Form. For reservations, contact To register for Reclaiming Voice, complete and return the Registration Form on this brochure to: Patrick Dilley Conference Registration Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis University of Southern California Waite Phillips Hall #701 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031. Want to be a session chair? We are looking for volunteers to introduce and moderate sessions. Let us know of your research backgrounds and interests! Questions? Need more info? Check out our world wide web site: <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/chepa/voices.html">http://www.usc.edu/dept/chepa/voices.html</a> or contact: Patrick Dilley Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis University of Southern California 701 Waite Phillips Hall Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031 e-mail: chepa@mizar.usc.edu phone: (213) 740 2881 fax: (213) 740 3889 From: "Eric S. Rabkin" <esrabkin@umich.edu> Subject: A Canticle for Leibowitz Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 17:20:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 553 (553) Paul Brians wrote: [deleted quotation] An example of Paul's "worn-down place names" that comes quickly to my mind is "York." The Celtic word for "place of the yew trees" became the Roman "Eboracum" which became the Viking "Jorvik" ("-wic" meaning "dwelling place") and finally modern "York." I can't think of any very interesting "Saint" examples off-hand, but there are many obvious ones, such as Santiago, Chile, being named for San Diego (Saint James in English). One related example that always amuses me is Los Angeles, which many people enjoy calling "The City of the Angels," since "Los Angeles" is Spanish for "The Angels." In fact, the city was founded in 1781 as "El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles," meaning "The Town of the Queen of the Angels"; that is, it was named after the Virgin Mary. So, instead of calling it "The City of the Angels," it should be called more properly "The City of the Virgin." Given the current culture of L.A., however, I can think of several reasons why that is unlikely. [deleted quotation] I've always assumed "Thon" in Miller's novel was an adaptation of the Spanish "Don," meaning nobleman, or the Oxonian "don," meaning scholar: both work for the principal character bearing that name, Thon Taddeo. Eric -- Eric S. Rabkin 313-764-2553 (Office) Dept of English 313-764-6330 (Dept) Univ of Michigan 313-763-3128 (Fax) Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003 esrabkin@umich.edu <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/</a> From: Roland Hjerppe <rhj@ida.liu.se> Subject: Re: 10.0707 editors with grep Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:51:02 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 554 (554) Nisus, available only for Mac has i.a. the following features: Nisus Writer Special Features Unlimited undos and redos Noncontiguous and rectangular selection Cut, copy, or append to ten editable Clipboards PowerFind and PowerFind Pro (grep) pattern-based Find/Replace New! Store last-used and often-used Find/Replace expressions New! Summary Search builds dynamic concordances Find & replace in all open files Find & replace in unopened files .... Multilingual Features New! No Language Key (dongle) required WorldScript-savvy Enter, find, manipulate text in: Right-to-left languages (Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew) Roman languages Two-byte languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Cyrillic languages Language-specific search tools Spelling dictionaries available for many languages .... Mac OS 7.5/7.6 Features New! OpenDoc container support for Live Objects New! Drag and Drop New! AppleScript New! Apple Guide New! QuickDraw GX printing support New! Macintosh Easy Open support Publish & Subscribe WorldScript Text-to-Speech Glossing More details at <a href="http://www.nisus-soft.com/nisus_writer.html">http://www.nisus-soft.com/nisus_writer.html</a> /Roland Roland Hjerppe LIBLAB Dept. of Computer and Information Science Link|ping University S-581 83 Linkoping Sweden Internet: rhj@ida.liu.se T. +46 13 281965 <a href="http://www.ida.liu.se/~rolhj/">http://www.ida.liu.se/~rolhj/</a> F. +46 13 142231 From: Subject: Java for Greek Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 555 (555) Humanists may be interested in playing with a nifty instructional application of Java, designed to quiz the student's knowledge of ancient Greek accentuation, at <<a href="http://www.java.utoronto.ca/~brucerob/Greek/">http://www.java.utoronto.ca/~brucerob/Greek/</a>>, done by Bruce Robertson (Toronto), the author of Latinitas, for which see <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~brucerob/Latinitas/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~brucerob/Latinitas/</a>>. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Frames used well / large on-line card catalog Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 556 (556) The following URL is interesting for Humanists not only as an example of frames but even more as a new internet access to a large card catalog: <<a href="http://www-zb2.unizh.ch/">http://www-zb2.unizh.ch/</a>> Alphabetischer Zentralkatalog (AZK) of the Zentralbibliothek Zurich consisting of 2,2 Mio. library cards (in German) The producer's technology seems to be new and promising, according to the following statement (disclaimer: I have no connections with Eurospider and Zentralbibliothek): [deleted quotation]handwriting). [deleted quotation]Mio. >library cards. The currently accessible database contains more than 1 Mio. >cards. The remaining cards are being added in packages of 100'000 cards. [deleted quotation] Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. Bullinger-Briefwechsel-Edition Phone: xx41 1 257 67 54 Kirchgasse 9 Fax: xx41 1 262 14 12 CH-8001 Zuerich e-mail: henrich@theol.unizh.ch Switzerland <a href="http://www.unizh.ch/irg/henrich.html">http://www.unizh.ch/irg/henrich.html</a> From: Elisabeth.Burr@unidui.uni-duisburg.de Subject: Urgent Help needed with TACT 2.1 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:39:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 557 (557) Dear Humanists, TACT 2.1, according to the Manual offers the possibility to exclude text from queries by negating references with ~ (Tilde), i.e. a Query like: love ; when ~ speaker Volp should look for all instances of "love" except those appearing in texts tagged as speaches of Volpone. But it does not work. As I have relied on this facility when tagging my corpus of Romance languages and as I have to get my analysis going by all means, please, could anyone help me solve this problem. Thank you all very much in advance Elisabeth Burr Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard Mercator Universitaet-GH Duisburg Lotharstrasse 65 47048 Duisburg Tel.: +49 203 3792605 fax: +49 203 3792612 e-mail: Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: Cartesian Delight Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:43:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 558 (558) Willard, Conviviality breeds joy. Or so it did when David Findlay, a Canadian video maker was savouring strawberries and chocolate ice-cream just last week as we tried to stave off the February blahs. I had outlined to David my technical/intellectual problem: achieving higher writability by automating spot-specific linking on the WWW David and I combined his experience from video and the reactions I had collected here on Humanist to the proposal of creating CGI scripts to handle requests to link. We concluded that every spot in a document is locatable but may not be marked. This was arrived at by abstracting the case of time code on a video tape and cursor position in a text file to the general case of coordinates. So we asked ourselves how could the fragment identifier <NAME> attribute of the <A> element in HTML be used to find an unmarked-up spot in a html file. <A href="url#y,x">...</A> y = vertical position or line number , = separator x = horizontal position or character number This Cartesian nugget reverses the usual citing of elements usually found in mathematical notation (x,y). I like to overdetermine the hatching of this "winter strawberry" by considering two non(car)drivers living in a grid city, both steeped in science-fiction and the memoirs of dyslexics, sitting at a kitchen table exchanging with the free abandon of peers. Now at this other kitchen table I come to ask should this idea be submitted to a Request For Comment? If so, how? -- Francois From: J van Kersen <jjvankersen@rullet.LeidenUniv.nl> Subject: Second Leiden Summerschool Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:08:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 559 (559) Second Leiden Summer School: New media and advanced methods for historians and archivists 13-28 June 1997 The programme of the Second Leiden Summer School consists of a series of self-contained 2-days and 3-days courses for advanced and postgraduate history students, professional historians and archivists. Five courses will be taught in English. The Second Leiden Summer School is organised by: Nederlands Historisch Data Archief: <a href="http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/nhda-welcome-uk.html">http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/nhda-welcome-uk.html</a> Postdoctorale Opleiding Historische Informatieverwerking, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden: <a href="http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/esf/esf.htm">http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/esf/esf.htm</a> Sectie Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden: <a href="http://wwwlet.leidenuniv.nl/history/history.html">http://wwwlet.leidenuniv.nl/history/history.html</a> Course description; 5 courses are taught in english: Vr 13/6: Opstapcursus Windows 95 uit de praktijk Wo 18/6 - Do 19/6: Digitalisering van historische bronnen: voorbeelden Vr 20/6 - Za 21/6: Database-technieken voor historici Ma 23/6 - Wo 25/6: Structurering en ontsluiting van teksten met behulp van SGML, HTML en het World Wide Web Do 26/6 - Za 28/6: Multi-media voor geschiedenis met Toolbook Mon 16/6 - Tue 17/6: Introduction: New media and advanced methods for historians and archivists Wed 18/6 - Thu 19/6: Electronic information resources for historians: applied to cases of social and economic history Fri 20/6 - Sat 21/6: Analysis of historical texts with TACT Mon 23/6 - Wed 25/6: Advanced statistics for historians: applied to colonial history Thu 26/6 - Sat 28/6: Scanning and Optical Character Recognition of historical documents Please print and fill out the registration form !!! Aanmeldingsformulier / Application form: To register for the Summer School, please tick the courses you want to attend, fill out the rest of the form and send or fax it to the Summer School secretariat before 1 May 1997. Cursussen / Courses: Vr 13/6 Fri fl. 200 o Opstapcursus Windows 95 Ma 16/6 Mon Di 17/6 Tue fl. 400 o Introduction: New media and advanced methods for historians and archivists (*) Wo 18/6 Wed Do 19/6 Thu fl. 400 o Digitalisering van historisch materiaal: voorbeelden uit de praktijk o Electronic information resources for historians: applied to cases of social and economic history (*) Vr 20/6 Fri Za 21/6 Sat fl. 400 o Database-technieken voor historici o Analysis of historical texts with TACT (*) Ma 23/6 Mon Di 24/6 Tue Wo 25/6 Wed fl. 600 o Structurering en ontsluiting van teksten met behulp van SGML, HTML en het World Wide Web o Advanced statistics for historians, applied to colonial history (*) Do 26/6 Thu Vr 27/6 Fri Za 28/6 Sat fl. 600 o Multi-media voor geschiedenis met Toolbook o Scanning and Optical Character Recognition of historical documents (*) Registration before 1 May 1997 Summerschool Homepage: <a href="http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/education/sum.htm">http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/education/sum.htm</a> Surname: Initials: Title(s): Gender: o Male o Female Institution: Address: Postal Code / Town: Country: Phone: Fax: E-mail address: Computing skills: Windows 95 o no / o basic / o advanced knowledge Internet o no / o basic / o advanced knowledge dBase o no / o basic / o advanced knowledge Scanning/OCR o no / o basic / o advanced knowledge Place and Date: Signature: Summer School Secretariat c/o NHDA P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 71 5272742 Fax: (+31) 71 5272615 E-mail: NHDA@rullet.leidenuniv.nl From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: One-Day Conference: Computer-Assisted Film & Drama Date: 17th March 1997 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 560 (560) Venue: St Anne's College, University of Oxford Cost: Forty pounds (Graduate students, twenty-five pounds) TITLE: FIRST NAME: SURNAME: POSITION (please state if graduate student): DEPARTMENT: INSTITUTION: ADDRESS: POSTCODE: TELEPHONE: FAX: EMAIL: BRIEFLY DESCRIBE ANY USE YOU MAKE OF COMPUTERS IN YOUR TEACHING OR RESEARCH: TOTAL PAYABLE= PAYMENT BY CHEQUE OR OFFICAL PURCHASE ORDER ONLY. PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO "Oxford University Computing Services". EARLY BOOKING RECOMMENDED. PLEASE RETURN COMPLETED BOOKING FORMS TOGETHER WITH PAYMENT TO: Dr Michael Fraser Centre Manager CTI Textual Studies Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865 283 282 Fax: 01865 273 275 Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk From: Lou Burnard <lou@vax.ox.ac.uk> Subject: for humanist (but i got the address wrong) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:30:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 561 (561) I have been asked by the Refugee Studies Programme of the University to draw your readers' attention to the following new job: PROJECT MANAGER The RSP has received funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to digitise its specialist library holdings and is seeking a three year Project Manager to oversee the project. The Manager will be responsible for preparing a specification for the design, operational procedures, management and access facilities of the digitised collection, developing plans for making the database available for users around the world and producing a marketing strategy. Liaising with library staff and organisations worldwide will be an important part of the post. Further details of this post are available at <a href="http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsp/pmad.htm">http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsp/pmad.htm</a> The closing date is 28th February! Lou Burnard From: Paul groves <paul.groves@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Announcement: Online teaching report Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:54:16 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 562 (562) Available from the 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature' JTAP project is a report on 'Existing Tools & Projects for On-line Teaching' at <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/teaching/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/teaching/</a> This report covers ways different aspects of the Internet can be used for teaching purposes, including the World Wide Web, email and newsgroups, and MUDs and MOOs. If a paper copy of this report is required please get in touch at the address given below Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Groves Email: paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk JTAP Project Officer Fax: +44 (0)1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 (0)1865 273 226 Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford, England. OX2 6NN From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: throw-away? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:00:47 +0000 () X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 563 (563) In the helpful, attractive light of the online report by Stuart Lee, Paul Groves, and Christopher Stephens, "Existing Tools & Projects for On-line Teaching", I have a further question to ask. Allow me to prefix this question with a story. Once upon a time not very long ago, at well-known university X, in the fine department Y, a certain senior Professor Z decided that computer-assisted learning software was a good idea. Although she did not know much about the technology, she saw the potential, and being politically not without skill, managed to pry out of a central fund enough money to purchase development equipment and software. She then set to work, and after some months, enjoying the benefits of a course off for development work but spending many a late night in her office, she produced her instructional package. It was a brilliant piece of work, no question -- rich in content, well designed, visually attractive, entertaining. The course for which it was designed had an enrolment of hundreds. Local facilities were provided on which students could use it. They did, and liked what they saw. Clearly a success. Then Professor Z, after teaching this course for 2 years, went off to do other things. Her replacement, though computer-friendly, looked at the package and decided immediately not to use it because the approach to the subject differed from his own. No subsequent instructor for that course has used the package, and now it is beginning to show serious signs of age. Thus 9-12 months of a very expensive person's time, plus the time of support staff, plus the equipment cost, bought instruction for 800 students over a period of 2 years. Suddenly the story does not seem to be about a success but, perhaps, about a mistaken approach to instructing students. My question is, wouldn't it be better to concentrate on developing primary resources which an instructor could assemble quickly into courseware and then abandon at no great cost? Isn't the Web, as the authors of the report cited above, in general a better means of providing throw-away software than any stand-alone authoring system, such as Hypercard or Toolbook? WM ---------------------- Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 / fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0712 TACT problem? Cartesian questions? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:47:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 564 (564) Leaving aside the problem that the browser would have to be modified to read these coordinates, I think there's a larger problem here, namely that the x,y coordinates would change if the document were resized by the browser. It would seem to me that the only reliable way to specify this kind of location would be with a different set of coordinates that referred to the beginning and ending characters, specified as an offset number counted from the beginning of the file (counting tags? not counting tags? Dunno). John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/</a> From: Lou Burnard <lou@vax.ox.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 10.0712 TACT problem? Cartesian questions? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:43:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 565 (565) Re your strawberry-eating correspondents' |We concluded that every spot in a document is locatable but may not be |marked. This was arrived at by abstracting the case of time code on a |video tape and cursor position in a text file to the general case of |coordinates. So we asked ourselves how could the fragment identifier <NAME> |attribute of the <A> element in HTML be used to find an unmarked-up |spot in a html file. | | <A href="url#y,x">...</A> | |y = vertical position or line number |, = separator |x = horizontal position or character number | How profoundly mistaken is this linearity! Consider: a video is made up of frames, each of which is a complete 2-d image. An image exists in a Cartesian space: if you address its space, you address the image. That all makes perfect sense. But texts *are not* images! Texts (even those on the Web) are made up of non-visual signifiers (words, to you and me) whose signification lies in far more than their character position and line number -- which are mere accidentals of the way the page happens to be rendered. Consider what happens when the recipient of your web page decides to use a different font to display it. Or even when the window in which it is displayed gets resized. No, if you want "all-points-addressability", the only reliable method is to mark-up explicitly the addressable components of your document. Use SGML. ------- Lou From: Subject: Mr. Seward Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 566 (566) I'm looking for anyone who has any information on a "Mr. Seward," whom Samuel Johnson credited with emending a line in Act II scene ii of Macbeth. I can't seem to find any information about this person, and I need to know who he is for a little article I'm working on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Buck Beliles From: Bornstein <georgeb@umich.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0710 change Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:47:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 567 (567) Good point, Willard. There's something in what you say, which we could all remember a bit more. I recollect reading in grad school Walter Houghton's book THE VICTORIAN FRAME OF MIND (1957), which points out on page 1 that "The one distinguishing fact about the time [the Victorian period] was 'that we are living in an age of transition.'" So it does seem that some of our current mind set on living in such a time has been around longer than we sometimes think! ********************************************************************* George Bornstein Department of English C.A. Patrides Professor of Literature University of Michigan email: georgeb@umich.edu Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109-1045 office phone: (313) 764-6330 office fax: (313) 763-3128 From: Marta Steele <Marta_Steele@Pupress.Princeton.Edu> Subject: newness Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:35:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 568 (568) Willard, You've hit a vein. It's been a while. There's no enormous erudition to tap on this subject, but here are some thoughts. What are the implications of "nihil sub sole novum"? There are many enigmas within our own history we have yet to tap, and people are still trying accurately to dissect what really created the cerebral phenomenon of ancient Greek culture. And why, precisely, does a squared plus b squared equal c squared? Why is a parabola the cross-section of a cone? The existence of such perfect formulations is to me entirely enigmatic, no matter what elaborate explanations I am given. A computer revolution in the sense of robots acquiring autonomous wills and taking over will certainly be new; I hope that doesn't happen, though when people begin behaving like robots, one wonders if it hasn't happened already. What's new that we live with every day are the dimensions coexisting with us that we haven't yet learned to perceive. The infinite universes of the small, the other dimensions we are not equipped to perceive, the astronomical phenomena beyond our perceptions, the existence of other genders... a next step in the evolution toward the "new" might be some contact with these completely unknown quantities. The ultimate new may be something we discover that can be related in no way to anything we already know. Is that possible? Could we perceive of anything one can't relate in any way to what is already known? Is this what you were getting at, or am I entirely off the mark? Marta Steele From: Subject: Re: Urgent Help needed with TACT 2.1 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 569 (569) Elisabeth Burr recently posted a note to Humanists describing a problem she was having with TACT. I cut and paste her query into Usebase running the Volpone database and it certainly seemed to work correctly. I also tried a similar query on a different database. I'll be talking directly to Dr. Burr to get more information. HUMANISTs might be interested in the TACT-L listserv. Problems of this kind are often discussed there. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe tact-l <your name> to listserv@listserv.utoronto.ca. Best wishes. ... john bradley ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:53:31 -0500 Elisabeth Burr wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: applied ethics forum Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 570 (570) ** PLEASE CROSS-POST TO APPROPRIATE LISTS ** Is there hope for democracy in cyberspace? That is: do the environments of Computer-Mediated Communication offer new forms of communicative possibilities that might enhance democratic discourse? Might the dialogical space of CMC create new forms of democratic discourse and community? To examine an effort to respond to those questions in praxis, we invite you to visit our web site and discussion forum, "Abortion: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives" <<a href="http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/abortion/abortion.html">http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/abortion/abortion.html</a>> sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics (Carnegie Mellon University), Drury College, and Routledge Publishing. The forum takes place from Feb. 3 - 21, 1997, among: Helen Alvare (Office of Prolife Activities, National Council of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC); Seyla Benhabib (Harvard University/University of Vienna), known for her work in feminism and feminist critical approaches to Juergen Habermas; Rev. Howard Hunt, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, which supports abortion rights; and Laurie Shrage (California State University, Pomona), author of _Moral Dilemmas of Feminism: Prostitution, Adultery, and Abortion_ (Routledge, 1994). This exchange utilizes a web conferencing software which allows invited participants to establish and respond to discussion threads presented in the form of a web page. The site consists of background materials (including summaries of ethical approaches to abortion from Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, and Protestant frameworks) and discussion archives (fully accessible web pages containing the exchanges among forum participants, including editorial summaries and links to background resources). Our large goal - as articulated in the home page of our Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics <<a href="http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/ethics.html">http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/ethics.html</a>> - is to explore the "conversational ethics" of Habermas, Rawls, Rorty, and Putnam, especially as these offer guidelines for the _forms_ of discourse necessary for democratic polity (e.g., Habermas's rules of discourse as outlining the requirements of an ideal speech situation). By applying these guidelines to discussions of hard ethical cases - including the especially divisive issue of abortion, as framed by deeply-held but diverse religious commitments - we hope to explore the strengths and limits in _praxis_ of such conversational ethics. The forums further seek to exploit the best possibilities of computer- mediated communication, as such on-line exchanges bring together representative voices otherwise separated by geography and time, in a dialogical space which encourages equal participation and respect for alternative views - while it also provides participants a continuously updated textual protocol of the exchange and the opportunity to develop what are thus informed, well-thought out, reflective responses (in contrast with the often hasty and unproductively heated exchanges marking face-to-face exchanges). We are finding that the exchange as it has played out so far - and as documented in the publicly-accessible discussion archives - indeed achieves remarkable moments of positive and productive civil discourse. While the first phase of the discussion forum involves invited participants - in the second phase (Feb. 21-28, 1997), anyone willing to abide by the discussion guidelines framing the Dialogue is invited to submit comments by e-mail, which will then be compiled as web pages in the discussion archives. We invite you to visit the site and adding your comments to the discussion. -- Robert Cavalier (CAAE/CMU) and Charles Ess (Drury College and Research Associate, CAAE/CMU) From: Subject: Re: 10.0710 change: Yes, but what kind? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 571 (571) Is the belief that we live in an ever-changing world really only as recent as last century? Or is it our concept of change as a linear transition the thing that is recent? Surely all those 14th century illuminations of Fortune's Wheel indicated something about the beliefs of the time. And Machaut, in much of his music before and after the great plague, but particularly in his 'Remede de Fortune' is very aware of the possibilities of newness and change or "de chant at de ditt=E9 nouvelle" at least in the arts. I'm sure we could find many other pockets of belief in the possibilities of change. What prompted a handful of farmers and lawyers to envision and actually create a government of self-rule when all around them were kings, emporers, and sultans? No, the concept of change is not new. It recurs frequently, under a variety of circumstances and in a variety of ways. Perhaps what we can thank the Victorian culture makers for is their linear vision of change and the idea that positive societal change could be effected on a grand scale. And, who knows? If the War Between the States hadn't complicated matters, (was there a post-war backlash against that very idealism, in some ways blaming it for the war?) they may just have gotten away with it. As it is, what we are left with in this century is not something completely new, but perhaps a different variation on the theme: a sense that the pace of change is quickening. But it is possible to find now evidence of belief in the cyclical nature of change, and I wouldn't be surprised to see this concept of change become more widely accepted in the next century. - Hope ------------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont <a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~hag">http://www.uvm.edu/~hag</a> From: Subject: De Cartes II Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 572 (572) My thanks to Lou Burnard and John Unsworth for addressing the question of "all-points addressability". Their replies have helped clarify the question and some of the unstated assumptions that underly it. I am reflecting on the problem at the level of authoring not browsing. Part of this stems from my experience using SGML parsers to validate HTML markup where, for example, a list of errors is sent back indicating line number of the error, and in the case of the Kinder, Gentler Validator the exact location in the source appears. My question assumes a user who can read the underlying HTML markup directly, go under the hood so to say. About the images-text dichotomy. I am sorry if the mention of video triggered the avatars of the text-encoding versus digital imaging debate. It is precisely because video (which is here in Canada taken to mean audio & visual elements) is complex with time code, sound track(s) and image track(s) assembled in various combinations as nested as the most complex written text that the desideratum of all points accessibility which in video is an actuality was conceived as feasible in hypertext. Indeed to many semioticians, text is a technical term not exclusively limited to verbal artefacts. Again, it was not at the level of the semantic or semiotic dimensions of the artefact (or text) that the question of all points addressability was addressed but very much at the level of the machine stored data file which despite the fluidity and mutability of electronic texts has a certain standard form evolved out of cross-language conventions such as the line return. Finally I agree with Lou Burnard that at present: [deleted quotation] But my question is directed to the future and finding a reliable method of addressing specific spots in other people's hypertext documents available on WWW without importuning every busy author with a direct request to create a fragment identifier. I guess, by analogy, what I am asking for is for us collectively to imagine more the writing in some one else's "book" which bucks every preservation instinct in my own bones as a writing to a spot: a bringing of other readers to a place we deem worthy of rereading. -- Francois From: Paul groves <paul.groves@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Re: throw-away? Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:28:00 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 573 (573) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 574 (574) [deleted quotation] [cut] [deleted quotation] Absolutely, this is the ultimate aim of the JTAP project 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature' (<a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/</a>) - to provide a structured environment in which primary resources can be obtained and utilised. Whilst some 'off-the shelf' tutorials are being constructed, these are really just examples of what can be done using the primary resources the project will be providing and to provide an introduction to the subject. These resources will includes manuscript images, transcriptions (hopefully using TEI compliant texts as a base), as well as other supporting material (photographs, letters etc.) A useful side-effect of the project is that some deteriorating original sources will be digitally preserved (as high quality 24-bit images) for future generations. If anyone would like further information about the project, please do not hesitate to contact me at the address given below. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Groves Email: paul.groves@oucs.ox.ac.uk JTAP Project Officer Fax: +44 (0)1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 (0)1865 273 226 Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford, England. OX2 6NN From: Mike Scott <ms2928@liverpool.ac.uk> Subject: Re: online teaching (fwd) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:11:34 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 575 (575) I think it depends entirely on how you classify the software endeavour. Prof. Z's work went into developing a product: she should have developed a tool. The following is from the help system of WordSmith Tools which attempts to be a set of tools as opposed to a product. But you do have to learn to use a tool, don't you. This is more like education as opposed to "instruction" or "training". ******************************************************** Tools are needed in almost every human endeavour, from making pottery to predicting the weather. Computer tools are useful because they enable certain actions to be performed easily, and this facility means that it becomes possible to do more complex jobs. It becomes possible to gain insights because when you can try an idea out quickly and easily, you can experiment, and from experimentation comes insight. Also, re-casting a set of data in a new form enables the human being to spot patterns. This is ironic. The computer is an awful device for recognising patterns. It is good at addition, sorting, etc. It has a memory but it does not know or understand anything, and for a computer to recognise printed characters, never mind reading hand-writing, is a major accomplishment. Nevertheless, the computer is a good device for helping humans to spot patterns and trends. That is why it is important to see computer tools such as these in WordSmith Tools in their true light. A tool helps you to do your job, it doesn't do your job for you. Tool versus Product Some software is designed as a product. A game is self-contained, so is an electronic dictionary. A word-processor, spreadsheet or database, on the other hand, is a tool because it goes beyond its own borders: you use it to achieve something which the manufacturers could not possibly anticipate. WordSmith Tools, as their name states, are not products but tools. You can use them to investigate many kinds of pattern in virtually any texts written in a good range of different languages. Insight through Transformation No, this is not a religious claim! The claim I am making is psychological. It is through changing the shape of data, reducing it and then re-casting it in a different format, that the human capacity for noticing patterns comes to the fore. The computer cannot "notice" at all (if you input 2 into a calculator and then keep asking it to double it, it will not notice what you're up to and begin to do it automatically!). Human beings are good at noticing, and particularly good at noticing visual patterns. By transforming a text into a list, or by plotting keywords in terms of where they crop up in their source texts, the human user will tend to see a pattern. Indeed we cannot help it. Sometimes we see patterns where none was intended (e.g. in a cloud). There can be no guarantee that the pattern is "really there": it's all in the mind of the beholder. WordSmith Tools are intended to help this process of pattern-spotting, which leads to insight. The tools in this kit are intended therefore to help you gain your own insights on your own data from your own texts. Types of Tool All tools take up positions on two scales: the scale of specialisation and the scale of permanence. general-purpose ----------------- specialised general-purpose The spade is a digging tool which makes cutting and lifting soil easier than it otherwise would be. But it can also be used for shovelling sand or clearing snow. A sewing machine can be used to make curtains or handkerchiefs. A word-processor is general-purpose. specialised A thimble is dedicated to the purpose of protecting the fingers when sewing and is rarely used for anything else. An overlock device is dedicated to sewing button-holes and hems: it's better at that job than a sewing machine but its applications are specialised. A spell-checker within a word-processor is fairly specialised. temporary ----------------- permanent temporary The branch a gorilla uses to pull down fruit is a temporary tool. After use it reverts to being a spare piece of tree. A plank used as a tool for smoothing concrete is similar. It doesn't get labelled as a tool though it is used as one. This kind of makeshift tool is called "quebra-galho", literally branch-breaker, in Brazilian Portuguese. permanent A chisel is manufactured, catalogued and sold as a permanent tool. It has a formal label in our vocabulary. Once bought, it takes up storage room and needs to be kept in good condition. ********************************************************** cheers -- Mike Mike Scott AELSU, English Univ. of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3BX ms2928@liv.ac.uk <a href="http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/homepage.html">http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/homepage.html</a> From: Fred Levy <flevy@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0720 online teaching Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:39:04 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 576 (576) Willard: I liked your story but, as I read it, I anticipated a different ending: After two years, the university, liking what it saw, kept the course available on its computers and fired the professor. Thus a substantial investment led to even greater savings. (We don't know what happened to the professor.) Fritz Levy From: Subject: An enquiry from Her Majesty's Govt Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 577 (577) I don't know, it might have been that Chris Whassername out of "Brass Eye", but the bloke on the other end of the phone sounded kosher. He claimed to be a researcher for one of the British government's bankbencher MPs with a special interest in digital television. Could I give an opinion on what academics thought about the possibility? I gave him my standard song on corpus linguistics and said I'd ask a few experts around the world... Here's the scoop. Everyone knows the V-chip is a disaster. It doesn't work, and we didn't invent it anyway. But there's a lot of votes in controlling the awful (perceived) excesses of digital television. We certainly couldn't unleash all that sex and violence on the British public without some sort of control, now could we. But setting up panels and censorship boards and pre-vetting of TV is just too expensive, not to say deeply unpopular, to contemplate. So surely some boffins must have come up with a piece of computer software which could vet the content of TV programmes for us? Come again? Well, if you had all the scripts on computer disks, you could run them through a program which would calculate some kind of content descriptor, some kind of rating. Then parents could program their TVs to block out any programmes with certain kinds of descriptor or rating, right? Some kind of automatic categorization, topic identification, that kind of thing. Is no-one doing research on that sort of text analysis? Specifically as applied to broadcasting? Has anyone tried to apply automatic content identification methods to this kind of domain? I'll be glad to digest any suggestions and pass them on to our man in Whitehall. Suggestions relating to the question asked, that is. Comments about the state of British politics in general, and the current government in particular, should be sent to a more appropriate forum. And if there's any research funding in this, just remember, I saw him first. Lou Burnard [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Version 5, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 578 (578) Bibliography Version 5 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. HTML: <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html</a>> Acrobat: <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf</a>> Word: <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc</a>> The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It is searchable. The Acrobat and Word for Windows 95 files are designed for printing. Each file is over 150 KB. Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 2.4 Related Electronic Resources 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Related Electronic Resources 3.7 Research 4 General Works 4.1 Related Electronic Resources 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 Other Legal Issues 5.3 Related Electronic Resources 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation 6.5 Related Electronic Resources 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Related Electronic Resources Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm">http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm</a>> <URL:<a href="http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html">http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html</a>> From: Subject: 10.0725 Cartesian meditations Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 579 (579) At the request of Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca>, the following posting relates to all-points addressability on a web page. Create your web page as a single image-map to display at a fixed size regardless of the browser/screen display using carefully placed (simulated) text. All co-ordinates are mapped automatically. Javascript (which operates within HTML) should be able to do the rest. DH. From: David Hoover <hoover@is.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0723 a Serious Request Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 15:27:20 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 580 (580) On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] The only reasonable suggestion (that's polite enough to post) is "forget it." More seriously, I'll undertake the following: when you find someone who will produce such software, I will undertake to alter a script that the software finds acceptable for a "G" rating so as to turn it into at least an "R" without changing the software rating. David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/">http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/</a> "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@mdah.state.ms.us> Subject: Re: 10.0723 a Serious Request Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:25:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 581 (581) Lou's "serious request" alas is Not Invented Here (i.e. Whitehall): My failing memory offers up "Three Days of the Condor", in which some obscure CIA outfit was processing tons of text to come up with suspicious collocations. Am I right? Maybe the filmmakers know how it was done... Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0723 a Serious Request Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:10:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 582 (582) I think the first thing I'd say is: can imagine software that could distinguish between, say, the evening news in LA and an excessively violent TV drama, on the basis of content--or between an instance of pornography and a show about the evils of pornography. Short of artificial intelligence, and a pretty subtle one at that, I doubt it. I'd recommend that the Whitehall optimist read Richard Powers, _Galatea 2.2_ to get a sense of what he's asking for. Probably there will be others with more and better reading suggestions... John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/</a> From: Tom Landauer <landauer@psych.colorado.edu> Subject: An enquiry from Her Majesty's Govt Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:38:13 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 583 (583) Hey, I'm pretty sure Latent Semantic Analysis can do that, or most of it, pretty well and almost entirely automaticly. (We've shown that it can measure how much an essay or text has to say about how the heart works, the history of the Panama canal, or what causes aphasias, as acurately as expert human judges. It is largely independent of word choice (thus hard to fool by code words; it doesn't just count keywords) so it should be able to measure sex and violence and anti-Brit propanganda just fine. If British TV carriews closed captions, it could be done real-time, otherwise scripts or transcrips would be needed. Is there really enough interest to make it worthwhile pursuing? Tom Tom Landauer Department of Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado, Boulder Postal and courier address: Institute of Cognitive Science Campus Box 344 U of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0344 303 492 2875 (CU), 303 546 9401 (H) FAX: 303 492 7177 email landauer@psych.colorado.edu From: Subject: Re: 10.0720 online teaching Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 584 (584) Dear Willard, The problem you describe regarding professor Z is well put - we have probably all witnessed projects like that. There are, however, solutions other than building only reference materials. Here are some measures we have taken: 1. In most of the courseware projects we have undertaken at McMaster we have only built software if it could be used by more than one person. The Russian Alive software was written in a way that allowed us to create comparable products for Italian, French, Zulu, ESL, Spanish, German and so on. My point is that with a little guidance one can ensure that substantial programming resources are only given to projects where there is a larger audience, and the programming is done with a view to reuse. 2. A second approach which we are experimenting with, is to keep the content and software form distinct by designing a markup language for common elements and then building tools that interpret the markup language. It is our experience that good language instruction drill content does not age as fast as its implementation in software, so we are trying to find a way to encode the content so that we can pour it into different interfaces as the need arises. I am not sure this approach will work, but I am convinced it is worth trying. Those interested in our humble attempts at a markup language can go to: <a href="http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hcc/software/MILE/">http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hcc/software/MILE/</a> I should also add that the model you propose of a collection of primary resources that can be assembled by the instructor would also suffer from the problem you raise. Putting a coherent course pack together out of different materials might cost more than building the pack yourself, depending on the complexity of the modules to be assembled, and be just as dated two years later. Lego works well when all the pieces work together, but my son's Lego collection has been infested by MegaBlocks that are subtly different and tend to undermine his attempts to build complex structures. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: candace@acls.org Subject: Re: ACLS newsletter Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 12:14:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 585 (585) ACLS NEWSLETTER ON SCHOLARLY INTERNET RESOURCES NOW ONLINE The American Council of Learned Socities (<a href="http://www.acls.org">http://www.acls.org</a>) is pleased to offer online the latest issue of the ACLS Newsletter, which focuses on a program session on Internet-Accessible Scholarly Resources held at the 1996 ACLS Annual Meeting. Articles address the utility, impact, and implications of digital text, images, and data for research in the humanities and social sciences, with an introduction by David Green, Executive Director of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, and commentary by Willard McCarty of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London (and Editor of Humanist). The online presentation offers hot links to the many exemplary resources mentioned. From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: ACLS NEWS Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:27:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 586 (586) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT January 20, 1996 NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 1. ACLS ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT: JOHN H. D'ARMS The American Council of Learned Societies has announced that John H. D'Arms will assume the presidency of the ACLS September 1, 1997. John H. D'Arms is Gerald F. Else Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Classical Studies, and Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He succeeds Stanley N. Katz who became President of ACLS in July, 1986. For full details of the announcement, consult the ACLS press release at <<a href="http://www.acls.org/extra.htm">http://www.acls.org/extra.htm</a>>. The release quotes Sheldon Hackney, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as commenting: "John D'Arms is one of those wise figures to whom we all turn instinctively for advice. His broad experience in the world of scholarship and teaching, and in the institutional settings that make scholarship and teaching possible, have prepared him well for the national leadership that we have come to expect from the president of the ACLS. I am absolutely delighted by the appointment." The American Council of Learned Societies, under the leadership of Stan Katz, was one of the initial creators of NINCH, together with the Coalition for Networked Information and the Getty Information Institute. 2. ACLS NEWSLETTER ON INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE SCHOLARLY RESOURCES AVAILABLE ONLINE ACLS also announced that its latest Newsletter is available in hypertext form on the its Web site <<a href="http://www.acls.org/n44toc.htm">http://www.acls.org/n44toc.htm</a>>. The issue, which focuses on a program session on "Internet-Accessible Scholarly Resources," held at the 1996 ACLS Annual Meeting, includes articles that address the utility, impact, and implications of digital text, images, and data for research in the humanities and social sciences. Contributors include Susan Hockey, Jennifer Trant, Richard Rockwell and Charles Henry. The Newsletter is introduced by NINCH director, David Green, moderator of the session, and includes commentary by Willard McCarty of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London and editor of "Humanist" (an electronic discussion group). From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0728 serious content analysis Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:48:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 587 (587) You could drop the scrips into a folio infobase file have the computer do a shadow file of the key words. Assign some sort of value on the numerical "hits" for words that are on your prohibited list or found within a certain range of other words on your list. You would have something like wha the content watch groups do now in the U.S. You would make your determination on how many times "gun" would appear in the script or profanities or type of violence. You wouldn't need a A.I. program to do that. From: David Hoover <hoover@is.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0723 a Serious Request Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:13:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 588 (588) The only reasonable suggestion (that's polite enough to post) is "forget it." More seriously, I'll undertake the following: when you find someone who will produce such software, I will undertake to alter a script that the software finds acceptable for a "G" rating so as to turn it into at least an "R" without changing the software rating. David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. hoover@is.nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/">http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/</a> "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx From: "S. Jager" <jager@let.rug.nl> Subject: Language Teaching and Language Technology - Call for=20 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:22:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 589 (589) Participation [Editorial note: Accented characters in the original did not survive; I have tried to guess what they were, and when I couldn't have replaced them with a "-". Apologies for mangling surnames. --WM] Language Teaching and Language Technology 28-29 April 1997 University of Groningen The Netherlands Call for participation A provisional programme is now available for "Language Teaching and Language Technology", an international conference which aims to bring together experts in CALL from teaching, research and industry. Colleagues working in these fields are invited to participate in the conference. The registration fee is Dfl 100.-, (Dfl. 80.- for early registration) but further discounts are available. For registration details (including a registration form) and further conference information, please visit our web site at <a href="http://www.let.rug.nl/~call97/">http://www.let.rug.nl/~call97/</a> . A list of speakers is given below. For further information, you can reach us at call-conf@let.rug.nl. Sake Jager LTLT Coordinator (also for Arthur van Essen and John Nerbonne, co-chairs) -------------------------------- List of speakers and topics Invited: Borchardt, Frank (CALICO) On Current Didactic Issues in CALL Heppell, Stephen (ULTRALAB/Anglia Polytechnic University, Essex) On Educational Policy and CALL Karttunnen, Lauri (Rank Xerox, Grenoble) On the Technological Horizon Ven, Joke van der (Wolters-Noordhof, Groningen) On the Publisher's Perspective Selected (provisional list): Allodi, Alessandro, Duco A. Dokter and Edwin Kuipers (University of Groningen) WELLS: Web-Enhanced Language Learning Barlow, Michael (Rice University/Athelstan Publications) Monolingual and Bilingual Concordance Programs for Language Learning Bel, Eric and Bruce Ingraham (University of Teesside) "I want to be able to know how to go about learning French for myself ...." Bernstein, Jared (Entropic Research Laboratory Inc.) Speech Recognition in Japanese Spoken Language Education Carson-Berndsen, Julie (Universit=E4t Bielefeld) Computational Autosegmental Phonology in Pronunciation Teaching Desmarais, Lise and Michel Laurier (Canadian Foreign Service Institute) Evaluating Learning and Interactions in a Multimedia Environment D-az de Ilarraza, A, M. Maritxalar and M. Oronoz (University of the Basque Country) Reusability of Language Technology in support of Corpus Studies in an ICALL Environment Dokter, D.A, J. Nerbonne, L. Schurcks-Grozeva and P. Smit (University of Groningen) Glosser-RUG: a user study D-ntsch, Ivo and G-nther Gediga (University of Ulster, Universitaet Osnabrueck) Knowledge structures and their Application in CALL systems Hamilton, Simon (Exlingua International)A CALL User study Heerkens, Lidwien (Catholic University of Brabant) TUMULT: a multimedia program for listening comprehension (DEMO) Hendricks, Harold H. (Brigham Young University) Large-scale Implementation of Spanish CALL at Brigham Young University Heuven, Vincent J. van (University of Leiden) COOL - A programme for Computer-Assisted Parsing Holliday, Lloyd (La Trobe University) The Grammar of Second Language Learners of English EMAIL Messages Hu, Qian, Jeff Hopkins and Marianne Phinney (Inso Corporation) A CALL Product for English Reading and Writing Jager, Sake (University of Groningen) Hologram: A Language Learning Environment for Teachers and Students (DEMO) McCreesh, Bernadine (Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi) Vocabulary improvement University of Quebec Murphy, Maureen, Anja Kr-ger and Andrea Grieszl (University of Ulster, University of Osnabr-ck, Institut fuer Logik und Linguistik IBM) RECALL-Towards a knowledge-based approach to CALL Nerbonne, John (University of Groningen) Glosser (DEMO) Paskaleva, Elena and Stoyan Michov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Align and Search (Variations on a Theme by Church) Rothenberg, Martin (Syracuse Language Systems) The New Face of Distance Learning in Language Instruction Selva, Thierry, F. Issac, T. Chanier and C. Fouquere (Universit=E9 de Franche-Comte and Universit=E9 Paris 13) Lexical Comprehension and Production in Alexia System Skrelin, Pavel and Nina Volskaya (Saint-Petersburg State University) The Application of New Technologies in the Development of Education Programs Vergaro, Carla (University of Rome 3) Case study Rome Linguistic Centre Vos, Sjoerd de (University of Groningen) Computer-Assisted Testing in Teaching Dutch as a Second Language Weis, Uta (University of Hamburg) Hypertext and Reading in a Foreign Language Witt, Silke and Steve Young (Cambridge University, UK) Computer-assisted Pronunciation Teaching based on Automatic Speech Recognition Yablonsky, Serge A. (St Petersburg University) New Capabilities for Russian and Ukranian Language Learning Based on the Language Processor Russicon ----------------------------------------------- E-mail: call-conf@let.rug.nl=09Mail=09Drs. S. Jager Tel: +31 50 3635921=09=09=09Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen Fax: +31 50 3635821=09=09=09PO Box 716 =09=09=09=09=09=09=099700 AS Groningen, =09=09=09=09=09=09=09Netherlands From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: digital scanning and preservation conference Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:27:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 590 (590) Gay Tracy <tracy@NEDCC.ORG> (by way of david@cni.org (David Green)) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 20, 1997 SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: Preservation and Access in a Digital World A Conference Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center At the Berkeley Marina Marriott Hotel, Berkeley, California, May 12 - 14, 1997: The School for Scanning Conference is funded in part by The Andrew W. Mello= n Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and cosponsored by The Getty Information Institute and the National Park Service. What is the School for Scanning? A seminar that will take the mystery out o= f digital technology. Issues covered include: * Basics of Digital Technology * Deciphering Digital Jargon: * Practical Guide to File Formats * Content Selection for Digitiza-tion * Legal Issues of Digital Technology * Text and Image Scanning * Quality Control and Costs * Essentials of Metadata * Digital Preservation: Fact or Fiction * World Wide Web Applications * CD-ROM Applications Who Should Attend? If you are a librarian, archivist, curator, interpreter, historic preservation specialist, registrar, or other cultural or natural resource manager, you will be interested in attending the School for Scanning. No prior knowledge of digital media is required. Who Are the Faculty? Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Ben Davis, The Getty Information Institute; Peter Lyman, University of California-Berkeley; Ricky Erway, Research Libraries Group; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Howard Besser, University of California-Berkeley; Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute; Anne Gilliland-Swetland, University of California-Los Angeles; Barclay Ogden, University of California-Berkeley, Diane Vogt-O'Connor, National Park Service, Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Paul Handly, National Park Service; Natalie Munn, University of California-Berkeley; Bob Futernick, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Pam Samuelson, University of California-Berkeley and Deborah Hunt, the Exploratorium. What does the conference cost? The cost is $245, including lunches. All participants will also be responsible for all their travel and lodging costs. The number of participants is limited and registration applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. The deadline to register is April 25, 1997. Registration Information: The cost of the seminar is $245 including lunches. All participants will also be responsible for all their travel and lodging costs. The number of participants is limited and registration applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. The deadline to register is April 25, 1997. Each application must be accompanied by a check for the total amount payabl= e to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). Refunds will be given up to one week prior to the workshop. Substitutions are acceptable with notification. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Berkeley Marina Marriott, 200 Marina Boulevard, Berkeley, CA 94710; at a special group rate ($94 or $114 for the marina view). Conference participants must contact the hotel directly, at 510 548-7920 and identify themselves as part of the NEDCC group. Reserve as soon as possible as space is limited. The block of room= s and the group rate are available on a first-come first served basis until April 18, 1997. If you are a person who is blind or deaf, please notify NEDCC three weeks ahead of the program so we can meet you special needs. To request a flier with the agenda contact Gail Pfeifle at NEDCC at 508-470-1010 or email pfeifle@nedcc.org. To register for the conference return this form with your check for $245 to: Northeast Document Conservation Center attn.: Gail Pfeifle 100 Brickstone Square Andover, MA 01810-1494. Name: Title: Institution: Street Address: City: State: Zip: Telephone: email 5/12-14/97 Gay S. Tracy Public Relations Coordinator Northeast Document Conservation Center 100 Brickstone Square Andover MA 01810-1494 Tel 508 470-1010 Fax 508 475-6021 <tracy@nedcc.org> From: Subject: Content analysis Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 591 (591) The content analysis technique known as Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis (MCCA) could probably do a fair job. See the paper at my web site by McTavish & Pirro (1990) for a full description of the technique. My paper for the ACL SIGLEX workshop in April, "Desiderata ..." provides some more details on the novel clustering approach used to facilitate the kind of analysis that might be required. -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: INTERNET> ken@clres.com, 20239 Lea Pond Place 71520.307@compuserve.com Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: <a href="http://www.clres.com">http://www.clres.com</a> From: Subject: hiatus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 592 (592) Local problems with, I'd guess, a terminal server have put me out of touch with the Internet over the weekend and again last night and this morning. As a result, no Humanist mailings. Perhaps the hiatus may be more like a strike by professors (if noticed at all, causing relief among students) than one by trash collectors. I am nevertheless doing what I can to see that (changing metaphors) the bottle of milk is on your doorstep each morning. To many Humanists, milk delivery is not a familiar service, not since childhood, but in the land where there are two postal deliveries Monday to Friday, one on Saturday, and almost always overnight delivery of the post, it is, and very welcome too. So, a boast to offset the temporary inconvenience, through a small blizzard (remembering Toronto) of metaphors. WM From: Subject: Re: 10.0704 frames used well Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 593 (593) Sorry to have taken so long to respond to this thread, but another useful application of frames can be seen in the the Web-based conferencing system called HyperNews; the frames allow the reader/writer to simultaneously view a text under discussion, view a commentary, and compose a response. Although this could be accomplished by spawning multiple browsers, the frames are more efficient. For one example, click on the "Frames" button in the discussion at the Hypermedia, Teaching and Technology site at STG: <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/HyperNews/get/htt/questions.html">http://www.stg.brown.edu/HyperNews/get/htt/questions.html</a> Roger _______________________________________________________________ Roger B. Blumberg Roger_Blumberg@Brown.edu phone:(401) 863-3690 fax:(401) 863-9313 <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/stg/staff_pages/roger.html">http://www.stg.brown.edu/stg/staff_pages/roger.html</a> --------------------------------------------------------------- Senior Hypermedia Researcher | Visiting Scholar Scholarly Technology Group | Inst. for Brain & Neural Systems Box 1885, Brown University | Box 1843, Brown University 02912 --------------------------------------------------------------- MendelWeb <a href="http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/">http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/</a> & <a href="http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/mirrors/MendelWeb/">http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/mirrors/MendelWeb/</a> & <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/MendelWeb">http://www.stg.brown.edu/MendelWeb</a> _______________________________________________________________ From: Subject: A request. Richiesta d'aiuto Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 594 (594) 1. I am working on the moral philosophy notion of Thomas Aquinas. Thank you for any information you can provide. 2. Sto iniziando uno studio su come Tommaso d'Aquino intende la filosofia morale: qualcuno puo' darmi aiuti o suggerimenti? Grazie anticipatamente. 3. I am looking for a latin spell-checker: somebody can helper me? Thank you. 4. Sto cercando un correttore ortografico per il latino: qualcuno sa darmi qualche indicazione. Grazie. Raffaele Rizzello - <raffaele.rizzello@torino.alpcom.it> sub signo angeli Raphaelis [An update on the state of morphological analysers for Latin would also be welcome. Perhaps we could take this opportunity to contribute what we know about analytical software specifically for Latin? --WM] From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Fair Use Conference/Indianapolis/April 4 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:22:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 595 (595) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 25, 1997 FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS & COMMENTS ON CONFU PROPOSED GUIDELINES New York (Feb '97) Indianapolis (April 4) Atlanta (April 26) (Boston--TBD) Portland, OR (September) (Austin--TBD) Toronta (Feb '98). A series of town meetings are being organized by the College Art Association, the American Council of Learned Societies and NINCH on copyright and Fair Use issues. The town meetings seek to educate the community about recent developments in copyright and fair use and to hear responses from the community to proposed guidelines for the educational fair use of multimedia electronic works, digital images and the transmission of works through distance learning. These proposed guidelines have been developed over a two-and-a-half year period by the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), which will meet for the final time on May 19, 1997. For further background on CONFU, you can consult the "Interim Report" online, <<a href="http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/">http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/</a>>, or by mail (CONFU Interim Report, c/o Richard Maulsby, Director, Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, DC 20231; fax: 703/308-5258). The first meeting was held in New York, February 16. The announcement below is for the second in Indianapolis on Friday April 4. The third meeting will be held as a session at the annual conference of the American Association of Museums in Atlanta on April 26. Further meetings are being planned for Boston, Portland, OR (September), Austin, TX and finally in Toronta at the CAA Conference in February 1998. Organizations are being asked to consider and comment on the proposed guidelines in the three areas of multimedia, digital images and distance learning. Comments, endorsements or rejections of the guidelines should be sent to the CONFU facilitator: Peter N. Fowler, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Legislative and International Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Box 4, Washington, DC 20231; fax: 703/305-8885; email: <confu@uspto.gov>. NINCH is developing a FAIR USE EDUCATION Web page <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org/ISSUES/FAIR_USE_EDUCATION.html">http://www-ninch.cni.org/ISSUES/FAIR_USE_EDUCATION.html</a>>, on which visitors may access hypertext versions of the proposed guidelines, accumulated commentaries by members of the cultural community on the guidelines and background material on fair use. Please email any commentaries on this resource page and other questions to David Green <david@cni.org>. ====================================================== INDIANAPOLIS TOWN MEETING: FAIR USE, EDUCATION & LIBRARIES: A Town Meeting to Examine the Conference on Fair Use Hosted by The Indiana University Institute for the Study of Intellectual Property and Education Friday, April 4, 1997 Indianapolis, Indiana On the campus of Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis ("IUPUI") On April 4, 1997, a "town meeting" in Indianapolis will be an opportunity for the academic community to learn about and to debate perspectives on the Confu guidelines. This "town meeting" is the second in a series of programs supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in order to assist educators, librarians, and other interested parties reach a more informed decision about the Confu guidelines. Speakers and panelist currently scheduled to participate include: * Kenneth Crews, Indiana University * Colin Day, University of Michigan Press * Kenneth Frazier, University of Wisconsin * Laura (Lolly) Gasaway, University of North Carolina * Georgia Harper, University of Texas * Peter Jaszi, American University * Mary Levering, U.S. Copyright Office * Christine Sundt, University of Oregon Other participants will be announced. For the latest information, please visit: <<a href="http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo">http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo</a>>. Organizers include Douglas Bennett of the American Council of Learned Societies, Susan Ball of the College Art Association, and Kenny Crews of Indiana University. The program will be held in the Auditorium of the IUPUI University Library, an innovative facility with advanced technological capabilities to serve an urban campus of nearly 26,000 students. REGISTRATION The registration for the "Fair Use, Education, and Libraries: A Town Meeting to Examine the Conference on Fair Use" is $50. Your registration includes lunch at the "Bistro" restaurant in the Conference Center Hotel, conference materials, refreshments and admission to the Conference. Seating is strictly limited. Registrations invited from all interested persons. Electronic and faxed registrations will be accepted with payment immediately following. Please make checks payable to Indiana University. LODGING A limited number of hotel rooms are being held at the hotel on the IUPUI campus, a short walk from the location of the Town Meeting program: University Place Conference Center and Hotel 850 West Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-5198 Single Occupancy $87.00 + tax/night Double Occupancy $102.00 + tax/night Please make you hotel reservations by calling 1-800-627-2700. Please identify that you are with the Conference on Fair Use to ensure the group rate. **Reservations must be made by 5:00 p.m. on March 3, 1997.** After this date, reservations will be accepted on a space and rate availability basis only. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. Check-out time is 12:00 noon. Ground Transportation arrangements may be made by calling Indy Connection, (317)241-6700. Indy Connection is a reasonable limousine service. The charge from the airport to our campus is approximately $8.00 + gratuity (for a shared ride). REGISTRATION FORM Name: _________________________________________________________________ Nametag Name:__________________________________________________________ Title/Institution:_____________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address:________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Telephone:(____)_____________ Fax:(____)____________ Email:_______________________________________________ Do you plan to attend the Bonus Session on April 3? Yes or No Bonus Session: On Thursday, April 3, 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Prof. Kenneth Crews will lead a workshop on copyright issues as they relate to higher education and library services. This session will be useful background for analyzing the issues encompassed in the Confu report and on the agenda during the next day's confererence. Electronic or faxed registrations accepted, with payment immediately following. Please return your completed registration form and your check payable to Indiana University to: Rhonda Vignola Institute for the Study of Intellectual Property and Education IUPUI University Library 755 West Michigan Street, UL 3115L Indianapolis, IN 46202-5195 Please send electronic reservations to: rvignola@library.iupui.edu Fax reservations to: Rhonda Vignola (317)278-3301 For further information call: (317)274-4400 We will send you additional conference information once we have received your registration. ****************************************************************************** =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to <listproc@cni.org>. From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Information as Performance Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:43:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 596 (596) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 24, 1997 The following announcement from the Los Angeles Culture Net might interest subscribers who live in or will be visiting Los Angeles between March 3 and May 19. David Green ________________________________________________________ INFORMATION AS PERFORMANCE: NEGOTIATING DIGITAL BOUNDARIES In the digital age, information is never static. Thoughts, voices, and experiences are transformed as they move from analog to digital. Artists, writers, scholars, and technology innovators will explore the boundaries of digital possibility in nine public programs. Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2434 Main Street, Santa Monica *Informational Exchange* Simultaneously, the Web saturates with words, images, and sounds. How is this information processed and categorized, and how is information transformed and altered through the process of digitizing? All events at 7pm Monday, March 3 Lecture: George Landow, Brown University Monday, March 10 Conversation: Jonathan Weber, Los Angeles Times and Srinija Srinivasan, Yahoo Monday, March 17 Performance: Carl Stone, Composer and Musician Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 6522 Hollywood Boulevard *Embodying the Web* What is our role as creators of information? What is the sensory experience of the Web, and how do we present our specific or chosen identities? What are the sites and processes of negotiation? Monday, April 7 Conversation: Frank Odasz, Big Sky Technology and Red Burns, Tisch School, New York University Monday, April 14 Conversation: Derrick de Kherkhove, University of Toronto and Diane Gromala, University of Washington Monday, April 21 Performance: Alluquere Rosanne Stone, University of Texas at Austin Korn Convocation Hall, Anderson School at UCLA *Connecting Community* What does a truly virtual community look like? Who can join these communitites, and what are the barriers to participation? Can these modes of digital comstruction add to our ways of building -- socially and physically -- real communities? Monday, May 5 Lecture: Larry Irving, US Department of Commerce Monday, May 12 Conversation: Christine Boyer, Princeton University and Marcos Novak, UCLA Monday, May 19 Performance: Coco Conn, Digital Circus Productions ________________________________________________________ Presented by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities and the Getty Information Institute as part of the Los Angeles Culture Net initiative. Los Angeles Culture Net is a community initiative led by the Getty Trust in partnership with the Los Angeles Community. The Getty Information Institute, in collaboration with the Getty Education Institute, the Getty Research Institute, The J. Paul Getty Museum, serves this public-private alliance as the initiative's principal organizer. Admission to all programs is free. For more information please call Moira Kenney at the Getty Research Institute at (310) 458-9811. From: Subject: Macintosh computers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 597 (597) Dear Humanists, Is anyone else getting extremely worried about the state that Apple computer is in at the moment? It just seems to be one piece of bad news after another from the folks over at Apple. My biggest concern is that the purseholders at various institutions are reading the recent financial press and deciding that purchasing Macintosh machines no longer makes sense in the long term. My sense is that there are a lot of us in humanities computing who have been using Macs for a long time. We like Macs, and rely on them to run a number of applications we are very familiar with (there is also the "ease of use" issue, of course!). How do you feel about the possible demise of Apple? Are other institutions moving away from using this platform in Humanities computing, making contingency plans, or looking forward to the next generation of platform independent humanities computing software? Or have reports of the death of Apple been greatly exaggerated? Comments welcome! Lorna --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: the software of culture Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 598 (598) Francis Bacon somewhere (as I recall) warns us against the use of analogies, but they are what remain with us perhaps most persistently from the Essays: "Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." Imaginative language pipes a primal world of mythology into the discourse of reason and informs it. Likewise, in his latest book, <cite>Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in early Religions</cite> (Harvard, 1996), Walter Burkert resorts to the same device in his attempt to explain the persistence of religion, and the commonality of its basic forms. "To use another metaphor: verbalized culture, transmitted by teaching and learning, may be called the 'software' of humanity, easy to copy and pass on regardless of its complexity. Still, the question is whether this software can be chosen and modified arbitrarily, or whether it remains bound to certain preconditions of the original programming, to patterns and effects left by the 'hardware' that generated it" (p. 21). On one level, we are amused by the feedback of computing terminology into ordinary, even learned language. I began to notice this sort of thing about 2 years ago, when riding the streetcar in Toronto I saw an advert that invited readers to "debug" their houses with a certain insecticide. Since then there have been numerous such occurrences. On another level, the feedback loop looks quite different, and is far more interesting, if less certain. Where does the notion of software come from if not, by some subliminal path, from our age-old speculations about mind? If computer hardware is a simulacrum of the body, and software an externalisation of its encoded patterns of behaviour, then what does this imply about the work we do? I suppose to a cognitive scientist this is all babytalk, but then I never tire of that. Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: electronic publishing Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:27:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 599 (599) On 31 January the Centre for English Studies, University of London, in collaboration with the Office for Humanities Communication, held a one-day conference here entitled "Electronic Publishing". The Web page for the conference, at the URL <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/9701-conference.html">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/9701-conference.html</a>> has subsequently become a record of the event and venue for publishing the papers, two of which are now online, mine and John Unsworth's. Linked to my paper is an "Overview of electronic publication", at the URL <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/overview.html">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/overview.html</a>> about which comments would be welcome. Please note: however finished it may look, the Overview is still only a rough draft of an attempt to classify the variety of things we find online. I'm especially interested in examples which violate the tentative categories I've defined, or which fill out underpopulated ones. I am not attempting to be exhaustive within a category, only to define and illustrate categories, nor am I attempting to identify the "best" pages. Thanks for any assistance. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: sgolden@cc.uab.es (Sean Golden) Subject: Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:05:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 600 (600) [This passed along from H-CLC, with many thanks, because (I would and have argued), markup is akin to translation. --WM] The Faculty of Translation at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona is pleased to announce its first on-line international translation colloquium. This first edition, devoted to the subject of intercultural transfer, is a pilot project for future academic activities and participation is free of charge. There are two invited speakers, each of whom has prepared a set of position papers on the topic: Doug Robinson (author of *THE TRANSLATOR'S TURN*, *TRANSLATION AND TABOO*) and Anthony Pym (author of *TRANSLATION AND TEXT TRANSFER*, *EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN TRANSLATION AND ITS TEACHING*). Michael Cronin (author of *TRANSLATING IRELAND: TRANSLATION, LANGUAGES, CULTURES*) will act as Respondent in order to begin the discussion. The on-line colloquium has a Web site where the position papers and the response may be consulted. This site also includes bio-bibliographical information on the speakers, as well as more information about the colloquium, the Faculty of Translation, the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and links to resources for translators. The site for the colloquium is located at: <a href="http://cc.uab.es/~iuts0/colloquium.html">http://cc.uab.es/~iuts0/colloquium.html</a> Please note that <~iuts0> ends with a zero, not with the letter 'o'. Since the colloquium's Web pages include graphic elements that could prolong their loading time, you may want to disable the 'IMAGE' control on your Web browser. (The position papers by Anthony Pym do include graphics that are pertinent, however.) Participation in the on-line colloquium will be carried out on the list TRANSFER-L that has been created for that purpose. To subscribe to this list, send the following message to <mailserv@cc.uab.es>: SUBSCRIBE TRANSFER-L <YourFirstName YourLastName> Once you have received confirmation of your subscription, you may send messages to <transfer-l@cc.uab.es>, and you will automatically receive all new messages sent to the list. A record of all message received will be maintained on a specific Web page at the colloquium site, on an accumulative basis. Participants may send their comments and questions to the invited speakers by means of the TRANSFER-L list, and the speakers will respond by the same means. Everyone subscribed to the list will receive these messages. If you wish to leave the list, send the following message to <mailserv@cc.uab.es>: UNSUBSCRIBE TRANSFER-L Please remember to send COMMANDS (e.g. SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, HELP) to <mailserv@cc.uab.es> and MESSAGES to <transfer-l@cc.uab.es>. This on-line colloquium will open formally on 5 March 1997, and it will close formally on 14 March 1997. Sean Golden, Dean, Facultat de Traduccio Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, BARCELONA, Spain Tel: 34 3 5811374 FAX: 34 3 5811037 e-mail: sgolden@cc.uab.es From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: IOP Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:55:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 601 (601) Humanists may be interested in the collection of journals published by the Institute of Physics, <<a href="http://www.iop.org">http://www.iop.org</a>>. The mechanism provided for searching across all the journals in the IOP collection (your institution must have a subscription) seems an instance of the notion of multiple virtual journals constructed by the reader, although these are limited to the broad domain of physics. WM From: "Charles L. Creegan" <ccreegan@ncwc.edu> Subject: virtual library? Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:04:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 602 (602) Following up on a thread from a while ago about why scholarly material is posted on the net: My reason is to keep it accessible after it's op (and to escape the economics which made the paper version cost $55!) In that regard I've posted my book _Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard_ (Routledge, 1989) now that the copyright has been reverted to me. I've tried to mark the original pagination etc. so it's a true "reprint" of the paper edition. It has a hyperlinked version of the original index, too. Comments on the format, use of frames, accessibility for Lynx, etc. would be welcome (you can see it at <<a href="http://www.ncwc.edu/~ccreegan/wk">http://www.ncwc.edu/~ccreegan/wk</a>>) But my main question is who keeps an index of book-length materials on the net (a "virtual library", pardon the expression). I know about a couple indices of papers in philosophy, but my sense is there are lots of books out there too and not much being done to index them. I don't mean Project Gutenberg or even OTA type collections, but indices of independent publications. Any information? -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu <a href="http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan">http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan</a> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Apple Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:08:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 603 (603) For a report on the current state of Apple, from a source not (as far as I know) committed to this flavour of machine, see Jack Schofield, "Bruised Apple pares managers", in the Computing section of Online, The Guardian, 26/2/97, <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/">http://online.guardian.co.uk/</a>>. It is interesting, is it not, how close we seem to be at times to the argument that one shouldn't say something because it helps bring about the situation it falsely reports, or because it plays into the hands of the enemy? The extreme examples occur in times of war, when censorship becomes strategically necessary, or so I am told. Problems like this, it seems to me, ironically humanise computer-mediated communications. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: "Robert M. Fowler" <rfowler@baldwinw.edu> Subject: demise of Apple? Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:44:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 604 (604) [deleted quotation] Allow me to take sharp exception to the wording of the previous sentence. The news that comes _from Apple_ is mostly positive, encouraging news about cutting-edge technology. Apple continues to lead, not follow. To pick only one example: the chip speed of PowerPC Macs is beginning to leave Intel chips in the dust. On the other hand, the news that comes _from the news media_ is often, but not always, negative and even mean-spirited about Apple's future. FWIW, Apple has launched a massive ad campaign to correct the misleading and often false news reports about the demise of Apple. [deleted quotation] Yes, there is ease of use! I am amazed at the quirkiness and limitations the Windows users at my institutions are willing to put up with, presumably because they don't know there's another way to go. [deleted quotation] (1) I don't think it's going to happen. One bit of evidence: Apple has $1.8 Billion, in cash, in the bank--they are hardly insolvent! (2) If Apple does fold, another company will buy Apple and keep producing Macs. (3) There are always the Mac clones, now made by about a half-dozen companies. I could go on and on. [deleted quotation] In the PowerPC RISC chip the next generation of hardware is here. In the new Mac + NeXT system, the next generation of system software is on the way. And, yes, the death of Apple has been greatly exaggerated. Remember, Apple has been about to die ever since IBM introduced the PC back in the early 80s. Apple is _always_ "about to die." Cheers, Bob Fowler *************************************************************** * Robert M. Fowler * * Professor and Chairperson, Department of Religion * * Baldwin-Wallace College, 275 Eastland Road, Berea, OH 44017 * * rfowler@baldwinw.edu <a href="http://www2.baldwinw.edu/~rfowler">http://www2.baldwinw.edu/~rfowler</a> * * 216-826-2173 (office) 216-826-3264 (fax) * * NOTE NEW AREA CODE (440) EFFECTIVE JULY 1997 * From: Alan <alan@netsavvy.com> Subject: Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:08:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 605 (605) At 1:09 PM -0800 2/11/97, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Hi: It frustrates me that otherwise intelligent people are running around like chicken little regarding the Mac. For one thing it should corroborate any rumors you have heard about the (un)veracity of the news media - as usual they're dead wrong. You would serve yourself well to look for alternative news sources for anything you have an interest in. I am NOT kidding. It usually seems that the only people worried about Apple are those that don't have them. If you are truly a member of the dark side, I would worry about your lemming like rush over the Microsoft cliff; monopolies serve no one but themselves. Witness: Apple is: * #1 in PC Multmedia (2nd year in a row) - 54% of all Multimedia CD-ROM Titles developed on Macintosh * #1 Marketshare in K-12 Education - 64% of all K-12 computers in the U.S. are Apple Branded * #1 Platform for Web Development - 50% of all Digital media on Web is Quicktime based; 40% of Internet browsing is done on Macintosh * #1 In USA for Reliability (Home Users) * #1 in Color Publishing (80%) * #1 US Vendor in Japan * #1 Multilingual PC (35 Languages) Apple has a market share larger than Chrysler, Mitsubishi, Cadillac, Lincoln, Acura, BMW, Volvo, Lexus, Mercedes, Eagle, Infinity, Saab, Land Rover, Jaguar, Audi, and Porsche...combined! Anyone projecting these companies' demise? Apple is ranked (a lot) higher than Microsoft on the Fortune 500, they have $1.8 billion in the bank, and they sold over 1,000,000 computers last year. (Mac OS sales INCREASED in the last quarter). This year will herald the fastest desktop computers ever (Apple will be back in the lucrative laptop market - did someone say $200 million back order?), and with better than ever software for them. Feb. 10, NewMedia magazine page 18, "Macintosh: World's Fastest Microcomputer?" by Becky Waring <<a href="http://www.hyperstand.com/NewMedia/97/02/first/Macintosh_X704.html">http://www.hyperstand.com/NewMedia/97/02/first/Macintosh_X704.html</a>> "If you think the headline is a misprint, we'll forgive you. But the established order of the PC universe will change this spring with the introduction of Exponential Technology's X704, a 533MHz chip that wrests the long-held title of world's fastest microprocessor from DEC's Alpha series. The X704 is a fully licensed, PowerPC-compatible processor that will springboard high-end Mac systems far beyond their Pentium Pro counterparts. Preliminary benchmarks, with more speed to be squeezed out, indicate performance greater than double that of a 200MHz Pentium Pro on typical CPU-intensive tasks such as running Photoshop filters." For further information re the Mac here are some sites you can review, then make your own decision based upon facts YOU know rather than letting others make them for you with predjudice, ignorance, rumor, malice and innuendo like too many other things these days. <a href="http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/">http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/</a> <a href="http://www2.apple.com/home/facts/">http://www2.apple.com/home/facts/</a> <a href="http://fly.hiwaay.net/~fbeaver/pro-mac.html">http://fly.hiwaay.net/~fbeaver/pro-mac.html</a> <a href="http://www.planetcast.com/mac-ammo/">http://www.planetcast.com/mac-ammo/</a> <a href="http://www.documentation.com/macway%5Frecords/md614%2D7.htm">http://www.documentation.com/macway%5Frecords/md614%2D7.htm</a> Macs rule multimedia and publishing. The future is bright. Kick Butt, Alan Anderson Mac Jedi *************************************************************** Internet NewMedia / Solutions for the outward bound From: Marc Bizer <mlbizer@mail.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: demise of Apple? Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:19:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 606 (606) At 10:52 AM +0000 2/26/97, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] Dear Lorna, The end of Apple is not near, and yes, I think that the press is in general extremely hard on Apple. I invite Humanists to join the History and Macintosh Society, a registered Macintosh user group for academics in the humanities and social sciences, where we debate these questions daily. We have a listserve which is sponsored by H-Net. One answer from one of our members (we have approximately 700 from 30 countries) are appended. --Marc From: Noki <noki@worldonline.nl> Subject: Apple Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:52:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 607 (607) Dear Humanists, I am not getting extremely worried about the state that Apple computer is in at the moment. Not at all! I worked with Apple machines in a network at an Institute, and I was glad my job was done there! Apple computers are sloooooow, they crash frequently (by that you can count on them) and I think Apple doesn't have that state of technology Microsoft DOS-Windows machines have. My job at the Institute was to scan pictures and texts (O.C.R.) and for a simple text the machine needed more than 3 minutes to scan. And they called it 'Power Mac' (?!). It was rather a funny thing: at home I did much more in less time, so my collegues gave me the advice to work home (Windows machine). I think Apple already did loose the game. The Apple Company crack the prices of their Power Mac's (Power? What power? Puppies power!), but forgot that their needs to be good software to work with. And I suggest that programmers won't choose Apple to work with, so software will be a huge problem in the nearby future. I only have one advice: learn Java, and come over to the Microsoft family! Bill Gates surely deserves the Nobel-prize for communication or something... Some comments on the message posted in Humanist: [deleted quotation]That's right. As I suggested above: Apple already lost the race. The founder of the Apple Company was fired a few years ago. Quite recently the Company gave him a new contract. To me this seems like 'trying to save a sinking ship'. Apple lost almost 20 percent of their marketshare in the Netherlands last year. Not so strange when you realize that even a Nintendo Gameboy works faster than an Apple Macintosh........ [deleted quotation]To me this seems a conservative point if you allow me to say so. It's not the question of 'how familiar you are with a system'. It's a question of 'what is the best system and how long will it last'. I worked with Macs and they have one good point: it's a quite friendly machine (if it's not going to crash). But Windows is much friendlier! And there is more software available for Windows. And Microsoft is a stabile company with good sales and after-sales (also a very important point). I don't get the point "ease of use". If you have worked with Windows 95 once you can work on any machine with Windows 95. I love Windows and think it's more "ease to use" than Apple is. But that's just a personal thing. [deleted quotation]Sorry to say that, but I think Apple will be burried soon... Maybe they will hold on longer for a few years, but Apple will be history soon (probably within 5 years or so). All that will be left is a core..... Hope this helps (although I wasn't very friendly towards Apple). Nico Weenink University of Utrecht The Netherlands noki@worldonline.nl From: boesh <Henrik.Boes@colorado.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0742 demise of Apple? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 13:40:56 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 608 (608) To answer your last question first: YES, they have been greatly exaggerated. While I'm not plugging away at my M.A.thesis, I work for a Mac and Internet consulting firm (www.ravenis.com/chamber -- that'll be the only plug, I promise). Tracking exactly what Apple does is one of the things we do very carefully, obviously. Apple is not operating at profitability at the moment, it's true, but it has $1.8 billion in cash reserves and hence quite a bit of staying power. Yes, some instituitons have stopped buying Macs (here in the Denver Colorado area, the University of Colorado at Denver has instituted a "moratorium" on buying Macs, whatever that means) and that IS a problem, but I think it's way too soon to say the educational field in toto is backing off the Mac. (Macs still have the lion share of the market.) Much of what you've heard about Apple, the Mac and the MacOS is simply false or very misleading, indeed. Example: Apple's overall market share. Listening to many in the media, one would think the bottom has fallen out of the barrel and that Macs are piling to the ceiling in Apple's warehouses. Actually, the company's market share has dropped only two-tenths of a percentage point, to 6.6 percent. The *MacOS* market share, that is Apple plus all the Mac-Clone makers, is actually at about 8 or 9 percent. That's not great, but consider how young Mac-clones really are. They're selling well (400,000 over the last Christmas season, if memory serves) and have a LOT of room to grow. Articles like the recent "let's just slap Apple in the pan and fry'em" editorial in the Wall Street Journal are alarmist at best and plain garbage at worst. (TIME officially responded to the editorial by writing a letter starting off "we're wondering where you guys get this stuff.") To stay on my soap box for a moment longer: I hope all Mac-friendly Humanist folks out there take this type of information to their administration. If you are interested in more detailed rebuttals of common media myths about Apple and the Mac, e-mail me privately ... or, if you gots that fire in the belly, call up Apple in ask them for some fact brochures. There. Ca suffit! Hope that helped. Henrik Boes Dept. of Religious Studies University of Colorado at Boulder From: John Anderson <jca@nwu.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0742 demise of Apple? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:08:42 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 609 (609) In her message (Vol. 10, No. 742), Lorna Hughes writes: [deleted quotation] I really should know better, but I just can't help myself...this is a long post and quite opinionated. You've been warned. (Executive summary: even if Apple goes bust, the platform will be around. Dream it real, folks.) Apple's impending "death" is a rumor, spread by the ignorant and believed by the unwary. Despite worried bleating from the front office, most campus users of Macs have no intention of switching platforms. Yes, the company has problems. Yes, they have alienated a lot of the developers who dream up our nice new toys. Yes, they have made so many stupid marketing decisions that it's startling. And yes, the Windows/Intel platform is becoming an easier platform to use. With the right software, a good support team, and a big budget for hardware/software upgrades, it's *almost* as good as a Mac, in my opinion (no flames, please--I work and teach with both the Mac and Windows 95 & NT). But despite these problems the Mac way of doing things--hardware and software--still excels in educational computing and networking *at every level.* Given the number of people who use the Mac to get things done, the platform is not going to disappear--even if Apple does finally fly into a wall as a company. Now that the operating system has been licensed and other manufacturers are competing to produce top-flight machines, we may be able to forsee a future for the Mac platform that grows beyond the future of Apple as a business. Consider how long the Apple II persisted in primary schools, despite being outright abandoned by the company--and the Mac is a much better machine. It has a longer usable life than many other systems, too--an incredible advantage for departments and schools wth tight budgets. Within reason, there's no such thing as an obsolete Mac: 68030 systems are still capable of peforming yeoman service in offices and labs; 386 Wintel machines are ballast. A final note on purchasing. Yes, educational institutions are getting cold feet about buying more Macs. Apple had better wake up, and damn fast; if it's current system redesign doesn't come together this year, they may have shot themself in the foot for the last time. But the decision to dump the Mac *as a platform* at the college level is short-sighted and wrong--and cuts against what colleges already know. I know this forum is for humanities computing, but I'll use engineering schools as an example. They are moving further away from the Mac, definitely. Most seem to be advocating Windows 95 and NT for students and general purpose labs, with high end Unix boxes for the sexy stuff. But if you look at what's on the desks of faculty, staff, and students, you see a lot of Macs. It burns me up that institutions that use Macs to do a wide range of important things can turn around and claim that the machine has no future. The Mac will survive...perhaps without Apple. I sympathize with lab administrators who are worried about buying into a dead end. I agree with those who say that the Wintel platform is a genuine alternative. And I'm frustrated with Apple's boneheaded mistakes. But there is a HUGE following of Mac users and advocates at colleges and universities, not to mention K-12. We won't go quietly. We are folks who need to keep using the Macs they have, and who want to upgrade to new Macs, not replace them with Windows boxes. SOMEBODY will develop for this market, whether it's Apple or some other maker of the next Mac-platform machines. John Anderson CAS Writing Program Northwestern University jca@nwu.edu From: Monique Jucquois-Delpierre <juquois@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> Subject: Re: 10.0742 demise of Apple? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:45:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 610 (610) Apple remains really the best. I hope it is only a short difficult moment. We have to continue to support them best wishes Monique Jucquois-Delpierre, 26 Feb 97 Monique Jucquois-Delpierre [deleted quotation] Informationswissenschaft Communication science [deleted quotation] From: David Sisk <sisk@macalester.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0742 demise of Apple? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:38:43 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 611 (611) Lorna Hughes is not alone in wondering whether Apple Computer will be around much longer. Our institution is about half-Macintosh, but the proportion of Macs to PCs is far greater in discipline-specific research labs (economics, computer science (!), biology, etc.). I, too, find myself discussing Apple's prospects with worried administrators. My take is that Apple is undergoing some serious growing pains that should have happened five years ago. The shuffling of top executives and the corporate structure is nothing to be scared of. Of course, coming after a year in which Apple suffered major losses (of funds and of face, thanks to the Incredible Incendiary PowerBooks and the lackluster Performa line), restructuring looks like a desperation move. Apple's problems are real, but I would argue that the press has blown Apple's woes out of proportion. I reassure the administrators who authorize purchasing, and the faculty who need to make long-term plans for their research facilities, by distinguishing between Apple Computer and the Macintosh. Apple may go under, but the Macintosh is here to stay. Now that UMAX, Motorola, Daystar Digital and Power Computing are all producing Mac clones, I hope we will see the same kind of competition that shook up the desktop PC market in the late 80s. The Mac's user base is too large to be ignored; I imagine that if Apple did go out of business, there would be serious competition by other firms to buy into this market. Two words: "cash cow." David Sisk _________________________________________________________________ David W. Sisk Assistant Director for Academic Computing Macalester College / 1600 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105-1899 sisk@macalester.edu / Voice: (612) 696-6745 / FAX: (612) 696-6778 From: Mike Ledgerwood <MLedgerwood@ccmail.sunysb.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0742 demise of Apple? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:16:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 612 (612) Please, please, please..... It is headers like the one I am replying with above that have caused some of the problems Apple is having. Apple is a company with lots of cash in the bank. Unlike many other computer makers such as Packard Bell which barely makes any money every quarter or AST which has lost money for EIGHT quarters (or more) now, Apple has made money until relatively recently and probably will again soon. Its newest line of computers include the fastest desktop and portable computers made. Its new operating system possiblities will also stand it in good stead. However, it is also important to remember that the Mac and Apple are no longer the same. The Mac market actually grew last quarter. The Mac clone makers are selling lots of computers. In the eventuality that Apple does crash some time (unlikely) there are now many companies which could step in and take over the platform and make money with it. Some of these companies are in the Far East, which is the biggest area of growth for the whole computer industry. Please also remember that the lifetime of computers is now about three years of use before they are very outmoded. The Mac will not disappear in that span. Why not buy the platform you like the best, knowing you will get full use out of it for as long as its "life" should last? Finally, Java and the internet will likely reduce the importance of platforms over the next ten years so that any computer will be able to do most everything similarly. As a result the fastest computer (PowerPC chips for normal desktop) may "win" more adherents than now... My several cents worth, Mike Ledgerwood Director of the Language Learning and Research Center Stony Brook, State Univ. of New York, USA From: Dennis Cintra Leite <Dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br> Subject: RE: 10.0742 demise of Apple? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 21:24:29 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 613 (613) Learn how to use windows. It isn't that difficult. --- dennis cintra leite dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br py2-etn sao paulo business school (eaesp/fgv) av.9 de julho 2029 sao paulo, sp 01313-902 brazil -------------------------------------- From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Preservation Microfilming/Digital scanning Wksp Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:46:47 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 614 (614) NINCH ANNOUNCMENET February 27, 1997 RE-FORMATTING FOR PRESERVATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD:To Scan or To Film A Workshop on Preservation Microfilming and Digital Scanning These workshops offered by the Northeast Document Conservation Center seem an interesting East Coast complement in many ways to the School for Scanning. David Green **************************************************** The Northeast Document Conservation Center presents Reformatting for Preservation in a Digital World: To Scan or To Film A Workshop on Preservation Microfilming and Digital Scanning May 6-8, 1997 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA II) 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740 Funded in part by The Pew Charitable Trusts, The H.W. Wilson Foundation and the National Endowment for Humanities As we approach and enter the 21st century, digital technologies will have a profound impact on the way institutions provide access to information. But will digitization also become a tool of the preservation community? NEDCC's reformatting workshop will address this question. The workshop is designed to train project administrators in institutions to plan, implement, and manage reformatting projects. Instruction will focus on decision making skills. Compliance with national standards and RLG guidelines for preservation microfilming will be emphasized and the "best practice" for digital projects will be discussed. It is not a technician training program. The program includes hands-on experience and teaches skills for: * planning reformatting projects * selecting and preparing materials * selecting and evaluating a vendor * microfilm and imaging technology * inspection and quality control * evaluating digital imaging for preservation The sessions will introduce preservation microfilming and digital imaging technologies and compare their commonalties and differences. Presented by: * Susan Wrynn, Director of Reprographic Services, Northeast Document Conservation Center; * Lisa Fox, Preservation Consultant; * Bob Mottice, President, Mottice Micrographics, Inc.; and * Andrew Raymond, Regional Advisory Officer, New York State Archives. Registration must be received by April 15, 1997. Attendance is limited to 15 participants accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. The number of applicants from one institution will be limited. NEDCC will confirm acceptance. The price of the workshop is $225. It includes the cost of "Preservation Microfilming: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists," 2nd ed., edited by Lisa Fox, Preservation Consultant. Speakers will refer to the book throughout the workshop, however if you do not wish to order the book, the cost of the workshop is $160. For information about this workshop contact Susan Wrynn at NEDCC at 508/ 470-1010 or <wrynn@nedcc.org>. To request an flier and application contact Gay Tracy at <tracy@nedcc.org> or call 508 470-1010. Gay S. Tracy Public Relations Coordinator Northeast Document Conservation Center 100 Brickstone Square Andover MA 01810-1494 Tel 508 470-1010 Fax 508 475-6021 <tracy@nedcc.org> ======================================== =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to <listproc@cni.org>. ============================================================== From: Scott Stebelman <scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> Subject: Symposium on Electronic Publishing Date: March 6, 1997 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 615 (615) Time: 4:00-6:00 Location: Gelman Library 202 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Glenn Ricart Chief Technology Officer for Novell, Inc. Formerly Director of the Computer Science Center and Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Academic Information Technology University of Maryland, College Park Additional Speakers: Adam Eisgrau, Legislative Counsel, American Library Association Topic: Intellectual Property and Copyright on the Internet Ellen Meserow Sauer, Electronic Publishing Manager and Director, Project Muse, The Johns Hopkins University Topic: Issues Affecting the Publication of Electronic Journals Dr. Donald Lehman, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, The George Washington University Topic: Evaluating Electronic Publications for Promotion/Tenure Decisions Open to the public. No registration required. Reception to follow. For more information, contact Dr. Scott Stebelman at scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu From: "Joe F. Zhou" <joez@lexis-nexis.com> Subject: THE 2ND CFP FOR WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:14:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 616 (616) ********************************************************************** APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE POSTS ********************************************************************** The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5) THE SECOND CALL FOR PAPER WHEN: August 18-20, 1997 WHERE: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (August 18, 1997) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (August 20, 1997) WVLC5 will immediately precede ROCLING '97 (Aug 22-24, Taiwan) and IJCAI '97 (Aug 24-29, Nagoya, Japan). This workshop will take place in two consecutive sessions sharing a common program committee and proceedings. Authors may specify at which session(s) they wish to present their papers. The first session in Beijing will be held in conjunction with the Fourth Joint Symposium of Computational Linguistics of China (JSCL'97). This symposium is a biennial event organized by the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Computer Society of China, the Artificial intelligence Society of China, and the Beijing Society of Linguistics. JSCL'97 will be held August 15 - 17 1997. The organizing committee of JSCL'97 has decided the use of English as the working language on the last day of the symposium. Therefore, the early arrivers for WVLC-5 from other countries will be encouraged to attend. In addition, immediately before and after WVLC-5, city tours and sightseeings will be arranged for participants from other countries. SPONSORED BY: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) LEXIS-NEXIS, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. AT&T Labs - Research National Natural Science Foundation of China State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, China Hong Kong University of Science and Technology City University of Hong Kong WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer a general international forum for the presentation of new advances and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural language processing. The fifth workshop will focus on the theme of: Innovative and practical uses of large corpora in real-world applications Gigabytes and terabytes of on-line unrestricted natural language text have become commonplace today. How are these resources actually being used in commercial as well as research applications? What robust and efficient techniques exist for analyzing and organizing these resources? The workshop encourages contributions that demonstrate innovative applications of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical commercial importance. The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer a focus for discussion and debate between academic researchers and industrial practitioners. We also expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including (but not limited to) Text Analysis Techniques: - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - morphological analysis - robust parsing - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - sense disambiguation - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure Applications: - information retrieval - information extraction - text categorization and summarization - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction - recognition: speech, OCR, handwriting, etc. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Huang Changning - Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) Ken Church - AT&T Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ, USA) Joe Zhou - LEXIS-NEXIS (Dayton, OH, USA) LOCAL ORGANIZERS: For the Beijing session: Jai Peifa, the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, China For the Hong Kong session: Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Susan Armstrong, ISSO, University of Geneva, Switzerland Key-sun Choi, KAIST, Korea Ido Dagan, Bar Llan University, Isreal Pernilla Danielsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Marti Hearst, Xeros Research Park, USA Chu-ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Claudia Leacock, Princeton University, USA Sun Maosong, Tsinghua University, China Dan Pliske, LEXIS-NEXIS, USA Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong Paul Wu, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore Masaaki Yasuta, NTT information Communication Systems Labs, Japan FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "WVLC5@lexis-nexis.com" and must either be (a) plain ascii text or (b) a single postscript file. (If the postscript doesn't print properly, you may eventually have to submit a hardcopy, so please budget enough time for that.) Hard copy submissions should be mailed to Ken Church (address below), and should include four (4) copies of the paper. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission. SCHEDULE: Submission Deadline: April 7, 1997 Notification Date: May 20, 1997 Camera ready copy due: July 1, 1997 CONTACT: Ken Church Joe Zhou Room 2B-421 LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier AT&T Laboratories 9555 Springboro Pike Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA Dayton, OH 45342 USA e-mail: kwc@research.att.com email: joez@lexis-nexis.com From: Milena Dobreva <dobreva@math.acad.bg> Subject: Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:11:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 617 (617) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS An International Workshop supported by UNESCO Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts: ----------------------------------------------- Study from Co-operative Writing Perspective ------------------------------------------- will be held in September 20-24th 1997 in the vicinity of Sofia, Bulgaria. The basic aims of the workshop are to serve as a first forum for discussion on issues in the fields of: * basic types of variety in the Slavic written tradition; * existing solutions to modelling variety in the Medieval written tradition; and * to propose methodological framework for computer modelling of variety in Medieval Slavic manuscripts, and especially from co-operative writing perspective. The basic topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: # Types of variety in Medieval texts # Computer tools for modelling variety # Types of variety in Medieval Slavic manuscripts # Orthographic variety # Lexical variety # Grammatical variety # Structural variety # Macro-structural variety # Co-operative writing perspective and its applications to modelling witnesses of Medieval texts # Learning from history Abstracts dedicated to computer modelling of textual variety not longer than 2 pages are welcome till April 30, 1997. E-mail submissions are preferred. Workshop co-ordinator: Milena Dobreva Institute of Mathematics and Informatics bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St. 1113 Sofia, BULGARIA fax: (00359-2) 971 3649 e-mail: dobreva@math.acad.bg; dobreva@bgearn.acad.bg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=- Milena P. Dobreva Research Fellow Telecommunications Dept. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St. 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria tel: ++359-2 713 2809, ++359-2 713 2846 fax: ++359-2 971 3649 e-mail: dobreva@math.acad.bg From: Subject: Lectureship in Humanities Computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 618 (618) Lectureship in New Technologies for the Humanities UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW FACULTY OF ARTS To expand the use of computing within the Faculty of Arts through undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. Essential criteria are a strong academic background in an arts discipline and experience of the use of IT in teaching and research. Experience in one or more relevant areas such as image and text processing, digitisation, databases, multimedia, information selection and retrieval is desirable. The post is available for three years in the first instance. For further particulars write (preferably on a postcard) to: Personnel Services, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ. Closing date Thursday 27 March 1997. Further Particulars The lectureship, tenable for three years in the first instance, will be attached to the Arts and Divinity Planning Unit's Humanities Computing Resource Unit. The Unit is an interdisciplinary body which co-ordinates inter-departmental initiatives in humanities computing teaching, training, and research and supports Glasgow University's humanities computing facilities. Already affiliated with the HCRU are several nationally recognized humanities computing initiative, including in Archaeology and History (DISH), English Language and Literature (STELLA), Modern Languages, and Music. The Faculty of Arts intends to continue to develop IT facilities in aid of teaching and research and to develop a full range of courses in the use of information technology in the humanities. The lecturer will be responsible to the new Director of Humanities Computing and Information Management and have four principal responsibilities: teaching, helping departments to integrate computers into their teaching and research, research, and administration. 1. Computers in Teaching The innovative use of computers in undergraduate teaching is central to development of teaching. At Glasgow, significant strides have been made in those departments which house academic staff with extensive knowledge of computing (e.g. Archaeology, Medieval, Modern and Scottish History, English Literature, Music, and many of the modern languages). Other departments are eager to develop their skills in this area. The lecturer will help to address this 'skills gap' in selected departments: Philosophy, History of Art, Classics, and Theatre, Film and Television Studies. 2. Teaching The lecturer will be expected to teach at least twelve hours per week. S/he will be expected to contribute to a new 25-week survey course, Humanities Computing: Issues and Application', and to design, develop and teach other courses in agreement with the Director of HC&IM. 3. Research The lecturer will help shape the use of computers for research in the humanities through the provision of computing support to scholarly projects within the Faculty. It is intended that the lecturer will act as both an enabler and collaborator in such research. Candidates should combine a strong academic background in an arts discipline with knowledge of new technologies and their use in teaching and research. Applicants should have experience in areas such as image and text processing, digitisation, databases, multimedia, information selection and retrieval. An academic background in computing science with practical experience in the use of computers in humanities scholarship and teaching will also be considered. Experience in Film and Television Studies, Philosophy, Art History or Classics would be an advantage. 4. Terms and Conditions The post is available for three years in the first instance. Salary will be within the Lecturer Grade A scale. The successful applicant will be eligible to join the Universities' Superannuation Scheme. Further information regarding this schemes is available from the Superannuation Officer who is also prepared to advise on questions relating to the transfer of superannuation benefits. The University of Glasgow is an equal opportunities employer. 5. Method of Application Applications should be submitted to the Academic Personnel Office (Recruitment Section), University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, not later than Thursday 27th March 1997. Each application should consist of eight copies (one in the case of overseas applicants) of the following: * a full curriculum vitae * a covering letter explaining why you wish to be considered for the position * a brief note on the state of your health * for academic posts the period of probation served elsewhere and details of any relevant training undertaken * all appropriate contact numbers, for example ~ home telephone number ~ work telephone number ~ fax number ~ email address (if applicable) * the names and address of three referees. It would be appreciated if fax/email addresses could be given, especially for referees not based in the UK. It is University policy to approach referees in advance of interviews, unless otherwise instructed. Information about the University can be found at <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk">http://www.gla.ac.uk</a> Interviews will probably be held on week commencing 28th April 1997. Potential applicants wishing to discuss the post further should contact Dr Seamus Ross by email (sro@arts.gla.ac.uk) or by telephone on (0141) 330-3635. Candidates called for interview and/or subsequently appointed may be required to provide proof of qualifications. From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: software(s) of culture(s) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:01:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 619 (619) Willard, Be it the babe or the wrinkled aged, talk of talk as Jerome Bruner reminds us in <cite>Acts of Meaning</cite> is ever fascinating. Burkert's own words can also explain the persistence of atheists and the withering away of the religous discourse that refuses to tackle the mysteries of change as wells as of continuity. [deleted quotation]rt [deleted quotation]r: [deleted quotation]he [deleted quotation]d [deleted quotation]s [deleted quotation]e' [deleted quotation] "Verbalised culture" signals the existence of other cultures non-verbalized and just as taught and learnt. Imagine revisiting the iconoclastic controversies as a case of pro/contra jamming software. Freethinkers have been known to decorate their walls, floors or ceilings with Buddhist mandelas. But that is not hardware. However there seems to be an assumption at work in the Burkert text that the architectural site of ritual (church or temple) is equivalent to hardware. But what of a Navaho sandpainting? a Walbiri songline? or the productions of agitprop street Theatre? My point, in short, is that religious phenomena and the particulars out which they are composed just like theatrical phenomena=20 (I'm following Richard Schechner here <cite>From Theatre to Anthropology</cite>) cannot be dichotomized, especially into hard and soft. What is at work in these cognitive & aesthetic domains is the interlocking of =09=09virtuality =09=09textuality =09=09interactivity Human interaction with cultural artefacts permits access to possible worlds= =2E The dialectic for me, for some, the tension, between chance and necessity plays a role in shaping the teaching/learning situation and its outcomes. Therefore, culture is not merely passed on, copied, replicated. It is reproduced; its possibilities sifted and sometimes shifte= d. Amen. --=20 Francois From: Francois Crompton-Roberts <F.Crompton-Roberts@qmw.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 10.0723 a Serious Request Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 16:41:46 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 620 (620) [deleted quotation]y [deleted quotation]f [deleted quotation]ied [deleted quotation]on [deleted quotation] Now there's a thought. Perhaps software to mark student essays without we having to read them could be devised? Or would the students get there first and develop a general-purpose essay-writing program? We could cut out the middlemen (middlepersons?) entirely! The serious side of this is governments' evident wish to censor the Internet. You cannot hear the word "Internet" these days without simultaneously hearing the word "pornography". I am sure it is quite deliberate, to soften up public opinion for the introduction of censorship. If they carry on like this, it will be difficult to resist: "You mean you don't want to protect our children from filth?". Try telling your local MP (that's British for Representative), as I have attempted to, that the average High-Street bookshop contains far more porn, in proportion, than the Internet... mine wouldn't even listen. Fran=E7ois Crompton-Roberts From: Subject: "Iter <something>" -- "Journey to where we are" Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 621 (621) I have a typical scholar's problem that I hope some HUMANISTs might be able to help me with. Several months ago I came across an interesting paper in the library and said to myself, "Hmm, I'll have to come back and copy this sometime. No need to write it down; I'll remember the citation." And of course I did not. I don't really expect anyone to actually come up with the citation, so fragmentary is my recollection, but perhaps someone can identify the concept that was being discussed. The paper was about a narrative genre which was termed, in Latin, "Iter <something>", meaning "Journey to where we are", or "How we got to where we are now." The concept wasn't necessarily construed geographically; it might refer to a history that tells how "we" got to where we are at this point in time. The important point was that the narrative wasn't a comprehensive history or geography, but rather just a point-to-point story from where we were to where we are. Does this particular concept ring any bells with anyone? Is the particular term "Iter <something>" known as a distinctive label for this genre? I will welcome any suggestions. Bob O'Hara Robert J. O'Hara (rjohara@iris.uncg.edu) | Cornelia Strong College, 100 Foust Building | <a href="http://rjohara.uncg.edu">http://rjohara.uncg.edu</a> University of North Carolina at Greensboro | <a href="http://strong.uncg.edu">http://strong.uncg.edu</a> Greensboro, North Carolina 27412 U.S.A. | From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: online items Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:28:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 622 (622) Notable items from this week's Guardian, Online section <<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/">http://www.guardian.co.uk/</a>>: (1) Karlin Lillington, "When shove comes to push: Forget about hooking yourself up to the Internet: the Internet is about to hook up to you" -- or, perhaps Humanist will change drastically its mechanism of distribution someday. (2) Richard Norton-Taylor and Alison Daniels, "Britain to join FBI phone tap system". (3) Stephanie Pain, "When the price is wrong: Did science lose its virtue when it got into bed with big business?" Will we, if we ever get the chance? WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Steve Choi <cssteve@CITYU.EDU.HK> Subject: WWW Tools for Instructors Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:38:37 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 623 (623) Hi, We are working on a project called "WWW Tools for Instructors". It aims at assisting instructors use the WWW, and is primarily concerned with administrative tasks rather than teaching and learning materials. It helps instructors use the WWW by providing infrastructure tools. A web site has been created as a distribution centre for these tools. The URL is <a href="http://wwwtools.cityu.edu.hk">http://wwwtools.cityu.edu.hk</a>. Quizzes Online, a system for delivering, creating and organising on-line quizzes, is the first tool available for trial and download. Other tools in development include a method of collecting assignments (Assignment Collector), a way of automatically testing student's computer programs (C Tester ) and a photo album system to help instructors remember their students (Photo Album). As well as providing specific tools there are real life examples, links, demonstrations and guidance on using the WWW for the delivery of education. As a part of this project we wish to keep links to instructors who are using the WWW to teach. We will keep a central registry of materials so that we can all share our experience. This registry will help give your work a wider audience. If you could let us know about your work we would like to hear from you. If you have other ideas for tools or facilities that you need then let us know and perhaps we can find them for you. You can either send us an email or click on New Ideas about WWW Tools link at <a href="http://wwwtools.cityu.edu.hk">http://wwwtools.cityu.edu.hk</a> We look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks. Steve Choi Executive Officer Department of Computer Sceince City University of Hong Kong cssteve@cityu.edu.hk From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0739 e-publishing; translation Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:57:12 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 624 (624) The On line book Page at CMU is the one that is keeping track of books published on the Web. WI notified them where I posted my etext of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. They are the the one's that re keeping track. From: Germaine Warkentin <warkent@CHASS.utoronto.ca> Subject: New British Library OPAC Service Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:44:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 625 (625) Piers Bursill-Hall draws our attention to the following interesting information: [deleted quotation] ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@chass.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto ******************************************************************************* From: "Kristen L. Abbey" <kabbey@rci.rutgers.edu> Subject: Apple Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:29:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 626 (626) Rather than the fall of Apple the company, the rumor mill in my neck of the woods voices concern about future support for existing software. The question I've heard raised goes more along this line: Will the specialized software that academic departments and others have developed for themselves on the Mac platform over the years, with great labor, be able to make the move to this new OS, based on the NEXT machines' UNIX core? If Apple fails to consider this kind of compatability issue, some of its most loyal users will find themselves trapped using slow, out of date machines to continue using software they can neither replace nor upgrade. Apple's record in this respect, I understand, leaves a lot to be desired. _______________________________________________________________________________ kabbey@rci.rutgers.edu The critics are talking about this post: Kristen L. Abbey PhD Student "I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats" Dpt of Comp Lit --Times Book Review Rutgers University New Jersey, USA "...reaching a higher plane of communication..." --TWA in flight magazine From: Prosper02@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0742 demise of Apple? Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:51:39 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 627 (627) There's a review of Apple in InterNic News at <<a href="http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/feb97/enduser.html">http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/feb97/enduser.html</a>>. It's reasonably upbeat and seems objective enough. Richard Regan Fairfield university From: Subject: Electronic publishing conference Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 628 (628) [CROSS-POSTED TO RELEVANT LISTS; please excuse any duplication] 'Electronic Publishing---New Models and Opportunities' ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing 14--16 April 1997 University of Kent at Canterbury, UK The ICCC (International Computer Communications Council) in conjunction with IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) is organising a conference on Electronic Publishing at the University of Kent at Canterbury. The title of the conference is 'Electronic Publishing---New Models and Opportunities'. In addition to plenary sessions for papers and discussions that cover the whole of electronic publishing, there will be two parallel streams: one on technical issues and one on socio-economic issues. The technical stream includes, but is not limited to, new developments in networking, possibilities of new technology, author/reader requirements and the need for Standardisation. The socio-economic stream includes, but is not limited to, the changing roles of publishers, subscription agents, librarians and others involved in the current models of information dissemination, author/reader requirements, subject differences, and economic/financial questions. A major underlying theme of the conference is the promotion of an 'exchange of experience' between the participants - especially between academics researching in the area and publishers and others with practical experience. Professor Jack Meadows of Loughborough University, Chairman of the Programme Committee, said of the conference, "We intend that this conference be a stimulating experience, with a great deal of cross- fertilisation of ideas. The combination of practical experience and the latest discoveries of academic research will undoubtedly lead to new models of academic and other publication in the near future." Anyone interested in attending the conference can obtain further information from the Web at URL: < <a href="http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC/index.htm">http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/ICCC/index.htm</a> > or they can contact: Fytton Rowland Department of Information and Library Studies Loughborough University Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 3TU UK Telephone: +44 (0)1509 223039 Fax: +44 (0)1509 223053 From: Subject: Job Annouoncement Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 629 (629) Position Announcement Project Manager The Getty Information Institute is a leader in promoting innovative and effective uses of information technology in the arts and humanities. The Institute is looking for a full-time professional with strategic skills to develop and manage projects that promote worldwide access to cultural heritage information. The successful candidate will have creative, administrative and financial responsibility for a range of activities involving digital imaging, interoperability, data standards, intellectual property rights, information policy and training. Typically will lead several simultaneous projects, act as an in-house advisor in the area of digital imaging and conduct or supervise research. Will oversee any special conferences, symposia, workshops, and/or publications related to project activities. Requirements include a graduate degree in the arts, humanities, or information science, or equivalent; 8-10 years experience, including management of complex projects with technology components; digital imaging expertise; excellent oral and written communications skills. International experience and a foreign language are highly desirable. Please send a detailed cover letter explaining interest and experience with salary information and a current resume to Jan Jarel at 401 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1100, Santa Monica, California, 90401 or jjarel@getty.edu. From: Subject: Poem (long) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 630 (630) Clive James (1939- ) The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am pleased. In vast quantities it has been remaindered Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized And sits in piles in a police warehouse, My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs. Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles One passes down reflecting on life's vanities, Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book -- For behold, here is that book Among these ranks and banks of duds, These ponderous and seeminly irreducible cairns Of complete stiffs. The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I rejoice. It has gone with bowed head like a defeated legion Beneath the yoke. What avail him now his awards and prizes, The praise expended upon his meticulous technique, His individual new voice? Knocked into the middle of next week His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs, The Edsels of the world of moveable type, The bummers that no amount of hype could shift, The unbudgeable turkeys. Yea, his slim volume with its understated wrapper Bathes in the blare of the brightly jacketed Hitler's War Machine, His unmistakably individual new voice Shares the same scrapyart with a forlorn skyscraper Of The Kung-Fu Cookbook, His honesty, proclaimed by himself and believed by others, His renowned abhorrence of all posturing and pretense, Is there with Pertwee's Promenades and Pierrots-- One Hundred Years of Seaside Entertainment, And (oh, this above all) his sensibility, His sensibility and its hair-like filaments, His delicate, quivering sensibility is now as one With Barbara Windsor's Book of Boobs, A volume graced by the descriptive rubric "My boobs will give everyone hours of fun". Soon now a book of mine could be remaindered also, Though not to the monumental extent In which the chastisement of remaindering has been meted out To the book of my enemy, Since in the case of my own book it will be due To a miscalculated print run, a marketing error-- Nothing to do with merit. But just supposing that such an event should hold Some slight element of sadness, it will be offset By the memory of this sweet moment. Chill the champagne and polish the crystal goblets! The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am glad. From: Subject: NINCH Web Site Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 631 (631) Please note that the NINCH web-site is in the process of being re-organized. Please hit your RELOAD Browser button to ensure you see the latest version. And please send your comments. <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org">http://www-ninch.cni.org</a>> David Green From: Subject: Apple and compatibility (re 10.0751) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 632 (632) With regard to Kristen's comments: [deleted quotation] While Apple's marketing and PR efforts have not been the best, compatibility is one area where they have the best record in the industry. For the record, I founded a company which got its start developing Macintosh software in 1985. Today we work on both Windows and Macintosh. I can assure you that we have paid our dues in worrying about compatibility. Apple has done the best job of maintaining compatibility compared with _every_ other operating system vendor. You can still take software which was written in 1984 and run it on current models of the Macintosh, including those which use a PowerPC cpu chip. The vast majority of application software which was written for 68000-based Macintoshes runs on PowerPC-based Macintoshes. This did not happen by accident. Virtually every other operating system vendor has forced software publishers to make changes in order to make their applications run on the next generation of the operating system. There is no vendor that I know of that has been able to provide such thorough compatibility as Apple has when make a transition in cpu chips. The absorption of the NeXT operating system will prove to be a formidable challenge to Apple in many ways, but one aspect of this transition which I'm not worried about is compatibility. Tony Meadow Bear River Associates, Inc., 505 14th Street, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612 Telephone: 510 834 5300 ext 108 Fax: 510 834 5396 Internet: tmeadow@bearriver.com Web: <a href="http://www.bearriver.com">http://www.bearriver.com</a> From: Subject: Graduate course in Computing for the Humanities taught Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 633 (633) via Internet Computing for the Humanities Taught via Internet Again during the summer of 1997, Dakota State University will offer CHUM 650 Computing for the Humanities: a course that students can complete via Internet: by viewing and receiving materials via the World Wide Web and by sending email. The three-semester-hour course is offered for graduate credit. INSTRUCTOR: Eric Johnson, Ph.D. COURSE DESCRIPTION: A study of computer applications in the humanities such as analysis of texts, arranging data from research, and formatting for printing and desktop publishing. The focus of the course will be on analysis of texts using computer programs created by Prof. Johnson. The programs and instructions for their use will be provided to all enrolled students. COURSE OUTLINE: Students will be assigned projects such as the following: * Computing the number of words in texts, noting the frequency of specific words and types of words; * Computing the number and percent of sentences of various lengths in a file with a graph of results; * Generating key-word-in-context concordances for all words or selected works in a text; * Computing the percent of words on multiple lists that are found in multiple texts (such as lists of words denoting colors, food, travel, and so on in selected 19th-century novels). * Recording the relative location of words in texts and graphing positions. * Processing texts with SGML markup: o Generating indexes by page or line number for texts; o Counting the number of words of dialog for each speaker in a novel; o Separating the words of dialog for each speaker in a novel so that characters can be analyzed based on their speech. PREREQUISITES: * Normally, students will have earned a baccalaureate degree and will have completed a minimum of 24 semester hours of course work in the humanities; advanced undergraduate students with a strong background in computing and in the humanities will be considered for admission -- they should contact the instructor at johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu * Without exception, all students must be able to do the following: o Be able to execute DOS and Windows computer programs on a 386 (or better) microcomputer with 4 MB of RAM (or more) with 20 MB (or more) free disk space; o Be able to use email to send and receive messages via Internet; o Be able to view World Wide Web pages and to download files from Web sites. EVALUATION: Students will be given the "grades" of CREDIT or NO CREDIT (much like PASS or FAIL) for the course. Students may audit the course and receive a "grade" of AU regardless of their progress or performance -- the cost of auditing is the same as taking the class for credit. (Students must make the determination of whether to be an auditor at the time of initial registration, and they cannot change once they have started the course.) Students who are not auditing the class must receive a grade of CREDIT for each assignment in order to receive a grade of CREDIT for the course. COSTS: The cost of tuition is currently $300.00 for a three-semester hour graduate course, but an increase is expected by the time CHUM 650 starts (last year the increase was about 3%). There are no additional charges for textbooks nor for computer programs (they will be provided on the Web). COURSE DATES: Students can complete the requirements of the course at their own pace. They may begin the course on May 15 or any time thereafter; all completed course requirements must be received by the professor no later than August 1. REGISTRATION: Students should register for the course (and make payment) prior to May 15. They may register by completing a form on the Web at: http:/www.dsu.edu/distance-ed/interapp.html ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Answers to frequently asked questions about CHUM 650 can be found at <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chumfaq.html">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chumfaq.html</a> Information can be requested from the Director of Distance Education by sending email to dsuinfo@columbia.dsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Web page with information similar to the above can be found at <a href="http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chum.html">http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chum.html</a> and Eric Johnson who can be contacted by email at johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu From: Subject: UK Plus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 634 (634) UK Plus <a href="http://www.ukplus.co.uk/">http://www.ukplus.co.uk/</a> This subject directory, provided by Associated Newspapers (owners of the _Daily Mail_ and _London Evening Standard_), claims thousands of reviews in 18 major categories from arts/humanities to entertainment to work. It contains a search engine (without advanced user options at this time). Its browser interface is quite Yahoo!-like, so most users will be comfortable with it. It is not nearly as large as other meta-subject directories, but it is editorially selective, and its main mission is to provide sites of interest to UK users. As with all subject directories, content quality varies. [JS] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Claire Smith / Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences (CHASS Facility) University of Toronto/ Robarts Library, 14th Floor / 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A5 / Phone: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 Internet: csmith@chass.utoronto.ca URL: <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~csmith/">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~csmith/</a> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Subject: imaging: hardware and software Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 635 (635) Recommendations would be most welcome concerning the best sort of hardware and software to use in an imaging project with which I am involved as an advisor. For better or worse it is PC-based, so references to Macintosh products will not do us any good. The particular aspect of the project of most concern at the moment involves viewing files up to about 1 MB or so and manipulating them to some degree, e.g. changing brightness and contrast, enlarging portions, excising parts, and the like. At the moment nothing very much more sophisticated than that is envisioned. The images are of manuscripts. For present purposes we assume no control over the production of the images, but these are of reasonably high quality. Money is not plentiful, so paying a high premium for slight improvement is not a good idea. Hardware. My inclination would be to recommend a 200MHz Pentium system, 32MB RAM, with a fast video card containing at least 4 MB onboard RAM, and a 17-inch monitor. The primary question here to my mind is the brand and characteristics of the video card. Your opinions, please. Software. Adobe Photoshop? Is there anything better for the purposes mentioned? Anything else we should be thinking about? Thanks very much. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: "A. S. Weber" <aweber@BINGHAMTON.EDU> Subject: Electronic Course Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 15:01:51 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 636 (636) [The following passed on from Ficino (Renaissance studies) with thanks. --WM] Dear Ficino Members: I am about to go completely on-line with an internet based course entitled Electronic Shakespeare for undergraduates at SUNY Binghamton. I would appreciate any critique from those of you who are involved with electronic pedagogy. I would also be happy to share my trials and tribulations in private communications with other list members. The URL is <a href="http://english.adm.binghamton.edu/weber/shakes/">http://english.adm.binghamton.edu/weber/shakes/</a> Best Regards, Alan S. Weber Assistant Professor of English (csl) English Department SUNY Binghamton, NY 13902 aweber@binghamton.edu 607 - 734 - 1659 (H) 607 - 777 - 2168 (O) 607 - 735 - 1913 (O) 607 - 777 - 2408 (FAX) From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: online Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 21:55:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 637 (637) Items diverse and interesting from today's Guardian, Online section, for some of which see <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/">http://online.guardian.co.uk/</a>>. (1) Happy Computers, a London training firm that as company policy recommends 4 hugs a day for survival, 8 for maintenance, and 12 for growth. Right there in the office. Nevertheless they are successful -- a 50%/year growth rate since founding in 1990. "This is a relentlessly positive place," says Henry Stewart, who runs the place. (2) Stardust, a new project of NASA in the U.S., to collect samples of dust and tiny fragments of rock from the sun and comets. See <<a href="http://pdc.jpl.nasa.gov/stardust/home.html">http://pdc.jpl.nasa.gov/stardust/home.html</a>>. (3) The Toaster Museum Foundation Homepage, <<a href="http://www.spiritone.com/~ericn/">http://www.spiritone.com/~ericn/</a>>. Why should anyone care? "Much can be learned about a culture through the examination of everyday items. This Foundation recognizes that we have a unique opportunity to gather some fascinating artifacts from the 20th Century before they become lost to history. For the history of the toaster is the history of 20th Century Cultural Trends and Industrial Design, and these little chrome (and nickel, and brass, and plastic...) monuments to man's ingenuity should always be remembered." (4) Richard Colbey, "High noon for Net porn", on the battle against the U.S. Communications Decency Act, which "reached a crucial stage last week when the American Supreme Court began considering written arguments.... Under the CDA, it will be an offence punishable by up to two years' imprisonment or a $250,000 fine to take part in 'indecent or offensive' speech on a computer network if that speech can be viewed by a minor." See <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/thisweek.html">http://online.guardian.co.uk/thisweek.html</a>>. (5) "Operator heal thyself", on the research of British Telecom computer scientists into the "breeding" of software "using programming techniques that mimic biological evolution, with a view to developing 'self-healing' phone networks." See <<a href="http://online.guardian.co.uk/thisweek.html">http://online.guardian.co.uk/thisweek.html</a>>. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Graduate course: COMPUTER SPEECH & LANGUAGE Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 638 (638) PROCESSING ONE YEAR GRADUATE COURSE **STUDENTSHIPS AVAILABLE** ONE YEAR GRADUATE COURSE -------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER SPEECH & LANGUAGE PROCESSING UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER LABORATORY ONE-YEAR M.PHIL COURSE -------------------------------------------------------------------- The course covers the theory and practice of speech and language processing. It runs from early October to September and consists of two terms lectures and practicals followed by a three month project. The final degree is awarded on the basis of coursework, examination and project. Unlike some alternative programmes, the course aims to provide a in-depth practical and theoretical grounding in the techniques for speech and language processing which form the basis for today's commercial and research prototype systems. There are strong links with industry and the great majority of past students have gone on to doctoral work or to jobs in industrial research laboratories. Cambridge is a major international centre for research in both speech and language processing. The course lecturers and demonstrators are directly involved in leading edge research within the university and in collaboration with other European and US industrial and academic laboratories. There are currently a number of EPSRC studentships available for the course to qualifying applicants. We encourage applications from students with a background in engineering, computer science, linguistics and/or psychology. For further details please consult the course URL: <a href="http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/MPhil/contents.html">http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/MPhil/contents.html</a> or contact: Mrs Mavis Barber (M.Phil Computer Speech & Language Processing) Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK Tel: +44-1223-332752 Fax: +44-1223-332662 Email: mavis@eng.cam.ac.uk From: Subject: subscription database Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 639 (639) Dear Colleagues, The Humanist subscription database was recently found to have some programming problems, as a result of which some people were shunted to one side and left to rot of neglect. We sincerely apologise for that. Repairs are now happening, but apparently one side-effect of these is that some people who opted out (e.g. to avoid an overflowing mailbox while on sabbatical, etc.) were resubscribed without being asked. More apologies. Oi veh es wir (in probably broken Yiddish). This does give me the opportunity, however, to have somewhere to put an astonishing bit of prose I read on the tube earlier this evening. In his review of Adam Mars-Jones, <cite>Blind Bitter Happiness</cite>, Gaby Wood (TLS 4901 7/3/97 p. 36) quotes a passage from "Gay Rights and Wrongs" where the author "explains why homophobia might be thought of as 'a system of social levers rather than a widespread personal pathology'": "Homophobia is resilient as a system because of a quirk of its chronology: even those individuals who will suffer in time profit from it before it works against them. Any child, any male child at least, has disparaged gay people, or been party to such disparagement, long before he realises that this joke category is one that has claims on him. Homophobia is a bribe whose first instalments are spent in ignorance of where the money comes from." It's the last sentence, of course, that grabbed. But it seems to me that he's really talking about disparagement of all kinds, of all sorts of people whether gay or otherwise. Perhaps as recent immigrant I'm particularly engaged in looking for evidence of commonality among humans, as in this forum so widely spread. But the same (I'd guess) fuels Poetry on the Underground, an admirable project that puts individual short poems on posters where adverts normally go in the cars. One gets transported while being transported. The same also (again guessing) has kept Alastair Cooke on Radio 4 all these years delivering his Letter from America, a fifteen minute treasure due on the air in 40 minutes. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: New website about the Netherlands Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 640 (640) Dear collegues, This has not much to do with computers or humanists, but I think some of you might be interested. There is a new website available which contains very handy information about the Netherlands, such as hotels, bars, theaters, cinemas, hospitals and further on. Maybe it's handy to bookmark it and check when you are planning to come over for congresses or something. The site can be found at: <a href="http://www.DHP.nl">http://www.DHP.nl</a> Go and check it out. It's a small country, but it has a lot to offer... Sincerely, Nico. Nico Weenink University of Utrecht The Netherlands noki@worldonline.nl From: "Espen S. Ore" <Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no> Subject: Re: 10.0758 imaging hardware and software? Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 18:04:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 641 (641) At 21:56 +0000 06-03-97, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] Photoshop is in my eyes the program of choice for image manipilation but if you are sure that the image manipulation needs will not exceed "changing brightness and contrast, enlarging portions, excising parts, and the like" by very much, then there are much cheaper alternatives. I must admit that I know Mac software better than Widows software, but for so simple needs you could probably find shareware. How are the images captured? Is there a scanner with software involved? You could also look into HiJaak (sp). espen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Espen Ore Persons.: 96 81 21 81 Tel: + 47 55 58 28 65 Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Fax: + 47 55 58 94 70 Harald Haarfagresgate 31 Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no N-5007 Bergen, NORWAY From: Ari Kambouris <aristotl@interport.net> Subject: Re: 10.0758 imaging hardware and software? Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 13:13:32 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 642 (642) Dear Willard, A couple of suggestions and queries about what you are trying to do. First, I would opt for more RAM and a slower processor if you need to adjust your budget in that direction. Photoshop loves RAM and it does significantly speed up many of the program functions. Also, I would partition the disk so that you allocate a significant amount of free space exclusively as the Photoshop scratch disk. This will also help speed up any of the processing. You don't mention any color correcting or accuracy concerns, so is this not an issue? From that standpoint, for a monitor, I would recommend a Radius PressView 17 or 21, depending on your budget. We used the predeccesor at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Radius Intellicolor 21, with outstanding results. Both Sony and Mitsubishi also make monitors which are fairly color accurate. For scanning, the Arcus II 36-bit scanner was terrific, and one of the photographers at the museum also had a Epson 36-bit scanner at home which he was extremely satisfied with. We calibrated the monitors to the scanners using a Colortron system and this made color correction much easier. All of these were used with Macs, but they exist in PC form as well. The monitors are all multi-synch, and the scanners plug into a regular SCSI card that you would have to install in your PC anyways. I don't know what the availability of these components is in England, but perhaps you might find them over the Web as well. Best regards, Ari Kambouris From: Glenn Everett <aaff@utm.EdU> Subject: Re: 10.0758 imaging hardware and software? Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 18:30:45 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 643 (643) [deleted quotation]An interesting problem, but my guess is that it won't cost all that much to get what you want. [deleted quotation] To handle those 1 mb graphics files, save money on the cpu if you have to, and put the money into RAM--think 64MB rather than 32. You probably don't need anything faster than 133-mhz (if you can still buy one). But look for a motherboard with a 512k level 2 cache. Are these color images? What color depth will you (meaning the people who will be actually working with the images) be working at--256 (8-bit), thousands (16-bit), or millions (24-bit)? For 8-bit color at 800x600 screen size, a good video card with 1 mb Ram would be adequate; for 1600x1200 and 24-bit color, you'd certainly need the 4 mb video card. I'd stick with one of the name brands-- ATI, Diamond, Matrox, etc. [deleted quotation]probably wind up sharpening images and tinkering with things like saturation. Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for this sort of thing. This is all based on some experience helping people scan images (including one experiment with microfilm), and my own research for my recently-purchased computer (a 166 cyrix cpu chip, 512K cache, & a Matrox Mystique card with 2mb memory expandable to 4, and 32 megs of RAM--but I'm not doing any graphics work, and I may add more RAM later). I am very interested to see where people disagree with my recommendations. Glenn Everett Faculty Multimedia Center (<a href="http://fmc.utm.edu/">http://fmc.utm.edu/</a>) University of Tennessee at Martin From: Subject: test for strangeness Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 644 (644) At my end the behaviour of Humanist seems slightly odd, so I am sending this message as a test, as a reassurance if it works that the management is still here, and as a request if it gets through to let me know directly if a message you've sent has not been distributed. A conditional labyrinth to thread as if life is not keeping you enough in the maze. Thanks. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Position at Ohio State University Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 645 (645) [deleted quotation] The Ohio State University is developing a building to be called the Success Center, which will house a learning center, career services, athletic academic support, counseling and consultation, and other learning support services as well as the teaching center. At the heart of this effort is the creation of the Academic Learning Center, which will offer services not presently offered on campus as well as help coordinate existinglearning support. We are seeking a director who will also be a faculty member in the College of Education, who can provide vision and leadership for the center as well as coordinate research activities pertaining to learning during the college years. The position description follows. Although applications are now being read, additional submissions are being encouraged. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION POSITION: Associate or Full Professor, School of Educational Policy and Leadership, and Director, University Academic Learning Center. APPOINTMENT: Tenure Track Appointment. RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide leadership in emerging Academic Learning Center (ALC). Contribute to College's advancement in technology-infused instruction. Work with other University units in design and program development for the Academic Learning Center. Supervise the practice and research of interns and graduate students. Contribute to ongoing assessment of ALC productivity. Compete for extramural funds related to ALC initiatives. QUALIFICATIONS: Earned doctorate with specialization in Educational Psychology or related field, with emphasis on cognition, motivation, and instruction of post-secondary students. Leadership capacity in technology-based learning. Evidence of scholarly productivity, research, and development related to the responsibilities of the position and consistent with appointment as an associate or full professor. STARTING SALARY: Commensurate with experience. POSITION AVAILABLE: October 1, 1997 APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 3, 1997, or until position is filled. Application and nominations including resume, credentials, three or more letters of reference and samples of scholarly materials should be sent to: The Associate Dean's Office College of Education 149 Arps Hall 1945 North High Street Columbus, OH 43210-1172 THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/ AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER. WOMEN, MINORITIES, VIETNAM-ERA VETERANS, DISABLED VETERANS AND INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Nancy Van Note Chism chism.1@osu.edu Director, Faculty and TA Development, The Ohio State University 20 Lord Hall,124 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Office Phone: (614) 292-3644 Fax: (614) 688-5496 From: Les Pourciau at UMem <POURCIAU@MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU> Subject: The Ethics of Electronic Information Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 646 (646) To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-announce@cni.org> THE ETHICS OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IN THE 21st CENTURY September 26-28, 1997 Sponsored By: The University of Memphis Libraries The U of M Information systems The U of M Linder Center for Urban Journalism The U of M Division of Research and Graduate School The U of M Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities The U of M Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law The U of M Fogelman College of Business and Economics CONFERENCE VENUE Fogelman Executive Center, The University of Memphis, Memphis TN, U.S.A. <a href="http://www.people.memphis.edu/~operations/fec_list.htmlx">http://www.people.memphis.edu/~operations/fec_list.htmlx</a> Additional Memphis Web Site: <a href="http://www.memphistravel.com">http://www.memphistravel.com</a> THE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION ISSUE Recently historian Neil Postman warned against the naive belief that information is "an unmixed blessing, which through its continued and uncontrolled production and dissemination offers increased freedom, creativity, and peace of mind" (1992, p. 71*). Indeed, information and information technology raise a host of difficult issues: Who will be authorized to have access to the plethora of information that is generated by computers in the 21st century? Will privacy, that most revered of American values, be passe, given the power of computers and the invasiveness of information bureaucracy and technology? Will the possession of information mean riches for the possessors, and will those possessors of information inevitably be the rich nations and neighborhoods of the earth? Who will own information, and who will be barred from access to information? How will copyright be administered on the Internet? These are only a few of the myriad of questions and concerns that occur to practitioners in a variety of professional fields. *Neil Postman, 1992. TECHNOPOLY: THE SURRENDER OF CULTURE TO TECHNOLOGY, New York, Vintage Books, 1992. CALL FOR PAPERS The Symposium Planning Committee seeks original research and application oriented papers, not previously presented elsewhere, which address questions about ethical considerations attendant to the forthcoming Information Age. You are invited to submit an abstract of a proposed paper for consideration by the Review Committee. Alternative modes of presentation, e.g., panel discussions, case studies, will be considered. The deadline for receipt of proposals is April 11, 1997. The following guidelines should be observed in the preparation and submission of your abstracts: 1. The abstract should be a precis of your paper and should be between 1000 and 1,500 words in length. 2. The heading should include the title of your paper, followed by the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), and the name, address, FAX number, and email address of the author who will present the paper at the Symposium. 3. Acceptance or otherwise will be at the discretion of the Symposium Planning Committee. The presenting author will be notified of the Committee decision no later than April 25, 1997. 4. 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BOX 1000, DEPT. 313 MEMPHIS TN 38148-0313 U.S.A. ----DETACH-------DETACH-------DETACH-------DETACH-------DETACH------DETACH----- THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS SYMPOSIUM ON THE ETHICS OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IN THE 21st CENTURY September 26-28, 1997 FOGELMAN EXECUTIVE CENTER THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS REGISTRATION FORM Make checks payable to: The University of Memphis FAX NUMBER 901-678-2272 For VISA/MASTERCARD/DISCOVER Card number____________________________________ Expiration Date_________________________________ Signature of cardholder_________________________ FEES (includes breakfasts, lunches, and Friday evening cocktails and banquet) Attendance only: $150 Presenters: $100 Late Fee: $50 added to any remittance after August 30, 1997 NAME_______________________________________________________________ ADDRESS____________________________________________________________ CITY_______________________________________________________________ STATE__________________________________________ZIP_________________ COUNTRY____________________________________________________________ ORGANIZATION/AFFILIATION___________________________________________ POSITION/TITLE_____________________________________________________ TELEPHONE__________________________________________________________ FAX________________________________________________________________ E-MAIL_____________________________________________________________ Receipt #_______________(for UofM Office use only) From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: dialup with callback under Windows NT Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:22:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 647 (647) I hope some Humanist is sufficiently up to the minute in OSs (no, not espionage) to know the answer to a dilemma I have pickled myself into. I need step-by-step instructions in how to configure Windows NT to handle a modem connection with callback. (Callback is a scheme, useful in countries where every call is charged per unit time, to get the charges attributed to one's service provider. You call the service, log in, give your phone number, disconnect, and it rings you back and completes the connection, in my case for ppp.) The modem has to be told before it dials to pick up the next call (i.e. S00=1), to set the "guard tone", etc. It also has to be told when one hangs up NOT to pick up the next call (i.e. S00=0) or every caller thereafter, when one's computer is on, will get an unpleasant blast in the ear. I know about the command_init string in modem.inf and about rasphone.hlp, but perhaps I only know about these things because I didn't understand how to get through the menus and am now having trouble from RAS, which cannot find one of its dlls, or something like that. Oi! (No sniggers from the Mac crowd, please. Configuring a Mac for ppp ain't that easy, and we PC types like getting under the hood and tinkering, don't we?) Thanks. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca> Subject: Re: virtual exams Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 22:18:42 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 648 (648) On behalf of a major Nordic agency, the Swedish Council for Renewal of Undergraduate Education is looking for case-studies on "how to use IT in examinations, e.g. lock in the candidates for 6 hours, give [them] the full use of the Internet and whatever programs they brought on their laptops" and let them go to it. Apparently there have been some studies made in Denmark. The originator of the request is now looking for comparable studies elsewhere. Please send info on case studies to me direct. I'll post a summary to this list. Peter Liddell <pgl@uvic.ca> University of Victoria BC, Canada From: Elisabeth Burr <Elisabeth.Burr@UNIDUI.UNI-DUISBURG.DE> Subject: Memory-Problems - Partial Solution Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 13:56:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 649 (649) [The following passed on from TACT-L, about memory problems running in a DOS window. Can anyone offer help with configuring the memory options for DOS under Windows 95? Please send replies directly to Dr. Burr as well as to Humanist. Thanks. --WM] A few days ago I asked for help with a memory problem. Part of the problem was Collgen although I did not talk about it in my message. As I have found a partial solution to the Collgen problem I wanted to communicate it with people on the list. Perhaps it helps saving some time or elucidates other solutions: I am running TACT on a PC (486) with win95 installed. The corpus I am working on contains 282420 wordforms. I am doing a research on collocation and fixed phrases. I have tried to use Collgen under win95 in a TACT window, but it crashed. I've tried more or less everything and came to the following solution: When starting my PC windows announces that it will load itself I push F8 and then select choice 5. I am asked to say yes or no to every part window would like to load. I say no to: doubleSpace driver systemregistry bootlog.txt I say yes to config.sys DOS=High, Umb Himem.sys emm386.exe RAM SHELL I say no to stacks FCBS Setver.exe Files Buffers DBLBuff.sys IFSHLP.sys I say yes to autoexec.bat path set temp set tactpath set tactems=4096 I say no to set prompt win Then I change into the directory TACT. mem gives me 598K free Collgen still crashes when I ask it to do Maximal fixed phrases. Any idea, how this problem could be solved? Collgen works fine for the following: fixed phrases permuted three types of boundaries are given span context 2 to 3 words. It crashes when span context 2 to 4 words Any comments would be appreciated. Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik/Gerhard-Mercator Universitaet Duisburg GH Lotharstrasse 65/47048 Duisburg +49 203 3792605/Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de From: Dana Paramskas <danap@uoguelph.ca> Subject: vient de paraitre Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 650 (650) Le Departement d'etudes litteraires de l'UQAM vient de faire paraitre le premier numero de sa collection de cahier de prepublication. Intitule "Archeologie de la machine cognitive", il est publie sous la direction de Jean-Francois Chassay et Andre Chapleau, dans le cadre des travaux du groupe Machnes, textes et savoirs (MTS). Au sommaire: Introduction: du voleur de feu au cyborg (J-F Chassay et Andre Chapleau) D'un Promethee oublie (Michelle Carrier) Le mobile du Golem (Nicolas Simard) Le paradoxe de l'automate: de Diderot a la cybernetique (Julie Martineau) La division de John Smith: "The Man That Was Used Up" d'Edgar Allan Poe (Daniel Canty) "L'Eve future" de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam: a propos d'une poetique de la lecture (Etienne Laverdiere) "1984": une dystopie de la communication (Yves Breton) La prothese dans le discours litteraire:l'exemple de "Limbo" (Christine Legault) En vente chez Olivieri (5200 Gatineau, Montreal) ou au Departement d'etudes litteraires de l'UQAM (telephonez au bureau de Jean-Francois Chassay, 987-3000, poste 4014) From: Subject: callback Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 651 (651) Willard, if you have Unix machines on-hand, you can set up callback trivially. For example, I recently got tired of getting into our sys- tems at STG via Brown's modem bank. So I stuck a modem on my office line. But how can this work, with a phone line in active use? How, e.g., can my wife get in while I'm at the office, presumably working :-)? And how can the modem distinguish calls from my home from, say, off- hours business calls that should go to voicemail? I get around this problem simply by setting the software to listen for a single ring, followed by a hangup, then a pause of 30 seconds, then another ring. The modem answers on the second ring. From home I set up my dialer to connect using this exact timing and pattern. It's quite nice, and spares STG the expense of a second line. And my modem almost never tries to answer a business call - even one that comes in after hours during the time when I often dial in via modem. But like I said, I can only tell you how to do this on a Unix machine. Unix machines have been answering modems since the 70s, so they're pretty good at doing cool (bizarre) stuff like the above.... Richard Goerwitz [Unfortunately, perhaps, I do not have a UNIX machine, so the question remains: how to configure Windows NT for callback? --WM] From: Subject: RE: 10.0758 imaging hardware and software? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 652 (652) I would endorse the previous recommendations for PhotoShop as the best software. However if you want to look at a shareware alternative to PhotoShop I would recommend Paint Shop Pro. More information and a demo is available from <a href="http://www.jasc.com/">http://www.jasc.com/</a> Regards, Nigel Williamson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nigel Williamson Arts and Humanities Liaison Corporate Information and Computing Services University of Sheffield 285 Glossop Road Sheffield S10 2HB Tel: 0114 222 3099 Fax: 0114 275 4951 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" <fiona@stats.gla.ac.uk> Subject: Computing Workshop - Glasgow, UK Sept. 1997 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:03:24 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 653 (653) WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Department of Statistics University of Glasgow, UK 11, 12 September 1997 Preliminary Announcement In recent years techniques from disciplines such as computer science, articficial intelligence and statistics have found their way into the pages of journals such as the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Literary and Linguistic Computing and Computers and the Humanities. While this influx may bring more advanced methods of analysis to the fields of quantitative linguistics, stylometry and stylistics, the demands upon researchers to understand and use these new techniques are great. Familiarity with the appropriate software and the ear of a sympathetic expert are pre-requisites without which the technique may seem out of reach to the average researcher. The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and the Department of Statistics of the University of Glasgow are hence supporting this practical workshop in Computationally-Intensive Methods in Quantitative Linguistics. The workshop is designed to introduce the participants to four such techniques in a practical environment. Each half-day session will be divided into an introductory session in a lecture theatre and a longer period spent working with software and practical examples. All of the speakers have published papers using the analyses they will present and their aim in this workshop is to enable the participants to return to their home institutions able to carry out these techniques in the course of their own research. The sessions and speakers are as follows: Deconstructing texts with electronic dice: Monte Carlo methods in lexical statistics. Harald Baayen; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Fitting probability distributions to linguistic data. Deductive and explorative methods in synergetic linguistics. Reinhard Koehler; University of Trier, Germany. Evolutionary Computing and Text Categorization. Richard Forsyth; University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. Neural Nets, Principal Component Analysis, Marlowe and Shakespeare. Thomas Merriam; United Kingdom. The workshop will be held in the Boyd Orr Building of the University of Glasgow, commencing on Wednesday 10 September with a reception in the Hunterian Art Gallery. The four workshop sessions will take place on Thursday 11 September and Friday 12 September. There will also be a half day to Loch Lomond and the Glen Goyne whisky distillery on the morning of Saturday 13 September. Accommodation has been arranged in university accommodation with some en suite facilities. Tea and coffee, lunches and evening meals on 11 and 12 September are included in the registration fee. Financial details are yet to be finalised, but it is expected that the registration fee will not be more than GBP150. For more information about the workshop, please consult the web site at <a href="http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql">http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql</a>, or send email to the conference organisers at cimql@stats.gla.ac.uk. From: Mike Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Last call: Computer-Assisted film & drama studies Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:56:46 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 654 (654) There are still a few place left on the one-day conference, "Computer-Assisted Film & Drama Studies" to be held at St Anne's College, Oxford on 17 March 1997. The cost is forty pounds with a reduced fee of twenty-five pounds for graduate students. Accommodation will be available at St Anne's College for those requiring it (for an extra charge). Further details including a booking form are available at <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/service/workshop/film.html">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/service/workshop/film.html</a> or by email from mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk CTI Centre for Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road <a href="http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/">http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/</a> Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: RE: 10.0764 queries technical & administ Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 655 (655) If I understand you question correctly, your server calls you back when accessed. Supposing, furthermore, that both you and the server are NT machines running version 4 all you have to do is to go into your accessories group, click on dial-up networking, where you have the phone book entry for your server there is a button with "more" written on it, click it and choose the "user preferences" command. One of the folders is called "call back" and that is what you are looking for. Hope this helped. dennis cintra leite py2-etn the sao paulo business school dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br [Alas, it's not that simple. The server is not NT. What I have to do in NT Workstation is (1) send modem commands, esp. to tell it to answer the next call; (2) dial-up and log in, giving userid, password, and my call-back number; (3) after the disconnect, wait for the call; (4) answer, giving another userid, a CR after 5 seconds, then the command to enable ppp communications, followed by an ESC. (5) when I'm finished and disconnect, send a modem command to tell the modem NOT to answer any subsequent calls. What I'd really like is a ready-made script.... --WM] From: Bernhard Schroeder <B.Schroeder@IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Subject: GLDV 97 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:38:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 656 (656) The following call for participation might be of interest for members of this list. Sincerely, Bernhard Schroeder ########################################################################### Tagungsprogramm und Call for Particitation 10. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fuer linguistische Datenverarbeitung Linguistik und neue Medien 17.-19-Maerz 1997 Universitaet Leipzig, Institut fuer Informatik <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/gldv97/">http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/gldv97/</a> Veranstalter Gesellschaft fuer linguistische Datenverarbeitung, e.V. Universitaet Leipzig, Institut fuer Informatik Thematische Schwerpunkte der Tagung Das Rahmenthema der Tagung - Linguistik und neue Medien - ist bewusst offen gehalten fuer unterschiedliche Aspekte interdisziplinaeren Zusammenwirkens zwischen Linguistik und Informatik (insb. Software-Ergonomie, Information Retrieval und Multimedia-Technologie). Die Tagungsbeitraege lassen sich folgenden Themengebieten zuordnen: - Konzepte fuer Anwendungen der automatischen Sprachverarbeitung - Sprachverarbeitung und Visualisierung - Sprachverarbeitung und Pragmatik - Sprachprodukttechnologie: Neue Produkte und Werkzeuge fuer die Sprach- und Textverarbeitung - Information Retrieval - Maschinelles und maschinengestuetztes Uebersetzen - Elektronisches Publizieren - Korpuslinguistik - Computerlexikographie und Thesauri - Marktpotentiale fuer Linguistik und neue Medien - Ausbildungsfragen Programmuebersicht Beginn der Tagung: Montag, 17.3., 13.30 Ende der Tagung: Mittwoch, 19.3., 14.00 GLDV-Workshop auf der Leipziger Buchmesse (im Anschluss an die Tagung, 20.3.1997) Dienstag abend: Abendveranstaltung in der Leipziger Moritzbastei mit kaltem Buffet Montag, 17. Maerz 1997 Begruessung und Eroeffnung 14.00 - 14.30 Begruessung und Eroeffnung Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer, Universitaet Leipzig, Institut fuer Informatik Prof. Dr. Cornelius Weiss, Rektor der Universitaet Leipzig Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm, Universitaet Leipzig, Direktor des Instituts fuer Informatik Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders, Universitaet Bonn, Vorsitzender der GLDV Eingeladener Vortrag 14.30 - 15.30 Prof. Dr. Rainer Kuhlen, Universitaet Konstanz Organisationsformen und Mehrwertleistungen elektronischer Maerkte Sektion I Electronic Publishing & Anwendungen (Fachvortraege) 15.45 - 16.15 Katja Krueger, Universitaet Stuttgart Mehrsprachige computergestuetzte Texterschliessung fuer Uebersetzer und Terminologen 16.15 - 16.45 Dr. Angelika Storrer, IDS Mannheim Vom Text zur Hypermedia-Anwendung: Methodisches Vorgehen bei der Hypertextualisierung nicht-standardisierter Textsorten 16.45 - 17.15 Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer & Dr. Christian Wolff, Universitaet Leipzig Zur Relevanz der linguistischen Pragmatik bei der Entwicklung von Multimedia-Anwendungen Sektion II Lexikon & Terminologie (Systemvorfuehrungen) 15.45 - 16.15 Jan Lass, Fachhochschule Flensburg Terminologiedatenbank T42 16.15 - 16.45 Bernhard Schroeder, M. A., Universitaet Bonn Pro-SGML ein Prolog-basiertes System zum Textretrieval Dienstag, 18. Maerz 1997 Eingeladener Vortrag 9.00 - 10.00 Dr. Gregor Thurmair, GMS Muenchen Wiederverwendbarkeit lexikalischer Ressourcen Sektion III Computerlexikographie (Fachvortraege) 10.15 - 10.45 Dr. Lothar Lemnitzer, Universitaet Muenster Komplexe lexikalische Einheiten in Text und Lexikon 10.45 - 11.15 Dr. Juergen Oesterle, Universitaet Muenchen/CIS Semi-automatische Extraktion lexikalischer Information aus Korpora (SELIK) 11.15 - 11.45 Petra Maier, Universitaet Muenchen/CIS Defaultzuweisung morpho-syntaktischer Kategorien Sektion IV Neue Medien & Ausbildung (Systemvorfuehrungen) 10.15 - 10.45 Dr. Angelika Storrer, IDS Mannheim Hypermediale Aufbereitung einer Grammatik der Deutschen Sprache 10.45 - 11.15 Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wenzel, Universitaet Hannover Visualisierung russischer fachsprachlicher Grammatik in einem interaktiven System 10.45 - 11.15 Dr. Tibor Kiss, IBM-WZ Heidelberg Recall - Intelligente Fehlerkorrektur im computerge- stuetzten Fremdsprachenunterricht Panel 13.30 - 15.00 Sprachgenerierung Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Universitaet Erlangen (Moderation) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner, Universitaet Duisburg Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann, Leipzig Prof. Dr. Dietmar Roesner, Universitaet Magdeburg Prof. Dr. Anita Steube, Leipzig Sektion V Syntax & Parsing (Fachvortraege) 15.15 - 15.45 Dr. Sebastian Goeser, IBM Boeblingen High speed parsing of extraction grammars. The ACSG-P approach 15.45 - 16.15 Andreas Mertens, FernUniversitaet Hagen Robustes Parsing mit Wortagenten 16.15 - 16.45 Jean-Yves Lalande, Universitaet Koeln VisualGBX: ein objektorientiertes CAD-System zur Repraesentation und Evaluation linguistischer Theorien Studentische Vortraege 15.15 - 16.45 Kurzreferate der Bewerber um den GLDV-Preis fuer die beste studentische Arbeit Mitgliederversammlung der GLDV 17.00 - 19.00 Mitgliederversammlung der Gesellschaft fuer linguistische Datenverarbeitung mit Neuwahl des Vorstands Abendveranstaltung ab 19.30 Abendveranstaltung in der Leipziger Moritzbastei Mittwoch, 19. Maerz 1997 Sektion VI Information Retrieval & Statistik (Fachvortraege) 9.00 - 9.30 Dr. Christa Womser-Hacker, Walter Zettel, M.A. Universitaet Regensburg Sind strukturelle Texteigenschaften zur Indexierung im Information Retrieval geeignet ? 9.30 - 10.00 Prof. Dr. Gregor Buechel, FH Koeln Generierung von semantischen Netzen fuer Schlagwoerter des Katalogbestandes einer Hochschulbibliothek 10.00 - 10.30 Dipl.-Inf. Michael Malburg, DFKI Kaiserslautern Einsatz von Tagging-Verfahren zur Verbesserung der Texterkennung Sektion VII Corpora & Lexikon (Systemvorfuehrungen) 9.00 - 9.30 Dr. Uwe Quasthoff, Universitaet Leipzig Projekt Der Deutsche Wortschatz 9.30 - 10.00 Dipl.-Inf. Markus Schulze, Universitaet Erlangen Malaga: Morphologie, Syntax und Semantik im Rahmen der links-assoziativen Grammatik Panel 10.45 - 12.15 Wie praxisrelevant ist die computerlinguistische Ausbildung? Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer, Universitaet Leipzig (Moderation) Bernhard Adam, M.A., EP Partners, Nuernberg Christoph Blaesi, M.A., Bibliographisches Inst., Mannheim Dr. Stephan Roppel, Systhema/v. Holtzbrinck, Muenchen Dr. Katharina Schmalenbach, Schmalenbach Kommunikation, Hagen Verabschiedung 12.15 - 12.30 Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer, Universitaet Leipzig Donnerstag, 20. Maerz 1997 Workshop auf der Leipziger Buchmesse im Anschluss an die Tagung: 20.3.1997 Neue Medien - eine Herausforderung fuer die Sprachverarbeitung Christoph Blaesi, M.A., Bibliographisches Inst. Mannheim Harald Elsen, M.A., Transdoku, Bonn Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Universitaet Erlangen, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer, Universitaet Leipzig Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders, Universitaet Bonn Dr. Angelika Storrer, Institut f. Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim Programmkomitee Prof. Dr. Peter Bosch, IBM WZ Heidelberg Prof. Dr. Hans Haller, Universitaet Saarbruecken Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Universitaet Erlangen Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer, Universitaet Leipzig (Vorsitz) Prof. Dr. Gerhard Knorz, FH Darmstadt Prof. Dr. Juergen Krause, Universitaet Koblenz/IZ Bonn Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders, Universitaet Bonn Prof. Dr. Dietmar Roesner, Universitaet Magdeburg Prof. Dr. Gerd Wotjak, Universitaet Leipzig Vortragsraeume und Tagungsbuero Die Tagung findet in den Hoersaelen 14-16 im 1. Stock des Hoersaalgebaeudes der Universitaet Leipzig am Augustusplatz statt. Das Tagungsbuero befindet sich im Hoersaalgebaeude der Universitaet Leipzig am Augustusplatz (Eingang vom Augustusplatz zwischen Universitaetshochhaus und Hauptgebaeude der Universitaet bzw. von der Universitaetsstrasse her). Oeffnungszeiten: Montag 17.3.1997 8.00 - 18.00 Dienstag 18.3.1997 8.00 - 18.00 Mittwoch 18.3.1997 8.00 - 13.00 Tel.: (0341) 97 32230 Unterkunft in Leipzig Es stehen unterschiedliche Hotels zur Auswahl, die Sie ueber die Fa. Saxonia Tourist-Service (Tel. (0341) 964 12 16, FAX: (0341) 964 12 44 buchen koennen. Leipziger Buchmesse Die Leipziger Buchmesse findet in diesem Jahr voraussichtlich zum letzten Mal in der Leipziger Innenstadt statt, ein guter Grund, den Tagungsbesuch fuer die Messe zu verlaengern: Im Rahmenprogramm Leipzig liest werden zahllose Lesungen, Vortraege und literarische Ereignisse veranstaltet. Darueber und ueber die Fachvortraege im Wissenschaftsforum der Buchmesse finden Sie naehere Informationen in den Tagungsunterlagen. Anfahrt Die Leipziger Universitaet erreichen Sie vom Hauptbahnhof bequem zu Fuss in 5-8 Minuten (siehe Plan). Vom Flughafen faehrt alle 20 Minuten ein Bus zum Hauptbahnhof. Mit dem Wagen kommen Sie von Sueden & Westen ueber die Abfahrt A9/Leipzig West, von Norden & Osten ueber die Abfahrt A14/Leipzig Mitte in die Innenstadt. Organisation & Auskuenfte e-mail: gldv97@informatik.uni-leipzig.de <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/gldv97/">http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/gldv97/</a> Dr. Uwe Quasthoff & Dr. Christian Wolff Universitaet Leipzig Institut fuer Informatik Augustusplatz 10/11 D-04109 Leipzig Tel.: (0341) 97-32230 FAX: (0341) 97-32299 Tagungsgebuehren & Anmeldung fuer GLDV-Mitglieder 80 DM fuer Hochschulangehoerige 100 DM fuer Studenten (ohne Tagungsband) 30 DM fuer Studenten (mit Tagungsband) 70 DM fuer sonstige Teilnehmer 140 DM Abendveranstaltung 25 DM Bankverbindung: Empfaenger: Ch. Wolff fuer GLDV97 Kto.Nr.: 79278-900 BLZ: 860 100 90 Bank: Postbank Leipzig Verwendung: GLDV 97 - Name des Teilnehmers Wir bitten um Ueberweisung des Tagungsbeitrags bis spaetestens 10. Maerz 1997. Bei kurzfristigen Anmeldungen ist Barzahlung im Tagungsbuero moeglich. ########################################################################### Formular zur Anmeldung per e-mail: Hiermit melde ich mich zur GLDV97 an. Name: Adresse: Tel. (bei Rueckfragen): e-mail: Ich nehme teil als (Zutreffendes bitte ankreuzen) _ GLDV-Mitglied _ Hochschulangehoerige(r) _ StudentIn (ohne Tagungsband) _ StudentIn (mit Tagungsband) _ sonstige(r) TeilnehmerIn _ Abendveranstaltung Moritzbastei Den Tagungsbeitrag _ ueberweise ich. _ V-Scheck liegt bei Ruecksendung erbeten an: gldv97@informatik.uni-leipzig.de oder per FAX an (0341) 9732299 From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Museums and the Web Conference: Preprints Available Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:18:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 657 (657) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: RE: 10.0758 imaging hardware and software? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 658 (658) Dear collegues, In reply to message "10.0758 imaging hardware and software?" I recommend CorelDraw 50 (or later) or Adobe PhotoShop as the best software. I myself use AutoCAD 13 together with 3DStudio for more advanced technical applications and it gives very good results, but for humanists these programs seems a bit to much. Maybe AutoCAD 12 LT (the 'cut'-version) will do, but that still is more used by constructors and those who make advanced technical drawings. I suppose CorelDraw 5.0 or Adobe PhotoShop will give you quick and good results. Another program which may be of good help: Micrografx Windows Draw 4.0. I used it for some time, but it gives some problems when scanning pictures. I haven't had any problems with my scanner when using AutoCAD, PhotoShop or CorelDraw. Hardware: The Hewlett Packard HP 4P/C gives good results for both scanning pictures and texts. And at a fair price. And don't forget upgrading the system! The HP works fine with 16 MB RAM memory, but I advice you to use minimum of 32 MB RAM (WIN95). Newsgroups: For Adobe, AutoCAD and 3DStudio there are several newsgroups available on the web. Check for instance: alt.aldus (for Aldus Freehand), alt.3d (3DStudio). Hope this is of some help. Best regards, Nico. Nico Weenink University of Utrecht The Netherlands noki@worldonline.nl From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu> Subject: New site: Common Errors in English Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:36:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 659 (659) "Common Errors in English" is a new Web site which simply and entertainingly explains a number of common spelling and usage errors in English. Created by Washington State University Professor of English Paul Brians. <<a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/index.html">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/index.html</a>> Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu <a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians</a> From: Mick Doherty <doherm@rpi.edu> Subject: KAIROS 2.1 (Spring 1997) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:36:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 660 (660) *********** A N N O U N C I N G *********** KAIROS: A JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS OF WRITING IN WEBBED ENVIRONMENTS Vol. 2 Issue #1 (Spring 1997) ..... is now available on the WWW @ <a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/</a> TABLE OF CONTENTS LOGGING ON: The Editors' Web Defensio tabularum: A Defense of Archiving Writing Created for Webbed Environments Dene Grigar, Texas Woman's University So Ya Wanna Be An Editorial Boarder ...? How Webtexts Travel from Submission to Publication in Kairos (Sometimes) Nick Carbone, University of Massachusetts and Marlboro State College Frames in Action Jason Teague, Kairos Production Manager Changes in Kairos 2.1 Compiled by Greg Siering and Mick Doherty COVERWEB Tenure and Technology: New Values, New Guidelines Coordinated by Seth Katz, Janice Walker, and Janet Cross FEATURES Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy Doug Brent, University of Calgary Collaborative Spaces and Education Daniel Anderson, University of Texas at Austin Joi Lynne Chevalier, University of Texas at Austin Embedded Visuals: Student Design in Web Spaces Tonya Browning, University of Texas at Austin The Seven Ages of Computer Connectivity John F. Barber, Northwestern State University NEWS InterMOO: Jay David Bolter with Dean Fontenot and John Chandler InterMOO: Paul LeBlanc with Claudine Keenan and Mick Doherty What's Going On Out There? Scott Kapel Overviews of Project Gutenberg, the Epiphany Project, Composition in Cyberspace, Crossroads, Annenberg/CPB, Netoric, Jesters, and the Hyperfiction Narrative Workshop. Astride the Divide: Third Epiphany Institute Gail Matthews DeNatale News Briefs Academic Access Rights ... Robert Walls, Folk Hero? ... NCTE Passes Visual Literacy Resolution ... National Writing Project News ... Coming Soon: Webbed Versions of CommonSpace, Connect, Daedalus Conference Roundup Educom 96 ... NCTE-Chicago ... Diversity University Fall Conference III ... Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility ... Mid Atlantic Alliance for Computers and Writing Calls for Participation REVIEWS Papertexts: Wizards, Wired Women, Historians, Contrarians, Eulogizers, and Other Online Personae Coordinated by John F. Barber Fourteen reviewers take turns examining and reflecting on eleven papertext books which examine the history, present and future of the online world. An interlinked hypertextual spin collapses the boundaries between reviewer(s) and text(s) and invites the reader to join the conversation. Books reviewed include Wired Women, The Gutenberg Elegies, The Wired Neighborhood, Life on the Screen, Link/Age, The Future Does Not Compute, CyberReader,Jand several others. KAIROS INTERACTIVE Respond to Kairos ... net.Thread is your instant online feedback to Kairos. ---------------------------------------------- Kairos is sponsored by the national Alliance for Computers & Writing <a href="http://english.ttu.edu/acw/">http://english.ttu.edu/acw/</a> [Contact us: Editor Mick Doherty, mick@rpi.edu] ---------------------------------------------- From: Subject: LION Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 661 (661) I would like to hear from users all over the world about LION, Literature Online, Chadwyck-Healey's literary database service at a certain price... How do we rate quality, availability, possibilities, price, etc.? After a two-month trial period I'm not convinced of its necessity. I find it expensive, slow at times, the edtions it uses are sometimes of poor quality (due to copyright problems, I assume), its web-resources are often unstable and limited. Please send comments to the HUMANIST or off-list to Onno Kosters reference librarian Leiden University Library The Netherlands Kosters@Rulub.LeidenUniv.nl From: Subject: Books at Virginia: Rare Book School Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 662 (662) BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its schedule of courses for the summer of 1997, 24 five-day non-credit courses of bookish interest held in Charlottesville, VA. The brochure and related documents are available at our Web site: <a href="http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks/rbs97/">http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks/rbs97/</a> Subscribers to this list may be particularly interested in three of the courses being offered: WEEK ONE Monday 14 July - Friday 18 July 16. TEACHING THE HISTORY OF BOOKS AND PRINTING. Aimed at academics and librarians who are *currently* teaching undergraduate or graduate courses dealing with the history of books and printing, this course will emphasize not history but pedagogy. It will compare a number of different approaches, including (but not only) printing history as the history of technology, history of art, intellectual history, business history, descriptive and historical bibliography, the dissemination of texts and their reception. The course will consider the varieties of currently available print and (especially) non-print resources available to instructors and students in the field. Instructors: Michael T. Ryan and Daniel Traister. MICHAEL T. RYAN is Director of Special Collections at the Van Pelt- Dietrich Library Center, University of Pennsylvania, and he has also worked in special collections at Stanford and the University of Chicago. This spring, he is co-teaching a course at Penn with Daniel Traister on the reception of popular literature in the early modern and modern periods. DANIEL TRAISTER is Curator of Research Services in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania. A past chair of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of ACRL, he has published important articles on rare book librarianship. He has taught annually in RBS since 1983. WEEK THREE Monday 28 July - Friday 1 August 31. INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL AND EARLY RENAISSANCE BOOKBINDING STRUCTURES. An explanation of the diversities of European bookbinding structures, up to and including the early period of more generalized practice and divisions of labor. Topics include: identification (where possible) of the main types of binding structures; their dating and provenance; the recognition and recording of materials and techniques. Instructor: Christopher Clarkson. CHRISTOPHER CLARKSON directs the Book and Manuscript Conservation Workshops and their related internship program at West Dean College, Sussex. Formerly Conservation Officer at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, he also helped develop rare book conservation programs at the Library of Congress. An internationally renowned consultant on the care of medieval manuscripts and bindings, he has taught courses in RBS since 1983. 33. TYPE, LETTERING, AND CALLIGRAPHY, 1450-1830. The development of the major formal and informal book hands, the dominant printing types of each period, and their interrelationship. Topics include: the Gothic hands; humanistic script; the Renaissance inscriptional capital; Garamond and the spread of the Aldine Roman; calligraphy from the chancery italic to the English round hand; the neo-classical book and its typography; and early commercial typography. The course presupposes a general knowledge of Western history and some awareness of the continuity of the Latin script but no special knowledge of typographical history. Instructor: James Mosley. JAMES MOSLEY is Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London, the largest library of its kind in the English-speaking world. He is a welcome lecturer in the United States on typographical subjects. He was the founding editor of the _Journal of the Printing Historical Society_. **** BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) offers a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts, and special collections. Students make a full-time commitment to any course they attend, from 8:30 am to 5 pm, Monday- Friday; most students also attend an informal dinner on the Sunday evening before their first class on Monday. In addition to the formal classes, there are early-evening public lectures and other events throughout the four weeks of RBS. The educational and professional pre-requisites for RBS courses vary. Some courses are primarily directed toward research librarians and archivists. Others are intended for academics, persons working in the antiquarian book trade, bookbinders and conservators, students of the history of books and printing, and others with an interest in the subjects being treated. The tuition for each five-day course is $595. Low-cost, air- conditioned dormitory housing will be offered on the historic central grounds of the University, and nearby hotel accommodation is readily available. Students are encouraged to take advantage of RBS's housing to arrive a few days before their course, or stay a few days later, in order to give themselves (and their families) a better chance to explore the Charlottesville area, which includes many sites of historic interest as well as various vacation attractions. For further information about any aspect of RBS write: Rare Book School, 114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498 fax: 804/924-8824 email: biblio@virginia.edu phone: 804/924-8851 URL: <a href="http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks/">http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks/</a> Prospective students for RBS courses are invited to consult the widely-distributed annual RBS Yearbooks, in which students' exhaustive evaluations of all RBS courses offered since 1989 have been published in their entirety. RBS was not held in 1992. Copies of the 1990 and 1993-1995 RBS Yearbooks are in print and available postpaid for $10 (1990 and 1993) or $15 (1994 and 1995). The 1996 RBS Yearbook is in the press, and will be available in late April for $15. Copies of the 1989 and 1991 Yearbooks are out of print. Book Arts Press/Rare Book School biblio@virginia.edu 114 Alderman Library fac-fbap@poe.acc.virginia.edu The University of Virginia (804) 924-8851 From: Subject: Job opening Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 663 (663) The TLG project is in the process of recruiting for a Programmer/Analyst. Quite obviously, we hope that the individual to be appointed will have Classics-related experience, and it is for this reason that we post this announcement to Classics-L. Please bring this information to the attention of anyone potentially qualified for the position. Interested individuals may contact me by e-mail (mcpantel@uci.edu) but formal applications should be submitted to the UCI Dept. of Human Resources (address provided below). Maria Pantelia UCI/TLG Project _____________________________________ PROGRAMMER /ANALYST II/III JOB NUMBER: CU-1471 The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project (TLG) at the University of California, Irvine is currently seeking a Programmer/Analyst II/III to join its team. The TLG Project is one of the largest collections of electronic text in the world containing more than 73-million words covering almost all ancient Greek literary texts from Homer to the Byzantine period. The successful candidate will be responsible for transferring the databank from its existing system to a new platform; for designing and implementing software to access and analyze the data in its new format, and for making the texts accessible via the WWW. He/she must have working experience with at least one high-level programming languages (preferably C++ or Perl), and the WWW (including HTML, CGI compliant programs and Java); knowledge of electronic information publishing concepts and search engines is essential. Experience with Unix systems administration is highly desirable. Knowledge of Greek and/or experience with SGML and other text encoding systems and multilingual fonts will be a plus. The University of California offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package. Position open until filled. For consideration, please submit a scannable resume and salary history to: University of California, Irvine, Human Resources, Irvine, CA 92697-4600. UCI is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to excellence through diversity. For further information please contact: Professor Maria Pantelia Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California Irvine 3450 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-5550 e-mail: mcpantel@uci.edu **Applicants must include the corresponding Job number on all correspondence. For information on preparing a scannable resume, please call (714) 824-4117. *********************************************************** Theodore F. Brunner, Director Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-5550 Phone: (714) 824-6404 FAX: (714) 824-8434 E-mail: tbrunner@uci.edu TLG Home Page: <a href="http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/">http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/</a> *********************************************************** From: Subject: Re: 10.0720 online teaching Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 664 (664) Willard McCarty writes [deleted quotation] Here is another story: Once upon a time not very long ago, at well-known university X, in the fine department Y, a certain Professor Z decided that developing interesting exercises and handouts and other material for her courses was a good idea. Being politically not without skill, she managed to pry out of a central fund for the improvement of instruction enough money to develop all these materials. She then set to work, and after some months, enjoying the benefits of a course off for development work but spending many a late night in her office, she produced them. They were together a brilliant piece of work, no question -- rich in content, well designed, visually attractive, entertaining. The course for which it was designed had an enrolment of hundreds. Clearly a success. Then Professor Z, after teaching this course for 2 years, went off to do other things. Her replacement looked at the package and decided immediately not to use it because the approach to the subject differed from his own. No subsequent instructor for that course has used the package, and now it is beginning to show serious signs of age. Thus 9-12 months of a very expensive person's time bought instruction for 800 students over a period of 2 years. Suddenly the story does not seem to be about a success but, perhaps, about a mistaken approach to instructing students. Leslie Burkholder From: Subject: curiosities online Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 665 (665) [deleted quotation] (1) Comune di Roma homepage, <<a href="http://www.comune.roma.it">http://www.comune.roma.it</a>>. (2) The Queen's own website, <<a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk">http://www.royal.gov.uk</a>>. It was unavailable when I tried. I actually did think, "I am not amused!" (3) Intel's connectedpc.com (Exploratory Technologies) site, offering for download, e.g. The Intel Selection Recognition Agent V2.0, "an experimental software application that dynamically generates hyperlinks between information on your desktop and relevant applications... and WWW sites." <<a href="http://connectedpc.com/iaweb/exptech/">http://connectedpc.com/iaweb/exptech/</a>>. (4) International Herald Tribune, <<a href="http://www.iht.com/">http://www.iht.com/</a>>. Also note Douglas Rushkoff, "Live but unplugged", on an apparent trend for big businesses to pull out of Internet advertising, because of the "painfully small" market. "Here in New York," Rushkoff writes, "college graduates with Internet skills are now churning out resumes at the speed they used to produce HTML code" -- because they can no longer find work as Web designers. Companies are discovering that the Web is not very profitable. "The safest place to be on the Web is independent," he writes. Is this not good news? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Interesting article in Scientific American Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 666 (666) Dear colleagues, In the March-issue of Scientific American there's a special report called: The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise (page 41-73). Several contributors are giving their view on very diverse subjects, such as 'Searching the web' (Clifford Lynch), 'Finding pictures on the web' (Gary Stix), 'Filtering information on the internet' (Paul Resnick), 'Multilingualism and the internet' (Bruno Oudet), Going digital (Michael Lesk) and a lot more. I really liked the article Michael Lesk wrote about digital libraries. Some lines: "Electronic libraries will make today's Internet pale by comparison. But building them will not be easy." "By 2000, half the material accessed in major libraries will be digital." Go and check it out now at your local bookstore (or somewhere). All the best, Nico. Nico Weenink University of Utrecht The Netherlands noki@worldonline.nl [Editor's note. When I tried this morning to see if the above article was online, at <<a href="http://www.sciam.com/">http://www.sciam.com/</a>>, the current issue link appeared to be broken. You may wish to try again yourselves later. --WM] From: Subject: humane technology Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 667 (667) For Humanists interested in the qualities of humanity, and thus mortality, I recommend the latest issue of the Times Literary Supplement (4902 for 14/3/97), whose most prominent review is of A.M. Daniels' book, <cite>The Price of Meat</cite>. (Wonderful photograph on the cover of the issue, giving much meaning to "price".) More particularly what should draw this issue to the attention of our seminar is Raymond Tallis, "The difficulty of being human", in which he reviews Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, <cite>Naked to the bone: Medical imaging in the twentieth century</cite>. Tallis is, by the way, Professor of Geriatric Medicine (Manchester) and author of the new book <cite>Enemies of Hope</cite>, a critique of contemporary anti-humanism and counter-enlightenment. "Kevles's wonderful -- and wonderfully told -- story uncovers the massive hinterland of human effort and struggle, of high science supported by thousands of patentable ingenuities, of infinite patience, careful observation, and of courage and craftsmanship, behind the investigations I order daily on my ward rounds", Tallis writes. "Technology in the widest sense has been one of the major forces not only for improving the understanding and diagnosis of disease -- and so making medicine safer and more effective -- but also for debrutalizing medical care.... The history of radiology nails the myth that there is something intrinsically dehumanizing about high technology and repudiates the simplistic notion, much favoured among humanist intellectuals in the twentieth century, that technology is part of a wider inhumanity in a secular, post-Enlightenment, contractual society that somehow fails to respect the mystery of the human individual. Less than a century separates the butchery of often blind, often fatal surgery from the civilities of interventional radiology. The essential humanity implicit in hi-tech solutions to the inhumane disorders of the body is poignantly signalled in the dedication of Kevles's book to the baby whose ultrasonic in utero portrait graces the same page. "And yet... and yet...." I cut off here because I do not wish to type much more, although the whole article would not be too much (except for the solicitors at the TLS, perhaps). Suffice it to say that the reviewer goes on to discuss a book that deals with the fact that "people still sometimes wish to believe in a closer relationship between physical diseases and the mind" than the materialist view of technological medicine embodies. What interests me, in the context of Humanist, is the humane potential of technology. Many of us still face the suspicion of colleagues who view our work as damaging to humane learning. We know this to be nonsense -- at least I hope we do -- but it is useful to have such eloquent confirmation that the person who wields the tool is where the morality of action lies, and that amidst all the disasters we push toward health. "There is still much progress to be made in the humanization of medical care. But if we forget how far we have already travelled, we shall be paralyzed by dangerous despair. Equally dangerous is the New Age assumption that technological advance is inimical to empathy, kindness and real care. Science and humanity, kindness and cure, can work hand in hand." Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Reclaiming Voice: Ethnographic Inquiry and Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 668 (668) Qualitative Research Final Reminder for Proposal Submissions Proposal submissions are due April 1, 1997 for the conference Reclaiming Voice: Ethnographic Inquiry and Qualitative Research in a Postmodern Age. This conference is jointly sponsored by USC, UCLA, and UC Irvine from June 20-22, 1997. The conference is intended for those of us who are concerned about working with alternative methodological and theoretical frameworks. Keynote speakers include Michele Foster, Yvonna Lincoln, Peter McLaren, and William G. Tierney. For more information on the conference, including the format for proposals and/or conference registration, check out our world wide website at <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/chepa/voices.html">http://www.usc.edu/dept/chepa/voices.html</a> or the listserve at chepa@mizar.usc.edu. Faculty members are encouraged to pass this message along to their students. [Please note: one of the topic areas for this conference is "creative use of the Internet and film"; another is "Meta-theorization of research methodology." Both should interest us, no? --WM] From: Subject: job at Perseus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 669 (669) THE PERSEUS PROJECT, TUFTS UNIVERSITY <<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/</a>> RESEARCHER: Two year grant funded position. Individual will have primary responsibility for researching and cataloguing Greek sculpture for the Perseus sculpture catalog. Will research the publication history of sculpture pieces, write the required documentation for each piece, and link data into Perseus format. Position requires comprehensive knowledge of Greek sculpture, excellent writing and editorial skills, computer experience on the Mac platform, working knowledge of large databases, and good research and interpersonal skills. Advanced degree in Art History (**PhD preferred**), UNIX, and 4th Dimension and POSTGRES experience helpful. To apply for this position, please send two copies of a resume and two copies of a cover letter to: Corita Johnson Tufts University Human Resources 169 Holland Street Somerville, MA 02144 U.S.A. Tufts is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/</a> From: Subject: Re: 10.0780 humane technology Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 670 (670) This Thursday, I underwent a minor operation to have a lump removed from one of the fingers of my left hand I will not bore with the details of waiting time spent in corridors, semi-naked upon a trolley, or spread-eagled upon the operating table awaiting the anesthetist's arrival while a transistor radio bawled out the French top ten. I would suggest, however, that the use of sophisticated technology - specifically here a local anesthetic - by no means 'humanizes the relationship between doctor and patient. Once the dope had taken effect, and my finger was thoroughly numb, the surgeon arrived, with his retinue. In no time at all, my hand was isolated, and sheets were arranged in such a way that neither could I see what was going on, nor could the medical team see me. The operation came off amid much good-humoured banter about BMWs, the government's attitude to doctors, and whether or not the surgeon had accidentally sliced through a nerve ('I'm allowed a nerve, at the end of a busy session!") On a couple of occasions, a nurse poked her head around the sheet and suppressed her giggles long enough to inquire as to my comfort ('Ca va, monsieur?' 'Ca va'). Finally, everyone bustled out of the theatre, and by the time the nurse took down the sheets which had isolated me from my own member, she and I were the only people in the room. Now, I'm not really complaining about all this - it was, in fact, rather funny. And my finger was relieved of its strange growth, without my feeling any pain. I would certainly not wish to return to a time when nothing other than a bottle of rum would be available. But the technique also enables the doctor to distance himself quite remarkably from his/her patient, and to reduce him or her to the organ to be operated upon. On a far smaller scale, and with benign rather than horrendous effects, it reproduces the alienation from his own handiwork that enables the bombardier to commit mass-murder. Timothy Mason IUFM de Versailles mason@cie.fr PS - yet another marvel of modern technology - the financial bureaucracy of the social security system - allowed the surgeon to relieve me of a little over 100 pounds for his pains, while also receiving an extra whack from the public purse. All done by computer, too. From: Anita Jawary <anitaj@cs.monash.edu.au> Subject: Re: 10.0781 Scientific American article Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:31:23 +1100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 671 (671) [the following included as part of a longer note --WM] I teach communication skills in the Dpt of Computer Science at Monash University and have been asked to teach first year students internal documentation. My background is in journalism. To begin with, I believe I will have to teach myself C programming. This, for me, seems a mammoth task. Do you know of any good 'do-it-yourself' books? Further, do you know of any good books on the teaching of internal documentation? Regards, Anita Jawary ============ Anita Jawary Department of Computer Science Monash University Wellington Road, Clayton 3168, Victoria, Australia. anitaj@cs.monash.edu.au ph:(03) 9905-5210 Fax:(03) 9905-5146 URL:<a href="http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~anitaj/">http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~anitaj/</a> From: Leo Robert Klein <kleinl@is2.nyu.edu> Subject: Ten Years Since Coombs, Renear & DeRose Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 04:18:55 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 672 (672) While writing a paper for class, it struck me that the article on "Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Precessing" which appeared in the Nov. 1987 issue of Communications of the ACM is almost ten years old. It's probably one of the best sales jobs on "descriptive" markup I've ever read though I think its criticism of "procedural" markup and the attention paid to fonts, etc., a bit too harsh and somewhat old school. I also don't think its claim that "descriptive" markup is actually easier than "procedural" markup has been borne out--at least up to now. Does anyone have any speculations on this or on the article in general? It's certainly worth the reading. LEO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein 70 Washington Square South Reference Associate New York, NY. 10012 General & Humanities Reference Tel.: (212) 998-2500 Elmer Holmes Bobst Library Fax: (212) 995-4383 New York University Email: kleinl@is2.nyu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mary Dee Harris <mdharris@acm.org> Subject: Re: 10.0781 Scientific American article Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 13:04:56 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 673 (673) The CURRENT issue for Scientific American is the April one (I was just reading mine last night) so you'll need to go to the Previous issue to look at the recommended articles. But the March's there -- and I concur that it was a good section on the Internet! Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 202-387-0626 Language Technology, Inc. 202-387-0625 (fax) 2153 California St. NW mdharris@acm.org Washington, DC 20008 mdharris@aol.com From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@samsara.LAW.CWRU.Edu> Subject: Re: 10.0781 Scientific American article Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 08:36:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 674 (674) Nico Weenink writes: : In the March-issue of Scientific American there's a special report called: : The Internet: Fulfilling the Promise (page 41-73). Several contributors are : giving their view on very diverse subjects, such as 'Searching the web' : (Clifford Lynch), 'Finding pictures on the web' (Gary Stix), 'Filtering : information on the internet' (Paul Resnick), 'Multilingualism and the : internet' (Bruno Oudet), Going digital (Michael Lesk) and a lot more. : I really liked the article Michael Lesk wrote about digital libraries. Some : lines: : : "Electronic libraries will make today's Internet pale by comparison. But : building them will not be easy." : "By 2000, half the material accessed in major libraries will be digital." : Go and check it out now at your local bookstore (or somewhere). This report, which I highly recommend, is available at the following URL: <<a href="http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397intro.html">http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397intro.html</a>> -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH EMAIL: junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu URL: <a href="http://samsara.law.cwru.edu">http://samsara.law.cwru.edu</a> NOTE: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu no longer exists From: Subject: Old Testament Life and Literature, Gerald A. Larue, Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 675 (675) online The complete text, once a classroom standard in Biblical studies, _Old Testament Life and Literature_, by Dr. Gerald A. Larue, is now available online at URL <<a href="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/gerald_larue/otll/">http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/gerald_larue/otll/</a>> Dr. Larue is professor emeritus in biblical history and archaeology at the University of Southern California, and has had several distinguished careers in related subjects. (The text reflects publication date of 1968, and Dr. Larue acknowledges that much research has occured since then, and the book cannot replace a more up-to-date survey.) LAT [Any additional examples of this genre (the e-postprint) I would be very glad of. See my tentative typology at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/overview.html">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/overview.html</a>>, category II.B.2. --WM] From: Seth Katz <seth@bradley.bradley.edu> Subject: CFP for TLWC: Teaching Literature with Computers Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 17:04:52 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 676 (676) Call for Papers for _TLWC: Teaching Literature with Computers_ a refereed, Web-based online collection, available at <a href="http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc">http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc</a> _TLWC: Teaching Literature with Computers_ invites contributions of articles that describe and analyze the use of computer technology in teaching literature. Articles should provide detailed accounts of the use of computers in teaching literature, in or out of the classroom, whether for specific activities, lessons, units, courses, or curricula. Articles should briefly describe the environment (hardware, software, layout) in which the class is taught, provide some account of student demographics, and analyze the computer use they describe: what is the particular pedagogical utility of this use of computers? What does it accomplish? And what does it accomplish that is different from what one might do by traditional means? How does this use of computers to teach literature particularly succeed? And what are its weaknesses? And how would the author improve the activity in the future? Articles may discuss any use of computers in teaching literature, including (but not limited to) synchronous and asynchronous discussion, MOOs, using and authoring hypertext/hypermedia, CD-ROMs, the World-Wide Web, online textbooks, word processing, and authoring software and multimedia packages. Articles should focus primarily on classroom and course-related applications of computer technology. Articles that relate classroom applications of computer technology to particular theoretical concerns are also welcome. Please submit articles as HTML files or as ASCII text. We encourage the submission of * articles that consist of multiple text and graphics files and that take advantage of the full capacities of hypertext; * articles accompanied and supported by a rich range of course materials, samples of student works, and links to relevant Websites; and, * plain-text articles. Guidelines for submitting articles via ftp may be found on the TLWC homepage at <a href="http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc">http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc</a> Please address all inquiries and proposals for articles to the Editor, Seth Katz, at seth@bradley.bradley.edu Hard-copy correspondence to the Editor may be addressed to: TLWC c/o Seth Katz Department of English Bradley University Peoria, Illinois 61625 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Seth R. Katz | Editor | Assistant Professor _TLWC: Teaching Literature with Computers_ | Department of English <a href="http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc">http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc</a> | Bradley University -------------------------------------------| Peoria, IL 61625 seth@bradley.bradley.edu Phone: (309) 677-2479 <a href="http://bradley.bradley.edu/~seth/">http://bradley.bradley.edu/~seth/</a> Fax: (309) 677-2330 From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: Speech and Language Technology (SALT) Club Workshop on EVALUATION IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:28:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 677 (677) Call for Abstracts and Registration Information Speech and Language Technology (SALT) Club Workshop on EVALUATION IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY June 17-18, 1997 Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Sponsored by Department of Trade and Industry and Institute for Language Speech and Hearing (ILASH) and Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Evaluation is now an issue no speech and language researcher can afford to ignore. The new empiricism in speech and language research, occasioned by the massive increase in on-line corpora, together with the need for well understood system performance characteristics implicit in the very concept of language engineering, have pushed the topic of evaluation onto the agendas of most researchers. Current evaluation metrics may be incomplete, simplifying, distorting, or just plain irritating, but they are here to stay and our best option is to make them better. This workshop aims to bring together researchers in speech and language with an interest in evaluation in order to reflect on their experiences with evaluation to date and to discuss how to improve metrics and how to introduce metrics into areas where they have not yet evolved. Abstracts of up to 500 words describing proposed presentations are invited on topics including (but not limited to): * the role, significance, and limitations of evaluation in speech and language research * critical analysis of existing evaluation regimes or metrics (e.g. MUC,TREC,ATIS,CSR) * discussion or presentation of the EU-sponsored EAGLES proposals on evaluation and standardisation * how to foster small-scale, low overhead evaluation (e.g. in the the upcoming EPSRC-sponsored Speech and Language programme) * proposals for new evaluation regimes or metrics for language systems that carry out tasks such as: - speech recognition - information extraction - information retrieval - machine translation - natural language generation - speech synthesis - spoken language understanding - topic spotting in spoken language or for component technologies used in these systems, such as: - tagging - parsing - coreference - proper name recognition and classification in text - discourse segmentation * results of evaluation studies carried out on speech or language systems or component technologies * tools for evaluation -- scorers, visualisation tools, markup tools * data provision for evaluation -- proposals for corpus markup In the tradition of relatively informal SALT workshops, authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a presentation of roughly 30 minutes. Abstracts, or complete papers, should authors choose to submit them (length limit 3500 words), will be published in an informal workshop proceedings. Abstracts will be reviewed by a local programme committee consisting of: Dr. R. Gaizauskas (chair) Prof. Y. Wilks Dr. S. Renals Dr. P. Green Abstracts due: May 1 Notification to authors: May 15 Camera-ready: June 1 Early registration deadline: May 15 For review abstracts should be submitted in ASCII, postscript, or LaTeX (single, self-contained file only, please). Final abstracts/papers should be in LaTeX -- authors of accepted presentations will be given more detailed instructions on formatting later. Registration and accomodation details will follow shortly. Further information may be obtained by contacting: Dr. Robert Gaizauskas SALT Steering Committee email: R.Gaizauskas@dcs.shef.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)114 222 1827 fax: +44 (0)114 222 1810/278 0972 www: <a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk</a> University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP, U.K. [registration form omitted] From: Yorick Wilks <yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: Human-Computer Conversation at Bellagio, time shortens Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:20:53 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 678 (678) FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Bellagio, Italy, July 14th-16th 1997 This message just mentions that the deadline for papers is near if you want to submit something---send any reasonable short paper to the address at the bottom. Paper is preferred but email (ascii and NO coded forms PLEASE) if youre desperate and nothing over ten pages, by the end of March. The meeting is definitely going ahead: a good range of dialogue demos is promised, some from the VERY LARGEST software companies. Details about registration and hotels, along with everything else, including a link so you can look at Bellagio and the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni are on our WWW URL: <a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/</a> I reprint a registration form here, and my address for paper submission is in the footer: *********************** In order to register for the workshop and to reserve your hotel rooms please fill in the following information and return it, together with payment of the workshop registration fee of 180 pounds ($300) plus the cost of 1-night's hotel accommodation to: David Levy, Intelligent Research Ltd., 89, Constantine Road, London NW3 2LP, England. 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Please send to: David Levy, Intelligent Research Ltd., 89 Constantine Road, London NW3 2LP, England. ********************************* Professor Yorick Wilks AI and NN Research Group, Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 282 5561 fax: (44) 114 278 0972 email: yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk www: <a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick</a> From: Ecole d'ete <esslli97@ura1507.univ-paris13.fr> Subject: ESSLLI'97 (Call for participation) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:40:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 679 (679) (we apologize if you receive this message twice) ESSLLI'97 European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information _________ Aix-en-Provence, France August 11 - 22, 1997 <a href="http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~esslli97">http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~esslli97</a> _________ Contents : - General Information - Registration Form - Programme & contacts +---------------------+ | GENERAL INFORMATION | +---------------------+ Logic, Language and Information have attracted and brought together a large number of active researchers from disciplines such as Logic, Computer Science, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, who consider the use of logical techniques (broadly conceived) as a thread unifying their research efforts. The European Summer School in LLI (ESSLLI) has become the main meeting place for young researchers and research students in this rapidly growing field. ESSLLI is a unique, interdisciplinary event, with no counterparts in Europe or elsewhere in the world. The main focus of the summer school is the interface between logic, linguistics and computation as far as it concerns the modelling of human language and cognitive abilities. The 1997 summer school programme includes courses, workshops and symposia covering a variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Language, Computation, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language and Logic. ESSLLI'97 will take place at the Aix-en-Provence Faculty of Arts(University of Aix-Marseille I). This Faculty is close to the old town centre. There are regular connections by bus (25 mns) from the international airport of Marseille and by train (30mns) from Marseille. The Faculty is at a 10 minute walking distance from the railway station. [registration and programme information omitted] From: "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev@cs.columbia.edu> Subject: Deadline Extended: CFP: ACL/EACL Workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 09:31:00 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 680 (680) ***** DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!!!! DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!!!! READ BELOW ***** ACL'97/EACL'97 Workshop on INTELLIGENT SCALABLE TEXT SUMMARIZATION (at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference) Madrid, Spain July 11, 1997 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS With the explosion in the quantity of on-line information in recent years, demand for text summarization technology appears to be growing. Commercial companies are increasingly starting to offer text summarization capabilities, often bundled with information retrieval tools. These recent developments offer opportunities as well as substantial challenges for research in text summarization. In general, such developments create a practical need for summarization systems which scale up when applied to large volumes of unrestricted text. At ACL'97/EACL'97, a particular challenge is to identify the niches where natural language processing (NLP) can make an impact. For example, there are applications which require characterizing the content of large text collections to support data mining functions, but NLP has not been used much in such applications. Traditionally, shallower techniques have been leveraged to achieve the desired levels of scalability and domain-independence, but recent advances in robust information extraction as well as approaches integrating statistical and symbolic techniques open up possibilities for more powerful yet scalable summarization techniques. With the renewed interest in text summarization, another challenge is to develop criteria to help evaluate different methodologies, in order to better advise investors and the interested public on technology choices. While there have been focused workshops in the past on text summarization, they have pre-dated the tremendous expansion of on-line information access fueled by the recent growth of the World Wide Web. This workshop would bring together researchers interested in advancing the scientific frontiers of text summarization to meet these new practical challenges and opportunities. Submissions are invited on original research in all aspects of text summarization, including, but not limited to: * Statistical, linguistic, and knowledge-based techniques in intelligent summarization * Multimodal summarization strategies * Exploiting advances in information extraction in summarization * Text generation for scalable summarization * Classification criteria for summarization systems * Evaluation methods and metrics * Summarization in operational contexts: requirements, architectures, lessons learned * Tailoring summaries to particular users, tasks, and contexts * Theoretical foundations, including cognitive models * Combining scalability with abstraction in summarization * Summarization across multiple documents/sources * Multilingual summarization Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance, and significance of results. Attendees at the workshop MUST register for the main ACL/EACL conference. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Udo Hahn University of Freiburg Julian Kupiec Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Inderjeet Mani The MITRE Corporation (co-chair) Mark Maybury The MITRE Corporation (co-chair) Kathy McKeown Columbia University Boyan Onyshkevych US Department of Defense Dragomir Radev Columbia University Lisa Rau SRA International Kazuo Tanaka NTT Human Interface Laboratories SUBMISSION INFORMATION DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 25, 1997 (the previously announced deadline, March 15, has been extended by 10 days). Acceptance Notification: April 28, 1997 Interested participants should submit a previously unpublished paper addressing a specific text summarization issue or reporting novel methods and results. Authors should indicate whether the paper is being submitted elsewhere. As the papers will be reviewed anonymously, please do not include author names in the body of the paper; instead provide a separate title page with title, author names and email addresses. The paper length (excluding separate title page) should be no longer than 8 pages. For email submissions, please submit postscript. (If the postscript doesn't print properly here, you may eventually have to submit a hardcopy, so please budget enough time for that.) For hardcopy submissions, please submit FIVE copies of the paper. Please send submissions to: Inderjeet Mani The MITRE Corporation, W640 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd McLean, VA 22102-3481, USA Phone: 1-703-883-6149 Fax: 1-703-883-1279 Email: imani@mitre.org From: Subject: RE: 10.0757 imaging hardware and software? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 681 (681) In my last query on this message I recommended Adobe Photoshop and CorelDraw 5 as software. There are just a few things I would like to say/remind you of. CorelDraw 5 is not as stabile as Adobe Photoshop. It often happens that the computer simply stops working. The only option you have then is: close all programms, turn down your computer and start again. On the other hand: CorelDraw is quite an easy program to work with and it has lots of great tools. [deleted quotation]involves [deleted quotation]degree, [deleted quotation]parts, [deleted quotation]that [deleted quotation]assume [deleted quotation]32MB [deleted quotation] The 200MHz Pentium will do, but maybe it's better to use 64MB RAM when you are going to use CorelDraw and a scanner (for instance the Hewlett Packard HP4P). If you are running Windows, CorelDraw AND scannersoftware the system probably will going to stutter a little. Besides: working with 64MB RAM will be much faster. Most of the time scanners are sold with a whole bunch of software and tools for free (!). Maybe it's handy to compare prices of both software and scanners with software. Good luck, Nico Weenink University of Utrecht The Netherlands noki@worldonline.nl From: Nico Weenink <noki@worldonline.nl> Subject: Software O.C.R. Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:42:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 682 (682) Dear collegues, I bought a Hewlett Packard HP 4P flatbed scanner a few weeks ago. After a period of scanning and experimenting with pictures I would like change more over to scanning text. I worked with OmniPage Pro for about a year or so and I liked it a lot. But maybe there is other, better software available for this. Can someone help me out? Any comments are very welcome. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Nico. Nico Weenink Student at the University of Utrecht The Netherlands Department of Literature Department of Linguistics noki@worldonline.nl From: Tom Horton <tom@cse.fau.edu> Subject: WordCluster text retrieval program Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:17:00 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 683 (683) Almost 5 years ago I wrote a small program called WordCluster, which attempts to provide a means to find locations in a text where terms from a set of categories are located "close" together. The program has been distributed as shareware on the CD that accompanies the TACT publication from MLA. A few people have used it (that I know of). Request: If you've used the program and have any comments or complaints, I'd like to hear about them. Reason: This program is being introduced to a class of software engineering students as a case study for problem and program understanding, and software maintenance. The students are being asked to find the two bugs/problems that I know are there. Perhaps you can tell me about some more! (We'll distribute an update at the end of the term, but don't expect more than bug fixes.) They may do more with the program for a second project. WordCluster was developed as a prototype to see if I could use an algorithm to find what are known as "image clusters" in Shakespeare's works. (The clusters must be known in advance.) It seemed effective to me for this purpose, and also found small sections of texts (allusions). It was fun to watch it find Old Testament passages that were referred to in the Gospels at those points when they say, "And this fulfilled the words of the prophet who said....") Without a significant update, I wouldn't consider it a serious or significant tool for scholars. (Just a command-line interface, I'm afraid.) But everytime I used Altavista to search the Web for something complex, I think about it wishfully.... Perhaps more signficant is that this is my first serious effort to incorporate my interests in developing text software into the courses I teach in software development. If this provides any results that might benefit Humanists, I'll post them here. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA Phone: 561/367-2674 FAX: 561/367-2800 Internet: tom@cse.fau.edu WWW: <a href="http://www.cse.fau.edu/~tom">http://www.cse.fau.edu/~tom</a> From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu> Subject: Can you identify this story? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 09:38:45 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 684 (684) In Salman Rushdie's _The Satanic Verses_, p. 404, occurs the following passage: "Title and author eluded him, but the story came back vividly. A man and a woman had been intimate friends (never lovers) for all their adult lives. On his twenty-first birthday (they were both poor at the time) she had given him, as a joke, the most horrible, cheap glass vase she could find, its' colours a garish parody of Venetian gaiety. Twenty yearws later, when they were both successful and greying, she visited his home and quarrelled with him over his treatment of a mutual friend. In the course of the quarrel her eye fell upon the old vase, which he still kept in pride of place on his sitting-room mantelpiece, and, without pausing in her tirade, she swept it to the floor, smashing it beyond home of repair. He never spoke to her again; when she died, half a century later, he refused to visit her deathbed or attend her funeral, even though messengers were sent to tell himthat these were her dearest wishes. 'Tell her,' he said, to the emissaries, 'that she never knew how much I valued what she broke.' The emissaries argued, pleaded, raged. If she had not known how much meaning he had invested in the trifle, how could she in all fairness be blamed? And had she not made countless attempts, over the years, to apologize and atone? And she was dying, for heaven's sake; could not this ancient, childish rift be healed at the last? They had lost a lifetime's friendship; could they not even say goodbye? 'No,' said the unforgiving man. --'Really because of the vase? Or are you concealing some other, darker matter?' --'It was the vase,' he answered, 'the vase, and nothing but.'" Can anyone identify this story? Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu <a href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians">http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians</a> From: MNIELSEN34@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0780 humane technology Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:46:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 685 (685) Dr. McCarty (& other seminar members) - Thank you, first off, for the tips about the Raymond Tallis and B. Holtzman-Kevles books reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. I may find these sources very helpful in my own work. Also -- and please pardon my inexperience in this realm of research and literary criticism -- it was not clear to me whether you were referring to a supplement to a European "Times" or whether the review is in the New York Times. Please clarify if possible. Secondly, I have a comment regarding your (or Tallis') assertion that "Science and humanity, kindness and cure, can work hand in hand." While in principle, I wholeheartedly agree with this philosophy as one that can humanely guide medical research and technology, I need to make a distinction between long-term ideals and realistic daily practice in the field of medicine. Politically and theologically speaking, I find it hard to believe, even if science and humanity *can* work hand in hand, that they actually will on a consistent basis. The modern -- at least modern American -- developments in medicine are driven very much by profit-motive. I see history's lessons as teaching us that profit-motive -- among other problems that it raises -- too often runs counter to the needs of the majority of any population. Though it may sound crass and shallow, as a Christian and a bit of a Marxist I feel most of us would be "better off dead" than subjected to the whims of the scientfic and economic juggernaut that is modern medicine. In short, the time is upon us when we must ask: How far is too far? For a cogent analysis of some of these ethical/theological problems -- one not colored by the recent New Age influences -- I recommend "The Technological Bluff" by Jacques Ellul (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990). From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 10.0780 humane technology Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:10:44 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 686 (686) Dear Willard and readers: At the risk of ultimate oversimplification, I would observe that from what I understand of (Freudian) psychology, it might be possible to suggest that the antagonism and "resistance" to technology in its medical forms, and it has been technology since the first herbs were gathered and used, whether as poultice or brew, or steamed for inhalation in some cave, arises from anxiety, and that anxiety itself ( a difficult thing to describe and analyzed as Freud noted long ago in THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY) arises from the fundamental human nature of narcissism. That is, the integrity of the body itself, as protected by the mind that observes itself violated. The infant itself demonstrates this from the moment of its birth, both the fear of being touched to be cleaned, and the relief subsequent upon that. What comes from outside the skin is fearsome, fearful, and a potential danger. Resistance to any treatment is a form of attack upon oneself, and the instrument that attacks, that cuts and wounds is something alien and often novel. That is not to mention the invisible attackers that Pasteur discovered: germs. And we know how vaccination itself has had a a difficult history from the start. All that is easily extended to the new, and the newfangled instruments that attack us, our minds, our habits, our ways of seeing and doing ordinary things. The original Luddite is perhaps the ID itself. But, as we are species dependent upon prostheses from the hour of birth, clothing and whatever else it takes to get food and shelter, etc., we are both impelled to invent new ones, and anxious about their effects on ourselves. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: John Price-Wilkin <jpwilkin@umich.edu> Subject: character set resources from HTI Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 22:13:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 687 (687) For persons interested in character set and font support issues, the following two resources are provided: (1) Scholar's Press makes available a public domain Greek font (SPIonic) with support for diacritics and breathings. Instructions and an sdata.map for adding support for SPIonic to SoftQuad's Panorama are provided at: <a href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/sgml/panorama/greek.html">http://www.hti.umich.edu/sgml/panorama/greek.html</a> (2) A paper on the "Options for Presentation of Multilingual Text: Use of the Unicode Standard," with particular attention provided to the Web and humanities computing, is provided at: <a href="http://dns.hti.umich.edu/htistaff/pubs/1997/janete.01/">http://dns.hti.umich.edu/htistaff/pubs/1997/janete.01/</a> From: "R. A. Shoaf" <rashoaf@clas.ufl.edu> Subject: EXEMPLARIA at Kalamazoo: WWW Preprint Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 08:26:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 688 (688) In keeping with its recent initiative in electronic preprints, EXEMPLARIA is pleased to announce the WWW launch of its panel on "Hypertext, Ideology, and Theory" for the 32nd International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI (Session 412 Room 1005 Fetzer) at URL <a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria/prepri.html">http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria/prepri.html</a> where all the panelists' papers are accessible in their entirety (with "mailto" links for the convenience of browsers who wish to communicate with the panelists): "Walking the Point: Hypertext, Ideology, Postmodernism, and Medieval Studies" Gregory Roper (Northwest Missouri State University) "The Realities of Retooling: Reflections on the Economies of the Community of Scholars and the Internet" Christine Rose (Portland State University) "Profiting Pedants: Symbolic Capital, Text Editing, and Cultural Reproduction" Martin Shichtman (Eastern Michigan University) and Laurie Finke (Kenyon College) The papers will remain online until Monday, May 12. My fellow editors and I will be happy to respond to comments -- feel free to use the "mailto" link on the main page, where you will also find information about EXEMPLARIA, including the titles of forthcoming articles. Thank you, R. Allen Shoaf *************************************************************** R. Allen Shoaf , Alumni Professor of English University of Florida, 4338 Turlington Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-7310 President, The Howe Society of the Smathers Libraries, University of Florida Senior Editor, EXEMPLARIA, exempla@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu <a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria">http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria</a> <a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~rashoaf/">http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~rashoaf/</a> Page Manager, LABYRINTH Scholarly Publications: <a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/professional/pubs/scholarly_pubs.html">http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/professional/pubs/scholarly_pubs.html</a> FAX 352.392-0860; VOICE 352.371-7149; 392-5299 725 NE 6th Street, Gainesville, FL 32601-5567 From: Dan Price <dprice@union1.tui.edu> Subject: A recent Posting Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:26:51 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 689 (689) In a recent posting ( actually it was Vol. 10, No. 776) you listed and then commented the following: Companies are discovering that the Web is not very profitable. "The safest place to be on the Web is independent," he writes. Is this not good news? I am not so sure. While I am anything but a promoter of Fortune 500 companies, I also recognize that they have the money and resources to push the creativity of the Web as well as the incentive to make it more available to more people. Surely it is busines that is pushing the use of the information resources in education, rather than a vague "desire to know." Without that investment, we could be simply looking at an expensive, momentary toy for the information elite. What will the fad be next decade? Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, The Center for Distant Learning The Union Institute 440 E. McMillan Cincinnati OH 45206 (513) 861 6400 dprice@tui.edu From: Nico Weenink <noki@worldonline.nl> Subject: RE: 10.0783 C programming Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:29:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 690 (690) Dear collegues, In reply to message '10.0783 C programming' I recommend the books published by QUE. I teached myself JAVA (_Using JAVA, second edition_) and we are now using _Using SGML_ by Martin Colby and David Jackson in class. QUE books are very clear and easy to understand. Maybe you can contact the Product Director of QUE and ask if there is a C or C++ version available too. The address: Benjamin Milstead Product Director QUE Corporation 201 W. 103rd Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46290 United States of America fax: (317) 581-4663 e-mail: bmilstead@que.mcp.com <a href="http://www.mcp.com/que">http://www.mcp.com/que</a> Good luck and best regards, Nico. Nico Weenink Student at the University of Utrecht The Netherlands Department of Literature Department of Linguistics noki@worldonline.nl From: Mavis Cournane <cournane@curia.ucc.ie> Subject: Re: 10.0783 C programming? anything since Coombs &al.? Date: 18 Mar 1997 10:54:40 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 691 (691) I found Leo's remarks on DeRose, Renear and Coombs article on markup quite interesting. I hadn't realised that it was ten yrs old! At the moment I'm busying myself creating a taxonomy of markup. Many different writers (Alschuler, Maler to name but a few) have very interpretations on what Prescriptive, Descriptive, Procedural, Declarative etc mean. With the help of Mike Sperberg-McQueen we have worked out the following and I'd be interested in some comments. Any gross errors are my own not Mike's. 1. Prescriptive v Descriptive works better when applied to Document Grammars as opposed to individual pieces of markup. I think the linguists might share this perspective. A prescriptive document grammar would reject the following on the grounds of being ungrammatical: <q>To boldly go where nobody has gone before</q>, whereas a descriptive DG, merely seeking to state this split infinitive exists would have no problem with it. A descriptive DG tends to be used when encoding things created in the past, whereas a prescriptive one is used when you are encoding a future creation. 2. Procedural (imperative) v Declarative markup. This refers to how we interpret information. Procedural markup would be instructions like: skip 2 lines, indent 3 columns declarative markup would be : <chapter> However, there is a subcategory here, ie. markup which can sustain both a declarative and a procedural interpretation e.g \skip (a TeX macro). It is procedural if you take it to mean "leave a blank line". It can be declarative if you interpreate it as "there is a blank line here" There is a second subcategory in markup where within some markup systems some individual pieces of markup are solely procedural and some solely declarative. I'm probably stretching it a fair bit, but within TEI perhaps <step> and <state> could be seen in this way. If anyone has examples to fit this I'd be interested. 3. Logical (analytic) v Visual (presentational). This refers to types of information. Visual markup can again have either a declarative or procedural interp. e.g \bd foo could be entirely visual with a procedural interp if taken to mean "output foo in bold", again it could be declarative if taken to mean the following "word foo is in bold" Another grey area is the following: \Chapter {intro} while it doesn't directly express the document structure, it could be interpretated as logical. 4. Metamarkup The best example for this that I can come up with is SGML declarations ie. markup in the metalanguage which defines that language. In the DeRose article there was a mention of Referential markup. I haven't chewed on that one yet. Here is a table of examples Logical Visual Decl <placename> <hi rend="italic"> Proced ? \bd One of the most interesting articles I've read on markup recently is in the SGML '96 Conference Proceedings. It is by Liam Quin <title>Suggestive Markup: Explicit Relationships in Descriptive and Prescriptive DTD's Has anyone any comments on suggestive markup? Apologies for the length of this Mavis From: Subject: Re: 10.0781 Scientific American article Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 692 (692) There is also a very interesting "the next 50 years" issue of the Commnications of the Association for Computing Machinery (February or March issue--this is the ACM's 50th anniversary year), featuring predictions from a lot of the respected people in computing. Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History [Humanists may wish to keep an eye (those who have one to spare) on the ACM Web site, in particular at the CACM page, whose URL is <http://www.acm.org/cacm/>. January 1997 is up now. --WM] From: John Price-Wilkin Subject: Making of America Project at University of Michigan Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 20:33:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 693 (693) Making of America at the University of Michigan The University of Michigan Digital Library is pleased to announce the availability of an extraordinary new electronic collection of American writing. A part of the Making of America project, these materials are a powerful demonstration of several pieces of digital library technology developed by the University of Michigan. Currently included in the UM online collection are some 200,000 pages of American publications from 1850 to 1900; by mid-year, the collection will extend to include approximately 650,000 pages, including several journals. The University of Michigan MOA collection is available at: http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/. The Making of America project is a collaborative effort between Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Funded primarily by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the focus of the project is American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Cornell and Michigan are working to develop a distributed architecture to provide access to the two collections through a single interface at each institution. Materials currently available from Cornell may be found at http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/ Work is underway to facilitate cross-collection searching for the two efforts. Digital Library Resources for the Humanities The implementation at Michigan demonstrates a number of unique approaches to building systems for access to scholarly resources. Capitalizing on Cornell University's extensive experience in preservation-quality imaging, pages were scanned as 600dpi TIFF images through a conversion bureau, using specifications jointly written by Cornell and Michigan. In a subsequent process designed by Digital Library Production staff at the University of Michigan, a subset of the scanned pages were treated with locally developed routines for automatic OCR. A relatively low-level of SGML, using the TEI Guidelines, was applied to the OCR. This encoding is used to hold bibliographic information, text, article-level information in journals, and page references. It also serves as an extensible framework as titles are identified for more thorough proofing and richer encoding. Images are stored as high resolution, preservation-quality 600dpi TIFF images, and are rendered to various levels of GIF in real time. SGML-based Access Systems We hope that users of the system will appreciate some of the functionality developed through UM's nearly eight years of experience with deploying SGML-based access and delivery systems. Attractive, easily navigated displays of results showing the number of occurrences per page are combined with displays of the page image, circumventing many of the problems encountered when relying on OCR alone. As we have opportunities to "clean up" and more richly encode OCR'd texts, the system will begin to show dynam ically-rendered HTML with links to the page images. The mechanisms used for the MOA system will be provided to participants in the UM's SGML Server Program (see http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/). Next Steps Development and design of the system continues. The current implementation will be exhaustively vetted with focus groups of local users, especially experts in the fields covered. We would also encourage others to send comments and suggestions to moa-info@umich.edu. Also, as time and resources permit, texts will be extracted from the system, carefully proofed and corrected, and encoded at a much higher level of SGML. These enriched resources will allow us to continue to improve functionality in a numbe r of different directions. 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EYAL AMIRAN LISA BRAWLEY STUART MOULTHROP JOHN UNSWORTH Editors, Postmodern Culture -------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS Arkady Plotnitsky, "'But It Is Above All Not True': Derrida, Relativity, and the 'Science Wars'" Maria Damon, "Lenny Bruce's 1962 Obscenity Trial: Public Culture and the Jewish Entertainer as Cultural Lightning Rod" Tony Thwaites, "Currency Exchanges: The Postmodern, Vattimo, Et Cetera, Among Other Things (Et Cetera)" Heikki Raudaskoski, "'The Feathery Rilke Mustaches and Porky Pig Tattoo on Stomach': High and Low Pressures in _Gravity's Rainbow_" Penelope Engelbrecht, "Bodily Mut(il)ation: Enscribing Lesbian Desire" Steven Jones, "The Book of _Myst_ in the Late Age of Print" ----------------- Fiction Paul Andrew Smith, "Radio Free Alice" Gregory Wolos, "Son of Kong, How Do You Do?" ----------------- Reviews David DeRose, "'A Lifetime of Anger and Pain': Kali Tal and the Literature of Trauma." Review of Kali Tal, _Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literature of Trauma_. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 1996. Thomas Vogler, "Dressing the Text: On the Road with the Artist's Book." Review of _Dressing the Text_ exhibition. Lynda Hall, "Holly Hughes Performing: Self-Invention and Body Talk." Review of Holly Hughes, _Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler_. New York: Grove, 1996. Tammy Clewell, "Failing to Succeed: Toward a Postmodern Ethic of Otherness." Review of Ewa Plonawska Ziarek, _The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism_. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996. Sujata Iyengar, "The Resuscitation of Dead Metaphors." Review of "Incorporating the Antibody: Women, History and Medical Discourse," a conference held at the University of Western Ontario, October 5-6, 1996, and the accompanying exhibition "Speculations: Selected Works from 1983-1996," by Barbara McGill Balfour. Mike Hill, "What Was (the White) Race? Memory, Categories, Change." Review of Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey, eds, _Race Traitor_ (New York: Routledge, 1996) and Mab Segrest, _Memoir of a Race Traitor_ (Boston: South End Press, 1994). ----------------- Letters ----------------- Related Readings ----------------- Notices ----------------- Arkady Plotnitsky, "'But It Is Above All Not True': Derrida, Relativity, and the 'Science Wars'" o Abstract: The article considers a remark by Jacques Derrida on Einstein's relativity. This remark has been widely circulated without proper scholarly and philosophical treatment in recent discussions around the so-called "Science Wars," in the wake of Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt's _Higher Superstition_, and then Alan Sokal's "hoax article." By examining several specific responses to Derrida's statement and his work in general by scientists and others, the article argues that this circulation is a symptom of a deeper problem that permeates the current intellectual landscape--still the landscape of "two cultures" (scientific and humanistic) in spite, and even because, of massive transformations of both these cultures and of the interactions between them during recent decades. This problem shapes the reception of the work of Derrida and several other figures, such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Serres, and Gilles Deleuze, on the part of the scientific community. The article examines the circumstances, contexts and meanings of Derrida's remark, and considers the general question of reading philosophical texts, such as Derrida's, that engage or refer to mathematics and science. It also suggests a reading of Derrida's statement itself that will, hopefully, lead to more productive responses to the work of Derrida and other recent thinkers on the part of the scientific community.--ap Maria Damon, "Lenny Bruce's 1962 Obscenity Trial: Public Culture and the Jewish Entertainer as Cultural Lightning Rod" o Abstract: In 1962, comedian Lenny Bruce was tried for obscenity in San Francisco and, for the only time in his many subsequent arrests and trials, acquitted. The trial transcript documents a moment in San Francisco's history, bringing together the social currents surrounding the emergence of a gay men's community; the discourse of expertise and the town/gown politics of the Irish/Italian police force against the "long beards" at Berkeley; and the tensions between the language of juridical process and that of the carnivalesque. San Francisco was shortly to become a center for several different countercultures noted for their flamboyant aesthetic and their emphasis on alternate social organizing units (the spectrum of gay relationships, hippie "tribes," Third World arts communes, etc.), which questioned the traditional relationship of sexuality to reproduction and family life. I want to argue that, though he was neither gay, San Franciscan, politically active in the conventional sense, nor literary in the conventional sense, Bruce's role as hyperverbal Jewish "entertainer" (in-betweener) set his trial as a moment signaling cultural change in San Francisco. Further, this scenario resonates with more recent and ongoing debates about the role of non-normative artistic expression in civic life.--md Tony Thwaites, "Currency Exchanges: The Postmodern, Vattimo, et cetera, Among Other Things (et cetera)" o Abstract: A frequent criticism of the idea of the postmodern is that it lacks both clear referent and conceptual coherence. It may be more useful to see what is going on in such debates in terms of a performative and asyndetic logic, whose figure is the instability of the list, neither coherent nor incoherent. Drawing on the work of Gianni Vattimo, this article tries to reframe the terms of the debate by suggesting a concept of the aesthetic which would be neither simply vanguardist nor populist, but linked intimately to the possibility of community, history, the political and social.--tt Heikki Raudaskoski, "'The Feathery Rilke Mustaches and Porky Pig Tattoo on Stomach': High and Low Pressures in _Gravity's Rainbow_" o Abstract: On one occasion Mikhail Bakhtin describes his famous "chronotopes" as places "where knots of narrative are tied and untied". While it is very difficult to find chronotopes like these in Thomas Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_, many passages in the text nevertheless keep asking: where and how do characters and readers (and the text itself) position themselves? What time are they in? The novel certainly posits the existence of an epic, unilinear, and apocalyptic time; however, this kind of time never arrives inside the text. Thus possibilities for novelness, something new, remain. What positional possibilities, then, does this leave for characters and the narrator? This essay tries to find answers to this question by studying how the binary opposition of "high" and "low" works in the novel in various respects. These positionalities prove "highly" unstable in the novel. The vain search for high unities results in low-feeling melancholies. On the other hand, only through low, popular cultural genres it is possible, at least momentarily, to feel high. Neither high canon (as, obviously, in Joyce's _Ulysses_) nor low carnivalism (as in Bakhtin's reading of Rabelais) prove capable of attaining supremacy. Yet this does not have to lead to "postmodernism" as neutralized relativism. _Gravity's Rainbow_'s labyrinthine carnivalism is different. Although there are no pure, closed sites for low marginals, either, positional tensions will not ease off. On the contrary: just because transcendental subjects and dialectical syntheses turn impossible, the novel is able to maintain hard and urgent questions of positionality.--hr Penelope Engelbrecht, "Bodily Mut(il)ation: Enscribing Lesbian Desire" o Abstract: "What do lesbians really want?" I raise this question in my essay, and offer a conditional answer that devolves from the inter/active relation of lesbian Other/Self and lesbian their lesbian Desire, that Desire characterizing and characterized by alinear %jouissance%. Because that pro/vocative lesbian %jouissance% may be construed in analogy to Derridean %differance%, I perceive lesbian Desire as enscribed in erotic textual site(s) of "saturated %aporia%." I explain how the "un/mark" refers to those ambivalent signs of bodily mutilation--s/m-inflicted bruises, scars of assault, and particularly mastectomy scars--which may be read and re-read as transformative signs, for example, of pain which becomes pleasure, of horror which metamorphoses into and through healing. These bodily un/marks comprise the multi-valent signifiers of a corporeal mut(il)ation which not only gestures toward an "essentialistic" lesbian embodiment, but which also articulates that essential materiality as/in an inter/active performativity. I observe lesbian sign, text, body as mutable situations of relational Desire even as they enable the endless mutation(s) of lesbian Desire, a mutual activity which remains ever in(con)clusive. One answer to the question? Lesbians Desire more time--pe Steven Jones, "The Book of _Myst_ in the Late Age of Print" o Abstract: This essay considers the CD-ROM game _Myst_, arguably the most widely experienced hypernarrative (if not exactly hypertext) of our time. In _Myst_ and its paratexts--prequel, sequel, sources, and marketing--we see dramatized some fundamental cultural anxieties surrounding the emergence of hypertext in the late age of print. The primary sign of these anxieties in the game is the ubiquitous image of the magical "linking" book, floating above the landscape or concealed in the machines that structure the game-play, clearly representing hypertext and what it portends for the aura of the Book in the late age of print. From the game and its books we move to an important precursor, Jules Verne's _The Mysterious Island_, which serves in turn as a link to the subgenre of Victorian adventure fiction and its bookish obsessions with technology (and islands). Then, linking forward to a recent work, Neal Stephenson's SF novel, _The Diamond Age_, the essay concludes by suggesting how _Myst_ inevitably exceeds the boundaries of its authors' intentions, aura, and back-story novelization. The essay recognizes that, on the one hand (as J. David Bolter has argued), the book may be moving to the margins of culture, but on the other hand (as Maurice Blanchot reminds us), culture remains tenaciously "linked to the book." At the heart of a mass-audience hypertext adventure game, the Book in _Myst_ signals a profound anxiety over the impending absence of the material book as an object of cultural significance.--sj -------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE UNTIL RELEASE OF THE NEXT ISSUE AT http://www.iath.virginia. edu/pmc/issue.197/contents.197.html. 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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:07:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 695 (695) We are pleased to announce the newest issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication: Volume 2, Issue 4, March, 1997 Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet Edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret McLaughlin, and Sheizaf Rafaeli A special abridged version of the AAAI/MIT Press volume scheduled for publication in June, 1997 Now available on our HUJI server at http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol2/issue4/ and the new USC-Annenberg School server at http://207.201.161.120/jcmc/vol2/issue4/ JCMC is a refereed scholarly journal, fully indexed and searchable, with a conversation board for posting notices and exchanging messages about the articles. Table of Contents and Abstracts: Editors' Introduction to Network and Netplay Sheizaf Rafaeli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Margaret McLaughlin, University of Southern California, USA Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia On-Line Smiles: Does Gender Make a Difference in the Use of Graphic Accents? Diane Witmer, Purdue University, USA Sandra Katzman, Interac Co. Ltd., Japan In the gender-bending world of computer-mediated communication (CMC), is it possible to determine the gender of a message sender from cues in the message? This study addresses the question by drawing on current literature to formulate and test three hypotheses: (i) women use more graphic accents than men do in their CMC, (ii) men use more challenging language in CMC than do women, and (iii) men write more inflammatory messages than do women. Results indicate that only the first hypothesis is partially supported and that women tend to challenge and flame more than do men in this sample group. The authors also discuss implications and pose questions for additional research. Framing Flames: The Structure of Argumentative Messages on the Net Edward A. Mabry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA The purpose of this study was to assess the use, in computer-mediated communication, of the strategic message structuring tactic known as framing. Interlocutors in computer-mediated environments have software supported systemic resources facilitative of constructing messages using framing tactics in their argumentative discourse. It is hypothesized that framing strategies are related to the emotional tenor of a disputant's message and that a speaker's emotional involvement with an issue should be curvilinearly related to the appropriation of framing as an argumentative discourse strategy. Results from the analysis of 3000 messages, obtained from a diverse sampling of computer-mediated discussion groups and forums, provided support for the primary hypothesized relationship. A speaker's emotional involvement was significantly and curvilinearly related to two message framing devices (message dependency and coalition building) and a measure of conciliatory face-saving moves. Telelogue Conversations Alexander E. Voiskounsky, Moscow University, Russia Mediation processes form the basis of human psychological development. Speech signs play a crucial role in the internalization of mediating means. In the computer-mediated communication (CMC) field, speech has its own peculiarity, thus modifying the possible directions of the internalization process. The analysis in this chapter shows the specifics of CMC speech, i.e., telelogue speech. In particular, features and attributes inherent in oral and written forms of speech are found in dialogues, monologues, and polylogues (telelogues). Analysing English usage by those netters for whom it is not the mother-tongue, one could find a peculiar kind of pidginized 'network English' being formed. "HMMM... Where's That Smoke Coming From?" Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat Brenda Danet, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, The Smithsonian Institution (1996-1997), USA Lucia Ruedenberg, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and New York University, USA Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Israel Ministry of Absorption of Immigrants, Israel Digital writing is strikingly playful. This playfulness flourishes particularly in synchronous chat modes on the Internet. This paper is a study of writing, play and performance on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). We analyze a "virtual party" on IRC, whose highlight was a typed simulation of smoking marijuana. Three interrelated, yet analytically distinct types of play are discussed: 1) play with identity; 2) play with frames of interaction; and 3) play with typographic symbols. We adopt a qualitative, textual, and micro-sociolinguistic approach, drawing on work in discourse analysis, the study of orality and literacy, and the anthropology of play and performance. In all play there is reduced accountability for action. In the material world, masks and costumes at carnival time liberate participants; here, the ephemeral, non-material medium, the typed text, and the use of nicknames provide the mask. Although the improvisation analyzed here is typed and occurs between geographically dispersed strangers, it has fascinating affinities with "live" interactional forms such as jazz, charades, and carnivals. Using the News: An Examination of the Value and Use of News Sources in CMC Steve Jones, University of Tulsa, USA This study examines one facet of the penetration of personal computers into everyday life. It seeks to discover how members of a Usenet newsgroup value and use news sources. Electronic news sources predominated. An important finding is that media use was not tied to the user's geographic locale. The study raises several questions for future research: What are the rhetorical dimensions of media use in electronic communities? How might our understanding of readers and communities be affected by new patterns of media use in electronic communities? Conduct Control on Usenet Christine A. Smith, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA USA Margaret L. McLaughlin and Kerry K. Osborne, University of Southern California, USA In this paper we explore the nature of offensive conduct and its treatment on Usenet. Specifically, we examine the frequency, form, and tone of reproaches for misconduct on five newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps; soc.motss; soc.singles; rec.sports.hockey; and comp.sys.ibm.pc.games. Where possible, subsequent accounts offered by offenders are also examined. Results indicate that few individuals respond publicly to their reproachers and that complete "traditional" remedial episodes in Usenet are relatively rare. Discriminant analysis supports a tentative conclusion that different offense types elicit reproaches which vary in form and tone. Furthermore, the tenor and frequency of reproaches for particular offenses vary according to newsgroup, supporting the thesis that norm violations are differentially treated in Usenet "communities." The analyses and discussion include an examination of gender differences in the newsgroups studied. The Relcom Network: An Investigation of its Users Alexander E. Voiskounsky, Moscow University, Russia Relcom is the most intensively used network available in the former Soviet Union, and its users form a sample of highly active and educated citizens of the recently formed independent states. To describe this sample, surveys of the users were conducted via the network. The results include data on demographic characteristics of users, their attitudes, motivations, and typical ways of network usage. Attitudes towards possible social monitoring service functioning in the network are also investigated, and the potential directions of its functioning are rated by the respondents. Risky Business: Do People Feel Safe in Sexually Explicit Online Communication? Diane Witmer, Purdue University, USA This article defines and contextualizes basic types of CMC as electronic counterparts to other forms of communication. It then discusses the ways in which message privacy and security can be compromised in the electronic environment and reports a survey study of individuals who engage in potentially embarrassing forms of CMC via USENET newsgroups. The questionnaire asked respondents how risky they perceived their communications to be and why they felt secure enough to engage in "risky" communication. Survey results were equivocal on the question of user perceptions of privacy, but indicated that the perceived risk was low in this sample group. Finally, the paper discusses implications and proposes an agenda for future research. Virtual Rape Richard MacKinnon, University of Texas, USA The current social construction of rape in virtual reality is not a worthwhile endeavor in that it forces theorists to adapt an undesirable concept in order to import it into virtual reality. Rape exists as such in "real life" because of the social construction of women relative to the social construction of men. The relationship of these constructions is not and does not have to be analogous in virtual reality because virtual reality presents an opportunity for social reordering. Among these opportunities is the exploration of the ramifications of bodies presented arbitrarily. Given these opportunities, theorists seeking to pursue positive constructionism ought to endeavor to develop virtual-reality specific constructions which empower rather than import real life constructions which victimize. Networked Interactivity Sheizaf Rafaeli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia What makes computer-mediated groups tick and/or stick? To what degree are computer-mediated discussants really sustained "groups"? Does the grouping quality reflect anything beyond technical structure? Are technical structure and grouping related? How do threads define groups, or vice-versa? Does any of this change between academic and commercial networks? We propose that one useful perspective for studying group computer-mediated communication (CMC) is interactivity. Interactivity is a theoretical construct that grapples with the origins of captivation, fascination, and allure that can be inherent in computer-mediated groups. In the coded data from the sample of messages collected by ProjectH, we have a representative snapshot of communication among the very large groups populating the networks. The central unit of interest in studying computer mediated groups is, in this case, the thread of messages. A message thread is a chain of interrelated messages. Rather than individuals' self-reports, linguistic and sociolinguistic analyses of content, or observational data of larger units, we examine interactivity, the dependency among messages in threads. Results indicate that the content on the net is less confrontational than is popularly believed: conversations are more helpful and social than competitive. Interactive messages seem to be more humorous, contain more self-disclosure, display a higher preference for agreement and contain many more first-person plural pronouns. This indicates that interactivity plays a role in the social dynamics of group CMC, and sheds a light on comparing interactive messages with conversation. The focus, we propose, should be on the glue: that which keeps message threads and their authors together, and what makes the groups and their interaction tick. Clustering on the Nets: Applying an Autoassociative Neural Network to Computer-Mediated Discussions Michael Berthold, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia Sid Newton, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Australia Richard Coyne, University of Edinburgh, Scotland ProjectH, a research group of a hundred researchers, produced a huge amount of data from computer-mediated discussions. The data classified several thousand postings from over 30 newsgroups into 46 categories. One approach to extract typical examples from this database is presented in this paper. An autoassociative neural network is trained on all 3000 coded messages and then used to construct typical messages under certain specified conditions. With this method the neural network can be used to create "typical" messages for several scenarios. This paper illustrates the architecture of the neural network that was used and explains the necessary modifications to the coding scheme. In addition several "typicality sets" produced by the neural net are shown and their generation is explained. In conclusion, the autoassociative neural network is used to explore threads and the types of messages that typically initiate or contribute longer lasting threads. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication jcmc@usc.edu From: Subject: Call For Hypertexts: Kairos 2.2 (Fall 1997) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 696 (696) CALL FOR HYPERTEXTS _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ Issue 2.2 (Fall 1997) _Kairos_ is a hypertext journal exploring all aspects of the pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertext, written in hypertextual format(s). It is designed to serve as a resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing, including : Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, Literature and a wide variety of humanities-based scholarship. We are interested in receiving submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following: *hypertexts designed to help ground pedagogical theory in classroom praxis; *reports on empirical research conducted in and related to networked writin= g environments; *editorials from teachers regarding classroom experiences; *sample syllabi, with notes and commentary from teachers and students; *additional material in categories listed below. Please see our most recent issue at: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/ Inquiries for the Fall 1997 issue are due no later than May 15, 1997. Completed texts for review are due by September 1, 1997. Target publication date for the Fall 1997 issue is October 15, 1997. Address questions and inquiries to Editor Mick Doherty at: mick@rpi.edu ******** Special Calls for contributions to Kairos=CA2.2 ******** COVERWEB The Coverweb project is a multi-vocal, multi-linear hypertext collaboratively written and reviewed for each issue of the journal. The Coverweb topic for issue 2.2 is "Gender and the Web." The actual implementation of this topic is open to interpretation; all proposals will be considered. Proposals are also sought for future Coverweb topics. Contact: Coverweb Editor Douglas Eyman, eymand@wilmington.net NEWS & REVIEWS We are seeking news articles/webtexts that focus on Distance Education or Virtual Universities; "E-List" reviews of Distance Education listservs, listprocs or newsgroups; Conference wrap-up reports for CCCC, C&W, NEACW, MAACW and other related events; Software and website reviews of teaching tools and resources; Reviews of "PaperTexts" in any of three categories: *internet "classics" like Landow, Nelson, Lanham; *internet pedagogy texts like _English Online_, _Online!_ and _Writing the Information Superhighway_; *important new scholarly texts. Contact: Sections Editor Claudine Keenan, cgk4@psu.edu _Kairos_ is sponsored by the national Alliance for Computers and Writing: http://english.ttu.edu/acw/ From: Subject: BMR 97.3.22, Martin, Ancient Greece Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 697 (697) Following is a review from the most excellent online series of Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. I send it along because the book presents itself as complementary to an electronic publication, and the reviewer specifically addresses the question of the relationship between the two forms. Any other examples of complementary publication in print and electronic form would be most welcome to us all, I'm sure. WM [deleted quotation]....[much omitted] [deleted quotation] ....[omitted] [deleted quotation]....[omitted] [deleted quotation] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Re: 10.0789 humane technology Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 698 (698) [deleted quotation] So this science thing is an alien plot? How can we seperate science from humanity (or the humanities)? We're the only creatures on the planet doing it. If we don't like what we do to each other through it, we have only ourselves to blame. The Christian doctrine of original sin teaches that the tendency to evil is a gene we inherited from our parents (to use a scientific shading). The tendency of science to serve an elite is hardly confined to modern capitalists countries. In a Marxist analysis, the problem lies in the distribution of power, not the existence of science. Alas, science in those countries ruled by various forms of "scientific socialism" seems to have followed much the same course as that in "capitalist" countries (are there any such animals?). Earlier, Willard made an implicit distinction between humane technology and some other type of what must be HUMAN technology. What a difference a single, silent letter makes! The words sometimes stand at opposite poles (think of human v humane behaviour). What is it that distinguished the two types of technology (for technology we will have as long as we are human)? How does this relate to the humanities? From: Subject: re: 10.0793 OCR software opinions Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 699 (699) Nico Weenink asked for opinions of OCR software. Assuming you are in a Windows environment, I have found OmniPage Pro, the software you said you were already familiar with, to be the most accurate and easy to use OCR software for Windows PCs. I have also tried IBM's Textbridge Pro and found it to be good as well, if a bit more difficult to use. There is also a shareware program called Cuneiform, produced by Cognitive Technologies, which showed some promise in version 2 and is now in version 3 (which I haven't looked at yet). You can download a copy at http://www.ocr.com. David Pinaula English Department 421 Greenlaw Hall, CB # 3520 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 USA pinaula@email.unc.edu From: Subject: ontological mischief Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 700 (700) The following appeared in The Guardian for 15 March 1997. I pass it along purely because on this brilliant morning in a usually overcast city, delight in such mischief seems part of waking up. According to James Tandy, in his article "'Luther Blissett' still finds Italy a trial", four Italian youths were arrested last Summer because they were "found traveling without tickets on a night tram.... When asked by police to identify themselves, all four gave the name Luther Blissett in memory of the British football player still remembered in Italy for his disastrous 1982 season with AC Milan. "According to their lawyer, when the four were apprehended on the night of June 17 1995, they were staging an itinerant party with improvised music and dancing on the tram. The peaceful 'socio-cultural happening' was being broadcast live on a local leftwing radio station, Radio Citta Futura. In the words of the Blissetts themselves: 'The forces of law and order arrived and, incapable of understanding the event decided immediately to repress it even firing shots into the air.' "The four are members of a loosely-knit anarchic youth movement that has adopted the identity of Luther Blissett as a cover for a series of hoaxes and practical jokes." This is where all students of Ovid's Metamorphoses and other sustained attacks on the notion of fixed identity will find soul-mates. "'The group considers identity to be the prison of the self,' said Checchino Antonini, an editor at Radio Citta Futura. 'Identity and fixity are the enemies of communication and have to be combated by nomadism and collective identity. When the conductor asked for their tickets, they replied that a collective identity does not travel with a ticket.' "He said the group had selected Luther Blissett, once known by British fans as 'Luther Missit' as a cultural icon because his career in Italy had been so unlucky. Blissett was 'famous for missing open goals and for the inexorable precision with which he would find the goalpost,' according to an unforgiving account in an Italian newspaper. "The prosecutor, Gloria Attanasio, has failed to see the funny side, however...." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: drh97@ermine.ox.ac.uk Subject: Conference: DRH'97 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 18:42:58 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 701 (701) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DRH 97 * * DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * St Anne's College, Oxford 14 - 17 September 1997 "Bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Humanities." SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS *PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIMETABLE BELOW* Mission: DRH97 aims to become a new forum for all those affected by the digitization of our common cultural heritage: the scholar producing or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital media in the seminar room; the publisher finding new ways to reach new markets; the librarian, curator, art historian, or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship. Format: The conference will take up three intensive days of academic papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, held this year in a comfortable Oxford college. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage a lot of energetic discussion, both formal and informal. Leading practitioners of the application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities, from the worlds of scholarship, librarianship, and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise, experience, and opinions. Sponsors: The conference is sponsored by the British Library, the Office for Humanities Communication, the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities of Kings College London, the International Institute for Electronic Library Research of de Montfort University, the Library of University College London, and the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University. | Timetable: Proposals are now invited for academic papers, themed panel | | sessions and reports of work in progress. Extended abstracts (1500 to | | two thousand words) should be submitted by *May 2nd 1997*. Proposals | | will be reviewed by an independent panel of reviewers, and | | notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 13th June. All | | accepted proposals will be included in the Conference preprint volume, | | and will also be considered for a post-conference publication. | Themes: creation of digital resources, textual, visual, and time-based; integration of digital resources as multimedia; policies and strategies for electronic delivery, both commercial and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery; implications of digital resources and electronic delivery for teaching, learning, and scholarship; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. Cost and accommodation: The conference fee of 250 pounds covers lunches, dinners, and the whole academic programme. The conference banquet will cost an additional 40 pounds. For accommodation, delegates can choose between ensuite rooms at 45 pounds/day or study/bedrooms with shared bathroom at 30 pounds/day for B & B. All accommodation is in St Anne's College, in modern purpose-built blocks adjoining the quadrangle and within a few minutes walk of all conference facilities. Further information: The conference web site at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/ will be regularly updated, and will include full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now! From: Mike Fraser Subject: BCLA Conference: Comparative Literature & The New Media Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 18:22:49 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 702 (702) I have been asked to circulate the enclosed for which there are still spaces. Michael Fraser CTI Textual Studies -------- BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION 11-12TH APRIL 1997 Comparative Literature and the New Media The British Comparative Literature Association invites you to take part in a workshop conference on "Comparative Literature and the Media". The workshop is to provide a discussion forum on the current use and impact of new technologies in the field of Comparative Literary Studies and related disciplines in the Humanities. Individual sessions will explore creative and research options opened up by the use of computer-based media. Emphasis will be put on the question in how for the emergence of the new media may affect our definition of traditional Humanities subjects and, more specifically, our understanding of Comparative Literature. AREAS FOR DISCUSSION INCLUDE: o the role of the new media in the Humanities o support of research through the use of literature software, concordances and/or text corpora o translation issues o creative aspects that may change the scope and direction of research in the area of comparative literature and related dsciplines Speakers: Duncan Christelou (Chadwick Healey Ltd) Prof Marilyn Deegan (De Montfort University) Dr Andreas Kitzmann (Skovde, Sweden) Dr Mike Fraser (CTI Textual Studies, Oxford) Professor Theodor Scaltses (University of Edinburgh) Dr Alexis Weedon (University of Luton) Programme: Day 1: 12.00 - 13.30: Registration and lunch 14.00-1500 Opening Address 15.00-16.00 Session 1 16.00-1630 Break 16.30-17.30 Session 2 19.00 Dinner Day 2 9.00-10.00 Session 3 10.00-11.00 Session 4 11.00-11.30 Break 11.30.-12.30 Panel Discussion 13. 00-14.00 Lunch THE CONFERENCE The workshop conference sessions will be held at Putteridge Bury, the university's Edwardian conference centre. Registration will take place between 12.00 and 13.30 on Friday 11 April 1997. Details are available of a special delegate rate at the Strathmore Hotel. Booking of accommdation should be made via the Conference Coordinator. A conference attendance fee of 21.00 (sterling) will be charged of which 10 (sterling) is a non-returnable fee under any circumstances. All payments must be received by Friday 28 March 1997. BOOKING FORM - Comparative Literature and the New Media Name:_________________________________ Address for correspondence: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Telephone: ____________________________ Fax: __________________________________ E-mail: _______________________________ Institutional Affiliation (if any): _______________________________________ _______________________________________ A. Conference Attendance (tea and coffee included): Academics 26.00 (sterling) Non-acadmics/ postgrads/students 21.00 (sterling) or B. Conference Attendance (tea and coffee included and Buffet Dinner Friday 11th) Academics 33.00 (sterling) Non-acadmics/ postgrads/students 28.00 (sterling) Optional Extras: Lunch (Friday 11th ) 7.00* (sterling) Lunch (Saturday 12th) 7.00* (sterling) *All drinks excluded. TOTAL: _________._________ PAYMENT [ ] I enclose a cheque made payable to Putteridge Bury Ltd for the full amount of:________________ Please debit my credit card for the full amount Card No. Expiry date Please invoice my institution for the full amount, marked for the attention of _______________________________________ Special Dietary or other requirements: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ _______________________________________ [ ] Parking Facilities are available at Putteridge Bury. Please indicate if you intend to travel by car. Signed _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Please return this form to: Sara Manzoor Conference Co-ordinator University of Luton 75 Castle Street, Luton Bedfordshire LU1 3AJ, UK E-Mail: Barbara.Heins@luton.ac.uk From: Subject: Re: 10.0798 humane technology Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 703 (703) I normally lurk and read, but am working on subjects germaine to this discussion of humane technology. I understand that when we discuss "technology" within the confines of Humanist, we tend to mean digital technologies; however, the printing press is technology, which displaced but did not expunge scribal activity. Is print less humane than scribal activity? Does greater access and less intimate interaction mean less humanity? Even the black lead pencil was once an "advanced technology." Does some inate characteristic of digital transmission change the humanity of the message? That it does/ will change our epistemology I don't doubt; however, must it necessarily make us less humane? I'm struggling with this question in my own research. I work on 16th- and 17th- century mss, but am also working on a book comparing scribal, print, and digital transmission of texts. Does digital transmission transform the humanity? Sorry for all the queries.--Margaret Downs-Gamble Dr. Margaret Downs-Gamble Department of English Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 U.S.A. Office: (540)231-7299 e-mail: margaret@vt.edu From: Subject: Re: 10.0800 ontological mischief Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 704 (704) I am searching for individuals willing to write something short (comprehensible to policy makers) about the relationship among their field of knowledge, distance education technologies, policies (governmental and educational) for posting on ELF (electronic learning forum) <http://www.elf.ufl.edu/>. best Greg Ulmer http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~gulmer/ From: Subject: Online Publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 705 (705) [The following from Professor Joseph Reisdoerfer (Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg) on a recent electronic publication, whose URL follows. I have added it to my Overview of online publication, <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/ohc/overview.html>. Suggestions for additional items would be welcome. --WM] I have recently published two old French texts (Serments de Strasbourg & Cantilene de Sainte Eulalie) <http://www.restena.lu/cul/BABEL/1_T_A_Ling_Tit.html> which you could perhaps add to your overview. Regards, JR _____________________________________________________________________ Dr Joseph REISDOERFER, Professeur, LCD & ISERP. * TEL.: 352-55 20 04; FAX: 352-55 20 01. * SNAIL-MAIL: 17, rue Emile Mayrisch, L-4240 ESCH / ALZETTE, Grand-Duche de Luxembourg. * E-MAIL: -100104.1055@compuserve.com -joseph.reisdoerfer@iserp.lu * Site WWW du CunLux: ARANEOLA: http://www.restena.lu/cul/ARANEOLA/ARANEOLA.html _______________________________________________________________ From: Subject: Re: 10.0800 ontological mischief Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 706 (706) Re one so called "ontological mischief" I as a Roman do not find the thing so funny. We as good scholars should be used to collocate things in the right context, and--I understand those not living in Rome may not be aware of this--that was a context in which all sort of wild actions, including assaulting bus drivers, are happening in the "notti romane" (Roman nights, which generally evokes other kind of sensation...). It is only too normal that policemen preferred to take swift action and later go into details. You know, Roman policemen are not always so highly educated people as to immediately grasp the difference between a leftish (?) spectacular happening and a hooligans' bravade. Pasolini meant just this, years ago, but Radio Città Futura does not seem to have understood. But, what matters to me, people around should not be led to believe that what is going on in Rome is mostly fun... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39.6.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39.6.4991-3945 00185 Roma ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Bear Subject: More Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 16:18:33 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 707 (707) I have placed a new html edition of Thomas More's _History of King Richard the Third_ on the Web at the URL: <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/r3.html> It can be accessed from the Stony Run home page but not from the Spenser page (as it hasn't much to do with Spenser...). Question: I have been working from facsimiles of Rastell, which are black and white. Is anyone familiar with or does anyone have access to an actual copy of this edition, that could tell me whether red ink was used, for example in title lines and the dropped initial? Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu oregon.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: this week Online Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 09:22:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 708 (708) Various items from the Guardian Online, for Thursday 20 March. See <http://online.guardian.co.uk/>. Feature articles and notes. (1) Charlotte Pham, "If looks could thrill", on "A French computer system is set to revolutionise the lives of thousands of disabled people by allowing them, at the flicker of an eye, to hold conversations, surf the Internet, and even open the curtains in their living room." (2) Stuart Millar, "Trouble in Toytown", on the Toybot, "the first step towards the creation of an artificial pet which children can build themselves, then interact with in the way they would with the family spaniel." (3) Microfile. On the gloom at Apple Computer, at the slashing of 41,000 more jobs (30% of the workforce), and halting of development on several formerly core projects. At the same time, headhunting agencies were swooping in to pick up the job-hunting Apple staff. One enterprising job agency hired people to put business cards on the windshields of every car in the Apple parking lot. (4) "Lost deposits in Cyberspace", on the use of the Internet by political parties, especially those which cannot afford more expensive forms of advertising. For the current election in the U.K. the pages are uncensored. Some of what results is informative, some also amusing, some "more chilling than chucklesome", such as that of the British Nationalist party. (5) Jack Schofield, "Darkroom to desktop", on the emergence of desktop, digital photography. (6) Douglas Rushkoff, "Class war revisited", about the environmental and social effects of manufacturing computers. "Apparently the production of a single six-inch silicon wafer used for computer chips requires 3,200 cubit feet of bulk gases, 22 cubic feet of hazardous gases, 2,275 gallons of de-ionized water, 20 pounds of chemicals, and 285 killowat hours of electrical power. The end result also yields 25 pounds of sodium hydroxide, 2,840 gallons of waste water, and seven pounds of miscellaneous hazardous waste." So, the next time someone refers to saving trees by use of electronic publishing, you might raise an objection. The author briefly recounts the attack of activists against the use of computers, e.g. saying that the promotion of computing is "a ploy by chemical companies to maintain their stranglehold over the world economy". "But slowing down or reversing our drive towards an interactive future," Rushkoff concludes, "will only disable us from braking the cycle of abuse that these well-meaning activists rightly fear. I insist that these machines are, indeed, different from the ones that came before them; but they'll only live up to their potential if we prove different from those who came before us, too." Web links. (7) Edinburgh Science Festival, <http://www.web13.co.uk>, and in particular an event in two parts: "Beyond the two cultures", April 4, 10.00am - 5.00pm, Senate Room, Old College, South Bridge; and "Computing the Humane Sciences", April 4, 10.00am - 5.00pm, in the Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street. The subject of both is how science and technology now being exploited by artists and scholars. Organised by the School of Humanities, King's College London. (8) Comprehensive collection of links to radio stations, currently numbering 284, now broadcasting (? narrowcasting) on the Internet, <http://www.ontheair.com/>. (9) An Atlas of Cyberspace, "an experimental atlas of maps and images created by 'cyber-explorers' from around the world to aid our visualisation and understanding of the geographies of the Internet, WWW and an emerging Cyberspace." <http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html> (10) National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, U.K.: Evergon 1987-1997, the first exhibition from the NMPFT online, <http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/exhib/evergon.htm>. (11) Integrated Newswire, "links to articles from the best online sources for news", including IT, updated hourly. <http://www.artigen.com/newswire/>. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Michael Guest Subject: Re: 10.0805 mischief out of context Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 14:54:52 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 709 (709) [deleted quotation] I admire the spiritedness and ideological responsibility with which, according to the account given, the group conducted their happening. It's too bad that the constabulary isn't a bit better informed and reflective. Michael Guest guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: Anita Jawary Subject: Re: 10.0805 mischief out of context Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 11:09:22 +1100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 710 (710) I sympathise with Tito Orlando's views. I have to admit that when I read the original posting, my feeling was I was glad I was not on the bus at the same time as those youths!! Good on you, Tito! Anita Jawary From: Willard McCarty Subject: distancing Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:03:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 711 (711) I'm sorry to have caused my esteemed colleague Professor Tito Orlandi any distress with the article on the Luther Blissetts, about which I knew nothing other than the Guardian article had told me. How I might have known that I should know more I do not know. In any case, the matter does raise some interesting questions in part having peripherally to do with the medium we use and so may be worth pursuing further. As I wrote to Professor Orlandi, this northerner, at least, finds himself on many an overcast, chilly day remembering with considerable fondness warm days spent in Rome amidst its great treasures and wonderful people. Perhaps it is a mistake to do so, but I attribute to that city and its country many utopian qualities, among which are a certain freedom and generosity of spirit. I think it is not uncommon for northern peoples to do so. The Guardian article seemed of a piece with such utopian dreaming, and so I too easily fell into error and quick, unchecked publication. Or is it entirely an error? Is it possible that partial views show something of a truth that a more complete view obscures? When publication can be so quick, should we necessarily view as improper or unscholarly tossing out a remark, opinion or bit of news without checking it thoroughly, or can we, or do we already, take it for granted that this medium is so conversational to permit us to rely on replies, such as Professor Orlandi's? Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: Item for a Humanist roundup? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 712 (712) I'm not certain whether this is an appropriate posting for The Humanist, but the Richard III Society (American Branch) has been working for some time on an online library of primary texts and secondary sources related to the Ricardian controversy. Since Richard Bear has just done Thomas More, we have interrupted our production of an HTML edition based on a nineteenth century text derived from Rastell; but we do have an excerpt of Holinshed in process, and have already produced editions of the Croyland Chronicle, the Arrivall of Edward IV, the Warkworth Chronicle, excerpts of Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia, and the full text of Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the Third. These electronic texts have been produced by a small group of amateurs, and do not pretend to be the last word in scholarship, although we do hope to refine them with a second proofreading, commentary, and so on, at some time in the future. They can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.r3.org/bookcase/ Regards, Laura Blanchard From: Subject: Re: 10.0806 contexts of mischief Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 713 (713) [deleted quotation] [...] [deleted quotation] The Blisset incident reverberates with the "hyperreal" - representations of reality that supplant reality itself. The incident ends (begins) exquisitely with a court case, producing dramatic, political and philosophical effect and meaning. There's a connection with our e-list: a Willard-ian "peripheral" perhaps, the relation of the word (and the electronic word) to reality. As we're distanced from the event, what connection does what we say have with it? There's a witness there somewhere, but ... who'll witness the witness? The Guardian Weekly? Ha. An index to "postmodernism" and at least the possibility of a concomitant ethic (the police won't tell it from hooliganism, so shh!). Through Deleuze and Guattari, and stuff like Augusto Boal and Lyotard, clearly referenced in the fabric of the event (along with Baudrillard and Fluxus and all that further 20th century art or rubbish whatever you like - although it's not so hard after all to co-opt and defuse the potency of a Stravinsky or Schonberg). So it's rhizomically rather than periphally connected, because some kinds of acts will not create further reverberations, except through new media like this. Stemming from a Blisset-seed, the list becomes a kind of metaphorical or cyber-bus, on which we with our various opinions are riding, generally uncomfortably as in most buses, construing the possibilities, some horrified, others outraged, others like me with a tambourine in one hand and I won't say what in the other, and a few poor souls trying to keep open minds like Willard, ultimately mince in the lasagne. _____ Michael Guest's semiological sound-text experiment is at: <http://www.ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/guest/expt.html> From: Willard McCarty Subject: ethics & other strong subjects Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:57:04 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 714 (714) Many Humanists will likely know of the very fine work done by Preston Covey and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon on the teaching of applied ethics with the aid of computers. About a year ago Routledge published David Andersen, Robert Cavalier, and Preston K. Covey, A right to die? the Dax Cowart case on CD-ROM (ISBN: 0-415-91753-0). Some or all of the material existed on videodisc for years, and Covey has written about it during this time, but the publication on CD makes the work much more easily available, at a much lower price -- thus my own exposure to it, and this note. The Dax Cowart CD is, to put it mildly, strong stuff, very well done indeed. I have nothing directly to do with the teaching of ethics, but as a good example of computer-based learning the CD interests me and provokes both my public praise and a question. What other such examples do we have? As I recall that Covey has argued quite eloquently, the Dax case works so well because it brings college-age students, many of whom have never suffered a serious moral crisis in their young lives, face to virtual face with one. What you experience isn't quite as rough as Bergman's masterpiece "Cries and Whispers", but it comes close. The skill in the design of the CD comes out in how quickly the user is made to realise his or her own deep uncertainties. Good preparation for a probing discussion of ethical choice. I keep hearing our colleagues say that almost above all else we need good examples of work in humanities computing. So again my question: in the Dax mode, what else is there? For Routledge in general, see <http://www.routledge.com/>, and for Dax in particular <http://www.thomson.com/routledge/indepth/dax_main.html>. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: David Thomson Subject: Mary Shelley's poem to her dead husband Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:40:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 715 (715) Hi, I'm trying to help a colleague locate a poem Mary Shelley wrote in 1823 or 1824 called "The Choice." It concerns the loss of her husband. We think it's been out of print for many years and wonder if anyone has an idea of where it could be found. yours David Thomson Dept. of English UBC From: "David M. Seaman" Subject: SGML courses at Virginia Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:50:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 716 (716) SGML COURSES AS PART OF BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL Monday 14 July - Friday 8 August 1997 RBS offers a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning electronic texts, rare books, manuscripts, and special collections. This year, two separate SGML courses will be taught, by David Seaman and Daniel Pitti. WEEK TWO: Monday 21 July - Friday 25 July 1997 REPEATED: WEEK FOUR: Monday 4 August - Friday 8 August 1997 Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images. This course will provide a wide-ranging and practical exploration of electronic texts and related technologies. The course is aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at scholars keen to develop, use, and publish electronic texts, and at librarians planning to develop an etext operation. Drawing on the experience and resources available at UVa's Electronic Text Center, the course will cover the following areas: how to find and evaluate existing etexts how to use a scanner to create etexts, including digital image facsimiles the necessity of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) text and image analysis software the management and use of on-line text databases As a focus for our study of etexts, the class will create an electronic version of a printed text, mark its structure with SGML tagging, create digital images of sample pages and illustrations, produce a hypertext version, and make it all available on the Internet. Instructor: David Seaman David Seaman is the founding director of the nationally-known Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and use of electronic texts in the humanities. WEEK THREE: Monday 28 July - Friday 1 August 1997 36 Implementing Encoded Archival Description. This course will provide a practical introduction to the application of the emerging standard Encoded Archival Description (EAD) to the encoding of archive and manuscript library finding aids. The course is aimed primarily at archivists who process and describe collections in finding aids, though it will also be useful to repository administrators contemplating the implementation of EAD, and to technologists working in repositories. The course will cover the following areas: the history of EAD and its theoretical and technological foundations; an introduction to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) including discussions of authoring and network publishing tools; a detailed exploration of the structure of EAD; use of software tools to create and publish finding aids; discussion of conversion techniques and methodologies, and templates for creation of new finding aids; and finally, the integration and management of EAD in an archive or library. The class will jointly encode and publish a finding aid that will illustrate a wide variety of essential EAD and SGML concepts. Applicants need a basic knowledge of archival descriptive practices as well as experience using word-processing software with a graphical user interface. Some experience with the World Wide Web and HTML will aid the learning process. In their personal statement, applicants should indicate their relevant archival background, experience with computers, and their expected role in the implementation of EAD in their home institution. Instriuctor: Daniel Pitti. Daniel Pitti became Project Director at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology earlier this year, before which he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative. ************************ FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and a copy of the RBS 1997, write Rare Book School, 114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498; or fax 804/924-8824; or email biblio@virginia.edu; or telephone 804/924-8851. Electronic copies of the Expanded Course Description and various other RBS documents can be accessed through our World Wide Web site: http://poe.acc.Virginia.EDU/~oldbooks/rbs97/ ************************ David Seaman, Director 804-924-3230 (phone) Electronic Text Center 804-924-1431 (fax) Alderman Library email: etext@virginia.edu University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 From: David Green Subject: Digital Colloquium Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:17:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 717 (717) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 24, 1997 IMAGE PERMANENCE INSTITUTE: Digitizing Photographic Collections A 2-day Symposium: June 7-9, 1997 Digitizing Photographic Collections: Where are we now? What does the future hold?--A colloquium for the exchange of information among those actively involved in digitizing projects, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access and the Image Permanence Institute June 7-9, 1997 How will institutions use digital images? What image quality is required? Do we need standards? If so, who should define them? Questions like these will be discussed at the two-and-a-half-day event. It will be an ideal opportunity to ask questions and share your experiences with others in the field. Photohistorians are encouraged to attend, to add a scholar^Rs input to the discussions and evaluations. This colloquium is part of a two-year NEH-sponsored project conducted by Image Permanence Institute (IPI) to investigate the key technical issues and problems of digital imaging for use in library and archive photographic collections. IPI^Rs project is examining the issue of image quality requirements and their relationship to institutional policies and purposes. Results of the project so far will be presented along with status reports and thoughtful presentations from other institutions and experts. Speakers and panelists will include Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Frank Cost, RIT; Nancy Elkington, Research Libraries Group; Michael Ester, Luna Imaging; Carl Fleischhauer, National Digital Library Project, Library of Congress; Franziska Frey, IPI; Jack Holm, Imaging Consultant; Anne Kenney, Cornell University; Constance McCabe, Photo Preservation Inc.; Paul Messier, Boston Art Conservation; Phil Michel, National Digital Library Project, Library of Congress; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Doug Rea, RIT; James Reilly, IPI; Lou Sharpe, Picture Elements, Inc.; John Stokes, JJT Inc.; Sabine S|sstrunk, Corbis Corp.; George Thoma, National Library of Medicine; Vienna Wilson, University of Virginia; and other distinguished professionals in the field. The brochure, including an application form, can be downloaded as a PDF file at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/brochure.pdf. You will need Acrobat Reader to download this document.(Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free off the web.) To request a hard copy of the brochure, contact Jane Pestke at Image Permanence Institute by phone (716-475-5199) fax (716-475-7230) or email (cjppph@rit.edu). Douglas W. Nishimura From: Subject: TMI-97 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 718 (718) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues =09=09 in Machine Translation (TMI-97) =20 July 23-25, 1997 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA=20 The seventh conference in the now well-established TMI series will take=20 place in July 1997 in the historic city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The=20 date will mark (roughly) the 50th anniversary of Warren Weaver's first ideas about MT, in a letter to Norbert Wiener and a meeting with Andrew=20 Booth: events which launched modern MT research.=20 TMI-97 has three major themes: Yesterday=20 -- 'Old' papers (published before 1965), showing how they are still=20 somewhat relevant to MT today...=20 Today -- Reflections on current trends in MT, especially=20 the move towards hybrid solutions involving both established and=20 novel techniques; focusing on particular problems and=20 trends rather than overall descriptions of existing systems=20 (focus on theoretical and methodological rather than=20 implementational issues)...=20 Tomorrow=20 -- How MT is being integrated with new technologies and media, for=20 example delivery via the Internet, speech translation, MT as part=20 of document collection processing, MT and summarization,=20 information retrieval and extraction, multimodality and=20 multimedia, etc.=20 TMI-97 Officers: General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA=20 Program Committee Chair: Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester, UK Publicity and Local Arrangements: Charlene Shepard and James Hamilton, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA=20 Program Committee: Christian Boitet (Universit=E9 de Grenoble) Lynn Carlson (US Department of Defense) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) John Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK) Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA) Virginia Teller (CUNY, USA) Walther von Hahn (Universitat Hamburg, Germany) Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong) Fees and Schedules In progress. Please watch our web page for future announcements.=20 Conference Site The conference meetings will be held on the campus of St. John's College= =20 in Santa Fe.=20 Accommodations Fort Marcy Hotel Suites have been selected as the primary conference=20 accommodations. The hotel is low-rise and consists of 1-, 2- and=20 3-bedroom air-conditioned suites, with one or two bathrooms, fully=20 equipped kitchens, living rooms equipped with TVs, video and CD players.= =20 All the suites also feature fireplaces, though in July you will probably= =20 not need them. We were able to negotiate favorable rates for the=20 participants of TMI-97. Final arrangements, which should be completed in the near future, will be published on the conference web page. Student level accommodations will also be available in the dormitories=20 at St. John's College. ***************************************************************************= *** Please visit the conference web site at http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/TMI/ for= =20 further details and conference information updates. ***************************************************************************= *** From: Willard McCarty Subject: 1997 Conference on Editorial Problems Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 23:11:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 719 (719) Preliminary announcement of the 1997 Conference on Editorial Problems ------------------------------------- PLEASE CIRCULATE ------------------------------------- COMPUTING THE EDITION: Problems in Editing for the Electronic Medium 7-9 November 1997 University College University of Toronto Convenors: Willard McCarty (King's College London) Fred Unwalla (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto) The Conference on Editorial Problems, founded in 1964, holds annual conferences to examine methods of editing texts. Attendance usually consists of approximately 60 to 100 professional academic editors, together with delegates from publishing houses, granting agencies, and elsewhere. The invited papers are collected into a Conference volume published in time for the next Conference. Thirty-one volumes are now in print or in the Press, the most recent volumes from the University of Toronto Press. The objective of the 33rd annual Conference is to examine the practice of editing as it is shaped by the electronic medium, and to explore the practicality of the opportunities and the problems that come from their implementation. Papers from 7 invited speakers will be followed by a panel of Toronto scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The speakers are Julia Flanders (Brown), "Data or Wisdom? Electronic editing, empiricism, and the quantification of knowledge John Lavagnino (Brown), "Access" Jerome McGann (Virginia), "The Contradictory Imperatives of Eye and Mind" Peter Robinson (De Montfort, Oxford), "The Canterbury Tales Project and other electronic editions: where next? Peter Shillingsburg (Mississippi), "The Dank Cellar of Electronic Texts" C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Illinois at Chicago), "Why You Should Not Teach Your Edition How to Swim" Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford), "The Real Presences of Texts" The chair of the panel is Ian Lancashire (Toronto). Unlike previous Conferences, "Computing the Edition" will be published in two versions: one on paper, for the volume from the University of Toronto Press, the other designed for the electronic medium, for the refereed online series, Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/> and <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/chwp/>. Registration is strictly limited. Further information about the 1997 Conference may be found at the URL <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html> and about the Conference series as a whole and its publications at the URL <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/>. Further announcements may be expected. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: "David M. Seaman" Subject: Electronic Publishing Conference Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:41:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 720 (720) EXPLORING THE NEW MEDIA: ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING 1997 AND BEYOND Thursday, April 10-Saturday, April 12, 1997. The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia Division of Continuing Education. Areas Covered the state of electronic publishing today, and what lies ahead the critical issue of copyright protection online evolving opinions on platform selection designing innovative and effective Web sites marketing and distribution online today and tomorrow the future of commerce online Registration Fee The registration fee for the seminar at the Library of Congress is $595, and it includes admission to all seminar activities, materials, the welcome reception on Thursday (April 10), the luncheon on Friday (April 11), continental breakfast each day, and all refreshment breaks. For a full list of speakers and other information, see: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/conferences/newmedia.html or contact: University of Virginia Division of Continuing Education Conferences and Institutes--CI97-139 P.O. Box 3697 Charlottesville, VA 22903 1-800/346-3882 or FAX 804/982-5297 *********************** David Seaman, Director 804-924-3230 (phone) Electronic Text Center 804-924-1431 (fax) Alderman Library email: etext@virginia.edu University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 From: Subject: anyone for heraldry Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 721 (721) Does any Humanist reader know of any work already done on the transcription, definition, or dare I say it, encoding of heraldic descriptions? You know, "gules, a willard couchant, with three barred wombats sinister" kind of thing. I'm interested because we're having to deal with this kind of stuff within the Bodleian ms description project and, frankly, need all the help we can get. Lou From: Subject: demise of Wired U.K., closing of British libraries Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 722 (722) Two interlinked news items. Residents of N. America may not be aware that the British version of the high-tech monthly, Wired, has been discontinued. In the Guardian for 12/2/97, Douglas Rushkoff, "Beware faulty wiring", goes into the failure of Wired in the U.K., noting that its death "marks more than the rejection of a rightwing libertarian agenda. It also shows... that British readers would not be intimidated." "A propaganda effort that has proved quite effective on both the business and the hi-tech communities of the US, Wired's Ventures' strategy of coercion through a combination of hype and intimidation just didn't work on Britain's digital enthusiasts, who were already poised to resist what they see as rampant cultural imperialism from American media conglomerates." Rushkoff argues that the rejection of Wired "is a rejection of a brand of media more coercive than it is informative.... 'Wired used buzzwords and catchphrases that only insiders would understand,' one Londoner explained. 'The magazine made it clear that there are insiders and outsiders.' Or, as a young British hacker e-mailed me on hearing the news, 'They tried to tell us how to think, so we told them to f--- off.' "While the British Internet community might be a more sceptical, even paranoid audience than America's. their perceptions of the agendas underlying Wired's invasion of UK media space are not entirely inaccurate. The increasingly common opinion in the magazine's hometown of San Francisco is that Wired was never more than an elaborate public-relations strategy.... Wired might best be understood more as the outgrowth of a branch of social theory and control than of the techno-utopianism with which it is so often associated.... The loose association of editors and experts under Wired's masthead consisted mostly of people who were either already, or soon to become, associated with the Global Business Network, a first-class menu of futurist business and technology advisors including Kevin Kelly, John Barlow, [Nicholas] Negroponte, and many of the other digiterati who have appeared on Wired magazine's covers.... "Futurism has aleays been an act of will; those who give advice are naturally going to promote themselves as the exclusive purveyors of secreted wisdom. But when a magazine represents itself as journalism yet actually serves almost as the newsletter and promotional arm of a consulting firm with a particular agenda, something is amiss, and eventually its readers will catch on...." Rushkoff does admit to liking a lot of what Wired has to offer -- the writings of Louis Rossetto in particular -- rather he objects to its manipulation of readers "into a state of suggestible anxiety, through cleverly exploited language and design", and its hidden cultural agenda "masquerading as a British effort". I for one would be interested to know how our American colleagues have viewed Wired. I find myself thinking, however, that we computing humanists have some real work to do in the public arena. The promise that we see, the good that we know can be done, may quite easily be confused with darker purposes of those whose self-interest is anything but enlightened. For example, in the latest Times Literary Supplement (4903, 21/3/97, p. 16) Richard West, in "If in doubt, chuck out" writes about the closing of a number of British public libraries and the dispersal of their collections -- e.g., the huge and valuable stock of books in the Stoke Newington Church Street Library's reference section, containing Daniel Defoe's books. Citing W. J. West's booklet, The Strange Rise of Semi-literate England: The dissolution of the libraries (Duckworth, 1991), Richard West notes that, "In the seven years since he wrote his study, W. J. West has seen the advance of the computer, which has become the main enemy of the public library and the reading habit itself." I find that a difficult sentence to swallow, but at the same time there's all too much idiocy, even sometimes within our institutions of higher learning, about the replacement of books by electronic media. If books are going to be replaced anyhow, why keep them? The British Council's plan to close its lending library in Athens has been stopped by a concerned group of citizens, but note that the Council figured on replacing it with a "high-powered information centre". Can we now read such promotional phrases without a shiver? Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: hiatus Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 723 (723) Dear Colleagues: Humanist is about to fall silent until Monday, as I will be far away from my station, here in the East End of London, until then. E-mail, however, does not rot and probably will not vanish, so let this not inhibit you. Software at Princeton allows me to recall that I've mentioned Alastair Cooke's weekly broadcast, Letter from America, before. Apart from the fact that both of us are ex-pats, and so share a certain frame of mind, I find it curious how this medium, applied in this way through Humanist, maps onto Cooke's kind of radio. Humanists have made a comparison between our device and "ham radio" before, but I wonder if in all the speculations about the new media anyone has sketched out the relationships between computer-mediated communications and the various prior forms from conversation through telephony and Marconi's wireless. Off now in a blaze of early morning sunlight. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Francois Lachance Subject: OECD report Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:42:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 724 (724) Willard, The Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is scheduled to release a report April 4. According to a Toronto Star article on the soon to be released "OECD's Communications Outlook 1997" Canada is the cheapest country in the industrial world for surfing the Internet. The comparison was based on price of local phone service and 20 hours a month on line. The newspaper also reports that according to Statistics Canada about 8 percent of Canadians have Internet access. I signal this not to make you pine for days (and nights) spent with cheap rates at the University of Toronto but to signal a vital area of policy engagement: access. -- Francois From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Job at NYU Date: Fri, 28 Mar 97 12:40:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 725 (725) Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Academic Computing Facility Fax: (212) 995 4120 New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Writer/Editor Academic Computing Facility User Services Group New York University Basic Functions and Responsibilities: Write and edit technical and promotional materials and publications for the Academic Computing Facility. Serve as liaison with University faculty, administrators, technical staff and external sources to develop ongoing publishing projects. Characteristics Duties and Responsibilities: 1.Edits and writes ACF publications, including ACF's news magazine Connect, computer guides and brochures, abstracts and promotional literature on colloquia, and other educational and technical documents for use by ACF's clients. 2.Facilitate the general use of ACF's documentation by planning, writing and regularly updating all documentation. 3.Facilitate technical development of documentation by working with networking and helpdesk staff to ensure that documentation is exhaustive and user-friendly. 4.Produces online versions of various ACF publications by using HTML and other web-based tools. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and experience. 3 years technical writing and editing experience. Proficiency using word processing and desktop publishing software; knowledge of microcomputers and Web-based publishing tools. Closing date for applications: April 21st 1997 For further information and application details, please contact: Shaaron Francis Assistant Director for Business and Administration Academic Computing Facility New York University 251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012-1185 Telephone: (212) 998-3016 Fax: (212) 995-4120 E-Mail: Shaaron.Francis@NYU.EDU NYU Academic Computing Facility Website: http://www.nyu.edu/acf/ From: Subject: RIAO'97: Internet searching Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 726 (726) Call For Participation RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS] Brief Description : --------------------- Every three years the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes an RIAO conference (RIAO is the French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval). RIAO97 will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO88 at MIT; RIAO91 in Barcelona; and RIAO94 at Rockefeller University in New York. RIAO conferences have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. The mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both aspects, stimulating both new product development, ecnouraging sponsorship of start-ups, as well as initiating lines of further, critical research investigations. RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering, and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions of networks. In particular, RIAO97 brings together search specialists and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be accomplished in the context of the proliferation of web sites, content formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of user accesses. ------------------------------------------ FINAL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE GENERAL SESSION June 25, 1997 ------------------------------------------ 9:00-9:15 a.m WELCOMING STATEMENT Dr B. Robaire Vice Principal, Research McGill University, Canada 9:15-9:30 a.m RIAO97' Introduction J. Thuiller Professor at the College de France President of the C.I.D. 9:30-10:00 a.m Invited Speaker GILS Projet N. Brodie National Library of Ottawa, Canada --------------------------------- SESSION 1: INFORMATION DISCOVERY --------------------------------- Chairman: L. Devroye, McGill University 10:00-10:25 a.m "The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Discovery and Filtering on the Web" M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr, M. Pazzani University of California, USA 10:25-10:50 a.m "Mining Information In Order To Extract Hidden And Strategical Information" T.Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France 10:50-11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 2: VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION ---------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: S. Tohme, ENST France 11:20-11:45 a.m "Design Issues for World Wide Web Navigation Visualisation Tools" A. Cockburn, S. Jones University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand 11:45-12:10 a.m "Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing" A. Wexelblat, P. Maes Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 12:10-12:35 p.m "Using terminological base for Term-based information retrieval" J-Y Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada 12:35-2:05 p.m LUNCH ------------------------------------------------ SESSION 3: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING, REPOSITORIES ------------------------------------------------ Chairman: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre 2:05-2:30 p.m "Development of a Document Summarization System for Effective Information Services" D. H. Jang, S. H. Myaeng Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea 2:30-2:55 p.m "Automatic summarization on the Web? RAFI: A system for summarizing using indicating fragments" A. Lehmam, Universite de Nancy II, France 2:55-3:20 p.m "Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories" B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier Rank Xerox Research Centre, France 3:20-3:45 p.m "Annotating the World Wide Web using Natural Language" B. Katz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA 3:45-4:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 4: LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL --------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: R. Cencioni, European Community 4:15-4:40 p.m "IRENA: Information Retrieval Engine based on Natural Language Analysis" A.T. Arampatzis ,T. Tsoris, C.H.A. Koster. Patras, Greece and Netherlands 4:40-5:05 p.m "The Effect of Syntactic Phrase Indexing on Retrieval Performance for Dutch Texts" R. Pohlmann , W. Kraaij Utrecht University, TNO-TPD, Netherlands 5:05-5:30 p.m "Using Simulated Annealing to Understand Natural Language Texts" S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi, J.C. Bassano Universite d'Orleans, France. Geneva Univeristy, Switzerland 5:30-5:55 p.m "An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases" M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie Cornell University, USA ----------------------------------- June 26, 1997 SESSION 5: MULTILINGUAL APPROACH ---------------------------------- Chairman: C. Fluhr, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. France 9:00-9:25 a.m "Multi-Language Text Indexing for Internet Retrieval" M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland 9:25-9:50 a.m "Adaptative Filtering of Multilingual Document Streams" D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA 9:50-10:15 a.m "A domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for Cross-Language Information Retrieval" D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W. Kraaij CTIT, Twente University, Netherlands 10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------- SESSION 6: IRS ARCHITECTURE ---------------------------- Chairman: R. Marcus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) 10:45-11:10 a.m "EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic Engineering" B. Baldwin , C. Doran, J.C. Reynar 11:10-11:35 a.m "Information Retrieval On The Word Wide Web using a Decision Making System" F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA, Lyon, France 11:35-12:00 a.m "A Multiagent Architecture for Information Retrieval on the World-Wide Web" V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety Wayne State University, University of Missouri. USA 12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION --------------------------------- Chairman: C. Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes. France 1:30-2:45 p.m Panel TREC in Many Languages * TREC-5: English D. Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA * TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese A. Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland *The Amaryllis Project C. Fluhr Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France 2:45-3:10 p.m "Integrated text categorisation and information extraction using pattern matching and linguistic processing" W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R Dressel UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy 3:10-3:35 p.m "On-Line Resource Discovery using Natural Language" O.R. Zaine , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl, P. Tarau Simon Fraser University, Canada 3:35-4:00 p.m "Coupling information retrieval and information extraction: A new text technology for gathering information from the web" R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson University of Sheffield, UK 4:00-4:30 p.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------- SESSION 8: DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING ---------------------------------------- Chairman: D.J. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. 4:30-4:55 p.m "Summarizing Similarities and differences Among Related Documents" I. Mani , E. Bloedorn The MITRE Corporation, USA 4:55-5:20 p.m "Relevance Ranking for One to Three Term Queries" C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope University of Toronto. Canada 5:20-5:45 p.m "Space Optimizations for Total Ranking" D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen Excite Inc., USA 5:45-6:10 p.m "A Similarity-Based Agent for Internet Searching" T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK ------------------------------- June 27, 1997 SESSION 9: IRS ARCHITECTURE- II ------------------------------- Chairman: U. Heid, Stuttgart University, Germany 9:00-9:25 a.m "ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery" F. Menczer , R.K. Belew University of California, USA 9:25-9:50 a.m "Cobra: A new approach to IR System design" T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. UK 9:50-10:15 a.m "Interactive Image Retrieval by Means of Abductive Inference" A. Muller, A. Everts GMD. Germany 10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------- SESSION 10: QUERY REFORMULATION --------------------------------- Chairman: J.C. Bassano, Universite d'Orleans France. 10:45-11:10 a.m "Query modification based on relevance backpropagation" M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy MSI, Universite de Limoges, France 11:10-11:35 a.m "Query ReFormulation on the Internet: Empirical Data and the Hyperindex Search Engine" P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis Queensland University of Technology, Australia 11:35-12:00 a.m SQLET: Short Query Linguistic Expansion Techniques: Palliating One or Two-word Queries by Providing Intermediate Structure to WWW Pages G. Grefenstette Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France 12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 11: INFORMATION FILTERING --------------------------------- Chairman: V. Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow 1:30-1:55 p.m "Probabilistic Learning for Information Filtering" G. Amati , F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Padova, Universita di Roma, Italy 1:55-2:20 p.m "Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging" R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas University of Pennsylvania, USA 2:20-2:45 p.m "Querying Hierarchical Text and Acyclic Hypertext with Generalized Context-Free Grammars" Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny Universite de Montreal, Canada 2:45-3:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations ------------------------------------- SESSION 12: INFORMATION EXTRACTION II ------------------------------------- Chairman: J.P. Haton, Universite Henri-Poincare, Nancy I, France 3:15-3:40 p.m "A probabilistic model of Passage Categorization" M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga Advanced Research Laboratory, Japan 3:40-4:05 p.m "Knowledge Discovery From Natural Language Texts" U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger Freiburg University, Germany 4:05-4:30 p.m "Extraction of Index Words from Manuals" H. Nakagawa Yokohama National University, Japan -------------------------------- SESSION 13: JUDICIAL PROBLEMS -------------------------------- Chairman: J. Perriere, C.I.D. France 4:30-4:55 p.m "Limits of Using Data" Maitre Feral-Schuhl Ordre Des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France. 4:55-5:20 p.m "Data Security" Maitre G. Arendt President of Computer Commission of the International Union of Lawyers, Luxemburg 5:20-5:45 p.m "Security Concerns On The Intranet" Maitre Landry Montreal, Canada. Union Internationale des Avocats. 5:45-6:15 p.m Conclusions Cooperation program between France and Quebec Linguistic and knowledge engineering --------------------------- Special Session Cooperation program between France and Quebec Linguistic and knowledge engineering Thursday 26th June 1997 Presentation languages: French and English --------------------------------------------- Chairman: Stephane Chaudiron, Program Coordinator for France (Ministry for Education and Research, DISTNB) 9.00 a.m: Presentation of the program, Antoine Mynard, Attache pour la Science et la Technologie 9.15 a.m: Tools for Lexicographers: Applications of Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicography, Alain Polguere (Department of linguistics and translation - University of Montreal), Gilles Serasset (GETA-CLIPS,IMAG, University Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I) 9.45 a.m: Automatic Processing Of Synonymy, Gaston Gross (Laboratoire de linguistique et informatique-UMR 195, University Paris 13), Andre Clas (GRESLET, University of Montreal). 10.15 a.m: The Semantics of Spatial Expressions and the Voronoi Model, Agnes Gryl(LIMSI, University of Paris Sud), Geoffrey Edwards (Centre de Recherche en geomatique, University Laval). 10.45 a.m: Emergentist Classifiers and Computationnally Enhanced Cognition: Applications to Text Analysis and Diagnosis, Vincent Rialle (Laboratoire TIMC, IMAG, University Joseph Fourier), Jean-Guy Meunier (Laboratoire d'analyse cognitive de l'information, University of Quebec in Montreal). 10.45 a.m - 11.00 a.m Coffee break Chairman: Claude Fleury, program coordinator for Quebec, Ministere des relations internationales du Quebec 11.00 a.m: Connecting "What to say?" and "How to say it?" Components in a Text Generation System, Laurence Danlos (TALANA, University Paris 7) et Guy Lapalme (DIRO, University of Montreal). 11.30 a.m: Recycling the Results of Robust Parsers to Identify Term Variants, Benoit Habert (ENS Fontenay), Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy (University of Montreal), Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN), Fernande Dupuis (UQAM), Elie Naulleau (ENS Fontenay et DER/EDF), Monique Lemieux (UQAM). 12.00 p.m: The Integration of French Language Processing and Users Features in an Information Retrieval System, Jean-Pierre Chevallet (CLIPS-IMAG, University Joseph Fourier) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal). 12.30 p.m: Text retrieval and filtering using conceptual-based clustering metho", Jacques Guizol (Laboratoire d'informatique de Marseille, University of Mediterranee) Ruben Gonzalez Rubio (University of Sherbrooke). ------------------------ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ------------------------ Registration via the WWW at http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 or by e-mail: riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr or by fax at the CID: (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45 or by surface mail: CID, 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France CID, c/o Constantin and co., 575 Madison Ave, 25th Floor, NY, NY 10022, USA ------------------ Registration Fees ------------------ (before June 1, 1997): US$ 475 or CA$ 650 or 415 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 530 or CA$ 725 or 460 ECUS Students (presenting valid Student ID): (before June 1, 1997): US$ 315 or CA$ 435 or 275 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 390 or CA$ 530 or 340 ECUS Registration fees can be made by bank transfer: in US dollars: CID/CASIS No: 02 050 25 061 2 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France or CASIS No: 15 39 90 34 City Bank, 460 Park Avenue and 57th Street, NY, NY 10022 USA in Canadian dollars: CID No: 035 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France in ECUs: CID No: 055 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France For Credit Card payments, only VISA Card can be accepted in writing or by faxing request to C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France, fax (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45. 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When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant of RIAO97 Conference. In most cases, rooms will only be held at a special rate until one month before the conference. For more information: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 From: Subject: Call for Papers Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 727 (727) CALL FOR PAPERS: Extended Deadline ---------------------------------- Now inviting submissions for HENRY STREET vol. 6.2 A Graduate Review of Literary Studies _Henry Street_, formerly known as _Critical Mass_, is in its sixth year. We aim to provide an international forum for graduate students of English and related disciplines. The editors, themselves graduate students, are committed to providing their colleagues with the opportunity to publish their own work and to read the work of others in their field. _Henry Street_ invites contributions of critical essays, short fiction and poetry from graduate students in English or a related discipline. We also welcome essays on pedagogy, the job market, graduate programs, and other topics of interest to graduate students. We aim especially to publish and promote innovative criticism that, in the words of one of our contributors, "combines the personal with the scholarly." _Henry Street_ is indexed by the MLA. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Essays should not exceed 7000 words, and must follow MLA guidelines for citation and presentation. All submissions, except poetry, should be double-spaced on standard 8.5" x 11" bond. To facilitate our process of anonymous reading, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript. Send two copies of submissions, and include a self-addressed return envelope accompanied either by Canadian stamps or international reply coupons. Manuscripts submitted without SASE cannot be returned. The cover letter must indicate the author's degree status and university affiliation. Send your submission to: _Henry Street_ Department of English Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3J5 You can also send e-mail inquiries to henry.street@dal.ca. Please note that this address is for inquiries only, not submissions. *** We welcome submissions at any time, but the deadline for our next *** issue is May 15, 1997. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 6.1 includes: * Kirk T. Hughes (Pennsylvania): "Qualified: Confessions of a Would-Be PhD" * Jason P. Mitchell (Mississippi): "Constructing Walt Whitman: The Critics Contend with the Good G(r)ay Poet" * Richard C. Cante (Southern California): "Untitled" * Corey Andrews (Ohio): "The Subject and the City: The Case of the Vanishing Private Eye in Paul Auster's _City of Glass_" Poetry by Dewaine Beard and Jane Soutar; fiction by Rosemary Peters Crick; and reviews by Brent Raycroft, Julia Swan, Bradley Clissold, and Reina Green. From: Subject: how late it is Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 728 (728) In the Washington Post for today, 30 March -- a ravishingly beautiful Easter Sunday morning in the U.S. capital -- appears an article by George F. Will, "The Education Bubble and a saturated job market", reviewing a book by Anne Matthews, Bright College Years: Inside the American Campus Today. I report the following to you directly from this newspaper article, as I am unlikely to read the book and certainly cannot check on the accuracy of Matthews' account. As it stands, however, the article provokes us to think about whom we are teaching and the nature of the world they inhabit. The question, as always, is how to communicate humane learning, in our case with a computer, to those who apparently have no prior commitment to it? Matthews, teacher in the NYU graduate journalism programme and daughter of a university professor, "casts a cool eye on an industry [higher education] that employs 2.5 million people (more thanthe auto, steel and textile industries combined) and constitutes 'an archipelago nation-within-a-nation, two thousand islands in the social sea.'" It is, moreover, a growth industry, every year since the founding of Harvard. "Today 9 million people attend 2,125 four-year institutions (595 public, 1530 private) full time and several million more part time." (These are, remember, stats for the U.S. alone.) The average time they take to complete a BA is 6 years; half who matriculate do not ever graduate; one in four drops out after the first year. On the institutional side, 60% of the total endowments belongs to the top 50 schools, and it is only these that are not particularly concerned about keeping the students coming in through the front door. The remaining schools "are... increasingly desparate for even marginal and unprepared students... not only lowering standards (requiring only 'a pulse in one hand, a check in the other'), they are discounting tuitions, advertising sushi and waffle bars in the student unions and prime cable service in the dorms where, Matthews says, some students hibernate for days." (I would be dishonest with myself not to recall how much time I spent "hibernating", or something similar, in my room or someone else's, back when we all knew we should be reading Plato, Shakespeare, Mann, and Eliot, and could, brilliantly if I may say so. But then perhaps our behaviour led to the present mess?) "Only 25 percent of undergraduates are liberal arts majors. Twenty-five percent are business majors, most of the rest are on vocational tracks...." The bit that concerns computing has to do with "a widening chasm between faculty formed in a print culture and students produced by a wired world." Gone with print culture, she says, is the ability even to muddle through Elizabethan English, and "it is shocking to hear undergraduates try to read 19th century prose.... 'Shakespeare courses rely heavily on in-class movies.' She tells of an art history professor showing students a slide of a Rubens painting. Student: 'What is the story line on this thing?' Professor: 'It doesn't have one. It's a 17th century portrait.' Student: 'It doesn't move at all?' Professor: 'Unfortunately, no.' Student: 'But I can't see things if they don't move.'" This being the Washington Post, the article in question appears beside one written by Henry Kissinger and doubtless will be read by many a policy maker. Some matter for concern, perhaps? It seems clear that even if we were inclined to bemoan the spread of digital words and moving images, the complaint would be an utter waste of breath. Our only choice, it seems, is more intelligent use of computing, reaching the students through computing -- and I don't just mean with computer-based learning software. The question I have is, how do we communicate our subject matter as humanists to students whose implicit model of cognition is the computer? How do they thus read poetry -- when they do? Is there not here a wonderfully rich question to be explored? WM From: Chris Powell Subject: Random Poem Composer Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:17:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 729 (729) In the spirit of fun associated with April Fool's Day, the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the new HTI American Verse Random Poem Composer. Through the magic of SGML (TEILite, specifically), we have the ability to select 16 random lines from the American Verse Project database and combine them into a hitherto unseen poem chosen especially for you. Just access the URL: http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?type=random and a random poem will be sent to your web browser. Each line will helpfully consist of not only a line of verse, but a link back to the larger work, just in case you *really* want to know more about the true context of the line. Don't like that poem? Fine! Just press the Reload button, HUNDREDS OF TIMES IF NECESSARY, to get the poetic statement you crave. It's fun, and we don't even think it's illegal. Christina Powell Humanities Text Intiative http://www.hti.umich.edu/ From: Claire Smith Subject: Journal of Digital Information Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 11:45:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 730 (730) Journal of Digital Information http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/jodi The Journal of Digital Information, JoDI, is an electronic journal (with no paper equivalent form) intended to serve the community of workers in this field. The journal aims to be the primary electronic source for high quality articles and consequently refereeing is rigorous. There is also scope for the online discussion of articles, a process as vital to the community as the formal publication process itself. The Journal of Digital Information supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press. It is hosted at the University of Southampton Multimedia Group and will be mirrored at the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A & M University. The journal invites submissions on a wide variety of topics, for example: * digital libraries * hypermedia systems * intelligent agents * information management * interfaces to digital information * social consequences of digital information digital information design ....and related topics. Contact: Cliff McKnight, Editor-in-Chief, C.Mcknight@lboro.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Claire Smith / Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences (CHASS Facility) University of Toronto/ Robarts Library, 14th Floor / 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A5 / Phone: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 Internet: csmith@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~csmith/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Claire Smith Subject: Scout Report Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 11:21:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 731 (731) Here is information on the Scout Report (about which you are probably already familiar, but it is useful to bring it up in HUMANIST once in awhile). The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However, everyone is welcome to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML). Subscription instructions appear at the bottom of this report. Your feedback on the format and content of the Scout Report is invited! Send comments and contributions to scout@internic.net Visit our web site for a fully linked and searchable HTML version of this and all previous Scout Reports, and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) versions for printing and distribution: http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/ http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/pdf/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Claire Smith / Computing in the Humanities & Social Sciences (CHASS Facility) University of Toronto/ Robarts Library, 14th Floor / 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A5 / Phone: (416) 978-2535 / Fax: (416) 978-6519 Internet: csmith@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~csmith/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Subject: Re: 10.0814 anyone for heraldry? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 732 (732) [deleted quotation] I remember about 15 years ago Dr Ian Graham of the University of London's Institute of Archaeology was compiling a book of all known coat-of-arms before 1400 with the help of a computer database. Since then, he left England for Australia. I don't know what happened to the project nor whether he is still contactable... Francois C-R From: Tim Cavanaugh Subject: Re: demise of Wired UK & British libraries Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 10:28:57 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 733 (733) Seems like kind of a stretch. There's nothing like failure to bring out the carping critic that lurks in the heart of every carping critic, but the failure of Wired UK has a pretty prosaic explanation. Wired Ventures in general is in not-so-good shape financially. The collapse of its plan for an IPO last year put the kibosh on many projects, including money-losers like Wired UK. They've also trimmed down some of their web operations, and I believe they've laid some people off. And I can tell you from first-hand experience that getting them to pay up for freelance contributions is like getting blood from a carrot. Wired UK had a circulation of 30,000. Not too bad, but not enough to attract the ads that the UK's home-grown internet mags have snapped up. And not enough for a financially troubled company to keep publishing. The folding of a magazine is always juicy news, but it can hardly be called a rejection of American hegemony. We should also keep in mind where Mr Rushkoff collects his paycheck. The Guardian was Wired's partner in the UK edition, which was always conceived as a joint venture. The people at the Guardian complained publicly about a "clash of cultures" (or should I say "creative differences") between the two organizations. Certainly, Wired's know-nothing libertarianism couldn't have meshed with the Guardian's leftish tone, but to me Rushkoff's rant sounds more like Who Shot John. Here in San Francisco, Wired's fiscal woes has prompted an extended visit from our old friend schadenfreude. My two cents is that their only sin was in overplaying their hand as a "multimedia" company. They are a magazine and publishing company with an extensive presence in electronic publishing, and if their proposed share price had been fixed accordingly, they could have gone public successfully. People just weren't willing to pay a Microsoft price for a Field & Stream-sized company (of course, Wired may not have had any choice but to seek a big cash infusion; I don't know how deep in the hole they really are). Despite its naive technozealotry, Wired is a great magazine, and its presence on the web is one of the best. Sure, the way Rossetto and his boys sell us on the net future is kind of pushy and snake-oilish, but isn't that what dreaming big is all about? And their willingness to sponsor dissenting, in fact almost cancerous, opinions like suck.com seems to indicate they believe in letting a hundred schools contend. As to your second point, it's certainly disturbing to see the growth of libraries that hate books, but I don't see how the internet has contributed to this phenomenon, other than providing nice cover for budget cutters. The rush to the bottom is never pretty, so library heads dress it up by claiming that rather than just throwing out books and cutting staff, they're "updating" the library to make it a "high-powered information centre." The goal is not to get new tech; it's to get new tech that allows you to cut costs without having people complain. You may have followed the war between Nicholson Baker and Ken Dowlin, the shameless head of the San Fran library system. It was the first major challenge to such shenanigans in the US. I'm happy to say that Baker ended up being the last man standing, though not for the reasons he wanted. When the library's multimillion dollar budget overruns came to light, Downlin got hoisted on his own fiscal petard, and Mayor Willie Brown (no paragon of civic responsibility himself) gave him the boot. Sometimes there's God so quickly. Tim From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 10.0812 demise of Wired UK & British libraries Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:10:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 734 (734) With reference to Wired, I have to say that the comments reported here focused very well for me the free-floating anxiety I always experienced when looking at the magazine and reading its often obviously solipsistic and anti-liberatory articles--it's almost as though the editors thought they could create a commodified cyberpunk environment just by suggesting that it was cool. But as far as the threat to libraries is concerned, though that exists it should not be equated with a threat to books. Even here in Mississippi (where all the appliance stores, by the way, sell PCs, and there are 4 or 5 local Internet Service Providers), huge bookstore chains with lots of great stuff are opening daily--and you can't beat your way in the door: the places are packed with ordinary people and kids sitting in the floor and reading. Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: "Niels P. Mayer" Subject: NRR Re: BRITS: Wise to Wired and Death on Libraries (fwd) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 08:21:08 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 735 (735) Willard -- I think you hit the nail right through the saviour's hand on this one. I've been thinking about Wired (US) in exactly the same way ever since they sold out to the major US media conglomerates (e.g. Time/Warner). (This happened around the time that most of my friends&acquaintances left Wired for other careers, so it's not like i'm dissing my friends.) Fortunately, you were able to sum up the problems with Wired in a much more poingnant fashion than I. I see Wired as being the computer-wanker's version of Playboy magazine, wowing us with the digerati's version of the silicone breast implant, and making us long for the day when we could have the cohones and cash to have a bit of digital perfection implanted in our own bodies, or at least humming nearby as we plug-in to download the latest groupthink. As if we should denigrate/ignore the results of millions of years of evolution and heap praises on the shoddy engineering that got squeezed in between cappucino's and marketing meetings at Intel and Microsoft. Actually, the comparison to Playboy is a bit unfair, since, beyond the airbrushing, implants and exploits, that magazine has at least had some groundgreaking reportage on issues of freedom/politics/repression in our society. Wired, meanwhile has this sick attitude that the benefits of the crypto-libertarian utopia should be bestowed only upon those Wired enough to be on the invite-list for all the cool corporate/media parties at big national computer conferences... everyone else can rot. That's why I'd rather be "Tired" than "Wired". It's good toilet reading, or airplane-reading for when I'm too braindead from business travel to read something with real content. It would be wonderful if there was a "humanist" centered version of Wired -- an "Utne Reader" for the digitally inclined. I personally get a lot more out of reading the Communications of the ACM, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, or IEEE Computer or even Byte. This is where the real futurism lies. At least those magazines/journals have the substance and rigor to *TEACH* the populace about the cutting edge, rather than just namedropping and constantly reminding us about how lowly and falling-behind we are compared to the inner-circle of really-cool/hip people that comprise Wired and it's wankerati following. From: Dave Nartonis Subject: Re: 10.0812 demise of Wired UK & British libraries Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:29:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 736 (736) My own research is in late 18th and early 19th c. New England. Thus I spend many happy hours in libraries full of books. But I do not feel the horror about the coming of the computer age that some do. For example, a young friend of mine recently asked for help in researching the topic of dolphins. We got into the new Library of Congress homepage, searched on dolphins, found 341 titles, sorted the list by date, and had it sent to us by email. In a minute or two, all the catalog information was on our screen. If only I'd had resources like this when I was in school! This week the New York Times put all its book reviews back to 1980 on its homepage. This isn't hype. Its actually happening. At one fringe we have the pundits who want to make a dollar from all this change. On another fringe we have the status quo seekers who want to stop the world and get off. Why should these groups disturb us if we are daily getting more and more access to the research materials we use to do our work? Will the future bring changes? Yes. Books virtually put an end to the role of story-tellers in society. Computers may obsolete books. Remember the wonderful story-teller that helped Alex Haley find his African roots? Why is no one calling for the end of books so that we can restore this lost resource? :-) I think it is because the real opposition is not to computers but only to change. Dave Nartonis compub@shore.net Boston USA 617-450-3329 From: "Adams, Ernest" Subject: Demise of Wired in the UK Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:39:11 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 737 (737) Dear Dr. McCarty, I'm not on the Humanist mailing list, but my wife forwarded your message about Wired-UK to me. I am a video game developer living in Silicon Valley. I was disturbed to learn that many of the staff of Wired were planning to involve themselves in other business activities. Objective journalism requires a staff dedicated single-mindedly TO journalism. I myself have always regarded Wired as a magazine which observed, or rather celebrated, advancing technology and the cultural changes which accompany it. Its editorial slant favored open access to this technology and opposed governmental efforts to regulate it, or to use it to control its citizens. On the whole I applaud this position. However, I do not feel that Wired turns a sufficiently critical eye on the potential negative aspects of such high-speed technological advancement. People speak of the "democratizing power," of the Internet -- to enable people to publish their work widely and inexpensively. This is well and good. I have no doubt that when the printing press was invented there were some who complained that now any idiot could print a book regardless of the merits of his material, and as a result the quality of books as a whole would go down. They were of course right; vast numbers of completely worthless books, such as those on astrology, are now printed every day, and they would never be published were it necessary for monks to copy them out by hand. On the other hand I believe we now live in a golden age of literacy, when genuinely useful books on an infinity of topics are now available to the masses at a price that would have amazed the mediaeval scholar. Despite the astrology books, no one would choose to go back to a time without the printing press. I believe the same argument could be made about the Internet. However, I also feel that in fact this democratizing power will be bad for democracy itself. American attitudes towards politicians (the word is now a curse in America), civil servants, and government service generally, are at an all-time low. Scandal-mongering is intense. Our newspapers have devolved into institutions whose main role with regard to politics appears to be seeking out reasons for criticizing those in public service. The notion that it is right and proper for good people to devote themselves to public service (an idea which reached its zenith with the Kennedy family) has almost been lost. The Internet only worsens this problem. Any idiot can say anything, and there is no mechanism to filter the opinions of the lunatic fringe out from more reasoned discourse. Prior to the Internet it was possible to recognize the opinions of the lunatic fringe because they only appeared on cheaply-printed handbills, never in the newspaper. That distinction is now lost. Worse yet, the lunatic fringe, in my experience, have more time to devote to disseminating their nonsense than do careful thinkers; with the result that the newsgroups are filled with hate-mongers and conspiracy theorists who crowd out other rational debate, and prey upon the ignorant and the credulous. At a time when critical thinking is more essential than ever, the world abounds in "psychics," "angels," "faith healing," and the like. If the Internet is to be the great new medium for political discourse (and many people seem to think that it will be), then political discourse will be the worse for it. Another issue might be the widening gap between those who are familiar with high technology and those who are not -- usually the urban poor. Such people, unused to working with computers, will soon be fit only for the most menial of service jobs. Even being a clerk at a McDonalds now requires familiarity with a computerized order-entry system. These are examples of the kinds of issues that I believe Wired fails to address. Their infatuation with technological advancement blinds them to its serious consequences. God knows I'm not a Luddite, but I believe these are issues which require our careful attention. I rather doubt that Wired had any cultural agenda with respect to Britain per se -- its editors more likely had the commonplace American belief that every place was like America, and the British audience would have identical interests and attitudes to those of its American audience. Suggesting that its editors were on a secret mission to infiltrate American techno-culture into Britain is to give them too much credit. I disagree that Wired was guilty of cultural imperialism, just the normal provincialism which is ubiquitous in the American media. Yours for what it's worth, Ernest W. Adams From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0812 demise of Wired UK & British libraries Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:22:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 738 (738) Wired US has not made a profit since it began. They have had losses of close to a billion dollars They floated a bond issue of a half a billion last summer to keep going. I find it interesting although I find myself censoring it from time to time when I bring it home for my children to read. My children love it and read it until it comes apart. Are you aware of the electronic version called Hot Wired? From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: 10.0812 demise of Wired UK & British libraries Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:10:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 739 (739) Post-hoc reasoning, ad hominem attacks and anecdotal evidence aside, Rushkoff has brilliantly stated what was already blindingly obvious to anyone who hase read Wired, or visited HotWired--the folks at Wired have a point of view. Perhaps it is a little, just a little, more evident than that of the editorial staff at The Guardian. Wired can get mighty preachy, though I sometimes find myself agreeing with them. Over the past year HotWired has espoused freedom of expression (no CDA), the right to privacy (encryption for the masses), and accessability (open standards). Can we as HUMANISTS find any of this all that disturbing? Can Ruskoff? -- Sincerely, ________________________________________________ Gary W. Shawver <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gshawver/> ________________________________________________ From: David Green Subject: A Brave New World-Online Symposium (fwd) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:46:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 740 (740) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 1, 1997 Below is the announcement of a particularly timely and interesting online symposium addressing two, I believe related, situations: the place of the arts and arts institutions at a time of reduced funding-as-we-know-it; and the new opportunities for access and the potential for new economic models provided by new technologies. David Green We Invite You to Join "A Brave New World? Access to Arts at the End of the Millennium." A Brave New World? Access to Arts at the End of the Millennium is an on-line symposium that will discuss the state of the arts and arts institutions in the era of reduced funding (on the one hand) and new media that may provide increased access to the arts (on the other). The first stage of the forum will take place on the "Brave New World?" listserv, the proceedings of which will be published in the July/August 1997 issue of Art Papers and in the "Brave New World" interactive conference on the Art Papers World Wide Web site (where ongoing dialogue on access to the arts will continue, potentially into the next millennium). Topics for discussion include the current survival status and strategies of arts organizations and individual artists; on-line resources as means of surmounting new and persistent problems in the arts; and access to the arts in a situation characterized by new media but also by limited public access to the arts, due to reduced schedules and permanent closings among arts organizations. The moderator will be Cathy Downey, Managing Editor of Art Papers, and the organizer of the panel is Glenn Harper, editor of Sculpture magazine. "Brave New World?" will be online by April 1, 1997, and the cutoff date for postings to be published in the July/August issue of Art Papers will be May 30. The goals of the project are to increase the dialogue on contemporary art among artists and arts professionals and to provide a venue for serious discussion of the opportunities and difficulties in reaching new audiences for the arts. To subscribe, send an empty email message to the ,with in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send a one-line message containing the word to . Once you've subscribed, all messages to the list should be addressed to the address. Do not send subscribe or unsubscribe messages to this address. All such administrative messages should go to the address only. Thank you for your participation! From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: workshop on electronic publishing Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:48:08 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 741 (741) This is to inform you that the Academia Europaea (presentation: http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de) has organized a workshop on THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ON THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY, Stockholm, 17-20 April 1997 (full details: http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de/sweden/). For those interested in the problems of representation of the texts, I have placed the abstract of my communication in my web page: http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/stoccolma.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39.6.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39.6.4991-3945 00185 Roma From: ElectricEds@bigfoot.com Subject: Announcing the Electric Editors Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 01:25:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 742 (742) Announcing the Electric Editors =============================== Today, 31st March 1997, sees the launch of a new free service for all professional editors, both in-house and freelance. The Electric Editors has been set up to bring together everyone involved in the preparation of the written word for publication, including editors, proofreaders, indexers, translators, writers and typesetters. The aim is to foster communication within the publishing community, leading to greater understanding and improved standards. Join today and you'll be able to subscribe to any or all of our email discussion groups: - EDline, for the discussion of general editorial matters - LANGline, for linguists and translators - Grapevine, for computer-related issues There's also a Web page on which you'll find more information about the Electric Editors, a collection of links to useful resources on the Web and a library of word processor macros with the emphasis on editing text. As the Electric Editors project grows, more features will be added. In the pipeline are such ideas as an online directory of members and macro- writing and HTML tutorials. We're open to suggestions for any new services, so join now to find out how the Electric Editors will benefit you. To join, simply send an email to: ElectricEds@bigfoot.com with 'Join Electric Editors' as the subject line. We'll send you more details, including how to subscribe to the mailing lists. You can also view the Electric Editors Web pages at the following URL: < http://www.ikingston.demon.co.uk/ee/home.htm > We stress that the Electric Editors is *free*: no money, no passwords, just useful information from professional editors around the globe. If you know of anyone else who might be interested in joining the Electric Editors, please forward this message to them. The coordinators of the Electric Editors are (in alphabetical order): Iain Brown Jane Kerr Philip Gardner Ian Kingston Ralph Hancock Petra Kopp Eddie Kent ----------------------------------------------------- The Electric Editors Email: ElectricEds@bigfoot.com Web: < http://www.ikingston.demon.co.uk/ee/home.htm > ----------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 10.0819 o tempora o mores Date: Tue, 01 Apr 97 07:41:14 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 743 (743) Some comments in response to Willard's friendly posting of the Washington Post article on the apparently dreadful state of higher education in the U.S. While Matthews says much that coheres with my experience as a teacher in a largely liberal arts setting for nearly two decades (Lord! how did I ever get to be _that_ old?) - I think she oversimplifies regarding the now familiar claim that our print-culture faculty are increasingly unable to reach students conditioned by an extravagently wired world. This semester I have used Web-based materials rather intensively, on the assumption that my students are indeed Web- and computer-literate -- only to get responses such as the following: "I hate the Web! I can never find that stuff you tell us to look at..." Particularly stunning was the result of my posting a Web page which listed the names of various informal fallacies under study in my logic/ critical thinking class - with each name linked to a description of the fallacy and several examples. Each name, accordingly, appears in the color identifying a link, and is underlined as well - if ever there were a universal icon for a link marker on the Web, I would have thought this was it. I was not overly surprised when a faculty member told me that he had looked at the site, and didn't find the list of names very helpful - i.e., he did not recognize that the names were link markers. But when several of my allegedly Web-literate students told me the same thing, I began to doubt the easy assumption I had made regarding their ability to read Web documents. In general, experiences such as these, along with other considerations suggested by the available literature, collegial comments, etc. have moved me from ardent enthusiasm for the new media as an exciting, or at least culturally-mandated next phase for education and dialogue to a somewhat chastened, more cautious, somewhat skeptical posture. Does making important information available to our students through the click of a mouse on a work or concept linked to greater explanation better scholars more likely to explore such important connections when they encounter these in print media (in the form of words they need to look up in a dictionary, footnotes and references they need to pursue, etc.) - or simply lazier souls who are even less likely to pursue such connections if they are _not_ hyperlinked already for them by some well-meaning faculty member? Are students made better researchers by the increasingly civilized and organized world of scholarly resources available on the Web - or are they led to believe that "research" amounts to generating an impressive bibliography of materials from a computer database, materials they've not bothered to pursue because the computer couldn't deliver the full text of the article cited? I'd be curious to know what other HUMANIST readers find in their experience - but my experience inclines me more and more to find the second responses more accurate than the first. All of which is to say that the dichotomy between print-culture faculty and Web- and computer-literate students seems too simple - and there may be reason to believe (hope?) that the apparently inevitable transmediation of higher education into cyberspace is not so inevitable. If we find that much of the technology simply doesn't deliver on its promise, and that faculty and students are often equally illiterate in both print and electronic domains - enough of us may move to a less gushing embrace of the Bill Gates/Nicholas Negroponte "resistance is futile" vision of a social and educational future driven by largely corporate interests, towards a more nuanced ability to use these tools appropriately and effectively in humane education. It's Easter...one can always hope for resurrections. Cheers and best wishes, Charles Ess "...for the struggle to be good rather Drury College than bad is important, Glaucon, much Springfield, MO 65802 USA more important than people think. Therefore, we mustn't be tempted by honor, money, rule, or even poetry into neglecting justice and the rest of virtue." Socrates in _The Republic_, Book X From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 10.0819 o tempora o mores Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 14:20:04 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 744 (744) I just heard last week from a friend that his 20-something son has discovered the Internet and found it is most useful to him as a means for sharing his poetry with other budding poets. So much for the naysayers -- all is NOT lost! Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 202-387-0626 Language Technology, Inc. 202-387-0625 (fax) 2153 California St. NW mdharris@acm.org Washington, DC 20008 mdharris@aol.com From: alan harris Subject: Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 10:22:52 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 745 (745) =============================================================== Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. TELNOS: main off: 818-677-2853 Professor, Communication/Linguistics direct off: 818-677-2874 Speech Communication Department California State University, Northridge home: 818-366-3165 SPCH CSUN FAX: 818-677-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 INTERNET email: ALAN.HARRIS@CSUN.EDU WWW homepage: http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc005 =============================================================== FYI ("for your information")// cheers, ach =============================================>>>>>> The recent publication of the second edition of Jack Solomon and Sonia Maasik's SIGNS OF LIFE IN THE USA: READINGS ON POPULAR CULTURE FOR WRITERS (Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, January 1997) can itself be taken as a sign of the state of both popular cultural and semiotic study in America. For Solomon and Maasik's book, designed for use in both freshman composition classrooms as well as upper division courses in cultural studies, brings together two scholarly traditions that have, until recently, been marginalized in the academy. On the one hand, the study of popular culture has been excluded from academic study on the grounds that it pays attention to a "low culture" that is too trivial for university attention, and on the other hand, semiotics has tended to be marginalized upward, so to speak, reserved for graduate coursework on the grounds that it is too difficult for undergraduates to comprehend. The first edition of SIGNS OF LIFE IN THE USA, published in 1994, challenged both marginalizations by combining a focus on popular culture with an explicit grounding in semiotics, and the appearance of a second edition would suggest that the combination has met with some success. This is good news for advocates of semiotics and cultural studies alike. The appearance of a growing number of popular culture readers testifies to the acceptance of the topic as a whole, while the publication of the second edition of SIGNS OF LIFE IN THE USA testifies to the viability of semiotics in the composition classroom. For those instructors who wish to make use of semiotics in their teaching, the text provides clear explanations of semiotics in both the instructor handbook and a lengthy general introduction The handbook also contains a brief bibliography of semiotic source works. More specifically, the book instructs its users to analyze particular popular cultural phenomena within the context of various culturally-based systems of signs. Students are instructed to at once associate cultural products with other related cultural phenomena and to differentiate them from other phenemena in the course of their analyses. It is the simultaneous interaction of association and differentiation that constitutes a semiotic analysis, as the authors argue, and this provides a non-technical formula for freshman students to use as they write their own semiotic analyses. Each chapter begins with an introduction that takes students through the process of association and differentiation in the context of a particular pop cultural phenomenon: the introduction to the advertising chapter, for example, guides students through an analysis of a Calvin Klein advertisement, suggesting how a critical essay could be written on it. An appendix containing student essays written in response to assignments assigned out of the first edition of SIGNS OF LIFE furthers the text's modeling of critical writing > using semiotic methods. The authors' premise in making explicit use of semiotics is that essays on popular culture can turn into exercises that simply state whether or not the writer likes, say, a given television show or movie. The semiotic method guides students to think critically, and culturally, about such things. The book presents two kinds of readings for such analyses in its two sections, titled, respectively, Images and Issues. The Images readings address popular cultural behavior and consumption, beginning with a chapter on consumption as such, and proceeding through chapters on advertising, television and music video, movies, and American characters (from Elvis to superman). The Issues section contains readings on gender, race relations, outlaw cultures (street gangs, hackers and militias), AIDS, and the internet. The book also contains exercises and web addresses for users who want to make use of the internet in their classrooms. ach 2-10 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Paedeia project Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 17:09:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 746 (746) The following query, which came to me privately, gives us the opportunity to review progress, if any, in OCR software and scanning techniques. As far as I know the answer to the first question, what to use to OCR Greek, is trainable software such as OmniPage Pro, equating alpha to a, with an acute accent to a/ and also with a smooth breathing to a/), beta to b, and so forth. I'm less sure about an answer to the second question, how physically to handle fragile materials. Please send your observations and comments both to Humanist and to Costas Korsnick. WM [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Joel Elliott Subject: Q: tech. & teaching labs/classrooms Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:39:21 -0500 (est) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 747 (747) hello all: i'm trying to locate other innovative classrooms or teaching centers that attempt to employ contemporary technologies in the service of teaching and learning. i'm interested in learning how other educational institutions have experimented with alternatives to the traditional classroom and computer lab. i'm especially interested in how others have incorporated or accomodated different technologies in the architectural design and spatial arrangement of their teaching labs / classrooms, studios, etc. i have especially enjoyed viewing the web site designed for stanford's "flex-lab" at address: Linkname: Welcome to the Flexible Class-Lab Site! [Stanford] URL: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/ct/flexlab.html that site also has a list of related sites at address: Linkname: Links to Other Sites URL: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/ct/links.html i've heard that arizona state, MIT, and UCLA have designed interested teaching & technology spaces, but i've yet to locate any resources on the WWW about them. i'd love to know of any resources you think might be relevant to these issues of teaching, technology and classroom design. thanks for suggestions, joel =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joel Elliott Department of Religious Studies / CB #3225 University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill, NC 27599 MAILTO: elliott@email.unc.edu URL: http://www.unc.edu/~elliott =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Subject: Re: 10.0820 Wired & libraries Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 748 (748) Niels P. Mayer writes: [deleted quotation] In fact, I know of a couple (and I'm sure Humanists will be able to suggest others). "Edupage" is an e-digest/broadsheet distributed three times a week: [deleted quotation] Current Cites abstracts articles and resources dealing with electronic publishing, and is issued once a month: [deleted quotation] Neither of these reminds me much of Wired, but both of them are excellent resources, IMO. --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Pier Raimondo Baldini Subject: Italian Culture, a publication of the AAIS Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 13:42:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 749 (749) The following announcement may be of interest to your readers whether they are currently members of the AAIS or not. It can also be viewed at http://www.public.asu.edu/~atpmb/ItalianC.htm ---------------------- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ITALIAN STUDIES PUBLISHER OF ITALIAN CULTURE Starting this year, Italian Culture will be published twice a year. The next issue of Italian Culture will contain the best papers of the XVII AAIS National Conference. If you would like to have your paper considered for possible publication in the official journal of the Association, please respond by submitting two hard copies of your paper (maximum length 15 double-spaced pages) and one copy of your paper on a DS/DD IBM Readable computer diskette (MS Word or compatible word processor). If your paper does not conform to this format, there will be a charge of $30.00. Except where absolutely impossible, footnotes should be eliminated. Substantive material should be incorporated into the main text, while bibliographic references should be keyed in the main text to a list of References. Please remove any reference to yourself, no name or school affiliation at the beginning, at the end, or in each page of the paper. Please submit your paper if it has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, and, in your best and most severe judgment, is in publishable form. Any reference to your name should be in the accompanying letter of submission) in the most recent MLA manual style with a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) no later than April 30, 1997 to the address above.=20 The first issue of 1998 of Italian Culture will contain articles submitted by January 30, 1998, on any topic of humanistic interest relating to Italian studies. Your paper will be read by two readers, one of them a member of the Editorial Board, and you will be notified of acceptance or rejection by August 15, 1997, for submissions to the first issue of 1997, and April 30, 1998 for the first issue of 1998. Thank you again for participating in the XVII AAIS National Conference and for your scholarly contribution to the field of Italian Studies. Cordiali saluti,=20 Pier R. Baldini Editor, Italian Culture=20 and Antonio Vitti 1997 Co-Editor, Italian Culture _________________________________________ Pier Raimondo Baldini, Chair Department of Languages and Literatures Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 email: PBaldini@ASU.EDU HomePage: www.public.asu.edu/~atpmb From: Chris Powell Subject: New American Verse Project texts added Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:52:07 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 750 (750) The Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan is pleased to= =20 announce the addition of 15 new texts to the American Verse Project. Works= =20 by women and African-American authors not contained in other electronic tex= t=20 collections have been added, as have works by well-known authors such as=20 Edgar Allan Poe.=20 The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the Universit= y=20 of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan= =20 Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of Americ= an=20 poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being=20 converted into digital form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up=20 Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines. The texts are searchable and=20 can be viewed in HTML as well as SGML. The American Verse Project is located at=20 http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/=20 A complete list of added texts follows: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 The poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : Un= iversity of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1997>. Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Young adventure : a book of poems / by Stephen Vincent = Ben=E9t ; Ann Arbor, M= ich. : University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, [1996> Bibb, Eloise A. (Eloise Alberta), 1878-1927 Poems / by Eloise Bibb; . Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Humanities Tex= t Initiative, <1997>. Dandridge, Raymond Garfield. Poet and other poems / Raymond Garfield Dandridge ; . -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University o= f Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1997>. Johnson, Fenton, 1888-1958 Little dreaming / Fenton Johnson ; . -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michi= gan Humanities Text Initiative, <1997> Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 Fifty years & other poems / James Weldon Johnson ; -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of = Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1997>. Johnson, Maggie Pogue Virginia dreams / Maggie Pogue Johnson ; . -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : Univers= ity of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1997> Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 General William Booth enters into heaven and other poems Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiativ= e, <1996> McGirt, James E. (James Ephraim) For your sweet sake : poems / by James E. McGirt ; . -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of= Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1997>. Menken, Adah Isaacs, 1835-1868 Infelicia / by Adah Isaacs Menken ; -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michiga= n Humanities Text Initiative, <1997> Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Complete poems of Edgar Allan Poe / . -- = Ann Arbor, Mich. : University=20 of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1997>. Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872. House by the sea : a poem / by Thomas Buchanan Read ; <= electronic text compiled by Matt O'Keefe>. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University o= f Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1996>. Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874-1958 Ballads of a Cheechako / by Robert William Service ; -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : Un= iversity of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1997>. Very, Jones, 1813-1880 Essays and poems / Jones Very ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Humanities Te= xt Initiative, <1996>. White, Charles Frederick, b. 1876 Plea of the negro soldier and a hundred other poems / C= harles Frederick White ; . Ann Arbor= , Mich. : University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, <1996>. Christina Powell Humanities Text Intiative http://www.hti.umich.edu From: Bob Taylor Subject: Re: 10.0827 Utne Reader for the digitally inclined Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 10:01:21 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 751 (751) Niels P. Mayer writes: [deleted quotation] You're in luck. Check out Utne Online at . Bob -------- Bob Taylor Director, Academic Technologies Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 bob-taylor@nwu.edu *** 847-467-2628 *** fax 847-491-3824 From: Mick Doherty Subject: **New C-FEST Meeting Series** Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:47:21 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 752 (752) REMINDER: THE NEW SERIES BEGINS TONIGHT ... PLEASE JOIN US! ************************************************************************ INVITATION 1997 C-FEST MEETING SERIES at LINGUA MOO *** "Delivering Ourselves to/in the Academy" [deleted quotation] In the C-FEST Forum at LINGUA MOO [telnet to: lingua.utdallas.edu 8888] or [WWW: http://lingua.utdallas.edu] Wednesday, April 2nd, 7pm CST (8pm EST) Thursday, April 10th, 7pm CST (8pm EST) Tuesday, April 15th, 8pm CST (9pm EST) Thursday, April 24th, 7pm CST (8pm EST) Monday, May 5th, 7pm CST (8pm EST) Summer meeting dates tba ************************************************************************ C-FEST was organized last year prior to the 1996 CCCC in Milwaukee to discuss issues related to conference presentation formats, rhetorical delivery, and how technology is changing the way our conferences are organized, and delivered (among other key topics). Mick Doherty has proposed some post-CCCC C-FEST meetings on the topic of developing position statements regarding tenure and promotion and professional recognition for those of us who work with technology. We are hyper-aware of the various efforts going on now in this area, namely, the NCTE and MLA efforts, and Eric Crump's website on "Professional Recognition" (http://www.missouri.edu/~sevenc/recognition.html). What Mick proposes is a coordinated effort in which our communities participate in the drafting of some statements for adoption (and support) by the ACW by early Fall. There will be ongoing discussions at the C-FEST MOO meetings, Eric's hypernews forum, and list discussions on ACW, C-FEST, and Rhetnet (among others). Mick proposes that: At our first meeting on April 2nd the primary point we want to address is the idea that we have two tasks which are interrelated (and it may be a chicken-egg thing) -- 1) addressing the texts that define how we are evaluated, such as T/P documents, and responsibly collaborating on authoring a metadocument that will be both *useful* and *accessible* to our colleagues less invested in Net and Web scholarship. 2) and, more importantly, at the macro level, we need to begin clearly articulating *how* and *WHY* we should value electronic scholarship. Not "how are we doing it now" and far beyond the complaint of "we get ig-nooored" ... but, what should we be doing? Viewing Electronic scholarship as extensions of traditional modes of scholarship? As entirely new forms of epistemology? Are the two mutually exclusive? We need to think *hard* about this BIG question -- what is that we're doing and why should it be valued? -- and be able to articulate it in a way that makes sense in terms of the documents mentioned above. So we'd like the first session to start *asking* (if not answering yet) that BIG question/s so we have a backdrop for the specific, document- building question/s that will follow all summer as we team up to write =2E.... We need volunteer facilitators for each meeting (preferably 2). It's not a hard job :) Just show up and help guests new to MOO, help to keep the discussion flowing, and keep track of key ideas and post them on the C-FEST Ideas Board. These meetings will also involve collaboration on the position statements, so the transcripts and Ideas Board will need to reflect as much as possible as we craft the statements. To volunteer as a facilitator, please email Cynthia Haynes at cynthiah@utdallas.edu. *********************************************************************** Our meetings are informal and productive. In the C-FEST Forum at Lingua MOO participants may post ideas and suggestions to the C-FEST ideas board and obtain instructions for subscribing to the C-FEST email discussion list. We invite everyone to join in these discussions this spring and summer. As always, our meetings are recorded and the transcripts made available on the Lingua MOO Archive and Resource page, or by email (see instructions in the C-FEST Forum at Lingua). If you need help telnetting to Lingua or help with MOO basic commands, you can go to our website and view the Lingua MOO Beginner's Guide to MOOing: URL address: http://lingua.utdallas.edu or, email Cynthia Haynes at cynthiah@utdallas.edu or Jan Rune Holmevik at jan.holmevik@hedb.uib.no _____cynthiah@utdallas.edu______ _____http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~cynthiah/_____ _____Lingua MOO_____http://lingua.utdallas.edu______ University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts & Humanities PO Box 830688-Mail Station JO 31, Richardson, Tx 75083 Tel: 972-883-6340 - Fax: 972-883-2989 From: Ari Kambouris Subject: Re: 10.0825 scanning Greek? labs/classrooms? Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 15:27:17 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 753 (753) Hello all, I won't venture to comment on the OCR for Greek, although I would be very interested in the replies. As for the scanning of rare/fragile materials, I would suggest a CCD camera with an extrememly high resolution screen or, budget permitting, a digital back for up to a 4 X 5 view camera. This allows you to set the document on an easel and digitally photograph it. In the case of a bound book, you can arrange it so that the the book opens at a 90 degree angle, and the camera is situated above the page that is to be photographed, as if you were using a book on a copy stand. There are several new camera backs which permit the use of flourescent lights (which can be sheathed in UV protectors) and the exposure times are under ten minutes per scan. The CCD cameras are just like video cameras and you basically use a frame grabber to capture one frame of the video. The resolution will not be nearly as good as the digital camera backs, and you may not have as many lighting choices (which is critical for the preservation of the original object). There are two other new systems which I have only heard about and which someone else on the list may know more about. In England, the Vasari Group developed a new kind of camera that was used for exactly this purpose. Last year at the Electronics and Visual Arts conference, a Dutch (I believe) publisher brought out a book of 17th or 18th century paintings which had been photographed using the Vasari technology. The other development is one which is currently being tested or developed for documenting text archives. A paper on this was presented at George Bornstein's conference on the iconic page late last year, but the name of the person who was doing it escapes me. Perhaps there is a summary in the Humanist Archives. Finally, I recently visited the NYC Center for Advanced Technology. Among the many interesting projects which they are working on, there is a new program called PAD++. Basically, it allows you to set up folders and then zoom in on each folder until you bring up the document. It seems like it would have interesting application for archiving documents and moving through hierarchies. You might be interested in taking a look at their web site at <http://www.cat.nyu.edu/projects/>. Good luck, Ari Kambouris aristotl@interportl.net From: Mavis Cournane Subject: Re: 10.0825 scanning Greek? Date: 02 Apr 1997 12:04:58 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 754 (754) We used a piece of software called Optopus for scanning Celtic script in the Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae Project. It too is trainable. It is the Easter hols hear so I don't have any details of it to hand. But if anyone is interested I'll dig out more info next week. Mavis Cournane From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: labs/classrooms? Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:38:28 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 755 (755) [deleted quotation] Try Carnegie Mellon University. I'm not sure exactly who to point you to, but one possibility is Robert Cavalier (robert.cavalier@cmu.edu). Leslie Burkholder University British Columbia From: Sarah Porter Subject: Re: 10.0825 scanning Greek? Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:47:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 756 (756) Minolta produce a high-quality scanner which is aimed at use with fragile and bound materials. The scanner incorporates an adjustable 'cradle' which supports the open book face-down, with software specifically designed to cope with the slightly skewed image produced. The main problem is the price; when I last asked it was going to be priced at around 9 thousand pounds sterling. Sarah Porter CTI Centre for Textual Studies From: "Mark K. Gardner" Subject: Re: 10.0819 o tempora o mores (longish reply) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 15:06:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 757 (757) Dear Willard and Co.: Personally, I see several converging social trends that seem to have reinforced each other to create the current dearth of hapless college students--and it has its roots (at least here in the United States) in these fundamental areas, all of which take place long before the student even attempts to go to college. For those of you who are very busy, you may not wish to read this lengthy reply, but since this subject has aroused my passion, and this particular discussion group has been fairly quiet of late, I submit this re:memorandum to try to develop a radical (if long-winded) exposition of the problem as outlined. 1) Fewer and fewer students seem interested in reading for reading's sake, paralleling a similar lack of interest in knowledge for knowledge' sake. With it has decreased student writing ability, spelling skills, and perhaps worst of all, reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Why? Well, see # 2... 2) The pervasivness of television combined with single-parent/dual- working parent households has conspired to create a generation of students who must be spoonfed information in sound-bite sized, easily- digested and *entertaining* little morsels. They seem to have acquired the attention span of the average T.V. program between commercials, of let's say about 7 to 12 minutes, tops... 3) While elements of the "Middle-School Philosophy" seem to be a more humanistic approach to the style of education myself and previous gener- ations recieved from the "Jr. High School Approach", the concepts of group work *and* the overiding concern with fostering a sense of 'nurturing and success' within the student and eliminating any exper- ience of 'failure' seems to be undermining the entire educational process at a crucial developmental point. a) While group-work does encourage students to develop a sense of cooperation in social settings, reliance upon it eventually removes from the student any sense of individual capability and responsibility; individuals never discover their own strengths and weaknesses. And upon reaching high-school and especially college, students who have grown reliant upon working in groups flounder and fail when faced with having to do all the work by themselves. b) Students, like all human beings, also learn a great deal from making mistakes and from failing from time-to-time. However, middle-school students develop a false sense of their own capabilities and begin to develop a specious sense of that true nature of reality, and for some a dangerous acceptance of the OK-ness of mediocrity begins to emerge in their personality. In reality, we do not succeed at everything we turn our hands to. However, in the last place where it is socially 'safe' to fail and the repercussions of failure are not permanent, i.e. in grades 5-8, students are not allowed to experience failure. They don't get to face reality until at least high school, where their record will follow them into college, and then to face the spectre of failure even more so after high school, when success or failure in everything now has a lifelong impact, and ill-prepared and poorly motivated students run-up huge debts attempting to go to college... c) My experience at teaching middle-school speaks directly to this. After several years of butting heads with the administration over a "high failure rate" and refusing to lower my standards and expectations for my eighth-grade geography students (such as requiring them to turn in homework assignments, complete a series of maps in class, and make corrections to failing test grades), I went back to graduate school this past year and took a part-time teaching assignment teaching high-school history. I have many of the same students from last year; some of them are *just now* beginning to rise to my most basic expectations, but most of them are simply not adequately prepared for high school work. They are incapable of completing the most basic reading assignment and then comprehending and retaining enough information to take a quiz on the main ideas the next day; most are failing or barely passing...I could make it easier for them, but it would doing them the most grave injustice: sooner or later they must learn that mediocrity and lack of effort are not valuable social skills, and they will certainly fail at college or the even most mundane job if they continue to believe they are not really responsible for their own actions or lack thereof. I have only been at this since 1988, but in that amount of time I have noticed a definite decline in student ability during the past decade; colleagues inform me that the process has been going on for longer than that, but that the rate of decline has been increasingly rapid in the last few years. 4) Along with diminishing expectations, the overall curriculum seems to be continously subjected to a general "watering-down" while at the same time from the highest echelons we have been hearing about "a crisis in American education". From the shrinking of electives in the basic subjects (English/Literature, Social Studies/History, Math and Science) to the outright discouragement of students from taking Latin (this I actually witnessed when High School guidance counselors giving a presentation about course selection to my eighth grade students told them "You don't really need Latin for anything, so don't take it.") and the elimination of the Classics and Ancient Languages from the curiculum, the pattern is the gradual piece by piece dismantling of traditional humanistic educational mores and programs. Several years ago, in my own department I watched as we were forced to take World History I and II (a two-year series from prehistoric to modern times) and combine them into a one year long course called Western Civilization, which trails off somewhere areond the age of exploration, in order to follow the state Basic Education Program... All this sounds quite depressing, I'm sure. Despite this, I am still very enthusiastic about what I am doing, since I feel that it is my mission to prepare those students who are taking my basic college-prep Western Civ. course to eventually be able to do college work. I expose them to primary sources, force them to muddle through translations of Gilgamesh, Homer, and Virgil, to examine the architecture around them to identify neo-classical influences, and to constantly read to them from books that go beyond the basic information in their text, and demonstrate ('modeling' is the correct educational catch-phrase, I believe) how one can glean information from a book. Yes, I simply read to them from a book, and sometimes they seem to be absolutely amazed at what I've read to them. The school I work at has a technology plan, and the goal is eventually to equip each classroom with a computer and to make the entire faculty computer literate. I am excited by this, of course, but I think the same basic problems will crop up again there--if students will not read a book full of pictures with fairly large print (the text they are equipped with now) I am not sure how framing the printed word within a montitor screen will be any more likely to inspire them. The real problem lies in the fact that the learning process *is not FUN or enter- tainment*. It took all of us many tedious hours of what we believed to be meaningless toil before we realized that "knowledge for knowledge sake" was a worthy end unto itself, and then began to *really* learn things not because we had to but because we wanted to. And most of us had parents who were concerned, and somewhat involved and available, without the distraction of TV and went to schools where we were expected to meet a generally high standard and which offered a rich and varied humanistic curriculum. Finally, as for poetry, many of my students seemed amazed when, as a demonstration of poetic hexameter, I rendered the basic form of a limerick. Apparently most had never concieved how the syllables that make up words can be creatively combined to develop a consistent and song-like rhythym. However, many outrightly refused to even try to read excerpts from the Iliad or the Aeneid, using for their defense "It is too hard to read"; or "It's too difficult to understand." And during a discussion of Ovid on St. Valentines Day, only one girl said she recieved a poem from a boy; and no one of either sex admitted to composing a poem for anyone for the occasion. I told them they had missed an excellent opportunity to never be forgotten, and to achieve a modicum of immortality at least during the lifetime of their current boy/girl friend. While most of them thought the entire idea was funny in a foolish sort of way, I did see a few students appear thoughful for a few seconds...How can that thoughtfulness be woven into a Web-Page? Not too easily, I'm sure. And I am doubtful of the ultimate mating of TV and the WWW. Sure, you and I will rumage through the place just like it was the library, but how do we involve the students? Will we make our next educational presentation platform (the computer) more like TV or can we force the platform to be more akin to Ficino's Neo-Platonic Academy? Regards, Mark Gardner From: Laura Blanchard Subject: Re: 10.0824 times & standards Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 13:51:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 758 (758) My experience with student queries to the web site I maintain may be instructive: I run the web site for the American Branch of the Richard III Society (http://www.r3.org/). We maintain an online hypertext edition of Shakespeare's play, online editions of many primary sources, introductory essays on Richard III in history and drama, bibliography on a variety of related topics, and links to other medieval studies and Shakespeare sites. With the release or rediscovery of three film versions of the Shakespare play in 1996, Richard III became an especially popular topic for study. Each day I received at least one request for research assistant from a student -- most of them from more-or-less conscientious students who still had not found the materials on our site to help them. Every so often I would get an e-mail that was patently a re-keyboarding of a study assignment ("please explain the theme for each scene in Act IV"). I would answer the questions appropriately. A few weeks ago I installed a feedback button on our "Learning Resources" page, accompanied by language to the effect of "If you are a student and you still cannot find the appropriate material after checking our online library and our bibliographies, send us an e-mail and we'll see if we can direct you to the appropriate resources." The volume of inquiries has slowed to a trickle -- from the students who have a real stumper of a question, and from the occasional brazen shirker who still wants us to do his/her homework. [deleted quotation]little nudge in the right direction. Regards, Laura Blanchard lblancha@pobox.upenn.edu From: Richard Bear Subject: Re: 10.0824 times & standards Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 15:04:02 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 759 (759) Re whether people are finding literary/humanistic web sites, the Edmund Spenser Home Page got 5800 hits (as a site, not all on one page) during the first ten days of this year. The average seems to be four pages per user, which extrapolated over the year would mean, what, 52,200 readers? I didn't think there were that many readers of these works left in the world. *Somebody* is using this stuff, and knows how to navigate through it as well... Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ From: Francois Lachance Subject: fishbowls and WWW Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:15:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 760 (760) Willard, I rather enjoyed Charles Ess's reply to your reporting on the Washington newspaper reporting (a reporting delightfully speckled with cautionary notes about checking references which made me mindful of your whimsical Italo-ontological reportage... ). Ess's tale of the WWW-challenged reader made me remember having to teach second year university students, well acquainted with textbooks, about the use of index and table of contents. This lack of basic reading expertise whether in print or e-version reminds one of the ubiquitous blinking time setting on VCR machines. I read none of these signs as lack of intelligence but very much as the absence of contact with a reading and recording tradition. Or more specifically, the absence of a tradition that encourages intelligent transfer of paradigms, for example the techne of dictionary headwords to WWW navigation in the form of before/after links. I wonder about Ess's students and my own in terms of whether they were taught to handle reference works as pathfinding tools, whether they developed a general notion of finding aids that they could drawn upon when encountering "new" texts. I am beginning to entertain the hypothesis that those that do develop the ability to apply skills across contexts were students who experienced the phenomenon of observing teacher-student interactions, both those involving other students and a teacher and those involving a type of meta-positioning vis a vis their own interaction with a student or a teacher. However not it not just the observation of an interaction that counts. I think that those observers of communication breakdown in a pedagogical situation are able to reflect upon the lack of shared assumptions that led to the breakdown. It is rather humbling and disconcerting to consider that my own development may have been fostered by the failure of others. However what does save the situation is that the observation and reflection upon such conditions is permitted by an environment that values mistakes. Metacognition in our best students will be fostered by their interaction not only with peers but also with those at different stages of their intellectual development. This is not a call to recast computer-mediated communication as a return to the little red schoolhouse. It is a call to offer the traces of pedagogical interactions to wider audiences by recognizing that teaching load has an impact on quality of interactions that we model and foster. I think that humanists can vouch for the fishbowl effect of making materials available through the Internet be it WWW, gopher or ftp. People outside of the classroom, the lecture hall or the lab will have access to materials that can then be applied to other learning situations. And every once in a while messages cross the fishbowl walls to help us, encourage us, and even praise. solidly in mutuality, Francois see also The Written, the Archived and the Active <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~lachance/cost.htm> From: cies1@ciesnet.cies.org Subject: GRANTS: CIES Fulbright Senior Scholar Program Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 20:56:32 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 761 (761) FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM: INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S. FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS IN AMERICAN STUDIES Reminder: August 1 Deadline Approaching for the 1998-99 Competition Visit the Web Site: Program information and the listing of 1998-99 opportunities can be accessed via the Fulbright Scholar Program Web site at http://www.cies.org Summary: Below is a brief description of Fulbright grants for U.S. citizens to engage in lecturing and advanced research worldwide. These grants are excellent professional development opportunities and provide funding to pursue professional interests abroad. FULBRIGHT GRANTS FOR U.S. FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS Description: Over 700 awards for college and university faculty and nonacademic professionals to lecture or pursue advanced research and/or related professional activity abroad. For U.S. candidates, grants are available in over 120 countries. Application Deadline: U.S. candidates have an August 1 deadline for lecturing or research awards. Non-U.S. candidates apply in their home country for awards to come to the United States. Areas of Interest: Opportunities exist in every area of the social sciences, arts and humanities, sciences, and many professional fields. Fulbright-supported activities include undergraduate and graduate teaching, individual advanced research, joint research collaboration, and more. Basic Eligibility Requirements: Ph.D. or equivalent professional/terminal degree at the time of application and U.S. citizenship (permanent residency is not sufficient). For professionals and artists outside academe, recognized professional standing comparable to that associated with the doctorate in higher education is required, unless otherwise noted in the individual award description. College or university teaching experience is expected at the level and in the field of the advertised assignment or proposed lecturing activity for lecturing and combined lecturing/research awards. Grant Duration: Awards range in duration from two months to twelve months. Most lecturing assignments are for an academic term/semester or a full academic year. Language: Foreign language proficiency may be expected as specified in the award description or as required for the completion of the proposed lecturing or research project. The majority of teaching assignments are in English. The major exceptions are Central and South America, where Spanish is usually required, and francophone Africa, where one is expected to be fluent in French. Action: U.S. candidates may view detailed descriptions of award opportunities and request application materials via the Fulbright Scholar Program Web site: http://www.cies.org Requests for hard copy of the awards booklet and application forms can be made by E-mail: cies1@ciesnet.cies.org (Requests for mailing of materials only!) Telephone: 202/686-7877 U.S. mail: USIA Fulbright Senior Scholar Program Council for International Exchange of Scholars Box INET 3007 Tilden St., NW, Suite 5M Washington, DC 20008-3009 Non-U.S. candidates must contact the Fulbright commission or U.S. embassy in their home country to apply for grants in the U.S. From: alan harris Subject: Re: JOP OPP.- Ctr for Russia, E.Europe & Central Asia, UWisc Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:27:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 762 (762) please post =============================================================== Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. TELNOS: main off: 818-677-2853 Professor, Communication/Linguistics direct off: 818-677-2874 Speech Communication Department California State University, Northridge home: 818-366-3165 SPCH CSUN FAX: 818-677-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 INTERNET email: ALAN.HARRIS@CSUN.EDU WWW homepage: http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc005 =============================================================== On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Anna Belyaeva wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Fw: Microsoft Resturant (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 763 (763) Hi everyone, I got this message forwarded from Mr. Norman Holland, the editor of the Psyart Listserv. Hope you like it. Best regards, Nico. ---------- [deleted quotation] From: Subject: translation software Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 764 (764) Could anybody advise me what software would be the best aid in literary translation (English into Spanish)? I would also like to know about good English/Spanish dictionaries available in CD-ROM. Thank you very much for your help. Regards, Jose Marin sease@arrakis.es From: HOKE ROBINSON Subject: Re: 10.0828 times & standards Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 16:08:43 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 765 (765) Cheers for Mark Gardner; he's exactly right about short attention spans, TV, group work etc. as dumbing down the secondary school curriculum, at least in the U.S. (I'm a college teacher, but my wife teaches in what's still Jr High, but may shortly be dumbed down to Middle School. The result of this will be that students will be even less prepared for High School, which will have to be dumbed down accordingly, and then for college, which is rapidly being dumbed down, as I can attest.) What he left out are the projects designed to give the appearance of reform, while really just intended to disguise the decline by falsifying the evidence (and meanwhile making some money). The local example is something called ATLAS (though I expect the classical reference is lost on its supporters, who think it is a notion invented by Rand-McNally).... I could go on, but better stop before I get apocalyptic (according to ATLAS, a dance craze...). Hoke Robinson, Memphis (hrobinsn@msuvx1.memphis.edu) From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 10.0828 times & standards Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 13:10:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 766 (766) Sorry to inflict this on readers of HUMANIST, but Mark Gardner pushed a button: [deleted quotation] It did? My humanist credentials are as good as most, but I never responded to meaningless toil. I learned because I was fundamentally curious, and was too stubborn to be saddled with subjects where the toil was meaningless to me (and too well cared for: I had options). Expecting, when I entered college, to make myself a scientist, I was dismayed by a Chemistry lecture delivered to 300, but turned on by my course in Ancient Greek -- and ended up majoring in the latter. Because I was interested. When that toil started feeling meaningless, I switched again, this time to poetry, poetics, literary and aesthetic theory in the English tradition. When my English professors warned me that all this time fooling with computers was better spent delivering conference papers (meaningless toil to me) I shrugged them off: by that time I recognized these voices sinister, having heard them before. ("Labor is virtuous! You must sacrifice what you love!") Now I find my expertise in electronic text encoding and computer-mediated communications is making me -- well, ironically more marketable (*shudder*) than the average English Ph.D., but what really matters, ever more interested in my work and more engaged than ever with the world at large. No one, however young, has any trouble understanding that "knowledge for knowledge sake" [sic] is in itself a good thing, when it is knowledge that brings them closer to something they are passionate about -- be that dinosaurs, rocks, medieval manuscripts or basketball. I am wearied by the "blame the students" mentality of many who notice the failures in our current ways of educating, even when it's disguised within the "students are victims: blame the system" topos (blame who?). We do not have to mutilate ourselves to be whole. Especially if we've been mutilated in the past. If we try to use computers and e-text technologies as sugar tablets to sweeten the tedium of dull studies, we will fail. If we teach how to use them as instruments of expression and communication about things that already matter to us and our students, we will succeed. Passion responds to passion: and so Professor Bear is encouraged to see how many really are interested in Spenser. When a student actually wants to get from one page to another (or create navigable pages), learning the conventions of hypertext linking, or even bibliographic reference, is a snap. But this is not really about the technology. When is it ever? I want to affirm Francois' suggestion that it helps to work among learners at different levels (coupled with the implicit observation that large groups isolate us), and in an environment where mistakes and failures are valued for the experience they bring. Our intelligence is quickened by rubbing up against the world. Students only need some confidence and perspective to go with the desire they already have. But isn't it sad when we Humanists forget about Eros? Wendell Piez Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities ___&&__&_&___&_&__&&&__&____&__&&____&&&&___&__&_&&_____&__&__&&_____&_&&___ From: Chris Powell Subject: SGML Encoding and System Implementation Summer Workshop Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:57:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 767 (767) Please forgive any duplicate postings. --- The Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan is providing a workshop on SGML Encoding and System Implementation from Tuesday, May 27 through Saturday, May 31, 1997. The HTI has created hundreds of texts in SGML, using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) DTDs, and has made these and other commerical SGML collections available via the World Wide Web, serving both the University of Michigan community and Internet users in general. The first three days of the workshop will cover SGML encoding (theory and use of Author/Editor), scanning/OCR, reading and using DTDs, and several related topics. The final two days will split into two tracks: one covering how our system works (the relationship between web forms, middleware, the OpenText search engine, and the SGML text) and how it can be locally modified, the other addressing public service issues. The fee for the week-long workshop is $500, $425 if registered before April 15th. More information about course content is available at http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshop-9705.html Some of the data is a bit sketchy at this point, but will be updated and expanded shortly. * LOCAL ACCOMODATION You will be required to make you own housing arrangements, but we have collected some information to make this easier for you. University Housing -- Mary Markley Residence Hall on Central Campus is relatively inexpensive and conveniently located; however, it does not have air-conditioning or private baths. Daily housekeeping is provided. The hall itself has a reception desk, laundry machines, game rooms, TV rooms, snack bars, vending machines, and a variety of lounges. Classrooms, libraries, and University recreational facilities are within walking distance, and there is a shuttle bus stop nearby. Participants are responsible for finding their own roommate if they want to share a double room. This is a typical undergraduate-oriented residence hall facility. Rates are $33 for a single room, $44 for a double. Availability on the dates you want is not assured. Contact Conferences and Seminars, (313) 764-5297 -- fax (313) 764-1557 -- and mention that you will be part of the Digital Toolkit. Hotels -- There are a number of hotels in Ann Arbor, two within walking distance of the University, others farther away. Contact the HTI (hti-info@umich.edu) for a list of Ann Arbor hotels. Please keep in mind that accomodations might be limited. Meals -- The School of Information will be providing a continental breakfast each morning. In general, meals will be on your own. Ann Arbor has any number of restaurants, many very reasonably priced, in the Central Campus area. * REGISTRATION Registration forms and general information about the Digital Toolkit as a whole are available at http://www.si.umich.edu/hp/institutes/ If there is any other information you need, please don't hesitate to email us at hti-info@umich.edu Christina Powell Humanities Text Intiative http://www.hti.umich.edu From: Pamela Cohen Subject: 1997 CETH Summer Workshop Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 16:01:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 768 (768) Please cross-post. Any inquiries should be directed to Pamela Cohen . ______________________________________________________________ 1997 CETH Summer Workshop on SGML and the TEI: Making Text Work July 27 to August 1, 1997 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey The 1997 CETH Summer Workshop is an intensive, one-week course of study that focuses on the application of SGML (the Standard Generalized Markup Language) and the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) encoding scheme in the humanities. The Workshop is open to beginning and advanced users alike. The goal is to provide in-depth coverage of the fundamentals of electronic document markup, and issues related to the use of SGML and the TEI in practice. There will be opportunity for beginners to learn the basics of document markup using SGML. A number of topical sessions aimed at all levels of expertise will cover the use of the TEI core and additional tag sets, document analysis, project management, and on- and off-line delivery. Advanced users will have the opportunity to explore other subjects, including, but not limited to: modifying and extending the TEI DTD; designing hypertext and other forms of linking; working with different character sets; and writing programs to support SGML. Sessions will be evenly divided between lecture and hands-on work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue work on their own projects in supervised labs. Time will be allotted for one-on-one consultations between participants and instructors. There will be a wide range of commercial, free- and share-ware SGML software used in the classroom and available for experimentation in the laboratory. Facilities. The CETH Summer Workshop will be held in the new Scholarly Communications Center located in Alexander Library, on Rutgers' historic College Avenue campus. The SCC's facilities include two labs of 25 workstations each, and a lecture hall equiped with digital video projection. Accommodation will be available in Rutgers University student housing facilities. All rooms are air conditioned, have private bathrooms, and are a short walking distance from Alexander Library. Instructors. Gregory Murphy, Text Systems Manager, CETH Wendell Piez, Humanities Computing Specialist, CETH Michael Sperberg-McQueen, editor-in-chief, Text Encoding Initiative; senior research programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago; co-coordinator, Model Editions Partnership Cost. $595 nonstudents $395 students Fee includes tuition, use of computer facilities, workshop documentation, opening reception, lunches (Monday-Friday), and a closing banquet. Scholarships. A limited number of scholarships will be available for graduate students to defray the cost of tuition. These scholarships will not cover accommodations. Unless you specify otherwise, all graduate student applications will be considered for scholarships. Accommodation. Accommodation will be available in Rutgers University student housing facilities at a cost of $25 per day for bed and breakfast. Applications. Applications should consist of a cover sheet and a statement of interest. Students applying for the reduced rate must include a photocopy of their valid student ID. Email submissions are encouraged, and must have the subject line "Summer Workshop Application." The cover sheet must include: *your name *your position *current institutional affiliation *postal and email addresses *telephone and fax numbers *brief summary of computing experience Your statement of interest should include: *a synopsis of the project you would like to pursue during the workshop *how your participation in the workshop would be beneficial to your teaching, research, advising or administrative work *the extent of your computer experience Application deadline: May 5, 1997 Notification of acceptance by May 27, 1997 Send or fax applications to: ceth@phoenix.princeton.edu CETH Summer Workshop 169 College Avenue New Brunswick NJ 08903 Fax: (908) 932-1386 __________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu From: "Alan Burk (ETC)" Subject: Workshop - Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 11:20:45 GMT-400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 769 (769) Information about this course can also be found on the University of New Brunswick's Electronic Text Centre Web Page under anouncements. (http://www.lib.unb.ca/Main/Texts.html) I would advise that if you are interested in attending that you send in your registration within the next two weeks. We have already had a number of applications. Alan Burk, Director Electronic Text Centre ************************ A Summer Course Offering Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images: A practical exploration of research, preservation and pedagogical uses of electronic texts in the humanities. August 17 - 22, 1997 David Seaman, Instructor Sponsored by the University of New Brunswick's Electronic Text Centre Course Information: The University of New Brunswick Libraries and UNB Electronic Text Centre are pleased to announce a 1997 summer institute: Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images, August 17th to 22nd at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Registration will be limited to 20 participants. The course will be instructed by David Seaman. David Seaman is the founding director of the nationally-known Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/). He lectures and writes frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and use of electronic texts. Guest lecturers will include John Webster, talking about imaging and Steve Sloan, discussing the use of OpenText for search and retrieval of SGML tagged texts. Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images is designed primarily for: librarians and archivists who are planning to develop electronic and imaging projects; scholars who are creating electronic texts as part of their teaching and research; and publishers who are looking to move publications to the Web. The course will centre around the creation of a set of archival-quality electronic texts and digital images. Topics to be covered include: * Finding and evaluating existing electronic texts * Creating an electronic text centre * SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) textual markup and the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines * Imaging * Using text analysis software * Managing electronic texts and images * Bringing SGML encoded texts to the Web Course participants will create an electronic version of Canadian literary letters from the University of New Brunswick Archives, markup the letters with SGML tagging, and create digital images of texts. The work of the class will made available on the Internet. The course will be held in the Instructional Technology Learning Centre (ITLC) in the Harriet Irving Library on the campus of the University of New Brunswick. The lab is a state-of-the-art facility with an IBM pc for each participant and a high end digital projections system. Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images will be conducted in a Windows 95 environment. The workshop will be intensive. It does not presuppose that participants have already had experience in creating electronic texts but rather only a serious interest. Some experience with a markup language such as HTML would be helpful but again not necessary. Please indicate on the registration form the project(s) you are, or will be, working on to which you will apply the skills learned in this course. Registration Fee The tuition $750 (Canadian dollars) will include all course fees, nutritional breaks, lunches on Aug. 18 - 22, a trip to the historical settlement Kings Landing on Aug. 17 including dinner that evening, a wine and cheese party and a river boat cruise. Early registration is advised as space is limited. Tuition does not include cost of accommodations. The course will start the afternoon of Sunday, August 17th with a trip to Kings Landing. A bus will leave that day at 3pm sharp from in front of the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton to take course participants to the historical village. Accommodations Upon receipt of registration form, UNB Libraries will book all room requirements. Please provide a credit card number we may use to confirm your reservation. The following three options are available for accommodation. In the space provided on the registration form, please specify in order of preference your choice: 1. The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel located in downtown Fredericton, is within walking distance to many restaurants and to the scenic river front pathway,"the Green". It is a full service hotel providing dining, entertainment, swimming pool, sauna , games area and outdoor patio with a view of the Saint John river. It is approximately a half hour walk to the Harriet Irving Library. A special rate of $68.00 plus tax per night, single occupancy, has been extended to UNB Libraries for this conference. 2. The Carriage House Inn, Bed and Breakfast, is a member of Heritage Inns of Atlantic Canada. It is a beautiful three storey Victorian mansion, close to downtown Fredericton. This property is within walking distance of "the Green", downtown restaurants and a fifteen minute walk to the Harriet Irving Library. Included in the price of $70.00 plus tax per night is a full breakfast. This is the only meal offered at the property. As the number of rooms available at the Inn is very limited (only 8 in total), reservations will be on a first come, first serve basis, based on availability. Therefore if this is your "accommodation of choice", please return your registration form as soon as possible so your room may be confirmed. 3. For those who would like to be on campus, there are dormitory type rooms available at McLeod House, a UNB residence. The price per night is very economical at $16.25 plus tax per night. There are washrooms and showers on each floor. If this is the option of choice, you will need to bring your own towels. There is no television. Breakfast is available at the Student Union Building for reasonable prices. ** Please note that Fredericton has a very efficient taxi system, where taxi cabs are readily available at reasonable prices - therefore whether walking or "cabbing it", transportation to and from the University will not present a problem ** Special Events: The following special events have been planned as part of this summer institute. There are no additional costs associated with these events. We hope they will be enjoyable to all. Presentations relevant to the course may be given at these times. 1. An Evening at Historical Kings Landing - Sunday, August 17th. UNB Libraries has arranged a very special evening which includes dinner and a guided tour of this historical settlement. A visit to Kings Landing provides an experience which recreates the sights, sounds and feel of rural New Brunswick in the 1800's. Authentic costumed staff add to the atmosphere of this restored 19th century community. We have arranged for a bus which will leave the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel at 3:00 pm. This outing will take about 5 hours to complete. Please wear comfortable shoes. 2. Wine and Cheese - Monday August 18th We will be holding an informal Wine and Cheese Reception, in the Stewart Room, Fifth Floor of the Harriet Irving Library, on Monday evening directly after the workshop for the day. 3. An evening on the River Boat - Tuesday August 19th Weather permitting, we will be taking a chartered River Boat cruise along the Saint John River. The cruise will take approximately 2 - 3 hours and will include refreshments and pizza. The boat will leave at 6:30 pm from the Lighthouse. 4. Friday Farewell Dinner - Friday August 22nd The course will end at approximately 3:00 pm. Therefore for those staying in Fredericton until Saturday, we would like to have a final get together. We will meet at the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel at 5:00 pm for supper outside on the patio, overlooking the Saint John River (if raining, we will meet in the dining room). This dinner will be at one's own expense. Registration Form Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images August 17 to 22nd, 1997 Name:________________________________ Organization/Title:____________________________________ Please provide a description of present and future projects to which you will apply the skills learned in this course. In addition, briefly outline your reasons for interest in taking this course. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Phone:_________________(Home) ______________________(Business) Business address: _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Home address: _______________________________________ ______________________________________ FAX: ____________________ email: ________________________ Method of payment (please circle one): 1. Cheque (made payable to: UNB Libraries) 2. Visa or Mastercard Card#: ___________________________________ Expiry date:_______________________________ 3. Purchase Order (please attach): Number:__________________________________ Signature:_________________________________ Payment is due in full by June 30, 1997. Refunds will not be honoured after Aug 1/97. Accommodations: Please specify your choice of accommodations in order of preference. UNB Libraries will make all necessary arrangements (you must provide credit card # to confirm reservations). 1. 2. Please return Registration Form by email, Fax, or mail to: Karen Maguire Administrative Assistant UNB Libraries PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 Phone: (506) 453-4740 Fax: (506) 453-4595 email: kmaguire@unb.ca Confirmation of registration and reservation bookings will be sent to you after processing. ****************** Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of Electronic Text Centre phone: 506-453-4740 fax: 506-453-4595 From: "H-CLC (Barbara Diederichs)" Subject: WORKSHOP: UNU/IAS Electronic Workshop Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 21:49:20 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 770 (770) Purpose The purpose of this electronic workshop is to explore and articulate visions of future higher education and learning through extensive discussions involving all kinds of actors from both academic and non-academic institutions. The outcomes of the discussions will be summarized and presented at the Regional Conference on Higher Education (organized by UNESCO PROAP, UNU/IAS, Japanese Government and AUAP) to be held in Tokyo on 8-10 July 1997. Academic institutions are increasingly under pressure to develop new modes of research and training that are better suited to addressing pressing global and regional problems. (There are also many local problems that should be addressed through a global perspective.) This pressure has led to calls for expanding and strengthening interdisciplinary research and training programmes, academic cooperation that transcends national boundaries, and creation of networks that link various academic and non-academic institutions. Furthermore, dramatic improvement in telematics technology (such as Internet, teleconferencing and videoconferencing) and its growing accessibility provide unprecedented opportunities for achieving these ends. In an effort to create new visions of future higher education and learning and to explore the best possible ways of achieving them, UNU/IAS invites you to join our electronic workshop and actively participate in this worldwide brainstorming session. UNU/IAS welcomes your ideas and views concerning different practices and new approaches to developing interdisciplinary, transnational and network-oriented research and training, effective methods of applying telematics technology, and how it is possible to improve (1) advanced studies, (2) capacity-building, (3) access to higher education by people from disadvantaged educational background, (4) international cooperation, and (5) lifelong learning. Agenda 25 March Announcement of UNU/IAS electronic workshop 2 April - Self-introduction begins 14 April - 9 May Framework paper / discussion About UNU/IAS Established on 8 December 1995, the United Nations University / Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS) is the fifth and most recently created member of the United Nations University's family of Research and Training Centres (http://www.unu.edu/). As such, the UNU/IAS conducts in-house research and postgraduate education. It also operates through networks of higher education institutions in many countries, thus establishing collaborative links with other academic institutions and international organizations. UNU/IAS is conceived to be an advanced research and education centre with a flexible and multi-thematic programme orientation concerned with the interactions of societal and natural systems. About the coordinators Dr. Ken Tsutsumibayashi (tsutsumibayashi@ias.unu.edu) Currently a research associate at UNU/IAS in the area of multilateralism and governance and is involved in the Virtual University Project and Global Ethos Project. Received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in political philosophy from Cambridge University, M.A. in political economy from Nottingham University, and B.A. in economics from Keio University. Ms. Keiko Okawa (keiko@sfc.wide.ad.jp) After obtaining a MS. Degree in Computer Science from Keio University in Japan, Ms.Okawa had been working in the computer industry for about 11 years including Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems in the software design and development and project management area. She is now working at the Keio University / Research Institute at SFC as a researcher. Her main interest is the usage of Internet technology for higher education. Institute of Advanced Studies The United Nations University 5-53-67 Jinguamae Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150, Japan Phone: +81-3-5467-2323 Fax: +81-3-5467-2324 From: "Eben A. Weitzman" Subject: Summer Institute at U.Mich's ISR Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 15:42:29 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 771 (771) **** DO NOT HIT THE REPLY KEY **** **** REPLY TO summers@isr.umich.edu **** Friends, I've been asked to post the following notice of the 50th Annual Summer Institute given by the The Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. The announcement includes a full course list. There is a course on qualitative methods in survey research, and it will include a 3 day segment (led by yours truly) on the selection and use of software for qualitative data analysis. -Eben ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eben Weitzman, Ph.D. Phone: (617) 287-7238 Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution Fax: (617) 287-7099 University of Massachusetts Boston weitzmane@umbsky.cc.umb.edu 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393 ----------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------- The Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research announces the 50th Annual Summer Institute. The Summer Institute is a training program in survey research techniques conducted by the staff of the Survey Research Center and other survey research specialists. The program highlights the sample survey as a basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activities. The Summer Institute will offer graduate-level courses in two consecutive four-week sessions, June 2 - June 27 and June 30 - July 25, 1997. Courses will be offered for graduate credit in eight-, four-, two-, and one-week formats. Course topics include an introduction to survey research, questionnaire design, cognition and survey measurement, survey data collection methods, sampling methods, analysis of survey data, computer analysis of survey data, and analysis of event history data. Several one-week workshops offering Continuing Education Unit credits also will be offered. The Summer Institute will also include an eight-week program for those interested in an in-depth study of sampling methods. The Sampling Program for Survey Statisticians (SPSS), is being offered for the 33rd time in the Summer of 1997. It combines university classes with practical application in research methods and office practice. A list of courses and workshops is given below. Course and instructor descriptions are available on the Summer Institute Web page at http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/si/. To receive a copy of the Summer Institute brochure containing application materials, do not reply to this announcement. Instead, send an email message to summers@isr.umich.edu. Or contact James M. Lepkowski, Director of the Summer Institute, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248; phone (313) 764-6595; fax (313) 764-8263. 50th Annual Summer Institute course offerings: Introduction to Survey Research, 8 weeks (June 2 - July 25) Data Collection Methods in Survey Research, 8 weeks (June 2 - July 25) Methods of Survey Sampling, 8 weeks (June 2 - July 25) Workshop in Survey Sampling Techniques, 8 weeks (June 2 - July 25) Event History Analysis, 2 weeks (June 9 - June 20) Introduction to Statistical Research Design, 4 weeks (June 2 - June 27) Qualitative Methods in Survey Research, 4 weeks (June 2 - June 27) Analysis of Survey Data I, 4 weeks (June 2 - June 27) Analysis of Survey Data II, 4 weeks (June 30 - July 25) Computer Analysis of Survey Data I, 4 weeks (June 2 - June 27) Computer Analysis of Survey Data II, 4 weeks (June 30 - July 25) Longitudinal Survey Design and Analysis, 4 weeks (June 2 - 27) Multi-Level Analysis of Survey Data, 4 weeks (June 2 - June 27) Cognition, Communication, and Survey Measurement, 4 weeks (June 2 - June 27) Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, 1 week (June 16 - 20) Introduction to Survey Sampling, 1 week (June 23-27) Self-Administered/Mail Surveys, 1 week (July 7-11) Introduction to Survey Measurement Quality, 1 week (July 14-18) Design of Observational Studies for Evaluation Research, 4 weeks (June 30 - July 25) Questionnaire Design, 4 weeks (June 30 - July 25) Using Surveys Across Nations and Time, 4 weeks (June 30 - July 25) One week workshops (Continuing Education Unit credits available): Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (June 9-13) Statistical Methods for Mental Health Survey Data (July 14-18) World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) (July 21-25) Two of the eight-week courses and one of the four-week courses will be offered in the Washington, D.C., area at the University of Maryland in College Park through the Joint Program in Survey Methodology via a two-way interactive video system. The Summer Institute office can provide further details about registration for these simultaneous offerings, or you may contact the Joint Program in Survey Methodology directly for information, 301-314-7911. From: Lou Burnard Subject: Summer School Announcement: Please post Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:43:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 772 (772) [Please re-post!] TESS: The Text Encoding Summer School Organised by Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit 8th-11th July, 1997 Oxford University hcu@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/tess/ The Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford is pleased to announce that applications are now invited for our first TEXT ENCODING SUMMER SCHOOL, to be held in Oxford 8 - 11 July. Course Aims By the end of the summer school delegates will: * have hands-on experience of digitising texts using OCR * understand the principles of document analysis * understand the basics of the Standard Generalised Mark-Up Language (SGML) * have hands-on experience of marking up an electronic text using the Text Encoding Initiative's TEILite Document Type Definition * have hands-on experience of SGML authoring and browsing software * understand the issues involved in distributing SGML documents * gain basic knowledge of the range of SGML-aware software products available * have practical experience of marking up a complete document in SGML and delivering it via the Internet Course Structure The course will combine presentations, discussions, and practical work in small groups. All teaching will be carried out by members of the Humanities Computing Unit, based at Oxford University Computing Services. Teaching and Hands-on Sessions will run from 0900 to 1700 daily, (with breaks for coffee and lunch), Wednesday to Friday, at Oxford University Computing Service's newly-opened training suite, which is a few minutes walk from Somerville College. During the evenings, delegates will be able to use the facilities of the Centre for Humanities Computing (also based at OUCS), where they will have access to a wide range of networked software and the Internet. The summer school will begin on the evening of the 8th July with a drinks reception and finish on the evening of Friday 11th when there will be a banquet at Somerville College. Course Pre-Requisites Those attending the Summer School will be expected to put in a considerable amount of work, using as material a piece of text relating to a specified project which they are undertaking or planning to undertake at their home institution. Applications for places (see below) will be appraised with this in mind. No knowledge of SGML or detailed computing expertise is required. However, since the course is intended to cover a lot of practical ground fairly rapidly, attendees will be expected to have some previous experience of at least one of the following: * one or more word-processing packages running under Microsoft Windows (3.1 or W95) * one or more UNIX text-preparation programs * HTML mark-up and web browsing on any platform Cost The cost of the Summer School is set at 250.00 (sterling). A limited amount of places will be made available to members of Oxford University at the cost of 150.00. This price includes: * Registration for the course * Non-ensuite bed and breakfast accommodation at Somerville College for the nights of the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th of July * Lunch and coffee 9-11 July * Complete and extensive course documentation * End of course banquet Note that Dinner is not provided on the 8th, 9th, or 10th. Extra nights accommodation either before or after the course are available on request at the cost of 28.00 (sterling) per night (includes breakfast). The Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ The Humanities Computing Unit has three main objectives: * to provide expertise, training, and consultancy in the uses of information technology within the Humanities disciplines; * to facilitate and promote access to a variety of high quality scholarly electronic resources for use in research and teaching within the Humanities disciplines; * to carry out research and development in the applications of information technology to the Humanities disciplines. The HCU brings together many well established projects at Oxford University: The Centre for Humanities Computing; The Oxford Text Archive; The Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies; The British National Corpus; the Text Encoding Initiative; and the JISC Technology Applications Programme project 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature'. How To Apply Only 20 places are available at the Summer School, and we expect it to be heavily oversubscribed. You are therefore advised to apply as soon as possible. Your application must be accompanied by a 250-word description of the project for which you think the experience gained on the Summer School will be useful. You are strongly recommended to provide a sample of the kind of material relevant to your project (e.g. a photocopy of a few pages of the documents you intend to digitize) with your application. Please complete the application form at http://info.ox.ac.uk/humanities/tess/ and return it to us no later than Friday 2nd May. Successful applicants will be notified by the 19th May. From: AL SHOAF Subject: EXEMPLARIA Preprint of "PIERS PLOWMAN and the Sublime" Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 13:33:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 773 (773) The Editors of EXEMPLARIA are pleased to announce the electronic preprint of "PIERS PLOWMAN and the Sublime" by Murray J. Evans (The University of Winnipeg) which is currently scheduled to appear in EXEMPLARIA 9.2 (October 1997). The preprint is accessible at URL http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria and will remain on-line through the summer. There is a "mailto" link on the sub-page for those who wish to communicate with Professor Evans. Recent server and drive changes have caused some minor glitches for EXEMPLARIA's mainpage; if you encounter difficulties, please call them to our attention at exempla@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu or use the "mailto" link on the mainpage. We are gratified by the response to our preprint activity, and we look forward to hearing from readers who have comments or suggestions. Thank you, Al Shoaf ============================================== ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ R. Allen Shoaf Alumni Professor of English University of Florida Senior Editor, EXEMPLARIA 352.392-5299; 371-7149 FAX 352.392.0860 exempla@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~rashoaf From: AWLongman@aol.com [SMTP:AWLongman@aol.com] Subject: Longman Web Site Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:18:08 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 774 (774) Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 1997 11:43 AM Addison-Wesley Longman, a leading publisher of higher-education texts, is soliciting suggestions for a Web site to support its freshman composition, technical writing, literature, and developmental english titles. If you are an academic professional who uses the web and have ideas about resources or content that would be helpful for the site to offer, please send your thoughts via email to . Thank you in advance, The New Media Group Addison-Wesley Longman From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: April Project Gutenberg Newsletter Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:28:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 775 (775) This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April 3, 1997 !!!Next month should see the presentation of Etext #900!!! In addition to the 32 Etexts prepared in March, 1997, this Newsletter would like to address the following topics: 0. Sending Us Files 1. Lost Etexts 2. Etexts In More Languages 3. The Complete Works Of Various Authors 4. Etext #1,000 5. Etexts In More Formats 6. New Project Gutenberg Sites *** 0. Sending Us Files We have added a new "outgoing" site as prairienet is often full, and mrcnext is going down permanently as soon as the files and operations there are moved. If you have trouble FTPing files to us, please let me know and I will send you a new location and password. 1. Lost Etexts We have been made aware of several Etexts and several site locations that are in danger of being lost to the public: including, but not limited to, "The Oxford Book of English Verse," and Gunther Hille's site for German Etexts. If you can assist us preserving these materials, we should be able to do the copyright research and repost them for a new generation of people to use. Even if the copyright is not certain, we can see to it that they end up in Internet Archives at archive.org. Please help us save any materials, any site, any language. 2. Etexts In More Languages We would like to encourage you to help with more languages for the Etext libraries, even if it is just one short book or other work. We need to show people of every language a possibility of have their works made available to the wide world of computer users on and off the Internet. All formats are encouraged, and all materials of a general interest, whether original or translations. We need some serious help with these, even if for only the first few books to get the ball rolling, or in preparation of materials we have received, as I am somewhat limited in my abilities to edit and present materials in the language and format of many of the materials we would like to do. We would like Etexts in the following languages: 1. Arabic 2. Chinese 2. Esperanto 4. French 5 German 6. Greek 7. Hebrew 8. Hungarian 9. Italian 10. Korean 11. Japanese 12. Lithuanian 13. Portuguese 14. Romanian 15. Russian 16. Slovak 17. Spanish Please let us know if you have other languages to add, in whatever format. We should love to include Native American and Canadian Etexts, in addition to the ones we have already produced, and those from any other of the world's cultures you might be able to provide. 3. The Complete Works Of Various Authors With Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Master of Ballantrae" [The first book listed below], we are nearly complete in our "Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson," and need only the following two works of which he was co-author: The Ebb Tide and The Wrecker Please advise if you can help with either of these or if you are aware of any other material, even letters, notes or anything else that we could add to our collection. *** We have decent starts on the Complete Dickens, Twain and Wilde, and would like your suggestions for other authors for whom a complete collection would be desired. Please let us know if you would like to work on any of these. We would also like to start on the complete works of the major authors in other languages and also in translation into English and perhaps other languages. For many book titles there will already be a Public Domain translation ... . .but we would also like to be prepared to make some, in cases in which copyrights have been unduly extended. We are making a start with Dumas. We are forming an Ibsen Team: Kirsten will find the books, we will do the copyright clearances, she will then scan them and provide them to you for proofreading. Kirsten Tozer Documents Librarian Central Washington University tozerk@cwu.edu 4. Etext #1,000 As we approach our 1,000th Etext, Project Gutenberg would like a variety of suggestions for the 900th, 999th, 1,000th and 1,001th Etexts; we would like to do something as appropriate as possible for these, including a possible Etext of Homer's Odyssey: to do some added reading with next month's television spectacular. We do not necessarily agree that all media presentations are a best possible endeavor, but they are, at least, a place to start. As promised, as we approach Etext #1,000, we are working on some presentation of a "catalogue" for our budding little library; if you are interested in working on or testing our search programs, and other implementations, or if you are one of the persons from whom we received requests for books to volunteer on, please mail Dianne Bean, Director of Production at beand@pr.erau.edu; Dianne can set you up with books to find, scan or proofread, or library research for the proper editions and copyright research. ***Thanks Dianne!!!*** 5. Etexts In More Formats We would like some volunteers to work with other formats than in the Plain Vanilla ASCII format that ALL people can read; this is particularly important as we try different languages; I, myself, do not have the facilities to paste our headers on HTML, PS, and various other files we are receiving. This would probably only take 10 minutes per book as I will send you both the file and the header, and all you will have to do is combine them and make sure the resulting file is readable. 6. We have some interesting new sites going up around the world and would like to increase service in the southern hemisphere; a site is going up in New Zealand, with a point of presence [POP], in Australia, and we would like to provide more service to wider areas of Australia, as well as to start service in South America and Africa. Please let us know of any possibilities. The lists of our current sites follows the list of this month's Etexts. Here are the 32 Project Gutenberg Etexts we prepared last month: Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### Mar 1997 Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson #38[blntrxxx.xxx] 864 Mar 1997 The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie[masacxxx.xxx] 863 Mar 1997 [Harvard] Philosophy 4, by Owen Wister [phil4xxx.xxx] 862 Mar 1997 The Dominion of the Air, by J. M. Bacon [dmairxxx.xxx] 861 Mar 1997 Baby Mine, by Margaret Mayo [Margaret Mayo #2] [bminexxx.xxx] 860 Mar 1997 Polly of the Circus, by Margaret Mayo [Mayo #1] [pcrcsxxx.xxx] 859 Mar 1997 Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome [J. K. Jerome #6] [jjstgxxx.xxx] 858 Mar 1997 Evergreens, by Jerome K. Jerome [J. K. Jerome #5] [jjevgxxx.xxx] 857 Mar 1997 Dreams, by Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome K. Jerome #4] [jjdrmxxx.xxx] 856 Mar 1997 Clocks, by Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome K. Jerome #3] [jjclkxxx.xxx] 855 Mar 1997 A Woman of No Importance, by Oscar Wilde [Wilde#7][awonixxx.xxx] 854 Mar 1997 The Confutatio Pontificia, edited by J. M. Reu [cfpntxxx.xxx] 853 Mar 1997 Democracy and Education, by John Dewey [JDewey #1][dmeduxxx.xxx] 852 Mar 1997 Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson [crmmrxxx.xxx] 851 Mar 1997 Tom Grogan, by F. Hopkinson Smith [grognxxx.xxx] 850 Mar 1997 Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Jerome K. Jerome2[jjidlxxx.xxx] 849 Mar 1997 The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS37][blckaxxx.xxx] 848 Mar 1997 Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babbington Macaulay[lromexxx.xxx] 847 Mar 1997 The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, by M. L. Weems [wfmarxxx.xxx] 846 Mar 1997 The Poems of Henry Timrod, by Henry Timrod [htimrxxx.xxx] 845 Mar 1997 The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde #6[tiobexxx.xxx] 844 Mar 1997 The Life of Francis Marion, by W. Gilmore Simms [1sfoxxxx.xxx] 843 Mar 1997 Carwin the Biloquist, by Charles Brockden Brown [moctbxxx.xxx] 842 Mar 1997 Men, Women and Ghosts, by Amy Lowell [Lowell #2] [almwgxxx.xxx] 841 Mar 1997 Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore[lornaxxx.xxx] 840 Mar 1997 New Arabian Nights, by Robert Louis Stevenson[#36][narabxxx.xxx] 839 Mar 1997 Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles [jasmnxxx.xxx] 838 Mar 1997 The Story of the Amulet, by E. Nesbit [EB#5] [tsamuxxx.xxx] 837 Mar 1997 The Phoenix and the Carpet, by E. 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For those not interested in signing a beta-test license agreement, DIMAP-3 can be purchased at a special pre-release, refundable price of $200, with assurance of continued updates with the same latest version available to beta-testers. -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: INTERNET> ken@clres.com, 20239 Lea Pond Place 71520.307@compuserve.com Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: http://www.clres.com From: Stuart Lee Subject: Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:54:18 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 777 (777) ANNOUNCEMENT BEYOND THE LIBRARY A One-Day Colloquium Organised by the Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford 16 May 1997, Habbakuk Room, Jesus College, Oxford How are the new technologies changing the roles of libraries of librarians? How do we cater for the ever changing needs of the users? How do we design the library of the future? What exactly is meant by the "digital library"? 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SIGNED: DATE: From: "Izzy (Israel) Cohen (req-telaviv)" Subject: Language Conferences/Seminars web site Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 04:07:24 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 778 (778) The language conference list located on the WWW at URL http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html has been updated with over 80 new conferences and about 2 dozen other changes since the February 1997 edition. Conference Schedule for Linguists, Translators, Interpreters and Teachers of Languages. (Clicking on the applicable link will provide additional conference information). 1997 1998 1999 2000 - 2003! Quarterly events for which the exact date is not known. Annual events for which the exact date is not known. Biennial events for which the exact date is not known. A special "continuing" event. Your chance to publish your scholarly work on language. Links for linguists I've run across while searching for conferences. I've even found some job opportunities for linguists. Past schedules will remain on the list for several months after the date of the function for those who may wish to plan for next year. For maintenance convenience, this list is divided into several pages. They are: confer.html The conference list home page. confer7.html for conferences in 1997. confer8.html for conferences in 1998 and beyond. conf_pub.html for miscellaneously scheduled conferences and other links for linguists. confer_x.html for past conference schedules. con_links.html for useful conference-related links. Searching for Conferences Conferences are listed chronologically. No attempt has been made at this time to provide a means to search the list for a particular type of conference. Perhaps this capability will be available in the future. One may, of course, search the list using the "find" or "search" function of the WWW browser being used. I have moved the links where one may search for additional conferences to its own page because the number is growing so large and beginning to clutter this page even more. There also are links to other related sites which Linguists, Translators, Inter- preters and Teachers of Languages should find of value. As all information pasted to the list is cut from the original source (hypertexted with each schedule) I cannot be held responsible for errors. Check the provided source, first. Otherwise, please send corrections, additions, and updates to royfcoch@clark.net (Roy F. Cochrun) Return to Roy's Russian Resource home page Last update 5 April 1997. * * * * Information forwarded by: Israel Cohen izzy@atelaviv.ndsoft.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing in archaeology Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 07:46:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 779 (779) Many Humanists will be interested at least to observe the occurrence of 25th annual conference, "Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology", Birmingham, 10-13 April 1997. See the URL: <http://www.bufau.bham.ac.uk/caa97/caa97.htm>. "The first Computer Applications in Archaeology conference took place 25 years ago in Birmingham, " the organiser writes. "Since then the conference has been transformed from a meeting of enthusiasts to an international conference. At the same time computing has become a global phenomenon and virtually every aspect of archaeology has been affected. [deleted quotation]academic or field archaeologist, work in heritage mangement or environmental assessments, computers are and will play an increasingly large role in your work." Every aspect of that and many other fields.... Suggests we should be quite important to our colleagues, yes? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: David Green Subject: NINCH Announcement: Copyright Conference, UC Berkeley Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 15:11:25 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 780 (780) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 7, 1997 The following is an announcement of a May 10 conference at University of California, Berkeley on the important intersection of copyright, fair use, rights management technology and licensing. CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT A LICENSE TO KILL? COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP AND FAIR USE IN AN AGE OF LICENSING Saturday, May 10, 1997 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Krutch Theater, The Clark Kerr Campus, University of California, Berkeley To register please call: UC Berkeley Extension (510) 642-4111 EDP 176131 $65 in advance; $75 at the door; $25 for UC faculty, students, and staff (with ID), including lunch WEBSITE: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/copyright.html CONTACT INFORMATION: Michael Levy Boalt Hall Law Library 510 643 4025 levym@boalt.berkeley.edu Increasingly information is being produced in an electronic format opening up new possibilities for access. However, in this changing information universe, publishers are using licensing agreements as a means to regulate access and use of their materials. This raises problems for those institutions mandated with preserving and making information available for the public good. Join publishers, scholars, librarians, legal experts, artists and museum experts in a wide-ranging discussion of: * The public interest and reasonable access to information in a licensing environment. * Online access to scholarly material. * Electronic rights management technology and its implications. * The balance between fair use and contractual limits on electronic use within licensing agreements. * Copyright protection and the use of licensing arrangements by artists and museums who make their works and collections available in digital form. * The transformation of art and scholarship in the digital age and the effects of this change on copyright law. * Challenges facing universities dealing with copyright ownership and patents as faculty produce multimedia products that have commercial potential. Scheduled Speakers Robert Berring Professor and Law Librarian School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California at Berkeley Howard Besser Visiting Associate Professor School of Information Management & Systems, University of California at Berkeley Mary Levering Associate Register for National Copyright Programs U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress Heather Meeker Associate Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Ken Metzner Director of Electronic Publishing Academic Press Inc Ann Okerson Associate University Librarian Yale University Pamela Samuelson Professor School of Information Management & Systems and School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California at Berkeley Mark Stefik Principal Scientist Information Sciences and Technology Laboratory, Xerox PARC Martha Winnacker Coordinator Academic Information Technology Initiatives and Special Programs University of California Office of the President Sponsors Librarians Association of the University of California at Berkeley The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities School of Information, Management & Systems,University of California at Berkeley School of Information, Management & Systems Alumni Association University of California at Berkeley Extension School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University School of Law (Boalt Hall),University of California at Berkeley PANELS Panel I LICENSING AND LIBRARIES: NEW MODELS FOR DISTRIBUTION Panelists: Robert Berring Professor and Law Librarian School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California at Berkeley Mary Levering Associate Register for National Copyright Programs U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress Ken Metzner Director of Electronic Publishing Academic Press Inc Ann Okerson Associate University Librarian Yale University Publishers and other information providers increasingly resort to the use of licensing agreements as a means of regulating access to their materials. This development has resulted in a redefinition of the relationship between publishers and libraries as licensing agreements replace ownership. While such agreements may be restrictive, information providers may be able to ameliorate these effects by creative negotiation strategies. Panel II DIGITAL PROTECTION AND ACCESS: AN UNEASY BALANCE? Panelists: Howard Besser Visiting Associate Professor School of Information Management & Systems, University of California at Berkeley Heather Meeker Associate Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Mark Stefik Principal Scientist Information Sciences and Technology Laboratory, Xerox PARC New forms of protection for digital content, such as electronic rights management systems, are being proposed as a solution to the problems of unlimited electronic distribution. Proponents seek increased legal protection for these mechanisms. At the same time, many express concern that such devices, especially when accompanied by legal sanctions, may destroy the balance between balance between equitable access and proprietary rights. How will the legal rules which attempt to maintain this balance (i.e, fair use, first sale) fare in a new regime characterized by rights management and licensing? Panel III MAKING SENSE OF COMPLEXITY: THE CHALLENGE OF MULTIPLE POLICY ARENAS Panelists: Mary Levering Associate Register for National Copyright Programs U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress Pamela Samuelson Professor School of Information Management & Systems and School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California at Berkeley Martha Winnacker Coordinator Academic Information Technology Initiatives and Special Programs, University of California Office of the President Policy making in the area of copyright and licensing issues is becoming increasingly diffuse and complex. The policy debate is taking place at many levels, from individual institutions to international organizations. Locally, universities tackle issues of copyright from the perspective of a content producer and user. At the national level, the nature of the National Information Infrastructure continues to promote vigorous debate. On the international level, these issues are increasingly the subject of treaty negotiations and affect trade practices. A variety of other organizations, commissions and conferences are making recommendations, adopting standards and otherwise participating in policy making debates. ------------------------------------- Michael Levy Electronic Services Librarian Boalt Hall Law School 510.643.4025 mlevy@library.berkeley.edu From: Dr Tony McEnery Subject: Corpus Linguistics on the World Wide Web Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:53:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 781 (781) Corpus Linguistics on the World Wide Web A web based course in corpus linguistics is now available at: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/contents.htm The course is entirely free, and access to it is unrestricted. The course is designed as: 1.) A brief introduction to corpus linguistics for those who want to find out more 2.) A cut down version of the Corpus Linguistics book from EUP to be used for convenience and in laboratory sessions The site has four sections: 1.) Early corpus linguistics and the Chomskyan revolution 2.) What is a corpus and what is in it? 3.) Quantitative data 4.) The use of corpora in language studies Each section finishes with an interactive self test. This resource has been developed as part of a collaborative venture between the Innovation in Higher Education programme of Lancaster University, Edinburgh University Press and the Dept. Linguistics of Lancaster University. Please feel free to mail feedback to us - we will try to make the site as responsive and adaptable as possible. Corpus Linguistics: Tony McEnery & Andrew Wilson Pages Developed by: Paul Baker From: Subject: Translation aid Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 782 (782) Dear Willard I suggest your correspondent tries the TransIt-TIGER authoring shell, produced by the TELL Consortium and available from Hodder & Stoughton Educational. There are also 'ready-made' versions of the package for English-French, French-English, Spanish-English, German-English, Italian-English (2 versions). The methodology provides hypertext links to a 'glossary' and 'hints' (which may contain grammatical help or other guidance). These are used in the first stage of the process when the learner produces his/her own 'dirty' translation. In the second stage, the learner has access to two alternative translations of the source passage for comparison with his/her own first effort, which is then refined to produce the learner's best effort. The main object is to make learners aware that there is very rarely a single 'correct' translation, but multiple possibilities, depending on the level and complexity of the source text. The TransIt-TIGER authoring shell allows teachers to import their own word-processed text, glossary, hints and alternative versions to produce courseware for most languages at any level, using material to suit their own learners' needs. NB. Materials from the TELL Consortium will be demonstrated at CALICO (West Point Virginia, 23-27 June), FLEAT (Victoria, Canada, 12-16 August) and EUROCALL (Dublin, Ireland, 11-13 September) Further information is available from the TELL Consortium, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, HU6 7RX, UK. June Thompson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June Thompson CTI Centre for Modern Languages Tel +44(0)1482 466373 University of Hull Fax +44(0)1482 473816 Hull HU6 7RX, UK Email CTI.Lang@hull.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Subject: Katharine Sharp Review 2nd Call Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 783 (783) **Please forward to your local student bulletin board!!** See our current issue at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/summer1996/ Attention Students!! Second Call For Papers Katharine Sharp Review GSLIS, University of Illinois ISSN 1083-5261 (This information can also be found at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review) This is the second call for submissions to the Summer 1997 issue of the Katharine Sharp Review, the peer-reviewed e-journal devoted to student scholarship and research within the interdisciplinary scope of library and information science. 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The world of computing continues to reinvent itself. Just as we previously witnessed a dramatic transformation from textual to visual computing, we are now in the midst of an exciting metamorphosis to an era of multimodal computing whose ultimate shape is as yet unknown. The conference scope spans technology, tools and techniques for the construction and delivery of high quality, innovative multimedia systems and interfaces. We are especially striving this year to achieve balance in coverage within the technical program, between issues relating to underlying system design and delivery - e.g., --hardware and architectures --networking and communications --compression and synchronization --databases and information retrieval --collaboration environments --digital libraries and issues relating to the human-computer interface - e.g., --hot application domains --document models and authoring tools --scalable and translucent interfaces --interactive audio documents --alternate modality systems --virtual realities We cordially invite -YOU- to take part in this exciting event by submitting your work in one or more of the ways enumerated below, and look forward to welcoming -YOU- to Seattle this fall for what will be a most rewarding and exciting experience! =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED no later than TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1997! See below for submission categories and addresses =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= TECHNICAL PAPERS of the high quality expected at major ACM conferences are solicited. These may fall into a variety of categories: (a) Presentation of original and significant research. (b) Results of relevant and rigorous empirical studies. (c) Description of the `look and feel' and discussion of the internal workings of an implemented system. Papers must be set in 11-point type and formatted in two-column conference style, and may not exceed 12 pages in length including all figures, tables, and references. An award will be given for the best paper, as judged by the program committee. Papers with a student as the primary author will separately enter a student paper award competition; a cover letter must identify your paper as a candidate for the student paper competition, if applicable. 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E-mail: burnett@cs.orst.edu Tel. (541) 737 2539 Fax: (541) 737 3014 =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= DAY-LONG WORKSHOPS on topics of great current interest to members of the multimedia research community will both precede and follow the technical program. Participation is by invitation only, under the control of the individual organizer(s), but all workshop organizers and attendees are expected to register for the conference as well, to foster a symbiotic relationship among participants. If you'd like to take advantage of this venue to conduct -YOUR- workshop, please contact the Workshops Chair: Stephen Itoga 319 Keller Hall / ICS University of Hawaii 2565 The Mall Honolulu, HI 96822 E-mail: itoga@hawaii.edu Tel. (808) 956 3500 Fax: (808) 956 3548 =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= STATE OF THE ART DEMOS will form an integral and important part of the MULTIMEDIA'97 experience. This year, we want to focus on systems in which technical innovation is combined with artistic wizardry. We're not 100% sure what that means, but we'll bet -YOU- know! Amazing research prototypes and stunning commercial products are welcome. There are just 2 constraints: we can supply only limited equipment and certainly nothing exotic, so if you need really special hardware you'll have to supply your own; and space is limited, so all proposals for demos will be referreed to assure quality. If you'd like to propose a technically-oriented demo, please contact: Bikash Sabata Telecommunications and Distributed Processing Program SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 E-mail: sabata@erg.sri.com Tel. (415) 859 2281 If you'd like to propose an artistically-oriented demo, please contact: Tim Skelly Design Happy 26715 NE 50th Street Redmond, WA 98053 E-mail: TimSkelly@aol.com Tel. (206) 868 2822 =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= QUESTIONS?? Please feel free to contact the General Chair: Ephraim P. Glinert Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 E-mail: glinert@cs.rpi.edu Tel. (518) 276 2657 Fax: (518) 276 4033 =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= THE ACM MULTIMEDIA'97 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Steering Committee Chairs: --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Steve Bulick, U S West Advanced Technologies Allan Kuchinsky, Hewlett Packard Laboratories General Co-Chairs: -=--=--=--=--=--=- Ephraim P. Glinert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mark Scott Johnson, vivid studios Program Co-Chairs: -=--=--=--=--=--=- James D. Hollan, University of New Mexico James D. Foley, MERL Program Committee Associate Chairs: --=--=--=--=--=--==--=--=--=--=--=-- Bob Allen, Bellcore Dick Bulterman, CWI Isabel Cruz, Tufts University Takaya Endo, NTT-AT Thomas Erickson, Apple Computer Bill Grosky, Wayne State University Patrick Hanrahan, Stanford University Jonathan Helfman, AT&T Research Jessica Hodgins, Georgia Institute of Technology Philipp Hoschka, INRIA-W3C Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Laboratory David Kirsh, University of California at San Diego Michael Lesk, Bellcore Wendy MacKay, CENA and University of Paris-Sud Ryohei Nakatsu, ATR Media Integration & Communication Research Labs Ken Perlin, New York University Lawrence Rowe, University of California at Berkeley Steve Roth, Carnegie Mellon University Brian Smith, Cornell University Akikazu Takeuchi, Sony Corporation Alex Weibel, Carnegie Mellon University Kent Wittenburg, GTE Laboratories Ramin Zabih, Cornell University Hong-Jiang Zhang, Hewlett Packard Laboratories Panels Chair: --=--=--=--=-- Takayuki Dan Kimura, Washington University Courses Chair: --=--=--=--=-- Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University Workshops Chair: =--=--=--=--=--= Stephen Itoga, University of Hawaii Art Demos Chair: =--=--=--=--=--= Tim Skelly, Design Happy Technical Demos Chair: =--=--=--=--=--=--=--= Bikash Sabata, SRI International Student Volunteers Chair: =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= Alvin T. Moser, Seattle University Print Proceedings Chair: -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=- Hong-Jiang Zhang, Hewlett Packard Laboratories Electronic Proceedings Chair: =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= Lars Wolf, Technical University of Darmstadt Publicity Chair: =--=--=--=--=--= Wayne Citrin, University of Colorado at Boulder Webmaster: =--=--=--= Stephan Fischer, University of Mannheim Treasurer: =--=--=--= John Buford, University of Massachusetts at Lowell From: Subject: Teaching the MLA International Bibliography Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 785 (785) I am gathering information to write an article about teaching students how to use the Modern Language Association International Bibliography. I would appreciate you taking the time to participate in this survey and returning it to me. Thanks, Judy Reynolds judyr@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu This message has been cross-listed on Bi-L, EALSL and Humanist, please excuse any duplication. 1. Do you think that students search MLAIB differently in the electronic and paper forms? 2. Has the evolution of the database and the growing familiarity with electronic indexes changed the way you teach. Do you think that students have a more detailed mental map and/or grasp of the vocabulary or is it just different? Explain? 3. What changes do you make to target diffent audience levels? Do you teach undergrads alternative resources such as the Humanities Index because they are mainly interested in locally available resources? 4. Have Stephen Wiberley's findings that humanists to use concrete nouns in their searches more often than has been generally thought alterned your approach to emphasize only specific writers/works? Or, do find that students need to learn how to use the thesaurus to locate subjects headings to find works on genre, theme subjects? 5. Do you find topics where the MLA has a unique perspective? 6. Where do you turn for teaching materials? Do you make all your own? If you adapt or borrow from others, what sources do you find most helpful? 7. What about linguistics or folklore, film or theatre research classes? What role and special techniques do you suggest and use in teaching them? What other databases do you teach? 8. Have you introducted new modes of teaching such as live demonstrations, hands-on instruction, Internet or Web based instruction or other forms? What techniques continue to be useful? //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Judy Reynolds (408) 924-2725 Library judyr@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu San Jose State University judyr@email.sjsu.edu 1 Washington Sq. San Jose, Ca. 95192-0028 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From: "Mark K. Gardner" Subject: Re: 10.0834 times & standards Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 13:32:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 786 (786) I suppose I need to clarify that this statement: [deleted quotation] This was written with particular emphasis on grammar/jr. high(middle school)-aged students/curriculum. [deleted quotation] I don't deny that children are naturally curious. But something has happened that seems to be crushing the curiosity and drive for knowledge out of many children today before they even get to high school, never mind college. I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that they expect learning to be easy and simple and fun because that is what they have been taught during a very impressionable period in their lives, and when it appears contrary, they prefer to take the easier, softer way out and turn off. I only say this because it has been what I observe happening; most *are* already turned off when they arrive in my class... I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't find *anything* inherently stimulating in grammar school and Jr. high about memorizing multiplication tables, phonics, spelling, grammar and sentence diagrams. I was much more interested in dinosaurs and space travel--that is what I *read* when I got the chance. However, what I had learned, a great deal of which seemed to me at the time to be quite toilsome and often times quite meaningless, enabled me to do things like spell words I had heard but had never seen; or to use a dictionary to look up words I didn't know but could pronounce because I understood phonics. I remember sounding out a new word in my head then realizing that I had heard the word in conversation and often knew from context what it meant. Much of this was self-reinforcing, since I did so much reading outside of school, as did most of my friends. TV was not part of our daily routine, and books were our primary source of entertainment/interest; we were not passive about learning things that were of interest to us because our education had made us independant learners in spite of ourselves. And we were independant learners at a fairly young age; we had to be in order to satisfy our natural curiosity. I did not need to be part of a group to find a book at the library, and memorizing the basics of grammar did not traumatize me *that* greatly. Expecting, [deleted quotation] But what were you expecting when you entered 3rd grade? or 7th Grade? (Speaking for myself, I was mostly expecting to eventually become a 4th grader or an 8th grader...) [deleted quotation] I still hear those voices, but I don't listen to them either. That is because I developed independant thinking skills thanks to my education which gave me enough basic information to become an effective critical thinker. The bottom line is that mastering a basic level of understanding that is fundamental but not intrinsically intersting to most learners until they can apply it later on (i.e. multiplication tables, phonics, et. al. when applied to make sense of more interesting and complex subjects) makes it possible to get through a chemistry lecture and discover that one prefers Greek or Computer Programming. My concern is that current practices use techniques that are supposed to make students feel all warm and fuzzy when what they really need to be focusing on is mastering the essential basics, which I will repeat and stand by this: this requires a minimium amount of rote and memorization in order to learn it quickly and effectively...it is not FUN AND GAMES but rather *very serious business*! Until we can genetically sequence the 7's table into human DNA, that is the reality of it, and to avoid the issue is paramount to criminal negligence. I have 14 and 15 year old students who: -cannot tell time using a standard clock. -cannot calculate problems using simple arithmatic in the course of a history lesson. -cannot sequence the 12 months of the year correctly. -do not know the name of the ocean that lies about 10 miles away from the school. -cannot pronounce a word they have never encountered before. -cannot *copy* the correct spelling of words from one place on paper to another... These we things that *we* could all do when we were 10. Why is this so? I am not going sit here and blame 3 billion years of evolution... I am wearied by the [deleted quotation] OK, fine. But to me, an unexamined life is not worth living. I am merely looking at the state of affairs in education, and making what I believe are accurate diagnoses of *symptoms*. I can find plenty of *unqualified* criticisms leveled at education. One recent frontpage story in my local paper told about a teacher standing in line at a store while someone jeered "Look at the teacher spending all that money we pay her!"--while she had her arms full of construction paper and other teaching materials she was buying *with her own money.* Talk about the problem of perception of education! Bottom line, the "public opinion" would not be satisified unless we were working for free, donating a quart of blood every day while curing cancer and the common cold: I find humility to be the best tool in combating ignorance of that sort. However, if anyone *is* qualified to be critical, it should be we in the profession. I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but it seems like we already have in some respects, and the baby is growing fangs...It's not a perfect world, but we should not lump the things we can change with the things we cannot just because the self-examination process may be painful...complex problems don't solve themselves, generally. If we didn't have some humanist tendencies or care one way or the other, we would certainly be doing something else right now. So what are we going to do? As someone once said, are we going to be part of the problem here or part of the solution? [deleted quotation] I agree entirely. We need to be enthusiastic about learning around our students: it does rub off. But here are the stakes: computer technology is here. It is moving into the classroom and is already becoming deeply embedded in society. TV was hailed as a vast improvement in communcation and many believed it would become an active agent in education--instead it has contributed to the creation of a generation of passive, disinterested learners. Let us not allow the same thing to happen again. If educators as a group do not try to become active in the process of computerization of education, then we will have no one else to blame if it fails to rectify the current "crisis in education." Vote early and often, I say. This is where our humanist tendencies can really be of service: in the face of such daunting (to the uninitiated) technology and change, let's find a way to marry the values of good old-fashioned humanist curriculum with the new standard of technology. We can't go backward, but for God's sake let's have something to do with how we are going forward. That's all. Very simple. Thank you. But isn't it sad when we Humanists [deleted quotation] Well, *I'm* not doing this for the money... Regards, Mark Gardner From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: Times & standards Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:47:56 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 787 (787) [deleted quotation] Indeed. In the UK we are in the throes of an election campaign and I am despirited by the two main contenders' attitude to education:- "Education is a Right" proclaims one side, "Education is a Privilege" replies the other (or words that imply it). Yet if you ask anyone undergoing education what they are studying today, you will hear "Ugh, trig!" or "Ugh, Jane Austen!" or "Ugh, tort!" or "Ugh! almost anything...". This is not new, I remember the same sinking feeling half a century ago! Which all goes to show that it is not a pleasurable activity (Princess Anne, the Chancellor of my University, is on the record as having described going to College as "a much overrated pastime" and that is quite true). The notion that I would like to suggest is rather old-fashioned these days. It is that _education is a duty_. You have not fulfilled your contract with society until you have failed an exam, that is pursued your education until you have reached your limit. Only then is your duty to educate yourself to the maximum of your abilities performed. Alas, if only a political party would reflect this approach, it would certainly get my vote... Francois C-R From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0834 times & standards Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 03:25:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 788 (788) I have been thinking about this for the last few days. I think that there is a viris that attacks boys when they get to be about 13 that gets them off track as it come to education. They just don't see any purpose in school. We use our schools to slow down people. To keep them from getting out and doing purposeful useful things with their life. To keep them off the job market I have to spend an inordinate amount of time keeping my children on track. Keeping them them motivated to do the busy work that they are getting in school. I spend hours at night pushing them to do the extra math, read the important books and talk about the gols they should be making. A few years ago my oldest son started having problems with math and I started toutoring him at night. I went in to speak to his math teacher and I was told that my son was an excellent student and I souldn't be concerned about him because he would eventually get it and that he didn't have the problems that the other kids in his classes had. The teacher had at least 20 children that were being abused. Two of them had attempted suicide within the previous two weeks. He said that my son would figure it out eventually and that I wasn't supposed to worry about it. That in fact I had nothing to worry about with my son. I believe that we are spliting up in a societ where we have two groups the specialists who rule and the unwashed masses who are ruled. We have dumbing down because uneducated people are easier to control than educated people. Educated people cause lots of trouble unless they are co-opted. My children laugh at me when I say that video games are the revenge of Japan. But they like TV distract you from payhing attention to the world, to society, to your family. The problem that I see it is that we have very few self actuated people. The educational system is against it, the controling culture is against it, the political structure is against it. I tell my children that it is still possible to learn anything that you want to learn. There are still libraries and there are still schools and universities that you can go to take the classes that you want and need. There are so many resources on the web that you can read. People that you can learn from. But you have to want to do that. My father use to say,"That you can lead a child to water but you can't make him think." You have to be able to motivate people into learning what they need so that they can do anything they want. From: Subject: Re: 10.0831 workshops & institutes Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 789 (789) Hi guys, I guess I should really title this note "The Band Wagon Rolls On," because I guess I'm gonna start up the TEI brawl again. Sorry to rain on the parade, but somebody has to.... I am surprised that so many of the recently announced workshops and institutes seem to make the teaching of encoding, and particularly TEI encoding, a primary objective. The TEI, is seems to me, is being treated as if it is an accepted standard. This is not at all clear. In fact, there are serious design and implementation questions that can suggest that TEI is neither an acceptable standard nor an implementable standard. Last year, I gave a rather inflammatory talk against the TEI guidelines at the ALLC/ACH conference in Bergen. A slightly revised version is at: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/talks/TEI.talk.html I was stunned by the number of people who contacted me then and since with similiar concerns. Given the facts that: -- the TEI Guidelines have never been subjected to significant peer review, -- that there are many in the feild who consider the current Guidelines to be unworkable for many reasons, and -- that there is a dearth of analytical software (other than systems to verify that a document is TEI-conformant, for what that is worth), I hope that the various course instructors will at the very least inform participants that the TEI is NOT the only, or even best, way to encode documents, and that encoding itself -- a labor intensive activity -- may have far more limited results than hoped. As I suggested in Bergen, I do find the effort by TEI proponents to teach a specification that has not been sufficiently tested to be a risky endeavor because we are asking people to spend significant amounts of time and money performing tasks that may not live up to the advance billings. I'm sure I'll be hearing from the TEI supporters in droves. :-) Mark Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (773) 702-8687 WWW: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson From: Subject: impact of electronic publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 790 (790) [deleted quotation]on "The impact of electronic publishing on the academic community", to be held by the Academia Europaea in Stockholm, Sweden, 17-20 April. This is merely a reminder. The Web site for the event is located at <http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de/sweden/>, from which tha participants' page will provide several links to papers prepared for the event. The Academia Europaea is itself a very interesting and distinguished body. See the Academia's Web site, at the URL <http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/academia/>. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen Subject: Re: 10.0841 rain on the workshops Date: Tue, 08 Apr 97 18:28:14 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 791 (791) On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 21:56:06 +0100 (BST) my esteemed colleague and fellow resident of the great County of Cook, Mark Olsen, said: [deleted quotation] If Dr. Olsen is surprised, I think it's because he's making an elementary logical error, with the predictable consequences. (The pedant in me burns to say, with Dr. Johnson, that he is not, in any case, surprised at all, but astonished.) The curriculum of these workshops and institutes does not, in general, depend on what the organizers take to be popular belief, but on what the organizers believe participants can usefully learn. So I think it's a grave error for Dr. Olsen to attempt to reason from the announced curricula to the organizers' beliefs about what is and is not 'accepted' by others. If the courses at (alphabetically) CETH, Michigan, New Brunswick, Oxford, and Virginia all plan to teach TEI and SGML, it's far more likely that this is because the organizers believe, after some experience with electronic texts, that SGML and the TEI offer the best method of encoding texts for research purposes. They are not "treating" the TEI "as if" it were an accepted standard. They have accepted it, and are teaching it because they think it's worth knowing about. Of course, it's true that few people will offer a course on a topic if they think no one is likely to attend. The experience of the last few years suggests, however, that there is ample demand for instruction in the application of SGML and TEI, and I expect that the courses recently announced on Humanist will fill up, just as course after course after course on this subject has done over the past several years. Not every involved in making electronic texts available for research shares the view that SGML and the TEI offer the best way to go: in addition to Dr. Olsen, readers of Humanist will remember the remarks of Ian Lancashire in a discussion on this topic in late 1995. But the TEI 'applications page' (http://www.tei.uic/orgs/tei/app), a list of projects who have told us that they are, in some sense, using the TEI, has over fifty entries. Some of these are very small projects, no match in size for Mark Olsen's ARTFL. Some are several times the size of ARTFL. Some use TEI extensively, some only tangentially. But the steady growth of the list, and the steady adoption of the TEI scheme by new projects, suggests that despite Dr. Olsen's reservations, many people have examined the TEI and the alternatives (rolling their own scheme, or adopting any of the hundreds or thousands of other extant schemes, dozens of which are actually publicly documented) and decided to adopt the TEI for their own work. For better or worse, I am unaware of any other encoding scheme in such wide use for research using texts. More to the point, I am unaware of any other encoding scheme which *deserves* to be in wider use. [deleted quotation] It would be interesting to hear about these serious design and implementation issues sometime. I had hoped they would be brought forward in Bergen, but even on their face, the arguments Dr. Olsen made there had nothing to do with the conclusions he would like to draw from them. I pointed this out in Bergen, in a talk which I have not yet put on the Web, but (fired by the example of my South Side colleague) will do soon. [deleted quotation] Rubbish. The TEI Guidelines were drafted by work groups drawn from the relevant use communities, which worked in public; they have been available for public comment (in draft or final form) since 1990; they were reviewed by an Advisory Board composed of representatives of relevant scholarly and professional societies (at least, the member organizations agreed to review them, and sent representatives to the Advisory Board meetings); TEI funding proposals have gone through the normal review process at NEH several times since then, always with success. Over fifty projects have adopted them for some part of their work. If you want to criticize the TEI or the Guidelines, feel free to do so. If you want to start a career as a fiction writer, do that. But don't confuse the two. [deleted quotation] They, like everyone else, are invited to comment on the Guidelines, to suggest work items for their improvement, or to help revise them. [deleted quotation] There is a dearth of analytical software for any format one cares to name, including HTML (possible exception: the TLG beta format; make enough data available and the software will appear). Come to that, there is a dearth of analytical software for the ARTFL data format; does that count as a sign that it is deeply, fundamentally flawed and should be replaced? [deleted quotation] I hope so too. Anyone who comes away from any TEI course thinking that the TEI is the 'only way to encode documents' has not been paying attention. Many people do think it's the best -- if not the best imaginable, then at least the best available. But if anyone thinks there *is* any one 'best' way to encode documents, in any absolute sense, I think they invite the suspicion that they haven't yet managed to think seriously about the subject for longer than ninety seconds at a time. Two minutes' thought usually suffices to persuade anyone that there is no single unique best way to represent a document, and cannot be. But of course A. E. Housman was quite right: thinking is hard, and two minutes is a long time. [deleted quotation] I've been listening for several years, and I have yet to hear anyone at any course on electronic texts ask anything of the kind. On the contrary, the first and most insistent request is that the encoders of texts make up their own minds about what is and what is not worth encoding; the TEI is not there to serve as anyone's excuse for independent thought. As to the risk: does anyone think research with texts is not inherently a risky endeavor? If one knows in advance what one's work will prove, it's no longer research. [deleted quotation] I certainly hope so, but perhaps many will give you up as a lost cause; I won't, because you're here in Cook County and serve as an excellent excuse to repeat points often made already, but perpetually in need of repetition. [deleted quotation] I'll subscribe to that. It's why I think waiting to use or teach the TEI until everyone in the community subscribes to it is such a silly tomfool idea. Those engaged in research projects should consider the alternatives and choose to do what makes most sense. That is their responsibility to themselves, their later readers, and their funding agencies. Neither Mark Olsen nor I can, nor should we, take that responsibility off their shoulders. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen From: Mavis Cournane Subject: Re: 10.0841 rain on the workshops Date: 09 Apr 1997 11:28:32 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 792 (792) [Mark Olsen] [deleted quotation] I can only speak of my experience of the TEI workshop at CETH. To be fair to the instructor he did emphasize that the TEI _are_ guidelines _not_ a recognized standard. Anyone who does some reading will see that emphasised too. [deleted quotation] I would like to know what alternatives there are out there for the encoding of medieval text. [deleted quotation] How can you subject smth to peer review if nobody knows enough about TEI to implement and experiment with it. I would have thought the first step would be to teach people how to use it. Let them experiment and then come back with their suggestions. Workshops while promoting TEI also teach people so that they can decide for themselves its attributes and vices. [deleted quotation] This is very interesting and I would like to hear more. I haven't seen any discussions of such problems on comp.text.sgml or on TEI-L. Could you point me towards a forum for this. [deleted quotation] If there are alternatives to TEI why aren't we inundated with postings for workshops for them. The TEI has problems as anyone who uses it is aware of. However, at least its proponents offer instruction about it so we can all decide for ourselves. Attending a workshop and learning about TEI does not mean that people are led up a blind alley. It merely gives people an option. At the very least it starts them thinking about their text in a useful, logical way. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink it :-) Mavis Cournane From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 10.0841 rain on the workshops Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 11:56:01 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 793 (793) About Mark Olsen's observations, I feel bound to admit that in my opinion the TEI was (and is) a very interesting and very well ment initiative, but as matters go it is more or less dead stuff for the "cognoscenti". I speak as one who has studied rather deeply the TEI application problems both for Italian and Coptic texts. No need to enter into details, for those who have similar experiences. Mind you, very different is the situation for SGML: there I am quite at ease, and I think that it will last as a standard. Hope a witness is useful... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it CISADU - Fac. di Lettere Tel. 39.6.4991-3936 P.zale Aldo Moro, 5 Fax 39.6.4991-3945 00185 Roma http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 10.0831 workshops & institutes Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 09:45:56 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 794 (794) writes: [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] The claim that "the TEI Guidelines have never been subjected to significant peer review" betrays a lack of appreciation for goals of the TEI Guidelines. Unlike older schemes mentioned in his _Text Theory and Coding Practice: Assessing the TEI_ (the resource found at the cited URL), the TEI Guidelines were not intended to set forth a definitive solution for all texts or any group of texts important to humanists. The claim is further weakened by the participation of literally hundreds of scholars in the formation of the Guidelines, which were a product of peer pariticipation. The lack of what Mark would consider peer review is not very significant unless he can point to some shortcoming of TEI that peer review would have avoided. I hasten to point out that the need for peer review is not proven by the existence of inconsistently encoded texts using the TEI Guidelines. The TEI Guidelines were not meant to be a definitive and exhaustive listing of all tagging solutions for all texts. It should be judged for its effort to create a model for the use of SGML with texts of concern to humanists and not its application to specific texts, which was not its goal. (I personally think formal peer review of the TEI Guidelines in light of its goals would have given it high marks.) I think there is much to be said for Mark's concern over such inconsistent texts, but those objections can be meet by scholars concerned with particular types of texts collaborating on guidelines for implementing the TEI Guidelines for a particular class of texts. One such effort is already underway with the formation by the Society of Biblical Literature of a new seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts. The results of this effort, being a specific implementation of the TEI Guidelines for a limited group of texts, will be the subject of peer review. The Seminar is addressing this year the creation of Writing System Declarations (WSDs) and entity sets for common references for use in connection with biblical language texts. Humanists interested in this effort can contact the undersigned for more details. [deleted quotation] I am unable adequately answer this particular objection since it is devoid of any real content. Since Mark is apparently aware of prior discussions concerning the suitability of the use of the TEI Guidelines on this list, perhaps he will remember my call last year for an example of a manuscript or text that could not be encoded using the TEI Guidelines. The principals to that discussion never responded with any such examples. If anyone would like to propose such a text and make it available in photocopy or high resolution scans, I am sure there are users of the TEI Guidelines who would be glad to propose and debate possible encodings. If the Guidelines "are unworkable for many reasons" I would expect one of the "many" to be able to produce at least one example of such a failure. To date such objections have been couched only in the vaguest of terms while the "many" continue to use proprietary solutions and texts available only to the few. [deleted quotation] Quite true, but a serious lack that is slowing being corrected. Consider the Babble program, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/babble, which is a synotic text viewer described at its homepage as follows: [deleted quotation] ch allows >multilingual texts, using mixed character sets, to be displayed simultaneously. Babble also allows users to search for strings in text >or in tags, and to link open texts for scrolling and searching. Currently, Babble runs as an application, an d not as an applet: we hope >that coming releases of Web browsers will have the necessary intelligence about system fonts to permit Babble to run as an applet in >the near future. Recent editions of WordPerfect and Word both contain SGML components and one would hope that is only the beginning. Humanists need to make their needs known to both their own computer science departments and software companies. [deleted quotation] As I noted above, TEI does not compell, beyond minimal compliance with the Guidelines, any particular encoding. There is one noted dictionary project that is rekeying its records since it lost access to files created for TRS-80 computers. My only objection is the data is being entered on Apple IIe's! I would be loathe to advise participants to use closed system encoding methods which are rapidly going the way of TRS-80's. It may well be that encodings will not meet the expectations of their encoders. I hardly see that as an objection to the use of the TEI Guidelines. In my area of concern, biblical languages and Ancient Near Eastern texts, TEI encoding holds the promise of making texts more widely available and subject to more rapid analysis than hard copy. I will try to finish a more formal announcement concerning the SBL seminar by later this week and post it to the list. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu Chair, SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts From: Francois Lachance Subject: percipitation control Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 13:38:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 795 (795) Willard, Mark Olsen's April showers might not rain on all parades, TEI supportive or otherwise. This little shot of hail caught my attention: [deleted quotation] I read four comparators here: Time, Money, People, and Claims My first move is to bracket out {Claims} and ask if any research exists that addresses the teaching of mark-up skills (as opposed to the best practices for scanning/ocr or keying text): how fast do learners acquire the material? how long do they retain it? What prior knowledge affects the learning curve? That's effectiveness. The next set of questions would target an analysis of spend. That's efficiency. The one is a pedagogical question and the other of the purvue of administration. My second move would be then to examine claims as they are generated in historical contingency of the interaction between administrative fiat and pedagogical practice. Of course, the whole issue is muddled further because of "cross-learning". For example, just as learning (or attempting to learn) a second language can have a rebound effect on native language skills, being exposed to a set of encoding guidelines can be a way into a whole realm of problems involving not only markup but transfer protocols, processing, and even software development, but also the interpersonal skills required to motivate and implement cooperative work schemes and the pr skills required to challenge the social construction of "waste" and numbers game as to whose labour counts. The best show-stopping question I ever witnessed was Mavis Cournane's challenge "Who does the donkey work?" That is where the tedious eros resides -- to capture some threads from the motivation/preparedness debate of computers in the classroom. The tedious eros is also the one that takes humans where they are at and makes the claim they can be elsewhere. And it is that very claim of being, possibly, elsewhere that keeps me here, hewing and hawing, as ever a smart ass Francois From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 10.0838 times & standards Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 12:59:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 796 (796) Mark Gardner responds: [deleted quotation] Mark, your recent remarks have both chastened and encouraged me, as it becomes clear that we are not so far apart. But this whole thread (which started with an incredulous question: "How can it be that students in this generation can't navigate www links?" as a stunned variant on the more usual "can't use a dictionary" or "can't use a card catalog") has raised a critically important set of questions not only for parents and educators but for us more removed scholars, especially those who may be emerging as engineers and architects of new forms of knowledge and literature. Mark's own description of how he discovered rewards in the drudgery, finding himself able to sound out words he'd never read only to discover he knew them and so forth, shows where the missing connection is. "Education had made us independent learners in spite of ourselves" because there was a correspondence between the techniques education instilled (spelling, construing complex sentences) and the medium by which Mark informed himself about his passions (dinosaurs and space travel), namely the printed word. For a television generation, this suggests we should offer kids experience with acting and scripting, with video cameras and video production, with codes of filmmaking. This is difficult not only because of the economies and organization involved: how many teachers are literate in these forms? The means of production which really count are no longer on the factory floor, but in the studio, and in a consumption-oriented culture structured by such access, we pretty much do only what we're told we can. One reason our role is so critical is that it is largely we who will decide whether the Worldwide Web will be like this, or rather whether individual students will be able to participate meaningfully in production as well as consumption, allowing the creative loop to be closed again. But we have raised an even deeper question in this debate. How much is literacy dependent, how bound to, psychic structures of childhood trauma, what we recall as "hours of meaningless labor," maybe deliberately forgetting the emotional stresses, in family or school, which would have been our only other option? To what extent is the power that comes from curtailment and concentration -- fitting myself to the regimens of learning, becoming strong thereby -- dependent on earlier experiences of being threatened, implicitly or outright, if only (!) with the fear of losing a loved one's approval? Despite our fragmentary depictions, in reality my childhood was not entirely a paradise of curiosity indulged, and Mark's was not an endless labor without rewards. But if literacy is built at all on trauma (however low-level) at the hands of parents or educators, leading to subsequent accommodations -- identifications -- with authorities and ideologies whose grip we have given up struggling against, then this might help to explain some of the absurd psychic struggles we still get involved with, building our conceptual fortresses and fighting wars along imaginary borders. If nothing else, e-mail and the net dramatically depict our tendency with the written word to project our own fears and expectations onto what we do not really know. Maybe we do this, right and left, because our powers to recognize and understand (and to recognize what we don't understand) have been distorted by our authorized need to subject ourselves to particular technologies and techniques of seeing -- the inscribed letter, the printed word, the computer, the television news spot -- which then naturally become fetishes. Such readiness to project thus goes hand in hand with the passive relation to media generally which we accuse others of. The flame wars have only started: stay tuned. But enough psychological cookie-dough from me. Maybe we should hear from some parents who can reflect on how kids actually do learn? How much do they have to be forced, and at what price? What's up with the eighteen-year-old who can't navigate hypertext links? Is that a big deal -- will she pick it up as soon as she is ready, and cares to? If not, what is she suffering from, and whose is the moral failure? My easy answer? I'd like to live in a world where (1) Kids could experience what print, video, the net really are, learning their forms by participating as creators, and (2) We didn't trouble ourselves to threaten them about it. Respectfully, Wendell Piez From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 10.0834 times & standards Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 12:11:06 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 797 (797) Thank you, Wendell Piez, for pointing out that drudgery is just that! Learning should be interesting and when it is, students (and everyone else) will respond. I find this negative attitude toward middle school very typical of our society: let's keep them corralled until they're old enough to put to work. Doesn't anyone remember that age 13 (right in the middle of middle school) is when Jewish boys/girls become men/women? And in the church of my own Presbyterian upbringing, we were considered adult enough to join the community at the same age. So what's the problem? In my opinion -- and some of you may have heard me say this before because I've felt this for many years -- our greatest wasted talents are the middle schoolers! Their brains have developed by then, their bodies are giving them fits so they need some important to do, and what do we do with them? NOTHING useful! That's the age when we should apprentice them to our own adult projects and goals. Share with these youngsters your own joy of learning. Let them help you think about the problems of our society and give them some hard thinking to do! Whether the problems are scholarly or technical or environmental, I think we would all be surprised by their capabilities and interest and WILLINGNESS TO WORK! Off the soap box now. Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 202-387-0626 Language Technology, Inc. 202-387-0625 (fax) 2153 California St. NW mdharris@acm.org Washington, DC 20008 mdharris@aol.com From: Subject: ACH-ALLC97 REGISTRATION Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 798 (798) ***Please distribute widely*** CALL FOR REGISTRATION ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC'97 June 3-7, 1997 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97 The Joint Annual Meeting of the ACH and ALLC is the primary annual event in humanities computing and provides an excellent opportunity to view the state of the art in the field. Humanities computing covers a broad spectrum, ranging from analysis of texts from a variety of perspectives, to work on sounds, images and other semiotic phenomena. Fields covered include literary studies, linguistics, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies, creative writing and cultural studies. PROGRAM The conference program is currently being finalized. The current version is visible on the conference web page (see above). Topics dealt with in papers or sessions include: - authorship attribution - computational lexicography - computer-aided instruction - corpus linguistics - hypertext and multimedia - institutional support for humanities computing - machine translation - scholarly editing and electronic texts - text encoding - text archives and networked textual resources A series of pre-conference workshops will be held on Monday, June 2, to provide hands-on experience of various facets of the field, including text analysis, markup and hypertext. LOCATION Queen's University is one of Canada's older universities, having received its royal charter in 1841. The university is located in the heart of Kingston, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Ontario where the lake flows into the Saint Lawrence River. Located midway between Montreal and Toronto, Kingston is accessible by air (from Toronto), train, bus, car and boat. The distance to both Toronto and Montreal is approximately 250 km. REGISTRATION Instructions on registration are provided on the conference web page. Registration fees include a copy of the printed abstracts, refreshment breaks, lunches for Tuesday through Friday, and admission to all invited talks and paper sessions. A student registration fee is available. (Student registrations must be signed by the student's supervisor.) Accompanying persons are welcome to attend all social functions. Workshop registration is available using a separate form available on the web page. ACCOMMODATIONS The conference will take place in Stirling and Victoria Halls on the Queen's campus. Residence rooms have been arranged in Victoria Hall. The cost of these rooms (including breakfast) will be on the order of $45.75 CDN per night. (Currently, the Canadian dollar is worth around $0.75 US.) In addition, a block of rooms has been reserved in the Holiday Inn, (1 Princess St.) located on the Kingston harbour, about a 20 minute walk from the campus. DEADLINES Registrations are accepted until the conference itself. Note however that registration rates increase after MAY 3, 1997. CONTACTS Fuller details are provided on the conference web page. Those without access to a web browser may request an email version of the essential information and forms by contacting the general queries address below. For enquires about registration: achallc97-registration@qucis.queensu.ca general queries: achallc97-admin@qucis.queensu.ca papers, presentations: achallc97-localorg@qucis.queensu.ca accommodations: Please contact directly Victoria Hall johnsonm@post.queensu.ca 613-545-2223. FAX 613-545-6624 Holiday Inn 613-549-8400 or 1-800-465-4329. FAX 613-549-3508. Give Group ID: ACH-ALLC'97 The local organizers are: Greg Lessard (French Studies) Phone: 613-545-2083; Fax: 613-545-6522 Michael Levison (Computing and Information Science) Phone: 613-545-6071; Fax: 613-545-6513 Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 From: omar Subject: Re: 10.0845 times & standards Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:19:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 799 (799) [deleted quotation] Mary Dee, yours is a venerable soapbox: "If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor." Ralph Waldo Emerson This, dispite the sexist language at the end and reference to colleges, is arguably applicable to school-age children. There is a segment of every school population made up of kids who fail because the work is just what you suggest -- drudgery. From personal experience, I blame my initial failures in college on the facile nature of my high school experience; I got through with little effort, and expected this to carry over into university life. I hope I don't need to assure you it didn't. http://www.bonington.com/ -john drummond (quotation supplied by /usr/games/fortune.) -- drummojg@jmu.edu http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/ From: Francois Lachance Subject: medium trauma Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:21:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 800 (800) Willard, Wendell Piez concludes his "cookie-dough" ruminations with a call to call upon parents to hear what kids actually learn. What about asking the learners directly? I can understand how TV generation comes to be equated with middle school or high school or grammar school attendees. But I want to stress, given the age of the medium, there are teachers who could be counted as belonging to the TV generation. My own cookies crumble according to the recipes of adult literacy campaigns. Wendell points out [deleted quotation] Broadening the age categories will not suffice to break the competition inscribed in a narrative that weds the pursuit of the essence of the medium to the exploration of its delights and horrors. What it is and what it does are not the first questions I like to ask in terms of media. These questions when harnessed in tandem replicate a very eerie technodeterminism. Wendell himself offers a key (or a different cookie cutter) when he invokes acting, scripting as worthy pedagogical opportunities. I want to suggest that in some scripts the threaten/seduce pair are not trouble, especially if the actants have both access to means of production AND can negotiate production values. Whether students and teachers are to learn the use of a cassette tape recorder, an instamatic camera, pencil and paper, a chalkboard or to produce the latest f/x, the key component of access is time, for it is time that allows creatures to do and undo habits. It is, for me, an odd retrospective glance that labels the undoing and doing as trauma. In my world, the morphogenetic imagination will not necessarily treat a lack of learning as a need to repair a cognitive apparatus. The morphogentic imagination seeks to refine the tuning of the relations of the social organisim not by demonizing the media that bring social agents into contact. Rather, content rules. Content can be designed and created that works across sensory modalities and such content claims its ties to the commonwealth of media. To do so, is to tap into more than a child within, it is to truly celebrate the eros of time mispent for as many know and declare time wasted in the bookish reverie has made some of the best screenwriters... hoping there's a fortune in your peanut butter cookie and hoping there's chocolate chip if you're allergic to nuts -- Francois From: David Green Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: Library of Congress/Ameritech awards Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:41:30 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 801 (801) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 10, 1997 [deleted quotation]winners of the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. David Green ****************************************************************** Ten libraries from across the United States have been given awards totaling $600,000 through a partnership between the Library of Congress and Ameritech to digitize historically significant American collections and make them available for the first time via the Internet from the Library's American Memory site. The 10 winners are: * Brown University, Providence, R.I., for African-American Sheet Music. Award amount: $72,193. This collection consists of 1,500 pieces of African-American sheet music from 1870 to 1920, providing a window into the daily concerns and pastimes of African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries. * Denver Public Library, Denver, for History of the American West, 1860-1920. Award amount: $71,250. This collection includes 7,500 photos documenting the lives of the Plains, Mountain and Southwestern tribes of Native Americans and the mining booms in Colorado, plus access to 48,000 previously digitized images in the Denver Western History Collection. * Duke University, Durham, N.C., for Historic American Sheet Music. Award amount: $64,688. This collection consists of 3,000 pieces of historic American sheet music from the period 1850-1920, representing a wide variety of musical types including bel canto; minstrel songs; protest, political and patriotic songs; plantation songs; spirituals; songs from vaudeville, musicals, and Tin Pan Alley; World War I compositions; and Civil War battle songs. * Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., for American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920. Award amount: $33,214. This collection consists of 2,500 lantern slide images assembled to support teaching and student presentations in the field of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. * New York Public Library, New York City, for Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1910. Award amount: $74,956. This collection includes 11,552 stereoscopic views representing the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. * North Dakota State University, Fargo, for The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920. Award amount: $15,628. These collections include more than 900 images documenting the settlement and agricultural development of the Northern Great Plains. * Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, for The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920. Award amount: $72,844. This digital collection of 22,000 pages of text and images focuses on themes such as slavery and emancipation, religion, public opinion and political action. * University of Chicago, Chicago, for American Environmental Photographs, 1897-1931. Award amount: $67,418. This collection of 5,800 photographic images documents natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in their original state throughout the United States. * University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920. Award amount: $74,782. This compilation of 100 printed texts documents the culture of the 19th century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners and includes diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts and ex-slave narratives. * University of Texas, Austin, for The South Texas Border, 1900- 1920. Award amount: $46,945. This collection consists of 8,241 photographs of northeastern Mexico and the South Texas border area, including images of the diverse ethnic groups living in the area, military preparation for the Mexican Revolution and World War I, and the natural and built environment. Additional information on the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition is available at: The Library's Web site -- http://www.loc.gov/ The Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition Web site -- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/ The Ameritech Web site -- http://www.ameritech.com From: David Green Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCMENT: Impt. Intellectual Property Meeting Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:33:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 802 (802) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT April 10, 1997 Below is the announcement for a most important 2-day forum at the Library of Congress on Technology-Based Intellectual Property Management. As you know, I think the intersection of copyright legislation, rights-management technology and licensing is of primary importance for us all to understand and influence where we can. David Green ---------- Forwarded message ---------- [deleted quotation] --> Note: we apologize if you receive more than one copy of this meeting announcement. ELECTRONIC COMMERCE FOR CONTENT II Forum on Technology-Based Intellectual Property Management Sponsored by: U.S. Copyright Office White House National Economic Council IMPRIMATUR Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA) White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Dates and Location: April 28-29, 1997 Mumford Room Sixth Floor, Madison Building Library of Congress 1st and Independence Streets, SE Washington, DC Electronic Commerce for Content is the annual inter-sector/ inter-industry forum on issues in technology-based intellectual property management. Building on the success of the first forum held by the Interactive Multimedia Association and the U.S. Copyright Office in March 1996, the forum brings together different creator, industry, and user perspectives on requirements, standards, and implementation. The additional sponsors and the increased scope of program reflects the growing importance of infrastructure for managing access to content and the progress made in many areas over the past year. Priority on the program has been given to new material and reports on significant work in progress. As before, the intent of the forum is to promote understanding of critical technical issues and related market development problems across industries and value chains. Although the focus is on standards and architectural issues rather than proprietary solutions and products, participants are encouraged to bring and share product information and other literature. The agenda for this year's forum includes: * progress reports on digital object identifiers from the Association of American Publishers, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, and the Copyright Office. * presentations on Internet controls from Netscape Communications, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3), and the Stanford digital library project * a panel by IMPRIMATUR, an international consortium on copyright management supported by the European Commission, on developments in Europe and the consortium's work to date * a presentation by Mark Stefik, Xerox PARC, on the Digital Rights Management Language * a panel on the several initiatives to use technology to mediate use of demographic and personal information on the World Wide Web * a panel on the policy implications of technology-mediated access to content Complete Schedule: April 28 12 noon-1:15 Check-in (Lunch on your own) 1:15-5:00 Welcome and Introductions Digital Object Identifiers Internet Controls April 29 9:00-12:30 IMPRIMATUR New Proposals and Perspectives 12:30-1:30: Break for Lunch April 29, 1:30-5:00 Management of Demographic and Personal Information Policy Implications ** For updated information, see http://www.ima.org/forum Registration: There is no registration fee for ELECTRONIC COMMERCE FOR CONTENT. However, attendees *must* register in advance by sending email to shubin@ima.org: **************************************************************** Snip here: Yes, I plan on attending the IP Forum in Washington, DC on April 28-29. To follow is my registration information: Name: Title: Organization: Address: City, State, Zip: Country: Telephone: Fax: Email: URL (web site): **************************************************************** To augment the forum as a venue for exchange of information and ideas, a Web-based directory of companies, products, and research projects is being developed. Please let IMA know if you do not want to be listed. Hotel Information: Check with your travel agent for good hotels in Washington, DC. The Library of Congress is across the street from the U.S. Capitol Building, but there aren't very many hotels in that immediate area. Some suggestions include: 1. Holiday Inn on the Hill, 202/638-1616 2. Hotel Washington, 202/638-5900 3. Hyatt Regency Washington, 202/737-1234 ** Note: the proceedings of the 1996 forum are available at a discounted rate of $30.00 each from the Interactive Multimedia Association: 410-626-1380; fax: 410-263-0590; kathym@ima.org. ----------------------------------------------------------- Evan Shubin Director of Marketing and Business Development Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA) 410/626-1380 voice 410/263-0590 fax shubin@ima.org check us out at http://www.ima.org From: June Thompson Subject: Humanist: notice Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:07:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 803 (803) [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] CTI Centre for Modern Languages Open Days 1997 -------------------------------- The Language Institute=20 The University of Hull =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Wednesday 25 June 1997 Wednesday 23 July 1997 Wednesday 03 September 1997 This is the first in a series of Open Days offered by the CTI Centre for Modern Languages. They are designed to enable you to visit the Centre and provide you with hands-on experience of relevant CALL software. Staff will be available for discussions and to offer advice. There is no charge for teachers from the UK HE sector for attending the ope= n days, but the number of participants what we can accommodate at any one tim= e is limited. Please contact Jo Porritt at CTICML to reserve a place. Visitors may attend at any time between 1000am and 1600pm There will be a charge of 40 pounds for teachers outside the UK HE sector. Lunch and refreshments are not provided, but may be purchased on campus. ----------------------------------------------- BOOKING FORM --------------------------------------------------------------- CTI Centre for Modern Languages Open Days The Language Institute, The University of Hull =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Please reserve a place for me on: [ ] Wednesday, 25 June 1997 (10.00 am to 4.30 pm) [ ] Wednesday, 23 July 1997 (10.00 am to 4.30 pm) [ ] Wednesday, 03 September 1997 (10.00 am to 4.30 pm) Name:=09 Institution:=09 Department:=09 Address:=09 =09 =09 =09 Post Code:=09 Telephone:=09Fax:=09 Email: =09 Please indicate if you require: [ ] Car parking Payment (for non-UK HE sector) [ ] I enclose a cheque for =A340.00, payable to the University of Hull PLEASE NOTE THAT INVOICES WILL NOT BE ISSUED. Please ensure that the booking form is sent to the CTICML office at the address below, at least two weeks in advance of the Open Day to reserve you= r place. Participant numbers will be limited.=20 Post or Fax both pages to:=09Jo Porritt =09=09=09=09CTI Modern Languages =09=09=09=09University of Hull =09=09=09=09Cottingham Road =09=09=09=09Hull HU6 7RX =09=09=09=09Tel: 01482 465872, Fax: 01482 473816 =09=09=09=09Email: j.v.porritt@langc.hull.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------- CTICML Open Day: Participant Profile Name:=09 Institution:=09 1. Language(s) taught: =09 =09 2. Which computers do you use? [ ] IBM =09 [ ] Apple Macintosh 3. Please state your previous CALL experience, listing programs you have us= ed: (a) Authoring [ ] Novice=09 [ ] Experienced =09 =09 (b) CAL software development [ ] Novice [ ] Experienced =09 =09 (c) Concordancing [ ] Novice=09 [ ] Experienced =09 =09 (d) General language learning software [ ] Novice=09 [ ] Experienced =09 =09 (e) Using CD-ROMs=20 [ ] Novice=09 [ ] Experienced =09 =09 (f) Using Internet resources [ ] Novice=09 [ ] Experienced =09 =09 4. It would help us if you could list below any software programs or topics that particularly interest you. We cannot however, guarantee that all programs will be available for demonstration on the day. =09 =09 =09 =09 Post or fax both pages to: Jo Porritt CTI Centre for Modern Languages University of Hull Hull HU6 7RX Tel: 01482 465782, Fax: 01482 473816 Email: j.v.porritt@langc.hull.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June Thompson =20 CTI Centre for Modern Languages Tel +44(0)1482 466373 University of Hull Fax +44(0)1482 473816 Hull HU6 7RX, UK Email CTI.Lang@hull.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Nelson Hilton Subject: On-line Blake Concordance Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 16:49:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 804 (804) Now submitted to the Public is the on-line Concordance to the Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman (1988): http://www.english.uga.edu/Blake_Concordance The site also enables retrieval of context, up to the entire file. This MLA Center for Scholarly Editions "Approved Edition" is offered with the permission of the copyright holders David V. Erdman and Virginia Erdman. Notice of errors introduced in preparation of the on-line version will be appreciated. Nelson Hilton -=- English -=- University of Georgia -=- Athens Was ist Los? "Net of Urizen" or "Jerusalem the Web"? From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: student hypermedia work Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:35:23 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 805 (805) I'd like to ask interested list members to look in on my students' first attempts at writing hypermedia (for a class entitled "Literary Narrative in an Information Age"): http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses/enlt248/s97/1/final.html The projects themselves are listed under "beta tests" (as this was a chance for them to get their feet wet before the end-of-semester project). The specific assignment was to formulate a response to Doug Brent's "Rhetorics of the Web" hyper-essay (in the current _Kairos_), while also discussing hypertext and the WWW in broader terms. I'd like my class to get a feel for the fact that they are indeed writing for a "world-wide" audience, so comments from outside readers would be greatly appreciated. Keep in mind, however, that this is the work of students, most of whom are new to the medium. Constructive criticism is welcome; flames are not. I find the work of Henderson, Hunt, Kambic, and Moore particularly interesting. If there is no mailto link from a particular student's essay page, send your comments to me at mgk3k@virginia.edu and I'll forward them; likewise, comments for the entire class may be addressed to me for forwarding. Thanks, --Matt ==================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Willard McCarty Subject: ACLS paper Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:42:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 806 (806) Humanists will likely be interested in the latest Occasional Paper of the American Council of Learned Societies, Douglas C. Bennett, New Connections for Scholars: The Changing Missions of a Learned Society in an Era of Digital Networks. ACLS publications are handsomely designed, but if you are impatient you can get this one via the Web, at <http://www.acls.org/op36.htm>. (Yes, I know, that's not the only reason one might have for using the Web....) Some of you will know that Doug Bennett is Vice President of the ACLS but is shortly to assume the duties of President at Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana), <http://www.earlham.edu/>. In his paper Bennett briefly sketches the history and roles of learned societies in the U.S. and the culture of "disconnection" that has been in part responsible for the benefits of academe. Isolation from a society that respected academic work was, as I recall, not a problem -- this was the case as recently as my own childhood. Now, however, this isolation poses a very large problem. Bennett's argument primarily has to do with how the increased connectedness of the digital age can be used, particularly by scholarly societies, to help solve this problem. Read it tonight, as a friend of mine used to say (even, once, about Clarissa, or was it merely Pamela?). I note in passing Bennett's statement that, "none of the learned societies that belong to ACLS has yet begun publishing an electronic journal". (This requires a stage direction, such as "long pause"!) Right. Time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, I'd say. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Ian Butterworth Subject: Electronic Journal in Earth Sciences Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:43:21 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 807 (807) [The following passed on, with thanks, from the group about to meet in Stockholm to discuss electronic publication. -- WM] Colleagues An interesting new electronic journal in Earth Sciences "Earth Interactions" has been set up and is described at http://EarthInteractions.org/ To include videos, animation of data and interactive mathematics. [material omitted] Ian From: Willard McCarty Subject: climbing online Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 23:25:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 808 (808) Some of you may know that Sir Christian Bonington, CBE, a climber of mountains, is about to attempt the remote Sepu Kangri region of Tibet. Ordinarily -- i.e. in times past -- this, however remarkable and interesting to us, would not be a topic for Humanist, but such are the changes in how these things are done that we need to consider Chris Bonington's plans. In brief he will be sending pictures and reports from the climb in Tibet, as it happens, using an Olympus digital camera and Mac Powerbook, via satellite above the Indian Ocean to Eik in Norway, thence by landline to Britain, and onto the Web. So stay tuned. (Who here remembers what that meant?) Meanwhile you may read more about the Sepu Kangri expedition, and about his other climbs, see pictures, etc., via the URL <http://www.bonington.com/>. A beautifully designed site, by the way. I find this event, for what it says about electronic publishing, to be quite remarkable. Most of us are scholars, concerned about publishing rather different sorts of things, but as computing humanists interested in the sociology of knowledge and the effects of computer-mediated communications, Bonington's venture is grist to our mill. There's been much agonising of late about the extent to which the action in our field seems to be passing us by. We have some problems, given the paucity of jobs in humanities computing and related approaches to it, but at the same time our field of activity is so immensely rich and complex, and growing ever more so by the minute, that I'd think a celebratory mood would be more in order. To reverse the artist's observation, we're ornithologists, not birds. Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: "Son of WinGreek" Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 809 (809) [The following passed on from LEXI, a group concerned with lexicography, with thanks. -- WM] Dear list members, I assume that many of you use WinGreek for typing Greek on a PC. It will also have occurred to many that this shareware package is not running under Win95. As far as I know, so far no update or alternative has come up (please let me know if this is wrong). Therefore, a new forthcoming shareware package by Ralph Hancock (hancock@dircon.co.uk) and Neil Beshoori (besh@cix.compulink.co.uk) is most welcome. It will contain a shareware version of the program WinKeySwap by N. Beshoori, adapted to the use with WinGreek fonts, and the typeface GreekOldFace by R. Hancock. This font is fully compatible with WinGreek; it will also be possible to keep using the old WinGreek font. The software will be available in the near future. I will keep this list posted. Furthermore, I would like to draw your attention to a section of my web page, where I have gathered information about fonts for Patristic scholars (http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404/fonts.html), especially for rarely used languages such as Armenian, Coptic etc. I would be glad, if this was of some help. If you know any additional information, please let me know. But be forewarned: The text is only in German so far... (I might provide an English version at some point if I feel, there is a need.) Martin Wallraff. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= MARTIN WALLRAFF --------------------------------------------------------- post Evangelisch-theologisches Seminar Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Am Hof 1, D - 53113 Bonn tel (+49) 0228 - 735275 fax (+49) 0228 - 739063 e-mail wallraff@uni-bonn.de online www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404 privat Fuerstenstrasse 8, D - 53111 Bonn tel/fax (+49) 0228 - 696741 ========================================================== From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: all points addressibility (fwd) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:29:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 810 (810) Willard, Here's my reply to the posting on the HTML Writers' Guild list. I haven't got Rob Schulter's permission to circulate the posting but the gist is cited in my reply which I do have permission to circulate... [deleted quotation] From: "H-CLC (Barbara Diederichs)" Subject: Innovative Syllabi and Resources for Teaching Literature Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:33:05 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 811 (811) with Hypermedia I am currently preparing a publication and index of innovative syllabi and resources for teaching literature with hypermedia. If you have a website or know of any sites that use hypermedia for literary studies please forward the URL's directly to my email address: pgrossha@chuma.cas.usf.edu I am looking for sites that go beyond the simple use of hypertext, and instead immerse students and site visitors in texts, images, and sounds -- true hypermedia. When my index is at working stage, I'll forward the URL to the list for everyone's use; please contribute any addresses of which you know so we can all share in this wonderful pedagogy. Thank you Phillip Grosshans University of South Florida Department of English pgrossha@chuma.cas.usf.edu From: Melina Alexa Subject: Lidia system? Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 15:00:19 GMT+0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 812 (812) Has anyone of the Humanist heard of a French content analysis system called Lidia which was (probably) developed at Toronto? I would appreciate any pointers to web pages, publications, etc. Thanks in advance. Melina Alexa From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: Re: all points addressibility (fwd) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:04:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 813 (813) Some time ago I had proposed to Dr. Willard to include in his regular list of "new on the web" a page that I had been working on to automatically create links between occurences of words in an HTML document. At the time, he expressed interest in the idea but very rightly suggested that I provide much better explanations as to how the system works. Well, since then I haven't had (taken the) time to change anything, but I couldn't resist replying to a recent message about making a document hypertextual within itself: [deleted quotation] Here's the link to the site together with a warning that it is a work in progress and of more interest conceptually than practically. It's intended to be several things at once but mainly a dynamic frequency list generator of words and word clusters (at the moment it is very unintelligent). <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/cgi-bin/webfren/4ss42/hyperpo.cgi> (frames needed) As I've said, it's been neglected for a couple of months but I'm going to polish it up for a poster and demonstration in June, so I would very much welcome all comments and suggestions. ------------------------------------ Stefan Sinclair - Queen's University <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/> QI: <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/> From: Kevin Ward Subject: Katharine Sharp Review #4 Available Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:34:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 814 (814) The Katharine Sharp Review ISSN 1083-5261 http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review The Katharine Sharp Review, the review of student scholarship in library and information science, announces the publication of issue No. 4, Winter 1997! KSR is published by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Articles are available in both HTML and PDF formats. http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/winter1997/ Table of contents: * Bruce Henson - Iris Barry: American Film Archive Pioneer * Simon Bains - End-User Searching Behavior: Considering Methodologies * Nicholas M. Graham - The Form and Function of Archival Theory * Chad M. Kahl - Electronic Redlining: Racism on the Information Superhighway? * Kenneth A. Winter - Privacy and the Rights and Responsibilities of the Librarian * Donna Rosenheck - OCLC: From an Historical Perspective ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Kevin Ward, SSAI MODARCH Digital Librarian NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 922, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (301) 286-0591 kevin.ward@gsfc.nasa.gov Work to become, not to acquire ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: bobevans@strudel.aum.edu Subject: Summer Fellowships -- Please Forward Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:57:20 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 815 (815) Please forward the following announcement to any other lists where it is likely to be seen by graduate students, especially those living or studying in the southeastern U.S. Thanks! MELLON SUMMER SEMINARS IN CRITICAL PLURALISM Graduate students in English and in other related humanities disciplines (such as English education, history, comparative literature, philosophy, cultural studies, etc.) are hereby invited to apply to participate in a special seminar to be offered during the summers of 1997 and 1998 at Auburn University at Montgomery (Alabama). The seminars, funded by a generous grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, are designed to assist students who are in the midst of working on extended writing projects, especially those (such as dissertations) required for completion of graduate degrees. Graduate students (including adjunct faculty) at colleges or universities in Alabama and in adjacent states are especially encouraged to apply. Funding from the Mellon Foundation will cover the costs of in-state tuition and will assist with costs of transportation and some other expenses. The amount of each student's grant will be determined mainly by proximity and need. The Mellon seminars at AUM are particularly designed to give graduate students an opportunity to study and discuss the variety of interpretive approaches now available to persons working in the humanities. Many of these approaches strongly conflict with one another and therefore pose genuine challenges to anyone presently attempting to write on topics in the humanities. "Critical pluralism" is an approach that emphasizes the potential usefulness of a variety of interpretive theories without giving exclusive emphasis to any single point of view. It encourages mutual understanding and dialogue rather than hostile conflict between adherents of different theories. At the same time, it encourages the proponents of various theories to approach their own viewpoints with skepticism and rigorous analysis. Professor Robert C. Evans of AUM's Department of English and Philosophy will lead the seminar. Graduate students interested in applying to participate as Fellows are encouraged to contact him as soon as possible by phone (334-244-3376), by e-mail (bobevans@strudel.aum.edu), by regular mail (English, AUM, Montgomery, AL 36117), or by fax (334-244-3740). The seminar will meet for four hours once a week on Saturday afternoons during the ten-week summer quarter, which begins in early June. Participants will receive regular academic credit. Additional information about AUM is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.aum.edu. Please apply ASAP for fullest consideration for the 1997 seminar. Applications received by May 10 will have the best chance of being funded this year. Enrollment is limited to encourage vigorous discussion. From: kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de (Hartmut Krech) Subject: Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:59:30 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 816 (816) The preservation of documents for posterity has always been a primary concen of humanists. CD-ROM burning technology seems to offer the long-awaited solution to many conservation and preservation problems. But, while information on commercially available CD-Rs is stored by a process of physical impact and ideally will not change through time except due to physical force, home-burnt CDs are recorded by a process employing dyes which are more easily subject to alteration, as we all know. Therefore a durability of between ten and one hundred years is given for home-burnt CD-Rs. My questions to list members who are more knowledgable than I am: are there any external criteria by which one can identify high- quality CD-Rs of high durability, disregarding brand name and price, which are no guarantees whatsoever ? What should buyers look for ? As with all photographic materials, dyes may fade even in darkness, though slower. Is storing temperature worth considering as well ? Thank you for any relevant information. Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de From: gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu Subject: NotaBene file conversion Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:07:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 817 (817) I'm looking for software to convert NotaBene files to either WordPerfect or Word format. I realize NB files are ascii but I'm tired of manually adjusting every indent and underline, not to mention the formatting codes. I used to use Software Bridge, but my copy is not up to date and as far as I know, it is no longer being made. Any suggestions? George Aichele From: FOITJA@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu Subject: muti-media poetry Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:11:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 818 (818) hello again, I have received a research grant to study how multi-media applications might create new forms or styles in poetry and fiction, and the university library and the local Barnes & Noble seem to be devoid of material. About the only thing I have so far is by Umberto Eco; I was looking for something a little more speciffic and recent. I was wondering if anyone knew about any books that have been written about semiotics with respect to the web, or on-line publishing in general. Books on web aesthetics or principles in mixing text, graphics, video and sound would also be helpful (if they exist). thanks, Adam Foit Miami University Oxford, Ohio From: Subject: jr. high Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 819 (819) My younger brother just recently made the progression from jr. high to high school, and I have witnessed first hand the changes that have taken place in the education system just since I navigated the maelstrom of puberty. Part of the problem is the focus away from learning and towards the statistical results (or goals) imposed on these children. Kids are taking the ACT and SAT for practice in Jr. High. *Maybe* not a bad idea, but come on, kids have enough to worry about at 13 & 14 without pouring on the pressure of college admission that is four years away. We also have the state proficiency test in middle school and in high school -- yet another standardized test to measure the worth of our students. One of the reasons behind the (should I say alleged?) disappearance of the joy of learning is because the focus of education has been placed on scores. Learning about dinosaurs and space travel probably won't help your grammar scores or your math scores. I don't think kids expect learning to be easy and fun instead of knowing that it will be tedious and boring. This is also true in high school and college. Two or three times a year we have stats coming out telling us what kind of majors make the most money coming out of college. Of course interest is going to go down in subjects like the classics when kids are being told that marketing and systems analysis is the only way to make a good income. Why else do young people go to college? Competition seems to be the motivating force in evolution, yet burdening kids with such a strong obsession to satisfy performance standards could serve to cut many kids off. There seems to be a lack of encouragement of individuality inside the curriculm, a stigma against creativity. I agree that not enough kids are reading books on their own these days. Why? I'm not sure. Maybe imagination doesn't have the value it used to have. I agree not enough children get excited about simply learning for knowledge's sake. Could be that we teach them simple knowledge isn't enough, it takes a masters in computer sceince or marketing for them to do anything --combined with the fanatical devotion to athletics compared to the meager respect of academics. 90% of the clothes worn at my younger brother's high school are adverstisments for nike, reebok, or some sort of athletic team. Just two cents worth from a college junior who still vividly remembers the repect I won for getting 8th in powerlifting contests and playing football, but the "homo" and "egghead" comments I got in jr. high for loving to read ALL THE TIME. I apologize for my lack of solutions, but I felt that the two humanists who brought so many wonderful insights to this problem left out a few important things. I think kids basically want to do well in the eyes of others. But if a child finds out early on that he doesn't like math, and everyone tells him that he's going to have to take calculus in college if he wants to do anything with his life, then that kid might start to turn himself off at a young age to overcoming many of education's fundamental hurdles. I would appreciate it if Mark or Wendell let me know if they think I'm off target. I hope you are all enjoying spring as much as I am, Adam Foit Miami University Oxford, Ohio From: Subject: Re: 10.0853 things and ideas Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 820 (820) [deleted quotation] My memory says it's Goethe, but I couldn't tell you where.... Thanks for the musings. Good nutrients for the grey matter. Yours, Matt ------------------------------------- Matthew C. Hansen University College - Oxford Oxford OX1 4BH e-mail: matthew.hansen@university-college.oxford.ac.uk From: Subject: Beyond the Library Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 821 (821) BEYOND THE LIBRARY A One-Day Colloquium Organised by the Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford 16 May 1997, Habbakuk Room, Jesus College, Oxford ***************************** PROGRAMME ***************************** How are the new technologies changing the roles of libraries and librarians? How do we cater for the ever changing needs of the users? How do we design the library of the future? What exactly is meant by the 'digital library'? Following on from last year's 'Beyond the Classroom' this one-day colloquium will address these and similar questions. Our aim is to bring together both practitioners and visionaries in an attempt to tackle both the practical and the theoretical implications of using the new technologies in the library. Digital technologies are already being enthusiastically applied in such areas as archiving, cataloguing, and expanding the holdings of a library. They seem to offer unique advantages and opportunities. However, the organisational implications of this rush to "be digital" are often overlooked. The day will consist of formal presentations, with ample time for discussion, which we hope will be lively and stimulating. The programme of the day is as follows: 9.15-9.30 Registration 9.30-9.45 Welcome Lou Burnard, Manager of the Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University Computing Services 9.45-10.30 'The Digital Library: Issues and Priorities - A View from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre' Graham Jefcoate, Research Analyst, British Library's Research and Innovation Centre 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-11.45 'A Virtual Impossibility: Planning Libraries for the Information Age' Andrew McDonald, Director of Information Services, University of Sunderland 11.45-12.30 'Who has the Rights? Copyright and Digital Resources' Anne Ramsden, De Montfort University 12.30-2.00 Lunch (Not provided) 2.00-2.45 'The Electronic Library: Tough Choices in Utopia' Phil Sykes, Learning Resources Manager, Liverpool John Moores University 2.45-3.30 'Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow: A Profession in Crisis?' Frances Hendrix, Director, LASER (London and South Eastern Library Region) 3.30-3.45 Coffee 3.45-4.30 Panel Session ABSTRACTS 'The Digital Library: Issues and Priorities - A View from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre' Graham Jefcoate, Research Analyst, British Library's Research and Innovation Centre This talk will address some of the current issues in digital library research and attempt to identify priorities for the next phase. The rapid development of networked information delivered to users directly through their desktops clearly challenges the traditional role of libraries as a physical space and of librarians as information professionals. How can libraries meet the challenge by adding value to networked information? How can services adapt? What skills will information professionals need? What cultural shifts are necessary? Using the example of Britain's national library, and the Research and Innovation Centre's digital library research programme, the talk will attempt to describe some of the ways in which libraries are seeking to meet the challenge. 'A Virtual Impossibility: Planning Libraries for the Information Age' Andrew McDonald, Director of Information Services, University of Sunderland Provision for information technology is a crucial element in planning good academic libraries and resource centres. Far from reducing the need for libraries, IT has had the effect of stimulating demand for both electronic and traditional services. Ironically, it has also increased the cost and space required. The ultimate challenge might be regarded as having a PC with access to all the necessary network links at any point in the building. The paper will consider the host of technological and human factors that are important in creating a flexible and attractive environment in which readers and library staff can fully benefit from developments in IT and networking. 'Who has the Rights? Copyright and Digital Resources' Anne Ramsden, De Montfort University We have the technology to integrate the many different kinds of media needed by the digital library. We also have both the electronic communications and intellectual understanding to make this operate. Having spent some years actually building a digital short-loan collection we have found that it is not technology or communications which take the time and effort, but negotiating the rights to use materials which are still in copyright. This presentation will offer some insights from the practicalities of building the ELINOR electronic library and will also report on the progress of the E-Lib funded ERCOMS project which is defining the components of an electronic copyright management system and building a tool to handle copyright negotiations with publishers. 'The Electronic Library: Tough Choices in Utopia' Phil Sykes, Learning Resources Manager, Liverpool John Moores University Politicians, policy makers and the public have a naively optimistic view of the internet,sharply at odds with the opinions of those whose work obliges them to face the practicalities of making information available electronically. This paper sets out some of the utopian assumptions commonly made about electronic delivery of information, argues that unrealistic expectations inhibit progress towards practical solutions, and shows that there are fundamental conflicts of interest between the various "stakeholders" in the electronic publishing process which can only be resolved by patient and pragmatic negotiation. 'Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow: A Profession in Crisis?' Frances Hendrix, Director, London & Southern Eastern Library Region This talk will examine the role of the public library in the Information Society, in fact does it have a role? What is happening to plan for an electronic and digitised future? It will cover and comment upon initiatives such as the newly created Library and Information Commission IT Task Group; the failed millennium bid for funds to wire up public libraries; Project EARL and other related projects. Furthermore it will examine the difficulties public libraries face owing to their place in local authorities; their funding, the education and training of public libraries and the perception of them. Cost: The day will cost #35.00 for non-commercial, #100.00 for commercial. This includes tea and coffee, but lunch will not be provided. Please book early as spaces are limited. [A small number of free places will be available for members of Oxford University]. Cheques should be made payable to 'Oxford University Computing Services' and sent to the organisers below. To register for this event please complete the tear-off slip below and return it to: Dr Stuart Lee/ Mr Chris Stephens Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN UK N.B. Closing date for registration is Wednesday 7th May. If you have any questions please contact Stuart Lee (Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk) or Chris Stephens (Christopher.Stephens@oucs.ox.ac.uk) tel: 01865-283295; FAX: 01865-273275. ************************************************************************* Please print off, complete and return to: Stuart Lee/Chris Stephens, Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK; Fax: +44 1865 273275 by WED 7TH MAY. I WOULD LIKE TO APPLY FOR A PLACE ON THE HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT 'BEYOND THE LIBRARY' ONE-DAY COLLOQUIUM ON MAY 16TH, 1997 TITLE: FIRST NAME: SURNAME: POSITION: DEPARTMENT: INSTITUTION: ADDRESS: POSTCODE: COUNTRY: TELEPHONE: FAX: E-MAIL: I DULY ENCLOSE A CHEQUE FOR 35.00 (pounds sterling) [Academic Rate]/100.00 [Commercial Rate] MADE PAYABLE TO 'OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES'. SIGNED: DATE: From: "Randall L. Jones" Subject: Re: 10.0856 Detail, but still no solution Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:36:23 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 822 (822) It probably wasn't Goethe, at least it's not in the Hamburger Ausgabe. Randall Jones Brigham Young University From: "trunk@usa1.com" Subject: details Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:47:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 823 (823) The latest edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations recognizes "God is in the details" as a favorite aphorism of Mies van der Rohe and the art historian Aby Warburg. The origin, however, is unknown although it has been attributed to Flaubert (Le bon Dieu est dans le detail) but without verification. John Dorenkamp trunk@usa1.com From: Sally M Roberts Subject: Re: 10.0856 Detail, but still no solution Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:17:36 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 824 (824) Bartlett's FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS says: ""God is in the details': A popular aphorism with the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the art historian Aby Warburg; attributed [Le bon Dieu est dan le detail] to Gustave Flaubert but without verification." [deleted quotation] -- Sally M. Roberts Curriculum Integration Librarian Reference Department Northwestern University Library Evanston, IL 60208-2300 sroberts@nwu.edu 847-491-2168 From: Subject: Re: 10.0857 CDs? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 825 (825) This is something which has concerned me ever since I read the January or February 1996 edition of Scientific American where the lifespan of CD's were not as long as previously thought. Though the article was more about changing technology than about CD storage. it mentioned that music CD's were starting to radomize after for or five years rather than the unlimited lifespan that was previously thought. I remember thinking at the time that perhaps we have another crisis on the level of acid paper and also on the level of going from scrolls to codexes. Since then I have seen an article in the Wall Street Journal about this but I haven't seen very much follow up anywhere. One of my sidelines is putting out databases. I have been asking my venders about this. There doesn't seem to be any sure information yet. They all say that it is indefinite but then they say that is only for commercial CD's that have a glass master. They say the one's you burn youself that are dye based or are based on Photo-CD technology degrade when exposed to light. And have a life span of two to five years depending upon exposure. Does anybody really have an idea about this or is CD technology to new? From: Lenoble Michel Subject: Re: 10.0857 Multi-media poetry Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:20:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 826 (826) En reponse au message de WILLARD MCCARTY : [deleted quotation] Are hypertext poetry or fiction, and interactive literature part of what you were considering studying? This is of course close to computer literature. Did you have that in mind too? One question for you: could you give me references of multi-media poetry? Michel. =================================================================== Michel LENOBLE | Fax et tel.: (514) 485-1799 Litterature Comparee | Universite de Montreal | lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca From: Mike Ledgerwood Subject: Re: 10.0857 multimedia poetry? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:26:24 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 827 (827) I think that you could have found a lot more information on this subject. Here are three quick ideas. I would contact Prof. George Landow and his students at Brown University. They have a marvelous site at Brown which is under his hypertextuality rubric. Some of his students have been experimenting with multimedia poetry. Prof. Landow is a semiotician as well as hypertext and lit. expert. In addition, you will find that Eastgate Systems (a company with a web site again) lists a lot of titles, some of which are poetic, hypertextual, and multimedia. Michael Joyce is one author who comes immediately to mind. From there there are lots of links, too. An old CD ROM is Poetry in Motion I and II. These are performance poets in motion video performance with texts appended. For a copy of my paper on some of this you can read it at http://www.hrz.uni-kassel.de/fb3/psych/hyper.html as well as many others, some of which may be interesting to you. Best, Mike Ledgerwood Prof. of Languages and Education and Technology Univ. at Stony Brook, NY M.D.Ledgerwood, PhD, Stony Brook, State University of New York. Director of the Language Center From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 10.0857 CDs? NotaBene? multimedia poetry? Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:09:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 828 (828) It's now about 18 months old, hence ancient, but Adam and others might find the reading list for my doctoral orals on "literary and technological change" useful: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/prosp/bib.html --Matt From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 829 (829) [deleted quotation] ================================================================= Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center From: Subject: climbing and caravans, all on-line Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 830 (830) Dr. McCarty, I'm behind in my HUMANIST reading and only today reached your message re the climber who will document his feat as he goes, sending pictures to the web. There is currently a camel caravan slowly moving along the Silk Road making the trip made by merchants for centuries, at the original pace. They, too, are documenting their journey as they go, publishing on the web. They also invite readers to send them e-mail and they offer to respond. I haven't visited the site in a while but could probably dig up the URL if you're interested -- I found it through an Alta Vista search several months ago, but I believe they're still out there, humping slowly along. It should be easy for you to find it, too, if you care. Thanks for maintaining the HUMANIST list. I enjoy it very much, and find your musings particularly interesting, though I rarely have time to respond. Mary Ellen Foley [The address of this Silk Road event would be appreciated, I'm sure. --WM] From: Subject: Internet access for the blind Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 831 (831) Dear Colleagues: I have a friend who is blind and who would like to enjoy regular access to the internet. Can anyone recommend programs she might be able to use? Her typing skills are excellent. Thanks -- Bob Evans (bobevans@strudel.aum.edu) From: Steve Taylor Subject: Re: NotaBene file conversion Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:27:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 832 (832) [deleted quotation] I've done pretty well using MacLink. It doesn't know NotaBene specifically, but if you manually identify the file as being made in "XYwrite (on which I believe NotaBene is based), it will convert most aspects. Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University (404)727-8931 http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/ From: Mavis Cournane Subject: Re: 10.0857 CDs? NotaBene? Date: 17 Apr 1997 10:35:46 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 833 (833) You should take a look at Wordport for conversion from NB. It supports a number of other formats as well. There is a website from which you can download an experimental copy. Take a look at http://www.acii.com/news.htm and follow the links from there. Regards Mavis Cournane From: Fred Levy Subject: Re: 10.0857 CDs? NotaBene? multimedia poetry? Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:29:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 834 (834) Microsoft had quite a good translator available for Word 2.0 (under XYWrite, which was pretty much the same thing as Nota Bene). If you can borrow an old 2.0, with the added (free) translator, your problems will be solved, as both Word 6 and WordPerfect6 can read Word 2 files. It's worked for me. Fritz Levy From: Bruce Graver Subject: Re: 10.0857 NotaBene Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:21:25 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 835 (835) NotaBene markets a WordPerfect converter, which costs about $30. It is not wholly satisfactory. The Corel WordPerfect 7 has a built-in NotaBene converter (it reads them, rightly, as XY-Write files), which does not preserve things like italics. Bruce Graver ____________________________________________________________ Bruce Graver Department of English Providence College Office telephone: (401) 865-2053 e-mail: beg@providence.edu http://www.providence.edu/eng/graver From: Catherine Perry Subject: Re: 10.0857 CDs? NotaBene? multimedia poetry? Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 18:44:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 836 (836) Nota Bene provides file conversion software called "Morphos," which converts files back and forth between Nota Bene and other applications, such as Microsoft Word and Word Perfect. The best would be to get in touch with Nota Bene headquarters in New York. From: Subject: Re: 10.0864 access for the blind Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 837 (837) [deleted quotation] Has she looked at WebSpeak a web browser for the blind. It was developed by Productivity Works in NJ. There is a press clipping online from the Suday Times which details it. Look at http://www.prodworks.com/st960225.htm Productivity Works can be contacted by mailing info@prodworks.com I don't know much else about it. Regards Mavis Cournane From: Han Baltussen Subject: Re: 10.0857 lifetime of CDs Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 12:22:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 838 (838) I forwarded the question to a friend of mine (PhD in Physics) who has worked on CD coatings, and his quick response was as follows: [deleted quotation]This seems highly unlikely. The read-only CD mainly consists of a polycarbonate plate (special low-birefringence grade). The information is encoded in micrometer-sized pits in the surface, which is covered by a thin gold mirror and a protective coating. Some brands of early read-only CD's had a limited lifetime due to degradation of the upper two layers (the mirror and protective coating). This was fixed in newer CD's. The rate of information loss by deformation of the polycarbonate substrate itself depends strongly on temperature. As the glass transition temperature of polycarbonates is high (e.g. 150 C), I would not expect noticable changes at room temperature in centuries. [deleted quotation]Those are the conventional read-only CD's discussed above. [deleted quotation]As far as I know Photo-CD's are based on laser-burning of a metal layer. I don't expect the metal layer to degrade by exposure to ambient light. The sensitivity to photodegradation of dye-based recordable CD's depends on the type of dye used. It is hard to make a general remark on this type of recordable CD's. ************ hope this is helpful, yrs Han Baltussen From: "Theodore F. Brunner" Subject: Re: 10.0857 lifetime of CDs Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:39:49 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 839 (839) In response to the query about the lifetime of CD ROMs, let me provide the following information: the TLG Project issued its first CD ROM version (CD ROM "A") in 1985, followed by a CD ROM "B" in 1986, a "C" version in 1987, and a "D" version in 1992. Altogether, an aggregate of roughly 6,000 TLG disks has been in circulation since 1985. The TLG provides offers free replacement for any CD ROM which ceases to function without obvious signs of abuse (e.g., severe scratching of surface, or cracks). Over a twelve-year period, we have received only one request for replacement of a disk which, though not functioning properly, lacked obvious signs of abuse (we have received many requests for CD ROMs that _had_ clearly been mishandled). I have personally checked several copies of our first (1985) generation of CD ROMs this morning; all of them function flawlessly. Ted Brunner ***************************************** Theodore F. Brunner, Director Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-5550 Phone: (714) 824-6404 FAX: (714) 824-8434 E-mail: tbrunner@uci.edu TLG Home Page: http://www.uci.edu:80/~tlg/ ***************************************** From: Subject: Samson Academicus? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 840 (840) The following from the autobiography of the inventor of the birth-control pill, Carl Djerassi, The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse (1992, p. 136): "My aspiration for an academic career, I am now certain as I cast my mind back to the late twenties, was predicated largely on my yen to conduct research on my personal intellectual turf without apparent outside interference or control. Such a view of life in academe, especially nowadays, is naive, because the search for monetary support for one's research is so tough, time-consuming, and even demeaning that it constitutes a form of control frequently more oppressive than that always assumed to exist in industry...." Of course "industry" doesn't exist for us in quite the same way as for a biochemist or pharmacologist, say, but Djerassi's observation does raise some questions relevant to humanities computing. One set of them arise when (as I think at least prudent) we try to equip our students for non-academic life, or ourselves face or continue to live a life outside the academy. Another gets harder and harder to avoid as the walls of academe are undermined by the control Djerassi speaks of, hooked to the funding of big or even medium-sized projects. The walls suffer also, however, from neglect or mismanagement because they seem to many no longer to serve a tolerable purpose. We still raise the banner of "academic freedom", but do we have any idea of what this freedom is for, as well as from? Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Subject: EMLS: Opening for an Associate Editor (Reviews) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 841 (841) Early Modern Literary Studies: Opening for an Associate Editor (Reviews) EMLS is currently seeking an Associate Editor, responsible for reviews. Th= e position will commence fully in January 1998, but some duties will begin during preparations for our August and December 1997 issues. Duties for this position include dealing with publishers and reviewers (muc= h of this online), and the preparation of reviews for publication in electronic format. A detailed list of duties is available on request. 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Edwards, University of Victoria o Jane Finnan, University of Toronto o Antonia Forster, University of Akron o John K. Hale, University of Otago, New Zealand o Robert S. Knapp, Reed College o F.J. Levy, University of Washington o Lawrence Manley, Yale University o John Manning, University of Wales, Lampeter o Mark Morton, University of Winnipeg o Stephen Orgel, Stanford University o Milla Riggio, Trinity College, CT o Alan Rudrum, Simon Fraser University Editor: o Raymond G. Siemens, University of British Columbia Co-Editor: o Joanne Woolway, Oriel College, Oxford Associate Editors: o Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia (Reviews) o David L. Gants, University of Virginia (Interactive EMLS) Editorial Assistants: o Sean Lawrence, University of British Columbia o Jennifer B. Lewin, Yale University o Jennifer Read, University of British Columbia Electronic Editors: o Richard Bear, University of Oregon (Managing Editor, Discussion Groups) o Joseph Jones, University of British Columbia o Jeff Miller, University of British Columbia (Managing Editor) o David Thomson, University of British Columbia o Perry Willett, Indiana University (Managing Editor, On-line Resources) _____ R.G. Siemens Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies English, University of British Columbia http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html> From: Mike Ledgerwood Subject: Re: 10.0859 multi-media poetry Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:50:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 842 (842) One last note--I cannot believe I forgot to mention the work of Laurie Anderson. Her "Puppet Motel" available from Voyager http://www.voyagerco.com is probably THE most interesting, easily available multimedia poetry CD now. She, herself, of course is a multimedia poet par excellence. Best to all, Mike Ledgerwood From: LS54@aol.com Subject: Re: 10.0859 multi-media poetry Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 07:20:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 843 (843) In reference to your posts on multi-media poetry - check out the following website: http://www.macconnect.com/~smukler/ Linda Smukler is the author of HOME IN THREE DAYS. DON'T WASH. - poems with accompanying cd-rom. BOOK DESCRIPTION: Human desire, the ache of intensity, obsession... Award-winning poet Linda Smukler reveals a stark and dynamic experience of intimacy, vulnerability and the passion behind it all. An artfully designed book with evocative digital images created by the author, exploring the inner landscapes written on and in the body with courage, humor, and unrestrained erotic enjoyment - a record of suffering and celebration. Available as a book alone, or with a CD-ROM designed by the author presenting excerpts in a series of gorgeous, poetic dreamscapes. THE CD-ROM: Selections from HOME IN THREE DAYS... performed by the author on video for this special presentation. With digitally-edited video and stereo sound, the cd-rom presents the work as an audio-visual feast, with the presence of live performance. The cd-rom also includes a gallery of the photographic images, a scrapbook of images used in making the performance videos, an author biography and excerpts from a video interview. "There's a photograph in here that's hard to read at first. Then suddenly you see it's two, imposed on one another: portraits of Linda Smukler and Gertrude Stein. Stein hovers behind, above, beneath these brazen texts. Like her modernist forebear, Smukler uses the most direct and plain American idiom to render the complexity and anguish, and the humor of desire." -- Rebecca Brown, award-winning author of Gifts of the Body From: Subject: Re: 10.0861 Silk Road online Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 844 (844) On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mary Ellen Foley wrote: [deleted quotation] If you're referring to the group that set out in June of last year, their site is at http://silkroad.turk.net/ Unfortunately, the last entry in their diary is for Sept. 29, 1996: an exciting day, leaving the reader wondering what followed. --- Dorothy Day School of Library and Information Science Indiana University day@indiana.edu From: MICHAEL NEUMAN Subject: Asso.for Computers and Humanities Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:11:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 845 (845) In a recent posting, Greg Lessard and Michael Levison described this year's joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ACH-ALLC97 to be held in Kingston, Ont. June 3-7). Members of the sponsoring organizations will save $53 (Canadian) on their registration fees for the event. Consequently, non-members planning to attend this important conference might want to consider joining (or re-joining) the ACH or ALLC. Below you will find a description of the Association for Computers and the Humanities along with a registration form. Fiscal responsibility has never been so easy! Regards, Mike Neuman for the ACH Executive Council ---------------------------------------------- The Association for Computers and the Humanities is an international professional organization, currently in its nineteenth year. Since its establishment, it has been the major professional society for people working in computer-aided research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines, and especially research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual materials. The ACH is devoted to disseminating information among its membership about work in the field of humanities computing, as well as encouraging the development and dissemination of significant textual and linguistic resources and software for scholarly research. PROJECTS In 1987 ACH initiated the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), a major international effort to develop guidelines for the encoding of machine-readable literary and linguistic data. ACH has been joined by the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing in sponsoring the project. Major support has come from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, Directorate XIII of the Commission of the European Communities, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Its Guidelines for encoding machine readable literary and linguistic data were published in Spring, 1994. Information about TEI can be obtained through an electronic discussion list, TEI-L@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU The ACH also sponsors the HUMANIST Electronic Discussion Group, the LN Electronic Bulletin for Natural Language Studies in French and English, and the US Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities. PUBLICATIONS The ACH journal, Computers and the Humanities, continues to be the premier scholarly journal for research in the field of humanities computing. The journal is published 6 times a year by Kluwer Academic Press. Recent special issues have focused on humanities computing activities in Italy, teaching computers and the humanities, and the intersection of humanities computing and computational linguistics. An upcoming triple issue will cover the work of the Text Encoding Initiative. The journal also features an extensive book and software review section. Rather than publish a printed newsletter, ACH maintains a World-Wide Web site to provide up-to-date information of interest to ACH members. The home page can be found at www.ach.org. The WWW site includes news of Association activities, publications, projects and conferences, as well as links to universities, governmental agencies, and other organizations that affect computer-aided humanities research. In addition to the Web site, ACH maintains an electronic newsletter (ACH-L@listproc.georgetown.edu) for dissemination of announcements about the organization's activities. MEETINGS ACH, together with the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, sponsors an annual joint meeting, held in North America in odd-numbered years and in Europe in even-numbered years. This international conference brings together scholars from around the world to report on research activities and software and hardware developments in the field. Selected papers are published. The joint conference in 1997 will be hosted by Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 3-7. ALLC-ACH98 will be held at Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen, Hungary. AFFILIATIONS Because of the interdisciplinary nature of humanities computing, ACH maintains close ties with a number of organizations with overlapping interests, in order to provide its members with information from within specialized areas of the field of humanities computing and to keep others informed of work within the discipline. ACH is closely allied with the European-based Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. ACH also maintains close ties with the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Modern Language Association, the Linguistic Society of America, the American Philological Association, and the American Philosophical Association. MEMBERSHIP Membership is for the calendar year and is open to all scholars interested in humanities computing. The benefits include: - Subscription to Computers and the Humanities (six issues per year). - Reduced registration fee at conferences sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. - Reduced membership fee in ACH regional affiliate organizations. - The intangible benefits derived from associating with others who are interested and involved in humanities computing! ACH Membership Application Name: Address: Phone: Email: Interests: ___$65 Individual Regular Member ___$45 Student/Emeritus Faculty Member ___Add $5 for joint Northeast ACH membership ___Add $7 for joint membership (couples) Membership for calendar year ___1997 ___1998 Annual membership includes a subscription to Computers and the Humanities. Method of Payment ___Check payable to Association for Computers and the Humanities ___VISA ___Mastercard card number exp date name on card signature Send to: Charles D. 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Phone: 801-378-7439 FAX: 801-378-4649 E-mail: Chuck_Bush@BYU.EDU Association for Computers and the Humanities OFFICERS Michael Neuman, President Academic Computing Services Georgetown University Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College, London Elli Mylonas, Executive Secretary Scholarly Technologies Group Brown University Charles Bush, Treasurer Humanities Research Center Brigham Young University EXECUTIVE COUNCIL David Barnard Vice President University of Regina Malcolm Brown Kiewit Computation Center Dartmouth College David Chesnutt Department of History University of South Carolina David Chisolm Department of German University of Arizona Lynne Grundy Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College, London John Lavagnino Women Writers Project Brown University Leslie Zarker Morgan Department of Modern Languages Loyola College, Maryland Mark Olsen ARTFL University of Chicago John Price-Wilkin Humanities Text Initiative The University of Michigan Allen Renear Scholarly Technologies Group Brown University C.M. Sperberg-McQueen Computer Services University of Illinois at Chicago John Unsworth Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia Ex officio: Dan Greenstein, Co-Editor Computers and the Humanites Executive, Arts and Humanities Data Service Nancy Ide, Co-Editor Computers and the Humanities Department of Computer Science Vassar College From: Subject: Re: 10.0864 access for the blind Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 846 (846) [Perhaps someone would be kind enough to provide some of the URLs referred to in the following message. For those of you who remember the last time this question was asked and who are inclined to impatience, please reflect on the value of revisiting important questions, especially in areas affected by progress! --WM] At 11:24 PM +0100 4/17/97, WILLARD MCCARTY wrote: [deleted quotation] Bob -- there are lots of products on the market for your friend, from Braille output to speech output. There are a lot of accessibility sites on the Web -- I don't have URLs right now, however .... Kathy =============================== Kathy E. Gill, publisher eNetDigest - http://www.enetdigest.com/ MacFacts - http://www.halcyon.com/kegill/mac/ mailto:kegill@enetdigest.com Thought for the day: "A different world cannot be built by indifferent people." From: "J. Trant" Subject: Museums and the Web 98: Call for Papers Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:11:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 847 (847) With apologies for any duplication; please forward as appropriate. CALL FOR PAPERS Museums and the Web: An International Conference Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 21-26, 1998 Organised by Archives & Museum Informatics Sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network The 1997 Museums and the Web Conference attracted over 400 participants to Los Angeles, to hear reports and analysis by over 50 speakers from 11 countries. We expect the 1998 meeting in Toronto to bring together more members of the ever-growing Museum and the Web community. Submissions of papers are requested from those actively involved in shaping what the museum will look like on the World Wide Web. The Program for Museums and the Web 1998 will be selected from proposals contributed in response to this call. Proposals are being accepted until October 31, 1997 to present a paper or teach a workshop (1/2 or full day). Paper proposals should include: * Full identification of the presenter(s), including name, job title, institution, postal address, phone, fax, email, and URL * The title of the proposed paper * An abstract which clearly states the specific contribution the paper or presentation will make * AV Requirements for presentation Workshop proposals must include: * Full identification of the instructor(s), including name, title, postal address, phone, fax, email, and URL. * A syllabus outlining the content to be presented and learning objectives for the workshop * Dates and places where this workshop has been previously presented * Proposed contract terms * AV Requirements for presentation TOPICS Suggested paper topics may include, but are not limited to: 1. Moving Museum Programs to the Web o Educational Outreach o The Museum Digital Community: Electronic Volunteers, Virtual Members, Remote Audiences o Professional Resources on the Web: Web Museology, Virtual Support Networks, Professional Organizations o Museum Public Relations via an Institutional Web Site o Museum Exhibitions on the Web o Higher Education and Museums on the Web o Income Producing Activity and the Web o Imagebases, Multimedia, and Publishing o The Concept of the "Museum" in the Digital Age 2. Adapting Museum Structures for the Web o Staffing, Training, and Professional Development. o Budgeting, Managing, Maintaining and Updating a Web Presence. o Museum Intranets - Leveraging the Technology for In-house Benefits. o Consortia, National, and International Projects. o Standards, Architectures, and Long-term Strategies. o New Technologies & Opportunities for the Near Future. o Copyright and Licensing: Protecting and Providing Museum Property. o Access & Accessibility: Resource Discovery, Metadata, and Domain Naming. 3. Evaluating Museums' Presence on the Web o Graphic Design o Information Architecture and Delivery o Content Authoring o User Interaction o Navigational Structures o Communciation Effectiveness o Program Support o Audience Enhancement o Product Development DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION Proposals are welcome at any time; to be considered they must be received by October 31, 1997. SEND PROPOSALS TO MW98 Conference Co-Chairs David Bearman, dbear@archimuse.com Jennifer Trant, jtrant@archimuse.com or fax them to Archives & Museum Informatics at +1 412-683-7366 TIMETABLE FOR REVIEW Proposals will be reviewed by the conference advisory committee and participants will be notified of acceptance by December 15, 1997. Abstracts will be made available through the conference web site from January 1, 1998. Accepted papers are due February 28, 1998, and will be published (on the Web and/or in print). FURTHER INFORMATION More detailed information about Museums and the Web, 1998 will be available from www.archimuse.com/mw98 SPECIAL PREPUBLICATION OFFER MUSEUMS AND THE WEB, 1997: SELECTED PAPERS Edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Selected Papers from an International Conference held in Los Angeles, California, March 16-19, 1997. To be released May, 1997 Pre-publication price $30.00 (Publication price $45.00) -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner and Principal Consultant www.archimuse.com Archives & Museums Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232-1455 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- From: Subject: CD-R Life Expectancy Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 848 (848) Further to my query regarding the stability of dyes employed in home-made CD-Recordables I would like to inform the list of the possibility to access research reports and other relevant information at the following URL address http://www.cd-info.com A research report by CD-R manufacturer TDK made available by the CD Information Center seems to show that metal-stabilized dyes have an average life expectancy of at least seventy years (if stored under normal conditions) according to the accelerated aging tests that have found wide acceptance for photographic colour materials. Thank you for your attention. Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de From: Subject: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 849 (849) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RIAO'97 CONFERENCE Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet June 25-27, 1997 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 [note: RIAO in CAPS] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Description : --------------------- Every third year, the "CENTRE DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNATIONALES d'INFORMATIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE" (CID) Paris, France, along with various international affiliates, organizes a conference called RIAO (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval). "RIAO 97" will be the fifth conference in the series. RIAO'85 was held in Grenoble, France; RIAO'88 in Cambridge, MA, USA (MIT); RIAO'91 in Barcelona, Spain; and RIAO'94 in New York City (Rockefeller University). The preparation of RIAO 97 started many months ago and the Conference will take place on June 25-27, 1997, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. RIAO conferences, all of which have had printed proceedings, have the special feature of incorporating both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations. Both the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a rigorous selection process. While commercial displays, as such, are not promulgated, the mix of scientific expertise and state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical examination of both with the potential for advances in product development and sponsorship as well as the initiation of lines for further, critical research investigations. RIAO is prepared by a Scientific Committee and an Application Committee. Calls for papers and calls for innovative products are sent worldwide. A third committee, the Organization Committee is in charge of general coordination. The next conference, RIAO 97 will be focused on the new problems resulting from the network development. This development impinges on all domains of information retrieval and data diffusion, and amplifies the problem of information filtering. Sponsors --------- - Communaut=E9 Europ=E8enne, Bruxelles, Belgique - Minist=E8re des Affaires Etrang=E8res, Paris, France - Minist=E8re de l'Industrie, des Postes et des T=E9l=E9communications,Paris= , France - France Telecom - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montr=E9al (CRIM), Canada - Minist=E8re de l'Industrie du Commerce de la Science et de la Technologie du Qu=E9bec ------------------------------------------ FINAL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE GENERAL SESSION June 25, 1997 ------------------------------------------ 9:00-9:15 a.m WELCOMING STATEMENT Dr B. Robaire Vice Principal, Research McGill University, Canada 9:15-9:30 a.m RIAO97' Introduction J. Thuiller Professor at the College de France President of the C.I.D. 9:30-10:00 a.m Invited Speaker GILS Projet N. Brodie National Library of Ottawa, Canada --------------------------------- SESSION 1: INFORMATION DISCOVERY --------------------------------- Chairman: L. Devroye, McGill University 10:00-10:25 a.m "The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Discovery and Filtering on the Web" M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr, M. Pazzani University of California, USA 10:25-10:50 a.m "Mining Information In Order To Extract Hidden And Strategical Information" T.Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France 10:50-11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 2: VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION ---------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: S. Tohme, ENST France 11:20-11:45 a.m "Design Issues for World Wide Web Navigation Visualisation Tools" A. Cockburn, S. Jones University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand 11:45-12:10 a.m "Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing" A. Wexelblat, P. Maes Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 12:10-12:35 p.m "Using terminological base for Term-based information retrieval" J-Y Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada 12:35-2:05 p.m LUNCH ------------------------------------------------ SESSION 3: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING, REPOSITORIES ------------------------------------------------ Chairman: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre 2:05-2:30 p.m "Development of a Document Summarization System for Effective Information Services" D. H. Jang, S. H. Myaeng Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea 2:30-2:55 p.m "Automatic summarization on the Web? RAFI: A system for summarizing using indicating fragments" A. Lehmam, Universite de Nancy II, France 2:55-3:20 p.m "Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information Repositories" B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier Rank Xerox Research Centre, France 3:20-3:45 p.m "Annotating the World Wide Web using Natural Language" B. Katz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA 3:45-4:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------------------------------- SESSION 4: LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL --------------------------------------------------------- Chairman: R. Cencioni, European Community 4:15-4:40 p.m "IRENA: Information Retrieval Engine based on Natural Language Analysis" A.T. Arampatzis ,T. Tsoris, C.H.A. Koster. Patras, Greece and Netherlands 4:40-5:05 p.m "The Effect of Syntactic Phrase Indexing on Retrieval Performance for Dutch Texts" R. Pohlmann , W. Kraaij University of Twente, Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands. 5:05-5:30 p.m "Using Simulated Annealing to Understand Natural Language Texts" S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi, J.C. Bassano Universite d'Orleans, France. Geneva Univeristy, Switzerland 5:30-5:55 p.m "An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases" M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie Cornell University, USA ----------------------------------- June 26, 1997 SESSION 5: MULTILINGUAL APPROACH ---------------------------------- Chairman: C. Fluhr, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. France 9:00-9:25 a.m "Multi-Language Text Indexing for Internet Retrieval" M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland 9:25-9:50 a.m "Adaptative Filtering of Multilingual Document Streams" D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA 9:50-10:15 a.m "A domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for Cross-Language Information Retrieval" D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W. Kraaij CTIT, Twente University, Netherlands 10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------- SESSION 6: IRS ARCHITECTURE ---------------------------- Chairman: R. Marcus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) 10:45-11:10 a.m "EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic Engineering" B. Baldwin , C. Doran, J.C. Reynar 11:10-11:35 a.m "Information Retrieval On The Word Wide Web using a Decision Making System" F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA, Lyon, France 11:35-12:00 a.m "A Multiagent Architecture for Information Retrieval on the World-Wide Web" V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety Wayne State University, University of Missouri. USA 12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION --------------------------------- Chairman: C. Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes. France 1:30-2:45 p.m Panel TREC in Many Languages * TREC-5: English D. Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology, U= SA * TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese A. Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland *The Amaryllis Project C. Fluhr Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France 2:45-3:10 p.m "Integrated text categorisation and information extraction using pattern matching and linguistic processing" W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R Dressel UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy 3:10-3:35 p.m "On-Line Resource Discovery using Natural Language" O.R. Zaine , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl, P. Tarau Simon Fraser University, Canada 3:35-4:00 p.m "Coupling information retrieval and information extraction: A new text technology for gathering information from the web= " R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson University of Sheffield, UK 4:00-4:30 p.m Break and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------- SESSION 8: DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING ---------------------------------------- Chairman: D.J. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. 4:30-4:55 p.m "Summarizing Similarities and differences Among Related Documents" I. Mani , E. Bloedorn The MITRE Corporation, USA 4:55-5:20 p.m "Relevance Ranking for One to Three Term Queries" C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope University of Toronto. Canada 5:20-5:45 p.m "Space Optimizations for Total Ranking" D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen Excite Inc., USA 5:45-6:10 p.m "A Similarity-Based Agent for Internet Searching" T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK ------------------------------- June 27, 1997 SESSION 9: IRS ARCHITECTURE- II ------------------------------- Chairman: U. Heid, Stuttgart University, Germany 9:00-9:25 a.m "ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery" F. Menczer , R.K. Belew University of California, USA 9:25-9:50 a.m "Cobra: A new approach to IR System design" T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. UK 9:50-10:15 a.m "Interactive Image Retrieval by Means of Abductive Inference= " A. Muller, A. Everts GMD. Germany 10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations --------------------------------- SESSION 10: QUERY REFORMULATION --------------------------------- Chairman: J.C. Bassano, Universite d'Orleans France. 10:45-11:10 a.m "Query modification based on relevance backpropagation" M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy Universit=E9 de Limoges,Universit=E9 de Toulouse 1, France 11:10-11:35 a.m "Query ReFormulation on the Internet: Empirical Data and the Hyperindex Search Engine" P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis Queensland University of Technology, Australia 11:35-12:00 a.m SQLET: Short Query Linguistic Expansion Techniques: Palliating One or Two-word Queries by Providing Intermediate Structure to WWW Pages G. Grefenstette Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France 12:00-1:30 p.m LUNCH --------------------------------- SESSION 11: INFORMATION FILTERING --------------------------------- Chairman: V. Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow 1:30-1:55 p.m "Probabilistic Learning for Information Filtering" G. Amati , F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Padova, Universita di Roma, Italy 1:55-2:20 p.m "Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging= " R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas University of Pennsylvania, USA 2:20-2:45 p.m "Querying Hierarchical Text and Acyclic Hypertext with Generalized Context-Free Grammars" Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny Universite de Montreal, Canada 2:45-3:15 p.m Break and Demonstrations ------------------------------------- SESSION 12: INFORMATION EXTRACTION II ------------------------------------- Chairman: J.P. Haton, Universite Henri-Poincare, Nancy I, France 3:15-3:40 p.m "A probabilistic model of Passage Categorization" M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga Advanced Research Laboratory, Japan 3:40-4:05 p.m "Knowledge Discovery From Natural Language Texts" U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger Freiburg University, Germany 4:05-4:30 p.m "Extraction of Index Words from Manuals" H. Nakagawa Yokohama National University, Japan -------------------------------- SESSION 13: JUDICIAL PROBLEMS -------------------------------- Chairman: J. Perriere, C.I.D. France 4:30-4:55 p.m "Limits of Using Data" Maitre Feral-Schuhl Ordre Des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France. 4:55-5:20 p.m "Data Security" Maitre G. Arendt President of Computer Commission of the International Union of Lawyers, Luxemburg 5:20-5:45 p.m "Security Concerns On The Intranet" Maitre Landry Montreal, Canada. Union Internationale des Avocats. 5:45-6:15 p.m Conclusions --------------------------------------------- SPECIAL SESSION Cooperation program between France and Quebec Linguistic and knowledge engineering ---------------------------------------------- Chairman : S. Chaudiron, program coordinator for France (Ministry for education and research, DISTNB) 9:00 - 9:15 a.m Presentation of the program Antoine Mynard, Attach=E9 pour la Science et la Technologie, Consulat g=E9n=E9ral de France au Qu=E9bec 9:15 - 9:45 a.m Tools for Lexicographers: Applications of the Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicography Alain Polgu=E8re, Gilles S=E9rasset D=E9partement de linguistique et de traduction, Universit=C8 de Montr=C8al; GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Universit=C8 Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I. 9:45 - 10:15 a.m Automatic processing of synonymy Gaston Gross, Andr=E9 Clas Laboratoire de linguistique et informatique-UMR 195, Universit=E9 Paris 13, France.; GRESLET, Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al. 10:15 - 10:45 a.m The Semantics of Spatial Expressions and the Voronoi Model A. Gryl, Geoffrey Edwards LIMSI, Universit=E9 de Paris Sud; Centre de Recherche en g=E9omatique, Universit=E9 Laval. 10:45 - 11:00 a.m Emergentist classifiers and computationnally enhanced cognition: applications to text analysis and diagnosis. Vincent Rialle, Jean-Guy Meunier Laboratoire TIMC, IMAG, Universit=E9 Joseph Fourier ; Laboratoire d'analyse de l'information, Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al. 10:45 - 11:00 a.m BREAK Chairman Claude Fleury, program coordinator for Qu=E9bec, Minist=E8re des relations internationales du Qu=E9bec 11:00 - 11:30 a.m Connecting "What to say?" and "How to say it?" components in a text generation system Laurence Danlos, Guy Lapalme TALANA, Universit=E9 Paris 7; DIRO, Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al. 11:30 - 12:00 Recycling the results of robust parsers to identify term variants Benoit Habert, Suzanne Bertrand- Gastaldy, Adeline Nazarenko, Fernande Dupuis, Elie Naulleau, Monique Lemieux ENS Fontenay; Universit=C8 deMontr=C8al; LIPN; UQAM; DER/EDF; 12:00 - 12:30 p.m The integration of French language processing and user features in an information retrieval system Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Jian-Yun Nie CLIPS-IMAG, Universit=E9 Joseph Fourier; Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al. 12:30 - 1:00 a.m Text retrieval and filtering using concept-based clustering method, Jacques Guizol, Ruben Gonzalez Rubio Laboratoire d'informatique de Marseille, Universit=E9 de M=E9diterran=E9e, et Universit=E9 de Sherbrooke. ------------------------ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ------------------------ Registration via the WWW at http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97 or by e-mail: riao97@irin.univ-nantes.fr or by fax at the CID: (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45 or by surface mail: CID, 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France CID, c/o Constantin and co., 575 Madison Ave, 25th Floor, NY, NY 10022, USA ------------------ Registration Fees ------------------ (before June 1, 1997): US$ 475 or CA$ 650 or 415 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 530 or CA$ 725 or 460 ECUS Students (presenting valid Student ID): (before June 1, 1997): US$ 315 or CA$ 435 or 275 ECUS (from June 1, 1997): US$ 390 or CA$ 530 or 340 ECUS Registration fees can be made by bank transfer: in US dollars: CID/CASIS No: 02 050 25 061 2 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France or CASIS No: 15 39 90 34 City Bank, 460 Park Avenue and 57th Street, NY, NY 10022 USA in Canadian dollars: CID No: 09-909-21 (No of transit: 0891) Banque Nationale du Canada, 700 Bd Ren=E9 Levesque Ouest Montr=E9al (Quebec) H3B 1XS in ECUs: CID No: 055 500 65 48 1 Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre, 89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France =46or Credit Card payments, only VISA Card can be accepted in writing or by faxing request to C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France, fax (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45. Registration includes access to all presentations and sessions, including the Working Group,Thursday morning, June 26th, and a copy of the proceedings. On-Site Registration will take place on Tuesday June 24 from 5 pm, and on Wednesday June 25, from 8 am on. Telephones accepting credit cards are available throughout the University. Lunches can be taken at the University Cafeteria, 3840 McTavish Street. Lunch tickets will be available at the Registration Desk for $10 (Canadian) per ticket. McGill University is located in the center of Montreal and numerous other restaurants are available nearby. An optional visit and dinner will be organized for RIAO'97 participants June 26th at 7 p.m. ------------------- AIRFARE AND HOTELS -------------------- Reductions in air fare will be possible for flights leaving from =46rance. Contact the CID before June 1, 1997. A block of rooms have been reserved at several hotels in Montreal at a special rate for RIAO97 participants. When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant of RIAO97 Conference. In most cases, rooms will only be held at a special rate until one month before the conference. Hotels list ----------- Chateau de Versailles 1659 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, Quebec H3H 1E3 Tel : (514) 933-3611 Fax: (514) 933-6867 prix: single $ 89 per night Castel Durocher 3488 Durocher Montreal, Quebec H2X 2E1 Tel : (514) 282-1697 Fax: (514) 282-0025 prix: single $ 85 per night Delta Montreal 450 Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T4 Tel : (514) 286-1986 Fax: (514) 284-4306 prix: single $ 119 per night Howard Johnson 475 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2L9 Tel : (514) 842-3961 Fax: (514) 842-0945 prix: single $ 98 per night Best Western Ville Marie Hotel 3407 Peel Street Montreal, Quebec Tel : (514) 288-4141 Fax: (514) 288-3021 prix: single $ 99 per night Manoir Ambrose 3422 rue Stanley Montreal Canada H3A IR8 Tel : (514) 288-6922 Fax: (514) 288-5757 prix: single $ 80 per night Manoir Sherbrooke 157 rue Sherbrooke West H2X 1C7 Tel : (514) 285-0895 Fax: (514) 284-1125 prix: single $ 80 par nuit Casa Bella 264 rue Sherbrooke West H2X 1X9 Tel : (514) 849-2777 Fax: (514) 849-1126 prix: single $ 80 per night -------------------- Programme Committee -------------------- Canadian Co-Chair : L. DEVROYE McGill University, Montreal (Canada). =46rench Co-Chair : C. CHRISMENT Universit=E9 Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France). Members: J. ARAMBERRI (ES) Universidad del Pais Vasco J.C. BASSANO (FR) Universit=E9 d'Orl=E9ans P. BRUZA (AU) Queensland University of Technology R. CENCIONI (CEE) Commission of the European Communities D.G. ELLIMAN (UK) University of Nottingham C. FLUHR (FR), CEA, Saclay G. GREFENSTETTE (FR) Rank Xerox J.C. GUEDON (CA) Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al J. HAN (CA) Simon Fraser University D. HARMAN (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology J.P. HATON (FR) Universit=E9 de Nancy U. HEID (GR) University of Stuttgart C. JACQUEMIN (FR) Universit=E9 de Nantes G. KIKUI (JP) NTT Information and Communication Laboratory J. KLAVANS (US) Colombia University, New York R.R. KORFHAGE (US) University of Pittsburgh J. H. LEE (KR) Korea Research and Development Center P. LOPISTEGUY (ES) Universidad del Pais Vasco R. MARCUS (USA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology B. MERIALDO (FR) Institut EURECOM A. MOFFAT (AU) University of Melbourne J. MOTHE (FR) Universit=C8 Paul Sabatier, Toulouse S. H. MYAENG (KR) Chungnam National University T. PRABHAKAR (IN) Indian Institute of Technology of Kampur S.T. SARACEVIC (US) Rutgers University P. SCHAUBLE (SZ) ETH Zentrum, Zurich =46. SEBASTIANI (IT) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa A. SEFFAH (CA) CRIM, Montreal V. SEMENOVA (RU) ANALIT, LTD S. TOHME (FR) ENST, PARIS R. WILKINSON (AU) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology ----------------------- Application Committee ----------------------- Co-Chair: A.EL ZAIM Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montr=E9al. Canada Co-Chair: C. BROCHARD Canope. France ------------------------- Organization Committee -------------------------- Coordination: J. PERRIERE, Secr=E9taire g=E9n=E9ral du C.I.D P. BRODNITZ USA S. MALLEM France J.Y. NIE Canada A. SAOUDI France From: Subject: Re: 10.0868 independence, interference, purpose Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 850 (850) At 10:07 PM 4/19/97 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Well, this is certainly the case in the Humanities here at Ottawa U. All humanities departments are now required to develop a revenue generating service/business using their specialized knowledge. This is true of all departments at the U of O. It seems that the federal-provincal transfers to Universities have been reduced so much (equal to the operating budgets of three Canadian Universities) that the deparments must become partially self-financing in order to remain in place. In our deparment, 'sciences des religions', we are starting a traning/consulting business in intercultural communications. This is deemed to be a good move to the people involved simply because, as students, they can't find any funding. Fortunately, it won't take many of the students too far astray from their studies. But I can't really see how this would help the people in christian studies and, indeed, they havn't involved themselves. [deleted quotation] Good question - of course most of us, myself included, are not too clear about the history leading to the development of the ideal of academic freedom. My guess is that in the West it had something to do with the church, which has a history of 'mind' control, if you will. (If anybody out there does know the real story, I'd appreciate learning about it as, I am sure, would others). It is curious that one generation after another has to learn about the importance of these things all over agian. Perhaps this functions to keep the enterprise revelant while open to change? However, when a society in general tends towards a specific fantasy of economics and consumption such as that of North America, the university is bound to go along for the ride. Universities do mirror society and its interests over time. Today's universities reflect a social fantasy about wealth, worth, and finances. Administrations are top heavy, like corporations. They employ people with degrees in business administration, rather than people who are demonstrably comitted to being educators. Employing people with different understandings of what the University is supposed to be results in a conflict of imaginations. One is freedom to think and teach what is thought, the other is to make money - which requires a good public image. It is like the difference between the commerical artist and the 'suffering artist'. The former tends to use his or her skills in a more shallow way to a more practical end, the latter - no less purposefully - is drawn (pardon the pun) to the exploration and expression of inherently more deep things - i.e., less commerical. Regardless of what the myth of the suffering artist brings to our imaginations, there is a different approach to things both in art and at the university. That difference is this: production for consumption and production for production's sake. The Internet is just another pearl in the social fabric being reflected by the University. Production for consumption seems to be a driving force on the corportate Internet and I have found myself doing something similar - developing a Web site to help in the job search. This has led me to more work on various Web sites, but I'm still not teaching. The business model has even entered into my independent writing. "How should I write this book?" I ask myself constantly. Should it be designed for sales and accessibility or for a restriced academic audience? Which would bring the most in finding that job? How much of it should I include on my Web site? At which point would it enter the public sphere? My point is percisely that the social fantasy of the economy, our particular subsistence methods, and the present economic situation have already undermind my 'academic freedom'. What I believe is required is the emergence of a different public impression of the university (one that is more accessible to people in general?) which must appear concurrently with a new global economic strategy - one that isn't so stronlgy informed by greed and other 'heroic' characteristics. Comments? Marc Fonda mfonda@magmacom.com http://www.strangelove.com/marc/mfonda.html The Fondarosa - imaginal selves, societies, and cultures - coming soon! From: Subject: Humanist: Converting NotaBene to other formats Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 851 (851) I have used WordPort to convert to and from NotaBene 4. It is very good and easy to use. The version I used was 5.3 (1994) and the address is: Advanced Computer Innovations Inc 30 Burncoat Way Pittsford NY 14534-2216 Phone: 716 383-1939 Fax: 716 383-8428 Cheers, Margaret Lantry From: Subject: ESRC Studentships: MPhil in History and Computing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 852 (852) University of Glasgow School of History and Archaeology M.PHIL IN HISTORY AND COMPUTING ESRC Quota Studentships The M.Phil in History and Computing is recognised by the ESRC as an Advanced Course providing specialist postgraduate training, and may nominate two students to ESRC Quota Studentships. These Studentships consist of payment of approved University fees (normally including tuition and other fees) and a maintenance grant for each student. In 1996/97 the basic annual rate of the maintenance grant was =A35,190. Studentships are normally awarded to students on a full-time basis for one year. Further details about eligibility for these studentships is provided below. The M.Phil in History and Computing The M.Phil in History and Computing is a taught Master^=D2s course, providing training in the application of computers to historical research. The course is intended primarily for graduates in history who wish to learn to use computer software in the context of historical issues and problems. Career destinations of past graduates have included further research in history and economic and social history, and employment in humanities computing in academia or as a teacher, among other occupations. For further details contact the Course Organiser at the address below. How to apply Nominations to the ESRC Quota Studentships are made by the University of Glasgow. Students wishing to be considered for a Studentship to support study on the M.Phil in History and Computing course starting in October 1997 should submit the following documentation no later than 10 May 1997: - An Application for Admission to Postgraduate Study. - Two letters of reference. - An Application for an ESRC Studentship, which includes a 500-word personal statement. Where to apply Applications should be sent to to either the Faculty of Social Sciences or the Faculty of Arts of the University of Glasgow at the appropriate address below, from whom applications may also be obtained. The Application for an ESRC Studentship form may also be returned directly to the Course Organiser. Both forms and letters of reference must be received by the deadline of 10 May. Faculty of Arts, The Clerk of the Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH, United Kingdom Faculty of Social Sciences, The Graduate School Secretary, Social Sciences Faculty Office, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RT, United Kingdom Who is eligible to apply? Anyone who can meet ESRC requirements for both academic qualifications and residential eligibility may apply for one of these ESRC Studentships. The requirements are briefly summarised below. (See the ESRC^=D2s Guidance Notes for Applicants for further details and exceptions.) Academic qualifications: Applicants must normally have, or expect to achieve by 30 September 1997, a first or upper second class honours degree from a UK university or the CNAA, or an equivalent qualification acceptable by the ESRC. Residential eligibility: Applicants must normally have been resident in Great Britain for the preceding three years, and no part of this residency may have been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education. EU nationals may also be eligible. Other sources of funding Students may also apply for one of three Wellcome Trust Studentships for the M.Phil in History and Computing (or the M.Phil in History) with an emphasis on the History of Medicine. Further details may be obtained from The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine 5 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Contacting the Course Organiser Further details about the ESRC Studentships and the M.Phil in History and Computing may be obtained from the Course Organiser: Dr Donald A. Spaeth School of History and Archaeology 1 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom Email: dspaeth@dish.gla.ac.uk =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dr Donald A Spaeth School of History and Archaeology 1 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom Tel: 0141 330-3580 Fax: 0141 330-5000 E-mail: dspaeth@arts.gla.ac.uk From: Subject: Access URL Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 853 (853) Willard Thanks for the re-flash on the needs of blind users. There is a resource page The Accessible Web Home Page which is a good place to begin exploration of what's available. A link to WebSpeak, a speaking WWW browser can be found there. <http://www.prodworks.com/access.htm/> The topos of a person with disabilities is often invoked on discussion lists pertaining to the HTML standard. The use of browswer-specific markup or unvalidated mark-up that might break are often discussed as matters of accessibility. The topoi of the blind or the deaf can be extended into that of the culturally produced sensorium. As such it can also serve as a litmus test for the content quality of a multimedia presentation. Turn off the sound or turn off the visuals and discover the sensory bias of the authors. The critics can then amuse themselves by rifting on blindness and insight in the hopes they will be heard. Always listening for the opening -- Francois Born to Tag ;) Bred to Scan From: Willard McCarty Subject: metrical analysis Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:10:51 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 854 (854) Two colleagues in the University of London are embarking on a project to do metrical analysis of 13th-15th century English, on a corpus they will be creating of about 500,000 words. Variants and dialectical differences are involved. They would be most grateful for any suggestions about what software they might benefit from. In particular, it seemed to me that a syllable-counting or marking routine would help, even if it could do no better than 50-60% accuracy in identifying syllables. It is clear that the end-product, technically speaking, has to be a marked-up text, but they are not yet entirely certain what to mark and how to mark it. Comments and advice should be sent to Humanist. I will forward messages to them. Thanks. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: TAYLOR@bcvms.bc.edu Subject: Embroidery of imagination Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:21:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 855 (855) In Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy quotes the phrase, "embroidery of imagination upon the stuff of nature". Does anyone know the source of this phrase? Thanks D.Taylor taylor@bc.edu From: Mary Ellen Foley Subject: Re: 10.0861 Silk Road online Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:36:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 856 (856) Willard McCarty, listmaster extraordinaire, suggested readers here would like to have the URL for the Silk Road camel caravan that I mentioned here earlier. It's http://silkroad.turk.net/OverView.html, and the e-mail address is silkroad@turk.net. The last English-language journal entry posted is dated last September, although last June they reported they had over a year to go. Perhaps they're still out there, but their communications technology has let them down. This is a UNESCO-sponsored venture, so I assume they have adequate support and can be retrieved if they get into serious trouble. Or perhaps there were more entries and I didn't look far enough -- no time right now. In the "wonders and dangers of the web" department: I first found this site when researching 1930s American radio, looking for any information on a program called Camel Caravan. The persistent problem of being sidetracked by fascinating things you find when you're looking for something else seems particularly acute on the web. -- WARNING!! Opinions in posting are farther away than they appear ^^^^^^^^^ Mary Ellen Foley (mef@unforgettable.com) From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 10.0869 God in the details Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:59:55 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 857 (857) And here one had always thought it was the Devil who was in the details. aka small print, bottom line, and Faustus. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: Copyright & Fair Use Symposium, Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 858 (858) Columbus, OH NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 23, 1997 Following is the announcement of a symposium on Copyright Law and Fair Use at the Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio on May 9, which includes the participation of Peter Fowler, executive secretary of CONFU. David Green ***************************************************************** Forwarded from VRA-List: SYMPOSIUM: "Intellectual Property, Copyright Law and Fair Use Doctrines: Issues in Electronic Storage and Dissemination of Information: An Interdisciplinary Symposium" will be held at The Ohio State University on Friday, May 9, 9:30am to 4:00 pm, at The Wexner Center for the Arts. Further information can be obtained by accessing the following website: <http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/> or by calling Elaine Hamilton, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, at 614-292-1053. The morning session (9:30-12:00) and discussion is comprised of an artist working in the digital world, a designer, a multimedia content developer, and a legal representative (Peter Fowler of the U.S. Patent and Trade Office). The afternoon session (1:30-4:00) will be a discussion of the National Information Infrastructure White Paper and its implication in the area of fair use and intellectual property related to the Internet by a law professor, two practicing attorneys, and a philosophy professsor who deals with business and organizational ethics. The symposium is free and open to the public. John J. Taormina Curator, Visual Resources Library Dept. of History of Art Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210 phone: 614-292-0520, fax: 614-292-4401 e-mail: taormina.1@osu.edu From: Subject: Re: 10.0875 adaptive technology URLs? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 859 (859) We sponsor a web site that deals with assistive technologies. Might be of some assitance. http://projects.iat.unc.edu/atwr/ --chad kearsley -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chad D. Kearsley Dept. of English, UNC-Chapel Hill chad_kearsley@unc.edu Institute for Academic Technology www.unc.edu/~chadk/ http://www.iat.unc.edu/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Rene van Horik Subject: SEMINAR "DIGITISATION OF HISTORICAL SOURCES ON MICROFORM" Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:38:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 860 (860) In the Historical / Archival community microform is a widely used data storage medium. Nowadays digital storage is an attractive alternative. It can be used supplementary and complementary with microform techniques. Systems and methods are available to digitize microform very efficiently and with high quality. On May 12th, just before he IMC at Dusseldorf (Germany) (http://www.iimc.org), the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA) will organise a seminar to inform the archivist, researcher and librarian on the possibilities to digitize several types of microform, resulting in high quality images. For more information on the program of the seminar and a registration form, see: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/seminar.html From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy Subject: Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:35:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 861 (861) COMPUTERS AND TEXT: 4th-10th September 1997, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY. A PRACTICAL COURSE IN USING COMPUTERS FOR LANGUAGE ANALYSIS. Associated with the ESSE/4 conference, organized by the European Society for the Study of English. This is the second course of this type to be held in Debrecen (the first was in 1995). The planned course components include hands-on classes in the computer room as well as the sessions listed below. Further sessions may be added. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. BELA HOLLOSY (LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN): 1. Available corpora and tools, corpus creation, lexical analysis, tokenization 2. String handling, text retrieval (collocations, etc), and basic programming 3. Working with Concordancers 4. Lexicographic model building B. RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY (COBUILD, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM): 1. History of corpora, and corpus design considerations 2. Lexis as a linguistic level: paradigms and syntagms 3. The relationship between Corpora and Dictionaries 4. Usage prototypes: collocation and syntactic patterns C. PATRICK HANKS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS): 1. `Enthusiasm' and `Condescension' - contrasting Historical (17-18th Century) and Modern corpora 2. The Individual in Time and Space - how everyday words such as `over' and `above' are used 3. Extremes of exploitation - `Finnegan's Wake' and the OED 4. Cognitive prototypes - what Speakers do and what Hearers believe --------------------------------------------------------------------------- COURSE ORGANIZER: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41. Email: rovnyf@tigris.klte.hu Website: http://www.flc.klte.hu/Course DEBRECEN INFORMATION: for travel, accommodation, food, etc, see: a) pp 79-80 of the European English Messenger, Volume V/2, Autumn 1996 b) the ESSE homepage: http://www.unil.ch/angl/docs/esse --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRE-REGISTRATION FORM --------------------- 1. YES,I want to take part in the course described above from 4th-10th September 1997, in Debrecen,Hungary. REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 260, UK pounds 160 LATE REGISTRATION (after 30.6.97): US$ 325, UK pounds 200 2. I understand that it is a pre-condition to register with the ESSE/4 Conference as well. (Fill in BLOCK LETTERS, please, and send to the COURSE ORGANIZER): Title: Position/Institution: Surname: First name: Address: Country: Zip code: E-mail: Tel/fax: Date: Signature: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Re: 10.0881 metrical analysis? quotation? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 862 (862) Perhaps this is too obvious, but if at all possible the text should be lemmatized to deal with the dialectal and inflectional variants of words. Chaucer and Gower are both lemmtized, others will follow. -- Sincerely, ________________________________________________ Gary W. Shawver <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gshawver/> ________________________________________________ From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Junk Mail Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:27:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 863 (863) Dear humanists, I have been recieving an alarming amount of junk mail recently including unsollicited subscriptions to e-mail newsletters that are really hardware ads. Over the year it has gone from one such message a month to one every other day. One note offered even to sell me millions of e-mail addresses and the technology to use the list! I assume that, as it becomes easier to buy such lists and spam the net, the problem will only get worse. Am I the only one thus affected? What are you doing about it? Is it time to have a "private" e-mail address or to learn how to use the filters in Eudora? Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: "Gregory J. Murphy" Subject: COCOA samples wanted Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:33:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 864 (864) Dear Humanists, To help in the testing of a general purpose encoding conversion tool, I am soliciting the contribution of snippits of any size of texts encoded for the use of Tact or Micro OCP. I am especially interested in instances of dense, complicated, or unusual encoding. I would also be interested in snippits of Beta Code encoded texts which aren't owned by TLG or PHI (which I could include as a sample in an eventual distribution). My loftier goal was to design a general purpose tool for converting languages that conform to a 'type 3' grammar (e.g. a regular language, which can be described by a regular expression) into a language that conforms to a 'type 2', or context-free, grammar, by adding hierarchical information, in the form of tags, to the text. In practice, the tool is at present only able to convert COCOA and Beta-Code encoded texts to different flavors of SGML. Please send pointers or attached texts to gjmurphy@Princeton.EDU Also, please indicate whether I may include the snippit in an eventual distribution of the conversion tool, as a sample. Thanks! - Gregory Murphy From: Subject: Study on Electronic Publishing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 865 (865) Dear colleagues, I thought you might be interested in a new study entitled "Electronic Publishing - Strategic Developments for the European Publishing Industry towards the year 2000". An executive summary can be found in: http://www2.echo.lu/elpub2/en/?861799954 in PDF format. Best regards, **************************************************************** Dr. Dimitri Corpakis assistant to the Director XII-AS ................................................................. European Commission Directorate General XII - Science, Research and Development Directorate AS, Strategy and co-ordination 200, Rue de la Loi, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium phone: +32-2-29.68445 fax: +32-2-29.63261 e-mail: Dimitri.Corpakis@dg12.cec.be DG XII Web site: http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg12/dg12tst2.html **************************************************************** From: Subject: NINCH Web Site: Consolidation and Construction Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 866 (866) Apologies to those who may have experienced delays or "error messages" yesterday and today on the NINCH Website. I have been introducing a greater degree of rationality to the html files as the site has grown in the last month or two. Stability, I believe, has returned to the site but if you're a regular user and you get an error message please hit the RELOAD button on your browser, and if that fails to work, please email me with the problem. David Green From: Subject: Digital Variants Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 867 (867) Dear Friends & Colleagues: As some of you already know, we are working at the University of Edinburgh (Department of Italian) on a web project involving contemporary Spanish and Italian authors (among others Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Fernando Savater, Francesca Sanvitale, Vincenzo Cerami, etc.). The project is called "Digital Variants" (http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm), and basically it will be an on-line archive of textual variants, edited and made available through the Internet. Currently the editorial board of DV is formed by American, Italian and Spanish scholars, and the good news is that the Centro Virtual of the Instituto Cervantes (directed by Jose Antonio Millan) has agreed to collaborate with us on further developing the project. We are asking writers for electronic copies of their works, to make them available to scholars and language teachers. We require authors who are willing and "brave" enough to show us the kitchen of the text -- that is the laborious writing phenomena lying under the "final" version of a work. Of course, since all these texts are under copyright, only short, though strategic, portions of text will be on-line. Our idea is to allow the reader "to navigate" into the author's variants through - for example - a multiple frames system. We do not know if this would be the best system, and this is the reason why I am asking your help. Take the first text currently on line, a story by Francesca Sanvitale in eight different passages (http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/sanvit_0.htm); now you can download the critical "printed" edition of this piece and read it with WinWord 2 or 6, but in the future we would like to make readable the whole thing on screen, thanks to a system of frames/columns with inter-textual and intra-textual links between the different passages (see http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/or-expr.htm#F5 for an example). Is there any better technical idea/suggestion/etc.? (2) What are the implications/benefits/outputs of such an archive and new philological methodology? I see at least three: 1) A data base of original texts in machine readable form (HTML) available to scholars (initially). 2) Textual variants are insuperable tools for studying the writing process, and an Internet archive is the ideal environment in which to produce and practice original exercises and experiments. Therefore linguists, literary critics, philologists, and composition teachers (for example) will have a powerful resource for both teaching and research. 3) As the manuscript writing space fades away, we face the inevitable disappearance of traditional philological methodologies and concepts. The WWWeb should allow us to build new textual environments, even for the edition of complex "recensiones", where we have a dozen (or more) variant texts. The archive, thanks to the generosity of the authors, is growing quickly. We have a lot of material, and we would be happy to share it with other scholars/institutions. This term we are using Sanvitale's eight passages for an on-line experiment of textual analysis (advanced students [1st year Italian] will eventually have to make their own "edition"), and we are willing to share our methodologies, making available the Spanish and Italian texts already archived for similar - or different - experiments. I would be very grateful if any of you would suggest me other sites involving philological methodologies and the web. I do not know if there are similar projects on the Internet -- but I know that Humanist is the ideal place to ask for advice and contributions. Thanks in advance for your help Do not forget to visit the DV site at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm Sincerely ****************************************************** Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh, Dept. of Italian David Hume Tower, George Square EH8 9JX -- United Kingdom Fax: 131-650-6536 E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm <> From: Subject: copyright/fairuse Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 868 (868) While the battle of unequal forces goes on between the publishing trades (who do after all have an investment to protect) and the academic community over copyright and fair use, resulting in a flood of 19th-century editions (I'm one of the guilty) onto the web and a scarcity of recent editions in the very medium that could perhaps best distribute them, I begin to wonder why I haven't heard of a "copyright conservancy" that would operate along the lines of the Nature Conservancy, which has been reasonably successful in buying threatened lands and retiring them from the development pool. The Copyright Conservancy would be a consortium of concerned institutions, and would serve 1) to identify and prioritize texts which it would be in the public interest to acquire and distribute freely, 2) negotiate the purchase of the right to do so, and 3) farm out the projects to those who, like the University of Virginia, have demonstrated the expertise and rigor to carry them through. Organizations interested in access for those with disabilities might be among those that would be interested in helping to fund the Conservancy. Publishers could be encouraged to revamp their image by actually sponsoring selected recent titles, with prominent banner acknowledgement... Richard Bear rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ From: Michael Kessler Subject: Re: 10.0884 junk mail? Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:12:25 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 869 (869) Junk mail is an on-going problem. The creator of Pegasus has been so plagued by the misuse of his program for junk mail that he has included lines in the program that allow the individual user to exclude or at least automatically delete mass and bulk mailings sent with Pegasus. My suspicion is that this is the only rational approach because spammers will fake addresses so that excluding one address through filters will not solve the problem. I do not know if other mail applications programmers are doing the same thing as Pegasus. Forwarding the offending message to abuse@point-of-origin, indicating that spams are not appreciated, might provide some relief. ******************************************** Michael Kessler voice (415) 338-1662 College of Humanities e-mail: MKessler@ceres.sfsu.edu San Francisco State University FAX (415) 338-7030 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 From: Tony Chadwick Subject: God/Devil in the Details Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 09:46:39 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 870 (870) [Although this is directed to me personally, I could not let myself go uncorrected for being so overcome by Screech fumes.... actually, I was quite sober, as one or two Humanists from St. John's will recall. Just a foggy memory, with nothing to blame but age. Still, the important things I do remember, namely the generous hospitality of those Humanists, and the dangerous rocks of the coast. --WM] Dear Willard, I don't know who should be blamed for errors in details, hence the subject line. However, in your original post on this topic you incorrectly identified Spear Point in Newfoundland as the place from which Marconi transmitted the first transatlantic wireless signal. In fact he received the signal in Newfoundland on Signal Hill, from which vantage point one can, on the occasional fog-free day, see the most easterly point in N. America, Cape Spear. Any confusion on your part may have resulted from the Screech fumes that always seem to be in the air when visitors come to St.John's, as they are anticipated to do so in large numbers for the Cabot 500 celebrations this year. Cheers! Tony Chadwick -- From: Subject: Re: 10.0881 metrical analysis? Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 871 (871) [deleted quotation] I imagine your colleagues may have already been in touch with Don Foster at Vassar who's work with SHAXICON, a database metrical analysis tool, has gained him praise, disdain and notoriety from the community of Shakespeare scholars and enthusiasts. In case they haven't tho' I'm sure he would be willing to lend advice from his considerable expertise in these matters. His e-mail: foster@vassar.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: bibliographic efforts? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 15:41:08 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 872 (872) Colleagues here at King's would very much like to know if there are any ongoing efforts or any planned to collect bibliographic references to work in academic journals across the disciplines touching on (a) computer-assisted learning, or more generally (b) computing in the humanities. The question has been raised how we are to inform our colleagues about the work going on, wherever it is published. Experience suggests this is a massive project, exceedingly difficult to manage well, but perhaps bits of the academic cottage industry can variously provide the information. Thanks. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Dan Price Subject: Did Print Confirm Traditional Views? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:22:22 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 873 (873) Very often we tend to think of the introduction of print as the agent of social change and such is the title of Elizabeth Eisenstein's work so frequently cited today by those heralding the revolution of the computer. Recently however I came across this from Febrve and Martin which gave me pause to wonder. Although printing certainly helped scholars in some fields, on the whole it could not be said to have hastened the acceptance of new ideas or knowledge. In fact by popularizing long cherished beliefs, strengthening traditional prejudices and giving authority to seductive fallacies, it could even be said to have represented an obstacle to the acceptance of many new views. Even after new discoveries were made, they tended to be ignored and reliance continued to be placed in conventional authorities. ( he then goes on to demonstrate this in regard to the discoveries of the New World.) (Febvre and Martin, 278) Was this true with print? What is some of the current scholarly thinking on this apparent contradiction? Of course the response will also affect how we look at the Web. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, The Center for Distant Learning The Union Institute 440 E. McMillan Cincinnati OH 45206 (800) 486 3116 OR (513) 861 6400 From: David Green Subject: LACUNY Conference on Fair Use Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:14:38 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 874 (874) ****************************************************************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 25 TWO COPYRIGHT EVENTS Below is information on two upcoming all-day copyright symposia: 1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PARTICIPANTS' PERSPECTIVES ON THE W.I.P.O. DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE <http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/spals/office.html> Friday May 2 American University, Washington DC $50 registration (special discount for nonprofit DFC/NINCH affiliates) 2. ACCESS & EXCELLENCE: COPYRIGHT & THE STRUGGLE FOR FAIR USE Friday May 16 Baruch College, New York $25 Registration David Green ****************************************************************** INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: PARTICIPANTS' PERSPECTIVES ON THE W.I.P.O. DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE May 2, 1997 9:00am to 3:00pm SPONSORED BY: The Washington College of Law and Computer & Communications Industry Association LOCATION: American University's Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. (Parking is prohibited on area residential streets but is available in the law school's underground pay lot). BACKGROUND: On December 20, 1996, a Diplomatic Conference of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) completed work on the texts of two important new agreements. The WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty represent the culmination of a six-year work program; they are designed to carry the international law of copyright and neighboring rights into the next millennium and into the future of global digital information networks. Many of the issues dealt with at the Conference were controversial, and none more so than the topics which made up the so-called "digital agenda": transmission rights, the status of temporary and ephemeral digital reproductions, anti-circumvention measures, safeguards for copyright management information, "fair use" in the digital environment, and limitations on the liability of on-line and Internet service providers. The WIPO treaties will be presented for Senate ratification in months or even weeks. And the debate over copyright in cyberspace in the 105th Congress is likely to be joined around the provisions of legislation designed to implement those treaties. The panelists in this symposium are in a position to offer unique and valuable insights into the meaning of the provisions of the WIPO treaties, as well as the process by which those provisions were developed. All the panelists at this symposium were present, in various capacities, at the Diplomatic Conference in Geneva, and many of them also have taken part in the numerous preparatory meetings which preceded the Conference. They represent the U.S. government, the content community, the telecommunications industry, and various other groups which worked to influence the outcome of the Diplomatic Conference. Together, they will provide an invaluable "behind the scenes" look at these important developments in the international law of intellectual property. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Details are available at http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/spals/office.html. PROGRAM SCHEDULE: * Ed Black, President and CEO, Computer & Communications Industry Association * Claudio Grossman Dean, Washington College of Law, American University 9:30am Opening Remarks: History of the WIPO Treaties, Issues Raised * Gregory Gorman Independent Consultant * Peter Jaszi Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University 10:00am Views of the U.S. Officials on the WIPO Treaties and their Implications Moderator: Peter Jaszi * Jennifer S. Conovitz Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce * Michael S. Keplinger Senior Counselor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office * Marybeth Peters Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office 10:45am Views of Internet/Telecommunications Companies on the WIPO Treaties Moderator: Gregory Gorman * Marilyn Cade, Director of Technology and Infrastructure, AT&T * Tim Casey, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, MCI * Sarah Deutsch Intellectual Property Counsel, Bell Atlantic * Bruce Joseph Partner, Wiley, Rein & Fielding 12:00 Buffet Lunch & Keynote Address: "Time and Space" * David Nimmer, Irell & Manella 1:00pm Views of the Content Community on the WIPO Treaties Moderator: Art Sackler Vice-President Time-Warner * Fritz Attaway, Sr. Vice Pres. and Washington General Counsel, Motion Picture Assoc.of America * Marvin Berenson, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Broadcast Music Inc. * Emery Simon, Business Software Alliance * Eric Smith Partner, Smith & Metalitz and President, International Intellectual Property Alliance 2:00pm Views of Educators, Scientists, Electronic Manufacturers on WIPO Treaties Moderator: Prue Adler Assistant Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries * Louis B. Brown, International Science Associate, Directorate for Geosciences, National Science Foundation * Adam Eisgrau, Legislative Counsel, American Library Association * Seth Greenstein, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery * Jerome Reichman, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt School of Law 3:00pm Closing Reception REGISTRATION: Registration Fee By 4/28 After 4/28 General $175 $200 CCIA Member $125 $150 WCL Alumnus Gov. Employee $100 $125 CLE Credit is available for most states Check should be made out to: Washington College of Law For registration information, contact Liz Reitz at: (202) 274-4130 (fax) or (202) 274-4075 (tele.) or send e-mail to ECKSTEIN@wcl.american.edu. Office of Special Programs & Advanced Legal Studies American University Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016-8181 Any person with disabilities who has special needs should contact us at least 72 hours in advance at (202)274-4278, at Voice/TTY (202) 274-4003, or via e-mail: ECKSTEIN@wcl.american.edu. Intellectual Property at the Washington College of Law Innovation in intellectual property (IP) teaching and scholarship is a tradition at the Washington College of Law more than a decade ago, WCL was the first American law school to offer a course in international copyright law. In more recent writings, members of the faculty pioneer critical and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of IP. Their teaching specialities include law and information, computer law, and cultural property, along with patent, copyright, and trademark. Today, WCL is dedicated to training a generation of IP lawyers who are versed in the new networked information environment, and as comfortable dealing with global issues as they are with domestic ones. WCL graduates hold important positions in law firms, trade associations, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations in Washington and beyond. And WCL externship programs place J.D. students in offices specializing in IP, where they can learn first-hand about the characteristics of this rapidly developing field. Computer & Communications Industry Association CCIA is an association of computer and communications firms, as represented by their most senior executives. Small, medium and large in size, CCIA's members include equipment manufacturers, software deve-lopers, telecommunications and on-line service providers, re-sellers, systems integrators, third-party vendors and other related business ventures. CCIA's mission is to further its members' business interests by being the leading industry advocate in promoting open, barrier-free competition in the offering of computer and communications products and services worldwide. ****************************************************************** The Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) presents: ACCESS & EXCELLENCE: COPYRIGHT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FAIR USE Friday, May 16, 1997 9:00am - 5:00pm Baruch College, Newman Library 7th Floor Conference Center 151 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010 LACUNY invites you to this year's exciting program on copyright and the struggle for fair use. Listen to the experts who are deeply engaged, at many levels, in the struggle to maintain fair use for libraries and education institutions. * Legislative action past, pending and future impacts our lives, libraries and profession. * What are fair use guidelines? * What are the CONFU proceedings? * How are electronic reserves, unpublished materials, special collections and archives affected by fair use? * What are our rights/options when we sign license agreements? * Are you concerned about the transference of public domain information to private interests? * These and many other questions on copyright and the struggle for fair use will be examined at this year's conference. *********************************** Registration: 8:15am - 9:00am with coffee, tea, juice, patries and bagels ******** Morning Session ******** 9:00am - 12:00pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER Adam Eisgrau Legislative Counsel, The American Library Association on "Copyright and the Struggle for Fair Use" GUEST SPEAKERS Lisa Livingston Director of Instructional Media, The City College / CUNY on "Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia" **** Dr. Brian Nielsen Manager, Learning Technologies Group, Academic Technologies, Northwestern University on "Copyright, Fair Use and Electronic Reserves" ******** Afternoon Session ******** 1:30pm - 5:00pm Sara Cox International Law Librarian The University of Connecticut School of Law on "What are the CONFU proceedings?" **** Jean Ashton Director, Rare Books & Manuscripts Division Columbia University Libraries on "Copyright & Fair Use in Special Collections" **** Julia Gammon Past President of NASIG Head of Acquisitions, University of Akron on "What Are Our Rights/Options in License Agreements" **** James Love The Consumer Project on Technology on "Private and Public Domains of Information" **** Summation: Prof. Shelley Warwick, Baruch College Library / CUNY The fair use provisions of copyright law recognize the special needs of libraries and educational institutions to make use of copyrighted materials. The struggle to maintain the fair use provisions of copyright law aims to maintain that balance between rights holders and libraries and educational institutions that promotes excellence in our creative endeavors. REGISTRATION INFORMATION LACUNY Members $20.00 Non-members $25.00 Registration at the door $30.00 (8:15am - 9:00am) Make Checks Payable to LACUNY Preregistration should be mailed to arrive no later than Friday, May 9th Mail To: Richard Uttich Cohen Library The City College of New York 138th St. at Convent Ave. New York, NY 10031 For any additional information contact: Richard Uttich 212-650-7601 rmucc@cunyvm.cuny.edu From: David Green Subject: CIMI / Z39.50 Press release Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 18:33:00 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 875 (875) *********************************************************************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 24, 1997 IMPORTANT TESTING OF Z39.50 STANDARD FOR RETRIEVING MUSEUM INFORMATION Following is a press release from the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) <http://www.cimi.org/cimi/introduction.html>, announcing the participation of five international organizations in its test of the Z39.50 standard for data search and retrieval. David Green *********************************************************************** CIMI MOVES CLOSER TO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ON A DISTRIBUTED SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL STANDARD Five Key Organizations Will Test Z39.50 with CIMI An overwhelming number of international organizations working with cultural heritage information responded to CIMI's call for participation in its test of the Z39.50 standard for data search and retrieval. As museums and libraries throughout the world adopt this standard, cultural heritage information-including text, audio, and video-now held in "islands of information" will become uniformly available to anyone who has access to a computer terminal. CIMI (the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information) consists of 16 member organizations working cooperatively to solve problems that restrict the electronic interchange of museum information. To create truly easy interchange of information requires adopting standards, which is why Z39.50 is such an important part of the effort to disseminate cultural heritage information. This mature standard represents the culmination of two decades of thinking and debate within libraries and museums about how information retrieval can be carried out in a distributed environment, one where people in different places using different systems can exchange information at a deep and meaningful level. This standard has also been an important factor in the effort to create digital libraries that can truly mimic the capabilities that traditional libraries offer for finding information. The strong response to CIMI's call for participation confirmed the pressing need for CIMI's work on interoperability-enabling information to be interchanged regardless of the systems used to store or retrieve the information. CIMI's test will be carried out with participation from the largest museum collections management vendor in North America, from several groups involved in enormous cultural databanks throughout Europe, and from a vitally important national museum project in Taiwan. CIMI was able to choose 5 participants and 2 alternates to take part in the CIMI Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project after painstaking review of applications from 42 highly qualified organizations. The chosen groups will work together with CIMI to develop an application of this international standard for search and retrieval appropriate to cultural heritage information. They will also receive training in the use of the standard and CIMI's particular application. Finally, they will receive tools and assistance in implementing the standard on information from their own local systems. The test project is being carried out with support from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The groups carrying out the test include: Intermuse Willoughby Associates, Ltd., of Winnetka, Illinois-North America's largest museum collections management vendor. Databasix Information Systems-a Dutch producer and vendor of the ADLIB library management system that just recently installed a collections management system in six British museums and also works for the Royal Belgian Institute for Art Heritage and RKD, the Dutch National Institute for Documentation of Art. Finsiel S.p.A.-the largest Italian provider of information technology to the cultural heritage sector and a key participant in the European Union's Aquarelle Project, the G7's Hypermuseum project, several national information access projects (including data from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence), and other Europe- wide initiatives in information access. Crossnet Systems Ltd. and Joanneum Research-a British system developer and an Austrian museum research group that have worked with many museums and libraries throughout Europe and who will apply the standards test to information from national museums in Germany, Hungary, and Austria. The Information Systems and Software Technology Group of the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology-a Greek systems developer whose applications are used in the management of vast amounts of data on Greek antiquities and who is also a key participant in the Aquarelle project. The alternates include: Center for Excellence for Research in Computer Systems, National Taiwan University-which is working on the National Taiwan University Digital Library/Museum Project, a massive effort to digitize and disseminate historical documents and artifacts on the cultural heritage of Taiwan. Geac Computers Ltd.-a Canadian supplier of library automation systems with over 1200 customers worldwide, including many museums and art galleries, such as the Louvre and the Musee d'Art Moderne. Blue Angel Technologies, a software company specializing in Z39.50 applications, will also be taking part in the project under separate sponsorship in order to build a Java-based system that can work with Z39.50 and is optimized for CIMI. Each of the participating groups indicated the strong need for CIMI's work on applying a standard for ease of search and retrieval. "The availability of cultural resources to the widest possible audience is a benefit to society far beyond the mere access to the data," according to Willoughby's Larry Mills-Gahl. He goes on to say that "Z39.50 is a another tool in the quest to unlock the treasures to be found in museum data." After an extensive government-funded search for the best way to make its data available, the National Taiwan University chose CIMI because its standards were seen to be those over the long term would give the information the largest possible access worldwide. Databasix summed up its feelings about the project by saying that information providers must realize how important it is that data be easy to access and exchange, because today no organization can be left "living in an isolated world." Participants will attend an Interoperability Training Workshop in Washington, DC, in May or June. They will also participate in three or four subsequent meetings between now and October. CIMI will publicize the results of this work as it becomes available. For more information, contact John Perkins, CIMI's Executive Director at jperkins@fox.nstn.ns.ca or by fax (902)826-1337 * * * * * From: David Green Subject: Announcement of NHA Principles Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:50:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 876 (876) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 24, 1997 "BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT" ** National Humanities Alliance Document Available on NINCH Website ** <http://www-ninch.cni.org/ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/PRINCIPLES/NHA_Complete.html> In an effort to build consensus within the educational community on the uses of copyrighted works in the digital environment, the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) has prepared a document of basic principles it believes can be used as an effective guide for the community for at least the immediate future. The document was created by the NHA's Committee on Libraries and Intellectual Property. Mostly representing institutions within higher education, the Committee believes that the developed principles apply to a wider educational community--including primary and secondary schools, independent research laboratories, faculty and students, and independent scholars. The Principles were derived, with permission, from the University of California's draft document, "Copyright Legislation and Scholarly Communication: Basic Principles," <http://www.ucop.edu/irc/wp/wp_Docs/wpd006.html>. Printed copies of the Principles will shortly be available from NHA at 21 Dupont Circle, NW, 6th floor, Washington, DC 20036; tel: 202/296-4994. * * * The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) was created in 1981 to unify public interest in support of federal programs in the humanities. The Alliance is composed of scholarly and professional organizations; organizations of museums, libraries, historical socieities, higher education and state humanities councils; university and independent centers for scholarship and other organizations concerned with national humanities policies. The Alliance is strictly nonpartisan. * * * From: Marc Fonda Subject: Re: 10.0884 junk mail? COCOA samples? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 00:52:42 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 877 (877) There might be an easier way. I suspect that many of the lists being generated for junk-email come as a result of visiting web sites. If you go to http://www.anonymizer.com/ you'll get a very brief outline of the problem if Web server's reading your email address (plus links to more information). You'll also find a simple solution to surfing on the Web sithout being added to a mailing list by some program. Experiment with it, I found a bug that makes it impossible to use your bookmarks while attempting to surf anonymously - you have to use direct links. Also it does slow the process of surfing a touch. cheers marc fonda From: Tom Horton Subject: Re: Junk Mail (AKA "spam") Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 09:36:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 878 (878) Geoffrey Rockwell writes: [deleted quotation] I'm sure many who are infuriated by "spam" (unsolicited email junk-mail) on the Internet will respond to Geoffrey with a "you're not alone" comment! It so happens that a Web-based "magazine" that I choose to subscribe has a good article on spam with links to other pages and reresources, including ways to avoid spam. The URL is: http://www.anchordesk.com/story/story_856.html Have a look. And for those of you who haven't started using mail filtering (as found in Microsoft Outlook, elm, Eudora, and probably others), I can say I'm much happier dealing with volumes email since I started doing that two months ago! (It won't cure all your spam problems, though.) Tom P.S. I like this on-line "magazine", Anchordesk, for keeping up with the latest in personal computing, the Net, industry news, etc. It may be too USA-oriented for all Humanists, but it's a compilation of news and features from the various 20 or so magazines published by Zipf-Davis (which are very successful in the US). Once a day I get an e-mail message with summaries of that day's "articles", and if it interests me I look at them on the Web. Check out http://www.anchordesk.com if you're interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA Phone: 561/367-2674 FAX: 561/367-2800 Internet: tom@cse.fau.edu WWW: http://www.cse.fau.edu/~tom From: Willard McCarty Subject: junk mail Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 23:34:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 879 (879) Dear Colleagues: Junk mail, let me tell you about junk mail. No, I won't -- except to recall that it was very important in the early days of Humanist, as huge piles of automatically generated junk provoked me into moderating the list, and the rest, as they say, is history. The topic of junk mail brings me to an editorial decision, to which I have been forced by a species of it. The kind I'm talking about are the notices of conferences only peripherally in our area. These are sent to Humanist at its old Brown University address by people who ignore requests to stop. These conference announcements come to me with very large headers detailing the fact that they have bounced around before getting here. I cannot tell whether I want to publish the notices until I have deleted, manually, a large portion of the headers. Then what I usually find are large lists of everyone involved, descriptions of hotel accommodations, parking facilities, airport buses, conference T-shirts and mugs, and crudely done-up forms to be filled in and send off with a cheque. All concerning conference in exotic locations that I would dearly like to visit but cannot afford the expense, even if I were interested in the subject, which often I am not. I am frequently certain that 99% of the membership will not be interested either. So, my decision is that I delete these without notice to anyone. If I could do the equivalent of inserting several sheets of lead before popping them into the post with RETURN TO SENDER scrawled across the envelope, I fear I would. But it would have to be an automatic revenge, because I'm not inclined to take the time to pull a prank like that. Oi. WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Did Print Confirm Traditional Views? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:38:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 880 (880) Print did confirm traditional views when the traditional views emanated from what were perceived as authoritative institutions and individuals--hence the elaborate citations of authority, dedications, etc. adorning early printed books, even (perhaps especially) when those books were fiction disguised as history. Print made the views more available, but the institutions made them believed. IMHO there is a dialogic relation between institutions and the communicative media they employ, which is sometimes useful, sometimes nugatory, sometimes harmful to the institutions and the views they promote. Pat Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History From: Mark Olsen Subject: Hi there Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:57:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 881 (881) [The reference to "mid April" in this note was timely when Mark Olsen sent it to me but isn't now. Apparently my fault, for which all apologies. Sometimes the difference between intending to do something (like sending out a message) and actually doing it escapes my notice.... WM] Hi there, No, it's not raining. I'm in Chicago. It's mid-April. So, it's snowing. :-( Rather than try to comment on 500 lines of reactions to my last post, I'd like to reply to some general points, which popped up in the replies. Claim: TEI is NOT a standard, but recommendations/guidelines. I suspect that Micheal and others considerably under-estimate the AUTHORITY that that comes from a well organized project, with considerable international institutional support, now backed-up with significant educational efforts and high visibility in funding agencies. The TEI has become an authoritative standard by virtue of the impressive activity of the TEI editors, sub-committee members, and supporters. Further, the authority is well deserved, because the TEI community HAS done ground breaking work in systematically analyzing the complexities of text in all of it's various forms (a task for which the editors and committee members should be highly commended). With authority, however, comes responsibilities particularly when you leave the realm of research to teaching others the conclusions. Michael argues that "waiting to use or teach the TEI until everyone in the community subscribes to it is such a silly tomfool idea". I would counter that until the specification has been tested in the real world as BOTH a discussion of textual complexity AND an interchange standard, one should proceed cautiously, particularly when teaching it to others. Claim: TEI is being used to build large and small databases This is true. And before TEI, we had a number of specifications which we used to develop databases of various sizes, typically based on formats required by popular software or developed by particular projects. The real test of an INTERCHANGE format, however, is not that one can build a large or small database, but that the format can be automatically converted TO and FROM any number of systems with a mimimum of effort. My principle objection to TEI is that it is by far the most difficult representation to convert into something else, because of it's expressive power. The more tightly constrained a specification, the easier it is to write converters. It is a BALANCING act, which I do not believe the TEI community has -- because of it's make-up and strucutre -- really tried to perform. My great fear is that we are creating a Tower of TEI Bable, where automatic conversions will be practically impossible. At Bergen, I learned that the developer of TACT -- probably the most widely used analytical system in the discipline -- wound up writing a small programming language around TACT because he could not predict the encoding of features that he needs for internal system purposes. At ARTFL, we have encountered the same problem. This means that users of TEI conformant documents may have to write programs/filters/etc to convert particular TEI documents into whatever their analytic systems require. Hardly a strong recommendation for an interchange standard. The real feild test is to attempt to gather TEI conformant documents from many sources, large and small, and attempt to convert them to another representation automatically. Claim: The TEI has been peer reviewed. This is an odd claim, and may be a matter of semantics. The TEI has been, both to its credit and in some ways to its detriment, an extraordinarily open effort. The editors and committees took into account views from an extraordinarily wide set of interests. A good thing. But it has lead to a specification that is so compliant, so flexible, as to be almost completely open-ended. But openness to comment is not a review process. A review process would require some organized feild testing, some ways of analyzing the performance of the specification as a whole. As soon as even initial drafts were completed, TEI was launched by running workshops and seminars on how to use it. This is an odd proceedure, since there was really no effort to test the specification in general. If there had been, I think the kinds of problems that are encountered now in dealing with TEI documents could have been avoided. The real problem is, in my opinion, a failure to recognize the human element in building textbases (or writing computer programs). In the face of any number of ways to do something, humans will wind up using them all. Twenty-five years ago, we went thru "structured programming" because the flexibility of earlier programming languages produced workable, but undecipherable, programs. Even a simple feild test -- which I tried to do for the Bergen paper -- of taking documents encoded seperately at different locations for different projects would have revealed the problem. Claim: Encoding teaches us about text and/or an individual text. True at one level. The TEI has taught ME that text is or can be hugely complex. And they have inventoried/described an impressive array of possibilities. But I look at computers as LABOR SAVING devices first and foremost. I get a sense that in many ways text ENCODING has become an end in itself, rather than a means to do two things: 1) perform relatively short-term oriented analytical research by an individual or team of researchers and 2) to allow inexpensive and easy INTERCHANGE of these raw materials between individuals or teams of researchers. My own approach has been to perform extensive analytical tagging automatically from clues in typescripts. Text encoding is, at best, drudge work that we now employ graduate students to do (what a horrifying waste of talent if you ask me). If we want to teach graduate students about texts, have them read 'em a couple of times rather than send them thru picking out features. And now to my TEI FAQ, based on questions I get all the time, given my politicall incorrect views: -- If TEI is not good, what should I do? Right now, I'm telling people to use the native encoding mechanisms for their target software, applications, and research/publication processes. I fully expect that the TEI community, or someone else, will write a workable interchange format, almost certainly based on TEI. Patience may be required since we're now waiting XML. TEI is a great context in which to think about the encoding of a text, but given the fact that there is little software out there that works with the specification and it's hard to convert to other representations, go with a short-term solution. -- Is TEI dead? No, it's not only very much alive, but vital to the entire discipline (if it were dead or unimportant, I wouldn't bother toasting it so hard :-). Data specification standards are what makes the Internet, library card catalogue systems, delimited feild databases, and so on... possible. They facilitate the ready and automatic transfer and reformatting of data. It is my belief that real progress can be made by establishing specific and exact standards. I use the MARC record as an example, but there are many others. TEI (or more broadly, SGML/XML) is the logical place to start. -- Should TEI be taught in workshops/seminars? Not at this time. I have sat in on several of these and the basic model is to have the student sit down with an SGML editor and tag a small sample of text to make sure that it is TEI conformant. The implicit assumption is that whatever is tagged, however it is encoded, WILL BE USABLE! This is almost certainly incorrect, given the lack of software or reliable ways to export the information to other, particularly non-SGML, systems. Until TEI produces a reliable export model, it is premature to teach it. Well, that's it for now. It's Chicago, and more snow is forecast. I suspect that I can bet on more TEI commentary too. Just remember, guys, I'm blasting away at TEI in order to make it work, 'cause I NEED TEI to work! We all do! Mark Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (773) 702-8687 WWW: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson From: Lou Burnard Subject: PALC97 Conference Report Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:22:54 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 882 (882) A short impressionistic report of a conference on "Practical Applications in Language Corpora", held in Lodz (Poland) earlier this month, is now available from http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/reports/9704lodz.htm The standard disclaimers apply: errors and ommissions gratefully received. Warmest thanks to the organizers for inviting me, and to them and all who attended for making it such a pleasant occasion. Lou Burnard From: "Charles L. Creegan" Subject: electronic publications Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:11:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 883 (883) Willard, under your "overview of electronic publication" hat you'll be interested in the electronic pre/coprint arrangement of the Alonzo Church papers. See their website: <http://www.alonzo.org/> -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan [Suggestion taken, with many thanks. The Overview mentioned above is at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/overview.html>. --WM] From: Jean Ve'ronis Subject: Book: Text-to-speech synthesis Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 16:13:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 884 (884) **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 3 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS by Thierry Dutoit Facult=E9 Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium =20 "An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis" is a comprehensive=20 introduction to the subject. The author treats two areas of speech=20 synthesis: Part I of the book concerns natural language processing and=20 the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; Part II focuses=20 on digital signal processing, with an emphasis on the concatenative=20 approach. Both parts of the text guide the reader through the material=20 in a step-by-step easy-to-follow way. This is the first book to treat the topic of speech synthesis from the=20 perspective of two different engineering approaches. The book will be of=20 interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech=20 communication, in both academia and industry.=20 CONTENTS 1. Introduction.=20 Part One: From Text to its Narrow Phonetic Transcription. 2. Grammars, Inference, Parsing, and Transduction.=20 3. NLP Architectures for TTS Synthesis. 4. Morpho-Syntactic Analysis. 5. Automatic Phonetization. 6. Automatic Prosody Generation. Part Two: From Narrow Phonetic Transcription to Speech. 7. Synthesis Strategies. 8. Linear Prediction Synthesis. 9. Hybrid Harmonic/Stochastic Synthesis. 10. Time-Domain Algorithms. 11. Conclusions and Perspectives. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Check the series Web page for future publications: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?TLTB --------------------------------------------------------------------- ORDER INFORMATION AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS Thierry Dutoit Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht=20 Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7 April 1997, 312 pp. NLG 170.00 / USD 99.00 / GBP 63.00 =20 For customers in Mexico, USA, Rest of the world: Canada and Latin America: Kluwer Academic Publishers Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Order Department Order Department P.O. Box 358 P.O. Box 322 Accord Station 3300 AH Dordrecht Hingham, MA 02018-0358 The Netherlands U.S.A. Tel : 617 871 6600 Tel : +31 78 6392392 Fax : 617 871 6528 Fax : +31 78 6546474 Email : kluwer@wkap.com Email : services@wkap.nl From: Lou Burnard Subject: TESS : Reminder Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:44:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 885 (885) [Please cross-post] This is just a reminder that the closing date for applications for TESS: The Text Encoding Summer School Organised by Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit 8th-11th July, 1997 Oxford University hcu@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/tess/ is this coming Friday, May 2nd. Send in your application now -- and you too can join ICUMO (the International Conspiracy to Upset Mark Olson)! Lou Burnard From: TAYLOR@bcvms.bc.edu Subject: Re: 10.0889 metrical analysis Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:50:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 886 (886) Do you know the new Versification web page, sponsored by some of the best metricians around? http://sizcol1.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp/versif/Versification.html Sincerely Dennis Taylor taylor@bc.edu From: Francois Lachance Subject: precipitous precipitation Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:29:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 887 (887) Willard, Whether in rain, snow, sleet or hail, Marc Olsen, the Johnson quoter, seems to be awash in solvency of the temporal sort: there are many levels of irony to invoke in the trope of time mispent in teaching, using or learning TEI guidelines. Even more irony when the waste-is-haste variation of the temporal trope is used to launch the setting the overcoming of objections, possible and otherwise, as a prequiste to teaching. However, in the Chicago flurry of raised objections, one last one added by Marc Olsen to the super saturated solution mixed up for our mutual benefit renders a very pedagogical precipitate. (And just in time!) I wonder if Olsen argues that to introduce students to tagging and SGML is counter indicated in all workshps and seminars or just those that also serve to introduce TEI. If I explicitly quote and re-read the assumption that Olsen claims is implicit, to the effect that [deleted quotation] I do believe that what is here present is a future tense. The claim to be useable everywhere in the now is, I would venture, false in any weather, to any encoder, whatever their mark up language. Following upon the weather metaphor and liking to use umbrellas for shade from the sun as well as shelter from the rain, I would seed the clouds with workshops. As a critical mass of users develops, some will tag; others will develop applications: some rain is bestowed on the growing corn and some lightning strikes the old oak, providing firewood for the hearth. Software is not a natural resource, just like the gathered kindling and the water flowing in an irrigation ditch, it is shaped by human intent, energy and work. Now, if the child is not allowed to handle a twig or play in a mud puddle, will she someday become a programmer, a system designer, a protocol negotiator, will she sit on a standards body, will she engineer [deleted quotation] or will the child be bid to wait? Worse, will the child's choice of friends and associates be imposed? I favour the problem-creation child who learns to communicate with the other problem-creators: they are cheaper to educate. Ever the synoptic view from the bottom line, -- Francois From: June Thompson Subject: EUROCALL Directory Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 15:12:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 888 (888) Dear Colleagues If you or any of your colleagues are developing computer-based courseware for language learning, we would be very interested in having details for the EUROCALL Directory of Courseware Development Projects. Funded by LINGUA for one year, the project aims to collect information about current developmental work, and to identify examples of good practice. For further information, and to submit your entry, go to the Directory Web Page on http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/direct.htm If you prefer to use printed copy, fax or email, the attached document can be used instead. If you are unable to read it, please email j.v.porritt@langc.hull.ac.uk for a plain text version. Please pass this information to any of your colleagues who may be interested. Many thanks, June Thompson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ June Thompson CTI Centre for Modern Languages Tel +44(0)1482 466373 University of Hull Fax +44(0)1482 473816 Hull HU6 7RX, UK Email CTI.Lang@hull.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Apologies to all -- I cannot seem to pass the attachment through and haven't the wit to figure out why, at least not at this hour..... --WM] From: Greg Lessard Subject: ACHALLC97 PROGRAM & REGISTRATION REMINDER Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 08:50:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 889 (889) [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] ***Please distribute widely*** ****REMINDER*** ***REGISTRATION AT REDUCED RATES UNTIL MAY 3*** ***REGISTRATION FORM AVAILABLE ON THE WEB PAGE*** ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC'97 June 3-7, 1997 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97 PAPERS AND SESSIONS (sorted by name of first author or session organizer) Melina Alexa, Lothar Rostek, Pattern concordances - TATOE calls XGrammar Jean Anderson, New developments from STELLA: Software for Teaching English Andrea Austin, David Halsted, Perry Willett, Labour Issues in Humanities Computing. (Session) Johanne B=E9nard, Cocteau multim=E9dia Nancy Belmore, Sabine Bergler, The International Corpus of English (ICE)-Canada David J. Birnbaum, In Defense of Invalid SGML Florence Bruneseaux, Laurent Romary, Codage des r=E9f=E9rences et cor=E9f= =E9rences dans les dialogues homme-machine Nicoletta Calzolari, Antonio Zampolli, Ulrich Heid, Towards standards for lexicons and the linguistic annotation of texts. (Session) David R. Chesnutt, The Model Editions Partnership--Towards a National Database Sung-Kwon Choi, Tae-Wan Kim, Soo-Hyun Lee, Dong-In Park, Korean Analysis an= d Transfer in Unification-based Multilingual Machine Translation System Lise Desmarais, Mee-Lian Chung, Lise Duquette, Delphine Reni=E9, Michel Laurier, L'=E9valuation des apprentissages et des interactions dans un environnement multim=E9dia en L2. (Session) Merlin Donald, Symbolic Technologies: Challenges and Dangers for the Humanities. (Keynote address) Arienne M. Dwyer, Hand-to-Hand Wrestling with Small Linguistic Corpora Michal Ephratt, Authorship attribution - the case of lexical innovations Tomaz Erjavec, Nancy Ide, Dan Tufis, Encoding and Parallel alignment of linguistic corpora in six Central and Eastern European Languages Robert Fischer, Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Multimedia Authoring for Foreign Language Faculty: The Libra Authoring System Julia Flanders, John Lavagnino, Carol Barash, The Epistemology of the Electronic Edition. (Session) Julia Flanders, Sydney Bauman, Mavis Cournane, Willard McCarty, Aara Suksi, Applying the TEI: Problems in the classification of proper nouns. (Session) Richard S. Forsyth, Short substrings as document discriminators Richard S. Forsyth, Towards a text benchmark suite Paul A. Fortier, Luc Fortier, Semantic Fields and Polysemy: A Correspondenc= e Analysis Approach Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Tracing the net of intra- and intertextual references within the scenic play "Simson faellt durch die Jahrtausende" by Nelly Sachs Penelope J. Gurney, Lyman W. Gurney, Multi-authorship of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae: Analysis of Vocabulary Richness from a Disambiguated Text Hans van Halteren, The Feasibility of Incremental Linguistic Annotation Shoichiro Hara, Hisashi Yasunaga, A Digital Library System for Japanese Classical Literature Susan Hockey, Terry Butler, Patricia Clements, Susan Brown, Sue Fisher, Orlando Project: Humanities Computing in Conversation with Literary History= =2E (Session) Roz Horton, Richard Giordano, A Virtual Barbeque: A Corpus Linguistics Approach to Studying an Emergent Community Tatjana Janicijevic, Derek Walker, NeoloSearch: Automatic detection of neologisms in French Internet documents Hanmin Jung, Sanghwa Yuh, Taewan Kim, Dong-In Park, Compound Unit Recognition for Efficient English-Korean Translation Dorothy Kenny, Creatures of Habit? What collocation can tell us about translation Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Ed Fox, Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities Ian Lancashire, Christopher Douglas, Dennis G. Jerz, Adapting Web Electroni= c Libraries to English Studies Greg Lessard, Michael Levison, Clothing Meaning in Syntax: Aspect and Applications of Multilingual Generation Michael Levison, Greg Lessard, Towards a Paperless Conference. (Introductio= n to the Conference Abstracts) Willard McCarty, Lou Burnard, Marilyn Deegan, Jean Anderson, Harold Short, Root, trunk, and branch: institutional and infrastructural models for humanities computing in the U.K. (Session) Tony McNeill, Charlie Mansfield, The Design & Authoring of Internet-based Study Materials Ingrid Meyer, Douglas Skuce, Judy Kavanagh, Laura Davidson, Integrating Linguistic and Conceptual Analysis in a WWW-Based Tool for Terminography Inge de M=F6nnink, Combining corpus and experimental data: methodological considerations Elli Mylonas, Todd Hettenbach, The ACH/ALLC Abstract Review Database Nelleke Oostdijk, Tailoring a formal grammar for efficiency without compromising its linguistic motivation Espen S. Ore, Claus Huitfeldt, =D8ystein Reigem, Franz Hespe, Wittgenstein'= s Nachlass - Bergen Electronic Edition (WN-BEE) Rochdi Oueslati, A corpora-based environment for linguistic knowledge Pierre du Prey, Blair Martin, Daniel Greenstein, Writing, Publishing and Preserving Electronic Documents related to the Visual Arts. (Session) Hong Liang Qiao, A Corpus-Oriented Parser Geoffrey M. Rockwell, Joanna Johnson, Rocco Piro, MILE: A Markup Language for Interactive Drill Courseware Thomas Rommel, A reliable narrator? Adam Smith may say so Lothar Rostek, Marking up in TATOE and exporting to SGML - Rule development for identifying NITF categories. Joseph Rudman, David I Holmes, Fiona J. Tweedie, R. Harald Baayen, The Stat= e of Authorship Attribution Studies. (Session) Carolyn P. Schriber, The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies David Seaman, The Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction (1775-1850) Gary F. Simons, Mapping from objects to markup: a springboard for multiple-strategy electronic publishing St=E9fan Sinclair, L'HyperPo: Exploration des structures lexicales =E0 l'ai= de des formes hypertextuelles C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Tim Bray, Extensible Markup Language (XML) Ronald Tetreault, Electrifying Wordsworth--A Progress Report Ismail Timimi, Analyse du discours assist=E9e par ordinateur - Version 3AD9= 5 Frank Tompa, Capitalizing on Text Structures. (Keynote address) Jonathan J Webster, Martin S.P. Chiu, Developing a web-based dictionary database Merna Wells, Welcome to the Carnival: A Play of Electronic Discourse Eve Wilson, Peter D. Shepton, SGML as a vehicle for porting hypertext applications between systems William Winder, Michel Lenoble, Ray Siemens, Theories of Meaning and the Electronic Text. (Session) Robert E. Wright, Willard McCarty, Susan Saltrick, Institutional Support in the Advancement of Technology in the Humanities: Roles, Models, and Collaboration. (Session) Ronald W. Zweig, Digitizing Historical Newspapers: New Approaches to a Complex Problem From: Greg Lessard Subject: ACH-ALLC97 WORKSHOPS Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 08:58:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 890 (890) ***Please distribute widely*** ***HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS*** ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC'97 June 3-7, 1997 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97 In conjunction with the Conference, a series of Workshops will be held on Monday 2nd June. These provide excellent hands-on experience in several aspects of textual analysis and hypermedia. Workshop 1A Topic: SGML texts and TACT: sgml2tdb TACT is one of the most popular text analysis programs around. The session is taught by the author of the program. Instructor: John Bradley Time: Monday, 9 am to noon Cost: $30 CDN Workshop 1B Topic: TACTweb: Putting TACT databases on the Web TACT is one of the most popular text analysis programs around. The session demonstrates how TACT searches may be made available on the Web. Instructors: John Bradley and Geoffrey Rockwell Time: Monday, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm Cost: $30 CDN Workshop 2 Topic: Text Encoding for Information Interchange A basic introduction to SGML and text encoding, taught by the editors of the Text Encoding Initiative standards. Instructors: Lou Burnard, Nick Finke, Harold Short and C.M. Sperberg-McQuee= n Time: Monday, 9 am to noon, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm Cost: $34 CDN Workshop 3A Topic: Introduction to HTML Basic web authoring. Instructor: Stefan Sinclair Time: Monday, 9 am to noon Cost: $30 CDN Workshop 3B Topic: Interactive HTML Using Javascript to make web pages interactive. Instructors: Stefan Sinclair Time: Monday, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm Cost: $30 CDN Each workshop will have a minimum of 10 participants and a maximum of 20, first come first served. Details of each workshop as well as a registration form are available on the conference web page. From: David Green Subject: SENATE HEARING ON REAUTHORIZATION OF NEA & NEH Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 19:25:42 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 891 (891) *************************************************************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 27, 1997 SENATE HEARING ON REAUTHORIZATION OF NEA & NEH Please forgive any duplication and the length of this posting, but I felt many members would find interesting and useful this account in the NCC Washington Update of today's Senate Hearings on the reauthorization of the Endowments. David Green ============================================================== NCC Washington Update, vol. 3, # 17, April 29, 1997 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History SENATE HEARING ON REAUTHORIZATION OF NEA & NEH On April 29 the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources held a hearing to consider reauthorization of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Senator James Jeffords (R-VT), chair of the committee, opened the hearing by stating that the intent of this hearing is to cover the issue of reauthorization with a broad brush and to focus particularly on education. "Both agencies," he stated, "have great potential to enhance and improve the educational opportunities for the people of our nation." Jeffords lamented that Congress spends too much time discussing controversial grants and not enough on the agencies' meaningful accomplishments, such the educational programs. In the last Congress, Jeffords noted the Senate passed by a bi-partisan vote of 12 to 4 a reauthorization bill that aimed at tightening up the administration of both agencies, closing loopholes, and streamlining functions. "It is legislation," he said, "that I hope that we can use as a basis for discussion this year." He ended his opening statement by saying that he was confident that this Congress would move forward on reauthorization legislation for the endowments. This lengthy hearing consisted not only of remarks by the eight Senators who attended but also of testimony from two panels -- one made up of the heads of the endowments and the other of witnesses testifying about successful endowment funded educational projects. Sheldon Hackney, Chair of NEH, and Jane Alexander, Chair of NEA, summarized their testimony and spent more of their time responding to Senators comments and questions on a wide range of issues. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), the ranking minority member of the committee, stressed that these small agencies had a crucial impact on the arts and humanities of the country and that a few controversial grants shouldn't warrant the elimination of the endowments. Senator John Warner (R-VA) complimented the two chairs of the endowments and said they had brought their agencies enhanced credibility. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) emphasized the positive role of the endowments in his state and called for new exploration of ways that the endowments' educational work could relate to Headstart programs. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) commented on the indispensable role of the endowments in economic development as cultural and heritage tourism gain increased momentum. Mike DeWine (R-OH) restated a point that he has been making over the last several years which is that in a time of reduced resources the endowments priorities need to be on the underserved in our population, particularly children and rural areas. After recognizing the key role of the endowments, Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) presented again his idea for building a true endowment for these agencies, an idea that he has been promoting for the last several years. His plan calls for expired copyrights to be auctioned for a period of perhaps 10 years and for the funds from the auction to build an endowment for the NEH and NEA. He noted that the Copyright Office had been somewhat hostile to this idea but that he was going to continue to pursue it and would be seeking cosponsors. Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-ARK) voiced the only criticism of the hearing, and his remarks were directed only at NEA. In sharply worded comments and questions he attacked the high administrative costs of NEA, the fiscal problems of the NEA, and the failure of NEA to respond within a year to an Inspector General's report. Hutchinson stated that no federal dollars should be spent on NEA and that the argument that NEA funds are a catalyst for securing private funds is a bogus one for private funding for the arts has increased even when NEA's funds have been cut. No responses to these criticisms by either Senators or witnesses were able to change Hutchinson's firmly held views on these matters. The panel on exemplary education projects consisted of Dr. Edward Ayers, Professor of History at the University of Virginia; Dr. Victor Swenson, Executive Director of the Vermont Council on the Humanities; Mr. Jeff Hooper, Founder and Director of the Mad River Theater Works in Ohio; and Ms. Alicia Dandridge, a 6th grade teacher in a Washington, DC school. Ayers and Swenson addressed NEH funded projects. Ayers, project director of the "Valley of the Shadow Project: Two American Communities in the Era of the Civil War", gave a demonstration and talked about how this project reaches thousands of people every week who visit the WEB site of the Valley Project to look at evidence and to draw their own conclusions about the Civil War. By perusing diaries, letters, slave census, newspapers, church records, photographs, and many other surviving documents, visitors to the WEB site are able to gain knowledge first hand about the Civil War and to sift through quantities of evidence with a powerful yet simple computer tool. Ayers noted that the project has received many positive responses, some from teachers who comment that students who have visited the Valley Project write better papers and ask more insightful questions. Senator Jeffords applauded this use of technology to make history come alive and said he was "excited by what you have shown us." Ayers concluded by noting that there is no way to recover costs of making this vast range of documents available to people around the world and that it was too big a project, with too many people involved, to have undertaken with NEH support. Swenson talked about a variety of programs that the Vermont Council on the Humanities have sponsored to tackle the thorny problem of illiteracy. One program, "Never Too Early: Teaching the Earliest Teachers," provides training on reading to children for people engaged in child care programs for the very young. "Our approach to literacy through the humanities in Vermont," Swenson said, "depends on a central love of books and reading and on intense cooperation among many agencies, organizations and devoted individuals." The Vermont Council also sponsors programs on adult literacy and has a program for teen mothers to show them the ways of reading to babies and toddlers. Swenson concluded by stating that they have discovered that "if reading is central to the humanities, it is equally true that the humanities are central to reading." Jeffords had high praise for the state councils' literacy programs. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NCC invites you to redistribute the NCC Washington Updates. A complete backfile of these reports is maintained by H-Net. See World Wide Web: http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/ From: David Green Subject: NEXT GENERATION INTERNET: COMMENTS INVITED Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:33:44 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 892 (892) *************************************************************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 29, 1997 Below is a useful summary by the American Library Association of the government's announcement of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. The draft concept paper is available at <http://www.hpcc.gov/ngi-concept-08Apr97/> and open for comment until May 15. David Green ------------------- ALWN629.TXT follows -------------------- ================================================================= ALAWON Volume 6, Number 29 ISSN 1069-7799 April 29, 1997 American Library Association Washington Office Newsline NEXT GENERATION INTERNET DRAFT CONCEPT PAPER ISSUED BY THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION; COMMENTS INVITED The Clinton Administration has proposed a Next Generation Initiative (NGI) involving research and development programs across federal agencies, with $100 million requested for FY98. A draft paper outlining the concepts and goals of the NGI initiative has been posted for public comment by May 15. The draft was prepared by the Large Scale Networking Working Group of the Computing, Information, and Communications R&D Subcommittee. The draft concept paper notes that the Internet technology -- designed for a network of thousands -- is laboring to serve a network of millions, but new technology, protocols, and standards can be developed to lead to an NGI at rates thousands of times faster than today. Several years of generic, pre-competitive research and testing will be required. The federal government proposes to participate because critical federal missions require a NGI, and because much of the needed research is too long-term or high-risk for the private sector to fund. The draft states the NGI vision as follows: "In the 21st Century, the Internet will provide a powerful and versatile environment for business, education, culture, and entertainment. Sight, sound, and even touch will be integrated through powerful computers, displays, and networks. People will use this environment to shop, bank, study, entertain, work, and visit with each other. Whether at home, at the office, or on travel, the environment will be the same. Privacy, security, and reliability will be built in. The customer will be able to choose among different levels of service with varying prices. Benefits of this environment will include a more agile economy, a greater choice of places to live or work, easy access to life-long learning, and better opportunity to participate in the community, the nation, and the world." The three goals for this 5-year initiative are: (1) high-performance network fabric, (2) advanced network service technologies, and (3) revolutionary applications. Goal 1 involves connecting at least 100 universities at speeds 100 times faster than today's Internet, and 10 federal research institutions at speeds 1000 times faster. Goal 2 involves experimentation with the next generation of networking technologies that "push the envelope." Goal 3 involves the demonstration of new applications that meet important national goals and missions. Examples used include national security, disaster response, scientific research, distance education, environmental monitoring, prediction and warnings, and health care. The draft notes that "this program will not provide substantial direct funding for applications." The Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology and the Next Generation Internet had input into the draft and will be commenting further on it. Two members of the Advisory Committee, Ching Chih Chen, professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College; and Sherrilynne Fuller, director of the Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center, University of Washington, bring library experience to this committee. ALA will send comments on the draft, and expects to focus on the following: 1. A recommendation that a strong and specific plan be developed for diffusion of the NGI research and development results not just to industry but to government, education, and libraries; and that progress toward the NGI be balanced with interoperability with the first generation Internet. 2. A recommendation to adjust the NGI budget to reflect a civilian as well as a military focus, and specifically to increase the National Science Foundation share(proposed at only $10 million of the $100 million) as the agency with the broadest charter in support of a wide range of education and research efforts, and to specifically add the National Library of Medicine as a partner in the NGI Initiative. 3. A recommendation that the NGI program needs an explicit applications component and budget because high-end applications and fundamental network architecture are closely interdependent. Since technology developed and tested in the NGI program is intended to be eventually adopted by a larger user community, more thought is needed towards areas such as libraries, education and health. There should be an explicit role for the National Library of Medicine. Digital library programs such as those at the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration should be linked to the NGI effort. The draft concept paper on the Next Generation Internet Initiative is available at: http://www.hpcc.gov/ngi-concept-08Apr97/ Comments may be sent to ngi@hpcc.gov or faxed to 703/306-4727. Comments received by May 15 will be used in preparing a final version. ALA members who wish to contribute to the ALA comments should send feedback by May 13 to alawash@alawash.org. _________________________________________________________________ ALAWON is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. 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Ide" Subject: Journal: Computers and the Humanities Vol 30 No 4 : REPLACE PREVIOUS MESSAGE WITH THIS Date: Mon, 28 Apr 97 22:34:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 893 (893) ************************************************************************* JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ************************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 30 No. 4 1996 Table of Contents Word Frequency Distributions and Lexical Semantics R. Harald Baayen, Rochelle Lieber A Rationale for Teacher Education and CALL: The Holistic View and Its Implications Mike Levy Conceptual Modeling versus Visual Modeling: a Technological Key to Building Consensus Gary F. Simons --------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Executive, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/journalhome.htm?0010-4817 Or contact: Dieke van Wijnen Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to chuck_bush@byu.edu. From: Philip Bernick Subject: Re: New Corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:25:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 894 (894) On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, LDC Office wrote: [deleted quotation] Actually, your new web address seems to be http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ philip From: LDC Office Subject: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:25:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 895 (895) Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM DSO CORPUS OF SENSE-TAGGED ENGLISH NOUNS AND VERBS This corpus contains sense-tagged word occurrences for 121 nouns and 70 verbs which are among the most frequently occurring and ambiguous words in English. These occurrences are provided in about 192,800 sentences taken from the Brown corpus and the Wall Street Journal, and have been hand tagged by students at the Linguistics Program of the National University of Singapore. WordNet 1.5 sense definitions of these nouns and verbs were used to identify a word sense for each occurrence of each word. In addition to providing the word occurrences in their full sentential context, the corpus includes complete listings of the WordNet 1.5 sense definitions used in the tagging. The following example illustrates the format of a sentence with a sense tag for the word "action", followed by the corresponding WordNet1.5 sense definition: ca01.db #020 `` These >> actions 8 << should serve to protect in fact and in effect the court 's wards from undue costs and its appointed and elected servants from unmeritorious criticisms '' , the jury said . Sense 8 legal action, action, case, lawsuit, suit -- (a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; "no criminal cases were heard while the judge was ill") => proceeding, legal proceeding, judicial proceeding, proceedings -- (the institution of a legal action) => due process, due process of law -- (the administration of justice according to established rules and principles) => group action -- (action taken by a group of people) => act, human action, human activity -- (something that people do or cause to happen) (In the actual corpus, all tagged occurrences of a given noun or verb are stored together in one file, with each full sentence on one line; all noun and verb word sense definitions are stored together in two separate files.) This sense tagged corpus was provided by Hwee Tou Ng of the Defence Science Organisation (DSO) of Singapore. It was first reported in the following paper at ACL-96: "Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources to Disambiguate Word Sense: An Exemplar-Based Approach," by Hwee Tou Ng and Hian Beng Lee, in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 40-47, Santa Cruz, California, USA, June 1996. ( http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9606032 ) Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1997 Membership Year will be able to receive DSO Corpus of Sense-Tagged English Nouns and Verbs at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can receive a copy of this corpus for research purposes only for a fee of US$100. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password. From: Lou Burnard Subject: DRH97 : deadline extended Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 18:32:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 896 (896) [Please cross-post as appropriate] DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES St Anne's College, Oxford 14-17 Sept 1997 To celebrate the arrival of spring in Oxford, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to this conference by two weeks. The closing date for 1500 word proposals is now FRIDAY 16 MAY For further details, please see the conference website at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/ From: John Unsworth Subject: source for quotation? Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:22:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 897 (897) On behalf of a friend not subscribed to Humanist, I'm forwarding this query: please reply to me. [deleted quotation] Thanks, John Unsworth jmu2m@virginia.edu From: Lou Burnard Subject: DRH97 : deadline extended Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 18:32:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 898 (898) [Please cross-post as appropriate] DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES St Anne's College, Oxford 14-17 Sept 1997 To celebrate the arrival of spring in Oxford, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to this conference by two weeks. The closing date for 1500 word proposals is now FRIDAY 16 MAY For further details, please see the conference website at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/ From: ellen meserow sauer Subject: PMC: Essays Currently Available for Peer Review Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 11:52:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 899 (899) PMC: Essays Currently Available for Peer Review ------> REPLY TO: pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Self-nominated peer-reviewers regularly participate in the editorial process of _Postmodern Culture_. All submissions distributed for review have been screened by the editors and will receive two other readings from members of the journal's permanent editorial board; _Postmodern Culture_ preserves the anonymity of both authors and reviewers in this process, but the comments of reviewers will be forwarded to the author. If you would like to review one of the submissions described below, and if you think you can complete that review within two weeks of receiving the essay, please send a note to the editors at pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu outlining your qualifications as a reviewer of the work in question (experience in the subject area, publications, interest), identifying the MS by number as listed below, and specifying the manner in which you would like to receive the essay (electronic mail or World-Wide Web). We will select one self-nominated reviewer for each of the works listed below, and we will notify reviewers within two weeks. Information gathered during this process about potential reviewers will be kept on file at PMC for future reference, and may be made available for online searching by PMC subscribers seeking expertise in a particular field. Please note: members of the journal's permanent editorial board should not nominate themselves in response to this call. Manuscripts for review: MS #1: The author analyzes Jean-Luc Godard's 1991 film _Allemagne Annee 90 neuf zero_ as a contribution and an intervention in the critique of postmodern culture. It is a cultural intervention in the global mass-media coverage of recent history, and a commentary on the act of making history. The author also looks at the connection between Godard and Gilles Deleuze. MS #2: A reading of the metaphors of water amd submarine memory and transformation in postcolonialism, especially in the context of Atlantic slave trade. The author examines the postcolonial submarine as it is influenced by the endless ebb and flow of history, memory, and identity. The essay focuses on a Sutapa Biswa photograph and texts by Joseph Conrad and Edouard Glissant. MS #3: A critical look at Jean Baudrillard's work on the Gulf War, critical responses to it, and a reassessment in light of more current events in Iraq. It takes Baudrillard's analysis of the war as a non-event as the starting place for an examination of post-Cold War representations and presentations of violence. References include James Der Derian, Noam Chomsky, and Margot Norris. MS #4: A look at John Ashbery's poetry, and its strength. The author suggests that this strength comes from the combinations of disjunction, nostalgia, and narrative. References include Donald Wesling, Tadeusz Slawek, and Jonathan Morse. MS #5: The author considers the idea and practicality of imagining utopia in an age of incessant information, movement, and revelation. The essay weaves together analyses of William Gibson and Donna Haraway with personal reflections and discussions of utopian theory and history, and asks what happens when utopia is no longer desirable. MS #6: This essay examines the intense but distant humanity in Sylvia Plath's poems, using Emmanual Levinas's metaethical emphasis on the _affect_ of the other to consider the "pathos of aethetics." The author proposes that Plath's poetry provokes feeling and empathy, but not compassion or sympathy. References include James Young, Jacqueline Rose, and Jahan Ramazani. MS #7: An examination of the "logic in the secret" of Deleuze-Guattari's theory of literary forms, particularly in _A Thousand Plateaus_ where the concept of the secret is placed in the classification of the tale and the novella. This is illustrated in analyses of Guy de Maupassant's "%La Ruse%" and Margueritte Duras's _Hiroshima, mon Amour_. MS #8: A hypertextual project that considers the validity and possibility of text-based criticism in an image-oriented society. The author and the artist combine textual criticisms of images that both parody and rely on postmodern critical theory. References include Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes, and Walter Benjamin. MS #9: Multiculturalism, the author suggests, shares postmodernism's desire to move past established and articulated identities to more subjective discourses about history and identity. Multiculturalism, interacting with postmodernism, challenges institutionalized ideas of culture, knowledge, and tradition and gives migrants, aliens, and nomads routes to interrogate and change the ruling culture. MS #10: An essay looking at neurology and sexuality, asking what neurological research into sexual prefernce brings to the theory and the science of sexuality. What can we expect to gain from examining the brain, and how will our ideas of sexual identity be changed? The author also asks whether science's avoidance of connecting of hand preference (left- and right-handedness) and sexual preference can be interpreted as a denial of the brain's eroticism. References include Eve Sedgwick, Sigmund Freud, and Wilhelm Fleiss. ________________________________________________________________ Ellen Meserow Sauer Manager, Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/ Electronic Publishing Manager, The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street ph. (410) 516 6857 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 fax (410) 516 6968 From: Pamela Cohen Subject: Re: 10.0908 announcements diverse & interesting Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 09:36:45 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 900 (900) I was glad to read something positive regarding the NEA & NEH. David Green's post prompted me to forward the following, excerpted from Artswire Current. A chilling example of the ignorance of our elected officials. It would appear that Congressman Herger has never _seen_ a handwoven basket, and equates their crafting with the old college gut course joke. INDIAN BASKETWEAVERS RESPOND TO HERGER ATTACK ON NEA GRANT On April 9, Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA) circulated a letter to his colleagues headed "NEA FUNDS BASKETWEAVERS - IT'S TIME TO ELIMINATE THE NEA," according to an alert from the California Indian Basketweavers Association. (CIBA) Herger reproduced an NEA notice of a $60,500 grant to CIBA in support of the 1997 and 1998 basketweavers gatherings, and a western regional gathering, and noted "This grant announcement for basketweavers is a prime example of why the NEA should be eliminated." "Basketweaving is one of the oldest living traditional art forms in North America," CIBA executive director Sara Greensfelder said in an email response. "In California, basketry was taken to artistic heights and baskets from California tribes can be found in museums and art centers throughout the world," she added. THE FINE ART OF CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKETRY, which opened at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento in August, 1996, is currently on view at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles. Greensfelder emphasized that CIBA has succeeded in strengthening California Indian basketry traditions that until only recently were in danger of dying out. "NEA funding of our annual California gatherings has been the single most significant source of support for CIBA, and the basis for receiving matching grants from many private foundations and the California Arts Council," she stated. As the NEA budget has been severely cut back, the granting process has become even more competitive. The Folk and Traditional Arts program of NEA has been dissolved and absorbed into a larger component, and traditional folk arts has received significantly less funding. "Therefore it is a high honor to be the recipient of this grant. I believe that Congressman Herger owes CIBA, the NEA and all Native American basketweavers an apology," Greensfelder said, noting that Congressman Herger had made no attempt to contact CIBA, whose Nevada City office lies within Herger's Congressional district, before sending the letter. "We've worked so hard so that people can understand that we're trying to hang onto our Native culture. Basketweavers carry so much knowledge, not only of the art but of how to care for the plants and the environment," said Karuk/Yurok/Hoopa basketweaver and CIBA founding board member Kathy Wallace. In an email situation update that Arts Wire received on April 26, CIBA notes that out of 5 California newspapers that ran editorials about the story, four were favorable to the CIBA grant. " ...Rather than being an example of wasting money, we see the support for traditional art as the best thing the NEA does," the REDDING RECORD SEARCHLIGHT wrote on April 16. "The agency's support for such folk art helps keep a part of our history alive. Whether it is mountain music, blacksmithing or basket making, a traditional art form tells us who we are by showing us how we used to live and what we used to do before the invention of television. It offers a glimpse of a self-reliant culture in which people made what they needed instead of buying it at the mall. It provides a model for a world in which function and beauty are not separate values but are woven together." CIBA reports that at the April 24 Senate Appropriations Interior Subcommittee meeting, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), the only Native American in Congress, spoke at some length about the importance of supporting the arts and the NEA, and about Native American basketweaving traditions, their significance and worthiness of NEA support. There were five California Indian baskets on display (including a Pomo feathered basket) plus enlargements of photos of Native American baskets. Contact Sara Greensfelder, California Indian Basketweavers Association, 16894 China Flats Road, Nevada City, CA 95959 (916) 292-0141 Details available on Arts Wire (AWNEWS Item 176) __________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu __________________________________ From: Willard McCarty Subject: a virtual conference pre-handout Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 08:12:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 901 (901) This is to announce the availability of a "virtual conference pre-handout" intended to support a collaborative paper I am giving at the forthcoming ACH/ALLC conference in Kingston, Ontario, Canada (see <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/>). The paper, entitled "Theft of fire: meaning in the markup of names" is about what happens when one imposes a computational metalinguistic tagging scheme on a poetic text in order to make a large subset of the data accessible to automatic processing. In brief, it is about markup as an agent of perception and instrument of thought. The paper is part of a session organised by Julia Flanders, on "Applying the TEI: Problems in the classification of proper nouns". The abstract for our paper, online with the others in its session, tells the tale, at <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/papers/s007.html>. The virtual pre-handout (at the moment, frames version only, with reason) is available at the URLs <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/Onomasticon/tutorial/> (Europe) <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~mccarty/Onomasticon/tutorial/> (N America) I devised this virtual handout as an experiment in using the online medium to do something that if not utterly new at least lends a new aspect to an old practice. There are two basic problems the handout is meant to address: (1) how to engage a keenly interested attendee at a conference in the substance of one's paper, and (2) how to keep others informed about the progress of the research. I realised in preparing material for the paper that time in the session was far too brief for the "close reading" of Ovid's Latin text that my subject actually requires -- to understand *what happens* during intensive markup requires that one looks closely at what happens! If someone planning to attend the conference were to have the time and inclination, he or she could work through my examples and so come much better prepared to ask some genuinely hard questions. More likely :-) someone who has heard the paper can return to the subject and, with live data on hand, have some chance of figuring out what was said. Even more likely (alas, it is true), a person who could not afford to attend in the first place can get a detailed look. Letting the world in on one's research, as it is happening, is new for the humanities, and I for one am very interested in exploring the consequences. The virtual handout is in the form of a hypertextual commentary, using the "frames" feature of the more recent Web browsers. I would be very pleased indeed to get reactions to the implementation as well as to the content. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: boesh Subject: New academic Internet site Date: Wed, 30 Apr 97 23:12:57 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 902 (902) ANNOUNCING: TheStrip http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies/TheStrip/. The concept formerly known as "journal." A new academic Internet site of religion and culture that challenges the boundaries of research and writing. From: Willard McCarty Subject: new at King's Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 16:23:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 903 (903) This is proudly to announce the new website of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, at the URL <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/> and the arrival of John Bradley, original author of the DOS-oriented TACT system for textual analysis, as our new Senior Analyst. John's homepage is accessible from the Staff page at the CCH site. The visual design of this site is the work of our resident graphic artist, Sophie Chambers. As we discovered while putting the pages together, images devised on a PC look different on a Mac and vice versa. We made every effort to reach an attractive compromise, but the origin of our images on a PC (using Photoshop, of course) may still be detectable, however. If anyone here understands why such differences occur, we'd be glad to know. WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Harold Short Subject: Seminar in Humanities Computing Tuesday 6 May 1997 Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 14:45:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 904 (904) Dear Colleagues A reminder and a fuller abstract for the next meeting of the Seminar in Humanities Computing, on Tuesday 6 May at 6 pm in the Committee Room, Main Building, Strand Campus. The speaker is Dr Stuart Lee of Oxford University. He gained his PhD in English at King's. Some of you may have attended a presentation by Dr Lee a couple of years ago in which he described a project on World War I poetry. His present project arises in part from that work. Virtual Seminars: Teaching Literature via the Internet This talk will describe the JISC-funded project based at the Humanities Computing Unit in Oxford, which is exploring the teaching of literature across the Internet. As well as covering some of the technical issues involved in mounting such a project, this talk will also be of interest to scholars of literature who are considering delivering course material via the Internet, historians, and of course anyone interested in the First World War and its poetry. The talk will outline some of the problems and opportunities associated with CBL-based remote and distance learning. Dr Lee will describe in detail the milestones of the project, i.e. the delivery of four tutorials centred on the poetry of the First World War and an interactive digital archive based on the manuscripts of Wilfred Owen (drawn from the collections in Oxford, London, and Texas, and including all the poetry produced during his war service, his letters, photographs, and the most complete run of 'The Hydra' still in existence.) In detail, the discussion will centre on the following issues: * The project goals and structure * On-line teaching in general * The four tutorials: i) An Introduction to WW1 Poetry; ii) Isaac Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches'; iii) The Manuscripts of 'Dulce et Decorum Est'; iv) An Interactive Concordance to the Poetry of Wilfred Owen. * The creation of the digital archive: what are the technical and practical issues involved? * Copyright and finance Although, by the nature of the seminar, there will be some technical information, the mainstay will be the discussion of the general principles of digitisation, dissemination, and preservation. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Short, Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk; Tel: +44 (0)171 873 2739; Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 From: David Green Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: Technology Policy Working Group Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 08:34:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 905 (905) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 2, 1997 ========================================================================= Call for White Papers Pertaining to Technology Policy Issues Related to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Issued by the Technology Policy Working Group 4/16/97 INTRODUCTION The Technology Policy Working Group (TPWG) consistent with its focus to identify NII architectural principles and strategies that promote interoperability, scalability and the use and expansion of affordable commercial technologies, is inviting white papers on technology policy issues arising from the Telecommunications Act of 1996 referred herein as the "Act." SUBMISSIONS White papers are specifically solicited from industry, academia, government, standards organizations, and from foundations focused on the telecommunication technology challenges confronting the Nation and what may be done about them. Submissions may be made by electronic mail or on paper and sent to the addresses indicated below. Papers must be received by June 1, 1997 for consideration. While not a complete list, typical of technology policy issues that have been noted and may be considered, are the following: o Impact on Fundamental Communications Research o Decline in Knowledge Sharing o Development of Technical Standards o Internet Reliability o Security and Privacy o Impact of Regulatory Process on Technology o Bandwidth to the Home Submissions should be responsive to the primary goal of this call, i.e., focused specifically on technology policy issues related to the Act and not on general policy related to the Act. These White papers will be reviewed by the TPWG and some may be posted on its Web page. Further, some will be selected for further discussion at future TPWG meetings. Accordingly, all white paper submissions are deemed to include the owner's permission for the TPWG to post the content of their papers. ASCII text (or typed papers) are requested and it is suggested that the maximum length be approximately 2000 words. Submissions must include the name(s), positions, affiliations and complete contact information for the white paper author(s). Submissions may be made to one of the following addresses: Electronic Mail: Address submissions to Please indicate it is a "TPWG White Paper Submission" in the Subject block and use ASCII text in any attachments. Conventional Mail: Technology Policy Working Group Chair C/O Defense Advanced Projects Agency Information Technology Office 3701 North Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22203-1714 We thank you and look forward to your help on this call. ______________________ BACKGROUND INFORMATION TPWG The TPWG is a working group of the Information Infrastructure Task Force that was created in January of 1994. Its members are representatives of Federal agencies, departments and organizations with extensive interest and activities in NII technology. Its mission is to provide a forum to address technology policy issues whose resolution would speed the creation of the NII. Its focus is to identify NII architectural principles and strategies that promote interoperability, scalability and the use and expansion of affordable commercial technologies. A detailed copy of TPWG's charter is available at: http://nii.nist.gov/cat/tp/tp.html. The Working Group interacts with key industry groups and serves as an instrument for industry to interact with government about NII technology policy issues. Representatives of industry are asked to provide briefings and white papers, to interact with the Working Group, to comment on the group's agenda, to focus attention on issues of industry concern and to suggest approaches to their solution. At its last two meetings, the TPWG has discussed a number of technology policy issues related to the Act. Some of the following technology challenges associated with the Act that have been discussed are: o IMPACT ON FUNDAMENTAL COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH The Act will enable new companies to compete against the regulated monopolies which have dominated the telecommunications sector. The growth of competition is causing some companies to focus their research efforts more to short-term profit opportunities and less on the types of long-term research that has led to major technological breakthroughs. There seems to be a decline in the contribution being made by some of the largest telecommunications players to the development of advanced communications technology. The implications of this change in focus has been examined by the Council on Competitiveness in their "Endless Frontier, Limited Resources" report. Questions for the TPWG to consider are: Is this a problem? Who will develop the breakthrough technologies in the future? Will competition in telecommunications spur new investments in R&D? Should government be playing a more active role? What is the role of industry consortia, etc.? What is the role of universities? o DECLINE IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING There have been anecdotal reports that intense competition is leading to a decline in industry participation in fora for sharing ideas. Some leading technical societies are facing a decline in industry involvement and volunteer participation because of increased competitive activity. The reason suggested is that their key technical people are overloaded and are focused on short-term research that cannot be comfortably shared with others. It seems that ideas are kept confidential for a longer period of time and that increased workloads hinder volunteers from active society participation. The question is: Is this a real issue and what can or should be done about it? o DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL STANDARDS The computer industry has benefited from rapid product evolution and de facto standards while telecommunication standards have generally been set by the de jure process. For example, the ISDN standard started in 1972 and took more than ten years to emerge. When it did, there were several versions before Bellcore settled on a national ISDN standard. Will it take as long to get agreement on uniformly accepted standards for advanced technologies for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL), personal communications services (PCS), for time-division multiple access (TDMA), for code division multiple access (CDMA), or for the recent digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) technology and other technologies brewing in various laboratories? How will increased competition affect standards development? Interface standards are necessary for interoperability. The question is: Is there more that needs to be done to foster development of technical interface standards as a result of the Telecommunications Act? Who are the standards bodies coordinating these standards? Are they moving fast enough? Who is responsible for the development of tests that establishes conformance to standards and ensure interoperability? Is there more that needs to be done? If so, what, and by whom? o INTERNET RELIABILITY The Internet, over the last ten years, has grown exponentially. It has a life of its own - no one is in charge - and there is no real system architecture. Instead, the Internet community governs itself. But will self-governance of the Internet be able to deal with growing demands for non-stop operations, higher quality of service, and growing concerns about brown-outs, power failures or network vulnerabilities? Who will be responsible for Internet reliability? o SECURITY AND PRIVACY As the Telecom Act is implemented, single networks run by monopoly carriers will be replace by a network of networks run by literally hundreds of different companies. How can the security of the entire system be assured? Who will be liable for breaches in security? How will private data about customers be shared between companies and how will the privacy of their communications be guaranteed, when a single message might traverse different networks run by dozens of different companies? What is the minimum level of security and privacy that should be expected by the average user, be it an individual, a corporation or a government agency? How will consumers define their needs? Who will be responsible? Is there more that needs to be done and who should do it? o IMPACT OF REGULATORY PROCESS ON TECHNOLOGY As it implements the Telecommunications Act, the FCC will make dozens of critical regulatory decisions which will impact how technology is developed and deployed. For instance, how will the FCC define universal service and how will that definition impact technology directions over the next 5 to 10 years? The goal is to accelerate not delay technology development and to avoid favoring one technology at the expense of another. How can this best be done? What role does regulation play in encouraging R&D or deployment of new technologies? Are there specific policies that deter innovation or should be changed to encourage innovation? o BANDWIDTH TO THE HOME One goal of the Act is to bring new high bandwidth applications to the home. It has been indicated that technology exist today to deliver these applications to the home. The Act anticipates a migration from a voice driven 64 Kbps tariff structure to future high bandwidth applications. How soon will this happen? Are fiber, cable, and wireless the viable alternatives for high bandwidth? What happens when these services can economically be delivered to the home? When will this happen? What can be done to avoid congestion on existing and planned networks? SUMMARY Clearly, the issues outlined above are not a complete list of technology policy issues arising from the Telecommunications Act of 1996. White paper authors are invited to comment on any of these and to explore other issues as well. From: Peter Lefkin Subject: Global Standards Conference - 1st Announcement Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 16:33:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 906 (906) INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE STANDARDS PANEL (IISP) Below you will find the full text of the first announcement for the Global Standards Conference on October 1-3, 1997 in Brussels. Please feel free to forward this announcement to others who may be interested. Since its inception, in early 1996, representatives of the Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (IISP), the U.S. Government (Department of Commerce), and private industry, have been representing the United States on the international Conference Steering Group for the Global Standards Conference. The Conference Steering Group has the overall responsibility for the organization and planning of the Conference. Other participant regions on the international Steering Group include: Europe, Japan, and Canada. The three sponsoring international organizations, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are also participating on the Conference Steering Group. The full conference information, including the program schedule, speakers for the plenaries and theme groups, registration information, etc., is scheduled to be distributed and posted to the web in early June 1997. Updates during the lead-up to the conference will be linked from IISP's web site at, http://www.ansi.org/iisp/gisconf.html, and posted on the official conference web site. The Official Conference information can be found on the European Commission's Information Society Project Office (ISPO) web site at, http://www.ispo.cec.be/standards/conf97/. Questions regarding the conference can be directed to the Conference Secretariat at glstdconf@dg3.cec.be. Questions regarding U.S. participation in the conference may be directed to Peter Lefkin (plefkin@ansi.org) or Chick Hayden (chayden@ansi.org). Best regards, Peter B. Lefkin Program Manager, Information Infrastructure Programs American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 11 West 42nd Street, NY, NY 10036, USA 212.642.4979 - (fax) 212.398.0023 plefkin@ansi.org http://www.ansi.org/iisp/ ___________ cut here _____________________ GLOBAL STANDARDS CONFERENCE - first announcement Building the Global Information Society for the 21st Century New Applications and Business Opportunities: Coherent Standards and Regulations Sponsored by ISO/IEC/ITU Hosted by the European Commission Brussels, 1-3 October 1997 Palace and Sheraton Hotels WHY THIS CONFERENCE? The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the timely and coherent development of the Global Information Society/Global Information Infrastructure (GIS/GII) by identifying and promoting the resolution of outstanding standardization issues. The first steps towards a GIS/GII have already been taken and an opportunity now exists to assess actual applications and to pinpoint the factors contributing to their success. This major global conference is intended to follow-up on the identification/recognition by G7 Ministers in February, 1995 of the importance of promoting interoperability to futher develop the GIS/GII. The Conference is market focused and its objective is to offer an Open Forum for the essential market players (users, system suppliers, network service providers, information service providers, content providers, standards related bodies, regulators, public policy makers) to : - exchange views regarding actual and potential applications along with related practical experience; - identify factors leading to the successful and fast implementation of selected applications, and the business opportunities that these will offer; - investigate the standards (voluntary and mandatory) and related technical regulations that are needed to shape the implementation of GIS/GII, so that it may realize its full potential in the global environment; - share perspectives on the appropriate timing of the implementation of applications to meet GIS/GII needs. The Conference will provide an opportunity: - to gain a better understanding of the status of G7, national and transnational GIS/GII projects, - to share experiences about implementation successes and failures, - to learn how timely standards helped resolve difficulties and impediments in developing new markets, new products and new applications through the promotion of global interoperability and functionality, - to explore new ways to facilitate development of new products/markets/applications by getting, for example, the right standards at the right time, and to identify and promote methods for achieving global functionality and interoperability. The Conference will contribute a renewed motivation for action and a vision for how to successfully realize new business opportunities and the global implementation of GIS/GII. The conference will promote opportunities by referring its results, including perspectives for the future and key issues, to the appropriate organizations, rather than attempting to determine solutions per se. This approach should permit more time for identification of opportunities and discussion of views on how further progress in achieving the GIS/GII can be realized. Through a wide diffusion of results, the Conference will provide a clear awareness of issues and solutions experienced. HOW IS IT STRUCTURED? The conference intends to provide a clear awareness of the issues and experience in standards development in order to promote progressive action throughout the industry. Four major themes will be addressed in workshops during the event: - Electronic commerce - topics such as banking, financial services, teleshopping and trade. - Services to the public - for example, service information, libraries, museums, remote provision of welfare services, education, telemedicine and intelligent transportation telematics systems. - Individual use - services including interactive entertainment, telelearning and the provision of information and communications. - Communications infrastructure interoperability (a horizontal topic). The programme is being developed to ensure the greatest opportunity for creative discussion. The sessions on the first and last days will be plenaries in which the status of existing Global Information Society projects will be reviewed, and the potential for consensus-based standardization and public policy initiatives for the enhancement of Global Information Society development processes will be discussed. The second day will be devoted to four workshops, run in parallel, to explore the four major themes. The workshops will provide the opportunity to discuss widely-recognized Global Information Society needs, such as security, encryption, privacy, multilingualism support, user interface, and practical interactive communications which are made possible by interoperability, in specific applications of relevance both to business and to the citizen. The results of the thematic workshops will be summarized and presented for discussion to all the conference delegates in the plenary session on the last day of the Conference. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? With its clear focus on market developments and business opportunities, the Conference is an essential forum for CEOs, senior managers and business leaders from: - Users: Information infrastructures and services users: small, medium and large enterprises, central and local governments, individual user groups and local communities, etc - Suppliers/Developers: Major standards developers, suppliers involved in global standardization programmes, GIS application developers, information content providers, service providers, Internet providers, business circles, trade/industry associations, financial institutions, researchers involved in GIS/GII pilot projects. - Leaders in standardization and Government representatives involved in public policy and/or standardization: Standards development organisations (including international, regional and national partners), Governmental agencies, public policy makers, Government officials involved in standardization and technical regulations affecting GIS/GII. The aim is to achieve a carefully-balanced audience, ensuring that all major players are represented, from all regions of the world, both developed and developing countries, from industry, public authorities, standardization organisations, service providers and academics. ABOUT THE VENUE The newly-renovated Palace Hotel, with its distinctive Art Nouveau atmosphere, is situated in central Brussels, with the Botanical Gardens on its doorstep. On the opposite side of the square is the Sheraton Hotel, where two of the one-day thematic workshops will be held. The world-famous Grand Place and its neighbouring streets of notable restaurants is just five minutes walk away. The hotels have easy access to the inner ring road and the main train station, and are on the metro line. A registration fee of 25,000 BEF will be charged for this prestigious event. To ensure that the conference can fully achieve its objective of full delegate involvement, the number of places available will be limited. Full information, including the programme schedule, registration forms and hotel details, will be distributed in the early summer of 1997, and updates during the lead-up to the Conference will be available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ispo.cec.be/standards/conf97 WORKSHOP THEMES An international Conference Steering Group has the overall responsibility for the organisation of the Conference, whilst autonomous thematic planning groups are working on the preparation of the Conference content. Here are the contact details for the lead and regional coordinators of each thematic workshop: Theme 1 - Electronic Commerce Lead coordinator US: Jay M. Tenenbaum (Commerce Net) jmt@commerce.net Regional coordinators US: George Spix (Microsoft) gspix@microsoft.com EU: Claude Boulle (Bull) c.boulle@frlv.bull.fr CA: Jake Knoppers (Canaglobe International Inc) mpereira@istar.ca JP: Tatsuo Goto (NEC Corporation) JAT09653@pcvan.nec.co.jp Theme 2 - Services to the public Lead coordinator EU: Wolfram Berger (Ministerialdirigent - German Ministry of Economics) berger@bonn1.bmwi.bund400.de Regional coordinators EU: George Hall (ICL) g.hall@lon1105.wins.icl.co.uk CA: David Clemis (interim)(Industry CA) clemis.david@ic.gc.ca JP: Shozo Tanaka (Fujitsu Ltd) PDG02575@niftyserve.or.jp US: Peter Waegemann (Medical Records Institute) cpw@medrecinst.com Theme 3 - Individual use Lead coordinator CA: Claudine Simson (Nortel Technology) csimson@nortel.ca Regional co-ordinators CA: Paul Jay (Nortel Technology) paul_jay@nortel.com JP: Shoei Kataoka (Sharp Corporation) kataoka@sharp.co.jp US: Mary Anne Lawler (IBM Corp) cirsmdg@rhqvm07.vnet.ibm.com EU: Georg Luetteke (Philips-DE) luetteke@mail.hamburg.com Theme 4 - Interoperability Lead coordinator JP: Sadahiko Kano (NTT Corp.) KANO.Sadahiko@nw.hqs.ntt.co.jp Regional coordinators JP: Hajime Yamada (NTT Corp.) hyamada@es.hqs.ntt.co.jp US: Thomas Spacek (Bellcore) spacek@bellcore.com EU: Heinz Wichards (Deutsche Telekom) wichards@07.bonn02.telekom400.dbp.de CA: George Arnold (TSACC/Lucent) garnold@lucent.com MAKE A NOTE OF THIS GLOBAL EVENT IN YOUR DIARY NOW 1-3 October 1997 in Brussels! CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT European Commission, Directorate General III - Industry with the support of CEN/EWOS Rue de Stassart 36, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Tel +32 2 511 7455 Fax +32 2 511 8723 email glstdconf@dg3.cec.be URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/standards/conf97 From: Pamela Cohen Subject: Correction: CETH Workshop Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 17:06:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 907 (907) The deadline for applications for the CETH Summer Workshop has been extended to 19 May 1997 CETH Summer Workshop on SGML and the TEI: Making Text Work July 27 to August 1, 1997 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey The 1997 CETH Summer Workshop is an intensive, one-week course of study that focuses on the application of SGML (the Standard Generalized Markup Language) and the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) encoding scheme in the humanities. The Workshop is open to beginning and advanced users alike. The goal is to provide in-depth coverage of the fundamentals of electronic document markup, and issues related to the use of SGML and the TEI in practice. There will be opportunity for beginners to learn the basics of document markup using SGML. A number of topical sessions aimed at all levels of expertise will cover the use of the TEI core and additional tag sets, document analysis, project management, and on- and off-line delivery. Advanced users will have the opportunity to explore other subjects, including, but not limited to: modifying and extending the TEI DTD; designing hypertext and other forms of linking; working with different character sets; and writing programs to support SGML. Sessions will be evenly divided between lecture and hands-on work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue work on their own projects in supervised labs. Time will be allotted for one-on-one consultations between participants and instructors. There will be a wide range of commercial, free- and share-ware SGML software used in the classroom and available for experimentation in the laboratory. Facilities The CETH Summer Workshop will be held in the new Scholarly Communications Center located in Alexander Library, on Rutgers' historic College Avenue campus. The SCC's facilities include two labs of 25 workstations each, and a lecture hall equiped with digital video projection. Accommodation will be provided in Rutgers University student housing facilities. All rooms are air conditioned, have private bathrooms, and are a short walking distance from Alexander Library. Instructors. Gregory Murphy, Text Systems Manager, CETH Wendell Piez, Humanities Computing Specialist, CETH Michael Sperberg-McQueen, editor-in-chief, Text Encoding Initiative; senior research programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago; co-coordinator, Model Editions Partnership Cost. $595 nonstudents $395 students Fee includes tuition, use of computer facilities, workshop documentation, opening reception, lunches (Monday-Friday), and a closing banquet. Scholarships. A limited number of scholarships will be available for graduate students to defray the cost of tuition. These scholarships will not cover accommodations. Unless you specify otherwise, all graduate student applications will be considered for scholarships. Accommodation. Accommodation is available in Rutgers University student housing facilities at a cost of $25 per day for bed and breakfast. Applications. Applications should consist of a cover sheet and a statement of interest. Students applying for the reduced rate must include a photocopy of their valid student ID. Email submissions are encouraged, and must have the subject line "Summer Workshop Application." The cover sheet must include: *your name *your position *current institutional affiliation *postal and email addresses *telephone and fax numbers *brief summary of computing experience Your statement of interest should include: *a synopsis of the project you would like to pursue during the workshop *how your participation in the workshop would be beneficial to your teaching, research, advising or administrative work *the extent of your computer experience Application deadline: May 19, 1997 Notification of acceptance on a rolling basis Send or fax applications to: ceth@phoenix.princeton.edu CETH Summer Workshop 169 College Avenue New Brunswick NJ 08903 Fax: (908) 932-1386 __________________________________ Pamela Cohen Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08903 phone: (908) 932-1384 / fax: (908) 932-1386 http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu pac@rci.rutgers.edu __________________________________ From: MGOLLNICK Subject: Computer literacy course Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 09:42:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 908 (908) Hello: I am the secretary for the Department of English at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. I have been asked by the head of the department to research the design of a computer literacy course that would serve the needs of our English majors in particular and the needs of students in the humanities in general. Do you have a computer course designed for humanities students? If so, can you share with us syllabi, course descriptions, or any other information that would help us? Thank you. Sincerely, Peggy Gollnick From: ds207 Subject: Cyberculture Studies Date: Mon, 05 May 97 00:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 909 (909) A fully operational version of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is now up and running: <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs> WHAT IS RCCS? The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Collaborative in nature, RCCS seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field, to foster a community of students, scholars, teachers, explorers, and builders of cyberculture, and to showcase various models, works-in-progress, and on-line projects. In the future, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies hopes to sponsor a number of collaborative projects, colloquia, symposia, and workshops. Presently, the site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including university-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, and related links. Further, the site features an extensive annotated bibliography devoted to the topic of cyberculture. Finally, the site includes "conversations/collaborations," an online listing of scholars researching various elements of cyberculture. WHAT'S NEW? Since its initial launch in January 1997, RCCS has developed two new major features. The first is "Conversations/Collaborations." Here, visitors are invited to browse through the research interests and undergoing projects of a number of scholars, researchers, and instructors affiliated directly and indirectly with the field of cyberculture. Moreover, visitors are encouraged to contribute their own entries, listing their interests and contact information. The second new feature is called "Internet Interviews." This section includes a list of links to online interviews with a number of digerati. The list includes Nicholas Negroponte, Allucquere Rosanne (aka Sandy) Stone, Sherry Turkle, and Gregory Ulmer. Feel free to circulate this announcement as far and wide as you wish. Questions? Comments? Contact: David Silver Founder, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Graduate Student, Department of American Studies University of Maryland, College Park From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Project Gutenberg Needs You! 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Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Director From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 10.0913 new at King's College London Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 21:24:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 911 (911) [deleted quotation] Willard-- Two reasons: Macs use a different color map than windows machines do (and Unix machines use another), and Macs display images at a different magnification. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ [It would be very useful for some, I would suppose, to understand how others who prepare colour images for online publication cope with the problem described above. --WM] From: Emily Rose Subject: Web bibliography Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 23:07:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 912 (912) Any advice on downloading web bibliographies directly into a bibliography program such as Endnote? What difference does it make if the bibliography is plain (HTML) text or is already in a database program (such as the medieval ITER bibliography database?). Thanks for any help. [I know about filters for bibliographies on CD-Rom but I am not sure the instructions are the same for web information.] From: Francois Lamarche Subject: LACL 97: DEADLINE EXTENSION Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 09:58:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 10 Num. 913 (913) Feel free to redistribute ----------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION New submission deadline for 4-page abstract: may 20 ----------------------------------------------------------------- L A C L ' 9 7 LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ----------------------------------------------------------------- INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-C.N.R.S. -- NANCY -- 22-24 SEPTEMBER 1997 GENERAL TOPIC: The first edition of the LACL conference, which was held in Nancy in September 1996, was very successful. This fact proves that there is a growing interest in the use of logic in natural language processing, both for syntactical and semanti- cal models. LACL'97 wants to continue to bring together lin- guists, logicians, philosophers and computer scientists around this theme in order to present the latest results and to discuss the different approaches. TOPICS (not exclusive): - Proof-theoretical aspects of the syntactical and semantical models of natural languages. - Automatic proof-search techniques for syntactical analysis and generation. - Grammars based on non-commutative linear logics. - Relations between categorial grammars, context-free grammars and TAGs. - Natural language interfaces for automatic provers. INVITED SPEAKERS: Denis Bouchard (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) Mark Johnson (Brown University, Providence) Yves Lafont (C.N.R.S., Marseille) Joachim Lambek (McGill University, Montreal) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit before May 20th a 4-page abstract (including the bibliography) of a paper which has not been submitted elsewhere. This abstract must be sent to the chairman of the program commitee by electronic mail (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or ascii format), or by surface mail. The notifi- cations of acceptance will be sent before May 31. The collection of the selected abstracts will be available at the conference. After the conference, the authors are invited to submit a full paper (up to 20 pages) for publication. The final papers for the previous conference are to appear in a special volume of the Springer-Verlag series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The submissions must be sent to: Prof. Alain Lecomte Departement IMSS TEL: +33 4 76 82 78 52 Universite Pierre Mendes-France FAX: +33 4 76 82 56 65 BP 47 X 38040 GRENOBLE Cedex 9 FRANCE EMAIL: lecomte@shm.upmf-grenoble.fr SCHEDULE: 20 May: 4-page abstract due 15 June: notification of acceptance 31 August: final 4-page abstract due PROGRAM COMMITEE: Chairman: A. Lecomte (U. Grenoble 2) C. Gardent (U. Saarbrucken) B. Carpenter (Bell Labs) M. Dymetman (Rank-Xerox, Grenoble) P. de Groote (INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-CNRS, Nancy) S. Kulick (U. Pennsylvania) F. Lamarche (INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-CNRS, Nancy) M. Moortgat (OTS, Utrecht) G. Morrill (UPC, Barcelone) A. Ranta (U. Helsinki & U. Tampere) P. Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse) E. Stabler (UCLA, Los Angeles) E. Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, Rocquencourt) ORGANISING COMMITEE: Chairman: G. Perrier V. Antoine, D. Bechet, A.-L. Charbonnier, F. Lamarche and A. Savary, INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-C.N.R.S., Nancy. For any information related to the organisation, contact: F. Lamarche INRIA Lorraine & CRIN-CNRS TEL: +33 3 83 59 30 28 Campus Scientifique - BP 239 FAX: +33 3 83 41 30 79 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex EMAIL: lamarche@loria.fr FRANCE WWW homepage: http://www.loria.fr/~bechet/LACL.html Contact: E-mail: lamarche@loria.fr Tel: +33 3 83 59 30 28 ----------------------------------------------------------------- NOUVELLE DATE LIMITE Les resumes doivent parvenir avant le 20 mai ----------------------------------------------------------------- L A C L ' 9 7 ASPECTS LOGIQUES DE LA LINGUISTIQUE INFORMATIQUE ----------------------------------------------------------------- INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-C.N.R.S. --- NANCY --- 22-24 SEPTEMBRE 1997 THEME GENERAL: La premiere edition de la conference LACL, qui s'est tenue a Nancy en septembre 96, a connu un succes incon- testable. Elle temoigne ainsi d'un interet grandissant pour l'utilisation de la logique dans le traitement automatique des langues, tant dans leurs aspects syntaxiques que semantiques. C'est autour de ce theme que LACL'97 veut continuer a rassembler linguistes, logiciens et informaticiens et a confronter les ap- proches les plus diverses. UNE LISTE NON EXHAUSTIVE DE SUJETS POSSIBLES: - apports de la theorie de la demonstration aux modeles syntaxiques et semantiques des langues; - techniques de demonstration automatique pour l'analyse syntax- ique et la generation automatique; - grammaires basees sur la logique lineaire non commutative; - relations entre grammaires categorielles, grammaires hors con- texte et grammaires d'arbres adjoints; - interfaces en langue naturelle pour les demonstrateurs automa- tiques... CONFERENCIERS INVITES: Denis Bouchard (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) Mark Johnson (Brown University, Providence) Yves Lafont (C.N.R.S., Marseille) Joachim Lambek (McGill University, Montreal) SOUMISSIONS: Les auteurs sont invites a envoyer pour le 20 mai 97 un resume d'une contribution originale de quatre pages au max- imum (bibliographie incluse). Ce resume sera adresse au respons- able scientifique de la conference, soit par voie electronique (sous la forme d'un fichier LaTeX, PostScript, dvi ou ascii), soit par voie postale. L'acceptation des contributions sera no- tifiee aux auteurs avant le 31 mai 97. Un volume constitue des resumes selectionnes sera distribue lors de la conference. Apres la conference, les auteurs des communications seront in- vites a soumettre les articles complets (de moins de 20 pages) pour publication. Les actes de la precedente conference vont etre publies dans un volume special de la serie Lecture Notes in Computer Science de Springer-Verlag. Les soumissions sont a adresser a: Prof. Alain Lecomte Departement IMSS TEL: +33 4 76 82 78 52 Universite Pierre Mendes-France FAX: +33 4 76 82 56 65 BP 47 X 38040 GRENOBLE Cedex 9 FRANCE EMAIL: lecomte@shm.upmf-grenoble.fr DATES: 30 avril: reception des resumes 31 mai: selection des communications 31 aout: reception des resumes corriges COMITE DE PROGRAMME: president A. Lecomte (U. Grenoble 2) C. Gardent (U. Saarbrucken) B. Carpenter (Bell Labs) M. Dymetman (Rank-Xerox, Grenoble) P. de Groote (INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-CNRS, Nancy) S. Kulick (U. Pennsylvania) F. Lamarche (INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-CNRS, Nancy) M. Moortgat (OTS, Utrecht) G. Morrill (UPC, Barcelone) A. Ranta (U. Helsinki & U. Tampere) P. Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse) E. Stabler (UCLA, Los Angeles) E. Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, Rocquencourt) COMITE D'ORGANISATION: president G. Perrier, V. Antoine, D. Bechet, A.-L. Charbonnier, F. Lamarche and A. Savary, INRIA-Lorraine & CRIN-C.N.R.S., Nancy. Pour toute information relative a l'organisation, s'adresser a: F. Lamarche INRIA Lorraine & CRIN-C.N.R.S. TEL: +33 3 83 59 30 28 Campus Scientifique - BP 239 FAX: +33 3 83 41 30 79 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex EMAIL: lamarche@loria.fr FRANCE WWW homepage: http://www.loria.fr/~bechet/LACL.html Contact: E-mail: lamarche@loria.fr Tel: +33 3 83 59 30 28